Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about the Classification of Teachings – the Difficult and the Easy Paths
淨宗判教 – 難易二道判
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What does it mean to be a dutiful person? As said before, all karmic offenses are cleared according to circumstances; we must try not to commit new offenses. Without adding new karmic burdens we are more free to aspire to rebirth and recite Namo Amituofo with singleness of mind. This is what it means to be a dutiful Amitabha-reciter.
So, just as Nagarjuna Bodhisattva says in the Chapter on the Easy Path, this teaching is called the Easy Path. To describe this he uses the analogy of boarding a ferry, to explain that “there is only joy and no suffering”.
什麼叫安分守己呢?就像剛才所說的:「隨緣消舊業,更莫造新殃」,然後決定願生極樂世界,專一念這句「南無阿彌陀佛」,這樣就是安分守己的念佛人。
所以龍樹菩薩在《易行品》裡面說這個法門叫做「易行道」,用譬喻來講就是「坐船」,形容「只有樂沒有苦」。
Namo Amituofo!
