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
The Pristine Pure Land Path is both an easy and splendid teaching. In the Chapter onthe Easy Path, Nagarjuna Bodhisattva says, “This teaching is an Easy Path. It is easy because everybody can do it, be reborn in the Land of Bliss, and quickly become a Buddha.
The reason it is easy is that: In the pristine Pure Land teaching, by merely reciting one single Name – Namo Amituofo, one has all of the necessary credentials to be reborn in the Land of Bliss. It is so simple that reading other Sutras, reciting mantras, and practicing other teachings are not necessary. If it were required to include other scriptures, mantras, or practices in order to attain rebirth, it would be very complicated and not easy at all.
(to be continued tomorrow)
純粹的淨土是容易的法門,也是殊勝的法門。龍樹菩薩在他的《易行品》裏就說,這個法門叫做「易行道」。易,就是容易,每個人都做得來,都能夠往生極樂世界,都能夠快速成佛,這個就是容易。
容易的原因是,純粹的淨土法門只要一句南無阿彌陀佛就足資往生極樂淨土,非常簡單,不需要誦其他的經典,持其他的咒語,修其他的法門;如果還要夾雜其他的經典咒語,或者其他的功行才能夠往生,它就非常的繁雜,就不簡單了。
Namo Amituofo!
