Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Classification of Teachings – the Difficult and the Easy Paths
淨宗判教 – 難易二道判
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Thus, this teaching is called the Easy Path. Apart from Amitabha-recitation, all other teachings are part of the Difficult Path. It is called the “Easy Path” because it lets sentient beings hear this Name, remember and think of it, and exclusively recite the Name. So, it is truly the easiest along the Easy Path.
So, the “easiness” in the Easy Path is very simple, very easy and very secure. Moreover, sentient beings can do it whenever they have the time. That is why the teaching of Amitabha-recitation is praised to be appropriate for “people of upper, medium and lower virtuous roots. Both people of sharp and dull aptitudes are protected and embraced. It enables a thousand out of a thousand people to go to Amitabha’s Pure Land.”
因此,這個法門才能稱為「易行道」,除了念佛以外的法門,都是「難行道」。
所謂「易行道」,就是讓這句名號,聽入眾生的心中,讓他們可以憶佛念佛,專稱名號,這才是易中之易。
所以易行道的「易」,不只是很簡單、很容易、很穩當,而且是任何眾生,只要機緣成熟,都做得到的。也因為這樣,念佛法門,才被讚歎為「三根普被, 利鈍全收,萬修萬人去」。
Namo Amituofo!
