Common Knowledge in Pure Land Teaching
淨土小常識
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One Body of Aptitude and Teaching
Amitabha Buddha’s Name contains Amitabha Buddha’s light, Amitabha Buddha’s life, and all of Amitabha Buddha’s merit and virtues. On one side, an Amitabha-reciter is always living within Amitabha Buddha’s light. On the other side, Amitabha Buddha’s life is always on the mind of Amitabha-reciters. For these reasons it is explained that aptitude and teaching, in physical and mental merit and virtues, are in one body”.
For those sentient beings who recite Amitabha’s Name, Amitabha Buddha immediately hears them. When they physically bow, Amitabha Buddha knows. When they think of Him, Amitabha Buddha is aware of it. This is known as the threefold karma of “aptitude and teaching in one body”.
機法一體
阿彌陀佛名號即是阿彌陀佛的光明、阿彌陀佛的生命、阿彌陀佛的全部功德。一個念佛人,一方面日夜都在阿彌陀佛的光明當中;同時,阿彌陀佛生命在這個念佛人的心中,此為「色心功德機法一體」。
念佛眾生,口稱阿彌陀佛佛即聞之,身禮拜佛佛即見之,心中念佛佛即知之,此為「彼此三業機法一體」。
Namo Amituofo!
