Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teaching about the Classification of Teachings – the Difficult and Easy Paths
淨宗判教 – 難易二道判
The purpose of learning Buddhism is to liberate ourselves and others from the suffering of reincarnation. However , practitioners should decide what they should focus on first. Our first objective must be to liberate ourselves from reincarnation in the Three Domains and the Six Realms. Our second step is to become Buddhas and comprehensively deliver sentient beings.
Whether you are pursuing your short term or long term goals, the means of achieving them are classified as the Difficult Path - if you rely on “self-powered” cultivation of the Sacred Path( which is as difficult as climbing to heaven). If you rely on Amitabha’s “other-powered” deliverance, it is considered the Easy Path (which can be accomplished in this lifetime.)
學佛的目的在於自己跟他人生死輪迴的解脫,所以修行人都要把生死看得很重。近程來講,解脫三界六道輪迴;遠程來講,成就佛道、廣度眾生。
這近程、遠程,如果依自力聖道門,那是難行道,難如登天,我們做不到。如果依淨土門,依靠彌陀他力的救度,就是易行道,當生成就,一生成辦。
Namo Amituofo!
