Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teaching about Classification of Teachings – Other-Power and Self-Power
淨宗判教 – 自他二力判
People who rely on self-practices [for rebirth] do not accept the Land of bliss to be Amitabha Buddha’s Land of Bliss, and also do not view Amitabha Buddha as Amitabha Buddha in the Western Land of Bliss. They understand “Amitabha as part of Self-nature, and mere-mind being the pure land”. They think the pure Buddha mind and the moment of purity are Amitabha Buddha himself. They believe, when they are in the state of purity, everything they see has no relative concept of happiness or suffering, good or evil, beauty or ugliness; then they feel they are dwelling in the pure land.
People who rely on self-powered practices [for rebirth]regard the Buddha-nature as Amitabha, and the purity of mind as the Land of Bliss. This is the way they interpret the meaning of “when the mind arouses a thought of the Buddha, this mind is a Buddha” [in the Contemplation Sutra]. Actually, this is the interpretation of the Consciousness Only School – “The Three Domains are only mind, and all Dharmas are only consciousness”.
(to be continued tomorrow)
自力修行的人,他不把極樂世界當成是阿彌陀佛的極樂世界,也不把阿彌陀佛當成是西方極樂世界的阿彌陀佛,而是把祂當作「自性彌陀,唯心淨土」,他認為清淨的佛心,清淨的當下,就是阿彌陀佛的本身,他清淨的時候所看到的一切都沒有苦樂、好壞、美醜等這些相對性的分別觀念,那他當下就感覺到自己在淨土裏面了。
這是修自力法門的人,以心中的佛性為彌陀,以心中的清淨為極樂。「是心作佛,是心是佛」理解為這種含義。這種理解是唯識觀,認為「萬法唯識,三界唯心」。
Namo Amituofo!
