Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teaching about Classification of Teachings – the Sacred and Pure Land teachings
淨宗判教 – 聖淨二門判
The Collection on Peace and Joy states:
Question: If all sentient beings have the Buddha-nature; then, through countless eons they should have come across many Buddhas. Why are they still unable to leave “the house on fire”, and reincarnation within the cycle of birth-and-death?
Answer: According to the Mahayana Buddhist teaching, there are no more than two splendid teachings that can eliminate the suffering of birth-and-death by leaving the “house on fire”. What are the two? One is the Sacred Path, and the other is the Pure Land Path.
(to be continued tomorrow)
《安樂集》云:
問曰:一切眾生,皆有佛性,遠劫以來,應值多佛,何因至今,仍自輪迴生死,不出火宅?
答曰:依大乘聖教,良由不得二種勝法,以排生死,是以不出火宅。何者為二?一謂聖道,二謂往生淨土。
Namo Amituofo!
