Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teaching about the Classification of Teachings – the Sacred and Pure Land teachings
淨宗判教 – 聖淨二門判
Master Tanluan clarifies that, whether the practice is difficult or easy, fully depends on reliance on self-power or other-power.
Continuing the two patriarchs’ great teaching classification into the two Paths and the two Powers, Master Daochuo logically and systematically classified Shakyamuni’ s teachings into two Doors - the Door of the Sacred Path and the Door of the Pure Land Path. He established these categories through abundant reference to scriptures and commentaries, and also the aptitudes of sentient beings in his time.
Establishing the two doors of the Sacred Path and the Pure Land Path, Master Daochuo clearly advised and guided practitioners to abandon the Sacred Path and adopt the Pure Land Path, which fully depends on the deliverance of Amitabha Buddha.
曇鸞大師闡明之所以難、之所以易,在於是全自力或全他力。
道綽大師繼承此二位祖師之鴻判,更就時代性、根機性,廣引眾多經論之文,使一代教法之難易二道、自他二力成為有邏輯性、系統性的聖淨二門判。
道綽禪師建立此聖淨二門,有明確地勸導捨聖道門之修行入淨土門之救度的目的。
Namo Amituofo!
