Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teaching about Faith in Pure Land Buddhism
淨土信仰
The Bodhi Mind set forth by ordinary beings like us is mostly false. It cannot be compared with Amitabha’s real and inconceivable merit and virtues.
The Name of Amitabha Buddha is a teaching of transcendence, its merit and virtues are real, inconceivable, boundless and immeasurable. Aside from Name recitation, all we can practice at most are the Five Precepts and the Ten Virtuous Deeds.
Thus, the aspiration for perfect Enlightenment, cultivation of various merits and virtues, or even the mixed practices of the Eight Mahayana Schools are not comparable with the Name. So, the merits and virtues from the simple recitation of Amitabha’s Name are far greater than those attained through the aspiration for perfect Enlightenment and the cultivation of various practices.
我們凡夫所發的菩提心大部分都是虛假的，這個跟阿彌陀佛真實而不可思議的功德是不能相比的。
阿彌陀佛這句名號是出世間法，是真實的功德、不可思議的無量無邊的功德，我們所修的頂多五戒十善。可見一般所講的發菩提心修諸功德，乃至八宗兼修、八宗兼弘都不能跟這句名號相比。所以只要專念彌陀名號就遠遠勝過發菩提心修諸功德的功德了。
Namo Amituofo!
