Common Knowledge in Pure Land Teaching
淨土小常識
The Retribution of Non-Suffering and Non-Happiness
This is also known as “the suffering of impermanence”. It is a state in which a person doesn’t experience: suffering, sickness, frustrations, or other difficulties. There is no suffering and yet, no true happiness. This is because we mentally still feel a vague sense of solitude, loneliness, boredom, and agitation.
“Impermanence” is the ever-changing mind. There is no safety or stability even for one oment; so, this kind of suffering is called non-suffering and non-happiness.
不苦不樂受
亦名「行苦」。感覺到沒有苦的境界,身體健康,沒有挫折、逆境,也沒有特別痛苦與快樂的地方,不苦不樂;但內心有一種孤獨、寂寞、無聊、莫名其妙的不安。
「行」就是念念遷流,無有剎那常住安穩,所以不苦不樂受也是苦。
Namo Amituofo!
