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 Sacred Path has its own theoretical system, while the Pure Land Path also has its own. They are different with different scopes. If the two systems are mixed, it leads to confusion. You must decide, do you uphold and practice the Sacred Path or the Pure Land Path?
So, Pure Land practitioners must clearly know what the Sacred Path is and what the Pure Land Path is; otherwise, it becomes neither fish nor fowl. If you use the theory of the Sacred Path to explain the Pure Land Path, it is no longer the Easy Path.
聖道門有聖道門的體系理論,淨土門有淨土門的體系理論,是各不相同、各有範圍的,如果把二者摻雜在一起,那到底你所修持的是聖道?還是淨土?這樣就混亂了。
所以,學淨土法門首先要釐清什麼是「聖道法門」?什麼是「淨土法門」?不然的話會變成四不像,把聖道法門的理論用來解釋淨土門,那就不是淨土門的易行道了。
Namo Amituofo!
