Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teaching of the Patriarchal Lineage of the Pure Land School – the 18th Vow
淨宗傳承之第十八願
“To sincerely and joyfully entrust”, as stated in the 18th Vow, is to accept Amitabha’s deliverance and recite accordingly. It further means, our status of rebirth has already been acquired. We will enter the reward land within a lotus flower at the end of this life and be reborn as the lotus flower blossoms. This is not the case with other teachings. In those teachings, if a practitioner wishes to be reborn, he must aspire to rebirth and dedicate all of his merits to that purpose. He will then be reborn encased within a lotus bud.
We believe and accept the Pure Land teaching, which instructs us to exclusively recite Amitabha’s Name. We don’t need to practice meditation, contemplation, or learn the Threefold Tantric practices. However, if Pure Land practitioners wish to meditate, it should be OK. They can simply recite the Name while seated. However, they should not be attached to reaching a particular level of attainment.
第十八願的「信樂」是隨順彌陀救度,而且是現在已經獲得往生的身份,命終的時候就進入報土,蓮花化生。其他法門就不是這樣,如果想往生,必須迴向才能往生,而且是胎生。
我們信受淨土法門,就是專稱這句名號,不必坐禪,不必觀想,不必修學密宗的三密相應,不必的。可是如果有人喜歡打坐,那也可以,就以靜坐的方式稱念這句名號,當然你不是執著你的功夫。
Namo Amituofo!
