Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teaching about Classification of Teachings – the Sacred and the Pure Land teachings
淨宗判教 – 聖淨二門判
As it pertains to cultivation on the Sacred Path, if the practitioner doesn't dedicate his merits and virtues toward rebirth in the Pure Land, he is still on the Sacred Path. If he dedicates towards rebirth in the Pure Land, he is regarded as following the Pure Land Path with mixed practices.
The Sacred Path relies upon the aptitudes and capacities needed to become a sacred being, one who “enters from the ordinary to the sacred”. That is to say, though he is an ordinary being, he has the capacity to become a sacred being. He can practice the Six Paramitas to accumulate a myriad of virtues life after life. If he cannot achieve it in this life, he can continue in the next life, so on and so forth. He can enter from ordinary to sacred after a great many eons, provided he doesn’t give up or have setbacks along the way. This is called the Sacred Path.
(to be continued tomorrow)
聖道門中的修行,如果不迴向往生(淨土),就是聖道,迴向往生(淨土)的話,就是雜行。那什麼是聖道?什麼是淨土呢?
所謂「聖道」就是聖人的根性,它是「從凡入聖」。也就是說他有聖人的根性,雖然是凡夫,可是他可以生生世世,這一輩子、下輩子,下輩子不成就再下下輩子,這樣苦修六度萬行來從凡入聖,經過三大阿僧祇劫,期間都不能有退心,有退心就半途而廢了,這個叫「聖道門」。
Namo Amituofo!
