Pure Land Patriarch - Master Daochuo
道綽大師
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In terms of material life, the techniques to increase productivity and applications progress a thousand miles a day. However, cutting off delusions and the realization of truth are decreasing rapidly, like a waterfall pouring downward. This is a matter of fact. We are seeing the truth of the Buddha’s prediction - “During the Dharma Ending Era, not a single person will attain the Buddhist Way.”
Thus, we see the importance of sharing a teaching that is appropriate for the aptitudes of people today. It is like prescribing the appropriate medicine for a particular kind of disease. As it is written, “ a medicine is good if it can cure, regardless of its price; and a teaching is wonderful if it is suitable for the right people.”
A practitioner who has the Bodhi Mind and its wisdom is not cheating when he makes his selection of a proper practice. Master Daochuo followed the Buddha’s teaching when he revealed that, in the Dharma Ending Era, only by entering the “door” of the Pure Land teaching can we gain access to the Way.
This statement is the Agada (a medicine that cures all physical and mental illnesses) for all sentient beings, and is the sailing ship that carries us across the vast sea of suffering.
因此「教赴時機」的重要性正如應病與藥,所謂「藥無貴賤,對症者良;法無高下,應機者妙」。
一個行者,有道心則不自欺,有智慧則能抉擇;如今道綽大師依聖言量而明示「末法濁世,唯有淨土一門,可通入路。」此語真是芸芸眾生的阿伽陀藥,茫茫苦海的不退風航。
Namo Amituofo!
