Pure Land Patriarch - Master Daochuo
道綽大師
The second of the two reasons [why we cannot successfully practice the Buddhist teachings of the Sacred Path ] is “shallow understanding of profound principles or laws”.
Principles and understanding are relative. Understanding is active, while a principle is passive. There are four categories of teachings on the Sacred Path. They are “teachings, principles, practices, and realization.” A teaching plays an active role in our understanding, while a principle plays a passive role. Shakyamuni’s teachings play an active role in our understanding , and the principle explained through the teaching plays a passive role.
In that way, it is like following the principle explained by the teaching of the “Real Mark of all Dharmas” in the Lotus Sutra, or following the principle explained by the teaching of “unobstructed penetration between each of the phenomena” in the Flower Adornment Sutra, or following the principle explained by the teaching of the “non-duality of inconceivable emancipation” in the Vimalakirti Sutra, or following the principle explained by the teaching that “all sentient beings possess the Buddha Nature” in the Nirvana Sutra.
(to be continued tomorrow)
關於「二由」中之二「理深解微」的問題:
理與解是相對之語,解是能解,理是所解。聖道法門的內容由「教理行果」之四法所組織,教是能詮,理是所詮;以釋尊之「教」為能詮,此教所顯明的「理」為所詮。
如依《法華經》顯明「諸法實相」之理,依《華嚴經》顯明「事事無礙」之理,依《維摩經》顯明「不思議解脫不二門」之理,依《涅槃經》顯明「一切眾生悉有佛性」之理。
Namo Amituofo!
