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
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How can the practices of Bodhisattva teachings be realized? If other people ask for your house, you must give it to them ; if you don’t, you are not truly aspiring to the Bodhi Mind or fully practicing the Bodhisattva teachings.
Similarly, if they ask for your eyes, you should give them your eyes. It is the same for your: liver, kidneys, wife, husband, daughters, sons, property, and royal status, etc.
All should be given away. We should endure whatever is difficult to endure, practice whatever is difficult to practice, and give whatever is difficult to give. You have to practice in this way and accumulate merits and virtues continuously for three great countless eons. This is called “practicing blessings and wisdom for three great countless eons, and cultivating these characteristics and goodness for a hundred kalpas.” This is known as pursuing the Bodhi Mind. We simply cannot accomplish the Difficult Path. Moreover, if we aspire to be reborn in the Land of Bliss by relying on the Bodhi Mind of the Sacred Path, it is regarded as pursuing “mixed practices”.
(to be continued tomorrow)
那菩薩行的顯現是什麼呢?人家如果要你的房子,你的房子就要奉獻出去,不奉獻出去就不是在發菩提心行菩薩道。人家要你的眼睛,你的眼睛就要布施;人家要你的肝臟,你的肝臟就要布施;要你的腎臟,腎臟也要布施;要你的太太、你的先生都全要布施;要你的兒女也要布施;要你的財產、要你的王位都要布施出去,所謂難忍能忍、難行能行、難捨能捨。
這樣一生一生不斷地去累積三大阿僧祇劫的功德,所謂「三祇修福慧,百劫種相好」,這就是聖道門的菩提心。這種難行道我們做不來,而且以聖道門的菩提心來求往生極樂世界,仍是屬於雜行。
Namo Amituofo!
