A Verse about Compassionate Advice and Cautions - quoted from “In Praise of Dharma Practice” by Master Shandao
善導大師《法事讚》慈悲勸誡偈
Living in the realm of birth-and-death for many eons, we constantly and directlysuffer from sinking into the Three Wretched Realms.
Now, we have been born in a human body and have heard the Right Dharma. We are like thirsty people finding a spring of clean water.
Upon hearing about it , we think of the Pure Land teaching in every single thought, and vow to practice according to every word and sentence.
Remembering the sorrow of wandering in those days, I listen to the Dharma attentively, in order to enter the real gate.
There is no birth and no differentiation in the Pure Land, as we have a diamond body of ultimate emancipation.
曠劫以來居生死,三塗常沒苦皆逕;
始服人身聞正法,由如渴者得清泉。
念念思聞淨土教,文文句句誓當勤;
憶想當時流浪苦,專心聽法入真門。
淨土無生亦無別,究竟解脫金剛身。
Namo Amituofo!
