General Confusions and Misunderstandings about Rebirth by Amitabha-Reciters - By Master Jingzong
淨宗法師談念佛人的糊塗認識
#3. “Without performing good deeds and accumulating virtues, how can you be reborn by merely relying upon Amitabha-recitation?” Is this really true?
Comment:
People who do not understand the merit and virtues within the Buddha’s name are still inclined to self-power cultivation. Amitabha Buddha took 5 eons to conceptualize it and countless eons of practice to accumulate the perfect and complete merit and virtues within his Six-Syllable Name.
Amitabha Buddha shares his Name with us and says, “These are my unsurpassed merits and virtues that I cultivated and accomplished for you. By accepting them, you can free yourself from Samsara within the Three Domains and the Six Realms, and directly realize the fruition of unsurpassed, equal and perfect Enlightenment.”
It is similar to hardworking parents who give their child a check in the amount of their total savings and say, “My dear child, this is a symbol of our deepest love for you. You should keep it and use it well.” Upon receiving the check, the child possesses all of the rewards of his parents’ hard work over decades.
(to be continued tomorrow)
淨宗法師 - 念佛人的糊塗認識
其三: “不行善積德,光念佛怎麼能往生?” 真的嗎?
答:這種想法還是偏重自力修行,不瞭解佛號的功德妙用。阿彌陀佛他是經過了五劫思維和兆載永劫、不可思議長時間的難行苦行、種種的修行,圓滿修成了一切功德,就把它濃縮在六字名號裏面,交給你,說:“這個就是我為你修成的無上功德,你拿到之後,就可以免除三界六道的輪回,可以直證無上正等正覺的果位。”
就好像父母千辛萬苦掙了一筆萬貫家產,把它濃縮在一張小支票裏邊說:“兒啊,這個就是父母的一份愛心給你,你好好地保存、好好地受用。”這個孩子得到父母的支票,他就擁有了父母幾十年的心血、血汗,都在這裏面。
(再續)
Namo Amituofo!
