Common Knowledge in Pure Land Teaching
淨土小常識
The Ultimate Principle of Becoming a Buddha by Delivering Sentient Beings
Master Yinguang says, “If sentient beings in the nine realms eliminate this Dharma, they will be unable to achieve the complete and perfect Buddhist Way above.
All Buddhas in the ten directions, who renounce this Dharma, are unable to comprehensively and universally deliver or benefit all kinds of sentient beings.”
Sentient beings of the nine realms include the three kinds of sacred beings and six kinds of
ordinary beings (all realms from bodhisattvas to hell beings, except the Buddha’s). If a sentient being does not practice the Pure Land teaching, “believing in and accepting Amitabha’s deliverance, exclusively reciting Amitabha’s Name, and aspiring to be reborn in Amitabha’s Pure Land”, he will be unable to completely accomplish the Buddha Way. It is the same for all Buddhas in the ten directions. If they do not offer this teaching, they will be unable to universally deliver sentient beings in the ten directions.
成佛度生之極則
印光大師說:九界眾生離此法,上不能圓成佛道;十方諸佛捨此法,下不能普利群生。
九界(三聖六凡,除佛界,自菩薩界至地獄界)的眾生,如果離開「信受彌陀救度、專稱彌陀佛名、願生彌陀淨土」的淨土法門,就不能圓滿成就佛果;十方諸佛也是一樣,離開了這個法門,也不能普遍地救度十方眾生。
Namo Amituofo!
