Common Knowledge in Pure Land Teaching
淨土小常識
To Renounce the Defiled Land and Admire the Pure Land (continued)
The Commentary on the Treatise on Rebirth says, “
1.”Among all of the various virtues practiced by ordinary beings in the human and celestial realms, their karmic consequences are determined by how good or evil they are. Such causes and effects are totally inverted and conditioned; so, they are called “unreal merits and virtues”.
2. The Three Domains are: conditioned in form, contaminated in form, inverted in form, destructive in form, cyclic in form, and endless in form.
3. The Three Domains are the dark house where ordinary mortal beings reincarnate in the cycle of birth and death.
4. The Three Domains are produced from the outflow of the demonic way. Sentient beings live in an endless dream without realizing they need to be awakened.
The Lotus Sutra says, “There is no peace in the Three Domains. They are like a burning house, which is filled with all kinds of suffering. It is extremely horrifying.
The Infinite Life Sutra says, “ Understanding that the Three Domains are full of raging fire, one should strive to hear this teaching [of Amitabha’s deliverance], sincerely and joyfully entrust oneself to him, and exclusively recite his Name.”
(to be continued tomorrow)
厭穢欣淨 (續)
《往生論註》言:
1. 凡夫人天諸善,人天果報,若因若果,皆是顛倒,皆是虛偽,是故名不實功德。
2. 三界是虛偽相、污染相、顛倒相、破壞相、輪轉相、無窮相。
3. 三界是生死凡夫流轉之暗宅。
4. 三界是有漏邪道所生,長寢大夢,莫知希出。
《法華經》言:「三界無安,猶如火宅,眾苦充滿,甚可怖畏。」
《無量壽經》言:「設有大火,充滿三千大千世界,要當過此,聞是經法,歡喜信樂,受持讀誦,如說修行。」
Namo Amituofo!
