Common Knowledge in Pure Land Teaching
淨土小常識
To Renounce the Defiled Land and Admire the Pure Land (continued)
4. Actually, it is more difficult to be born as a human being than to be reborn in the Pure Land near the end-of-life. One will definitely fall into one of the wretched realms if not reborn in Amitabha’s Pure Land. The benefits of rebirth in the West are far greater than attaining the Way.
5. To benefit others, one should first benefit oneself. If we cannot exit the cycle of birth-and-death, how can we help others to do it? If we cannot reach the shore of the sea of suffering, how can we rescue those who are on the brink of drowning in the same sea?
6. By attaining rebirth in the West, one can preach the Dharma and deliver sentient beings at will, without any obstructions.
7. Don’t worry that you are unable to become a Buddha, as a Buddha never fails to preach the Dharma to deliver sentient beings.
8. [Amitabha’s Name] is like a drop of water from the divine dragon, which rains down upon the entire world. A false dragon is incapable of entering the sea.
厭穢欣淨 (續)
4. 來生做人比臨終往生還難,不生西方將來必墮惡道,生西利益比得道利益更大 。
5. 欲利他先須能自利,若非自己能先出生死,何能度彼生死眾生;自己在苦海中未能出,何能遍救苦海之人。
6. 求生西方方能宏法利生,任運度眾,自在無礙。
7. 只怕不成佛,不愁佛不會說法度眾生。
8. 如神龍一滴水,遍灑天下。不是真龍不入海。
Namo Amituofo!
