Common Knowledge in Pure Land Teaching
淨土小常識
Only by Being Reborn in the West can Loved Ones Forever be Together
In this world, all families and close friends will separate when the appropriate circumstances arise. If we wish to be together forever, we must first have a karmic connection with the Buddha, recite Amitabha’s Name, and be reborn in the Land of Bliss.
Though families and close friends in the world love each other, they can only be together for the time allotted according to their karmic circumstances. They have no choice but to leave each other when conditions change.
The only possible way they can stay together is to form a karmic bond with the Buddha. How do we make a karmic connection with the Buddha? It is by exclusively reciting Amitabha’s Name together, and aspiring to be reborn in his Pure Land. In this way, not only can they live happily together in this life; but, also permanently gather together in the next life.
圖久當生西
世間眷屬,緣盡則離;圖久聚者,當結佛緣,同念彌陀,同生極樂。
世間眷屬雖然恩愛相處,但也不過是這幾十年的和合,幾十年過了,緣盡 了,就彼此各自離開,不可能像現在這樣再相聚。
有可能再相聚的,就是要結佛緣。結什麼佛緣?就是彼此都「專稱彌陀佛名」,彼此都「願生彌陀淨土」,這樣,不只現世六親眷屬和樂相處,未來也能再度團聚,永不相離。
Namo Amituofo!
