Common Knowledge in Pure Land Teaching
淨土小常識
Learn the teachings of the Pure Land School in One Minute
Let me ask you three questions:
1. Amitabha Buddha created his Land of Bliss. In it no one suffers any pain, birth, aging, illness, death, inversion, or fear. One only enjoys pleasures of various kinds.These are factual statements. Do you firmly believe them without any doubts?
2. Amitabha Buddha made a solemn vow to receive all sentient beings in his Land of Bliss, where they can more quickly and easily become Buddhas. In order to be received there we need only recite the name of Amitabha Buddha. These are factual statements. Do you firmly believe them without any doubts?
3. Based on the above facts, if I exclusively recite the name of Amitabha Buddha, Amitabha Buddha must keep his promise to appear and carry me to his Land of Bliss. It doesn’t matter when or where I recite. These are also factual statements. Do you firmly believe them without any doubts?
一分鐘教你認識「淨土宗」
問三個問題。
第一,阿彌陀佛建造了極樂世界,「無有眾苦,但受諸樂」,再無生老病死,再無顛倒恐懼。這個唯一的事實,你是否確信無疑?
第二,阿彌陀佛立下莊嚴誓願,接引一切眾生到極樂世界,快速成佛。條件是被接引者念阿彌陀佛的名號。這個唯一的事實,你是否確信無疑?
第三,因以上事實,若我念阿彌陀佛名號,無論何時何地、何種念法,阿彌陀佛必定履行誓願,接引我前往極樂世界。這個唯一的事實,你是否確信無疑?
Namo Amituofo!
