Voice of Master Jingzong - Q and A about the Purpose of Life
淨宗之聲 - 人生目的問答
(continuation of Q5 - 5/6)
If you say, “ it’s good or meaningful” based on your senses or your feelings, it is not totally accurate because it is only based on a superficial recognition.
Our rebirth in the Land of Bliss to become a Buddha is not a kind of compressing or diminishing our functional capacities or our awakenings, nor is it nonsense or happiness as we normally experience them. It is a complete and perfect awakening of our functional capacities, without any obstructions. In this respect, all Dharmas already transcend the relativity of subject and object - the state of duality.
The Buddha-Mind is as vast as the ocean, like the moon shining, and all of the stars in the sky. All Dharmas, all the creations and extinctions of thoughts by sentient beings are unfolded and revealed in these Buddha-Minds.
They perceive: richness, deepness, vastness, the state of perfection, completion, and relaxation without obstructions. In our world of duality, we distinguish object and subject, even “enlightened” is compared with “unenlightened”. This is basically discriminative and inverted. This shortcoming does not exist in the Land of Bliss. It is beyond our conceptual thinking, so I will stop talking here.
(to be continued tomorrow)
如果僅僅是在感官的層面上認為“這多好啊,有意義”,那還是不足的,那是一種表淺的認識。
我們往生極樂成佛了,並不是說這種覺性的功能就給壓縮了,沒有了,“不苦不樂,無聊了”,不是的。反而是覺性的功能徹底、圓滿、無障礙地得到實現。這樣,對一切萬法,其實已經超越了主觀與客觀的對立,超越了二元的狀態。
心如同廣大的海洋,映照天空的群星一樣,一切萬法、一切眾生的起心動念、生生滅滅,都無不在我們心中展現。這種“覺”,它的豐富程度,它的深入程度,它這種廣大、圓滿又自在無礙的狀況,完全無法想像。
而我們在世間有所“覺”,就有所“不覺”,就有主客二元的對立,然後產生種種分別和顛倒,這些過失等到往生極樂都不會存在了。這些我們也想像不到,也就不用說太多。
Namo Amituofo!
