Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teaching about Classification of Teachings – the Two Practices (Primary and Miscellaneous)
正雜二行判
The five kinds of miscellaneous practices are Buddhist teachings. Their goal is liberation from the cycle of birth-and-death through rebirth in the Land of Bliss. However, because they don’t believe in and accept Amitabha’s deliverance with singleness of mind, they think they must add the teachings of other Buddhas and bodhisattvas. They do not understand that rebirth is entirely based on the power of Amitabha’s 18th vow. Because they are ignorant and deluded, their minds and practices are mixed. This is the reason they are called “miscellaneous” and should be discarded.
「五種雜行」都是佛教中的修行,只是既然要了脫生死,往生極樂,卻不一心信順彌陀的救度,而去依靠阿彌陀佛以外的諸佛菩薩等其他法門,不知此等對往生來講都是無力的,不能往生的,力量全在彌陀一佛。由於迷而不知,其心其行皆雜,故言「雜行」,勸應捨棄。
Namo Amituofo!
