Q and A about the Practice of Amitabha-Recitation
Part One - Benefits in the Present Life
第一部分 有關現世利益
(2) Question: Reciting Namo Amitabha Buddha only matters in terms of rebirth, and doesn’t provide many benefits in the present life. Is this true?
Answer: No. Reciting Namo Amitabha Buddha is beneficial in the present life, as well as the future life. It’s all included. These are the “dual benefits, in this life and the future life”, of the Pristine Pure Land School.
The future benefit refers to rebirth in the Pure Land, where we will become Buddhas. The present benefits are: eliminating calamities and dangers, enriching blessings and wisdom, improving longevity and health, delivering one’s ancestors, and protecting one’s children, grandchildren, and all others.
Please refer to the accounts of various benefits experienced in the present life through Amitabha-recitation included in the “Third Collection of Accounts of the Benefits of Amitabha-Recitation.”
(2) 問:念阿彌陀佛不是只管往生、不管現世種種利益嗎?
答:不是的。念阿彌陀佛,是現世利益、來生利益都包含在內的,這在淨土宗稱為「現當二益」。
「當」是當來,當來的利益,就是往生成佛;「現」是現世,現世的利益,比如:消災免難、增福增慧、祛病延年、平安順遂、上度祖先、下佑子孫等等,無不包含在內。《念佛感應錄》第三集收有專念阿彌陀佛得種種現世利益的例子,就是實證。
Namo Amituofo!
