Wonderful Metaphors in the Pure Land School
淨土宗妙喻
5G The Metaphor of Rescuing a Drowning Person
At the moment when someone is about to drown to death, it is not realistic to expect him to tread water skillfully in order to stay afloat. His swimming skills are not what matters. The most important question at that moment is how to rescue him.
We are all bobbing up and down in the sea of suffering in the Three Domains. Our release from samsara depends on being saved by someone.
If no one comes to our rescue, we are doomed to accumulate more and more negative karma and keep plummeting downward. Only Amitabha Buddha can deliver us from the sea of suffering and he is all that we need. Nothing else is necessary.
5G. 不論凡夫,只論彌陀妙喻之 - 溺水施救喻
也好像一個人掉到水裏淹得要死了,我們不能要求他這樣划動手臂,那樣划動手臂⋯⋯就不能論他游泳的技術了;要論,只論怎樣去把他救起來。
我們在三界的生死苦海當中沉浮,如果想要出離,只論是否有人來救我們。如果沒人來救我們,我們只有墮落下去。所以,只論阿彌陀佛,不論其他。
Namo Amituofo!
