Q and A about Practicing Amitabha-Recitation
Part Two - Rebirth through Amitabha-Recitation
第二部分 有關念佛往生
I believe that all those who kill sentient beings and commit many karmic offenses are unlikely to attain rebirth. Is this true?
Answer: All people have committed karmic offenses. Amitabha Buddha is sympathetic to us because we suffer from retribution for our karmic offenses. So, as long as we direct our minds toward Amitabha Buddha, all of us can be reborn.
This was written in the section on rebirth for those in the low tier - “those who commit the Ten Unwholesome Deeds and the Five Gravest Transgressions, break precepts, etc. can be reborn if they recite Amitabha’s name near the end-of-life.” Please refer to the following pages in the Third Collection on the Accounts of Amitabha-recitation: P.58 , P.175, P.382, P.311, P.238 and P.332
13問:殺生造多罪業的人,雖念佛恐怕不能往生吧?
答:人都是有罪的,阿彌陀佛正是可憐我們造罪受苦才要救我們。所以雖然造了罪,如能夠迴心念佛,沒有不往生的。《觀經》下品明明記載一生造了十惡、破戒、五逆重罪的人,臨終才念佛也都往生。
《念佛感應錄》第三集第58頁丁德華之父、第175頁趙秋中、第382頁張蓮娣一生殺豬,臨終迴心念佛;第311頁許桔清養蝦為業,年輕時還打過蛇,晚年迴心念佛;又有第238頁江蘇王某年輕浪蕩、臨死地獄相現,跟隨助念之人念佛;第332頁新加坡販毒犯臨行念佛,火化得舍利子等,這些人最後都念佛往生,即是現證。
Namo Amituofo!
