Basic Knowledge in the Pure Land Teaching
淨土小常識
132. The Most Honored Name of Ultimate, Perfect, and Harmonious Virtue (continued)
The following are quotations from Shakyamuni Buddha and the Pure Land
patriarchs as evidence:
“One ought to recite Amitabha Buddha’s Name. This Name contains immeasurable, boundless merits and virtues. Those who recite the Name will accumulate infinite merits and virtues. In so doing, all of one’s evil karma and afflictions, accumulated in countless eons, will be eradicated.”
“This practice (Amitabha-recitation) enables us to absorb all virtuous teachings and roots, and experience perfect and complete True Suchness. For this reason it is called the Great Practice.”
“It is the ultimate praise of the One Buddha Vehicle and the ultimate destination in the land of bliss. Among all of the virtuous practices to achieve awakening, the Buddha’s Name is the one which is most splendid.”
“The Samadhi of Amitabha-recitation is the teaching for afflicted ordinary beings to transcend reincarnation and immediately be reborn in Amitabha’s Pure Land.”(by Master Yuanzhao)
(to be continued tomorrow)
132 圓融至德嘉號 (續)
引證佛言祖語如下:
•應念阿彌陀佛名,此名攝無量無邊功德。稱念此名,無量功德來集我身,無始至今,煩惱惡業,皆悉消除。
──珍海上人《菩提心集》
•此行即是攝諸善法,具諸德本,極速圓滿,真如一實,功德寶海,故名大行。
──親鸞上人《教行信證》
•一乘極唱,終歸咸指於樂邦;萬行圓修,最勝獨推於果號。
•念佛三昧者,具縛凡愚,屠沽下類,剎那超越成佛之法也。
──元照大師
Namo Amituofo!
