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:
“Even one recitation of Amitabha’s Name can transcend one’s other practices during three great eons, and one recitation of Amitabha’s Name enables us to have the same status as sacred beings.”
“By exclusively reciting Amitabha’s Name , all virtues are fully and completely absorbed and all virtuous practices are unified.”
“Reciting Amitabha’s Name bestows the highest virtue among all virtues, and the most bountiful blessings among all blessings.”
“Holding fast to the Name and wishing to see the Buddha is abundant in virtuous, great, splendid, and inconceivable roots.”
“Amitabha is the Name with a myriad of virtues. By extolling the Name once, all virtues are perfectly realized at the same time.”
“By exclusively reciting Amitabha’s Name , we accumulate more merit and virtues than by holding any Dharani.”
“The Six Paramitas with a myriad of virtues impart many teachings; but, the exclusive recitation of Amitabha’s Name imparts all merits and virtues unceasingly.
(to be continued tomorrow)
132 圓融至德嘉號 (續)
引證佛言祖語如下:
•越三祇於一念,齊諸聖於片言。
•舉其名兮,兼眾德而具備;專乎持也,統百行以無遺。
•持名乃善中之善,福中之福。
•執持名號,願見彌陀,誠多善根、大善根、最勝善根、不可思議善根。
•彌陀乃萬德名號,一名才舉,萬德齊圓。
•專持名號,猶勝持咒,亦勝餘咒,亦勝一切諸餘功德。
•六度萬行,法門無量,而專持名號,則種種功德,攝無不盡。
──蓮池大師
Namo Amituofo!
