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:
“The path of enlightenment realized by Amitabha Buddha is embodied in his Name of myriad virtues, which includes all kinds of purity. Amitabha Buddha comprises three “bodies”- the Dharma body, the Sambhoga body, and the Nirmana body; which contain all of the merits and virtues of all Buddhas in the ten directions. It is like a pearl in the Brahma Net, a thousand pearls converge to form one pearl, and one pearl permeates the ten thousand pearls. Receive all by just taking one.”
“Amitabha’s great name with a myriad of virtues is like a furnace with a blazing fire. All of our karma from past eons is like snowflakes. Ordinary beings’ karma will be extinguished through reciting Amitabha’s Name, just like a snowflake that gets too close to a burning furnace.”
“A single recitation of Amitabha Buddha’s Name includes all teachings in the great canon during any era, so it can endlessly produce virtues.”
“The teaching of Amitabha-recitation includes all other Buddhist teachings.”
“One ought to know, the six-character Name includes all the teachings of the Three Vehicles and transcends the Ten Bodhisattva stages.”
132 圓融至德嘉號 (續)
•阿彌陀佛所證之菩提覺道,即阿彌陀佛一句萬德洪名,包攝淨盡。
•阿彌陀佛是法界藏身,所有十方法界諸佛功德,阿彌陀佛一佛全體具足。如帝網珠,千珠攝於一珠,一珠遍於千珠。舉一全收,無欠無餘。
•阿彌陀佛萬德洪名,如大冶洪爐。吾人多生罪業,如空中片雪。業力凡夫,由念佛故,業便消滅。如片雪近於洪爐,即便了不可得。
•一句佛號,包括一大藏教,罄無不盡。
•一代時教,皆念佛法門之註腳。
•莫訝一稱超十地,須知六字括三乘。
──印光大師
Namo Amituofo!
