Pure Land Dharma Talks / Episode 100

Episode 100什麼是大規矩

What is the important rule?

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What is the important rule?

什麼是大規矩 - 第100集

重要是開悟,重要是其義自見,這個重要。要想開悟,方法就是戒定慧三學。戒是規矩,你要守規矩,這個規矩你要相信。什麼規矩?大規矩,一門深入,長時薰修。你相不相信?讀書千遍,其義自見,要守這個規矩。

What is important in cultivation is to attain spontaneous enlightenment and the method to attain it is the Threefold Learning of precept, meditative concentration and wisdom. Precept is rule which you have to obey and believe. What is this rule? It is the important rule of delving deeply into one subject and persevering with it for a long period of time. Do you believe it? You must obey the rule of reading a book for a thousand times to attain spontaneous enlightenment.

決定不能學太多,學太多你分心,你的力量不能集中。只可以學一樣,不能學很多樣,這一樣什麼?這一樣是精。我教人把《無量壽經》念三千遍是精,我又教人把黃念祖老居士的集註看三十遍,先看黃念祖老居士的註解看三十遍,為什麼?

You must never learn too many subjects or else you would not be able to focus your mind and energy. You can only learn one subject and not many subjects. What is learning one subject? It is being focused. I teach people to recite the Infinite Life Sutra three thousand times. This is being focused. I also teach people to read Upasaka Huang’s annotation thirty times. You must first read this annotation thirty times. What is the reason?

你的信心堅定了,你真搞清楚、搞明白了,你有真信,有切願。有真信、有切願,不再有絲毫懷疑了,這個註解不要看,你去念經就行。專門念這個經就是修念佛三昧,一天念二十遍,我相信你念到半年,一遍大概半個小時,二十遍十個小時,這是什麼?

Because if you really understand this Dharma method, you will have unwavering confidence (i.e., true belief) and earnest vow. When you have true belief (without the slightest doubt) and earnest vow, you can continue to recite the sutra and need not read this annotation anymore. Focusing on reciting this sutra is cultivating Buddha Mindfulness Samadhi. I believe you can recite the whole sutra in about thirty minutes after half a year. What are you cultivating when you recite the sutra twenty times (i.e., ten hours) a day?

這是修定,就是一門深入,長時薰修。剩下來時間念阿彌陀佛,佛號不中斷。三千遍念下去之後,不定什麼時候大徹大悟,經裡的意思全通了。

You are cultivating meditative concentration by delving deeply into one subject and persevering with it for a long period of time. You can spend the remaining time to chant Amitabha Buddha’s name incessantly. After reciting the sutra three thousand times, you would one day attain Supreme Enlightenment and can thus comprehend all the meanings in the sutra.

那個時候來講這個經,就跟釋迦牟尼佛沒有兩樣,才真正把這個經講透,讓聽眾個個歡喜,個個發心念佛求生淨土。不這麼幹不行。

At that time, your lecturing on this sutra would be no different from Sakyamuni Buddha’s. Only then can you really expound this sutra perfectly and enable every audience to feel the joy of practising Buddha Mindfulness and vow to be reborn in the Pure Land. If you do not cultivate in this way, you will not succeed in attaining enlightenment.