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空中建房屋誰能做得到 - 第102集
Who can build a house in the sky?
這是「如來懸知」，預先知道，「末代罪濁凡夫」，造的罪業多，染污嚴重，濁是染污，「立相住心尚不能得」，立相住心隨順眾生，你都做不到，你都不肯幹，「何況離相而求事者」。
“The Tathāgatas had foreknown that if ordinary beings in the Dharma Ending Age who had committed many karmic misdeeds and are seriously defiled cannot set their mind on the Land of Ultimate Bliss and Amitabha Buddha, how can they possibly renounce forms (i.e., not abide in forms) to seek enlightenment?”
八萬四千法門都要離相，阿羅漢要斷見思煩惱，念佛求生西方極樂世界，可以不要斷見思煩惱，容易太多，真正是易行道。
All the 84,000 Dharma methods require the practitioners to renounce forms. Chanting Amitabha Buddha’s name to seek rebirth in the Land of Ultimate is much easier to accomplish because one need not sever the afflictions of view and thought to be born in that Land, as opposed to arhats who have to sever these afflictions before they can attain this realisation. That’s why the Pure Land method is really easy to cultivate.
「似無術通人，居空立舍」，這是用一個比喻，辦不到的，你沒有神通，你怎麼能夠在空中建築？空中建一個房屋，誰能做得到？小乘阿那含以上。
“This is similar to someone without skills and spiritual power (supernatural abilities) who wants to build a house in the sky.” This is a metaphor to illustrate how someone without spiritual power builds a house in the sky! Who can do that? Theravadins who had attained the realisation of a non-returner (anāgāmin) and above can do that.
阿那含有神足通，像《西遊記》裡孫悟空一樣，孫悟空不能跟他比，孫悟空只有七十二變，阿那含可不止，世間五通他都具足，只有漏盡通他沒有，證得漏盡通就成阿羅漢了，四果羅漢。
An anāgāmin has teleportation power like Sun Wukong (the Monkey King) in the Chinese novel, Journey to the West. However, Sun Wukong’s magic power cannot be compared with that of an anāgāmin because the former only had seventy-two transformations while the latter has more than that. An anāgāmin, who only lacks the power of complete extinction of afflictions, is replete with the other five supranormal powers in the world. When they acquire the power of complete extinction of afflictions, they will attain the realisation of arhatship.