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一句佛號證得三個境界 - 第226集
You can attain the three states of purity, impartiality and enlightenment by reciting this Amitabha Buddha’s name.
如何我能夠眼見、耳聞、鼻嗅、舌嘗、身體接觸都不生執著。沒有執著那你就證阿羅漢，你就超越六道輪迴，你這個功夫超過四禪天，超過四空天。要不是佛教導我們，我們怎麼會知道？功夫再提升，不但於一切法不執著，能於一切法不分別。不分別，心裡沒事了，清淨平等心是真心，真心現前。真心的作用就是覺，覺就是知，無所不知。
How can we not give rise to attachment in everything that we see, hear, smell, taste and come into contact with? If you have no attachment, you will attain the realisation of arhatship and transcend transmigration within the Six Realms and your effort of practice surpasses that of heavenly beings in the Four Meditation Heavens (in the realms of form) and the Four Formless Heavens. How can we know this if not because the Buddha taught us? If we work harder by not giving rise to discrimination in all situations, our true mind which is pure and impartial, will appear. The function of the true mind is enlightenment, which is omniscience.
這樁事情於讀書不讀書沒有關係，就像惠能大師一樣，惠能大師沒有念過書，不認識字。海賢老和尚也不認識字，來佛寺的三個都沒有念過書，都不認識字。他們世出世間一切法沒有不通的，為什麼？念佛得三昧，就是得清淨心。我們的經題上講的清淨心、平等心、覺心，他們用一句佛號，這三個都得到了。
This achievement has nothing to do with one’s literacy, just like Great Master Hui Neng who had never attended school and was illiterate, so were Great Master Hai Xian and the other two accomplished practitioners of Lai Fo Si. There is nothing in the world and beyond which they did not know. Why is that so? Because they had attained samadhi (i.e., purity of mind) by chanting Amitabha Buddha’s name. In fact, they had attained the purity, impartiality and enlightenment mentioned in this sutra title by using one single phrase of Amitabha Buddha’s name.
清淨，阿羅漢；平等是菩薩；覺是佛，覺是法身大士。這三個境界，一句佛號證得，為什麼證得？他肯放下。我們念不能證得，沒放下，分別執著都沒有放下。
Purity, impartiality and enlightenment are attained by arhats, bodhisattvas and buddhas (i.e., Dharma-body Bodhisattvas) respectively. Why were they able to attain these three states by reciting Amitabha Buddha’s name? Because they were willing to let go. We also chant Amitabha Buddha’s name but we cannot attain these states because we did not let go of our discrimination and attachments.
不但沒有放下，可能分別執著與日而增，一年比一年加重，沒有減輕；如果一年比一年輕，他有進步，他功夫得力了。這些習氣一年比一年重，換句話說，他這一生跟佛結了緣，阿賴耶識有種子，這一生不能成就，來生繼續搞六道輪迴。
Not only do we not let go, instead our discrimination and attachments may be increasing (instead of decreasing) by the day and year. If you have lesser attachments and discrimination every year, then you have made progress and your effort of practice is effective. By contrast, if these habituated tendencies grow stronger every year, you will not succeed in this life and have to continue to transmigrate within the Six Realms in the next life. In other words, you have only fostered an affinity with the Buddha and the buddha-seed has been sown in your alaya consciousness in this life.