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覺明妙行菩薩是如何修成的 - 第212集
How did Jueming Miaoxing Bodhisattva succeed in cultivation?
覺明妙行菩薩是我們這個世界的凡夫,淨宗有一本小冊子傳得很廣,說明他的事蹟,這個小冊子叫《西方確指》。他們在這個世間同修八個人,在一起共修,八個人都往生了。他們遵守的就這三句話,不懷疑、不夾雜、不間斷,他就這樣修成的,把他們修行成就的方法傳給我們,提供我們做參考。八個人在一起修行,道場不大,小道場,但是圓滿成就,八個都往生了。
Jueming Miaoxing Bodhisattva was an ordinary person in our world. The Pure Land school has a widely circulated booklet called Pointing Clearly to the West which illustrates his story. There were eight of them practising Buddha Mindfulness together and all of them had been reborn in the Land of Ultimate Bliss. They succeeded by obeying the three phrases of ‘having no doubts, no distractions and no interruptions’ during their course of practice, so he passed this method to us for our reference. They lived and practised together in a cultivation centre which was small and not big, but they had perfectly attained Buddhahood because all of them had been reborn in the Pure Land.
所以道場的莊嚴不在大小,在這個道場真正有多少人往生,你這個道場建立在此地,究竟接引多少個往生極樂世界的人,這是功德;如果一個往生的都沒有,他的功德等於零。他修的什麼?修的福德,還是六道輪迴裡面的福德,不是功德。
That’s why the adornment of a cultivation centre is not based on its size, but on the number of people who had really been reborn in the Pure Land. When you build a cultivation centre here, your merit is based upon the number of people who had been guided to the Land of Ultimate Bliss. If no one has been reborn in the Land of Ultimate Bliss, then your merit is equal to zero. What have you cultivated? You have cultivated fortune in the Six Realms of reincarnation and not merits.