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第192集誰有能力突破時空

Who has the ability to break through time and space?

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誰有能力突破時空 - 第192集

Who has the ability to break through time and space?

我們這個世界侷限在時空裡面,誰有能力突破時空?念佛人能突破時空,念到功夫成片,這是我們每個人可以做到的。什麼叫成片?心裡只有阿彌陀佛,除阿彌陀佛之外其他的東西都清除掉、都擺脫掉了,這叫功夫成片。心裡只裝阿彌陀佛,沒有妄想,沒有雜念,這個心是清淨心。

Our world is limited in time and space. Who has the ability to break through time and space? Pure Land practitioners who have achieved Constant Mindfulness of Amitabha Buddha (which is achievable by every one of us) can do so. What is called ‘Constant Mindfulness of Amitabha Buddha?’ It means that one has removed all other things from the mind except Amitabha Buddha. In other words, one only retains Amitabha Buddha’s name (without wandering and distracting thoughts) in the mind. This mind is a pure mind.

如果有妄想、雜念,這個心叫染污心,心被染污了,不清淨,不清淨當然不平等,這是六道凡夫的妄心,它所現的相就是六道輪迴相。我們把清淨心裡頭這些染污統統清除出去,只留阿彌陀佛,往生極樂世界,花報。

If one has wandering and distracting thoughts, this mind which is called ‘defiled mind’, is neither pure nor impartial. This is the deluded mind of ordinary beings of the Six Realms, and the phenomena manifested by it are the phenomena of the Six Realms. If we clean up all these defilements in the pure mind and only retain Amitabha Buddha, we will be reborn in the Land of Ultimate Bliss. This is an immediate karmic reward.

所以清淨菩提心,「能感得廣大無際依報淨土,長遠無量正報壽命」。這就說明為什麼極樂世界那麼大,大到我們不能想像,十方世界去的眾生都能夠容得下,沒有擁擠的感覺,把這個道理給我們說出來了。

That’s why a pure bodhi mind “can effect, generate and accomplish the circumstantial consequence of a vast and boundless Pure Land, as well as the direct consequence of infinite life.” This explains why the Land of Ultimate Bliss is so vast that we cannot imagine its vastness. It can accommodate all sentient beings in the worlds of the ten directions without having the feeling of crowdedness -- it tells us this truth.

它超越空間,沒有空間限制;長遠無量,沒有時間的限制。所以他無量壽,正報無量壽,依報廣大無邊際。「除菩提心,無能當此」。這是說出突破時空的侷限是菩提心,唯有菩提心是真心。時間、空間有侷限的,統統在菩提心裡面,菩提心一發,時間、空間就不見了。

As it transcends space, it has no space limitation. It has no time limitation either because the people’s lifespan is infinite. That’s why its direct consequence is infinite life, while its circumstantial consequence is the vast and boundless land. “Only the bodhi mind can accomplish these” -- this is to say that it is the bodhi mind that breaks through the limitation of time and space because only the bodhi mind is the true mind. Once you bring forth the bodhi mind, time and space will disappear.