Short Pure Land Teaching (I)
淨土短文 (一)
Calling the Name in a State of Lost Mind - Because one suffers the consequences of evil karma, the pains near the end-of-life can become overwhelming. Upon encountering the instruction of a spiritual teacher, if one exclusively recites Namo Amitabha Buddha, this is referred to as “calling the Name in a state of lost mind.”
As stated in the Contemplation Sutra, in the section on “Rebirth for those at the Lowest Level of the Lowest Grade”: “There are beings who… eliminate the karmic offenses of eighty kotis (800 million) kalpas of birth-and-death.”
Therefore, by fulfilling the “ten recitations” of Namo Amitabha Buddha, even a person who has committed evil throughout their life can eliminate offenses equivalent to eighty kotis of kalpas of birth-and-death, and be reborn in the Land of Bliss.
失念稱名：因造惡之報而臨終苦逼，遇善知識之教，苦逼心亂之當下稱名念佛 ，謂之失念稱名。
如《觀經》「下品下生」言：「或有眾生……除八十億劫生死之罪。」
因此，具足十念之稱名，一生造惡之人，亦得消除八十億劫生死之罪，而往生極樂淨土。
Namo Amituofo!
