Q and A about Practicing Amitabha-Recitation
Part Three - Assisted-Recitation near the End-of-Life
第三部分 有關臨終助念
Question 59:
What if, at the moment of death, one falls into a coma and does not know when Amitabha arrives to welcome them — how could they attain rebirth?
Answer:
This is something that simply cannot happen, and there is absolutely no need for concern.
For example, in Record of Miraculous Responses to Buddha Recitation, vol. 3, p. 299, the account of Chiang Miaoxin tells of a person whose cerebral blood vessel ruptured and who remained unconscious for a full day and night. Upon awakening, she suddenly said, “Amitabha Buddha has come to receive me — I am going to be reborn!” This was true confirmation.
This demonstrates that although our brain may be unconscious, our spiritual consciousness is not. When Amitabha arrives to greet the person, they see him clearly and distinctly, and joyously accept Amitabha’s deliverance to his Pure Land.
59 問：萬一臨終昏迷，佛來接而不知，如何往生？
答：這是不可能有的事，絲毫不必擔心。如《念佛感應錄》第三集第 299頁蔣 妙信，腦血管破裂，昏迷一天一夜，醒來突然說：「佛來接我，我要往生 了！」即是證明。說明肉體雖昏迷，神識不昏迷，佛來迎接，歷歷明見，隨佛往生。
Namo Amituofo!
