Master Huijing’s Short Teaching about the Pure Land (I)
淨土短文 (一)
9. The Name is the Dharma-Realm of Non-Obstruction, between Phenomena and Principle.
Amitabha Buddha is able to incorporate immeasurable merits and virtues into his Name; ordinary beings are incapable of doing so. This precisely illustrates the Dharma-Realm of Non-Obstruction between Phenomena and Principle; the fruition of Amitabha Buddha’s awakened realization as the causal mind. For ordinary beings, the Name itself becomes faith. The Name and its essence are non-dual; phenomena and principle interpenetrate without obstruction.
The beings of the Ten Dharma-realms—here dharma-realm means sphere or realm of experience. There are ten kinds of beings, corresponding to ten distinct realms. Realm denotes distinction and differentiation—the differences among the experiential realms of these ten types of beings.
Amitabha Buddha’s realm can be explained through the doctrine of the Four Dharma-realms of non-obstruction. The Name is the Dharma-realm of non-obstruction between phenomena and principle, as expressed in the passage:
“All Buddhas and Tathagatas are bodies of the Dharma-realm and enter into the thoughts and minds of all sentient beings.”
The term “Dharma-realm body” does not mean the Dharma-body. The Dharma-body is formless and without characteristics, whereas the Dharma-realm body has characteristics. It refers to the essence within the Nine Dharma-realms — that is, the realm of sentient beings. This is the sphere in which Amitabha Buddha carries out the work of liberating beings. Amitabha Buddha comes to seek us of his own accord.
The Dharma-realm body is none other than Amitabha Buddha’s unobstructed wisdom. This body, mind, and unobstructed functioning pervade everywhere. Apart from Amitabha Buddha’s wisdom, how could there be such a Dharma-realm at all?
(to be continued tomorrow)
9. 名號是事理無礙法界。
佛能以功德成名號，凡夫即不能，此是「事理無礙法界」。
以果地覺為因地心：以名號為凡夫的信心，名體一如，事理無礙。 十法界眾生，法界即境界，十種境界之眾生。界：差別、分別，十種眾生境界的 差別。
佛之境界可以「四無礙法界」解釋，名號是事理無礙法界，如「諸佛如來是法界 身，入一切眾生心想中」。「法界身」：非法身，法身無形無相，法界身有，是九法界之身。即眾生界，佛要度眾生的境界。佛自動來找我。
法界身者，無礙之佛智也，身遍、心遍、無礙遍。離佛智豈有法界！
Namo Amituofo!
