Master Huijing’s Short Teaching about Pure Land Buddhism (I)
淨土短文 (一)
13. (continued 3 /5)
Upon entering the Pure Land, one quickly attains the six supernatural powers. The six sense faculties gradually become pure: when the eye sees forms, the eye faculty is pure; when the ear hears sounds, the ear faculty is pure, and so on.
With the power of knowing past lives, one can find parents and relatives from many lifetimes. With the heavenly ear, one can hear cries for help and respond like Avalokiteśvara, saving beings from suffering.
Without these powers, there is ignorance; with ignorance comes affliction. Because beings lack the six powers, they undergo the suffering of birth and death. Not having attained these powers, the world falls into disorder.
The eye-consciousness is like a mirror, without discrimination; discrimination arises from mental consciousness. Therefore, consciousness itself has no inherent nature.
The wisdom of the Buddha can shatter the delusions of ordinary beings, like an X-ray revealing the interior of the human body.
(to be continued tomorrow)
13. (續 3 /5)
一入淨土即得六通，不必修行。一入淨土即六根清淨。如眼見樹眼根淨，耳聞 聲耳根淨……
宿命通故，能找多生多劫之父母兄弟，過去未來皆知。天耳通故，尋聲救苦觀 世音。
無通即無明，無明即苦惱。無六通故生死痛苦。未得六通，故天下大亂。 眼識如鏡無分別，有分別是意識作用，故意識皆無自性。
佛智能破凡夫之妄，如X光照人身。
Namo Amituofo!
