Master Huijing’s Short Teaching about Pure Land Buddhism (I)
淨土短文 (一)
13. (continued 5 /5)
“Assurance of Buddhahood” : non-retrogression, destined for Buddhahood in one more lifetime, and part of the great assembly.
Non-retrogression: with immeasurable life one continues living and progressing toward Buddhahood.
Rightly Established Group: with the status of a bodhisattva. A beginner (first stage of faith) bodhisattva must possess the ten wholesome actions. The “three virtuous stages” and “ten sage stages”: even the ten faith stages are still considered ordinary beings, called “inner ordinary beings.”
Those before the first stage of faith are called “outer ordinary beings,” referring to ordinary beings immersed in the ten evils.
13. (續 5 /5)
正定聚──不退轉、等正覺、補處、大會眾。
不退：壽命無量，一直活著，一直進步，不成佛成什麼？
正定聚：決定成佛之菩薩身份。初信位菩薩須具足十善。三賢十聖，十信猶是 凡夫，謂之內凡夫。
初信外謂之外凡夫，此指十惡凡夫。
Namo Amituofo!
