Master Huijing’s Short Teaching about the Pure Land (I)
淨土短文 (一)
11. Although the Land of Bliss is said to be a hundred thousand million worlds away from here, when speaking in terms of its traces or appearance, it seems unimaginably distant. Yet the wisdom-nature of Amitabha Buddha encompasses the entire expanse of empty space and all worlds; therefore, there is nowhere that it is not present.
For this reason, all sentient beings — whenever they think or take a step forward — are already within Amitabha Buddha’s nature. If one reaches out with utmost sincerity and earnestness of heart, there is no one that will fail to receive a response. (From Longshu’s Pure Land Writings, Vol. 8)
To be reborn in the Land of Bliss actually means rebirth that is beyond birth and death. The Land of Bliss transcends all duality; it is the joy that is unborn and undying. It is the bliss inherently possessed within one’s own true nature, the bliss of the true nature of Nirvana. When ignorance is completely removed, the True Suchness of the Self-Nature fully manifests—this is unconditioned bliss, free from fabrication: non-doing, non-conditioning, and non-arising.
All beings there receive bodies of naturalness and boundless essence. The “rebirth” in Amitabha Buddha’s Pure Land is a birth without birth and without death; it is Immeasurable Life itself — absolute rather than relative. In that very moment, one attains Immeasurable Life.
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11. 極樂世界雖云去此百萬世界，論其蹟則不勝其遠；然佛之慧性，含虛空世 界，故無所不在。
是以一切眾生，舉意動步，皆在佛之性中，至心懇切，無不應驗。（龍舒淨土文 卷八）
往生極樂，即不生不滅之謂也。極樂是超越相對性，不生不滅，自性本具之樂 ，自性所生之樂，涅槃真性之樂，無明盡除，真如自性全現之無為樂，無作、 無為、無生。皆受自然虛無之身無極之體。往生彌陀淨土之生是無生無滅之 生，是無量壽，是絕對非相對，即時得無量壽。
Namo Amituofo!
