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 70:
Why is it that some people spend their whole lives exclusively reciting Namo Amitabha Buddha and sincerely aspiring to be reborn in the Pure Land; yet, still ask others to assist them with Buddha-recitation at the time of death?
Answer:
This is not because their rebirth is uncertain and they therefore need others to help ensure it. Rather, their rebirth is already assured, and they simply invite fellow lotus friends (fellow practitioners) to accompany them and send them off at the moment of death.
Examples can be found in The Record of Responses to Buddha-Recitation, Volume 3:
● Master Yingke (p.135),
● Hu Songnian (p.147),
● Dong Ziming (p.151),
● Zheng Xibin (p.153).
70問：為什麼有人一生念佛、真願往生，也要人臨終助念？
答：此並非往生不定、要人助念，而是往生已定、請蓮友臨終相送而已。如 《念佛感應錄》第三集第135頁瑩珂法師、第147頁胡松年、第151頁董子明、 第153頁鄭錫賓等。
Namo Amituofo!
