Master Huijing’s Short Teaching about Pure Land Buddhism (I)
淨土短文 (一)
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Aspiration
In general: All of the aspirations of sentient beings, including the aspiration to attain Buddhahood.
Specifically: The aspiration for rebirth in the Pure Land. This is the foundation of all of the aspirations of sentient beings, because it fulfills everything that beings truly seek and desire.
The Dharma-Body as Suchness
The Body of True Reality is the Dharma-nature/ Dharma-body. It pervades all places and is without form.
Being formless, there is no form that it cannot be. According to circumstances and capacities, it manifests boundless forms.
True Reality is formless. It is without discriminative wisdom and without deluded knowing—that is, it is free from false conceptual attachments. Therefore, innate true wisdom becomes manifest.
Thus it is said: "Without knowing, there is nothing that is not known; without form, there is no form that is not manifested."
The Compassionate Manifestation Body
The Body for the sake of sentient beings is the body that saves and liberates them. It is the skillful-means Dharma-body and therefore possesses form.
Because the Body of True Reality pervades all places, it is able to deliver sentient beings wherever they may be.
(to be continued tomorrow)
19. (3 /4) )願 ──
總：眾生一切願，成佛願。
別：往生願，此是眾生一切願之根本。（眾生所願樂，一切能滿足）
實相身，真實相之身，法性法身，遍一切處，無形相，無所住。 無相而無所不相，隨機緣顯無邊色相。
實相無相、無智、無知即無妄相執著之知，故顯本有真知。 所謂無知無所不知，無相無所不相。
為物身，救度眾生之身，方便法身，有形相。
實相身，遍一切處，故能度任何處之眾生。
Namo Amituofo!
