Q and a about Practicing Amitabha-Recitation
Part Three - - Amitabha-Recitation Near the End-of-Life
念佛實用問答(3) - 臨終助念
Question 75: What kind of practitioner is able to know in advance the time of his or her death? How does one come to know it beforehand?
Answer: There are two kinds of people:
1. Those who have accumulated deep merit through exclusively reciting Namo Amitabha Buddha.
2. Those whose wholesome roots and virtues from past lives are especially profound.
Such people may come to know the time in advance while in meditation, in a dream, during the very act of reciting Namo Amitabha Buddha, or through being
informed by Buddhas or Bodhisattvas.
They may also learn it without being told by anyone. When the time arrives they may naturally know it themselves.
To outsiders, this may seem miraculous or extraordinary. To the person involved, however, it is quite ordinary—just as plainly evident as seeing an object before one's eyes.
75問：什麼樣的念佛人能預知時至？怎樣預知時至？
答：有兩種人：
一、念佛功積。二、宿善深厚。
則於定中、夢中、正念佛中，蒙佛菩薩告示而知；或不由他告，至時自己自然 而知者。外人覺得神奇，對他只是平常，如見眼前之物。
Namo Amituofo!
