Master Yinguang’s Short Teaching about the Differences among the Teachings - The General Path and the Particular Path
印光大師「法門不同」之文(總判通別二門)
Among most Dharma teachings, practitioners exclusively rely on “self-power” (their own power); but, in the Pure Land teaching, practitioners exclusively rely on the Buddha’s power.
Among most Dharma teachings, it is required to clear all delusive karma before a practitioner can end the sufferings of birth and death. For practitioners of the Pure Land teaching, practitioners, though born with karma, instantly receive a prediction that they will enter the sacred path through rebirth [in the Pure Land].
一切法門,專仗自力;淨土法門,專仗佛力。
一切法門,惑業淨盡,方了生死。淨土法門, 帶業往生, 即預聖流。
Namo Amituofo!
