沉沉以思，吾人共生五浊， 苦多乐少，寿短业长。 纵使今朝成佛去， 乐邦教主已嫌迟。 安得不火急修持， 宴然自安乎？ – 虚云老和尚 Deeply consider thus...
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How Can Pure Land Practitioners Cope With Loneliness?
Question: How can I cope with loneliness? From the noumenal perspective, all hungers...
Why Not Return To This World Immediately?
Question: Why should we seek birth in Āmítuófó’s Pure Land, instead of returning...
Can The Deceased Be Burnt ‘Alive’?
Question: What happens if the deceased is going through cremation, but the...
Niànfó Guidance For Monastics & Laity 致法师与居士之念佛开示
致法师与居士之念佛开示Niànfó Guidance For Monastics And Laity 净土宗十三祖印光大师 （复又真师、觉三居士书）The Pure Land...
How To Gather In Senses For Pure Mindfulness Of Buddha 如何摄根净念佛
念从心起，声从口出，音从耳入。行住坐卧，均如是念… 大声、小声、心中默念… 犹有声相… [注：卧时，为不伤气，只应默念。] With...
How To Transform The Inauspicious & Avert Disasters...
‘现今世运危岌，果能志诚念佛，决定可以逢凶化吉。否则，现在之祸害，比以前不同，直是避无可避，防不胜防… 当与眷属详言之，则存亡均获利益矣。’ –...
How To See Nianfo Distractors As Nianfo Reminders
Question: I get easily distracted during Nianfo (念佛: mindful chanting of...
Why Sincerity & Response Lack During Nianfo 为何念佛不恳切而无感应
‘念佛时，毫无感应， 系不知佛力，心不恳切。 不知佛力，由未深研净土经论故也。’ ‘When mindful of [Amitabha]...
Does Nianfo Accumulate Merits?
Question: Though I have intentions to do good, it seems difficult to do them, perhaps...
Four Aspirations When Sharing Merits 四愿回向
愿消累劫诸业障。 愿得福慧日增长。 愿尽此身出娑婆。 愿佛接引生安养。 May I eradicate all karmic obstacles accumulated...
Main Practice As Host & Supportive Practices As Guests...
‘念佛之人，各随己分。专念佛号亦好，兼诵经咒，并广修万行亦好。但不可了无统绪，必须以念佛为主，为正行。 ‘Those [who practise]...
Do We Enter Pure Land Defiled?
Question: Will we bring our greed, hatred and delusion (three poisons) with us when we...
Will Any Buddha’s Name Do In Nianfo?
Question: If I wish to Nianfo (practise mindfulness recitation of Buddha’s...
Can Any Ten Thoughts Of Amituofo Lead To Pure Land?
Question: The 18th Vow of Amituofo (阿弥陀佛; Amitabha Buddha) says that ‘if…...
Can I Pray To Many For One Request?
Question: Is it alright to pray to several Buddhas and Bodhisattvas for the same...
Why Dedicate All Merits For Pure Land? 为何皆回向净土
‘回向之法虽不一，然必以回向净土，为唯一不二之最妙法。 ‘Although the methods for dedication [of...
Should The Deceased’s Favourite Food Be Offered?
In an interview with a funeral parlour’s CEO, he said, ‘we learn about the...
What Are Main & Mixed Practices? 何为正杂二行？
行有二种。一者、正行。二者、杂行。 Practice has two kinds. First, [are] ‘Main Practices’...
Why Do Bodhisattvas Fear Evil Causes? 为何菩萨畏恶因？
‘经云：“菩萨畏因，众生畏果。” 菩萨恐招恶果，故断恶因。恶因断而恶果无从而生。 ‘[The] sutra(s) say, “Bodhisattvas fear...