‘大家要晓得：仗自力修持，自有何种力？但是无始以来的业力，所以万劫千生，难得解脱。仗阿弥陀佛的弘誓大愿力，自然一生成办。’
– 净土宗十三祖印光大师
(世界佛教居士林开示)
‘Everyone must know this – relying on self-power for practice, of self, what kind of power is there? It is only [negative] karmic power from beginninglessness, [with limited positive or pure karma], therefore, for tens of thousands of kalpas’ thousands of lives, they are difficult to attain liberation from. Relying [also] on Amituofo’s [Amitabha Buddha] great vows’ great [other-]power, naturally, in one life, will [liberation] be accomplished.’
– Pure Land Tradition’s 13th Patriarch Great Master Yinguang
(Teaching at World Buddhist Lay Association)
