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Can This Human World Become A Pure Land? 这个世界能成人间净土吗?

这个世界能成人间净土吗?
Can This Human World Become A Pure Land?

庐山东林寺方丈大安法师,于2014年农历八月初一,在线答疑:
By Mount Lú’s Dōnglín Monastery’s Abbot Dharma Master Dà’ān, on the eighth lunar month’s first day, in an online session for answering of doubts in 2014:

「要知道这个人间是一个火宅啊!是一个不容停留的地方啊!五浊恶世啊!所以《法华经》就告诉我们这三界火宅。诸佛如来到这个地球上来,进入火宅就是为了我们离开三界的。这就是出世间啊!这就是佛的悲心本怀啊!【注:诸报身佛与净土都是出三界的,因此化身于此劝生净土。】

‘It must be known that this human world is like a house on fire [as it is constantly full of unpredictable physical and spiritual dangers, impermanent and not a safe refuge]! It is a place that we should not allow ourselves to stop over! It is [also in] this five defilements’ evil period! Therefore, the [Buddha in the] Wonderful Dharma Lotus Flower Sūtra tells us that this world here is like the three realms on fire. All Buddha Thus Come Ones who came to this earth, who entered this house on fire, did so for teaching us to leave the three realms [of desire (which humans are in), form and formlessness]. This is to transcend this world! This is the Buddhas’ compassionate minds’ original aspiration! [Note: All Buddhas’ Reward Bodies and their Pure Lands are outside of the three realms, therefore manifesting bodies here to encourage birth in their Pure Lands.]

这一点恰好跟净土法门非常吻合。净土法门就是要我们信愿念佛,求生西方极乐世界。你到了西方极乐世界,就离开了三界火灾,横超生死了。

This point is just right, with the Pure Land Dharma Door, it is a very good fit. The Pure Land Dharma Door precisely wants us to be mindful of the Buddha with Faith and Aspiration, to seek birth in his Western Pure Land Of Ultimate Bliss. When you have reached the Western Pure Land Of Ultimate Bliss, you would have departed from the three realms’ house on fire, having horizontally transcended the cycle of birth and death already.

所以可不要说,这个人间很好,在这个人间就能建立净土。人间是无净土可言。污秽不堪啊!

Therefore, you must not say, that this human world is very good, that in this human world, we are able to establish a Pure Land. This human world is without a Pure Land that can be spoken of. It is so defiled that it is unbearable!

当然我们作为佛弟子,我们持五戒,我们修十善业道,也尽量在庄严这个人间,使人间痛苦少一点,吉祥一点。

Of course, we, as Buddhist disciples, should uphold the Five Precepts [or more], and cultivate the Ten Good Karmas’ path [or more], also as much as possible adorn this human world, to enable this human world to have less pain and suffering, and to have more auspiciousness.

但总之,这个人间不是我们贪恋的,要住的地方。一定要离开这个地方,到西方极乐世界去,才是随顺佛的教敕。从这义上来,从净土法门所展开的出世间法,永远是佛法的核心精髓。我们不能忘怀。南无阿弥陀佛。」

However, in brief, this human world is not what we should have greedy attachment towards, as a place we want to stay in. We must depart from this place, to reach the Western Pure Land Of Ultimate Bliss, as only with this, is it accordingly complying with the Buddha’s teachings and instructions. From this meaning speaking, from the Pure Land Dharma Door, its unfolded world-transcending Dharma teachings, is forever with the Buddha’s Dharma core and essence. We must not forget this. Námó Āmítuófó.’

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