[226] 如何理解念佛是人生一件最要事？
[226] How To Understand [That] Reciting [Āmítuó]fó[’s Name] Is Life’s One Most Important Matter?
◎ 念佛可了生脱死，当知感恩。能认真念佛，即为报恩。
◎ [Summary]: [As] reciting [Āmítuó]fó[’s name (阿弥陀佛)] can [lead to] complete liberation [from] birth [and] death, [you] should know [to be] grateful. [If] able [to] earnestly recite [Āmítuó]fó[’s name , this] then is [to] repay [his] kindness.
念佛是人生一件最要事，非因亲丧方念，平时便不念。
Reciting [Āmítuó]fó[’s name (阿弥陀佛)] is life’s one most important matter, not [only] because [of your] parents’ funerals then reciting, [in] normal times then not reciting.
亲丧乃系为亲起见，实即以亲死，引汝等同证永劫不死之一大事也，当知感恩。
[As with your] parents’ funerals thus connected, [they were] for [you to] personally give rise [to right] views, [this] truly then, [is] with [your] parents’ deaths, leading you all, [to] together realise [the] one great matter of [attainment, to be with] eternal kalpas without death, [you] should know [to be] grateful.
能认真念佛，即为报恩。
[If] able [to] earnestly recite [Āmítuó]fó[’s name, this] then is [to] repay [their] kindness.
《复谈少抚居士书》
Reply Letter [To] Layperson Tán Shǎofǔ
净土宗十三祖印光大师著
Written [By] Pure Land Tradition’s 13th Patriarch Great Master Yìnguāng
《印光法师答念佛600问》
Dharma Master Yìnguāng’s Answers [For] Mindfulness [Of] Buddha’s 600 Questions
传印法师鉴定
Evaluated [By] Dharma Master Chuányìn
Námó Āmítuófó : Translation and notes by Shen Shi’an
