Question: Is there a need to learn meditation or other practices first, before learning to practise Nianfo (which is mindfulness of the name of Amitabha Buddha...
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Why Will Nianfo Definitely Lead To Pure Land? 为何念佛必生净土？
‘弥陀如来在因地中，发四十八愿，愿愿度生。中有「念我名号，不生我国，誓不成佛」。今者因圆果满，故「我今念佛，必得往生。」’ – 净土宗十三祖印光大师 (净土法门说要) ‘Amita[bha] Tathagata [Amituofo] on the causal ground [as Dharmakara...
Quotes On Mothers, Fathers & Children
十方如来，怜念众生， 如母忆子… 子若忆母… 母子历生，不相违远。 若众生心，忆佛念佛， 现前当来，必定见佛。 – 楞严经大势至菩萨念佛圆通章 The ten directions’ [Buddha] Tathāgatas are sympathetically mindful of sentient beings, like a...
Why Must Our Self-Power Connect With Amituofo’s Other-Power? 为何我们的自力须要与阿弥陀佛的他力结合？
‘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...
How A ‘Father’ Can Directly Carry A Child Home 父如何直提子回家
念佛法门，但具真信切愿，至诚念佛。及至临命终时，必蒙佛慈接引，往生西方。喻如小孩，由父母提携，即可直达本家也。 [The] Dharma Door [Of] Mindfulness [Of] Buddha, only [needs one to be] complete [with] true Faith [and] sincere Aspiration...
Should The Dying Hold The Living?
Question: Is it okay to let a dying person hold the hand of someone when they are in the final stage of dying? Answer: The dying gripping the living is okay; but not the other...
How To Be Pure Land’s Honourable Guest 如何成极乐之嘉宾
张善和，张钟馗，临终地狱相现，念佛数声，即亲见佛来接引往生。如是利益，一代时教，百千万亿法门之所无者。 Zhang Shanhe and Zhang Zhongkui [who had done great evil, but repented in time], when approaching the end of life with...
[39] How Nianfo For An Ant Inspired My Faith
The following happened in 2013, after my ‘O’ Levels examinations. There was a relatively long holiday of about three months before I enrolled into a JC (Junior...
念佛三问三答
问1: 佛教核心思想是心外无佛，佛外无心。所以说要成佛，不是去求心外的某佛来度。念佛法门却靠牢阿弥陀佛。这有违反吗？...
[i] Biography Of The Chinese Pure Land Tradition Great Master Tánluán 中国净土宗昙鸾大师传
出家法名：释昙鸾（大师） 地位：高僧 俗名：不详 出生地：大同府雁门（今山西省代县） 出生年：476 往生年：542 代表作品：《往生论注》、《略论安乐净土义》一卷、《礼净土十二偈》（又称《赞阿弥陀佛偈》）、 《大集经注》（已经遗失）、《调气论》一卷、《疗百病杂丸方》三卷、《论气治疗方》一卷、《服气要诀》一卷 Monastic Dharma Name:...