Question: Is there any advice for helping those with mental disabilities with the Dharma (who might have difficulties understanding or focusing)? Answer: Be very patient with...
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Pure Land Principles & Practice
Excerpt: … those who like to advance lofty and wonderful propositions, such as ‘Amitabha is the Self-Nature, the Pure Land is Mind Only’, and go on to reject the...
Not Yet Pure, But Wish to Be Pure
It is mistaken by some that to be born in Pure Land, one must be perfectly pure. If so, there would be no need to be born in Pure Land – as one is already totally purified. It...
Speed or Safety?
Sometimes, you will hear Buddhists saying that the Pure Land path takes longer time to Buddhahood. If Pure Land is an ideal school designed by Amitabha Buddha to facilitate...
How Mental States Affect Rebirth
If one’s mind is predominant with greed, one is likely to be reborn as a hungry ghost. If one’s mind is predominant with hatred, one is likely to be reborn as a hell-being. If...
Even Those With Mental Ailments Should Be Mindful Of Buddha
Due to the ease, mindfulness of the name of Amitabha Buddha (Amituofo) can be practised by many indeed. Take for instance, the case of a schizophrenic friend, who occasionally...
Pure Land Practice ‘Vs’ Samatha & Vipassana Meditation
Pure Land Vs Samatha Practice on Deathbed The practice of Samatha meditation on the deathbed might not be as easy as one imagines it would be. This is because it is usually...
[1] Experience of the ‘People’ of Pure Land
While some accounts of Pure Land experience might seem fantastical, requiring a leap of faith to believe in, below is a Buddhist friend’s (Song) experience, as gathered from an...
Advantages of Pure Land Practice
Due to its great beauty and relative simplicity in practice, while not compromising the profundity of its skill in means and the ultimate goal in terms of generating bodhicitta...