Pure Land
People
who practise Pure Land Buddhism take the buddha-name as their meditation topic.
There are 3 essential gates for entering the Pure Land path: Belief (Faith),
Vow, Practice.
As Pure Land master Tz'u-chao said:
"Practice without vows means the practice will be isolated. Vows without practice means the vows will be empty. If you have neither practice nor vows, you live in the world in vain. If you have both practice and vows, you enter directly into uncontrived reality."
Sayings By Pure Land Masters |
"Mixed mindfulness is the disease. Mindfulness of buddha is the medicine,"
Other Related Readings |
The Sutra of Infinite (Longer Amitabha Sutra) says:
Buddha told Maitreya: "In this world there are seventy-two billion bodhisattvas beyond the stage of falling back who will go to be born in the Land of Ultimate Bliss. Countless numbers of bodhisattvas of minor practice will all be born there. Not only in my land, but in all the worlds of the ten directions, countless multitudes of great bodhisattvas recite the name of Amitabha Buddha and vow to be born in Amitabha Buddha's land."
(Extract from Pure Land Pure Mind, translated by J.C.
Cleary)
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