Pure Land

I learned a lot about Pure Land Buddhism recently. Their reason is simple. The solo effort to get enlighten is difficult. We are not as smart as the Buddha after all. So, practitioners have wishes to be born again in the Pure Land, a land of tremendous affluence, which supports easy enlightenment. The criteria is to have Amitabha in one's mind in every moment and especially, in the time the imminent death. I once heard people comparing the similarities between Pure Land Buddhism and the Jesus's teaching, one needs to let God enter and live within you. And, you can go to heaven when you pass away. I am sure there are many differences though.

But among all these Tientai, Mind-only, Chan schools, it seems that Pure Land is the simplest way to attend to people's need. I guess I also have a doubt about my intellectual ability and time. There are just too many things to study in Buddhism. A monk in 拉卜楞寺 needed to spend 40 years to study in order to gain his Buddhist degree in the documentary 千年菩提路.

So, I read 印光大師文鈔菁華錄 and according to 示修持方法, build a 儀軌 in epub. Download here.