Question:
If I am in the Pure Land created by Amida Buddha's Perfect
Will Power after I die, what would happen if I never get enlightened? Is there
a time limit to attain Enlightenment in the Pure Land? I’m scared as I don't
want to experience birth, age and death anymore.
Answer:
You do not need to worry about attaining Enlightenment in
the Pure Land. Once you reached the Pure Land, you will never
retrogress or fall back again into the world of birth and death. You see,
the Pure Land is manifested by Amida Buddha and everything there is conducive
to Enlightenment. In contrast to this, everything here in Samsara is conducive
to attachment, blind passions and suffering. So, you will be 100% safe when you
are born in the Pure Land, and you will attain Enlightenment or Buddhahood
quickly, that is, in the very moment of your birth there.
All you need to do is to simply entrust to Amida Buddha
during your life. If you do this, you are assured of birth in the Pure Land,
and you will go there as naturally as a river flows to the ocean. What I mean
by "to entrust" is to rely completely on Him, and think
that everything needed for your birth in His realm is His power. Do not think
that you can add something from your own personality to your birth in the Pure
Land, because if you do that, then it means that you do not rely completely on
Amida's Power.
You just have to let Amida save you and take you to His Pure
Land when you die. This is the essence of His Primal Vow, in which it is said
that all those who entrust completely to Him, say His Name in faith,
and wish to be born there, will indeed be born there and attain Enlightenment.
There can be no obstacle to your birth in the Pure Land if you rely completely
on Amida.
- fragment from a
letter to a friend -
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