Returning to the Buddha Hall to express faith and pray for being born to the Ultimate Bliss

In the Great Pure Land Sutra, the Late Master Chin Kung explains that all worldly and out-of-world good things are attributed to the verse Amitabha Buddha, without leaving Amitabha Buddha. To recite the verse NamoʼMitābhāya is to recite the Ekayāna, and all good things converge.

Reciting Buddha - Transforming Ignorance into Enlightenment

Returning to Dai Tung Lam Hoa Sen Pagoda to attend the Buddha Triyāna Retreat on the occasion of the birthday of the Compassionate Father Amitabha on November 17th, the year of Tiger, more than 500 Buddhists and fellow practitioners from the ashrams all had a heart towards the Pure Land and sincerely recited the Buddha to express their respects to the generosity and vows of the Compassionate Father.

Sincerely celebrating the Amitabha Buddha

Determined to escape this life from Saha

Reciting Amitabha Buddha forever

For being born to the Ultimate Bliss, the Father's hometown

Relying on the will of the Ten-Direction Buddhas and the masses and conferring ten thousand graces to diligently maintain the virtue title of "NamoʼMitābhāya". The title of NamoʼMitābhāya is full of boundless infinite merits, meaning, resources, salvation, realms, sense of awareness... Even if it lasted for hundreds of earthly lifetimes, it wouldn't be possible to describe it all.

The Buddha taught that to reach Nirvana, it takes three Asanga kalpas to accomplish all the dharmas and another hundred kalpas to practice the bodhisattva path and save all sentient beings to become the Perfect Enlightenment Supreme Buddha.

Amitabha Buddha's will shines like the sun and moon, but the souls of sentient beings are as dark as dark the night as they have spent so many kalpas in the midst of suffering from birth and death. Therefore, if sentient beings follow this path, even if they go a hundred lifetimes, they will never reach the destination. It is precisely because of the extreme difficulty of the path of life and death that it is difficult for sentient beings to overcome that the Buddha introduced the Pure Land practice to help all be liberated gently by only bringing our deep faith to the world of Ultimate Bliss to cut off the mind in the realm of Saha.

In the heart of all is Amitabha Buddha, a Buddha sign

Placing their minds in the Ultimate Bliss and listening to the magic of the Compassionate Father, each Buddhist and fellow practitioner seems to return to a pure and clear heart. In each retreat time, all make a mighty vow to subdue the body and mind and transform delusions into reciting the Buddha.

Be mindful of the Buddha, without doubt

The ten-direction Buddhas the will certainly recognize

When dedicating the three karmas to reciting without confusion

Hundreds of precious lotus flowers will naturally appear.

Under the shining light and the regent of Amitabha Buddha, the entire ashram and the six roots meditated and continuously recited the Buddha. At that time, the title of the Father seemed to flow endlessly into a stream of mind that every moment manifests " The True Suchness".

Following the steps of the Buddha, each Buddhist and practitioner recited the NamoʼMitābhāya with only one Buddha sign, i.e. no doubt, no interference, and no interruption, that is, let go of the ten thousand predestinations, the elaboration would be successful.

In the stately blessed space, the Buddha sign goes on and on in succession, with no projections, no attachments. There is only one verse "NamoʼMitābhāya" that practices "non-conceptual recitation, non-conceptual remembrance", that is, recitation without recitation and vice versa, and soon the Hearing nature is also gone. At that time, Buddha's knowledge, Buddha's vision is present, Buddha's mind naturally radiates, the title of Buddha is still continuous, which according to Buddhism is called " deaf ", that is, no longer can we hear ourselves reciting the Buddha, nor do we distinguish our recitation from the others. That is, when the Pure Land practitioner has realized that the five aggregates are not, the self-consciousness is purified, the body and mind become clear, illuminated throughout the ten precepts. In other words, the practitioner's Enlightened Knowledge becomes equal to the Enlightened Knowledge of the Tathāgata.

After each retreat course, the entire masses have fully recovered the merits of admiring the three generations of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Amitabha Buddhas, Avalokiteśvara, and compassionate practitioners pray for all sentient and sentient beings, for the nine immortals, relatives of many generations, and spirits from all over the worlds of tribulation to be allowed to take refuge in the Pure Land Dharma and practice to the Knowledge of Liberation to escape birth and death, and together ask to be reincarnated in the Ultimate Bliss Kingdom.

At the same time, the entire ashram also pray for the forgiveness of the compassion of the ten-direction Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Amitabha Buddha, Avalokiteśvara, Kṣitigarbha, and all practitioners bring the pure light and use the prayer of compassion so that the spirits can be led to the peaceful, transcendental Pure Land.

May I take this merit

Stately Pure Land Buddha

On the temple of four heavy graces

Under the tribulation of the three realms

If anyone hears

All bodhi's heart

Out of this one treasure

Born through the Realm of Ultimate Bliss.

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