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Master Da'an: Is the focus of cultivating Pure Land to cultivate filial piety?

Master Da'an 2025-02-16

Is the focus of practicing Pure Land Buddhism to cultivate filial piety?

Layman: I am a Buddhist student who practices Pure Land, but my disciples think that the focus of practicing Pure Land is on filial piety, and the three blessings of pure karma are also taught to us.PracticeIs the norm correct?To put it more in depth,The Original Vow Sutra of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva》It is about filial piety. Can it be used as a scripture for assisting in the Pure Land practice? If it does not violate the Pure Land teachings, does the master intend to explain this sutra in detail?

Master: What is the key to practicing pure karma?You have made the point wrong, the focus is not on filial piety, but on faith and aspiration.The three blessings of pure karma belong to the aid of practice and practice, and the cause of the correct practice and rebirth is faith, aspiration and rebirth. As long as you have a little understanding of the scriptures of the Pure Land and the thoughts of the ancestors, you can know this, and this is what we are constantly emphasizing.

China's Confucian culture also talks about filial piety, and the "Book of Filial Piety" is also very well explained.But can a "Book of Filial Piety" help us escape from life and death?That's not possible.But filial piety is indeed a very important part of our human beings.Practitioners of pure karma should also be filial and have the spirit of filial piety.DedicationWhen you are reborn in the West, it can also increase the level of rebirth, but it is definitely not the focus of rebirth.By the same token, the "Sutra of the Original Vow of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva" is a sutra that can be used as our aid to practice, not the right practice.The sutra that is the Five Pure Land Sutras, plus one treatise.

As a helper, we must learn the compassion of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. His filial piety to his parents in this life has expanded to his parents for many lifetimes and for all parentsAll living beings,Even all sentient beings in hell are his parents for many lifetimes and kalpas, so they make great vows to save all sentient beings in hell.Then we must make this great vow when chanting the Buddha's name. After we are reborn in the Western world, we must also save all the sentient beings in the Avici Hell, because those sentient beings in the hell are our parents.But we can't go to hell now, and we don't have this ability yet.Now that I have arrived in hell, I have suffered the sufferings of hell just like them.Therefore, you must first be reborn in the Western Paradise before you can go to hell.It’s like we are in this world, being locked in prison, wearing shackles, and not being free;If we are a person visiting the prison, we will be free, so it is the best choice to go as a free person.Then you need to get in and out of these three realms and gamestroubleThe identity of Choulin's sea of ​​suffering in the sea of ​​life and death is to go to the Western Paradise to obtain Ah Bazhi. If you obtain Ah Bazhi, you will be able to obtain the identity of "visitor" and you will be free.

 

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