TAKING REFUGE IN AMITABHA BUDDHA

   Of Buddhas in all places and at all times, Amita Buddha is the foremost.

   He delivers sentient beings of all nine grades. His glory and power are unlimited.

   We now are taking complete refuge in him, and repent our physical, oral and

         mental sins…   THE BUDDHIST LITURGY, 1993

   “Amitabha Buddha is number one. This is because of the power of his vows. This power is so great that when you recite “Na Mwo E Mi Two Fwo (Homage to Amitabha Buddha)”, you can very quickly realize Buddhahood. To become a Buddha, all you need to do is to recite the Buddha’s name…

   “All the Buddhas of the ten directions were born from this practice…”  The Venerable Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua,  Abbot of Gold Mountain Monastery in San Francisco, 1975

   The single purpose of Buddhas’ Birth into the world is to expound the forty-eight great     vows of Amitabha Buddha!   THE BUDDHIST LITURGY

   “Shakyamuni Buddha taught this Dharma-door without having been requested to do so, because its wonders are manifold, ineffable, and uncountable.

   “The texts say, “Of all the living beings in the Dharma-ending Age, if a billion cultivate, rare will it be for even one to obtain the Way. They shall be taken across only by relying on Buddha Recitation.”

    “However, if you recite the Buddha’s name, you can end birth and death, and be released from the spinning wheel of rebirth. That is why we call it the most wonderful of Dharma-doors…”    Master Hsuan Hua

   “The single practice of faith, vows, and reciting the Buddha-name is not for the purpose of mundane benefits; it can effect the complete transformation of the world of the Five Corruptions. Only through faith can we enter this realm; mere thinking cannot get us to it.

   “If it were not for our fundamental teacher Shakyamuni Buddha entering into our evil world, showing the attainment of Enlightenment, and using his great wisdom and great compassion to reveal this, practice this, and teach this, how would sentient beings have received this message?…”   Patriarch Ou-I, 1647

NAMO AMITABHA

                                                   

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