THE FRAGRANCE OF FAITH: Five poems on Devotion to Amitabha Buddha

The five poems are:

1.         The fragrance of faith

2.         Reciting the Buddha’s Name

3.         Namo Amitabha Buddha

4.         Mindfulness of the Buddha

5.         Vow for Ultimate Bliss

The five poems present the three main articles (the three Diamonds) of Pure Land Faith and Practice:

1.         Faith in the Buddha Amitabha is the master key to Buddhahood

2.         Reciting the Buddha’s Name is the primary and principal practice of mindfulness

3.         Vow for rebirth in the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss to attain full spiritual liberation and non-retrogressive cultivation of Buddhahood

NAMO AMITABHA BUDDHA                                                   

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THE FRAGRANCE OF FAITH

Let me immerse
in the fragrance of pure faith.

Let me bathe
in the purity of its blessedness.

Let me purify my heart and mind
in the infinite light of the Buddha.


NAMO AMITABHA BUDDHA
NAMO AMITABHA BUDDHA
NAMO AMITABHA BUDDHA


RECITING THE BUDDHA’S NAME

Reciting the Buddha’s Name
I am protected by all the Buddhas.
I find spiritual sustenance.

I purify my heart and mind
in the pure sound of the Buddha’s Name.


NAMO AMITABHA BUDDHA
NAMO AMITABHA BUDDHA
NAMO AMITABHA BUDDHA


NAMO AMITABHA BUDDHA

Why do I greet you

“Amitabha Buddha”

Whenever we meet?

Why do I recite diligently

“Namo Amitabha Buddha”

In my daily practice?

“NamoAmitabha Buddha” is

when I greet every one who will eventually become a Buddha

when I invoke the Sacred Name

in constant mindfulness of the Buddha of Infinite Light and Life

when I remind myself of my Buddha Nature, Self-Nature.

“Amitabha” is every being who has the spiritual DNA of Buddha

who has the intrinsic essence of Infinite Light and Life

who has the natural birthright of complete enlightenment.

What you have to do

to become a Buddha

is to recite the Buddha’s Name.                                                       

Self-realization is the fulfillment of Buddha Nature

the attainment of Buddhahood

the full awakening

from the slumber of ignorance

to the realization

of the Supreme, Perfect Enlightenment of Omniscience.

What you have to do

to become a Buddha

is to recite

with complete faith and mindfulness

the Buddha’s Name.

NAMO AMITABHA BUDDHA

NAMO AMITABHA BUDDHA

NAMO AMITAHBA BUDDHA

MINDFULNESS OF THE BUDDHA

Reciting the Buddha’s Name is the key practice of mindfulness.

Reciting the Buddha’s Name

with complete faith sincerity and mindfulness

reciting the Buddha’s Name

until every sound is the Buddha’s Name

until every thought is the thought of the Buddha.

Reciting the Buddha’s Name diligently from day to day, from one kalpa to another

like water dripping constantly on a cave ceiling, from one geological age to another

each evocation of the Buddha’s Name becoming a precious drop

to fill the boundless ocean of enlightened consciousness.

Reciting the Buddha’s Name until your heart and mind opens up like a lotus flower and frees itself from all impurities.

Reciting the Buddha’s Name until your pure heart and mind becomes one with the omniscient wisdom of the Buddha.

Reciting the Buddha’s Name until you become a Buddha like Amitabha.

NAMO AMITABHA BUDDHA

NAMO AMITABHA BUDDHA

NAMO AMITABHA BUDDHA

VOW FOR ULTIMATE BLISS

Amitabha Buddha has made and fulfilled all of the 48 Great Vows

to save and fully enlighten all sentient beings who have faith in the Buddha.

Thus all who believe in Amitabha Buddha will surely become Buddhas.

Faith is the first of the five faculties and powers of enlightenment.

Faith is the basis of spiritual cultivation.

Why do we have faith in Amitabha Buddha?

Amitabha Buddha is the Buddha of Infinite Light, the Buddha of Omniscient Wisdom.

Amitabha Buddha is also the Buddha of Infinite Life, the Buddha of Great Compassion.

Our faith in Amitabha Buddha is the master key to our Buddhahood.

The great fusion power of our faith in Buddha will combine

and ultimately unify our finite power with the Buddha’s infinite purifying power

to make our own enlightening power as infinite as the Buddha’s.

We can also tap the Power of the Vow

when we vow in our daily prayers to Amitabha Buddha

to attain rebirth in Amitabha’s Pure Land known as Ultimate Bliss.

There are many Pure Lands, so why should we seek rebirth in Ultimate Bliss?

The answer is as follows:

Rebirth in Ultimate Bliss brings instance spiritual liberation,

wipes out all human ignorance and suffering,

eradicates all human afflictions, defilements and impurities.    

Rebirth in Ultimate Bliss finally revokes the otherwise irrevocable law of karma

which binds all sentient beings to the interminable cycle of birth and death, of countless rebirth in Samsara.

Moreover, Amitabha’s Pure Land is a paradise for Bodhisattvas and all others seeking and cultivating the Supreme, Perfect Enlightenment.

Ultimate bliss provides the most ideal environment for the ultimate spiritual cultivation.

With the Buddha’s Pledge of Non-retrogressionand assurance of Buddhahood,

there is zero regression or failure in this Pure Land.

All who are reborn and transformed in Ultimate Bliss will become Buddhas in one lifetime,

endowed as they are with wisdom, supernatural powers and an infinite lifespan like the Buddha’s.

We must therefore recite the Buddha’s Name

in order to be reborn in Ultimate Bliss.

Recite the Buddha’s Name with complete faith sincerity and mindfulness.

Mindfulness is the fundamental, the first and most important of the seven factors of enlightenment.

Recite the Buddha’s Name and vow for Ultimate Bliss.

This is the Pure Land Way to Buddhahood and Nirvana.

NAMO AMITABHA BUDDHA (×3)

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