Good morning everyone. Today I would like to share with everyone how we can go to Buddha's Pure Land.
We know the Buddha is not one Buddha only. There are five directions of Buddha's Pure Land. We have
Amitabha Buddha Pure Land. We have Akshobhya Buddha Pure Land. We have other Buddha's Buddha Pure Land.
Among these five directions of the Buddha's Pure Land, the most famous Buddha Pure Land is Amitabha.
How can we go to Amitabha Buddha Pure Land? As it requires major components.
The first we need to have inspiration. In simple way is we want to go to Amitabha Pure Land
This inspiration is just like set destination. Without the correct destination we cannot
go to that Pure Land. For instance if we want to go to the New York
the first thing we need to do is we need to make up our mind that we want to go to New York city
This initiating inspiration I want to go to Amitabha Buddha Pure Land is like the initial decision I
make in this mind database. With this inspiration is already set a destination I want to go there.
So the second component also is the most important engine is we need to raise the Bodhicitta
I want to go to the pure land it's not because I want to go by myself my own wish, I want myself
free of the suffering. It's because I see all the suffering in this Six Realms of being I see in the
suffering the relatives around me my family the suffering I'm experiencing in this turn of life
I want all the people I love free of the suffering I want all the sentient being free of suffering
because of this action I want to free of the suffering for all being this
already is raising Bodhicitta. This raising of Bodhicitta the most important engine if we
only want to go to a Pure Land by I want to go by myself you're still able to go to pure land
but not a hundred percent sure you can go but if you have this great compassionate Bodhicitta
a hundred percent you can go to Buddha's Pure Land. That's why this is so important we need to
raise Bodhicitta. On the third component, we need to accumulate all the virtues merits
by doing these sincere wishes and to do all the activity to benefit all the beings
around us through our body speech and mind, we can do the same activity
like a Buddha but unfortunately we never realized Buddha's wisdom, so we always
accumulate a lot of bad activities in our daily life. So in order we can go to the Buddha's Pure
Land we need to transform our daily behavior from ordinary behavior to a person seeking for
awakening enlightenment path so that is the third important components we need to create virtues.
Our old action through our body speech and mind need be the same like Buddhas. On the fourth
component is we need to visualize Amitabha Buddha Pure Land we need to take a refuge from the Buddha
from Dharma from Sangha. Without this action of taking a refuge from Buddha,
Dharma, sangha, the Three Jewels, we are not able to transform our ordinary humans behavior
to a cultivator. So in order we can start to enter to this path of going to the Pure Land,
we need to take a refuge we need also having inspiration we need to learn all the teachings
from Amitabha and also to practice our inner side of compassion awaken our inner wisdom.
We need to have this fulfillment of all merits and we need having the key engine to drive our
daily activity with Bodhicitta with the great compassion with this fulfilled, our daily behavior
already transformed to a Buddhist cultivator every single day our activity already creates
uncomfortable merits virtues. With this fulfilled, we are able to go to the Amitabha Buddha's Pure
Land as our own wishes. I hope you can practice and make a strong wish go to the Buddha's Pure
Land. I hope you enjoy my short sharing today and hope next time you will join me again. Thank you.