【THE THREE TYPES OF PERSONS】- Will you be able to go to the Pure Land?

Why do you prostrate to Buddha or chant Buddha’s name now? You claim the aspiration is to apply the teaching
and to have achievement. So remember: if today your goal is just to do a few prostrations, that is fine, you just do that! After prostration, whatever the goal is isn’t the concern, because your original purpose is to just prostate! Or your original purpose is just chanting those few words! Then you go ahead with the chanting, which is fine. If your goal is to be reborn to Pure Land, well, then you need to evaluate carefully: after my prostration or chanting, will I be able to fulfill the goal? If not, then you need to make adjustments! This is very obvious, isn’t it? If your purpose is not only going to Pure Land, but also to achieve Buddhahood, that is one step further. This point is very important to us, too critical!

Nowadays we engage in many things with our eyes shut, and we don’t even realize it! Seeing other people doing
something, I also follow suit, he chants and so do I. Moreover, I am doing it wrong, alas, I even teach others by
saying this, “This is good, you follow me, I will teach you.” Sigh, I now feel it is so absurd! To be honest, for me
to teach everyone here, I am just like a recorder repeating what my teacher told me, a recording device for you
folks to playback, I then repeat [what my teacher taught] accordingly. For actual teachings, I may not be.

SOURCE 来源 :

37A 02’24” Vol 5 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P138 L7
English Lamrim Vol 1 P141

日常师父法语📡37A 02’24” 手抄稿第5册P138 L7

道次引导 : 极乐世界去不去得成？

为什么你现在要拜佛、要念佛？你说要修行、要成就。所以记住：你今天假定说你的目的，我的目的就在那儿拜几拜，那没关系你拜好了！拜完了以后，拜到哪里去，那不去管它，你的目的本来就拜嘛！或者你的目的本来就唱那么几个字嘛！那你去唱它没关系。假定你目的是要到极乐世界，欸，那你得检查检查—我这么拜了以后、念了以后去不去哦？不去的要改变！这个很明白，对不对？假定你的目的不但要去极乐世界，要成佛哦，那更进一步。这是我们很重点喔，太重要了！

我们现在很多事情就是闭上眼睛做的，你不晓得！看见人家做，我也就跟着他去做，他念我也念。然后呢不但自己错了，还教别人，嗨哟，我教：“这个好，你跟着我，我教你学。”唉，我现在觉得真颠倒啊！说实在我在这里跟大家讲，我自己只是像一个留声机一样—我老师告诉我，我只是你们这些人把那个留声机一按，我这么如是这般放出来而已；真的教，谈不上啊！