Question: What does it mean to surrender one’s life to Amitabha?
Answer: Good man, the idea of ??surrendering one's life to Amitabha Buddha is an invention of modern people. There is no basis in the scriptures. According to the literal meaning, to sacrifice one's life and surrender one's life to Amitabha Buddha is to surrender one's life to Amitabha Buddha. At the same time, life All good and bad, good and evil, gains and losses in the world of objects, emotions, and the world of five aggregates are all handed over to Amitabha. All the body, speech, and mind are all handed over to Amitabha, and the body, wisdom, and life are all handed over to Amitabha. Family, career, relationships, relatives, enemies, creditors, all are handed over to Amitabha Buddha, as well as all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, sages, sentient beings in the Dharma Realm, and the world of body and mind. All the retributions of suffering in the three paths are handed over to Amitabha Buddha. You, me and others will make all offerings to Amitabha Buddha. Everything in the past, present and future should be offered to Amitabha, and every thought of offering is to offer to Amitabha.
Fate has physical life, wisdom life, and life life. According to the text, which life should we give up? Very abstract and confusing thinking.
When the part of sacrificing one’s body and life is like this, it refers to all the material phenomena of earth, fire, wind, water, and emptiness, which are attached to the consciousness of equanimity. If you can't give it up, give up all your false consciousness and take refuge in Amitabha with your entire self.
When giving up the part of wisdom life in this way, it means giving up self-generated false views. In fact, wisdom life itself is the light of self-nature that cannot be given up. Only by giving up false views and using self-nature awareness can Self-awareness of the Dharma leaves nothing behind, giving up one’s own false views and using all of one’s self-consciousness to take refuge in Amitabha.
When giving up one's own nature and life in this way, it means to give up one's own nature and see it as it is. The true nature and life are the original dharma body and the absolute phase of the supreme sect. There is no need to take or give up. The origin of nature enters the Tathagata's room, and the true Tathagata sees and perfects the Tathagata's supreme Bodhi.
Those who are able to give up and hear the name of Amitabha Buddha’s Guangshou Guangshou in the first place can take refuge in the Dharma Realm with one thought. Their body, wisdom, and life will all take refuge in his fate without leaving anything left. They will have full faith in Amitabha until the future, throughout the ten directions, and at all times. , emptiness, and nothing left to give to Amitabha, that is, it is emptiness, formless, and wishless. You can immediately enter the samadhi of reciting the name of the Buddha and be reborn in the Pure Land.
The Western Bieyuan Changfu lives in Zhuhai with honorifics.