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人生ä¸ç®¡æœ‰å¤šé•¿ï¼Œæœ€å¤šç™¾å¤šä¹åä¹ã€‚ä¸è¦å› 为忙ç€ä»Šä¸–而忘了æ¥ä¸–ã€‚å› ä¸ºæ¥ä¸–å¯èƒ½æ˜¯ä¸€èº«ä¸€ä¸–接近天长地久或者生生世世生æ»è½®å›žã€‚ä¸è¦å› 为çŸå±•çš„今世而忘了永久的æ¥ä¸–。No matter how long our human life is, the longest is only a hundred plus 99. Let’s not put all our efforts into this short life of ours and forget about the afterlife which maybe almost as long as eternity or as short as days plug into an unceasing cycle of birth and death.
There is no 永久的æ¥ä¸– (eternal afterlife). Only enlightenment is timeless. We should put effort into this life to ensure we are reborn in the safest place for steady practice towards enlightenment – Pure Land is best.
Whether there is a 永久的æ¥ä¸–, if one choose and work towards amitabha’s pure land as one æ¥ä¸–, isn’t that long enough until one is ready to come back again by the choice of one own vows and not by the mechanism of falling when merits wear out. Yes, existence in the six realms are not eternal though some maybe longer than the rest. But thinking of beings in the lower realms, their suffering is so intense that even a second thre feels like an eternity. That maybe the reason why theists like to pull out the idea of being eternally damned but in Buddhist ideology, beings in the lower realms will only lasts as long as their karma lasts. There is no way that a finite life can bring about an infinite eternity of condemnation. Of course in each new life, we create new karmas and exhaust old and mature karmas that ripen. As long as we keep adding fuel to this fire, we are the one’s keeping this fire alive so as to burn us in the end. Like the saying go, if u play with fire, you be burnt by it. If only we can transform this fire into energy to uphold the dharma, to learn and to benefit sentient beings that the fire will become a good servant and not a bad master.
It is important to know that there is no 永久的æ¥ä¸– in terms of an eternal afterlife for unenlightened beings. Even life in Pureland is not eternal, though one can take as long as required to become enlightened there. It is a school for training beings, not a retirement home for staying for good. After graduation, they leave to guide others to enlightenment.
Well the reason why there is no retirement yet is becos there are still sentient beings to be saved. Not some but alot in all the 3 chillicosmos. A true practitioner will see the extent of suffering that plagued the entire worlds. How can one retire in peace knowing that others are still suffering. Only one who turn a blind eye or can do nothing would do that. The dharma is not helpless becos it can reach places others can’t. That’s the reason we will have something to do and not nothing to do. Definitely being useful and serving a greater cause like this is definitely worth looking forward to. To be able to save others, we have to save ourselves so that one less being to save is one more lifeline to save another. Keep the dharma bloodline alive.