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A ll these birds sing harmonious and sublime melodies three times daily and three times nightly. These melodies propagate the teachings on the Five Roots, the Five Forces, the Seven Bodhi branches and the Eightfold Right Path. Beings of that land, upon hearing such melodies, all turn their thoughts toward the Buddha, the Dharma and the Sangha.

quote 8045 | The Buddha Expounding Amitabha Sutra
Translated by Yutang Lin.

T he land of that Buddha is constantly filled with heavenly music and the ground is made of gold. Three times daily and three times nightly there falls from the sky a rain of heavenly Mandarava ?owers. Regularly, in the early morning, the sentient beings of that land carry all sorts of wondrous flowers in their skirts to make offerings to the ten thousand billion Buddhas of other places. By breakfast time they have returned to their own land to have a meal followed by a meditative walk. Sariputra, the Utmost Joy Land is complete in such meritorious grandeur.

quote 8044 | The Buddha Expounding Amitabha Sutra
Translated by Yutang Lin.

T he lotus flowers in these ponds are as large as the wheel of a chariot. They are blue and emitting blue light; yellow, emitting yellow light; red, emitting red light; or white, emitting white light. They are sublime, wonderful, fragrant and pure. Sariputra, the Utmost Joy Land is complete in such meritorious grandeur.

quote 8043 | The Buddha Expounding Amitabha Sutra
Translated by Yutang Lin.

I n the Utmost Joy Land there are ponds made of seven kinds of jewels and fully filled with water with eight kinds of merits, and their bottoms are covered with gold sand. The stairways on the four sides are made of gold, silver, beryl and crystal, and lead to towers adorned with gold, silver, beryl, crystal, diamonds, red pearls, and coral.

quote 8042 | The Buddha Expounding Amitabha Sutra
Translated by Yutang Lin.

W hy is that land named Utmost Joy? The sentient beings of that land are free from all kinds of suffering, yet enjoy variegated pleasures, thus it is named Utmost Joy.

quote 8041 | The Buddha Expounding Amitabha Sutra
Translated by Yutang Lin.

T o the West ten thousand billion Buddha-lands from here, there is a world named Utmost Joy ⁶⁹. There is a Buddha, called Amitabha, in that land. He is preaching right now.

quote 8040 | The Buddha Expounding Amitabha Sutra
Translated by Yutang Lin.

69 Utmost Joy: Name of Amitabha Buddha’s pure land, also translated as Ultimate Bliss.(??:????????????)

I f sentient beings in the lands of the ten quarters who sincerely and joyfully entrust themselves to me, desire to be born in my land and call my Name, even ten times, should not be born there, may I not attain perfect Enlightenment. Excluded, however, are those who commit the five gravest offences and abuse the right Dharma.

quote 8039 | The Sutra of Immeasurable Life
Translated by Hisao Inagaki.

68 ???????????????????

L ike your unhindered wisdom, O Buddha , mine shall reach everywhere, illuminating all; may my supreme wisdom be like yours, Most Excellent Honored One.

quote 8038 | The Sutra of Immeasurable Life
Translated by Hisao Inagaki.

67 ???????????????????????

M y discipline in giving, mindcontrol, moral virtues, forbearance and effort, and also in meditation and wisdom, shall be supreme and unsurpassed. I vow that, when I have become a Buddha, I shall carry out this promise everywhere; and to all fear-ridden beings shall I give great peace.

quote 8037 | The Sutra of Immeasurable Life
Translated by Hisao Inagaki.

W hen I have become a Buddha, my land shall be most exquisite, and its people wonderful and unexcelled; the seat of Enlightenment shall be supreme. My land, being like Nirvana itself, shall be beyond comparison. I take pity on living beings and resolve to save them all.

quote 8036 | The Sutra of Immeasurable Life
Translated by Hisao Inagaki.

I ⁶⁶ resolve to become a Buddha, Equal in attainment to you, O holy king of the Dharma, to save living beings from birth-and-death, and to lead them all to emancipation.

quote 8035 | The Sutra of Immeasurable Life
Translated by Hisao Inagaki.

65 ???????????????????????
66 “I” here and in the succeeding four passages refers to Dharmastore Bhikkhu, one of Amitabha Buddha’s past lives.

T he ocean of perfectly and universally enlightened Buddhas thus arises in the meditating mind. For this reason, you should single mindedly concentrate and deeply contemplate the Buddha.

quote 8034 | The Amitayurbhavana Sutra
Translated by Hisao Inagaki.

T he Tathagatas of the ten directions are tenderly mindful of living beings just like a mother remembering her son. But if the son runs away, of what use is the mother’s concern? However, if the son remembers his mother in the same way that the mother remembers her son, then in life after life mother and son will never be far apart.

quote 8033 | The Surangama Sutra
Book 5, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

W hen you contemplate a Buddha, that mind itself takes the form of his thirty-two physical characteristics and eighty secondary marks. Your mind produces the Buddha’s image, and is itself the Buddha.

quote 8032 | The Amitayurbhavana Sutra
Translated by Hisao Inagaki.

B uddhas, Tathagatas, have cosmic bodies, and so enter into the meditating mind of each sentient being.

quote 8031 | The Amitayurbhavana Sutra
Translated by Hisao Inagaki.

S hariputra, as I perceive that such blissful benefits are matters of great importance, I pronounce these words of truth: Good men and good women of pure faith who hear Amitayus⁶⁴ Buddha’s name of inconceivable merits and also learn of the pure Buddha-land of Utmost Bliss should all receive [the teaching] in faith, arouse aspiration, practice the method as prescribed, and attain birth in that Buddhaland.

quote 8030 | The Sutra on Praise of the Pure Land and Protection by Shakyamuni
Translated by Hisao Inagaki.

64 Amitayus: Amitabha.(????)

(The World Honored One said) “I teach and transform obstinate beings such as these within the evil worlds of the Five Turbidities, causing their minds to be regulated and subdued so they renounce the deviant and return to the proper. But one or two of ten still cling to their bad habits. For them I again divide into billions of bodies and use numerous additional expedient means…I may appear in a male body. I may appear in a female body. I may appear in the body of a god or dragon. I may appear in the body of a spirit or ghost. I may appear as a mountain, as a forest, as a stream, as a spring, as a river, as a lake, as a fountain, or as a well in order to benefit people. I use all these ways to save beings. I may appear in the body of God Shakra. I may appear in the body of Lord Brahma. I may appear in the body of a Wheel-Turning King. I may appear in the body of a lay person. I may appear in the body of a national leader. I may appear in the body of a prime minister. I may appear in the body of an official. I may appear in the body of a Bhikshu, a Bhikshuni, an Upasaka, an Upasika, and so forth to my appearing in the body of a Soundhearer, an Arhat, a Pratyekabuddha, or a Bodhisattva in order to teach and rescue beings. It is not that I only appear to them in the body of a Buddha.”

quote 8029 | The Sutra of the Past Vows of Earth Store Bodhisattva
Translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

I nfinite Resolve! Such are the meritorious deeds done by Gwan Shr Yin, the Bodhisattva who roams throughout the world and appears in various forms to rescue living beings. Therefore you should all wholeheartedly make offerings to the Bodhisattva Who Listens to the Sounds of All the World.

quote 8028 | Saddharma Pundarika Sutra (Sk) The Lotus Sutra
Universal Door Chapter of the Lotus Sutra, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

B y elucidating and teaching the ultimate truth to sentient beings, he delivers them from the state of extreme pains, from the conditions in which suffering is so great as to prevent people from finding time for Buddhist practices, and also from the conditions in which suffering is not so great as to prevent them from doing so.

quote 8027 | The Sutra of Immeasurable Life
Translated by Hisao Inagaki.

I n times of terror, crisis, and trouble, the Great Bodhisattva Gwan Shr Yin can bestow courage and dispel all fears. Therefore, all throughout the Saha world we call him Giver of Courage⁶³.

quote 8026 | Saddharma Pundarika Sutra (Sk) The Lotus Sutra
Universal Door Chapter of the Lotus Sutra, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

63 Giver of Fearlessness.

W hile dwelling deep in meditation, he visualizes all the innumerable Buddhas and in an instant visits every one of them.

quote 8025 | The Sutra of Immeasurable Life
Translated by Hisao Inagaki.

P erfect and complete in psychic power, widely versed in wisdom’s subtle skills, in lands throughout the ten directions, The Bodhisattva manifests at will.

quote 8024 | Saddharma Pundarika Sutra (Sk) The Lotus Sutra
Universal Door Chapter of the Lotus Sutra, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

W ith penetrating insight into the essential nature of dharmas, he discerns different aspects of living beings and closely watches over all the worlds. In making offerings to the Buddhas, he manifests transformed bodies like flashes of lightning.

quote 8023 | The Sutra of Immeasurable Life
Translated by Hisao Inagaki.

T heir numberless response-bodies took beings across and liberated them, extricating and rescuing those of the future so they could transcend the bonds of all mundane defilements.

quote 8022 | The Surangama Sutra
Book 1, translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society.

H e is above all worldly affairs and his mind, always serene, dwells on the path of emancipation; this gives him complete control over all dharmas.

quote 8021 | The Sutra of Immeasurable Life
Translated by Hisao Inagaki.

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