Master Tao Cho – Life and Teachings

道 绰 大 师

Chapter 26 | Master Tao Cho | 道 绰 大 师 | Life and Teachings | 南 無 阿 彌 陀 佛 | True Pure Land Buddhism – YouTube

With deep reverence and gratitude to Master Tao Cho, Shinran Shonin composed these beautiful verses in his Gatha of True Faith. They precisely capture the essential teachings on The True Pure Land Way carefully expounded by this great Lineage Teacher…

“Tao Cho asserted that achieving realization by the path of sages is difficult
Clarifying that only the Pure Land Way could deliver us 
He downgraded the diligent practices of myriad good and self-power   
Urging us to solely Say the Name endowed with perfect virtues.

With deep concern he taught the three aspects of entrusting and of doubt
And Compassion in the Dharma Ages of Semblance, Ending and Extinction 
So, with lifelong evil, we should solely depend on The Great Vow,
Realizing the perfect fruit of Nirvana in the Land of Serene Sustenance.”

Thus, this 4th Lineage Master of Jodo-Shinshu (净 土 真 宗), clearly emphasized that, in this Dharma Ending Age, only Amida Buddha’s Primal Vow could save us from samsara – the vicious cycle of birth, suffering and death. He strongly discouraged us from depending on our own self-power and various diligent practices, which simply cannot free us from samsara.

Master Tao-Cho carefully explained that, persons living in this, badly defiled, Dharma Ending Age, are constantly overwhelmed by deep-rooted evil passions and simply do not possess the spiritual aptitude to perform the difficult meditative and non-meditative practices, taught for the superior disciples during Shakyamuni lifetime. We should therefore, depend single-heartedly on The Great Vow and take the easy path for our assured birth in Amida’s Pure Land, at the end of our wretched lives.

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Namo Amida Butsu   南 無 阿 彌 陀 佛
Namo Amida Butsu   南 無 阿 彌 陀 佛
Namo Amida Butsu   南 無 阿 彌 陀 佛

Precious Human Birth

寶 贵 人 生

Our human life, is characterized by impermanence, suffering from blind passions and the lack of an independent soul. Yet, human birth is extremely rare and becomes really precious to us, the moment when we would use it as the perfect receptacle to listen deeply to the Buddha Dharma and to receive Amida Buddha’s Boundless Compassion…

This human life is fleeting and impermanent
With suffering arising from blind passions
Though illusory and abides in emptiness
Shows us the uncreated Land of Happiness 

The Buddha’s Infinite merits and virtues
Are bestowed equally on all beings
May all accept Amida’s Gift of Shinjin
And obtain birth in His Land of Peace and Bliss

Suffering beings like ourselves do not know why we are born here – in an ever-changing environment firmly attached to greed, hatred, ignorance, jealousy and arrogance – living perhaps for only a short period of a 100 years and then blindly leaving this world in agony for another unknown existence of continued pain and suffering. How painfully foolish and blind we are, not making use of this precious human birth which has brought us the right condition to free ourselves from samsara – the vicious cycle of birth and death.

This precious human birth is extremely rare and most difficult to obtain amongst the six realms within samsara – our perpetual and unsatisfactory home of painful existence for billions of lives. A human birth becomes really “precious” only if one would use it beneficially, as a receptacle for the Buddha Dharma and for receiving the appropriate instructions that could lead one permanently out of samsara. Otherwise, human birth is just the same as the other types of samsaric birth – it is simply another unsatisfactory existence perpetuating the vicious cycle of birth and death.

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Namo Amida Butsu   南 無 阿 彌 陀 佛
Namo Amida Butsu   南 無 阿 彌 陀 佛
Namo Amida Butsu   南 無 阿 彌 陀 佛

Life and Teachings of Master Tan Luan

Master Tan Luan

 昙 鸾 大 师

Venerable Master Shinran, in deep reverence and gratitude to Master Tan Luan, composed these beautiful verses in his Gatha of True Faith. They precisely capture the essential teachings on The True Pure Land Way, carefully expounded by this truly accomplished, 3rd Jodo-Shinshu lineage teacher…

“Facing toward the dwelling of our Teacher Tan Luan
The emperor of Liang paid tribute to him as a Bodhisattva          
When he received the Pure Land teachings from tripitaka Master Bodhiruci 
Tan Luan burnt his Taoist scriptures and took refuge in The Land Of Bliss.”

“Bodhisattva Vasubandhu explains in his treatise
That the fruition of the Fulfilled Land is itself manifestation of The Vow.
Going to the Pure Land and returning are merit transference of Other Power 
And the cause of true settlement is solely due to Shinjin.”

When a deluded and defiled, mundane foolish person awakens Shinjin
That person realizes, knowing that birth and death is Nirvana 
Without fail, that person will reach the Land of Immeasurable Light      
And then, universally guides all sentient beings to enlightenment.”

Thus, this great Lineage Master of Jodo-Shinshu (净 土 真 宗), clearly emphasized Amida Buddha’s Original Vows, which cause the fruition of Sukhavati – the Fulfilled Land of Peace and Happiness. In his Commentary on Bodhisattva Vasubandhu’s wonderful ‘Treatise on the Pure Land’, Master Tan Luan elaborately tells us, about the wondrous manifestations of Other-power, that constantly seeks to save all suffering beings from samsara – the vicious cycle of birth and death, pain and suffering.

Master Tan Luan’s marvellous clarification, that ordinary foolish persons, like ourselves, who awaken the Entrusting faith (信 心 – Shinjin) in the Other-power of Amida’s Primal Vow, are assured of our birth in Sukhavati. This knowledge, would perhaps, give us an intellectual glimpse of Amida Buddha’s Vow-power, that is completely beyond the scope of our conceptual understanding.

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Namo Amida Butsu   南 無 阿 彌 陀 佛
Namo Amida Butsu   南 無 阿 彌 陀 佛
Namo Amida Butsu   南 無 阿 彌 陀 佛