Verses Extract From
The Heavenly Eye Penetrates without
obstruction.
The Flesh Eye sees obstacles but does
not penetrate.
The Dharma Eye only contemplates the
mundane.
The Wisdom Eye understands True
Emptiness.
The Buddha Eye shines like a thousand
suns.
Although the illuminations differ,
their substance is one.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 6)
Causes and conditions have no nature;
Their very substance is emptiness.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 8)
“The roar of the lion is the fearless
speaking;
When the wild beasts hear it,
their heads split wide open.
Elephants run wild and lose their decorum,
But gods and dragons, in silence,
hear it with delight.”
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 17)
The King of All Dharmas
is
the one word “Amitabha.”
The five periods and the eight
teachings
are all contained within it.
One who singlemindedly remembers
and recites his name
Will enter into the still, and bright,
and unmoving field.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page
19)
All marks are the Real
Mark:
The Real Mark is unmarked
With nothing unmarked.
It is without marks and also without
any non-marks.
It is neither without marks nor is it
marked by no marks.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 23)
From causes made in lives gone by
comes your present
life;
Results you’ll get in lives to come
arise from this life’s deeds.
Plant good causes, reap good results;
Plant bad causes, reap bad results.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 30)
Enduring suffering ends suffering;
Enjoying blessings destroys blessings.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 30)
Take living beings
across, but be apart from marks.
Leave marks, yet take beings across.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 31)
Save, yet do not save;
Do not save, yet save:
This is true crossing over.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 31)
The Buddhas spoke all dharmas
for the minds of men.
If there were no minds,
what use would dharmas be?
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 36)
When the water-clearing pearl
is tossed in muddy water,
The muddy water becomes clear.
When the Buddha’s name
enters
a confused mind,
The confused mind attains to the
Buddha.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 39)
Amitabha Buddha’s body is of golden
hue,
His fine marks radiant beyond compare.
His white light is as high as five
Mount Sumerus,
His purple eyes as clear and vast as
four great seas.
Countless transformation Buddhas
appear within the light,
With transformation Bodhisattvas, also
limitless.
His forty-eight vows take living
beings across;
In nine grades of lotuses they ascend
to the other shore.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 40)
The pure heart is like the moon in the
water;
The mind in Samadhi is like the
cloudless sky.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 41)
The water flows,
The wind blows,
Proclaiming the Mahayana…
The
Chinese poet Su T’ung P’o said,
Of the colors of the mountain,
None are not his vast, long tongue.
Of the sounds of the streams,
All are the clear, pure sound.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page
41)
If you recite the Buddha’s name,
reciting without cease,
The mount recites “Amita”
and makes things of a piece.
Scattered thoughts do not arise,
samadhi you attain.
For rebirth in the Pure Land,
your hope is not in vain.
If all day you detest
the suffering Saha’s pain,
Make rebirth in ultimate Bliss
your mind’s essential aim.
Cut off the red dust
thoughts within your mind.
Put down impure reflections,
and pure thoughts you will
find.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 41)
True emptiness is not
apart from wonderful existence.
Emptiness and existence are non-dual:
Both empty and existing, neither empty
nor existing.
This Dharma can be believed.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 51)
Our own self-nature is
bright and all-illumining;
Our own self-nature is
perfect and unimpeded.
It is nowhere and nowhere is it not;
to the end of empty space,
it exhausts the Dharma Realm.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 57)
Enduring suffering puts an end to
suffering;
Enjoying blessings destroys blessings.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 59)
What the eyes don’t see
won’t cause the mouth to
water;
What the ears don’t hear
won’t cause the mind to
transgress.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 79)
“Hey! Hey! How can you sleep,
Like an oyster or a clam?
Sleep, sleep for a thousand years,
But you’ll never hear the Buddha’s name!”
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 97)
“If you see affairs and are awake,
You can transcend the world.
If you see affairs and are confused,
You fall beneath the wheel.”
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 99)
“The highest goodness, like water,
benefits all things and yet
does not contend.
It goes to places men despise and so it is close to the Way.”
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 100)
“In the time of Emperor T’ang Yao
the unicorn and phoenix
abounded.
That time, however, is not the present,
So what have you come to
seek?
Unicorn! Unicorn! How my
heart grieves…”
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 102)
The Old Fool wrapped in ragged
clothes,
His belly filled with gruel,
He mends old sacks to keep him warm
And lives on chance, Old Fool.
A scolding makes the Fool smile
sweetly,
While a beating makes him sleepy;
Spit on his face, he lets it dry
And saves his strength and energy.
His calm, a peace past ridicule
Gets him the jewel within the wonderful:
Now that you’ve heard this song today
Why worry about not perfecting the
Way?
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 103)
Something happens and he reflects it;
When it passes, he is still.
Everywhere according with conditions
as the years and months go
by;
Minding your own business
as the time passes.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 104)
In movement, there is stillness,
In stillness, movement;
Both movement and stillness
Are still and moving.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 104)
“Unless I teach the
Dharma to save living beings,
I will have passed through my entire life in van.”
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 108)
All evil not done and
All good conduct respectfully
practiced.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 112)
The eyes see forms outside,
but inside there is nothing;
The ears hear external sounds,
but the mind does not know.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 112
& 113)
“Amita, the Great Sage & Master,
Serene, subtle, wonderful
beyond all others…
Pools of seven gems,
Flowers of four colors and
waves of solid gold.”
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 119)
“If one wishes to understand
completely
The Buddhas of the three periods of time,
He should contemplate the nature of the Dharma Realm:
Everything is made from the mind alone.
(Extract from The Amitabha Sutra,
By
Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua; Page 122)