Why I Choose to Practice Pure Land Buddhism 

Have you ever had a vision of Amitabha Buddha or seen him?

@@radiantsewerrat1987 It’s pretty hard to see Amitabha Buddha that easily. I’m not sure how hard it is but I know it’s not easy. But even if we don’t see Amitabha Buddha we still know it’s true and real not false at all.

I started on April 1st and can confirm. Before that day, my life was black, and I was miserable. Now, my life is still black, but I know it isn't permanent. Namo Amidah Bu!

This way is like accepting Jesus as your saviour and u are save. It is really so simple???? Chanting bring peace of heart but not liberation. Buddha teach liberation from suffering, not chanting and feel comfort from ritual chanting,.

@@victortancheongwee To believe in Jesus, or any other samsaric deity, is to be locked in samsara. Such belief is an obstacle to enlightenment/liberation. I deserve what I have. But this, like everything else in the Universe, is impermanent. Only Amitabha Buddha is true. Namo Amituofo.

Yes we will have no doubt 🙏Amituofo

Then we gonna have a big party

And then together we will save the world from sufferings

chúc bạn thành công nhé 😇😇

If you don't mind can you please tell the story of Amitabha Buddha inviting you? I have read many stories about Amitabha Buddha visiting people and I really love to hear such stories. Thank you so much!

A MIDAPHAT AMITABHA BUDDHA AMITUOFO

Thank you for your heartfelt comment.

😂 Hell is where all the name of Lord, Prince, Queen, King and so on even if there no such things as Hell but there ton of souls rather be there instead and name it Hell because they love what they love just like a hoarder love to hoard. Those souls that in paradise or pureland are souls that doesn't wanted to ascension but eventually because they are ignorant they will be deceived from the castle, play yard, mansion, home or so be tricked back into reincarnation.

Me too. Thanks to Amidah, it will happen.

I’m glad you have faith🙏 I’m more aligned with Theravada Buddhism but I’m studying Mahayana and Pure Land. May we all be free from suffering.

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What an evil thing to say, praying people to reincarnate and hope they go to pure land. I saw that in a movie that a Lama killed people and said I did him good so he can reach the pure land. I also think it evil when a Buddha religious family steal the mother's toddler and said it good because we helped you get rid of your karma. Buddhism are evil, thinking children are Karma. He!! no, you can reincarnate all you want but leave me out of this as a Sovereign Being this is my last life sentence on this He!! Earth and I would not agree upon reincarnation what-so-ever as those Archons with their Wheel of Reincarnation Soul Trap Matrix I will not agree not even to those fake deities and angels.

Unfortunately I also don't know the name 😂🙏 I just used a video with this music already 🙏🙏🙏 Amituofo

You can find the music here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z_kLqK_zY1o.html

How sad, losing a culture from a Master. It like people might as well go back worshipping Mao Zedong.

Yes exactly that's indeed the Buddha's intent but Buddha has to adopt skilful means to deliver the message as people have different capacities, acceptability and ways of understanding 🙂👍✨🙏Amituofo

@@PureLandBuddhism yes, the episodes were meant for the various types of people makeup. No one episode is independent, it’s best to grasp the links between them to realise the original intent.

Yes and according to the Buddha heavens are not Paradise forever, merely another realm in the six realms of reincarnation, thus one should not aspire for rebirth in the heavens. Amituofo 🙏

​@@PureLandBuddhism I think the result is probably the same; to become a free soul and end up living forever in an eternal blissful realm; because Goloka Vrindavan is not supposed to be a normal heaven, but the original abode of souls; to where people return to where they shouldn't have gone away in the first place. But at least to me, Amitabha's pure land strikes me more as a place of quiet buddhist practice than a place where you go to have fun forever. Some people is even saying Amitabha and Krishna are really the same being, but I'm still not convinced about that. In fact the path of Krishna is more devotional; Amitabha doesn't really care if you love him.

Hell doesn't exist and it only exist when you think it exist. There ton of people on Earth keeping this Hell Consciousness exist daily into this Dimension Matrix.

If you have question, follow Darryl Anka: Channeling Bashar. He would tell you that everything happening in the Now as all exist in the Now meaning your past, present future and all your other lifetimes is happening Now. As in Heaven and After Life there are no time. So yeah, it might be true so enjoy the Now as what you do Now affect everything of all your lifes coexisting all at once in the Now.

Amituofo. You can watch this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TA_UDrTXEdI.html

That's a good question! If you are not your ego, not your senses, not your wants and dreams and not YOU, then who are you? This question is actually also an answer to itself (believe it or not :))! Who Are You? Is it really a separate individual self? Think about it 😇 🙏 ✨ Amituofo

I guess my other question could I do both pure land and Nichiren. I know they don’t have good history but that doesn’t matter to me

Hello I don't know so much about Nicheren Buddhism but it seems they follow the Lotus Sutra which is similar to the Tiantai school (probably derived from the Tiantai school) in China founded by Master Zhiyi (Master Zhizhe), and yes you can definitely combine Nianfo with whatever methods you are practising and if you transfer the merit towards seeking rebirth to the Pure Land then you can still seek rebirth to the Pure Land. The Tiantai school founder Master Zhiyi also sought rebirth to the Pure Land in his life 🙂🙏Namo Amituofo 🙏

Yes except we seek rebirth to the Pure Land which is not another heaven (in Buddhism heaven is still one realm of reincarnation) 🙂🙏Amituofo

@@PureLandBuddhism I was not saying you guys are the same, just that there seems to be this common practice of a mini chant/mantra. In Buddhism is not all really an illusion?

@@theemptyatom Yes mantra practice is common in many religions and practises (also in Islam and Hinduism etc.). All conditioned phenomena are illusions but because the Pure Land is created from the enlightened mind of Amitabha Buddha (the unconditioned), hence the true nature of the Pure Land is not an illusion as it resonates with our Buddha nature and is everlasting (for things that are illusions they are not everlasting like our world, but the Pure Land is different). Amituofo 🙂🙏

I have a video on this topic: Why the Pure Land is not an illusion. Amituofo 🙏

@@PureLandBuddhism Thank you for your explanation.🙏🙏

People they can clearly see Amitabha Buddha at the time of near death when they recite Amitabha Buddha and it's the same as what the Buddha told us in the sutra 🙏Amituofo

@@PureLandBuddhism do the people around also see it? How do they know this teaching is really from the Buddha & not just a monks belief hundreds of years after the Gautama Buddha’s death? To me, this would be the most important teaching of Gautama Buddha & I would be skeptical if he didn’t openly teach this to everyone wherever he went.

@@lo3572 Hello yes everyone around saw it. It's definitely Buddha's teaching as it's written clearly in the sutras spoken by the Buddha. Also it's been practised for over 1600 years in China and it has been verified by countless rebirth cases that happened in China so there shouldn't be any doubt about it. Amituofo 🙏🙏🙏

Hi L O, you just need to consider Buddhas and Bodhisattvas as "cosmic" beings who embody a particular trait of Buddhist values such as wisdom, compassion, etc. Regarding Amitabha Buddha, he embodies supreme compassion since his eighteenth vow as a Bodhisattva was that any being in any universe will be welcomed and reborn in his Pure Land, whatever deeds they may have done in their previous lifes (even the most evil ones). The only condition is to call upon his name with sincerity, even as few as ten times. Well, you can consider that this may be a fabricated story, or a legend, or a parable, but for some people, believing that such kind and compassionnate figures may exist somewhere in the universe(s), helps them to be a better human, to be released from suffering and to realise their true nature. Whether they think rationally that Amitabha really exists or not, it is not the question: they can all feel his "cosmic" presence by their side, once they chant his name, or visualize his presence. The Kālāma Sutta (Pali Canon) states that one should not determine the validity of tradition based "by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought." While nothing in the text limits one from employing their own reasoning, the Buddha instructs not to make a decision based alone on it. Instead, the Buddha teaches that one can determine the validity of a tradition if "These qualities are skillful; these qualities are blameless; these qualities are praised by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to welfare & to happiness' - then you should enter & remain in them." (from wikipedia) Therefore, you can consider that the practice, in Pure Land Buddhist tradition, of devotion to Amitabha and belief in his eighteenth vow, is a kind of skillful mean to attain enlightenment, among numerous means and practices of numerous schools and traditions of Buddhism.

@@toadleap8296 I would say that believing in & dedicating your life to a lie cannot make you a happier person. It can only give you the appearance of happiness in this life, but the true consequences of it will only be known in the next life. If the point of Buddhism is to escape samsara, this tradition is true if it liberates you from samsara, but if it isn’t true, how can it lead to anything but even worse karma?

Dont bash atheism, Buddhism is kind of atheist in the sense that we deny the existence of God and that we dont worship gods

@@floptaxie68 I have been a Buddhist my whole life. We most certainly do NOT deny the existence of gods. We simply do not regard them as a source of ultimate reality. And atheist may, most certainly, practice Buddhism. But Buddhism is by no means atheistic. Read your suttas. Namo Buddhaya.

@@wordscapes5690 that’s why I said “God” instead of “gods” because what we don’t believe in is in an allmighty creator. Even Brahma bowed to Buddha because Buddha was superior to him.

@@floptaxie68 Ah, but that is still not an atheist (or even “atheistic”) attitude, yes?

You can practice Nianfo to help you overcome this. Also can join our 4 Daily Nianfo Sessions. Amituofo