Chinese: 吳爾軒的後設猜想
English: Narvis the Cloud's Metahypotheses
Japanese: ナルビスのメタ予想
Latin: Narvis Nubes Metahypotheses

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2014-03-08

往生的條件
The Requirement to the Land of Bliss



人在斷氣的霎那,心裡想著的是阿彌陀佛,就可以往生極樂世界[1]。 If a person is dying with his or her mind thinking of Amitabha Buddha, he or she may reborn in the land of bliss[1].
我覺得這個條件很有電腦程式的概念:輪迴就是迴圈,直到迴圈輸出滿足條件的數值,它才會結束、跳出。 I think this requirement is with the concept of computer programs: the transmigration is just like a loop, and it ends up and jumps out to the upper level, after it finally returns an expected value.
這個條件看似簡單,但仔細一想,這個條件是何其困難呢!想要做到這個,我們必須:
  1. 不意外暴死。
  2. 不失智。
  3. 不臥病在床,免得心生怨念。
  4. 死前一刻不被別人干擾。
The requirement seems simple, but when we think over it, we find out how difficult it is! For we must be far from:
  1. a sudden death.
  2. dementia.
  3. chronic diseases, in order not to complain about.
  4. interrupters, while dying.
至於極樂世界存在與否,我們無法討論。 However, the existence of Amitabha's land of bliss is out of our consideration.



Notes:

[1] 《佛說阿彌陀經》:「若有善男子善女人,聞說阿彌陀佛,執持名號……是人終時,心不顛倒,即得往生阿彌陀佛極樂國土。」 Shorter Sukhavativyuha Sutra: "If a good man or a good woman hears of Amitabha Buddha, and carries on thinking of the name of Amitabha Buddha ... with his or her mind unconfused in the end of his or her life, he or she may reborn in Amitabha Buddha's land of bliss."