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If Amitabha's Pure land is a hundred billions worlds away from here, how can
we reborn there instantly ?
A hundred billion worlds are not beyond one moment of thought, since fundamentally
there is nothing outside the True Mind. When we rely on the power of Buddha that is
inherent in our own mind, what is so hard about being born in the Pure Land instantly?
It is like a many-layered scene of mountains and rivers and towers reflected in the
mirror: all the layers appear there in the mirror, and in reality there is no near and far.
All are reflected at once, appearing without before or after. When the Sutra says "West of
here, past a hundred billion buddha-lands, there exist a world called 'Ultimate Bliss' ",
it is also like this. When ths Sutra says "In this land there exists a Buddha called Amitabha,
who is expounding the Dharma right now", it is also like this.
It is also like this when a person who has developed faith and vows and recited Buddha-name is
about to die, and Amitabha and all his assembly of saints appear before that person. It is
also like this when the person dies without his or her mind falling into delusion, and the
person is immediately born in Amitabha's Land of Ultimate Bliss.
We must recognize that every word in the Sutra is reflected in the Great-Perfect-Wisdom-Mirror of the
Ocean-Seal Samadhi.
