Buddha's 10 Protections from Dangers, Amitabha Pureland Practice and Amituofo 南無阿彌陀佛 Chanting
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What are the Ten Great Benefits of Chanting the Name Praise of Amitabha? Why is Pureland Buddhism an ideal practice for devoted Buddhists?
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For many Buddhists, simply chanting the name of Amitabha Buddha, the Buddha of Infinite Light, is a complete mindfulness and devotional practice. Taking refuge in this way brings a feeling of immediate peace.
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Shakyamuni Buddha taught this method in the Amitabha Sutra. This simple, yet divinely rich practice combines devotion with mindfulness, of the sacred name of the Buddha.
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The Buddha taught us many ways to practice in decades of teaching the Buddha Dharma, mapped out in 80,000 discourses and Sutras. Some of these are "learning practices" such as "Sutra recitation." Others are vastly intricate and beautiful, such as Vajrayana visualization Sadhanas. Yet, for most of us, the sublimely simple practices are the best way to approach the Dharma, from mindfulness practice, to the most misunderstood of practices, chanting Amituofo.
Ten Benefits of Chanting Namo Amituofo Practice
Shakyamuni Buddha taught the 10 great benefits of chanting the name of Amitabha Buddha, as a complete practice, in the Amitabha Sutra. This is a devotional mindfulness practice. Single-Pointed focus and mindfulness is the ultimate goal, and can be achieved a number of ways. Zen Koans are blissfully challenging. Watching the breath is a relaxing mindfulness practice. Chanting the Name or Name Praise of Amitabha is another quintessentially simple - yet penetratingly deep - practice. It makes the focus of our mindfulness, the Perfect Buddha.
These ten great benefits of chanting Amitabha, as taught in sutra, include protection, support of all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, purification of negative karmas, restful sleep, a peaceful mind, and rebirth in Amitabha's Pure Land.
When you participate in this elegant and powerful practice, you feel immediate peace and comfort. The entire practice is to mindfully chant the name - sometimes just the name, sometimes as a praise - of the Buddha of Infinite Light, Amitabha.
Often this is embellished with the wondrous sound of the hypnotic fish drum, or the regular gong of a bell. Sometimes it is chanted musically; sometimes spoken; sometimes whispered. The immediate reward: a feeling of peace and protection.
Many Buddhists - in Non-Pureland traditions - tend to think the practice is too simple, too reliant on faith and praise. If we think this way, we are missing the point.
Single-Pointed Focus on Amitabha
Like other traditions with single-focus meditation methods, Pureland Buddhist’s chant the name of Amitabha over and over. Mindfulness of the name of Amitabha is a powerful and profound practice.
Instead of remaining mindful of something mundane, such as breath, or your walk in the park, Amituofo chanting keeps our mind focused in the present moment on the Enlightened Perfection of Amitabha Buddha.
The entire practice is to simply chant, or say, with mindfulness:
Amitabha, Amitabha, Amitabha... nothing else. Or using the Chinese version of the name Amituofo, Amituofo, Amituofo. Fo translates as Buddha. Keep the mind focused, in the present moment, on just the sound of your own voice: Amituofo, Amituofo, Amituofo.
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I'm suffering from emotional pain, poverty and hunger. I just want to praise Amitabha forever❤❤ I hope one day Amitabha Buddha can help me heal from all the suffering, heal my heart and illuminate my mind🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏 Om Amitabha Hrih 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏 Om Ami Deva Hrih 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
If you believe in Him completely, want to be reborn in His Pure Land, and recite His Name in faith, then you will be reborn in His Pure Land at the end of this life. This is from the Larger Sutra that Buddha Shakyamuni taught at Vulture Peak, urging all sentient beings to recite His name, believe in Him, and desire birth in His Pure Land. You will become a Buddha and will never have to return to the 6 realms of samsara ever again. Namo Amituofo---Gjej
sending you love, kindness, gentle one...🥰
Namo Amituofo🙏🙏☸️☸️💮💮💮
Namo Amitoufo
This practice is usefull and have many utillity. This week i started to chanting the amithabha ' Buda name, as AMITUOFO, AND I HAVE STOPPED TO SMOKE, IT IS VERY GRATEFFULY.
Namo Amitabha...May all beings be happy and may all sentient beings attain the path..
Infinite light, Infinite life - Namo Amituofo 🙏🙏🙏
What does namo mean?
@@bboyscsorealif I am right it means hail or homage
@@jameshollowayhughes7098:
Absolutely correct!
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Nam Mô A Di Đà Phật
Nam Mô A Di Đà Phật
Nam Mô A Di Đà Phật
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May all sentient beings be liberated from pain and sufferings and May they find their way to Sukhavati-Land of Bliss or Western Pure Land. Thank you for your video.
May all beings benefit, thank you. 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
May all living beings obtain clear vision
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🙏🏻🪷 From this life to all future lives may we be able to hear the true teachings.
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i was just thinking about Amitabha
Namo Amitoufo 🙏🏽❤️
Namo Amitoufo !
Namo Amituofo * Namo Amituofo * Namo Amituofo * Namo Amituofo * Namo Amituofo * Namo Amituofo * Namo Amituofo * Namo Amituofo * Namo Amituofo * Namo Amituofo
Thank u
OM Ami Dewa Rhi.
Om Amitabha Hri!
@@BuddhaWeekly Thanks for correction. Where from comes OM
Ami Dewa Hri which seems to be very popular in Tibet?
Sincerely repent, accumulate merits and return to the grievances and creditors. Make a sincere vow and rely on the blessing of Amitabha Buddha's power; if you can keep your mind off and keep your mind still, it corresponds to the great vow of Amitabha Buddha, and you feel Amitabha Buddha's reception and guidance. To really believe, really wish! Only by listening to the scriptures, listening to the Dharma, and understanding the scriptures and teachings clearly, can one generate faith and aspirations, and only then can one be reborn. Therefore, the merits of listening to the scriptures and hearing the Dharma are incredible.
If you are famous, you will receive the blessing of Amitabha Buddha (the eighteenth great vow). All initiates must read and understand the Sutra of Infinite Life.
without concentration there can be no wisdom, without wisdow there can be no concentration, yet with both of them humans learn to concentrate to have compassion, and the wisdom to love, for the human who shares all is on the path to peace in serenity....stay your course humanity, let the snowy mountains water refresh all of you
Thanks for the subtitles in spanish. I am hispanic
Namo Amitabha Buddha ☸️❤️☸️🙏🙏🙏
Love and support from India 🤗🤗❤️
NAMO AMITUOFO
NAMO AMITABHA BUDDHA
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Namo Amitaba budda
Namo shakya muni budda
Namo Amitabha Buddha 🙏🏼 📿
Amitofo
Thank you so very much for your kind help and sharing support. This offering is just what the Doctor has Ordered!!! Many Blessings and Continued Success!!! Namo Amituofo 🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏
You are so welcome. Thank you for your kind words. Namo Amituofo 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
🙏 Namo Amitabha Buddha 🙏 Namo Amitabha Buddha 🙏 Namo Amitabha Buddha
Namo Amitabha Hri 🙏🙏🙏
One of the best teachings ever, thank you 🙏🏻 I needed this.
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The main tenets of Pure Land are Faith, Vows and Practice.
Master Yin Guang:
"You should believe that the Saha World is filled with the Eight Sufferings; believe that the Western Pure Land is filled with immense joy; believe that as ordinary beings full of evil karma, you cannot, realistically, rely on your own strength (self-power) alone to eliminate delusion completely, realize the Truth and escape Birth and Death in this very lifetime; believe that Amitabha Buddha has made a profound and lofty Vow - any sentient being who recites His name [with utmost faith and sincerity] seeking rebirth in His land will, at the time of death, be received and guided to the Pure Land."
"Faith, Vows and Practice form the cornerstone of Pure Land. If these three conditions are fulfilled, rebirth in the Land of Ultimate Bliss will be achieved. You should pay particular attention to Faith and Vows, and wish wholeheartedly to achieve rebirth in the Pure Land … "
Your video is very very calmful & beautiful ❤ Thank you ❤❤❤
Namo Amituofo ❤️
Namo amituofo namu Amida Butsu 🙏🏻🌸
Thanks, wonderful ten benefits.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
9:04 - Chanting commences
Helpful, thanks!
Thanks
阿彌陀佛 Amituofo
Amitabha est une pratique merveilleuse.
Namo Amitabha Buddha Blessings 🙏🙏🙏 Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu 🙏🙏🙏
Namo Amitabha Buddha
Om Amitabha Hri. May all beings benefit!🙏
Ultimate Bliss World Amituofo 🙏
Namo Amitabha Buddha 🙏🙏
Happy new year 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 Tashi Delek Losar ❤❤❤ 🙏🙏🙏🙏 Happy Year of the Dragon 🙏🙏🙏 May all beings be happy
Namo amitabha HRI soha
Amituofo 🙏🏻❤️
Namu amitabha buddha 🐘 peace wisdom and high discipline.
Namo Amituofo
🙏🙏🙏南无阿弥陀佛。
Good job of buddha' weekly, in the video there is female voice and man voice.
阿弥陀佛
Amituofo Namo🙏🏻❤️🌺
Namo amithaba buddha 🌷 ⚘ 🙏
Much respect venerable 🙏❤🙏🇨🇦
나모아미따불 () Thank you~!
시청 해주셔서 감사합니다
Love this video
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OM Amitabha RHI
Merci!
Om Amitabha Hrih
Om Amitabha Hri!
南無阿弥陀佛
Nam Mô A Di Đà Phật 🙏
pure land is real ❤
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🙏🪷🙏🪷🙏🪷 thank you
Namo Amituofo
This is wonderful, I’ve not heard the amituofo chant before, which branch of Buddhism is it from please 🙏🏽
This chant is typically chanted by Pureland and Chan Mahayana Buddhists. "Namo Amituofo" literally translates as Praise (or I prostrate to) Amitabha Buddha. (Namo is praise; Amitabha is the Buddha of the West's name (translates as Buddha of Infinite Light) and "Fuo" or "Fo" literally means "Buddha.) Or, you could translate as Praise to the Buddha of Infinite Light. Devotees try to keep the praise in mind throughout the day, or during any meditation session (remaining mindful of Amitabha) and always as a blessing or greeting.
@@BuddhaWeekly that’s wonderful thank you for answering my question 🙏🏽😊blessings and much metta to you
Here in Japan the Pure Land practice is Jodo Shinshu…the Hiragana I wrote above is “Namo Amida Bu” 🙏
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@@roninroshi44 also jodo Shu 🙏🏻
Amitabha 🙏
なもあみだんぶ🙏
Really interesting!!!❤
Bodhisattvas of 10 directions go pay homage to that blessed one call Amitabha 🙏🙏🙏
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@@BuddhaWeekly The infinite life Sutra ( longer Amitabha Sutra ) tells us that Bodhisattvas of the 10 directions go pays homage to that Blessed one called Amitabha 🙏🙏🙏♥️♥️♥️
The text Northern Buddhism says: Amitabha revealed himself in Nepal as Adi-Buddha, and that when Nagarjuna went there to worship the Adi-Buddha he became acquainted with the Bodhisattva Mahanaga,who taught him the doctrine of faith in Amitabha. When Nagarjuna was sufficiently enlightened, Mahanaga conducted him to the Dragon Palace under the sea, where he received further instruction, and was then given the treatise on which the Amitabha doctrine is founded. The Thirteen Patriarchs of Pure Land Buddhism text says: Nagarjuna original name was "ARJUNA" because he was born under a tree by this name. Eventually,he attained enlightenment with the aid of the dragons ( Nagas ); thus he called himself NAGARJUNA. Namo Amitabha 🙏🙏🙏
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Namo Amitabha.
Amitoufo is the chinese language version
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Great masters such as Lama Chakme.of Raga Aksya extols this and He wrote an aspiration for birth in His Pure Land H H Karmapa has it on this platform
Namo Amitabha 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
Namo Amitabha Buddha 🙏
Namo Amitabha Buddha
Namo Amitabha Buddha 🙏🏽☸️📿
Sincerely repent, accumulate merits and return to the grievances and creditors. Make a sincere vow and rely on the blessing of Amitabha Buddha's power; if you can keep your mind off and keep your mind still, it corresponds to the great vow of Amitabha Buddha, and you feel Amitabha Buddha's reception and guidance. To really believe, really wish! Only by listening to the scriptures, listening to the Dharma, and understanding the scriptures and teachings clearly, can one generate faith and aspirations, and only then can one be reborn. Therefore, the merits of listening to the scriptures and hearing the Dharma are incredible.
If you are famous, you will receive the blessing of Amitabha Buddha (the eighteenth great vow). All initiates must read and understand the Sutra of Infinite Life.
Namo Amituofo
Amitofo
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