28/09/2026
To be reborn in the Amitabha pure realm is a safe path.
On this path, you will not return to samsara. You will become a non-returner, which means you will not fall out of this continuous path leading to full enlightenment.
Therefore, the practice of Amitabha pure realm is particularly beneficial. It is an easy and safe way to attain full enlightenment.
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▍Not being able to recognize the empty luminosity will result in unceasing cycles in samsara
In this world, maybe we are busy and lazy so we cannot practice dharma very well.
Practising dharma means the practice of awareness, love and compassion, wisdom, and recognizing our true nature - the empty luminous nature. This empty luminous nature is our true nature.
If we don’t recognize this empty luminous nature, then we have to follow the boxes of time, matter, subject and object.
There are also many boxes of “yes”, “no”, “both”, “neither”, and then we go round and round - being born, getting old and sick, dying, and then being born again.
Just like our thoughts. Thought comes, changes, and finishes. Then another thought comes.
Our life is also like that - being born, getting old and sick, dying, and then again being born.
If we cannot recognize our empty luminous nature, we have to go through that round-and-round without ending.
▍Possibility of being worse off during this unceasing cycle of life and death
Now what can we do? Should we come back to being born again in this world?
Especially nowadays this world is very difficult. Who knows? We may come back to this world or we may go to one of the six realms. This is not sure.
The best thing will be for us to come back to this world.
Nevertheless, if you do come back to this world, nowadays it is also not so stable, right? The world has ups and downs, full of various kinds of problems.
Also, it is not sure whether we will meet the dharma again or not.
So, if we don’t recognize our true nature in this life, then in the next life we will still go round and round again in samsara.
▍Good news, we have a third choice!
Now there is a third choice.
The first choice is that if we get fully enlightened then the round-and-round of samsara can be cut.
If we are not fully enlightened, then the second choice is that we have to follow the round-and-round samsara.
There are only two choices, right? But now there is a third choice.
Do you know what the third choice is?
That third choice is to go to Amitabha pure realm.
▍No returning to samsara until Buddhahood is attained, therefore it is safe
If you can go to Amitabha pure realm, there are great benefits, why?
When you go to Amitabha pure realm, because of the benefit of the realm and being born in that realm, you will be fully enlightened within that lifetime.
It is a long lifetime of course, eons of a life or eons of time, but you will be fully enlightened in that lifetime.
Therefore, it is safe if you are born in the Amitabha pure realm.
On this path, you will not return to samsara. You will become a non-returner, which means you will not fall out of this continuous path leading to full enlightenment.
Therefore, this practice is very meaningful and easy as well. It is easy to practise and it is safe.
At the beginning, I told you it is safe and easy, right?
Safe means that you will become a non-returner and will not fall from the path to enlightenment. It is safe in the Amitabha pure realm.
Easy means that it is fast and easy for us to be born into the Amitabha pure realm.
We will discuss more about how easy it is in the next lecture.
—— Excerpts from Mingyur Rinpoche’s teaching on the “Shorter Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra”
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This November, Mingyur Rinpoche will be teaching the practice of Amitabha Pure Land in Malaysia.
📍 17–18 November · Penang
🌐 English with Mandarin translation
👉 Learn more & register:
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