淨土五會念佛略法事儀讚 1.3

1.3

Question: What benefits are there in the five-tone buddha-mindfulness? What does it symbolize? Answer: In this very life, it is able to abandon the afflictions of the five turbidities, eradicate the five sufferings, cut off the five hindrances, sever the five destinies, purify the five eyes, endow one with the five faculties, accomplish the five powers, attain bodhi, endow one with the five liberations, and swiftly accomplish the fivefold dharma body. Such is the functional power of the five-tone buddha-mindfulness, supreme and peerless. Exhausting this single bodily form, one immediately sheds the final physical body of an ordinary being, is born in the Land of Sukhāvatī, enters the holy ranks of the bodhisattvas, attains the stage of non-retrogression, and swiftly arrives at bodhi. This is truly the work of the Buddha; undertake this practice, and it will never be in vain.