📌 A Daily Recitation for All Practitioners
Yin Guang daily Nianfo teaching is a top-notch roadmap for modern Pure Land Buddhists: concise, profound, and endlessly practical. Great Master Yin Guang’s guidance benefits countless practitioners with its clarity, wisdom, and compassion, and the passage below is the very heart of his legacy—a must-read and must-memorize text for anyone serious about Pure Land practice.
We highly recommend reading—or even reciting—this passage every day.
It serves not only as a guide, but as a mirror for self-reflection, a compass for daily conduct, and a torch illuminating the path to rebirth in the Western Pure Land.
In the Pure Land tradition, Great Master Yin Guang is revered as a modern patriarch whose teachings are clear, direct, and deeply transformative. His words speak to both monastics and laypeople, offering a complete guide to daily practice rooted in compassion, humility, and unwavering mindfulness of Amitabha Buddha.
One of his most beloved teachings is a concise list of principles for cultivating the right mind and right action, day in and day out. Below is a modern English rendering of this powerful passage, adapted with care for everyday application in our contemporary lives.
🫷 Master Yin Guang's Teaching (English Translation)
No matter your role—monk or layperson—practice reverence and harmony.
Respect those above you; be kind and gentle to those around you.
Endure what others cannot. Do what others dare not.
Take on burdens for others. Help them fulfill their good deeds.
In stillness, reflect on your own faults. In casual talk, never speak of others’ flaws.
Chant Amituofo
In all actions—walking, standing, sitting, lying down, dressing, and eating—
from dawn till dusk, and from dusk till dawn,
never let the recitation of Amituofo be interrupted.
Recite softly, or recite silently.
Other than the Buddha’s name, do not give rise to stray thoughts.
When wandering thoughts arise, cut them off at once.
Cultivate Humility
Always feel a sense of shame and repentance.
Even if your practice deepens, consider your efforts shallow.
Do not boast. Do not compare.
Focus on yourself, not others.
See only the good in others, not their faults.
Regard all people as Bodhisattvas. See yourself as the only ordinary being.
A Vow of Faith
If you can truly practice in this way,
you will be reborn in the Western Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss.
🌾 “Do no evil. Practice all good. Purify your mind. This is the teaching of all Buddhas.” 🌾
Namo Amituofo 🫷
Amituofo 🙏
✨ How to Live This Teaching Today
This isn't just a list of rules—it’s a spiritual lifestyle. From the moment we wake up to the time we go to sleep, we are invited to bring mindfulness of Amitabha into every breath. This means:
- Chanting Amituofo while walking, working, or doing chores
- Softly reciting during moments of stress or distraction
- Silently chanting when in public, or when the heart feels scattered
- Watching our thoughts, and returning gently to the Buddha’s name
By following Yin Guang daily Nianfo teaching, every moment becomes a step closer to the Pure Land.
If this teaching touches your heart, consider saving it, sharing it, and—most of all—living it.
Let’s chant Amituofo together. Every day. Every moment. Until we see his light.
🙏 Amituofo
📁 附中文原文：印光大师开示
無論在家出家。必須上敬下和。
代人之勞。成人之美。
靜坐常思己過。閑談不論人非。
行住坐臥。穿衣吃飯。
從朝至暮。從暮至朝。
一句佛號。不令間斷。
或小聲念。或默念。
除念佛外。不起別念。
若或妄念一起。當下就要教他消滅。
常生慚愧之心及懺悔心。
縱有修持。總覺我工夫很淺。
不自矜夸。
只管自家。不管人家。
只看好樣子。不看壞樣子。
看一切人都是菩薩。
唯我一人實是凡夫。
果能依我所說修行。
決定可生西方極樂世界。
諸惡莫作 眾善奉行 自淨其意 是諸佛教
阿彌陀佛