Layman Miaoyin
Three Refuges are taught and received by Singapore Buddhist Layman Lin (2000/8/27) File name: 16-17
"My disciple Miaoyin". Wonderful Sound is the name of the Dharma. Our Dharma names are all the same. Not everyone has a Dharma name. It’s okay to give everyone a Dharma name, but it’s too troublesome because there are too many people. For example, last year I was in Kuala Lumpur and held a three-religion retreat with my fellow practitioners there. There were more than 4,000 people who took refuge there. It was too late to name the Dharma. There were too many. I used this "Wonderful Sound" because I went to Beijing to visit the old layman Huang Nianzu in previous years. There were some students on his side who also asked me to teach the Three Refuges. There were about thirty people. The old layman Huang said, your Dharma name is Take it individually? Or use the same one? I told him that it would be too troublesome to use one individually, so we should all use the same one! Where did this Dharma name come from? It comes from the Infinite Life Sutra, and we all now follow the Infinite Life Sutra. Therefore, the name of the Dharma "Infinite Life Sutra" is a prophecy given to us by Shakyamuni Buddha. This is good. It is a prophecy given by the Buddha. The Buddha talked about the Saha world and our world. After rebirth in the Western Pure Land, people who recite the Buddha's name and are reborn in the Western Paradise can get close to Amitabha Buddha in that place and become Buddhas in one life. Don't wait for the second life. This method is called the method of achieving achievement in one's own life. After becoming a Buddha, you go to other worlds, so you have to form connections with all sentient beings and form Dharma connections. You go to other worlds to save sentient beings who are destined to live in other worlds. You manifest yourself as Buddhas to save sentient beings. They are all called Wonderful Sound Tathagata. Our group of people will become Buddhas in the future, and the names of Buddhas will all be Wonderful Sound Tathagata, as we read in the scriptures. Therefore, we are all Miaoyin laypeople now, and in the future you will all be Miaoyin Tathagata, and cause and effect correspond to each other. So this name is very good. This Dharma name was given to us by Shakyamuni Buddha. Cause and effect are consistent, so we all use this name. The same name for the effect, and the same name for the cause.
What is "Wonderful Sound"? It is "Namo Amitabha". This sound is a wonderful sound. We became Buddhas through this sound, and we will still use this sound to save all sentient beings in the future. This sound is a wonderful sound, truly unparalleled.