Pureland is fabrication of mind accordg to YOgacara ? No ...
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Many will have thot that Pureland Teachings of Western Paradise
is just a fabrication of the mind and most yogacara teacher did
criticise abt pureland [not for the founder of Yogacara in China and Venerable Kuiji ]
Since everything is mind-fabricated ,so where is pureland ?
still fabrication of the mind
Venerable master Ci hang and several righteous Yogacara master brought justification about pureland .It is an excellent teaching of other power of Sakyamuni Buddha
there is a series of explanation why one able to see pureland by the yogacara school of thought
will be exploring further in this discussion
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Why not try making this world into a Pureland?
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Yes , Only if everyone works hardOriginally posted by maggot:Why not try making this world into a Pureland? 
Well it is the aims of Dharma Drum
Buddha Light International and many Buddhist association that makes this world a Pureland
to make this world a Pureland ,we ourselves must work out the practise to advise villain to give up their arms , no war , no famine , no bloodshed
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Yea.. why not. In fact that is the vow of my master, to create a pure land in this world, the favourable conditions in which Maitreya Bodhisattva shall come and attain BuddhahoodOriginally posted by maggot:Why not try making this world into a Pureland? See: Promote Jen Chen Buddhism to build a Pure Land in this world -
Advise? Many people have tried it
Well in this world a lot of things are just not enough for everyone so they have to fight it out
Don't think Pureland will happen within my lifetime
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Yes it requires a lot of lifetimes to gather the conditions... but the Buddha did made the promise if you practise the dharma, learn the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha, and if you haven't attained nirvana before that, you will certainly attain enlightenment under the guidance of Maitreya Bodhisattva in the futureOriginally posted by maggot:Advise? Many people have tried it
Well in this world a lot of things are just not enough for everyone so they have to fight it out
Don't think Pureland will happen within my lifetime At that time, the world is definitely like a pure land... very different from today. -
On another hand there is this yin and yang theory which I find it very real
If there's really a Pureland in this world where are the bad? 
There must be a thing or whatever to balance the good
Neither 1 will exist without each other
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Actually pure land must not only be good... it must be pure.. only a mind that is clean of all defilements, that one is considered a pure mind. A pure land is generally a liberated and enlightened society, though it is true that the people at that time are very virtuous people (they are at the peak cycle of the human degeneration and regeneration cycles.. in which now we are currently at the degenerated phase). In the times of Maitreya Bodhisattva, the population is many many many times bigger than our current population... it is said in the sutras dunnu how many billions of people, and each city is extremely near the next city. And Maitreya Buddha at that time has a sangha of 9+ billion monks.Originally posted by maggot:On another hand there is this yin and yang theory which I find it very real
If there's really a Pureland in this world where are the bad?
There must be a thing or whatever to balance the good
Neither 1 will exist without each other
In each dharma discourse by the Maitreya Buddha, 9+ billions of listeners attain enlightenment and liberation.. and there are quite a number of these discourses.. so in the end about 40 billion people attain arhat. You can imagine the number of population then.... Another thing is at that time, our planet earth is in communication with 3 other planets from other solar systems.. and we are under one rule of the universal monarch or wheel turning king.. who travels in a golden flying vehicle that can reach the other planet in 1 day's time.
Oh yes.. they just found out recently a planet that is earth-like with an atmosphere of 0-40 degrees in which the water will be liquid! Could be one of the planets... who knows.