Namo Amituofo [chin.: namo āmítuófó 南无阿弥陀佛] or simple Amituofo [chin.: āmítuófó 阿弥陀佛] sounds like a greeting and you may have heard it many times. This phrase is a common salutation [chin.: zhìjìng 致敬] among Buddhists of all Traditions, especially the Pure Land [chin.: jìngtǔzōng 净土宗] and Chan Tradition [chin.: chánzōng 禅宗].
Amituofo is the common salutation among Monks of The Shaolin Temple and the students of the Martial Arts schools which they practice Shaolin Wugong. This greeting word is an important part of Shaolin Tradition and culture. Many practitioners are chanting it, although they don’t really know what it means. Many forget that our main practice is Lord Buddha remembrance [chin.: niànfó 念佛]. This involves chanting Namo Amitabha [Na mo A Mi Tuo Fo] we can chant out loud or we can just say it over and over in our minds and it becomes a meditation. Meditations are to ‘guard or protect the mind’.
When you are reciting a sutra your mind has a hard time of thinking of much else; so this is one way to protect the mind [chin.: hànxīn 扞心]. With a single recitation of Namo Amituofo you destroy countless eons of bad karma [chin.: nièyuán 孽缘].
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