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Fellow practitioner: I just want to ask, what does Master do if you want to develop bodhicitta and benefit sentient beings?

Master: Everyone has different roles and abilities. To benefit sentient beings is to help others!right?Everyone’s role, status, abilities, karmic factors are different, you can do it according to your current karmic factors. If you are a buddhist disciple, we just talked about the first principle, let’s say you meet someone drowning. Now, do you want to say that I will not do this and that I will do it?You must save the drowning first. No matter if he is a good person or a bad person, you should save him first. But you don’t want to be a lifeguard, so you don’t have to go to the swimming pool or the beach every day to see if anyone is drowning. No need, this I did it when I met you.

What does the Buddha disciple do?Of course it is to help others come in to learn Buddhism!Like in our class, we also have some donations every month. We have a special fund of five hundred or one thousand, which can be used for personal abilities. We use it to relieve poverty. This is not the main part of our Dharma. This is incidental. In other words, when someone needs it, let’s not talk about being a Buddhist disciple. If people need your help in this respect, you can’t do it. I just do that and don’t do it. Most of the energy and time of XNUMX to XNUMX% are spent on helping others to learn the Dharma. Why?Because this can get the most benefit, just like if you give someone a meal, you can only help him eat one meal, and he will be hungry after a full meal, right?What is Dharma?Helping you seems to get the ability to work, because you are wise, you will be able to find a job, right?Then you will definitely solve your inner worries. In the end, you can become a Buddha, and even you can save sentient beings again, and you can save sentient beings again. You can see that we can benefit so much by investing a little bit, because after this person has achieved it, he If you can do other people again, that merit will be counted as one point for you, you know?Just like the MLM, the first person you buy is the top of the pyramid, and the people you sell after you go down the line have achievements, you know?Therefore, Buddhism talks about giving up one thing.

We may give up one share of time, money, and ability. If you don’t have money, you can be a volunteer, or you can do it yourself. You don’t have to be in a group in the dojo. You can give one point according to the cause, but When the future matures, he will be saved, and he will help others again when he gets a lot of benefits, and even he will give back to you and thank you, right?You see, you will feel tens of thousands of merits. This ten thousand represents immeasurable. This is how we pay one cent and give away ten thousand rewards. It is in line with cause and effect. It does not mean that you fell from the sky as if you got huge profits. Similarly, you didn’t make so much from playing stocks because you gave him a lot of benefits. Of course, you help him develop wisdom most thoroughly, isn’t it?So the rewards in the future will be great. If we only use it to relieve the poverty today, of course it will be very good. So we say that we also have this special fund, which is a mind. We mean that if there is a cause and fate, we will follow the fate. Helping someone is like a drowning person. This is an emergency and you can't ignore him, right?We can do a little bit when we encounter it, but we have something specifically we should do. As Buddhist disciples, we think this Dharma is the most extraordinary and the most extraordinary. Of course, we give the most extraordinary to others, so our time and spirit will be spent. This part is the main one, and we can do the rest as we please.Then if you are Taoist, you are Christian, or you are atheist, and you are working as a public servant, then you can use the same principle as your role. You think it is the most important cause and condition for you. You just do it that way.

Fellow practitioner: I have a colleague who is easy to get into the wrong corners. He just talks...I don't know how to offend others everywhere. I really want to invite him here, but his people unless he is in a good mood.

Master: Then you just wait for him to be in a good mood.

Fellow practitioner: He can’t invite to go out, but he offends others everywhere and offends that. Our company will fire him and tell him to do it at the end of February. I always want to call him, but he is always on FB. Telling me that I don’t know what’s wrong recently, and I keep telling him that he is very unlucky...I told his good friend that you have to go through him when you talk to him like this, because he may not have studied Buddhism either.

Master: All living beings are like this. Everyone has his troubles. The troubles of ignorance are lack of wisdom. It's just that each person's troubles are different in severity. That's why it doesn't matter if you practice.

Fellow practitioner: I want to bring him here, because when he speaks, he offends others everywhere.

Master: Yes.It doesn’t matter, because as long as there is a beginning, the beginning will gradually mature. For example, if we don’t preach the precepts next month, we will come again next month. We will have some other practitioners coming again next month. Maybe There are more people, not necessarily, yes, but no matter how many people there are, we fix this time to provide people who want to learn the precepts to use this space. If there are many people and there are few people, it’s the same. ?So every month, except for the next month, because this time I go abroad for a long time, I will stay for two months. When will the destiny mature? You are all skillful!

You can also take our Great Compassion Mantra back to him. We also have FB. If he likes to surf the Internet, we also have FB on the Internet. The Internet can also introduce him to take a look. The most important thing is not to force it, don’t force it. You have to make him feel that you have this intention, and you happen to have this predestined condition, you can’t do without predestined, right?Let him know, and then slowly use some ingenuity to make him feel that you are really kind, really for him and not very annoying, not only annoying him, if you keep making him feel that you are accusing him , You are because you are not good, so you must come to practice, so of course he will feel very annoying, you always look at him bad, right?You said you are good now!Looks good today!Now you should observe the situation. If you are in a better mood, you can admire him a few words. People always have advantages. It is impossible to have no advantages. From the good side, praise him. When he is in a good mood, he can talk about everything. When... Everyone’s preferences are different. Like us, we come to take precepts and eat here. If it’s not taking precepts to practice together, today I will invite you to eat and you will go there with me. That dojo is fine. Let him Joyful life is a principle. There must be a way to just say the time is sooner or later, because the merits of each person are different, and it does not necessarily have an absolute relationship with us. We try our best to achieve Consummation, and we do our best to have merit. Do you understand this? ?Okay, so what are the questions?

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Fellow practitioner: I have another question.

Master: Okay, it doesn't matter if you try to mention it.

Fellow practitioner: I sit here and listen to Master’s lecture. My feet are sore, can I...

Master: Yes, yes, yes.But we have a rule. I will tell you some precepts by the way. The precepts can be big or small. We have to sit in the Buddhist hall. You have to stretch your feet slightly obliquely. Yes, it's more elegant to be slightly oblique. (laugh)

Master: If the feet are raised like this, it must be unsightly.

Fellow practitioner: Is it possible? (The action demonstration confirms the correct posture.)

Master: Yes, it doesn't matter, because we are not used to it yet!Sometimes after sitting for one or two hours, the average person can’t sit still. What's more, if you just came here, you can, but if you want to lean inward, don’t lean outward. Normally, if we have a temple or a statue of a Buddha, we should pay attention to it. , It’s ok to do it diagonally, this kind of feeling is different, right?

Fellow practitioner: Just like me. (Demonstration of the sitting posture just now.)

Master: This is fine!That's ok, yes, that's ok, yes!You are uncomfortable, you have to adjust!If you don’t have that kind of intentional disrespect, it’s okay, but some of the actions are more elegant and some are not elegant, so this is to be noted, and you can adjust it at will.Okay, what else?Are there any questions?Okay, you say.

Fellow practitioner: Master said that because of the past few weeks, I have said that perfume is applied or not. This means that perfume is not applied. It is possible that we usually use shower gel, but usually there are problems on the skin, such as itchy skin. Yes, you may rub some lotions or medicines, or people will scrape when they are uncomfortable, and then if you use some lotion to do the scraping action, is this a violation of the precept?

Master: If you ask me anything, I should open up fate (laughs). It must be OK, but when we should be strict, we must be very strict, never compromise, and never relax.But why is this OK?Because of our precepts, what is the real purpose of precepts?Don't let you relax, right?You have to love beauty and fragrance, you have to seduce people, you have to respond to the five desires and six dusts, so you will be asked to say that you can’t put on perfume, you can’t make up, and you can’t do anything...so the real purpose is not to You let go and create the karma of five desires and six dusts, but because you really need to use it today, then you didn't break that precept!Why can't you open up fate, can you?This principle needs to be understood, so we must first know what the purpose of precepts is.

The Buddha's ordination has his cause and condition. What is the purpose?Once you have mastered this goal, you will know how to open the guilty, so don't hold the vows rigidly. Some people don't understand the truth, and they will not do this or that, and then they will be troubled.For example, being a vegetarian. I am now starting to become a vegetarian. Then I went back to the pots and pans at home to buy a new set of pots and pans. My family accidentally got your one, wow!I started quarreling, you soiled me, I went to buy a new pot, it seems that the meat is not enough, you just wash it!Not on purpose, right?And is there an absolute relationship between being a vegetarian and becoming a Buddha?nor.You can become a Buddha by eating meat, otherwise, how can you achieve it in your family, right?In the time of the Buddha, monks could also eat meat.But you have to know why we need to be vegetarian. This is what Emperor Wu Wu advocated and not made by the Buddha. Including monks, he stipulated that monks should be vegetarian. This is also a good act, because being a vegetarian is to nurture our compassion. You will want it. Raising a compassionate person is absolutely impossible for you to bear the heart to eat the flesh of sentient beings to kill. This is contrary to compassion, so don't you open your eyes and speak nonsense?I killed you so I love you, isn't that funny?To say that I am very compassionate, impossible, does not conform to the truth and does not conform to the laws of nature, is called self-deception and open your eyes and speak nonsense. Therefore, a truly compassionate person will naturally not do things to kill all living beings unless, for example, there are some things. In places like Tibet, many monks eat meat, because meat is cheaper than vegetables, and eating vegetables is not easy!

It’s the same in the time of the Buddha. Why didn’t the Buddha make everything vegetarian because he didn’t cause trouble to others. He had a rule to eat only three pure meats, which means you didn’t see it being killed, you saw it being killed. If you can still eat it, then how can you be merciful and not hear the pain of being killed?;I didn’t see it being killed or died because of you. It died because of you. You can still eat it. Then you have no conscience. For example, I am going to be a guest at someone’s house today. What is the Chinese New Year? I'll kill a chicken and invite you. If you don't come, the chicken won't die, right?You clearly know that they are doing these killings for you, so you can still eat, of course many people don't understand, but after we learn it, we will know that the original compassion to protect us starts from here.Then if you don’t know this, don’t commit it.Or that everyone in this place looks like this, but the Buddha has stipulated that you can only eat the three pure meats, that is, you can not eat the three conditions that you just mentioned. You can still eat after you have seen it. If you violate humanity and your compassion, then you will commit this precept, so we need to know the cause and condition, what is the purpose of receiving this precept. If this purpose is mastered, you will have merit in keeping the precept. If other conditions are not sufficient, it is called Open fate, because if you don’t open fate, sometimes you will cause trouble to others, and you will also create another sin karma, that is, don’t tie yourself to death, and then make others annoy instead.It’s okay if you don’t learn Buddhism. It’s hard to get along with you when you learn Buddhism. It seems that if you are the only one who is clean and others are not clean, you are always picking up other people’s faults. Then you have violated the bodhisattva vows. If you try to save sentient beings by chance, do you break other precepts?So ours is a learning process.

You need to be wise in how to hold the precepts. Only when you have wisdom can you know how to open up the shackles. Of course, you didn’t have a certain level of enlightenment at the beginning. Of course, you will have doubts, just like during operation. , You will encounter different situations in your life, and you don’t know how to deal with it. At this time, the master will play a role (laughs), because why we need to get close to good knowledge, you can check it out on the Internet. If you don’t have a certain appropriate answer, you will definitely find an answer you like (laughs), but that answer is not necessarily correct. The answer is to bear the causal responsibility, so don’t talk casually. We shouldn’t always like to be the masters of others. Some people’s personalities like to be bosses. It’s not good to like to be the masters of others, because if you want to learn from cause and effect, you must be sure that the truth is understood, and then you know how to apply these principles. Understand?Karma is sufficient, we can’t just open the fate. You say that I have no problem. Then in the dojo, we usually prepare soaps that are not scented. That is, if the cause and fate are sufficient, and you deliberately don’t do it, you just say that it’s okay. , If you have a good condition, you must keep the precepts well, and you can’t make excuses yourself, that's it.Okay, any questions?time is limited.

Fellow initiates: Master, Amitabha!The disciple would like to ask a question, like if we are in a private enterprise sometimes, sometimes the boss does not specifically stipulate that we can’t use mobile phones or something. There is no strict regulation, then if it is like working in a public agency for official duties. Personnel, his salary is bound to be people's tax money, yes, when his mobile phone is applicable, he didn't understand before, but he took the precept and found that he had such a past... Is this a crime of the precept?What should I do?

Master: You can talk about the previous place again.Are you talking about using the company’s cell phone?

Fellow practitioner: Using your own mobile phone means to deal with personal matters, and then to work in a public office.

Master: Do you mean time?Does it take up working time?

Fellow practitioners: Yes, it takes up working time, yes, and because public servants are the people's tax money, yes, then this is a crime of theft, what should I do?

Master: Regardless of whether you are a public servant or not, it is the same in your own private enterprise. You belong to the company at this time when you are at work. Of course, your people belong to the company. Of course, you can’t do private affairs, but if we do, there is still a way to solve it. We make up for it by ourselves, we use more snacks ourselves, or we should pay more time to compensate, all kinds of..., because the cause and effect are very complicated and you can do it flexibly. For example, if you think this matter is more important, you still have to do it first. You can be very lively to measure this, you can do whatever you want, but you have to know the cause and effect, and then you have to be able to bear it, you are qualified to open the fate, understand?You have to measure this causality which one compares... to measure gains and losses!You can calculate which one is more worthwhile, right?Then can you make up for it, whether you can bear this cause and effect, whether you have the wisdom or the ability, you are qualified to open the predestined condition, so that you will be more lively by keeping the precepts!Is it flexible, and there really won’t be any problems, right?You can make up for your cause and effect!How do you make it up? Of course, this is a situation of open fate.

We just talked about being able to hold on to the destiny as much as possible. Don’t be okay, I will deliberately be lazy, and then I will deliberately take advantage of the heart, the company is idle, and then just take advantage of it. This is called stealing time, you take the opportunity to do This is not right in your own affairs. It is because you really have urgent things or things you think are more important, with different causes and effects!This matter is more important, and then you can really spare a little time, then you don’t have to delay your official business, maybe you can make it up after get off work, right?You have to do things well. This is a must, and your own work must be done well. But at this time, you are more urgent and need to deal with certain things first. You must choose to do it first. There is no part of work during working hours. If you do, you can find time to make up for it. At this time, you can deal with it like this. If you want to open fate, if you don’t have any, otherwise you really can’t deal with it. Okay, I’m happy to bear the cause and effect. It doesn’t matter if people want to fix you, people want to fire you, people want to deduct money and enjoy it, because at this time, I have to open up fate, I may have to make a lot of money or I may have to make a very special merit. So I must need this time, and I must do that. Then you can count it as a bargain, and measure it by yourself. Is that clear?

All in all, there must be cause and effect. This is also the case when you have committed something, and you have done nothing wrong. But how can you make up for it, or how can you bear the cause and effect, if you understand this principle, you kill You can commit adultery, but ordinary people can’t. You can’t commit this precept casually. If you kill one person, you can save XNUMX or one million people. The Great Bodhisattva will kill but not every Bodhisattva has this predestined condition. The Bodhisattva does not have the same idea of ​​each person’s personality. Each has a cause and condition. There is no absolute right or wrong. It is your own choice. Then you bear the cause and effect yourself. If you think it is worthwhile, you can do it. What is your cause and condition? !Some people, like the one where I have soft feet when I see blood, I have soft feet when I saw people killing chickens since I was young, and I might not choose to kill one to save XNUMX. It doesn’t necessarily depend on the situation at that time. Speaking, I might choose other methods. This time is the time to inspire our wisdom, so the most important thing for us to study the Fa is to learn the principles and guidelines.

After you get through it, you will know how to make use of it in your life and different situations, and then every use will help your wisdom and realm continue to improve, so studying the Fa is very important. You have to learn this. Basically, at the core, you have to grasp that you should not just learn the superficiality. The superficial rules are just kindergarten classes. The really difficult and advanced things are applied later, so why do you have to get close to good knowledge in your practice? The improvement is smooth in the process. You will definitely encounter a lot of difficult times, so you need to have good knowledge to guide you. Sometimes you may not be able to find the correct answer when you read the scriptures by yourself, because there are many and different answers. There are different approaches at times.Therefore, we must first learn this principle. Karma must exist. If you commit a crime, you must commit it for no reason. You must not deceive yourself. If you commit a crime, you must commit a crime. There must be cause and effect. This is very important. These principles are very important. It's important. Then you get someone's salary when you go to work. It's very simple. Children understand it. You must have committed a crime. Then there is something to say about it.But can it be committed?can.What I just talked about is primordial fate, it’s not really offense, it means that you judge you to think it’s OK, I can do other more important things, I can do this, but if there is cause and effect, I have to know that there is cause and effect, and I I also know that I committed a crime, so how can I bear this cause and effect?

How did the Shurangama Sutra come to China? "The Shurangama Sutra" is a national treasure and it cannot be exported, but the patriarch stole it, smuggled it with the "Srangama Sutra" and cut it on it, cut his arm and sew it inside. I can hardly imagine how this is done. For example, some people are hiding drugs everywhere, and there is always a way to smuggle them over. Is he a thief?You committed it!But he thinks it's worth it. He has a reward like that, and he spreads it to China to benefit a lot of people. Then he will bear the stolen reward himself and he will surrender. If you don't surrender, you can wait for the cause and condition to mature and you will be happy and accept it!You can enjoy the reward, it's worth it!But this is a big bodhisattva, and you must have the wisdom and ability to bear the consequences. This is OK. There is nothing wrong with the law. So you ask me what I can say to you, but I don’t mean it. Keep the precepts loose and casual, no.If it doesn't work, it doesn't work, it's very strict or it doesn't work, and what should be insisted on is still unchangeable.For example, what can't be changed?We must not change this bodhicitta, we must be altruistic, and we must not be selfish. This is absolutely impossible to change. We must not harm others or maliciously harm others. This is absolutely impossible to change, otherwise you are a wicked person and you are not a practitioner. This cannot be changed, right?Bodhicitta must not be changed, and it cannot be said alas!I don't need to send bodhicitta, I can become a Buddha or not, you must do this to benefit sentient beings.

When we learn the precepts, there are stamina and stamina, stamina means that what can’t be done must not be done, stamina means that what should be done must be done. If you don’t do it, it will benefit all beings. This belongs to stamina, like this one. What cannot be changed is because the process cannot be changed. It does not mean that the Buddha said that it cannot be changed if it cannot be changed. It is not that a certain person said that this is the law of nature. No one decides it. This is the truth of the universe. You hurt others. No, is it?This little kid didn’t learn a lot, didn’t take a lot of lessons, and didn’t learn a lot of truth, but he would know if he was human. He would know what is right and what is wrong as he grows up. If you bully him, he will hate you, and he will know what is right and what is wrong. Knowing that you are a wicked person, you hurt him!The child knows too, why does he know?Because it’s by nature, right?Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to hurt others, but this is not possible. It is the principle of principle. When you do it, there will be skillful and open conditions. For example, if this person does not listen, I will fix him, so that he can behave. , Repairing this action seems to be fierce, it seems that it is possible to hurt him, scold him, and beat him. The Patriarch’s great virtue beats people, but the intention is for him and he will really get better as a result. Don't commit.It's not hurting others. This method is skillful, so you can't look at it on the surface. This knowledge is great.

A wise person doesn’t look at things at the surface, he will see the person’s heart, his motives, and the result of his skillfulness and convenience. They are very lively. This is why wisdom is not rigid. , So first understand this principle, and then slowly accumulate and learn through some long-term experience, you will know more and more how to handle it.