(XNUMX) The origin of the Dharma promotion by the Pure Sect Society in Los Angeles, USA

Dear President Chen is merciful, and distinguished fellow practitioners of the Great Virtue, good afternoon, everyone.Amitabha.

Thank you very much for the compassionate achievements of President Chen of the Pure Sect Society of Los Angeles, USA. On this special Saturday afternoon, he gave me the time for his lectures. I have this opportunity to form a bond with our fellow practitioners here.I heard the president mentioned to me that the fellow practitioners of your academy will have a preaching event around December this year. So I also asked the president in advance to tell you what the subject is. Then the president I'm also very polite, so I chose some of my experience in the process of learning the precepts and keeping precepts. Here I will provide you with a sharing and exchange. If there is something inappropriate, please bear with me and correct me.In the past few days, I came here to place orders. Originally, this opportunity was not deliberately arranged by me. If it were not deliberately arranged by us, it would only be the blessing of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.So, first of all, let me report to you about the origin.

A few days ago, I was invited to our San Diego. It was an invitation from a student of mine.Because I'm on Facebook and on the Internet, you should all know Facebook (you must die). On this platform, classes have been teaching for about four years.The disciples I am close to, students, there will be about forty or fifty people one after another. These forty or fifty people are enough to exhaust a mage, because they are disciples who enter the room, and they are trained with incense sticks every day. Such a student.Then, every week, according to the statistics on Facebook, there are about XNUMX or more than XNUMX fans on this platform. On average, they have read our posts, and they have formed a very wide range of dharma.But these students, who are with us, we have a club, and we have dedicated messages, which are not open to the outside world. Therefore, others can’t see them, and outsiders can’t see them. Then these students, when they first came, because As we all know, a platform like Facebook is usually used as a platform for communication between relatives and friends.

I have never seen anyone similar before. Like me, it is a systematic and long-term course. It has been more than four years and several courses have been opened one after another.From the beginning of the course to the present, it can be said that the turnover rate is almost below XNUMX%, which is equivalent to no.And fellow practitioners, among these students, they all felt the smell of Liuhejing that they had never encountered before, but they smelled it with us.So over the years, it has been really hard. This process has been going all the way. Often my alarm clock is four o'clock, but I have to get up at two or three o'clock.As for these people, you can imagine that they don't have good roots like you, so they can walk to the Buddhist hall by themselves.They almost basically don’t believe in Buddhism. Those people who go on Facebook to play, there are also some old cultivators. They really have walked all over the dojo. After decades, they didn’t get anything and got a whole body. Worry, such an old repair, it is even more difficult to adjust.So I said that our class is a group of old and weak soldiers, or that there are masters from all sides. From the beginning of this kind of origin, until now, basically I have almost resigned. Then resignation is a successful resignation, and each of them has become the director of the station. , Everyone can be on their own, learning management and propaganda.Lay Buddhists can also preach the Dharma, how to preach the Dharma?Of course, you must have a pedigree, inheritance, and then there are rules for keeping the precepts, so I can basically let go after training until now, and I am not afraid, anyway, the next step is causal conceit, what should be taught, what should be explained , I have made it clear.

So this time, the student of San Diego, the students on our Internet are probably from the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, and many countries. Then this fellow practitioner, she is also a PhD, a female Everyone, we have masters from all parties in this class, so this doctor, this... she didn’t come in for a long time, but she was very brave, so I made arrangements to go to Brazil, Japan, and the United States through me this time. For this trip, she invited me to meet some of her friends at her residence.However, even though I went, I think it’s a rare trip to the United States. It’s the first time I’ve come. Then I am still thinking of the Jingzong Society, so I thought that if there is a chance, I would like to see where we have the Jingzong Society nearby. I can go to place an order.Basically, the precepts of our monks are not suitable for placing orders in a layman’s house for more than three days.So fortunately, I got this fate, and I asked my students to ask, and everything went well.

In fact, I didn't have high expectations at the beginning, because in the past few years, in addition to teaching on the Internet, I also officially recorded the magic weapon and circulated it since 2010, which can be said to be an official preaching.Over the past ten years, we have been in the form of lectures, and have made connections with everyone at home and abroad. Because I am the fifth graduate of the Singapore Dharma Training Course, we have been practicing lectures after graduation.In those years, it was mainly in Malaysia and Singapore.Wherever I go, because I am only speaking on behalf of the Buddha, I am the messenger of Amitabha, not I am speaking, so, everyone knows, Amitabha’s Dharma is the most outstanding, so wherever I go, it can be said that it is from south to north. A whirlwind, this is true.Even the earliest one million town Jingzong society, this is the earliest, the earliest established in Malaysia, they have the so-called Four King Kong, this is my pick!It is their finances, these accountants, these more important deacons. In the past two decades, since the establishment of the Institute, they have never heard a lesson. It is incredible, such an important deacon in it.

At that time, I was invited to arrange a lecture at that society, which lasted about five days, and I came to listen to the lecture every day.What's even stranger is that this time, there were almost as many men as there were women. This is also a rare situation.From south to north, there is another situation, that is, because this is a situation in which Malaysia has learned it, and because the old monk is spreading the Dharma there, a whirlwind is set off, so many people are inspired!The number of societies established at home and abroad is the largest in Malaysia. It is also because everyone’s response is very enthusiastic, so the foundation is relatively weak. They are relatively more in listening to the scriptures, understanding of the teachings, and precepts. Weaker.So maybe the foundation is not so stable, so the habit of listening to the scriptures is basically not cultivated at all, and even this is the same with the practice of chanting and practicing Buddhism.

Basically, on average, there are about ten or twenty people in a society, which is quite remarkable. There are one or two places at most, about seventy or eighty people.So when I go, I usually arrange a three-to-five-day trip in one place for two consecutive months. There are more than a dozen learners in line at a time, sometimes at most a dozen learners. Usually there is no one on the first day, because Basically, they, in many places, do not even invite masters to give lectures. They are more enthusiastic about the three-time system. The situation in Malaysia is like this.In the three-time system, there must be a lot of people, so it can be said that the atmosphere of lectures should be caused by a classmate of me and our classmate, Master Ren Shan. Because the two of us are also more active and more engaged, we should be more able to promote the Dharma. There are more opportunities to bond with fellow practitioners over there.From the second day and the third day, the number of people gradually increased. This is my experience.Of course, there are other mages who also go to get together. I am not quite sure about this situation.

But to go, everyone said: Wow, this is unprecedented!Oh, it's better not to endure it!There has never been such a kind of one, and everyone has an enthusiastic response.Well, the most gratifying thing is that it’s not everyone who comes to see whether this master speaks well, connects with friends or tells stories, because I don’t know how to tell stories. The main benefit is that almost everyone, as long as they really wish to recite the Buddha, chanting the Buddha in the Pure Land of Survival People, ten nine out of ten, or even ten out of ten, can give rise to faith in rebirth.Oh, this ratio is very high, I have a questionnaire!But I don't know whether his hand is true or not, because I still have to check it.Then why is there such a fast effect?Of course this is not my ability!Amitabha Buddha itself has this power, and this Fa itself has this power. The key is whether we have grasped that core. If there is, then you will be able to get benefits right now.So it's actually not that difficult. To put it bluntly, the truth is actually very simple and ordinary.Because I have benefited myself, I just shared my feelings truthfully with you, and then I also proved Amitabha and proved this method.So when fellow practitioners listened, no matter whether they understood the truth or not, he was very happy and infected.Almost ten out of nine places have the same reaction, because our fellow practitioners are all practicing the same method, the goal is the same, and the mood is the same, that is, the chanting of the Buddha is hard, haha, and there is no taste. There is no hope for death.So whether we can die, whether we can like to recite the Buddha, these are the key points of our practice, we must master it.

That’s because I know very little by myself, and I have limited learning, so I just specifically connect with you in this area, this area, and share my learning experience, so in a short time, I can share with you what you care about, The more important part.Therefore, in every dojo, the practitioners who have almost heard it, as long as there are two sessions in one session, and some people even listen to the lecture for the first time, saying that he has seen Amitabha, and in the daytime, he will see Amitabha when he goes down to worship.I said: Wow, this effect is too big, the induction is even better than me!I don't have such a strong sense, and I do.Because some people have a simple heart, and it's possible.This situation can be said to be from south to north, and most societies have this reaction.But after a while, it fell from north to south again. This is an obstacle. Naturally you... you are like this in this world. How influential you are, and relatively how big obstacles will test us, it's a pity. !Of course, some people will be affected because the teachings are not very solid.So, in fact, I am speaking to the society, most of the society is not all, I am actually not very confident.So when I came to place an order this time, it turned out that I didn't have great expectations. I just wanted to say: Oh, since it's rare to come to the United States for the first time, I should go to the nearest to get married.

So after this time I came, I found that not only was beyond my expectation, but I also felt that the Jingzong Society that I have been close to so far, and even the dojos of the lay leaders I have been close to, including those outside the society. The leading Dojo here is the most outstanding.how to say?I've only been here for a few days, why would I dare to say such a thing?Because I have XNUMX years of experience!I have traveled many places at home and abroad, and there is a basis for teachings, and there is also the fact that we have seen fellow practitioners here, you can see the enthusiasm for co-cultivation, and seeing these results, this is enough to prove that we are here as a doctrine .What makes me particularly unbelievable is that this is the dojo of the lay leaders. This is very difficult.Just like what I just said, I had such a good connection in Malaysia all the way, and I was able to fall back in a short time, and many of the presidents are still very good people. I admire them very much, but because of the difference in thoughts Changes in my previous views.Let alone ordinary people, even some great philosophers, great thinkers, and scientists, he will overthrow his theories!So this is actually not surprising, I also treat it with a normal heart.What about us here, I heard that President Chen has been here for eighteen years, giving lectures to everyone uninterrupted, and this fate is even more difficult.This kind of blessing can be said that we at home and abroad, I have not seen a second place, so everyone should cherish this cause.

(XNUMX) The correct order of precepts and precepts

Next, we will enter the topic, don't waste too much time for everyone.Let me make a questionnaire first. It is our fellow practitioners. Anyone who has received the bodhisattva vow, please raise your hand?Oh, a lot!What about those who have received the Five Precepts?So this time it is the bodhisattva ordination who participated in the ordination?Is it just a bodhisattva vow?But generally speaking, the bodhisattva precepts will give you another five precepts, three conversions and five precepts, so please raise your hands if you have signed up.Ah! Why are there so few?Is this guild leader reviving?It's reintroduction, well, it's less than half!So I hope that after listening to this class, everyone can take the precepts.Don’t think I’m selling. I’m telling you that when I was a beginner, I went to ordination in the first year of my learning XNUMX years ago. It was also the arrangement of the Buddha and Bodhisattva, and I was confused. Yes, like I am a monk, I am confused, but I am very well-used.

Look at me though... I'm telling you my lowest standard. A vague beginner like me who has received the Bodhisattva vow, you see how good my cause and destiny are! Why is it so good?At that time, I didn't learn the scriptures after taking the precepts. I didn't understand, and no one was watching.But now I think about it, why is it so outstanding?Along the way, from the time of taking the precepts, without really learning the precepts, you can still feel such good karma, because there is a precept, this is the most important thing.So some people are afraid of taking the precepts, and feel that they are afraid of taking the precepts, and they will break the precepts if they don’t.is not it?If you break the precept, you will fall to hell! Oops!You see, you see that you think of falling to hell, you see that you have forgotten Amitabha. Amitabha can't let you fall to hell. Unless you don't recite the Buddha, we have Amitabha, and we are not afraid of anything, let alone not falling into hell.A person who really takes refuge in the Three Refuges is not just mouth feeling, but in his heart there is relying on the Buddha, relying on the Dharma, relying on the Sang, not the kind of two treasures and four treasures, that has no share! People who really rely on the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha do not It will fall into the third coat, and the third coat will not fall, so you can feel at ease.

Oh, this concept. I have also spoken in eight sessions in Canada in the past two years, and I have also recounted the "Vatican Net Sutra". Many concepts have been mentioned in it.At that time, there were only XNUMX or XNUMX people who received the ordination, but after this lecture, more than a hundred people went to the ordination, and they didn't know where they came from. Normally, there are not so many fellow practitioners.So it's actually very simple, you just change your mind.First of all, you don’t have to be afraid of breaking the precepts if you take the precepts. If you are not precepted, you will commit sins, which must be heavier. , XNUMX% of everyone is like this, so is there any retribution for your sin karma?There must be!When the time comes to settle the general ledger, who is going to take it?If you feel it yourself, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas can't help us feel.So taking precepts is to save us!It's affirmative that you should feel it earlier, you will be liberated earlier, and you will suffer less sin karma earlier.Then some people are worried: Oh, it is very difficult for me to keep the precepts!Oh, my roots are so bad, I can't hold it well!It's me... wait until I learn the precepts before coming back to take precepts.Is there such an idea?A lot of people.This kind of thinking is actually self-deception. Will you really learn the precepts?Do you usually learn precepts?No.Only the person who has actually received the vow has a responsibility. For example, if you have to chant the vows for half a month and a half month, you should look at it at least half a month! This is the most basic homework, and you have a little pressure on you. It’s true, don’t deceive yourself.

In other words, for a very simple reason, if you can keep the precepts well today, in fact you don’t have to take it anymore. If you have all the precepts, why should you take it?Don't take it anymore, the problem is you don't hold it well.We have not received the precepts or the blessings of the precepts. You can't hold them well.right?Is what I said true?If you haven't received precepts, you can't actively learn the precepts on your own. Even if you really do occasionally learn precepts, you can't learn well. If you don't believe it, you can try it.But, if you go to take the precepts first, this is the correct order. This is not my own opinion. We, Monk Guoqing, and this. You can go to the Jingjie Master for instructions. This is the correct one who learns the precepts and holds the precepts. This is the second time.

We must first take the precepts, which represents our respect, our determination, and our feelings. It is a great power to feel truly pure precepts from the monk of precepts.Without this thing you will have no next step. All your next steps will be fake and you will not get any merit. This is true.Therefore, if you really want to practice, you must start your mind earlier.Then you say: Oh! Then I just hold the three conversions and five precepts, don’t take the bodhisattva precepts.Some people think so too, right?Oops! The bodhisattva vows are so difficult, in fact, the bodhisattva vows are no more difficult than the five precepts.I'm not promoting you to be bodhisattvas. You can't just obey the five precepts. No, I want you to clarify some concepts and then make your own decisions.The real difficulty is the five precepts, and the five precepts are sexual precepts!Strictly speaking, it is no confession to commit a crime.But that is theoretically, we are ordinary people, and there are still ways to confess to you. In other words, if the five precepts are violated, there is a detrimental virtue, that is, the precepts of sex. This is the precept of killing, looting, licentiousness, and drinking! It is ten heavy and forty-eight light, and there are a total of fifty-eight precepts. It feels much better than the five precepts, right?This includes the five precepts. In fact, it is unfolded to teach us one by one how to keep the precepts in daily life.

Then you said it would be better to write textbooks in more detail?Is it better to write something simpler?Of course, it’s better to be more detailed! One by one, we will be taught how to be held in detail. This is definitely better than having only five rules and the five precepts! And they can complement each other and be integrated.For each of your precepts, you can keep the precepts well, and you can help your other precepts to make it easier to understand how to keep them.Then you say: I have so many precepts, what should I do if I can’t learn them?It doesn't matter, you count as much as you learn. As soon as our monks shave their hair, will the three hundred and forty-eight precepts, or the ten precepts of novices be held to completion the next day?Don't you?Impossible!We haven't even watched it at all, and some haven't even watched it, and haven't studied it well. It's like I was confused when I was a monk at the time, but now it's full of Dharma joy, and the benefits are endless!So don't worry, this is a determination!Taking precepts is a determination, and how much you learn depends on your abilities.

When we find which one of the precepts is violated, we immediately repent. There are ways to repent. The simplest way to repent is to blame ourselves, and we feel ashamed.If you don't have anyone who is ordained, you will not be ashamed.You will feel that everyone is the same anyway, I am a little better than him!right?Hey! I am a Buddha disciple! He is very generous in killing theft and adultery! Isn't it?Which man doesn't have that little wife, very few don't, I heard about it!This disciple of the Buddha may be an exception. You see the basic five precepts, and they are breaking them every day! Drinking, socializing, and making lies, right?Those who kill and eat meat are gradually violating this precept of killing, and they are creating the three poison karma every day. You see how terrible it is.So we have to clarify this concept first, before you know that if we don't learn the precepts, then the loss is really too great.In other words, after we further learn the precepts, we will clear the monks; Guoqing lawyers and Jingjie Masters, they all have very detailed explanations on how to further repent. The more subtle methods of repentance can be used for the first repentance and can take the picture. Repentance, repentance without birth, these various repentance methods.Learn slowly, do as much as you learn, without any pressure.

If you learn earlier, you can improve earlier, and you will get free earlier. This is very important.Because after all, we haven't died yet!Before we died, we all had habitual problems.Habits, like you are okay here, it looks okay.But does anyone dare to say that I have no troubles every day, maybe only the president!But he was very polite, and he would not say that.But most of the fellow practitioners are bound to have troubles every day, because unless you have been rationally enlightened.Then it is because our defilements and habits are still there, so we must learn the precepts.This precept can help us to stay at the moment, at least to stay at the defilements.Quit means refreshing, and it has this effect.In other words, if we are a Buddhist chanter, you say yes. Anyway, I already have faith in chanting Buddha, and I have faith in my death, and it can be decided right now. This faith in chanting Buddha, if you have the opportunity, you can go and see what I said. "Forty-Eigh Vows" is available on the Internet, and the president should also know these CDs.In fact, the principles taught by many of our masters are the same, but from a different perspective, a different language model to share with you.

(XNUMX) You can die if you have enough faith and wishes at the moment of practicing Buddhism

Although this method is very simple, as long as you have enough faith and wishes, you can die, and you can't miss one. This is all the great virtues of the patriarch talked about, and thousands of people will go there.But do you really have enough faith and wish? Some people become more afraid as they listen, oh! Master Ou Yi talked about six beliefs, but now I don’t have enough faith. Believe in oneself, believe in him, believe in things, believe in truth, believe in cause, and believe in it. fruit.Wow, the more I learn, the more I am afraid, and I deviate from that core.As long as the faith is sufficient, we can die, but it is because of us! This "the world is all right, and the mediocre people are disturbing themselves"!Our habit is like this. It is clear that you have been freed, you have reached this core, and you have walked back unknowingly, right?This is the traction of karma, so it is terrible!Our faith, after you are truly established, you have to keep it, just like Zen Buddhism, you have to keep it after you see sex, how to keep it? Or we don’t care whether we are sure that we have enough faith and willingness , We have established the confidence to die, no matter it is uncertain, we should do it.

Even if you already have faith, how can you be really sure, your faith and your faith is not false, we have to examine it from our natural reaction.For example, when you are under a cause and condition, you suddenly have a heart of faith and wish, and your heart is filled with joy.You feel that true faith has arisen, you have faith in your own rebirth, you have no doubt about Amitabha, whether you have doubts about Forty-eight Aspirations, and do not doubt your own aspirations.Starting from this time, the next step is to check, that is, has your body and mind changed, right?When you really encounter the blessings of Buddha entering your heart, you can't not change, including our cells will change, and the physique will change. The increase and decrease depends on the strength of the blessings you receive.How can it be changed?You must like to recite Buddhism. You must cut all evil and cultivate all good, natural, without purpose. That's how you would do it. Otherwise, what do you want to do?If it is five desires and six dusts, then your wish is also false, and it must be a misunderstanding of the news.Therefore, keeping the precepts to recite the Buddha and practice diligently is a natural practice and a natural transformation that we must have in order to establish a renunciation of the Buddha.Then your faith is true. You can really say right now that there is absolutely no problem in your death.

If our faith and wish have not been fulfilled, our karma has not yet matured, and the karma of good roots has not yet matured, then you have to do this even more!We have to clarify this, death is not because you have to recite the Buddha's chants, how good the precepts are, no, there are no conditions at all, so it is pure other power! XNUMX% pure other power, faith, completely without conditions, but why do you do this What?Because insurance does not mean that there is a little bit of worry, worry about the Buddha, and the need for insurance for yourself. It is not, but because we are not sure whether our faith is true, so we need not only reason and method. In addition to knowing it, we must do it in a down-to-earth manner, and this is just like a Buddha chanting! You see, no one of the great virtues of the Patriarch does not persuade us to observe the precepts and recite the Buddha, do they?Therefore, to be a Buddhist chanter, there is no reason to avoid the three conversions and five precepts, or even the bodhisattva precepts.If there is no purpose, it should be done so as to be a normal Buddhist chanter.It doesn't matter if you do more or less, whether you do it well or not, it doesn't matter if you try your best.So there is no need for any pressure. If you do not maintain the precepts well, Amitabha will take you to become a Buddha.If you don’t follow the precepts, it doesn’t seem to correspond to the people in the Paradise of Bliss, right?It's really a bit dangerous to die.So believing is very simple, really simple, but ordinary people's hearts are false, and they are afraid of deceiving themselves.Otherwise, this method, as long as the faith and willingness are sufficient, thousands of people will be cultivated, which is indeed the case.

I used to place an order in a place, a dojo, and received a lot of care from this monk, so I just wanted to help people with their chants.That was a period of Jiexia, three months! I just wanted to do it! Because I used to be on the stage to bond with you, and I didn't have much chance to be other deacons.During that month, wow! The business was very good!I helped read ten, and some others have not yet participated. Among these ten people, nine are women and one is male. I did not participate in the purification.It is a one-stop service, all free, in Taiwan.Those women! I saw that everyone is not cancerous, tumorous, or some kind of hydronephrosis. The belly is huge, and there are all kinds of strange shapes, and they have not studied Buddhism, basically, they have not studied Buddhism. In other words, before he died, he fell ill, and his family members contacted him with this cause and started to help him in reciting, or it was hospice care.Because I participated in the purification! I saw the changes in the whole process with my own eyes.That process really allowed me to truly build absolute confidence. Ten out of ten will die without any conditions.As long as there is a cause and predestined encounter, when you are dying, it will be said in this sutra! It is very clear in the "Guan Sutra" that some people have encountered good knowledge and persuade you to recite the Buddha, believe and wish to recite the Buddha, even if you can't read it, When you are in a coma or coma, his consciousness is still effective. There are too many examples of various causes and conditions. As long as there is a cause and condition, you will be able to rebirth with every thought.If you are confused and don't know how to believe, it doesn't matter what you want to believe. You can die after you recite the Buddha.

The six-character name "Nanwu Amitabha" mentioned by Master Shandao is full of faith and has this power in itself. This Buddha name is alive, not like our name. It has no effect after chanting for a long time. He has energy. , There is powerful energy in it.So this method, undoubtedly, is really tens of thousands of people to go, but I am afraid that our faith will not be true.So after talking for a long time, our purpose is to encourage everyone to take precepts and truly be like a Buddha.In this case, you can really die one by one, and you can even build confidence right now.Is there anyone who does not live in the Pure Land?Raise your hand and see, no, no one came in. Everyone came to recite the Buddha, and they all came to practice truly, wow! That's amazing!

(XNUMX) Keeping the precepts is mainly to liberate sentient beings

Look at how many of us are now, look at how good our president’s Dharma is. All of you are fans of the president! It’s not because of me that the president gave me this time. You can’t see it. For eighteen years, You see how much effort the president has put in to cultivate you to achieve this kind of results. I haven't seen it at home or abroad! The layman's dojo can attract people to this level. In the future, how many Buddhas can be produced in this place!So as long as you follow the chairman's arrangements, you see that his various practices are not the same as those of the general learners, but I am very impressed.I am very impressed, because basically my style is very close to this! That is to say, the special miscellaneous is mellow and harmless.Twenty years of my life, from the beginning to the present, I have also been specializing in the Pure Land. The practice has not changed, the goal has not changed, and I have not even thought of a single thought or this kind of miscellaneous practice. But because I want to promote the Dharma, there are still some causes and conditions, Buddha. The Bodhisattva arranged for me to participate in all kinds of causes and conditions, so all my religions and religions have to be involved, and I have to learn.

But it is for self-use. I won’t talk about it. It’s because I want to be self-use and understand all theories. It seems very complicated and I can learn everything, but in fact it is specialized in miscellaneous and does not hinder it.How do we need to arrange the causes and conditions of this season? It will increase the wisdom and life of the Dharmakaya for everyone and fellow practitioners. Then do it, the goal is very clear, and we will not depart from the teachings and directions of our teacher, our old monk, Jingkong. , This is very wise, and also very compassionate. It is completely for the public’s consideration of the wisdom and destiny of the Dharmakaya. No matter the software or hardware, including you see, there are so many masters here to bless, this is not easy. what!

There are very deep and rare causes and conditions in this! Then you may not realize it. I have a deep experience, so everyone should really cherish this cause and condition.Arrange for you to preach the precepts, you will take the precepts for everyone, arrange courses for you, and you will try your best to listen, then you can participate as much as possible if we have practice together.There is nothing more important than doing these things for a true Buddhist practitioner, and it is the greatest blessing. What else are you going to do?What kind of industry is created?Is there something cleaner and more complete than these karma?No, unless you love this thing that contaminates the world, or you really don’t have enough good fortune, and you are trapped at home, then you have to say to fight for as much as possible, and to participate if you have the opportunity. This is really natural. , Don’t care when Amitabha will come to pick it up when the time comes, anyway, the time will come.

It’s not a trivial matter to become a Buddha! It’s not a trivial matter to become a Buddha! Once you become a Buddha, you will be on an equal footing with Maitreya Bodhisattva, and you will have the same status as Guanyin, Shizhi, Manjusri, and Samantabhadra! These teachings, here I am. I won’t say much. Our president has guided everyone systematically, so I believe that everyone has a solid foundation and knows this uniqueness.But what is most lacking is that every fellow practitioner, even before accomplishment, needs it. The most lacking is the blessing in the practice. This part must be constantly encouraged by oneself, from keeping the precepts, from taking precepts, from holding precepts, Learning the precepts and keeping the precepts is the first time when you ask to take the precepts, then learn the precepts and keep the precepts, and this time starts.

Everyone knows this concept. Is anyone still afraid of taking precepts?If you have any questions, you can ask them right now.Is anyone afraid of taking precepts?Nothing.are not there?That means everyone is going to be ordained, right?Then raise your hand again. If you want to receive the Bodhisattva vow, please raise your hand to see if there is more. It seems there is! It seems there is.Hey, someone still didn't raise their hand!Then you have no problem, and then you are not precepted. What is going on?Ah! So polite!Let me tell you, I’m leaving this time, maybe you won’t have the opportunity to ask, because next year you will stop chanting the Buddha, and next year you will stop chanting the Buddha for three or five years. I will die as soon as I get news. Even if I want to come, I can’t come. Up.Any cause and condition are millions of catastrophes, and no cause and condition of any size are easy to be fulfilled!It's not a man-made power, just like I just said, I don't know that I can come here, and I don't know that it's so extraordinary when I'm here. This is not man-made controllable.So we have to grasp the present, and only the present is real, and only the present can let us dominate.Therefore, I have said so much to you, not just forging a bond with you, but hoping that you can be used right now.

Studying Buddhism doesn't make you listen to a lot of things, then consider whether I understand or not, and then consider whether to do it.Wow! The impermanence comes, black and white impermanence comes without waiting for your consideration, right?It should be you who listen to a sentence and do it right away. Even if you listen to a sentence, you just do it like this. You will be able to use it for the rest of your life. This is the correct way to practice.The Buddha taught us to pay equal attention to the solution and practice. Of course, the solution should be first, and you have to know what you are cultivating.Normally speaking, chanting Buddhism is actually very special. Even if you don’t understand it, you can do it if people tell you to recite Buddhism.However, we must pay equal attention to the solution. After we know the method, we will do it right away. If we don't learn a lot and then start to prepare to do it, that's all wrong!That is not a practitioner!You have been prepared to listen a lot! I'm afraid of your indigestion!Really, I ask you to eat a lot of nutrients, and then you do not exercise, you do not digest, then the more you eat, the more toxins accumulate, the worse.So listening to the scriptures and teachings is very good. If you often have karma and systematically study the teachings, it is of course very good, but at the same time you must cooperate with this profession.This solution is like two feet. The right foot is the solution and the left foot is the solution. If you keep walking with the right foot, don't you just jump and walk?This is abnormal, and must be paralleled at the same time, but the focus is on the individual's roots and abilities, this does not matter, especially the professionalism is more important.

Especially if we chant the Buddha, even if you don't understand it, it doesn't matter. As long as you are honestly and stupidly chanting Buddha, worshiping Buddha, or listening to the scriptures, it doesn't matter if you don't understand it. It's also a great merit to come to join in.So don’t have some wrong ideas to say, oops! There is another problem. Ordinary people are often those who didn’t raise their hands just now. There may be this kind of situation, that is, they are afraid of hard work and feel that keeping the precepts is very hard. This one doesn’t work, that one doesn’t work. I think: Oh! Anyway, it’s just fine, it’s fine if you can die.

Here I also want to explain to you that, in fact, keeping the precepts is very liberating for us, it is not hard at all, and it can make you happy.It is very hard to hold on, and it feels like a bondage. It is our wrong concept and wrong method.For example, we talk about the four majesty from the inside, we often hear "three thousand majesty and XNUMX meticulous actions" in Buddhism. This is a general precept. This three thousand majestic and XNUMX meticulous actions starts from the four majestic instruments. Come.What is Siweiyi?Walking, standing, sitting and lying: Walking like the wind, sitting like a clock, lying like a bow, lying auspicious, then, then what?Standing as pine.This is the most basic, so we should learn this as well, the prestige ring!Is it difficult to learn this?Does it make you feel bound?Surely not, it's very simple. Just stand better and look better. Is it good for your body if you stand firm?And people look at you, wow! This looks righteous.Look at someone who has a hump like this! I sacrifice a little bit of my image. Does this look good?At first glance, it is troublesome.

Then we learn the precepts to teach you these details. First of all, from life, we dress and eat, walk, live, sit, and lie. These precepts teach us. This is free!You go to learn some international etiquette, it will cost a lot of money!You may not learn well yet, but you also learn in a secular way, very contrived.But our Buddhism is from the heart from the inside out, naturally showing a kind of tolerance!You must learn this, you must learn the majestic precepts, you must learn it in Buddhism, the most solemn.You see, standing like a pine, this is very simple to learn, everyone can learn, and the old Bodhisattva can learn too.It’s more difficult to sleep in auspicious sleeping, but it can be done. Anyway, I don’t know which way to turn when I wake up, but it is good for our stomach and intestines. If we sleep in auspicious sleeping, we sleep on the right side, yes. Our digestive system helps.Then, like we usually have to sit still, sitting like a clock, we must be very stable and very stable.Standing like a pine, this pine, like a pine tree, is very tall and straight, so when you close your chin, it feels as if there is something hanging on your head, and you pull it up, you will naturally stand up, and then your shoulders will relax.Isn't it simple?Will not be bound!And it makes you feel that after you learn it, it makes you feel relieved immediately.So this precept is not necessarily difficult to learn. In fact, the precepts are very simple.

Including me three years ago, relying on our monk Guoqing and lawyer Guoqing, we have this bhikshuni ordination for monks, and there are tenfold and forty-eight light Brahma net sutras, this must be memorized!According to the monk's standards, all of them have to be memorized, so he must memorize them.Then I can only promise to memorize the "Vatican Net Sutra" first, because it seems to be difficult, wow! There are so many precepts!It’s the same idea as yours, but the standard is higher, and there are more precepts, so there will be this kind of rejection, because time is not enough! Then I am afraid that I will be too tired to learn, and there is always a kind of inertia. Then there may be times when the time is not enough, and so on, there are always some reasons.However, when the monk encouraged me, he downplayed it very lightly. He said that it is actually very simple, that is, it is very simple, you just have to learn it.I am also worried that I will not be able to learn well, because we have not studied this in depth and in detail in the past, because we have to memorize first, and every commandment must be memorized!

Our monks are in the Sangha, and these vows are used in daily life, and we have not specially studied it. When we think of memorizing it, it is actually very natural to use it. We are already keeping the vows, and we don’t feel that, But it would be very difficult to memorize it deliberately.Of course you have to learn the precepts, you don't have to memorize it. We are a monk and the standard of monks is extremely high.But the key point is that it's not that difficult in fact. All these precepts are used in life, to make your life more regular, healthier, and more solemn.For example, we eat, we eat, this "dragon throws beads, phoenix nods", how to hold the chopsticks, bring it closer to the side.Some kids just eat like this here. It's ugly, right?Chopsticks, the "phoenix nodded" is so far away, the bowl is held like this, here is empty, it seems that there is a pearl here, is this very solemn?You can take it like this at home. You can use this as soon as you learn it. Is it difficult?Did you restrain you?Nothing!

(XNUMX) Practicing offerings can break the habit of greed

Then you say: Well, the most difficult thing is to kill the thief.Oh, I can’t be vegetarian!I like to eat meat!I can't live without some meat.Eh! If you can't live, then you still want to die. Isn't that fake?We just talked about that principle.So, of course, this habit is sometimes difficult to change at the beginning, but if you don't even have the will to do it, it is really dangerous, and you may not have your share in your death.You can't be unwilling to try. As for doing more and less, and to what extent, let the flow take its course. No one will force you to do what you want.Like the students on my Internet, when they came out, they disrespect the three treasures, disrespect the three treasures, tribute to the high and I am slow, and they still ask me to debate. I will put him in silence for half a year when they argue, and they dare not come to debate, or they will drop out of school. Two, everyone is behaved.At the beginning, this habit was very serious, but after the training, most of the fellow practitioners now stop eating for lunch, because the monk told me not to eat for lunch, so I told them not to eat for lunch.Because we used to be ordained ordained, it means that novices had to hold lunch at the beginning. We didn’t eat after lunch. Because of a bad stomach, we used to have a lot of pressure to teach scriptures, so we had stomach ulcers, pressure ulcers, not bacterial ones. , So it was interrupted.When you encounter a monk, the monk must hold me.After holding it, it is really easy and there are methods.I have come here, and then I can have some experience to share with you.Then I ask my students to hold noon. If you don’t succeed, then forget it, but you must try.

Chiwu is not the patent of monks, monks are not more powerful, it's just that the Taoism and the aspirations are different, and the difference is here.If you are willing to do it, you can also do it very well.Then don't set the time for precepts at noon so rigid, because it will be a lot of inconvenience, and you will definitely find obstacles, which I have mentioned in the CD.It’s just your heart that people like them can adapt in two or three days. Like me, I have adapted in two or three days, and then soon I don’t want to eat at all, and it won’t cause...Of course one There is a way to avoid some temptations at first. This must be done. Then you have to do your homework, drink plenty of water, and your stomach growls. You should drink plenty of water as soon as you are not hungry, and then you feel very comfortable physically and mentally.In fact, it is very comfortable. Keeping the precepts will make our body and mind very peaceful and healthy.Do you want to be healthy? (Public answer: Yes) Yes, do you want to be free? (Public answer: yes) Don’t wait until you die, we need it now, right?Now there are only two ways, one to keep the precepts and the other to recite the Buddha. If you don't do it, you won't get it.If you don’t want such a good free Agatha medicine, you have to go to a doctor and take those western medicines with side effects. Isn’t this a problem?There is a problem with this brain, right?We all beings are fools!Obviously knowing that foolishness will continue to do it, then you will listen to the scriptures for nothing!You should change as soon as you hear it. Unless you don't agree with it, this is practice, so it's not difficult to benefit from practice, it's very simple.

Look at Buddha Shakyamuni. When he was a bodhisattva, he often cited such examples in the scriptures. He just needs to be casual, and he hears one or four verses, and he will use it, and he will be his servant when he makes a wish all his life. , Just serve the teacher!How much does he need?You see how much money and time we have spent learning to provide you with so much guidance on this teaching method. Some people have used it for XNUMX or XNUMX years. No, this blessing has really lost a lot, but it has not been used at all. ! This is not strange!I’m on tour in Malaysia, and many presidents don’t have three refuges! This is horrible!Don't say that there are no five precepts, no three refuges, then you are simply coming in, I didn't say who.Like me, I’m less polite. I also told my students that some people didn’t take refuge. I said that you are stealing the Dharma. Strictly speaking, you are stealing the Dharma. You steal the Dharma from Buddhism, although Buddhism doesn’t follow. You ask, everything is unconditional, but from our own standpoint, I came in secretly to learn.

What is three refuge?Just like when we go to class, we need to sign up first!You go to a school, do you want to sign up?This is a rule. If you don't sign up, you will sneak in and go to class if you don't sign up. Although no one will catch you, no one will chase you, but for our side, virtue is at a disadvantage.Because ordinary people don't have any moral education, which is generally the case now. He doesn't think that anyway, you are free and you have no hard and fast rules, so this part will not be considered.Then I said it very seriously, but it is also a fact!I said you were a thief.This way everyone will raise this vigilance, which is indeed the case.You don’t have respect or sincerity. You just ask you to do a ritual and take refuge. You don’t want to. Then you say that you want to practice truly and get any benefits from Buddhism. That’s absolutely impossible.It's just that there is no basis for this respect. Our Master Yinguang also said, "If you are sincere, you will get a profit; if you are very sincere, you will get a lot of profit." Well!Every Scripture starts from this foundation.So there is no real implementation. From the three conversions to the five precepts, from the cultivation of blessings and wisdom, everything is fake.

The fellow practitioners on the Internet were the worst hit by me in the first year, and I spoke a lot. I said that you people are really shameless, and I scolded so badly.We cursed behind closed doors. We didn’t have a dime for more than a year, because we were free anyway, and we didn’t have alms. The CD we got together did not have an account, everything was innocent and clean. of.If you send the offering, I will consider it first. I don’t want too much. I’m too tired and don’t have time to deal with it.Because that is because I closed the door, I was rude to the students around me, knowing how to fight, I can’t run away, I said that you people are really shameless, you don’t have a dime to support, you say you practice , What are you going to fix?You Fuhui, Fuhui wants double repairs!right?You have to measure your abilities, you see, I want to guide them to see how greedy they are, how self-deceiving they are, right?You keep saying that you want to practice, to be a buddhist disciple, and you have to practice both blessing and wisdom. For one year, you must check in to class every day, and you are very serious, because everyone likes to come to class, all of them spontaneously, and soaking in there almost all day. , Sometimes it’s too much. My husband came to me to settle the account and said to return my wife to me. There are all kinds of things. Then I will persuade his wife to take good care of the family as soon as possible.To this extent, they turned out to be the same.

But those people are very good, I started, I have all kinds of great drinks, after teaching, eh, immediately turn around.What is it like? They didn't even see their own face, the three poisons of greed, anger, and ignorance, especially this kind of greed!They weren't unwilling to do it, but they didn't expect it at all.And its internship is to save money, right?This is the habit of saving greed.Because I am a guide! I have to let you get the true blessings and wisdom, so I have a stand, I can’t teach if I don’t. Of course, this is taught behind closed doors, and most people don’t dare to be direct. Money, if you want other people to support, then our misunderstanding is too big. In fact, this is very risky, this is a strong medicine, but everyone has gotten a big change.Up to now, forty or fifty people, we have no such chance of leaving, and there are a few who have been dropped out of school.

Then we have to learn all this, then we have to... Later, it is because everyone has this habit, which is common, but the motivation is also very motivated. You can see that we have learned that it is a few great protectors who are protecting these fellow practitioners.Everyone must be vigilant! You must know how to learn, don't look at others to do great charity, and enjoy your own stupid blessings, then you are done!After you have finished enjoying your blessings, you will be in trouble!is not it?Especially the fellow practitioners we learned have the greatest benefit.Look at our rules when we go to the jungle. In the first three years, we have to be busy from morning to night when we are clean people and white clothes!You don’t even have a lunch break. You have to keep doing good fortune. Always, that’s called Xiufu.The fellow practitioners we learn come to enjoy the blessings. You see, this is our merit. But we should also be alert to whether we really practice.The cause of our cultivation, the future retribution is our own!If you don’t cultivate, there will be no rewards, and you will lose your blessings. Of course, others will be happy to provide for them, and the blessings will be repaired away, but we are losing blessings!So we must do our best.

In the end, there is no way, because most people are very skinny. You know, I started to stipulate that every month is fixed, and there must be basic blessing homework. We call it homework. These standards are not many and not high. Individuals can do it, very low.But it is to let you develop a habit, let you give up.There are many such cases in this scripture!Buddha Shakyamuni, in order to break a person’s greed and greed, he deliberately asked him to donate. The result was that he couldn’t stretch out his hand, and he couldn’t stretch out his hand. It’s terrible. The habit is so severe. This level!I also saw these students live to show me, because I don't know how to be like this at all, so I can't imagine there are so many such people.Later they got used to it, and slowly did it with joy. This is a homework. It's not that you donate more and donate less. We have the money to contribute more and more. This is to cultivate blessings, and it is the duty of a layman.

Our four disciples, the monks are responsible for spreading the Dharma and donating the Dharma, and did not collect tuition from you! Unlike the teacher, I still have a salary in school, right?Then the lay family is to do wealth, internal and external wealth, each of us has a way to cultivate blessings, this is the double cultivation of blessing and wisdom!This is not only a Buddha disciple, a person who recites the Buddha, but any Buddha disciples of all sects and sects should do it. No one can be an exception. This is true practice. You must cultivate here, from these small places, from keeping the precepts, and from After the blessing begins, after listening, we must start planning.The Blessed One also told us that as a family member, we are the first to take good care of our family, and then we will take care of our careers, and leave a working capital fund. The remaining sum is to plan to protect the Three Jewels. This is our family Buddha disciple. Duty.Look at our students. Basically, I rarely accept some support, because some people, whether they want me to take over as the abbot, or send them to the abode, I all refund them. I don’t dare to ask for too much money, and I don’t have time. management.But they will accept some small offerings, and let them take it as a homework to save greed and cultivate blessings. To develop this habit, this is real practice!

What we don’t need, I don’t need it myself, I eat two meals a day, and then one piece of clothing can be worn for more than ten years!Wow, the coolest one is more than ten years old. It is very thin and thin. I like to wear it the most.If you really want to spend money, there is no place to spend it, as the old monk said, the old monk's blessing is too great, and our little mage has already felt that there is no place to spend money.Therefore, if your respectful heart and your motives are wrong, I won't accept your support because it hurts you to create karma!I have to help you plan! Right?If the money is not used well, we still have to learn the cause and effect!Therefore, you protect the Three Jewels in Buddhism. On the one hand, you are doing your duty, and the duties and obligations of lay Buddhist disciples. On the other hand, the Three Jewels will go around for you and then make offerings to the ten directions for you. You see that this benefits a lot. what!is not it?This interest has been rolling! Merit and wealth have been rolling! It is compound interest!You know compound interest! That one gets bigger and bigger like a snowball.

(XNUMX) Smart people must know how to fix the cause as soon as possible

Smart people must know how to cultivate causes as early as possible, and don’t just want to say, anyway, I am a good child of Amitabha, and everything is taken care of by Amitabha. This is not wrong. We also feel very happy and at ease. This is very good, and it can be taken for granted, because we are really children of Amitabha Buddha. He is willing to give us the inheritance unconditionally. It doesn't matter, we have this blessing.But while enjoying this blessing, if we still have spare capacity, we should also do our duty as a disciple of the Buddha, and then we try our best to keep the precepts, recite the Buddha, and improve ourselves, so that we will be more free and happy now , Then there are many benefits, why don't we?is not it?On the contrary, you waste your time, maybe you go to create a karma again, accidentally get lost again, and you can't come back. That is dangerous!If you are not diligent, you will easily fall.There is no unmoving phenomenon in this world. It is always moving, either going up or down, so if we don't go up, it's very dangerous and we will go down.So diligence is also to protect us. As for how diligent you are, you decide for yourself.

Why students like us can’t run, because they don’t have any pressure, how do you like to practice, you have achieved a basic standard, I set a very low order, the order is very low, just do the basics. As a result, everyone naturally likes to come, so I am more diligent than me.Because I have a lot of things, and I don't always watch them when I have time.So after you do it, you will find that your natural good habits, through learning precepts, after taking precepts, learning precepts and keeping precepts, your life, work and rest will become more and more normal, and then your body and mind will become more and more normal. Cool, more and more happy.This! You will naturally like to practice precepts and recite the Buddha.What a wonderful state this is!It is worth pursuing.

Can the old Bodhisattva understand?Willing to listen?Do you understand Chinese?All understand! Fortunately, no one snored yet.Most of my fellow practitioners are forming dharma bonds. Every fellow practitioner is very generous, and his eyes are wide open.Although I can't speak well, I try my best to make it useful for everyone. No one can't understand Chinese, right?Can any of you understand Hokkien?Those who listen to Hokkien dialect, no, listen to Chinese. That’s OK, it’s okay.If you don’t understand it, it’s okay to sleep. It will wake you up later.

There is a mage that is very fun! He said that once he was preaching, and he was talking because some of the names were very boring. It is inevitable that there are a lot of people in their fields in the mainland, and he fell asleep when he heard it. , And then fell asleep and snorted, snorted and drooled, and then slept soundly.When the mage saw it, he wanted to talk about the most exciting places and help him build confidence in his rebirth. It is not good not to wake him up at this time, so he would wake him up immediately, silently, and wake him up.As a result, this person, you know that people from the mainland are actually very eloquent. Any farmer in the country is very eloquent. When he wakes up, wow, that reaction is really quick: wow, Master, you are so good!Wow, big liar.Wow, it's only a second, the response is so fast, the mage was scared, eh! I spoke so well, what's the good point?Test him right away, and then he said very smoothly. He said: No! Because you just said so well, so I fell asleep without knowing it.He meant that before he fell asleep, he felt very comfortable listening to it, and what he said was good!Of course he was blank during the time he fell asleep, but he also connected it like this.Always come to listen to the scriptures, and they can plant good roots.In fact, when we fell asleep, the Alaya Consciousness was still active and still impressed.This benefit will come out unconsciously when you come.Sometimes in a dream, sometimes when you are walking, staying, sitting, or lying down, suddenly a thought comes out, and that may be what you put in when you are dozing off.So coming to doze off has merit, it must be better than you at home, and our venue is so good, and there are air-conditioning, air-conditioning, it is really a big blessing for everyone.

In our current Dharma end period, I have seen many places, both at home and abroad, it is very difficult for monks to find a place where they can do the Dao with peace of mind.Logically speaking, the blessings of monks are greater! Right?You can concentrate on your practice, and of course be supported by the ten directions! This is what the Buddha made!As long as you are willing to keep the precepts, you put aside all your worldly things, and then shave your hair, then you are eligible to be supported by the Three Jewels, and then do the Tao with all your heart.But even if it is such a person, a monk, it is very difficult for you to find a place where you can do the Dao with peace of mind, let alone we recite the Buddha!Buddhism chanting is generally speaking of listening to the scriptures. There are no other legal affairs, and there are no necessary legal affairs. Such places are even harder to find.It is really the dojo that supports our practice, and it is even more difficult for monks to find it.So your blessing is bigger than that of monks, here, this is really oh!Some people don't understand, so I will explain the current situation to you by the way.Some people really don’t know the blessings in the blessings, and they can’t feel as happy as they are. So I explained to you that you know, wow! It turns out that I’m in such a situation now, you are grateful, that cherish fate That kind of mind will arise, and you will be more filled with Dharma joy every day.

(XNUMX) One who has received the bodhisattva vow is truly as a Buddha

What time is it now?We're going to talk to five o'clock! Five o'clock forty-five, there are only fifteen minutes.Okay, so if there are any questions for our fellow practitioners, we can interrupt it.Are there any questions to ask?Yes, yes, then... Is there a microphone?

(People: I would like to ask, you just mentioned the bodhisattva vows. I just received the three conversions and the five vows this year. Can I receive the bodhisattva vows?) Answer: What are you talking about?Have you received the three conversions and five precepts? (VW: I just received it.) Answer: Just received the three conversions and the five precepts? (Popular: Three conversions and five precepts. I just wanted to receive the bodhisattva vows.) Answer: Yes, of course, you can directly accept the bodhisattva vows from the beginning. (VW: Can't do it!) Answer: No one wants you to do it!The crowd laughed.We just want you to learn!right? (Public: Because I am stupid now! I'm afraid I can't remember!) Answer: The stupid the better!The stupid the person, the more obedient.

For the forty or fifty fellow practitioners in our class, please sit down, oh! The most difficult one to teach is the Ph.D. There are several Ph.Ds. If there is nothing to do, I want to debate with me, so I told her to shut up because there is no time.Fortunately, they all know that I am strong and not verbose. If you don't shut up, you will be silent for half a year, or you will drop out of school.These talents are troublesome. When you talk about the truth, she feels reasonable, so she is willing to obey, wow! How much energy does it take?Then you think you are stupid, so you don't dare to make any mistakes, you can learn as much as you want. (Volkswagen: I will not blame.) Answer: Yes! I think you will not blame!So no problem!

I myself received the bodhisattva vows when I was foolish in the first year of studying Buddhism. (Public: Because I told you the same thing, those who are confused have received the three conversions and the five precepts) Answer: Then you just keep the precepts in a confused manner, don't you?Then the testimony was muddled. (Public: I am very grateful if you can achieve results.) Answer: Yes, you will get as many results as you cultivate. If you truly believe in cause and effect, this is very simple, and the old lady understands it. In fact, they are sometimes very With good roots, we believe in cause and effect more deeply than we are. (Public: I’m very convinced.) Answer: Yes! On the contrary, many young people nowadays lack moral education since childhood and have never experienced hardship. If they care about cause and effect, they can’t feel it when you talk to him. That's really too heavy a karma, and it's hard to teach, so keeping the precepts depends on the individual's roots.

It’s fine if you think you want to keep the five precepts, you can, if you want to take the bodhisattva precepts at the same time, it’s okay at all.Because the bodhisattva vows are to help you learn more vows. Each vow teaches you how to maintain it. Then if you learn one, you can keep one, and then if you don’t do it well, if you find that this one is not done, you should confess as soon as possible. There are ways to repent. After you take the precepts, start to learn the precepts! We want to listen to the precepts!Then we have to chant the precepts again in half a month and half a month! Don’t we all have to chant now?Now you have to recite once every half month. This is a basic homework, and it's very simple! Then you can listen to the vows when you have time. You learn one vow. Who can hold this vow to reach Consummation?Become a Buddha.Are you saying that you have to wait until you become a Buddha to learn the precepts? That is too exaggerated!The problem is that the bodhisattva vow is the necessary way to become a Buddha. If you have not received the bodhisattva vow, you cannot become a Buddha, right?So you have to wait until you become a Buddha to take the precepts and then learn the precepts. That's impossible! This is theoretically problematic.If you want to become a Buddha, you must receive the bodhisattva vow, especially the "Buddhist Net Sutra" is different from the bodhisattva vows at home. It is a higher level. It is a vow to be held at home through a monk. It is a vow to become a Buddha, the Mahayana vow.

Taking the Bodhisattva ordination is truly as a Buddha. The Buddha's son, the burden of Tathagata family business, including the layman, can promote the righteousness. You receive the Bodhisattva ordination. Like our President Chen, there is a teacher on it. We are the old master of Jingkong, because we must have, Ascendance to the throne of the lay person, to the throne in white clothes, in fact, we do not encourage you, we encourage you to become a monk! That's the best. It is really immature. If you don’t have this monk to live in the world, then you yourself have received the Bodhisattva ordination. If you have considerable virtue and Taoism, then there is also this elder, great virtue, ordained monks to give you affirmation. If you are dependent and have a mentor, then you can assist the monk to attract sentient beings on one side.It does not mean that we are educating sentient beings, but that we are assisting the Three Jewels to attract sentient beings into Buddhism. This is okay.So the bodhisattva vows are very special. It is a pity that you are not affected. If you do, your status will be different even if you do not do well!

The status of your five precepts and the bodhisattva precepts is quite different!That felt ring body is also different.But you must know that you can’t misunderstand. Oh, I am a Bodhisattva now. I have a responsibility. I hope that I have to learn this and learn slowly and learn like a Bodhisattva. Don’t say that I am ordained, I am a Bodhisattva. , And then I can stand in front of a man's clothes, just to show off this identity, then it’s not possible, this concept is not possible.Most people don't understand, sometimes there will be that kind of slowness.But if we have learned the vows and know this concept, we have to turn it around. After we have the identity of the bodhisattva vow, we will have a greater confidence and commitment in our hearts! I am not doing well now, but I have to work hard to learn to be a bodhisattva. This is to develop bodhicitta!

When we recite the Buddha, look at the three sutras of our Pure Land. The main three sutras have all told us about the need to develop bodhicitta.Buddha chanting does not develop bodhicitta. Basically, it does not correspond to the world of bliss. You are not used to living there. Everyone is benefiting sentient beings. You are the only one who cares about others, and you are also incompatible with it.Then you should go to the southern country to cultivate the Hinayana, because everyone is the same, and people won't think you are weird.There is nothing right or wrong, each has its own destiny.So if you want to be a Buddhist chanter, you must first develop bodhicitta. How do you implement bodhicitta?You have to start by taking the bodhisattva vows and learn vows, otherwise how do you become a bodhisattva?What do you do, right?Bodhisattva implements one by one according to this standard of bodhisattva vows. Do you understand that?

Are you going to suffer? (Popular: To accept.) To accept, well, congratulations!We have another Bodhisattva! It seems that I am doing business and selling.I'm just doing my part and speaking clearly, the decision is yours.Okay, please speak. (Public: Master is compassionate, can you tell us more about the knowledge of the discipline. Amitabha.) Answer: Okay, please sit down.Ring body, this thing is invisible, there is no way to express it in words, but we can feel it in our hearts.Then we will guide you to visualize the process of obtaining the ring.Then I feel that I get a reaction from the ring, that is, there seems to be a kind of heat flow in my heart, my whole body is unobstructed, and my physiology will respond! Once our mood changes, our physiology will also respond.This ring will make us feel that there is a pure warm current in our hearts.Just like when we ordained monks are guiding, he also guides us to visualize in this way.Whether we are close to the Buddha's power or the Buddha's light, it can illuminate our whole body, and our karma can be eliminated.Then the biggest difference is that you will feel that you are full of vitality, full of energy.

Usually this is very lazy, because there is no goal in life, this one is only for oneself, that one has no energy.I only think about myself every day, that person is troubled, and is always greedy for my shortcomings.But if we want to be sentient beings, and we really feel that there is a bodhichitta in the precepts, then you just want to think about how to benefit sentient beings. That energy is very abundant.Even if we, oops! Today we are so tired and lack of sleep, no matter what, we still feel, eh! The spirit in our heart, the righteousness! It is always there.Of course, you don't know if you fall asleep. Once you wake up, even if you are tired, you will still feel that your inner strength is very strong.Because we have a sense of mission! We want to be bodhisattvas, and we still have a lot to learn and do.

This is where you feel the guilt, the difference between those who have guilt and those without guilt. This is the difference in a state of your heart, and then you will feel that your heart is particularly pure.Although we still have greed, hatred, ignorance, but through the blessing of the Three Jewels, it is equal to his power, so he must get the precepts from the monk. We must have the precepts taught by the monk. This monk owns the precepts. If the virtuous virtue is very pure, then you are by his side and he is teaching you the process of rituals. You can feel his magnetic field, the magnetic field he emits, it is so peaceful and pure.When you feel this kind of feeling, what you feel is a form of the precept, so you must follow the precept monk, and follow the precept monk to accept it. This is the intention.

Of course, there are exceptions. It is also stated in the vows that you can worship and repent yourself, and you can feel the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas to teach you the bodhisattva vows.But basically we can’t do this, so ordinary people, we are monks from the precepts, he already has the person of the precepts, when he comes to teach you, you can feel it in the process, intuitively feel it , The kind of pure magnetic field he exudes.Do you understand magnetic field well? Right?Then during that process, there is no way to describe this thing, you just feel it with your heart, and feel it with respect.The ring monk must be full of respect, we are like a child, we are dedicated to respect, receive the ring body, receive, follow the guidance of the ring monk, visualize, and then this process does not take long, but you As long as you concentrate on listening, believing and accepting, the precepts will be obtained right away, which is only a moment, not very complicated.

If you are not paying attention to listening to the monk talking, chatting next to you, and still wanting to do it! What are you doing! Ah, this precept is passed! If you don’t know the situation, then of course you won’t get the precept.This process is not long, just a few minutes.Leading a simple ceremony is mainly based on heart initiation!We use this respectful heart to listen, and then go for a guide, and you will naturally enter that state. There is nothing mysterious, there is nothing mysterious, very practical, but the feeling is also very real and real.You will feel that there is a big difference between taking precepts and not taking precepts. You are a different person. Hey, you are not a person! You are a Bodhisattva! It's not the same anymore!So you can really ask for acceptance. If you don't hold it well, you think...Oh, after a while, you won't hold it well. Then you can increase the vows and feel the blessing again. It doesn't matter.

The bodhisattva vows are for the future. It is continuous. Once you plant this Mahayana Bodhi seed and follow you from life to life, you will not lose it.This is different from the precepts of the sound and hearing, which only lasts for this life, so this is a very special precept. In other words, you are lost in the next life, and you have fallen into the third painting, but the seeds of your bodhisattva are still there. Now, it will help you awaken your bodhisattva's nature when a cause is mature, eh! You are saved again.This benefit is too much, so don't worry about your holding it badly, but worry about you missing this opportunity! This is what we have to worry about.Then there are some monks who just persuade you, it doesn't matter, you take your time, take the five precepts and the bodhisattva precepts slowly.He persuades from another angle, which is also possible, that is, if you are under pressure, of course you should not force it, right?If you understand all of our concepts, then you are willing to take the precepts happily, then of course it is even more extraordinary!So understand!

Okay, then we are almost out of time, and that's all for today's study.I would also like to wish everyone here that this year's precepts will be complete and victorious, Amitabha.

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Respectful excerpts from disciple Yishan (approved by Master Renjing)