- Demonstration
- Caution Video
- Cadence Lecture
- Buddhist etiquette
- Follow the teacher to follow the "Buddha Disciple Regulations"
- "Brahma Net Sutra Bodhisattva Precepts"
- Eight fast
- Life Precepts of Buddhism
- The learning experience of the Vatican Internet Scriptures Specialist Class and Master's Comment
- Notes on Buddhism etiquette and life precepts
- Four disciples must learn etiquette and rules
- A Brief Talk on the Ordination of Lay Bodhisattva or Bhikkhuni
- Sharing the experience of learning precepts and precepts in Los Angeles, USA in 2015
- Notes on Eight Passes Fast
- In 2016, Taitung Fuxian closed the house and taught the eight precepts
- In 2016, Taitung Fuxian closed the house to teach eight fasts rituals and teachings
- In 2016, Taitung Fuxian closed the house and taught the eight fasts-assign deacons and lectures on the registration day
- In 2016, Taitung Fuxian passed the eight precepts to the house-experience of fellow initiates
- In 2016, Puxian Guan in Taitung taught the Eight Passes of the Fast-Visiting Bhikkhu and Mao Peng during the Eight Passes of the Fast
- In 2018, Chaozhou Shi'ai Lecture Hall taught the Eight Precepts
- In 2016, Taitung Fuxian closed the house and taught the eight precepts
- The correct concept of taking precepts and how to feel the superior precepts
First round
(XNUMX) Sincerely make a wish to pray for the blessings of the Three Treasures (this time, the drafting master has not yet set the school, if there is a typo, please report the error, and the merits are boundless!)
Good afternoon, everyone, great virtues and fellow practitioners, Amitabha!
Today we are the first class to teach Buddhism etiquette and life precepts.
The fellow initiates who came today have some new classmates and some old faces.On Sundays, you may have some arrangements, where to go for a holiday, it’s not easy to be satisfied, there may be some family gatherings...and so on, so everyone who can come to class today is a very blessed person. Today’s one If you count two hundred, one person can be used as two hundred people. It's really a treasure!These listeners in Canada, just like listening to our master abbot, are really rare treasures, so to have this cause and condition really needs blessings.Some people are mature and want to learn Buddhism with their own good roots, but they are too busy at work or some family responsibilities make us involuntarily, so that we can truly have a karma and we are willing to learn. It is indeed not easy to have a lot of karma, let alone Our fellow practitioners who immigrate to Canada are relatively few, and there are relatively few Chinese, so you are really treasures, we are the three treasures, and you are also treasures.
Yesterday, some fellow practitioners also went to the Zhonghua Temple to participate in joint meditation. Yesterday it was extraordinary.Yesterday was our first Saturday Pure Land Dharma lecture. The training time was two hours, and the lecture time was one and a half hours. Finally, we also took everyone to pray for half an hour.I saw that many fellow practitioners passed the pass. The so-called pass means that our standard is to cry, praying is to cry, and to take everyone out of karma. I heard that many fellow practitioners are very sensitive, and then cry harder. The higher the score, the stronger the induction, because this is a kind of moving, and this is not sad, because I am too experienced, I will cry most.We are taking precepts. Last time I mentioned that we took precepts for a month and a half, and we prayed for two hours every day. I cried from beginning to end, but the kind of crying is not burdensome in my heart. It is like detoxification. To eliminate our inner worries and karma, so I said I would ask you to bring a handkerchief, and then we have to cry for our standards to be considered qualified.
Yesterday, everyone’s performance was pretty good. It shows that our fellow practitioners here really have good roots, but the predestined relationship is relatively poor, which means that the predestined relationship is relatively poor. On the one hand, you may not have enough time on the one hand, and on the other hand, you are spreading the Fa. The Master of the Kingdom is not so often able to meet this predestined condition. It takes us a dozen or so hours to fly from Taiwan to a plane, so this predestined condition is not easy to be satisfied.If you say that the fate is better, then you should also eliminate some difficulties yourself, you have to take care of this!If you really make this wish, make this wish in your heart, and if you have this wish, the bodhisattva will arrange the cause and fate for you. This is the feeling of sentient beings, and the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas should respond.So I took a look at the fellow practitioners here and found that the root of goodness is really good, but the predestined condition is not very good, there are still many obstacles, and the good predestined condition is not very sufficient.
This is that our fellow practitioners have to make a vow. From our heart, we pray for the Three Jewels and make a vow, and then this cause and condition will gradually be fulfilled.If this is the case, it will help, and learning is easy to achieve. Otherwise, in this saha world, it is really going forward and backward, and finally a little moved. This bodhichitta has begun to sprout a little bit, but after two days, oh!What's at home!Or the former kinsmen and creditors came forward again, and the devil in my heart has also accumulated a lot since the beginning of the robbery, so I took another nine steps at once, and finally took one step further and then took another nine steps. This is It is a common phenomenon, so we have to make our own minds, we have to pray for the blessings of the Three Jewels, and feel better to help us achieve Dao Karma.
The so-called seeking method is a requirement!Do we have the mentality of seeking?If you don’t ask, there is no inductionAll sentient beings have feelings. The so-called feeling is to pray with sincerity, and pray for you to be able to feel the response, the response and response of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.Many people now have no help, because they have not prayed or made a vow. Why?He waits for someone to come to the door, like a tutoring school teacher, and then he will coax you a bit, and then he will often speak nice things in the back all day long.Most people are not very good at learning, why?If there are many teachers and few students, it will naturally have this trend. It seems that the audience will benefit from it, but it is actually very dangerous. You will lose the attitude of seeking the Fa. You don’t know how to cherish it, and you will not be proactive. Then you In this case, it's difficult to generate sensitivity and follow the Taoist mind, so of course!These gradually real good aids will become less and less, which is not a good thing.
Just like our fellow practitioners here, all of them are treasures!It seems that everyone needs to be taken care of carefully, and I am afraid that if I am not careful... it finally sprouted, and immediately withered again.But generally speaking, it looks like this, but in fact, in our way, you teach a child like you teach a child. You teach a child like the one-child policy in mainland China. Everyone is treated like a baby. Of course, we have to be very careful. You can take care of him and nurture him, but you can’t just follow and pet him, this will not have good results, so the more you need to tune, the more you need to tune, you can truly achieve. If you want to admire, you must admire. Repairs must be repaired. We are not familiar with it now, so we dare not repair it with you. If we wait for repairs, we will run away. There is no one who has come to solemnly, so that won't work.But if someone really teaches you, it means that you are a magic weapon, that you are truly a blessed person, and that you will definitely grow up. If someone dares to talk about you, especially the teacher, or your parents, or Elders!The same is true for those who are willing to train us, so we must be able to be taught. This kind of person is really the most blessed.
Yesterday we had a special lecture on Pure Land at Zhonghua Temple. We temporarily changed it to "Amitabha Buddha's Forty-Eigh Vows." Some fellow practitioners were a little disappointed. Although the "Forty-eight Vows" was very good, he came to listen specifically for this topic. Yes, so someone raised such a situation, so I will also explain here by the way. In fact, the "Forty-Eigh Vows" is the most important. We also talk about the Pure Land Method, but the content of this topic will actually be brought into the "Forty-Eight Vows." Generally speaking, it is the same, but the term is different.And the other thing is, if it happens that the topic of our announcement this time has something you are particularly interested in and you need to answer, we will arrange a half-hour time on Sunday. You can also directly ask questions about your doubts. I I can answer it with you as much as possible, so although yesterday’s topic we talked about was "forty-eight wishes", we changed it to "forty-eight wishes" to be more in-depth, and then it also included the content of this topic.
This cause and condition can be said to be better, so it is also to observe a requirement of our fellow practitioners and think that everyone should work harder on this core and most important part.Because in fact, all the Dharma is based on the "forty-eight vows", and the topics we do in the Pure Land Method are all developed from this "forty-eight vows." Then we will come back to focus on this focus on firepower, and put it on the root. Drill deep, if you learn this, you can truly become a systematic concept of your own. You are easier to become enlightened, and it is also easier to become enlightened in the Pure Land Method.For example, if we are in school, if we finish a textbook systematically, then you have a very complete concept of the scope of this textbook, right?
Then if you spend the same time but you go outside to listen to the lecture, you listen a little bit here and a little bit there, wow!It seems that I have listened to many celebrity lectures. In fact, those of us who study the scriptures know very well that this so-called lecture, or a book written by a general writer, is a thick book. His emphasis is only two or three sentences, only two or three sentences. It can be developed. It is very profitable. There are so many thick words in a book. In fact, many of them are embellished words. For some general speeches, how much is a ticket for it?Five hundred to one thousand, I said Taiwan dollar!It's not Canadian dollars, it's very expensive!But in fact, for a theme he talked about, maybe we can only condense it by two or three sentences, and he can use it. Then our "forty-eight wishes" are the essence of the entire Pure Land. Do you understand?We turned this theme into "The Forty-Eighth Aspirations" but it is deeper and more complete.
Then you count as much as you can absorb, and everything is better than just listening to the topic. Why?Because the topic is for someone who already has a fairly basic basis for comparison, he can easily have enlightenment, he can listen to some key points, and then he can focus on his own needs, and he can be able to go deep in that part.But if you don't have a complete concept of the "Forty-eight Great Aspirations" or the Pure Land Method, you don't have this foundation. If you don't have a foundation, listening to some topics will not help you very much.It's not easy to have enlightenment, and of course it will help!As long as you have the heart to listen, and then we will share with you very seriously, you may also have some gains, but it is not that solid, so it is best for everyone to be motivated. We arrange this course to be a systematic teaching , It's not that I have a relationship with you, I encourage you to make you feel like this, it's not!It is aimed at passing this theory and practice methods to you. You try to absorb it. You may not be able to use up the things you give you in three or five years. Try to give it to you, but it depends on how much you are willing to absorb. You can do whatever you want without any pressure.
Today's course is based on the basics, and we can use "life etiquette and rituals" that we can use now.So our title later is "Practical Buddhism". This name is very broad. We will talk about the topic first today: "The rules of rituals that should be paid attention to when entering the Three Treasures." Because we are Buddhist disciples, what we have to learn is in Buddhism. You need to understand some basic rules of entry and exit, and you will use them after you learn them.In fact, if you learn one, you just make one, and then maybe you haven't learned a few, and they all seem to be older than the old ones. Why?Because many veterans don’t understand it, few people teach this course after XNUMX or XNUMX years of entering Buddhism. This seems to be very shallow. Many masters like to talk about emptiness, and they speak very mysteriously, so that everyone can’t understand, and then watch. He speaks very well, and seems to have cultivated a lot, so now there are many people who talk about emptiness.But think about it, he was happily talking, but you all seem to understand, and you don’t know how to use it when you go back? Then we should be honest, and follow the precepts in life. This is also a precept. If you learn a little bit, you can use it right away. If you learn a little bit, you can use a little bit. You will feel a sense of accomplishment.
This Bodhisattva is not talking in a dream, right?It’s okay to talk in dreams, you can chat, just don’t snorting, snoring is too obvious, because it is recorded by the camera, oops~ I didn’t speak well, someone is dozing off, but it’s really not easy, I just came here On the way, I talked to our protector. I’ll give a lecture later. I don’t know if I will fall asleep. Because it’s easy to sleep at this time, so you can have merit in coming here to sleep.It doesn't matter if you fall asleep, this is a solemn dojo, really, there are blessings, this is what our old monk Jingkong said.I can have this heart!And I’m getting older, like me, I’m also middle-aged. After forty years, this body is really involuntary. It’s very obvious, as if you have reached a peak, suddenly. It slips down every now and then. It's really obvious from the physical and mental strength, and it's not as good as before.So we can still be motivated and dare to walk in, this courage is very commendable, like I used to be most afraid of sitting in the front in class, why?I can’t doze off, my eyes are always open and it’s painful, because I’m the first to be seen when I doze off, there’s nowhere to hide, so I struggle for a long time every time, if I want to sit in the front I don’t want to go, because dozing off is painful Things, you can't sleep, so we can all understand this situation. As long as we work hard, we have merit. This is true.
Respectful excerpts from disciple Peier
(XNUMX) To enter Buddhism, you must first establish a respectful heart (this time, the drafting master has not yet set the school, if there are typos, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)
it is good!Then let's quickly get into the topic. Our course and this topic are still within the scope of the precepts. If you really want to learn, in fact, whether you study the world or the transworld, how can you start to get started?The first lesson to be learned, the most important thing is to build respect.Do you think you are respectful?Yes...is there?No... oops!This person is very honest. It's not that you deliberately lied, but you don't know that you may not be truly respectful. If you want to follow Zeng Guofan's standards, what is respectfulness?It is sincere, sincere!What is the degree of sincerity?Without a thought, being very focused, that kind of state is called respectfulness.But we don’t talk about that standard now, because it is something sages can do, and it is absolutely impossible for ordinary people to do it. Delusional thoughts change in an instant, and there may be no thoughts, but the simplest standard in Buddhism is still not achieved by many people. , And I don’t know I can’t do it, so I’m going to put it forward very concretely now.
look!Master Yinguang told us: "Every sincerity earns one benefit, and very sincere respect gains great benefit."So if we do not have respect, is there any way to achieve Consummation?Is there a way to benefit?There is no way, so we must first explain whether we have this condition, first have the attitude, adjust the attitude, and then you can really use what we learn.The simplest standards, as you just said, all have respectfulness.it is good!I use the simplest method to examine, can you be a very obedient Buddha disciple, right?You are obedient... if you are respectful, you are obedient, right?A very simple standard!What the teacher tells you to do, you will definitely do it, if you don’t do it, you must not put him in your eyes, where there is respect, if you are respectful, you must care about the teacher’s opinion of you, and then your performance ,right?
Are you obedient?Have it?If you have it, I will send you homework. You must be full attendance, every class must appear, and all difficulties are eliminated. If this standard is given to you, you can go back and see for yourself. If you are going to have a big meal another day, when you are in a high-end restaurant, your heart I started struggling, no more. That day, I was already motivated. I wanted to be rewarded for full attendance, to build respect and to seek the law!You can’t come happily today and not come tomorrow, so you won’t be respectful, right?It seems to be a bit ugly, but I was watching the movie!I came to an entertainment lecture, there is not much difference, there is no binding force!There is no binding force in the heart, that kind of like a promise, oops!I must do it well, without any kind of inner care.I’ll go if I’m in a good mood today. I’m in a bad mood, or where I want to go to play today. Everything is more important than studying the Fa. All the previous things are negated. Then this is not true, it’s not true, and of course it’s not true. Full of respect.This is the behavior of most people, not just you!Many people are like this. This is where we want to cultivate. My responsibility is to highlight everyone's problems.
I have a class on Facebook and on Facebook called "The Pure Land Sect of Taoism First Guanglun Class". This class has been open for almost two years. We have classes every day, and then at the beginning I have a pre-class For a preview, there are probably more than XNUMX people who sign up. There are all kinds of people, people who sign up.I deliberately extended the preview time before class by nearly eight months. During these eight months, I slowly observed these people, who really came to seek the Fa, who came... just to delete the selection slowly, of course Some of them will retreat themselves, and time can prove everything.Did you sign up for a class and filled out the registration form? He said that the class would not start until eight months later. No, I don’t know it will be eight months. Anyway, just let the flow go!When we feel that the cause is mature, we will officially start the class.Then I entered the club, and it was not made public. The community was not made public anymore.
In fact, in this process, I am also a skillful teaching person, and I will never be stingy, so in eight months I have actually taught a lot of important things.
But I listed it as a pre-class preview, which meant that it was a buffer, and that was to review it with each other.Later, only nearly twenty people were admitted, some of them had to leave and even BYEBYE didn't talk about it, and some, but these people are cute!I came to my graffiti wall every day to look at the posts, and I came to the same, so I said these people are in the cattle-herding class, and I gave them a name.Those who have really come close almost never leave, it's just that some people have become less diligent!I just came to think of it!That really means going to the cattle herding class.Our club basically has certain rules. There are certain class rules for participating in this class, and then at the end it has been adjusted for about a year. The pre-class preparation is about eight months. Everyone has been in for about a year. Almost everyone They are all about to be reborn, in less than a year.In the first half to eight months, when these people were formally admitted, I got up at midnight every day to beat them.
My alarm clock goes on at four o'clock, and what often happens to me today?Who made a mistake again?I woke up at two or three o'clock, started to play on the computer, and then went online, wrote articles and started to fix people. My scenting board was very hard, and it was very powerful to scold people with a pen holder!Everyone has been beaten by me many times. Because there is no way, I have the responsibility to teach. Since you come to learn, you must learn before you go. It is very simple and very strict.But no one left, it's been almost two years!And each of them is very diligent, and then we fellow practitioners, because we have another fan page, because my graffiti wall is full of XNUMX people, and friends can’t add any more, so we opened another fan page, I It is stipulated that they write their learning experience there, because every day there are a lot of posts, my French or articles, and then they will write, and if you really write a message on the post, I will know his progress.
Before the first year of pre-class preparation, I was almost trembling, and I always checked their messages, because I often found that they were wrong and the messages were improper. People all over the world were watching you, so the responsibility and pressure were heavy, and it was very hard. I really worked very hard!Especially in the first half of the year, there are many things every day, because the students are not very few, every one of them is taught directly!It's not like we are now, and then after class is over, not everyone's karma is so deep!We are now equal to the disciples who have entered the world. Everyone understands his habits, and then he has a good grasp of his progress. Everyone has habit problems. Sometimes three or four things go wrong a day, and three or four incense sticks are played. Then you can't make a mistake. Later, sometimes you can't help it. I said you don't write it, don't leave a message for now. Of course, you can't lead others to write a mistake.
But now, then there is another talk back to me!He only said, do you know what I punish him?Silent for half a year! "Silently" means ignoring you, if you really hit, and then you should be scolded, and everything that should be taught is finished, but there is no way, and you can't see your own fault.What does some people say about her?He didn't mean it, she just didn't understand, she didn't understand, of course she wanted to speak.Then why is it like this?For example, I stipulate that they should share articles from other people, other mages, and other dojos. Yes, you can use your own common name, not the usage number, because I have given her the name. Feel free to share, and sharing means that you approve of your views. Then we belong to the pure land of specialization. There will be conflicts and will affect the overall image. Your behavior will be seen in the eyes of others to learn from you!Hey!You don’t specialize in Pure Land, so how do you practice Tantric Buddhism?What's up?If you share it, it means you affirm these practices, so this is also one of my rules.
Then one of them didn’t understand, and they were very direct, because everyone came to study, and they wouldn’t say hypocrisy. Just talk about what they had in their hearts. She thought she was not convinced. Why is the master’s mind so small? They were not allowed to share with others. Some French.I have rules, some are OK, some are not. Why am I teaching? Why not? This is a kind of random teaching! Then it will be implemented in life.Because at first she asked if she didn't understand, she asked why not?But she didn't ask like that. Her tone was actually in words! At first they thought they were saying, oops!Anyway, in the air teaching, there is no face-to-face, the teacher can still be deceived. In fact, I feel that, really, you can know her heartbeat from the text. Of course, she will not talk back directly, no, but she responds! I’ve been a little bit packed, and I feel that this person is not convinced in her heart. She doesn’t agree with my rule because she still doesn’t understand. This person is a very stupid elder sister, a very confused person, and it’s hard to teach. , She was scolded by me the longest, but now she's all turned around.
Everyone has become very good, working ability, and understanding ability, and you can go up and read their messages and you will know that it is absolutely impossible to just study for one or two years. Of course, many people are old cultivators, but they need to learn again. Some are not really going in the right direction at all.That kind of old cultivation is more difficult to teach. The whole thing is to subdue some of her concepts, habits, and arrogance. This is more difficult, so it took a full few months, but when this After the foundation is laid, I am now very easy to teach, I am very relaxed, all of them have become my avatars, less than a year, I am now very relaxed when I go abroad, they help me look after the house.Our fans have XNUMX friends, and then on the fan page, we have an average of XNUMX people who have been on our page in a week, and that’s an average of XNUMX to XNUMX a day. So far, I’m on the face. The book is only less than two years old.Because we are very stable every day, we have fixed posts, unlike most people who treat Facebook as a function of making friends.I have a series every day, so for more than a year or two, gradually, our fans and people who really come to study the Fa have gradually appeared. I didn’t have it before, and I rarely see this on Facebook. The situation includes the enrollment of masters from other dojos. People who use the Internet are not willing to study Buddhism seriously. Very few, but we were able to achieve such good results in just two years.
Although it is a cattle herding class, those people are already very stable. They are fixed every day, and there are quite a few people who come to class almost every day. They only increase, at least more than XNUMX, more than XNUMX, more than XNUMX per day. How do these people take care of me when I go out now?Also take care of the cattle herding class!right?Our fellow practitioners in the general discussion class have become my clones, because I have cultivated a tacit understanding and the way I do things, my requirements are very strict. I give them the message I give them, and they will respond immediately after I explain it. Unless he is not online, but they, that is to say, we are not talking about theories, nor demanding, nor are we interested. We have no interests at all. I am purely compulsory teaching.Then after they really get the benefits, they will automatically spontaneously, and everyone is very diligent. This is really to study. If your attitude is correct, even if you have the intention to learn at the beginning, the ones who don’t have the heart are eliminated before they are not admitted. The admitted people really want to learn, know the suffering in this world, know that they want to become a Buddha, and so on.
Respectful excerpts from disciple Peier
(XNUMX) Beginning first, adjust and teach sincerely and respectfully (this time the drafting master has not yet set the school, if there is a typo, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)
But even if you have the intention, there must be some habits to grind at the beginning, don't you understand!After eight months of pre-class preparation, it was also nearly a year. During this period of time, almost nine out of ten were driven by me and refused to leave. Don’t teach. I’m too tired and can’t teach. It doesn't matter if you are stupid, but you have to show me the sincerity you want to learn, don't let go, I have to fix your problems with you in the middle of the night!Of course you can’t take a stroll like this!I knew it at first glance. She was very cute at the beginning. She said that a classmate made a mistake and was scolded by me because we left a message and everyone could see it. Another person wanted to come out as a peacemaker and said, " Yes! Master, we must be sincere when we study the Fa with Master. There must not be any hypocrisy, and then we must not be slow, because if we deceive Master, we cannot deceive Buddhas and Bodhisattvas."Ouch!That's it.As a result, you know what I left in my message?They often stumbled, and I said, "Master can't deceive Buddhas and Bodhisattvas" because she is kind!It seems to be very nice, but it's not right.I said, "Master, you can't fool you." Do you understand?Because if she wanted to say: "You can fool the master, you can't fool the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas." In fact, if she is well-intentioned, she came out to make ends meet, just to persuade those classmates to say, "Yes, believe in cause and effect! Right? You? You have to study carefully and be obedient, and you can't deceive people. Although this is online teaching, right?" This meant, and then I immediately responded, and I said, "Master can't be fooled," and our class has nothing to do with it.
Later, it was because I stared people so urgently, and then everyone didn't dare to make jokes. They didn't dare to make jokes. They spontaneously spontaneously, otherwise you have to leave.I really drove people, and many people were driven by me, so they are very thick-skinned now.It’s okay to do something wrong, people will do it wrong, it’s okay!But if you make mistakes, you must dare to repent and change. If this is the case, you must first cultivate this attitude. First, you must be humbly taught, and second, you must be brave to correct and repent. Don't stick to it, oh!To love face, to refuse to admit that you have made mistakes, or even to be arrogant, this is where the karma is there, there is no way to learn, no way to progress.These people are just beginning to be trained like this. Everyone has a soft heart and can be taught. Because you can't be taught, you have to go!If you don't admit your mistakes, you can't do it. We have given them a lot of time. That's because everyone was very happy in class, and they were reluctant to leave, so they didn't turn around, because after turning around, he himself got very great Fa-joy.Because being us people!After the inner strength of our people has softened, we actually feel that kind of fun.Of course you confess, you and your master confess what I did wrong, and when you immediately admit your mistakes and correct them, you will actually feel that you have merit right now, right?You guys do it and see.
The mistakes they have made since small things have happened, big and small!Some of them have a great impact, because this is what we open to the world, so my teaching pressure is also great, and the responsibility is also great.So I didn’t feel at ease at the beginning, especially on the meaning of law. I didn’t dare to leave a message to them. If he left a mistake, I deleted it immediately. Maybe I will add a comment and correct it right away.Until now, after this attitude has been established, they have spontaneously spontaneously, and everyone spends a lot of time online, longer than me.Because some people can arrange their own time, and they are becoming more and more diligent, because they have also established a correct concept, knowing who is practicing for?Cultivating for yourself, not for the master, for cultivating blessings and wisdom, all for yourself. It is rare that this master will lead you to practice this cause and condition together. You can ask if you have any questions anytime and anywhere. Such a cause and condition are sufficient. You are a fool if you don't cherish it.For those who are interested in learning, he understands this and understands this situation, so of course they are getting more and more active. I didn’t specify the time for class, but they only want to... and they are more diligent than me, even in the end it’s me. Advise them to get enough sleep!Don't work too hard!Sometimes I stare at them.
If you have the opportunity to read their messages, you will know that they are all from the heart. From the heart, we don't allow falsehoods, so you can't deceive the Buddha and the Bodhisattva, but also the Master. Ouch!No falsehood!So at the beginning, I was adjusting respectfulness and sincerity from the heart.There are a lot of people who don't understand and need to learn, we didn't mean it!We often don’t tell the truth with our parents at home, right?I don’t know how to talk to a teacher, and I don’t have a few close friends to talk to: "It’s boring to chat together, can you understand it? Okay! Okay..." Chatting together is also good!But now, wait for us to talk about the topic, and then you can ask questions if you have any questions, it doesn’t matter, it’s more lively so that you won’t doze off, so what I’m going to say is that we will put this on today, and I’ll give an example of our class. , We lay a good foundation. After this attitude and respect are established, you will learn quickly, very quickly, and you will suddenly feel that you have transformed your whole person and become completely reborn.
Otherwise, you have the chance to go to Facebook to read their messages. They were old and weak at first. Everyone has serious habits and problems. Then many of these are beginners. Now the messages seem to be quite good, because I'm always paying attention. Immediately adjust and correct what’s wrong, so they quickly grasped it. Not only did they master the teachings of our Pure Land teachings, they already had confidence in their deaths, and they had such a big impact. The deeper and more difficult thing to adjust is our xinxing. Our xinxing can't be adjusted for decades. They are less than two years, more than a year, because it was forced by me!I am very strict.Because you can't be hard with me, and you can't be hypocritical with me, then I will know right away, so there is no confuse, you can't change it unless you change it, you will change it soon, or you have to go.
Then they are reluctant to leave, because everyone is very happy, and they really want to learn!There are also good roots.So you see, this is a living example. It doesn’t take a year or two for the whole temperament to be soft. If a person’s temperament is soft, you are a magic weapon. You can put everything in it when you learn. No matter how stupid you are, you are very good. Fast growth.If you are strong and hypocritical in your heart, the teacher tells you a lot, you are "huh, that's nothing great, I know it too!" Knowing that you can't do it, the question is, right?Then I am slow and strong!Then I don’t know how to be grateful!"Oh! That's okay!" Whatever is that there is no way to be touched and grateful, then you have no merit, how can you get merit, so the establishment of this foundation is very important, we must first cultivate respect.We also know that Master Yin Guang told us that we just said, "Every sincerity earns one benefit!" How much sincerity you have, how much benefit you can get from studying the Fa.
Our class is from one to three. Okay, let's get into the topic quickly.There is a lot to talk about, but some examples will not be mentioned first. Let’s learn this precept directly. What we just talked about is that the key points have already been mentioned. We need to adjust our attitude first. Of course, you should be respectful. We just talked about you. They have them all!If you have any, I hope I can see you all next time.Right? You can't come when you have time. What's the most important thing if you don't have time.Fa-study is the most important thing, and it doesn’t matter when the sky falls. This is the attitude of true Fa-seeking. Then you have to be obedient. Obedience is really respectful. Respectful to the Three Jewels. This point must be done frequently, and then always check whether you are true If you have enough of this condition, you will learn the Fa very quickly in the future, and your absorption will be very fast.
Respectful excerpts from disciple Peier
(XNUMX) The rituals and rules that should be paid attention to when entering the Daxiong Hall (this time, the drafting master has not yet set the school, if there are typos, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)
Okay, let's first talk about some etiquette that should be understood when entering the hall.Yesterday when we were practicing together at the Chinese Temple, after I went in, the general masters would first worship the Buddha and three prayers when they entered. When I first came in, I would also worship the Buddha and three prayers before asking questions. Then, did you follow the prayer before?Because I saw it yesterday, no!Then let me talk to you first. Normally we go in and ask the teacher for you not to follow along, you know?Just stand and put your palms together. There is only the waiter. Sometimes the master will worship. The waiter will only take the scriptures if he has the scriptures. If he asks the questions, he does not need to follow along. You don't need to follow along. You might all be waiters someday. You have a chance at such a young age. If you try your best, you can put your hands together in class.When the mage passes by, you have to, you have to stand opposite, you have to stand opposite, welcome!Don't use your ears to greet the mage, right, you have to use the front side to show respect!Then when the mage walks to the middle, you follow the front of the Buddha, then put your hands together, and wait for the mage to finish the three prayers. In this way, you don't have to follow the prayers, do you know?Unless you say what your abbot requires, then there is nothing to say. The habits are different in each place, but in general it is like this. Let me talk about it by the way.
Then you will often go to the monastery, surely!If you really want to go to the Daxiong Hall, it will have three gates, an orthodox temple, don't go in from the middle!From the middle door, what is the middle door?Elders, distinguished guests, presidents, etc., such people will welcome him to enter through the front door, like we usually live in the monastery, we are resident, we also go in on both sides, you live there, you are not like an elder all day Go in at the front door, and the abbot is also very polite!It is also from the side to enter, only the special festival greets special guests from the main entrance.Then when you enter the door, be more strict, that is, if you enter from the left door, you must step in with your left foot first. Does that understand?If you come out through the door on the right when you come out, step out with your right foot first.Our regulations are very strict. When we were in the retreat, the master was all staring at your foot to see if you stepped on the wrong foot.So it’s very simple. Just remember that if you go from the door on the right, you use your right foot, and the door on the left uses your left foot. It’s easy to remember.Those insiders know it, they all understand, don’t think it’s a trivial matter, hey!This person has repaired!There are rules!Then you can generally read these materials on your own network, but you may not understand them, so we just learn one now and remember it, and then we can use it in the future.
In the main hall, except for offerings such as Buddhist scriptures and statues, flowers, and fruits, don’t bring anything else. Of course, it’s okay to bring your bag in, but don’t bring anything else.Don't bring in all kinds of things, because the main hall is a very quiet and solemn place. This is to be careful, don't make it like a pilgrim, not like a Buddha disciple, this is a majestic!People will know at a glance whether you are practicing, or if you are just coming to worship with incense, your status is different.People respect you if you understand these rules, hey!You are really a bodhisattva practicing at home, so you have a good bond with others!right?People respect you and respect you, and then I will do business for you in the future. Is it possible? Yes!right?So this prestige is very important. If you understand the rules, people who can understand will treat you...just look at you differently!
Then go into the main hall and don’t look around. You go in to worship the Buddha for three times. Don’t worship the mat in the middle. This is for the abbot to worship. Only the abbot and the preaching master can worship.Some people don't understand!Most people don’t understand, but most people are still a little more careful, but there are a lot of people who are kind of silly, and there are some who worship in the middle as soon as they enter. This is a big sin. , The sin is full.If you go to the Zen dojo, the Zen dojo is very fierce, it is not polite to you, it is very jungle!The rules are very strict, and sometimes the master scolds when he comes over, just scolds directly.I’ll talk to you when I have time. Now it seems that there is not enough time. We have a lot to learn. I will give you some examples when we have time.Just don't look around, and then at the last worship pad, find a worship pad on both sides, the right is called Dongdan, the left is called Xidan, the men are in Dongdan, and the women are in Xidan, this also needs to be known!After entering the main hall, the men should stay on the right as much as possible. In some places, there are not so strict rules, but we need to know about it. Then, at the last worship pad, you can find a worship pad and worship. You can pray to the Buddha three times. This is all you need to do. , Inquiries, don’t have to worship everywhere, some Buddha images are so many, wow!Three knocks here, three knocks there, so busy, half an hour passed by the end of the worship.No, praying to the Buddha three times is equivalent to worshipping all of them. Do you understand that?
You understand now and think it’s easy to learn this. In fact, it’s funny if you do something wrong, it’s laughable and generous, if you don’t understand it is very serious.Not only do people laugh at you, but sometimes you really commit serious sins.Let me give you an example. Take the time to give an example. Why did you commit a serious crime?Stupidity is a sin in itself!And you are also annoying for your family, this is a great sin!right?While we are here, I used to practice asceticism at Po Lam Temple in Hong Kong and Po Lam Temple on Lantau Island. There is a deep mountain, and I have to walk for nearly an hour after getting off the bus. There are wild mountains and wild oxen!There are a lot of these animals, and then there are very simple thatched huts. Our master is very polite, the upper sage and the next old mage, he said that ours is a small jungle, big huts, small jungles, he is very kind, he said that There are probably more than one hundred people living in Bianwan, and there are probably more than one hundred people in Jie Xia Anju.Once, I remember that we had just received the precepts. In 00, there was a brother of precepts. That person was strange at first, but she also became a monk by reason. A female group, how strange?
Let me give you an example. We are not allowed to touch money when we just became a monk.But when you are in the precepts, we are not allowed to touch money in the precepts of the monks. Why don't you save the monks money!That is why it cannot be touched in form.But because we have just received the ordination, let's have a new one!The initial intention of the new ring is very strong, so many people like to offer the new ring, so there are a lot of offerings, and everyone has red envelopes on the table, because we can’t touch money in this precept, that is, we can’t touch money. The original meaning is that we don't want to save money or accumulate wealth.But you see, everyone took it, maybe it was given to the permanent resident or whatever, it was the same for me, I took it and gave it to the master.But she happened to be next to me, so she was like this!She just like this... Push it away with her hands, what are you doing!This kind of person is strange, she kept the precepts very weird, and then this person is very precious, and then after she received the precepts, she went to our permanent residence, and our Baolin went to place the order. It is reasonable to say that after receiving the precepts, you have to return She lives regularly, she didn't go back, don't know why?She went to us for a single month.
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(XNUMX) Interesting talk about learning commandments in Baolin Temple (this time, the drafting master has not yet finalized the school, if there is a typo, please report the error, and the merits are boundless!)
Wow, she made a lot of mistakes in a month. It is reasonable to say that we are beginners, and of course we don’t know much when we just received the vows. We have limited learning, but generally speaking, we will be cautious and ask others if we don’t know how to do this. Can we do it? Can we do it?She is out of condition all day long.What kind of situation will happen to her one day, it will be indignant between people and gods, oh!Nearly a hundred people are troubled because of her, so terrible.Is it because of what?Meditation in this meditation hall, meditation practice is very important, maybe he will be enlightened in a moment, and a saint will appear, right?Or it means that people are about to settle down in meditation, you can get him, wow!With a crippling illness and death, half of this life is left, right?Isn’t it serious? Our meditation hall’s rules are very strict. When we start to meditate, the lights are dim, and we can’t go in at this time. This guy didn’t go in for more than time. Our Wiener is very fierce. He will She stupidly didn't know if it was a fragrant player.
It just so happened that she entered over time. Every one of us sat quietly and was about to settle down. She suddenly came in like this, because I was young, and I was sitting close to the door. I saw it clearly. I I think this guy will be repaired later, I can't help her either!I can't move around either, I just watched quietly there.She happened to be lucky, but it was also unfortunate. When she came in, Wiener fell asleep. That day, she was too tired to grow vegetables and didn't see her, so she didn't hit the incense stick, right?It seems lucky, right?But the next thing is even more terrifying. She actually prays to the Buddha three times, do we generally want to be normal?It is for three times to worship Buddha, but it is not allowed to worship in the Zen hall. Zen has the practice of Zen, and Zen is the breaking of the Buddha!right?He’s broken, and the rules of the meditation hall are like this. It doesn’t let you go in and worships. There is a statue of Buddha. He didn’t worship it. Everyone meditates over there, and you worship over there, and it’s still quacking. I don't know what to say, can you imagine if there is any majesty?No.But at this time Wiener hadn't woken up yet, and then she made a third mistake of anger. After she finished worshipping, this dear friend swaggered to sit down as the abbot monk.Wow, it’s a big deal, because there are regulations in the meditation hall, where should Wiener sit and where should the abbot sit, right?This is very strict.
Our master is already very old, in her eighties, and his seat is there. He didn't come out to meditate, but was empty there. Because many people were all filled up, only there was empty, so she went over and sat like the boss.Whoops!I almost fainted, and I didn't dare to speak. We were very young, so I watched quietly. I thought she must be dead.Sure enough, the next day, where we are!Our master, the next master, his disciples and grandchildren belong to five generations. He is the elder among the very elders. The bhikkhuni masters who followed him to open the mountains are very loyal to him. The position of the abbot is given to a bhikkhuni who has just received the ordination. Sit up, everyone is very excited!That old master bhikshuni is very respectful to him, so how can he sit in his position?Not only does it matter if you violated the rules, but if you are still sitting in the position of a beloved master like ours, is it true that humans and gods share anger?
It turned out to be terrible. From the next day, the teachers and fathers began to take the lead to silence her, just ignore her, because we can't beat her and scold her!It's just that you made a mistake. You can see what you made, how you ruled it, and how you punish it. There are some who should use incense sticks and kneel incense.However, this is not the case, because she just came and she was still a guest without punishment!She didn't punish her, but the inner troubles weren't so all at once.I can see that the teacher’s father was really angry, and then ignored her. Everyone looked at her. The teacher’s father ignored her. No one dared to care about her, and all silently rejected her. The problem is that I also admire her very much. Ah, she is really amazing and it doesn't matter if no one cares about her, so she is also amazing!And how stupid she is, I can’t say stupid, but she seems to behave very special, everyone ignores her, she doesn’t know if she hasn’t reacted yet or what, she even took things to curry favor with her teacher and father, and Made a mistake, why?Those who don’t treat you politely, don’t socialize with you, give gifts, places where you practice asceticism, where you practice asceticism, give a cookie, give you a candy, is there any mistake?People don't eat after lunch, so what are you doing with them, right?There are a series of mistakes, so do you say that you have sinned?Great sin.In fact, we seem to think nothing. She really has no malice. We absolutely believe that she just doesn’t understand, but she will commit so much if she doesn’t understand. It will make a lot of troubles in life, and it’s not easy to clean up. It seems that she has been popular for several days. Still angry and ignored her.
They respect the Master very much, and she really has no rules, how can you sit in the position of the abbot and monk, don't say you are a bhikshuni, you can't sit if you are a man!There is a difference between men and women, and it is very strict there.We are separated from men and women, and we are not together in the morning and evening classes. That is when we are meditating, and women cannot enter the meditation hall.So these precepts, especially if you violated the precepts, this is a very serious mistake, because precepts are very noble, he is the life of the practitioner, if you don’t respect the precepts, even if you are ignorant and ignorant than sin Light, but if you say you want to violate the precepts deliberately, then of course there will be his results.For a person who values the precepts, would he be very angry if you despise the precepts? Yes!People who value rules very much usually do things very rules. If you see a person who is very unruly, do you have troubles, you must not accept them, right?So should we learn?To...or else you won’t get a good relationship among the Three Treasures. Maybe it’s annoying when people see it, and they don’t talk about it, right? So you have to learn, this is too important.
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(XNUMX) Various rituals and rules that should be paid attention to in the main hall (this is the master of drafting has not yet set the school, if there are typos, please report the error, the merits are boundless!)
Well, we’ve just learned a little bit. Let’s continue. We can’t talk loudly or loudly in the main hall. It’s absolutely not possible, especially our women have a very bad habit. When we get in a good mood, we start chatting. Moved out, no.Even if you talk about Buddhism, you have to be quiet. Why?The main hall is a very solemn place, and the magnetic field is very clean.Two people talk, and three people talk over there. Wow, isn't it very noisy?Yesterday we practiced together, chanting so solemnly in the morning, and then we only finished crying after praying, and we heard it after it was over, oh!Why is it so lively outside, the atmosphere is different from just now, let's chat!Because we haven’t learned this part yet, and generally speaking, Master Zhaoxu is also very busy, and he is often absent, so I was sent to do this homework and this work, and slowly remind everyone that we must learn all these things. The magnetic field will be good if it is kept clean, right?It’s like a place with a Taoist temple. If it’s very noisy and talks about the worldly laws, our grandson came back yesterday, and then what and what... I bought something for me... how and what our daughter-in-law... .What trouble is it for me again.Oh!All are world laws, and they are not in harmony with the environment of this place!is not it?Are we guilty?Yes, we destroyed the magnetic field in the dojo, right? You don’t think we did it intentionally, but the karma created is very heavy!So you have to learn. Of course there is no way if you don’t know, but the crime is relatively light, but there are still some.
Then you need to sit and stand, don’t move around like this, don’t shake your feet, and teach this.The basic etiquette of the people of the world should also be paid attention to.There is a saying: "Men are poor, women are inferior."It's hard to hear!My feet have been shaking all the time, I feel dizzy when I see it, and my head is dizzy when I see it, hey!Please pay attention to some people who are like this. There are relatively few Buddha disciples but they do. This must not be ugly, and it is not solemn.Then don't fart in the hall.Some people, once I was really defeated by one person, and that was a teacher father!She may be a very old monk and she doesn't know the rules.Let's go to a cause and condition of diligence and diligent cultivating together, and then, yes!I just heard it, and I’m going to cite this example now. She thinks it’s a matter of course. It’s a natural physiological response. So we sleep in bunks. A room has two beds. So we can sleep ten people in total, five on each side. Personally, there is an aisle in the middle, and then we just sat there chatting, and suddenly, she was very generous...chuck... and it smells so bad!A teacher’s father is very stinky, I just looked at her expression, she turned out to be very generous, her voice was very loud, and then everyone stopped talking. Looking at her, I just waited, she didn’t even apologize. Or nothing.
Well, this time I didn't give her face, I immediately pinched my nose and rushed out, I couldn't stand it anymore, I didn't give her face.Master Yinguang talked about it, because he was... after I came in, I said, hey!Master, what were you doing just now, I said this half jokingly. She said this is a natural phenomenon, so let's talk about it. We won't take things to heart. She said it was a natural physiological reaction!Because I also hoped that she would not do it again in the future, so I deliberately talked to him about this matter, and then talked to him in a joking tone, and then she said that she thought it was nothing.Then I told her, Master Yinguang sternly scolded, sometimes the main hall lights agarwood incense, a very good incense, the best incense makes offerings to the Buddha, we Buddha disciples show respect, unless you don’t have that ability. The smell of agarwood has been overshadowed by yours, how expensive agarwood is!right?If you think about the magnetic field in the whole hall, you have to think about your sins. Sometimes people are crowded and the air inside is not good, but you still have to smell your smell over there. This is very impolite.I believe that ordinary people with a little bit of level, ordinary people with a little bit of cultivation, don't say that they learn Buddhism, they all understand, then what should be done?There is a way, I really can’t help it if it’s too late, you just take a breath, take a big breath and hold it, stop breathing for a few seconds, when you hold it, it will be in it by itself. Dredge, this has this effect. If the flatulence is really too strong, you should rush out. Please rush out. Everyone can forgive your rudeness. Knowing that you are going out and fart is better than putting it inside, right?
Well, you must remember, don’t say that you let it go, and you feel bad, and then the people next to you don’t dare to talk, wow, the whole atmosphere has been destroyed by you, and people are going to be enlightened. Is it possible?Yes.The place where the Dao is run is inherently likely to happen anytime and anywhere, right?In the end, it was ruined by what you thought was a trivial matter. This is very serious!It may become very serious.Try not to doze off. If you really do doze off, cover your hands, and don’t open your mouth. A few dentures have been seen by others. They are ugly, right?That prestige of our Buddha disciples! You must pay attention to the majesty of "walking, living, sitting, and lying".
Then when you enter the main hall, you must turn right and not left. Turning right is auspicious, winding left is fierce, winding right is auspicious, and showing respect.For example, if I pass by a Buddha statue, for example, we are going to... There is a Buddha statue here, there is also a Buddha statue in the middle, and there are Buddha statues on both sides, right?After we finished worshipping, we thought of visiting here for a while. We can't walk through the hall after the Buddha statues. We must ask questions before we continue walking in the middle. Do you understand that?Don't just swagger and ignore it. It's very rude, right?It's the same when you see the elders. After you see the elders nodding, say hello, and then continue walking, let alone the Buddha, don't bully him by sitting there and not moving!He has magical powers. He knows all about you, so we have to form a habit ourselves.After this is called not to pass through the hall, the hall is the main hall, so you must remember to stop and ask questions before continuing.
We often meet, right?When you go to the monastery, you will definitely pass by, so if you ask questions, people will know that this person has learned, that he is in class, and he is learning the rules. It's just such a simple thing that people will treat you differently.You don't need to practice long meditation, you don't need to keep the precepts very hard, you will immediately have a certain status, people respect you, like a Buddha disciple, and obey the rules!Also understand the rules.Many people don't understand this, because I think oops!This is nothing!Buddhism etiquette is too simple, what I want to learn is emptiness, I don't like this.The things of emptiness may not be used in your entire life. The more you listen, the more empty you are. If you can’t really realize enlightenment, there will be more and more dangerous opportunities for wrong practice. You still have to start from this small place. When you start, you will naturally observe the precepts, live concentration, and open your wisdom. Natural kung fu will be effective.
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(XNUMX) The rituals for the handling of Buddha statues (this is the master of drafting has not yet set the school, if there are typos, please report the error, the merits are boundless!)
Then this is about the main hall, how should we respect the Buddha statue?Some people are, oops!What should we do if the Buddha statue is broken now?If it’s paper, you can cremate it. After cremation, you can put it in ashes, and don’t just scatter it randomly, just see where it’s buried in the soil or where it is. If it’s a Buddha statue, it’s the same. See if you burn it, or what to do. Then don’t just throw it in the trash can after it’s burned. You should bury it in the soil or sprinkle it in the sea. This way it will be more satisfactory. Don’t just have it. There are no heads and no tails, which means that it seems to be very good at dealing with such things. It must be handled properly and respectfully, because it is a Buddha, and a Buddha image is a representative of the Buddha.Some people said, can I put Buddha statues in my room?It is possible to open the fate. Don't install the whole Buddha statue like this. Just try to use it as much as possible. It is as small as a Japanese place. It may be possible for one room to live in two families. It is possible to take turns!That's because it's expensive!That house is very expensive, so what should he do if he wants to learn Buddhism?Then you just hang a Buddha statue and cover it with this curtain. Normally you have to work and rest, eat, you have to go in and out, and the cover is opened when you are doing your homework. This is also an opening.
Because if you want to learn Buddhism, you don’t have a statue of Buddha. How can you look at it. We must always look at Buddha statues, and you will become more and more solemn when you always look at Buddha statues.No matter how distorted your Five Views look, your temperament is very kind as you see it, you must become more and more solemn, and look at each day every day, so it is very important to look at Buddha statues, that kind of compassion will come out, don’t People are as stupid as ordinary people. Some people have no spirits and have no energy. They want to sleep all day, what to eat, and what they want to do... that face is not good, even if you are five years old. No matter how beautiful the view is, there is no such charm.Then if you look at the Buddha statue for a long time, you will become more and more like Him. It is really like this. There are theoretical reasons for this. So of course offering Buddha statues is a very important thing. If your family's karmic destiny is not sufficient, It's a pity that I can't make offerings!This is Kaiyuan.
Let’s talk about respecting the Dhamma...how can I respect the Dhamma if I respect the Dhamma?For example, when we are requesting a scripture, we have to hold it like this, with the index finger and thumb of both hands on top, and the other fingers on the bottom. Then if someone asks questions when you are holding the scripture, you don’t want to bounce it directly onto the scripture. Go down, your scripture questioning is like this, understand?Don’t bend down when others ask whether it’s right or not, because the scriptures are the largest and the Fa is bigger than the Buddha. Who is the biggest "Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha"?Of course it is said that the Buddha is the biggest, not that the Fa is the biggest!Because the Dharma was there before. Before the Buddha became a Buddha, the Dharma was already there. Do you understand?Therefore, we must respect the Dharma. When you hold the scriptures in your hands, you don’t need to go. Even if you have to bow to the mage, you don’t have to, you just go straight, or when you bow, you should not put it in the ground. , You have to pick it up directly like this, be sure to hold it in your hand, you don’t need to bend over when inquiring, just hold it directly between your eyebrows, hey...Yes, then it looks like this when you hold it, your thumb and index finger are on top, others His fingers are underneath, so it’s very solemn.This is a scripture book, and we will definitely use it in our common practice.Look at those who don’t understand and have not studied, he will put down the whole book as soon as they ask questions. This scripture should not exceed the waist. It is disrespectful. You must lift it high. You don’t get there as soon as you bend over. Did you go under the belly button? That would be disrespectful to the scriptures.
And can’t be caught under the armpit. Many people are used to holding everything under the armpit. I just hold things like this. This doesn’t work. The scriptures also have spirituality. They don’t want it to not like it under your armpit, right? Compassion Be nice to it, don't say respectful, at least don't let it call difficult.Scriptures and everything are spiritual, so we must respect it, and we must understand the truth of this fact!Then after you know it, you know that all living beings have spirituality, and you will naturally be more careful. Don't treat it as a dead thing anyway. If it doesn't respond, just do whatever you want.In the future, we will wipe the table gently. Don’t...it’s so rude, as if it doesn’t feel, yes, it feels.You are respectful of everything, how is it respectful?It’s to love it. You don’t have to pray to him for three times, you don’t have to pray to the table for three times, but how you love it, you are gentle with it and keep it clean and tidy. This is respect for the objects.You can't roll up the scriptures, magic weapon... is there any way to roll it up?You know, do you know what I'm talking about?It is not acceptable to roll it into a round shape, scriptures and Buddha statues are not acceptable. Sometimes when we see students in school, we will get used to it. Yes, roll it up. It won't work. He thought it was so convenient!I have my own ideas, oops! Don't fold it, it seems that it is better to roll it up, but it is not, it can't be like this.
Also, we can’t blow on the scriptures. When we wipe, we use a clean cloth, a special cloth, and don’t use "huhuhu...ah!" Blowing like this, blowing off the dust, and telling you Speaking of getting more dirty, who of us is the dirtiest?The dirtiest people!We have stool all the time!right?No matter how clean your row is, you still have it.Especially people nowadays have a bad stomach, and their tone is not very good. You blow, oops!It actually wants to call for help. You didn't hear it. Really, it's not a joke. It's very uncomfortable.Then we have to feel the other person's feelings and experience.We usually didn't notice this, nor did it deliberately, but it does happen.Then when we light the incense, we have to put it out and don't call it like that...Don't blow it out, it's not like blowing the candle on our birthday!Waving it off with your hands like this, yes, it's more hygienic!You blow it with your mouth, and sometimes your saliva squirts out just to put it out, you just white out the incense, and it is not solemn, and then there is that bad smell, this is not good.In fact, we really have stinky skins on our bodies, it really is like this.So I said that if I die into the Paradise of Bliss, the first thing I have to do is to give my worship to the Buddha, I will take a bath and go to the Eight Merit Virtue Water to quickly purify it.It's really like this, our bodies!If you don’t take a shower for two days, what does it mean to rub?What is Mandarin?Dirty!Yes, it's like this in two or three days, so I am really ashamed, and I am ashamed of being a human being.It's better to be a deity, because deity is fragrant, because they don't eat!See which level of heaven it is.If he doesn't eat, he won't have these filthy things, and he won't have any excrement.
Just blow it like this!Where is the retribution?In hell. The "Manjusri Sutra" mentioned above, "The Manjusri Questioning Book": "The solemn offering. One who blows away the ashes with the mouth. Falling to the hell of Pharaoh. The demon king of the style of reporting to the devil." "Pong" means that you have fallen into hell and received it. After the retribution, I will continue to do the "Wind Demon King" the retribution, and there are other retributions, not just falling into hell. "Solemn offerings", all offerings are the same, not just the scriptures, so pay attention to this!It is said in the Buddhist scriptures that if we have an offering to the Buddha in our house, we should not put any sundries on the table of the Buddha. Water supply, fruit offerings, and fragrant flowers are all right, but others should not be placed randomly.And when people are chanting, if we go to the dojo to practice together, and someone is chanting, don’t walk in front of him. This is also disrespectful and impolite. You have to walk behind him instead of in front of others. , People are worshiping Buddha and you can't seem to walk by. Do you go around very close to his head, right?Do you know it as soon as you imagine it? It feels disrespectful!Disrespectful to people, so we have to wait for him to finish worshiping before we walk over, and we must pay attention to this.
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(XNUMX) The etiquette of respecting monks (this time, the drafting master has not yet set the school, if there is a typo, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)
Okay, come again is the method of respecting monks, Dharma and monk!We all talk about it.Seeing Master, you have to pray, Master is shaving his head, walking, chanting, and going to the toilet. You don't want to pray. He was going to go to the toilet. He waited for you to go in before going in, and he was choked to death.He is shaving his head, wait for you to worship, he said, "Don't worship or worship", wow!It's bleeding, isn't it?Cause trouble!right?Without merit, he still makes trouble for others. When he walks, especially in public places, some people who have not studied Buddhism, "Weird how this person did it, a cult! I worshipped on the road". This is not good. Sneer, misunderstanding, people don't know what you are doing!It's so strange that an old man is praying with a young man.Then our monks look very young now, and some old Bodhisattvas are very respectful, and when they see the master, they will go down as soon as possible. This is not right, and the place of worship is inappropriate, which will have a counterproductive effect.
Then when you see the master passing by, when you see the monks passing by, no matter what you are doing, it doesn’t matter unless you chant the sutras, unless it’s important, otherwise you have to stand up, stand up, and nod when inquiring. Fortunately, it can’t be regarded as turning a blind eye, so that there is no respect. This is the basic cultivation, especially for the situation of one of our Buddhist activities. We must know those rules.Also, don’t ask Master to help me buy things, bring things abroad, what instant noodles do you bring me, "Wow! That Taiwanese instant noodles are so delicious! Tzu Chi’s, wow! What about health preservation..." Then again I want to buy medicine, what kind of Chinese medicine, how much Chinese medicine is to supplement!What... It seems to have a good relationship with Master, hey!Just by the way!He felt nothing.When you say that the master doesn’t take it, you’re embarrassed and afraid of anything... Actually it’s all wrong. Those who violate the precepts, and those who violate the precepts, the monks can’t do these worldly things in the first place, then you will cause him to break the precepts and harm him. He breaks the precepts, he doesn't take it, and he makes you annoyed again, oops!It's really embarrassing for people, it can't be like this.The interactions with monks and masters must be based on the Dharma. Don’t interact with the world, don’t interact with these issues of human affection, ah!I treat you well, what do you want to do with me, I will accompany you, and you must accompany me, so don’t practice!We also have to recognize godfathers and godmothers. This is forbidden in our precepts, no.
If there are mages and great virtues in the dojo, we will have to drive with others. That day everyone didn’t understand. I ran to pick them up by myself. When entering, if you have time, it’s best to dress up and ride the sea. Qing may put clothes on, and then go to the place of the big chime. After the guests come in, after the Dade comes in, you will invite him. You see what his identity is. If he is a mage, then he will look at himself. If he is more polite, he He may not be there, he feels beside him, so you go to worship, and then he bows down, you knock on the big chime, and when he prays three times, you knock, and when he gets up, you knock again. Don’t knock hard before you get up. , Giggle!Damn!Then he is very nervous, and there is no such respectful performance in the worship. After watching him get up, he will knock a second time, a total of three knocks. After he is finished, he will change you after the three worships, and then you will worship. You say: "Go to the mage, three prayers", to the mage, or to "the so-and-so great virtue", generally there should not be any for the layman, I don’t know very well, because we are only for the monks. If it's an elder, it's different, and you have to ring the bell, bang, bang, drum, two drums and one bell, that's very solemn.
We are in a small dojo for meditation in Taitung. I am responsible for it myself. We just do meditation without much activity, but we invite some bhikshuni masters to join us!We have to obey the precepts in our dojo to have a protector god!As soon as they came to our seven bhikshuni masters to help us knot the ring, she wanted to say that there should be no scenes in our small place. Unexpectedly, we heard the bells and drums ringing from far away, bang bang, wow!We greeted them all the way in this way to show our sincerity.As soon as some elders came in, the waiters followed many disciples, and then they were invited to the main hall to return them to sing incense praises and sing praises to greet them. It depends on their different identities, but they basically have to accept them. Let’s drive, we probably have a concept, which you may also use in the dojo in the future.
There is also that you are paying homage to Master. Generally speaking, you say, "Disciple XX, bow to Master three times, right?"We usually say: "Three prayers", but the master said that some teachers said: "One worship and one worship..." Is there any?One worship and one worship, you really do one. You don’t want to worship three times by yourself. You are disobedient, right? He thinks he is very respectful, so he just said that you will worship once.He is saying that one prayer must have his reason, the first one he doesn't want to be worshipped, that means it means!Just give you a blessing for one prayer. Next, there may be other factors. Many people will come to worship, and everyone will worship three times. You spend a lot of time, right?Then, like us, we don’t want to accept other people’s worship. We say: "Pray to the Buddha, ask for an inquiry!" or "Pray to the Buddha and worship."Look at the place! If you are in the main hall and I sit there, you will worship the Buddha, cultivate a blessing, and make a bond. If you are outside, he will say: "If you don't worship, just ask questions." Then you have to "practice according to religion." "This is very important!Imagine a teacher's father sitting there. He is sitting there with a solemn and dignified teacher father. Then you of course respectfully want to pay respects to the master three times and the monk three times, and then he said, "No. Do not worship", then you are also worshiping.Some old monks said, "Don't worship or worship." What you do when you don't worship or worship, just ask questions, and you don't need to worship.
He told you not to worship. Don’t do it. Don’t want to say that I have to worship three times to show my sincerity. No, that’s the idea of people in the world, because people in the world like to tell lies and polite things. He clearly said: "Yes", he will tell you "No", and then you will give it to him on purpose, right?This is how people in the world are!Everyone is guessing, so...Oh!Very troublesome.We practitioners don’t know, if you just want it, don’t just don’t, telling you not to worship or not to worship, it’s not polite to you, it’s not saying that you want to worship in my heart, and then just pretending to be polite. Worship is true. The most appropriate thing is not to worship, not to be polite to you, so don't think that I still worship, he will be more happy, no, that's your own thoughts.Following the teachings is the most important key and principle for showing respect. Do you know that?Do you know how to cultivate your respectful heart?You have to be respectful to your own parents, how respectful?It also starts from here.The so-called filial piety requires a smooth!right?Chinese is very mysterious, it is connected up and down, it is a causal relationship.You are obedient, and there is filial piety. This is a fact. Obedience is the cause, and filial piety is the result. You say I want to be filial and filial, but when people are gone, I don’t listen to speech, and I don’t accompany my parents. Things, not seeing people.My parents didn’t care about what they said, and they were very rebellious. How could there be filial piety?Nothing!There is no obedience! Without obedience, there is no filial piety, so it is very important to be obedient. Of course, if he tells you to kill someone, of course you can’t listen, but this situation is very special and it is unlikely to happen. , This is another topic.
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(XNUMX) How to call the Master correctly (this time, the drafting Master has not been finalized, if there is a typo, please report the error, and the merits are boundless!)
It’s also very important to call Master. You can’t directly call so-and-so teacher. For example, my name is Renjing. You can’t say "Master Renjing." You can't do this. Some people may say, "Master...respect teacher." ..", he seems to be very familiar with you, some protectors, big protectors, the greater the protectors, and then the longer he knows, he is... and no one is restricting this aspect. When no one asks for it, he It is: "Eh! Respect the teacher... Respect the teacher".I rarely meet, because I can’t stand people’s unruly rules, I will definitely discuss with you, I won’t see it, because my personality is... I am a Virgo and B-type perfectionism Also, I ask myself too much! Then others share with him, if he doesn’t like it, I won’t force it!But in many places of this, because everyone did not study these small rules, it became very strange.
So-and-so teacher..., this is... So-and-so teacher...It’s the master who is calling the apprentice, so it’s called the so-and-so teacher. Are you a master?Lay members, bhikkhus, bhikuni, Upasai, Upayi, Upasai is a male layman, and Upayi is a female layperson, so this is a distinct generation.Only the elders can be called disciples, or so-and-so teacher; sometimes it is possible for the average generation, but if you want to be polite, it seems like we are in a Buddhist academy, where are we?We still call Master XX, Master Renjing, Master XX, and follow Master.
When you see me, I and our abbot monk are classmates. Of course, his identity as a monk is also better than us... That is, we are actually peers in the identity of our classmates, and we are also the fifth class, but I We still call him Master so-and-so, and say that he is the master of continuity, because he is a monk, and we must respect the monk.This is all personal cultivation, although he did not ask for it.He is also very polite. When we were on Facebook, he also said, "Oh! You are older."I said, "No, how old am I." He was also very polite, joking like this.
In fact, even if we are the same generation, if we are speaking in terms of learning, some monks are even the sixth of ours and have juniors, they are also monks!Well, in terms of Fa-study, he is our junior, our junior!So we can still... We become our teaching assistants, and we are the elders again. Maybe our school brother may also be a monk.If he is higher than us in terms of his ordination status, and if he is a classmate or we are teaching assistants, then we will become an elder.But no matter what we do, we ourselves have to make use of our most modest way, whether it is an elder, a junior, or a junior, we call him the most respected title.
Then I choose, because the monk!We respect him and call him Master so-and-so, even among peers.Then you should master this principle of you!What you usually call the people around you is very important. You must respect each other as a guest, so that the relationship will last long and there will be no friction.And this respectful, this title can often reveal whether we are humble, whether we are slow, I think I am high, I am high and you are low!It seems that I have more face when I am the boss, or I want to be called deliberately, oops!In this way, it seems that I know him very well, and I have a lot of face. I know the master very well, so I directly call him so-and-so teacher, and then others seem to have a lot of face. These thoughts are wrong.
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(XNUMX) One of the rules that should be in the main hall of the Dharma Q&A (The master of the draft has not yet set the school, if there are typos, please report the error, the merits are boundless!)
Now that we are here, let me pause for a moment. We have time to ask questions. Does anyone want to ask questions?If you want to ask questions, you can ask on the spot, or write this note.If you have any questions, you should ask, don’t be afraid to ask inappropriately, or if it’s inappropriate, give me a scolding, or I will point out what’s wrong with you, and you will change it next time.
Master Renjing: Please speak!
Volkswagen: Let me ask, that is, if you said that it is just an interrogation, how do you ask?These rules we
Do not understand.
Master Renjing: Oh, for inquiries, just send someone to teach you later. You don’t need a sledgehammer to kill chickens. You can work together and you won’t be so tired. Who is that?Or we Diana...they, these fellow practitioners who have been practicing together, they all understand, ask them to teach you.Ask a little harder question!I’ll give you some hints when you ask questions. Try not to ask about Buddhist terms. Why?You can find it all.It’s really rare for you to ask a senior. We are at least people who are here, no matter how well you have cultivated, at least you are people who have been here. You have met for more than ten years and practiced whole-heartedly. So there is some experience that you can share with you in your practice. Of course, if you have not studied at all, you can’t ask questions, so you have to be good at asking!Asking questions is also a great learning. You have to ask the kind that you can't find the answer on your own, and you can't find the answer in the book. If you can find it, look for it yourself. Buddhist terminology.
Of course it doesn't matter. This is just a principle, you really have questions...if you have any questions, you can also ask them.
Master Renjing: Okay, you say.
Volkswagen: I want to ask, because it's just a lot of offerings, isn't it?
Master Renjing: Yes.
Volkswagen: Is there a limit to the number or will it be taken down after noon?
Master Renjing: They are usually taken down after noon.
Volkswagen: Just don’t have too many, just a little bit of expression, right?
Master Renjing: Yes, but it mainly depends on the size of the hall and the overall sense of solemnity, like... OK, please sit down, you don't grow taller.Some of our halls can accommodate two or three hundred people, wow!That offering fruit, our fruit, apples layer by layer, and some are stacked to almost seven or eight layers. That incense lamp master is very powerful!That's a specialized technique that you can't learn outside, and then there are many, many kinds. This depends on the situation, there is no certain, there is no certain, okay, is there any problem?
Volkswagen: Master, just now you said that after entering the hall, you cannot worship the one in the middle...
Master Renjing: Worship the pad, right.
Volkswagen: It's a separate worship pad, right?
Master Renjing: Yes.
Volkswagen: The last three... are not...
Master Renjing: You are not allowed to worship. There are usually three in the Daxiong Hall, usually...
Volkswagen: This row of one, two, or three worship pads is not allowed?
Master Renjing: None.
Volkswagen: Just go back.
Master Renjing: Yes, the first one is the most serious. This one is the abbot, the next one is the master, the master, and the next one. Some are two, some are three, which is relatively large-scale. For those three, the last one is It is the person who feeds, the incense lamp master will use it.
Volkswagen: Now, for example, we usually go to the dojo on the mainland. After we enter, it seems that there are three worship pads at the front.
Master Renjing: Yes...oh!Correct!Correct!That incense...many incense dojos, they are just outside for pilgrims to pray for incense, and the specifications and patterns are different.For that, eh, I rarely go to the incense dojo, I have seen it, I have seen that.It is...you are...what are you asking now, is it possible to worship?
Volkswagen: Ah, yes!
Master Renjing: Yes, it is for you to worship!
Volkswagen: This is fine.
Master Renjing: Yes!Correct!Correct!But it doesn't... Usually I remember it is at the door, it is not going in.
Volkswagen: In that hall.
Master Renjing: Yes...the first place, yes...it is for you to worship. Three, and then usually a merit box is placed there. After the worship, drop it by the way.So sometimes we don’t understand, we go to a place, we will observe first, if we don’t understand, we can ask first, eh!Can this be worshipped?How about it? If you don’t understand, you should ask!
You see that Confucius is so knowledgeable, he will ask people for advice whenever he goes there, right?It doesn't matter.I'm most afraid that if you don't ask, don't learn, you don't understand anything for decades, and you say it's an old Xiu. It really makes us sad when we watch it, because the four of us are one, we are one family!Then you laughed at others, and we felt very embarrassed when we saw it!Because they are all Buddhist disciples, right?Then I don’t know, and people are laughing, and you don’t even know.We are very nervous, because we understand!We know that others will think that you are unruly, and they are embarrassed to talk about it, but we know that by looking at their expressions.This is very bad, right?That way, we lost the face of our Buddhist disciples!Don't say that for ourselves, we also have to learn for the whole. In fact, it is not difficult. If you learn one thing, you can do it.Are there any questions?After a while, there will be more and more problems at the end, which is usually the case.
Public: Master, I would like to ask, when we recite sutras at home, such as the "Amitabha Sutra", how do we turn back after reading the dedication?
Master Renjing: Oh... this way, please sit down!Generally speaking, no matter what sutra or bodhisattva name you recite, you have to go back.There are two kinds of dedication, one is "Wish to use this merit, majestic Buddha Pure Land..." This is more common, and the other is to recite the Buddha "Wish to live in the Western Pure Land..." This is also possible, but I will tell you in particular now, If you are chanting "Namo Amitabha", you don't need to go back, but it doesn't matter if you are willing to go back.It just said that all other things must be turned back, only "Nanmo Amitabha" does not need to turn back, why?Because the six characters "Nanwu Amitabha", or Amitabha can be used, those six characters are more complete, because "Nanwu" means refuge!So these six words in themselves represent faith, willingness to do, that is to say, willing to be born in the Western Pure Land, right?That meaning is already in it, so as long as you say "Namo Amitabha", you don't need to go back. Every sentence is going back. We will recite "Namo Amitabha" because we are going to the Paradise of Bliss, right?And its original meaning is like this, and its original meaning itself has the meaning of faith and willingness in it, so you don't need to deliberately go back when you say "Amitabha".But we are usually here. We masters understand this principle, but why do we have to go back when we take everyone to practice together? Because follow everyone's habits, it seems to be more meritorious to go back, right?I feel more at ease.
An old Bodhisattva said that I read XNUMX sentences this month. She originally planned to recite XNUMX sentences a month. One day is not a month. She said that I have chanted XNUMX more now!She asked me if I could save it for the first day and the fifteenth day of the first year and then return to it? I said that it would be nice to be happy. In her heart, it seemed that it would not be wasted, because chanting Buddhism is merit and wealth!If you read a sentence of one dollar, she feels that I have saved a lot, it seems that it will be wasted if you don’t make good use of it. It doesn’t matter. This is all small things, as long as you are happy and stable. To be reasonable, she doesn’t understand it very well. Just follow her. She thinks it’s okay to get the merit. You don’t need to be attached to these. These rituals are to follow everyone, and the purpose is to make everyone feel that they have merits and gains. Up.We worked hard to cultivate together, and then we felt that the time we wished to practice together was not empty, and our hard work was not wasted, so I saved a lot of merit, and then I want to go back wherever I go. That’s okay. This is to follow us in the world. Habit, because we all have attachments!These are okay, so in general, if you practice together, you will have a dedication even if you are studying Buddhism and cultivating together. If you want to go back to Wennian, then you don’t need to practice together here.
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(XNUMX) Can the Five Precepts be worn with a man's clothing? (This is because the master of drafting has not yet set the school. If there is a typo, please report the error. The merits are boundless!)
Master Renjing: Who else raised his hand just now?Okay, you say.
Public: Master, I want to ask a question about the Five Precepts.
Master Renjing: I hope to ask someone with a higher level, no!We must be equal and not separate.
Public: Because of the Five Precepts, I myself have received the Five Precepts, but because attorney Wen Guoqing came this time, it was because I listened to the old master many times and highly praised Master Guoqing. His lawyers have clean morals, which is indispensable in modern times. A very good lawyer in, so in this case, a fellow practitioner suggested that I take the buffalo precepts again. I didn’t know what buffalo precepts are. I searched the Internet for what is buffalo precepts. Then this buffalo precepts said Actually, I still don’t quite understand?
Another question, if the person who is ordained can wear this man's clothing, what is this called, is it called a man's clothing?However, the old masters who study the Jingzong school do not advocate wearing a man's clothing, including Master Dinghong, who also do not wear a man's clothing.
Master Renjing: Master Dinghong, he said that there is no need to take it. He once said that, right?
Volkswagen: Yes, he said it when he practiced together, but some dojos are for solemnity...maybe...
Master Renjing: Let me tell you, maybe your news is not very well-informed, he's recently!Because a while ago, in the CD he recorded, he said that there was a passage in it, and he also confessed to the public. He said that if you have heard it before, he said that he used to not pay much attention to the precepts, including this one. The meaning of slow clothes is the same, he doesn't take it seriously!I think this can open up fate!It’s okay, because many of our Jingzong Daojang is indeed open source, not to mention the Jingzong Daojang, even Zen Buddhism doesn’t care about these very much. This is a later story and its background. It’s not that he doesn’t hold the precepts, he does. He has the peculiar clear rules of the Chinese jungle. Because the roots are different from beings, this kind of sound and hearing precepts is very trivial. The Zen Buddhism is very big and transformed, and it has another way of keeping precepts.He is also a confession. He said that if you have heard me say the precepts before, you don’t pay much attention to them, you can open them!Then I take these words back now.That's because he didn't make a mistake at that time, but because of the predestined conditions at that time, he is also devoted to keeping the precepts now.
Then the part that gains the precepts is to increase. Benefits are benefits. Increases. Every time we take the precepts, we can add more benefits. If it is explained in a simple way.Then I often urge people to take the precepts, because lawyer Guoqing's morals are very pure.Yes, in fact, it depends on which perspective you are from. If you are truly respectful from the perspective of idealism, anyone can be the object of closeness, but it is difficult for ordinary people to achieve this level, so of course we have to hope for blessings. The reward is greater, you can really meet a great virtue with pure precepts, and then go to receive the precepts, and seek to receive the precepts.
The five precepts can be dressed up, and the five precepts can be dressed up, because this clothing is a ritual confession clothing, and the man’s attire is a ritual confession clothing. Shouldn't the five precepts repent?Yes!It is not a bodhisattva vow to repent, I will say by the way.
Public: If you usually go to the dojo to practice together in the future, then you must...
Master Renjing: There is no certainty, okay, let me tell you, taking precepts, we first ask for the first step of taking precepts, and then we must devote ourselves to keeping precepts. Of course, you have to learn precepts how you hold them, because there is a violation of precepts. The spirit of the Hinayana and Mahayana precepts is different.The Mahayana precepts are based on not allowing sentient beings to worry about them. The Hinayana precepts are things that are committed if they are committed. Therefore, what is not allowed is not allowed. Of course, it has a condition of opening up.So if we go to the Jingzong dojo to practice together, we will follow the rules there. I don’t want to tell people that I have learned the precepts and I know what is right, and then confront him, or you are reluctant to endure it. Then I feel uncomfortable in my heart, and I don't need it. This is all you can open up the predestined condition.
If you are the person in charge of the deacon when you can be the master, then you can do it according to your standards. It is best that we try our best to be consummate.So everyone must. I also have a very important task this time, that is, I hope everyone will ask for the bodhisattva vows. The bodhisattva vows contain the five precepts, and you can also ask for the bodhisattva vows.Then when we talk about the "Brahma Net Sutra" on Wednesday, we will often mention some concepts with you. The bodhisattva vows are not difficult. We only talked about the five precepts as the heaviest vows today.Bodhisattva vows means that we have to learn a lot of vows to help us cultivate good practices in our lives. Bodhisattvas must benefit all living beings, right?The five precepts are just to stop evil!To stop evil, the Five Precepts should further cultivate goodness, we don't know how to cultivate goodness!That is the bodhisattva vow. It teaches you how to accumulate our merits. To be a bodhisattva, if you don't learn it, you won't be able to. Why not ask for it?It’s not that it’s more difficult. Then how to hold and how to open up the predestined condition is that you first ask for the precepts and then learn. This learning will not be completed in one or two days, or you will learn as you go. This is called "Don't be liberated" means that if you learn one, you will be liberated.
Public: "That means there is no such kind of consummation."
Master Renjing: There is no such kind of consummation. You can consummate the five precepts only when you become a Buddha, right?So many people have wrong ideas.
Respectful excerpts from disciple Peier
(XNUMX) Send bodhicitta and ask for the precepts (this is the master of the draft has not yet set the school, if there are typos, please report the error, the merits are boundless!)
I just told the protector inside of us this morning. I said someone asked, "Oh! You have to receive the five precepts for a few years before you receive the bodhisattva precepts." This is not the case. It is also mentioned in the Brahma Net Sutra, which we will cover in this Wednesday course. There is a scripture in it. Who can take the precepts?Any kind of person can be accepted, even if you are someone who is not very good, you are a person in an abnormal place, a person at work, a special business!Or some rascals...all you can do, as long as you are willing.
Ugh!If you want to be a bodhisattva, why are people not welcome?You have Buddha nature!We all have a kind side of nature. Today you want to develop bodhicitta and be a bodhisattva. You have to learn the precepts. You have to learn one to do one, learn two to do two, not immediately achieve Consummation, you can do one more is one, everyone praises , Long Tian is happy!So the bodhisattva vows can be accepted by everyone, as long as you can understand the words of the master, this is said in the scriptures, because he teaches you how to hold them, you have to understand them.If you have flowers, plants and trees, there is no reason why you call this table to receive the bodhisattva ordination!This table does not understand what you are talking about, it has a standard just like this.There are some sentient beings who understand the language of the mage, like ghosts and gods, ghosts can also be used, they have abilities, and ghosts and gods have abilities!If he wants to be a bodhisattva, he can.This bodhisattva vow is actually after receiving the three refuges, and if you really want to practice in Buddhism, you should feel your heart.
Because our order is like this, we ask for precepts first, not to say, oops!When I read the vows first, I'll learn and get ready first, and then I will ask for vows. It's not like this, the order is wrong.The same is true for our monks. We have to take the precepts first and then learn the precepts. Why? Because taking the precepts first allows you to feel the precepts first. The so-called precepts are the blessing power that the monk imparted to us, including we have to learn some rules.Then this precept enters our heart. The precept is an intangible thing, but in simple terms, it is a pure blessing that enters our heart, which makes us very moved. We initiate the kind of willingness to keep the precepts diligently. One of his thoughts, such a bodhichitta, is willing to send this to save sentient beings, we bodhisattva vows are to save sentient beings!I was very touched by my heart. I really started to learn to be a Bodhisattva, and then I started to practice the path of Bodhisattva for self-interest and altruism.
Through this blessing of the monk, he already has this virtue!There is also a precept, then he will pass this precept to you and convey it to you during the process of helping you pass the ritual, and he can convey it to you if there is a ritual.In this case, after you receive the vows, you feel that if ordinary people don't realize it, they have good fate like us. We have talked about some vows first so that you can better understand what kind of mentality to ask for the vows.
Also, some people are stupid, as I said before, I don’t know what I’m going to do after I receive the precepts!I didn't feel it. Even the three conversions were vaguely converted, and I didn't know what conversion was.So of course this order means that we have to ask for precepts first, but if you have a concept before you ask for precepts, it doesn’t mean that you have to learn to hold the precepts well before you ask for precepts, no, but you can have concepts first, and concepts first. If you have the right mentality, then you can ask for the precepts. You can feel the precepts and the blessing power right now, so you must first have the blessings of this precept before you can... you will feel that suddenly you It's different, you are a Bodhisattva!
Simply speaking, it is like a soul. The soul of the Bodhisattva enters our hearts. The abstract thing is a feeling. The very pure thing comes in. There is no way to describe this thing, but you can feel it.Secondly, there will be a guardian god. If you receive the five precepts today, there will be XNUMX guardian gods. What precepts do you receive today, especially the bodhisattva precepts, the dragon and the sky, will help you avoid creating karma invisibly. You can accomplish good things and bad things are impossible. If you want to break the precepts, it is very difficult. It is to bless you. Of course, you have to take the precepts first. It is not the same if you have the precepts and not take the precepts before you take the precepts.
Respectful excerpts from disciple Peier
(XNUMX) The correct mentality to learn the precepts and keep the precepts (this is the master of the draft has not yet set the school, if there are typos, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)
Master Renjing: Okay, I know there will be more and more problems, it doesn't matter.
Public: I used to have the five precepts around me. Some of them said that you can't do the five precepts. When you take the precepts, you will sin more severely and you will withdraw from the precepts. This is what I know.
Master Renjing: Yes...
Volkswagen: So this also affected the time interval when I first received the Five Precepts. It has been more than two and a half years since I took the Five Precepts, and it has always hindered me.
Master Renjing: This question...
Public: Until later, when I made up my mind to take the five precepts, although none of the five precepts were not violated, of course it could not be done perfectly, but you will remind yourself that you have taken the precepts from time to time when you do it.
Master Renjing: Yes... Yes, it must have blessing power.
The public: I just met another good knowledge. He told me to increase the precepts. I don’t know what this is to increase precepts. So! Because I am admired by Master Guoqing, so I said that I wanted to bless me under his precepts, so I took time off for two days to participate in these four days. I didn't mean that I wanted to learn from Master Cong Guoqing's every move and his precepts, rather than listening to this sutra, that is, I used to...
Master Renjing: I tell you this is very important. Please take a seat first. If you continue to talk about it, it will be replaced by you, because it is very important for you to ask this question!You said that blessing is very important, but listening to the scriptures is also equally important. If you come to listen to it in the last class, you will know. I also mentioned this issue.Many people have the wrong concept of ordination, oops!If your level is so poor, or our karma is so heavy, this is still not going to take the precepts, and wait for a better time to take the precepts, otherwise, what will happen to the precepts, or some people have already taken the precepts, and the result is very uneasy, as if afraid What kind of psychological depression the fear of breaking the precepts is, this is an incorrect concept.
Many people have questions about this issue, and I talked about it in the last class.Therefore, if we have the prerequisites to listen to the precepts first, it would be better to take the precepts after listening. Moreover, we can't stop this kind of precepts for the whole life.It means that you can't stop learning abstinence.Because this is relatively simple to tell you now, so that you can understand it, and then you can know how to do it. In fact, this level can be continuously improved, but if I speak too deeply, you don’t understand and you don’t know how to do it. .The principles of this precept can be discussed very deeply. The so-called holding to the three-wheel body emptiness, the form of no self, no one, no sentient beings, and lifeless persons, right? All four aspects in the "Diamond Sutra" are broken, oh!Don’t you understand? , The highest level is the three-wheel body empty!There is no "I" who is holding the precepts, and there is no "I" holding the precepts or precepts. There is no "I" whether it is good or not, nor the feeling that "I" is a bodhisattva.But this is not. It's not the "emptiness" of our concept. It also actually has merit. This kungfu is another higher level of practice, and the method of keeping the precepts is higher, so you must take your time.
You must first learn that we must use the correct concept, and then we must learn which precepts and how to maintain, and after that, we will continue to listen and listen continuously. This is what we will learn for a lifetime until you become enlightened.
Volkswagen: It’s okay to just go in and receive if you don’t understand?
Master Renjing: Yes!You are better than never before!right?You are better than anyone in the world who have never entered Buddhism and planted Vajra seeds.
Public: Because I now want to receive the bodhisattva vow after listening to my heartbeat.
Master Renjing: It must be taken care of!My goal is to get everyone's heart, everyone's heart, because this cause is too rare, our monk Guoqing has a pure morality, he hasn't touched money for more than XNUMX years!Moreover, he did not sleep for ninety days, did not sit down to sleep, and did not lie down. He could only walk, practice, and recite the Buddha. This is called Prajna samādhi. He closed three times and practiced three times for XNUMX days. We are one day. Just hang there.Ninety days!With his superhuman perseverance, I only depended on him this year. I officially depended on him to study, and I was also his disciple.Then I don’t keep the precepts well, because I often want to open up the predestined relationship outside!Many of them are unable to do anything, and they are also ashamed that they are inadequate.But now when encountering this cause and condition, he is staring at me very closely. There is no way, he asked me to recite the vows of sutras, "Bodhisattva Sutra" and "Brahma Net Sutra" bhikshuni sutras should be memorized, wow!It’s really a headache. I’ve been begging him for a long time, so I also ask you to recite it as much as possible.It's not difficult, you can do it with your heart, and you can recite one or two sentences a day!Or after you are familiar with it, you will naturally become familiar with it, because we had to recite the vows once at least half a month and half a month after we received the vows, so we should read the vows too!Review it, or you will forget it after receiving the vows.
We have a total of fifty-eight articles with ten weights and forty eight lights. You don’t know, what are you going to hold?Don’t remember how you got hold of it?So memorization is actually the most basic, including we have to learn the precepts and practice. In fact, we all have to memorize, but we are very lazy. I also told him, because I didn't learn a lot!right?Moreover, I majored in the Pure Land for more than ten years. Of course we have to learn the basic precepts. The Daoist practices practice precepts all day long.But I didn't specialize in law studies, because there are so many names and proper nouns, and I didn't want to memorize them, so I asked him not to memorize them for a long time!Of course it’s not possible. Can I recite the point?No, there is no discussion.We try our best!Try to do it as much as possible, because it is really us, and we must be very clear about how much we have done, and then we will feel ashamed of the shortcomings, and then try our best to strengthen it. This will be fine, but nothing will happen.right?If you are working hard at the things you can't do, then you are better than the people of the world.Don't put pressure on yourself on the contrary, just see the part that you are not doing well, the pressure is so heavy all day, so you will retreat, just don't hold on not to learn, this is wrong.You have to encourage yourself, so call it "Don't get free"!
This is how the precepts are. If you receive one, you will get rid of one, and you will count as much as you do.The precepts help us to be more liberated and to be able to adjust to good living habits. Our usual work and rest habits are very poor, there is no learning, no rules!right?After learning the precepts, you will understand. It will not be difficult to develop a good habit. It is just teaching you how to walk, stay, sit, and lie in your life, as well as develop your mind!You learned a set of correct methods and you just used it. It's not asking you to practice asceticism, right?That austerity is another cultivation method, a cultivation method of tempering.The precepts are just the basic norms of life, and further benefit lies in his heart, benefiting all living beings to do good!You can do as much as you want, and no one can force you to do as much as you want, just let the flow go.So the precepts are completely to help us free ourselves from happiness, not to give us a sense of restraint, the kind of restraint you think, you restrain yourself.Ouch!I don’t seem to be doing well enough here, what I do, and then I don’t do it well, it’s more relaxed. In fact, I just make excuses for myself.You forced yourself very tight, and then let go all at once, right?You are looking for it yourself, and the precepts themselves do not put any pressure on others.It just guides you to the right path, the right way of life, the norms, and that's it.
Respectful excerpts from disciple Peier
(XNUMX) You must first obtain the precepts before you start to learn the precepts (this is because the master drafting master has not yet set the school, if there is a typo, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)
Public: If you say that I don’t understand the bodhisattva vows at all, and I haven’t studied the Lotus Sutra, because the time is short and I don’t have time to study this, if it’s like what you just said, because I’m an old master, I highly appreciate Guo Qing. The master’s virtue is very high, so I want to take advantage of this very rare opportunity, perhaps once in a lifetime. If I take the Bodhisattva vow first, maybe I don’t understand anything, first borrow this vow, then I will go slowly. Make up...
Master Renjing: That's how it is!
Volkswagen: I don't know if I have sinned.
Master Renjing: It’s not a sin, no. I said you didn’t come to listen in the last class. If you did come to listen in the last class, you wouldn’t have this problem. Our original order is like this. Everyone should be like this. That's it.First take the precepts and send your mind. I will start to learn to be a bodhisattva now. Then because of this mind, I will ask for precepts. Then there will be a ceremony. Then the monk of precepts will give you a precept, and then I will recite the precepts for half a month and a half month. The spirit of chanting vows is to make you start to learn vows, understand?So it was originally to ask for the precepts first, and then you start to learn the precepts, do as many as you learn.
Public: Do not violate the precepts.
Master Renjing: Don't violate the precepts, because only the Buddha can achieve Consummation!It’s the same with our monks. There are three hundred and forty-eight precepts. Don’t you shave your head, hey!It's Consummation. Is there such a thing?Impossible!Therefore, there are many ways to be ashamed in our precepts. If you make a mistake, be ashamed as soon as possible. There are many different ways to be ashamed. You must learn the precepts for a long time and listen to the teacher’s explanation. , And then chant the vows every half month and half month.
There are also those of us who are cultivators. Don’t always make excuses. You can be busy before you practice, because you have nothing to do, you can only be busy with things in the world.When you are motivated to practice, you have to do your best, and you have to show sincerity!Your mouth says you want to practice, but you have no action, so you have to start adjusting your work and rest, so that you don’t go out to play, and then start to learn the precepts, like I just came here and I’m not familiar with you, so I’ll persuade you when I’m familiar. If you don’t eat after lunch, you are scared away after a while, but don’t force it, I’m sharing with you, I have many students who don’t eat after lunch, family members!And it is easy to succeed, and then everyone is full of fascination. There is evidence for this. You can directly go to Facebook to talk to them, leave a message, and he can share with you the whole process.It is simple and easy to succeed as to how to go there without eating for lunch, and then to get a physical and mental reaction.
I was also forced by lawyer Guo Qing. I used to have a predestined relationship because I had stomach ulcers!Later, it was all right and it was all about it in my CD.So in terms of our time this time, we will talk about more and less, we have two months, but we have too many things to talk about, we talk about the "Vatican Net Sutra", talk about this Buddhist etiquette, and talk about the Lord of the Pure Land Xiu, the scope of what we are going to talk about is very wide, so I have brought some CDs to connect with you. I recorded CDs for dozens of hours. I brought them this time, and I am copying them now.The content of these things is different every time I lecture. I have never said so-called repetitions. I pick up the old manuscript and talk about it. No, but the whole core will not change. The thinking is stable, but the teaching is skillful and gives examples. It's all different, so you can watch it all.
I used to circulate the CDs as a whole. For example, I have talked about the forty-eight wishes, the whole is complete, and I have talked about the Three Sutras of the Pure Land of the Amitabha Sutra, and the keynotes of the master Yinguang. You all You can see, including the precepts, and I will also talk about the precepts. Then this time it will be more complete. Let’s talk about the Brahma Net Sutra and try our best to make it perfect.
This thing is that you must listen more!Because every time you listen to it, you will have a different experience, and then you will learn more and more detailed, and the level is getting higher and higher, so it is not three or two days, so of course it is impossible to achieve Consummation all at once. It is absolutely impossible. , This is a wrong idea.Therefore, there is a confession method in our precepts. When do you commit the precepts to what extent, and then how to repent, so don’t worry, learning precepts is a very happy thing, and you will feel hard at the beginning of keeping the precepts, oh!I can’t eat, or whatever, that’s our own imagination. In principle, we can do as much as we can, so that there is no pressure, right?You can do as much as you can happily, and then you will find that when you lose this pressure, when your mind bursts, you really want to learn the precepts, practice well and want to be liberated, and this mind bursts. The Three Treasures will bless you, and then your process will go smoothly. Hey, it will go smoothly, and it will go smoothly you can't imagine. Why?
Because we all have Buddha nature!Every one of us is equal. It’s not said who is smarter and who is stupid. It’s just that you haven’t developed your potential and your buddha nature has not been developed. So when we are willing, we all feel the Buddha and Bodhisattva. Yes, He is blessing you.You will find that you follow this precept very easily, smoothly, and joyfully, so you must first remove your karma first, throw away your worries first, trust the Three Jewels, and the Three Jewels will give you some ways to progress gradually, various methods, he It just induces you and guides you to enter a level where you can gradually improve. It does not ask you to improve all at once. Some people rise all at once. That is the cause and condition of others. You don’t need to be envious, and don’t feel pressure. ,right?No matter how bad you hold it, it's better than those who don't hold it!You are not the last one, don’t worry, do you understand?You must take care!This cause is too rare. If you are not interested, it is really a pity for you.
Respectful excerpts from disciple Peier
(XNUMX) The correct appellation for the monks (this is not the master of the draft, if there is a typo, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)
Master Renjing: Are there any questions?
The public: Amitabha!
Master Renjing: This sentence is the most complete!
The public: Amitabha!I am a volunteer here. I just heard you talk about the Brahma Net Sutra, and when you heard it, it’s an inquiry, because we now have many masters here to give lectures. As a volunteer, we must first follow the etiquette and rules. child.
Master Renjing: Pick up and drive off.
VW: So I heard you say that you can't let our laymen directly call "Master Renjing" like this. No, how should we call it?
Master Renjing: "Master so and so", because "Master" is a generic term. "Master" has two meanings. One is that as long as you know, as long as you are a monk, whether you know it or not, whether it’s a teacher or a little master, anyway It’s called Master, and this is one type; the other is the Master you learn the Fa with him, for example, your "Random Master" or "Reliance Master". You learn the Fa with him. This is very close and also called "Master" has two meanings.
There is another kind of "mage". Strictly speaking, the "mage" can be called a "mage". Now almost all monks are called "mage", it doesn't matter.It means to call "Mage" very respectful, polite, and polite. So strictly speaking, it is only a mage who teaches the Fa. But if you see a monk calling "Mage so and so", it’s not rude, because everyone That's it.It is equivalent to saying that he is not teaching the Fa by raising him up. It doesn’t matter if you call him a "mage". It’s no wonder that many people are courteous! But if you are a master, it’s absolutely not wrong for you to call a "master." A certain master".If it is the master who studies the Fa by himself who is more intimate, even if he saves his name, he will just be "Master"!If they call us the abbot, the monk is called Master, Master!As soon as you call Master, I know who you are calling. He is not calling me and telling us to follow the Master, right?Actually, my own master!This is how I rely on my master who learns to be close.
I usually go back and collect some questions quickly, and then I have the opportunity to ask, like me, I am first-rate, I am most familiar with good knowledge, and others can’t get close to each other. The upper saint and the next old mage are the monks of the great jungle, and the commandments are very good. Strict, it is very difficult for women to get close.I was able to get close to him for at least two hours every afternoon during the ninety days of the end of summer. Almost his disciples would not be able to get close to him for so much time in his entire life!I'm very good at looking for opportunities, this is the intention!Our thoughts want to say that I want to get close to good knowledge. I don’t need anything. I have to get close to good knowledge. Naturally, I will feel this cause and condition. "All dharmas are created by the heart." At the beginning of the heart, if we really have that heart, the fate will be sufficient, which is really incredible, so my fate is to get close to the old monk Jingkong to study the Fa and study the scriptures. The old monk Jingkong is a great virtue of the Jingzong in modern times. right?Then the upper sage, the next old master, is the great virtue of Zen Buddhism, and is also a monk who has obtained the precepts. He has been preaching the precepts for more than XNUMX years. He is also the great virtue of practicing asceticism and keeping the precepts pure, the method of the old monk Xuyun, and the ninth generation of Weiyang Sect. Patriarch!
Like these great virtues, it’s very difficult to meet one in a lifetime. I have met three. Now the third is a lawyer from Shangguo and Qingqing, and I can talk to him for a long time. It’s because he is willing to bless us. Karma is very sufficient. This is the greatest blessing. You have the opportunity to get close to good knowledge, and then we usually encounter problems. If we don’t know, we can’t find the answer. We can see whether we are asking questions or observing ourselves. Yes, we can naturally get promotion, a great promotion. We have enlightenment, and it will be easy to enlighten. This enlightenment is not a great enlightenment all at once, big and small enlightenment, because he has his blessing power for major cultivating.He is talking without speaking, so it is very important to get close to good knowledge. It is not necessarily a well-known elder. As long as we have this heart, in fact, everyone can be good knowledge, especially the monk. After all, he is in accordance with the precepts of the Buddha. Teaching and practicing, so the road he has traveled is worthy of our study.
See if you are respectful. If you are respectful, you will be able to sense, you will understand, and you will be able to understand from the body, mouth and mind of him, and you will have enlightenment.Or you can even ask directly, right?You have a respectful heart!You can feel that if you are not respectful, he will talk for a long time, so he will talk here and go out!right?So is respectfulness important?Too important, that attitude is too important.In the past, people broke their arms for help!Now if I ask you to come and listen, it doesn’t necessarily come. It’s a lot of face for me, right?It's really too much difference, so now there are very few people who can be enlightened, and very few people are truly liberated.Cultivation has been a bitter, and it’s still a bitter for XNUMX to XNUMX years. Fate hasn’t changed. Actually, it can be turned right now, and it will start to reverse right now, toward the sun, right?I improved step by step, and it must be getting better day by day! How could it be possible that after XNUMX to XNUMX years, I didn’t feel unresponsive, and my troubles became more and more serious.
Master Renjing: It's almost half past three. Do you want to end the class? Are there any questions?The last one.
Volkswagen: You just said that in the main hall, you have to interrogate the Bodhisattva. If you are at home or here...?
Master Renjing: It's the same, it's the same, whether anyone sees it or in public places, because we already know why we want to do this, it's just to be respectful!right?Of course, you have to show respect at all times, unless you forget that you can’t do anything, but if you develop a habit you won’t forget it, it’s natural, and it will become a good habit for you. This is your cultivation, you see Your elders, when you see Buddha statues, you will naturally have that kind of respectful reaction. Isn't that good?So you have to learn more, the more you learn, the more refined you are. There is only promotion for you, only Dharma joy, only liberation, and no pressure.
(End of the first game)
Respectful excerpts from disciple Peier