Jingzong Fasting Society-Shi Ai-Master Renjing Global Propagation Website-Session 15 [Vishes 21-XNUMX]

Home Lectures from Dharma Propagation Interpretation Forty-eight willing to talk about righteousness Game 5

The fifth session [15 to 21 wishes]

(XNUMX) Receive a pass to the Western Paradise

(XNUMX) Receive a pass to the Western Paradise

Dear presidents, compassionate, respected fellow practitioners, respected organizers, good evening everyone, Amitabha_/|\_

Today is the last night we studied with you at the Widder Hotel in Muar. The look emanating from the fellow initiates and the enthusiastic atmosphere of our on-site attendance made me feel that our Muar area is indeed There should be a lot of fellow practitioners who can prepare and receive the pass to the Western Paradise. Therefore, our atmosphere tonight feels a little beaming.

Fortunately, most of our fellow practitioners are old fellow practitioners. Some old fellow practitioners still misunderstand. We chant Amitabha all day long. It seems to be a very unlucky thing to connect with this death. We know that we are chanting to survive. In the Western Paradise, this is the most meaningful and auspicious thing in our lives. As long as we become Buddhas, we will be able to escape the pain of reincarnation forever and obtain complete wisdom and great blessings.

We are reborn in the Western Paradise. We don’t have to work hard every day for three meals and to live, and we are often forced to create some karma, and we often have to put down our bodies and violate the principles. To put it bluntly, it’s just a matter of fact. For three meals.Some are even more pathetic and completely controlled by their endless greed. They are always pursuing fame and wealth throughout their lives, and there is no time to rest. So think about what we can say in this life.So as long as we have a cause and destiny, we can escape from this world. That is really the greatest joy, the greatest blessing.

So the focus of our discussions with you in the past five days this time is to focus on the core part of our Pure Land Method, that is, how to be able to develop the confidence to decide rebirth in the present, and it is not difficult to become a Buddha, as long as we If we really find the right way, even if we are buddhist practitioners who are novice learners.

At noon today, a fellow practitioner told me that last month I came to Mahalari and had a seven-day relationship with everyone. She only got the news on the seventh day, so she went to attend a one-day course and also posted The three conversions of the heart and the three refuges are just a novice practitioner. She actually received a lot of blessings and feelings.So I had a meal with us at noon today. She told me that she could really feel the joy of chanting Buddha, and in such a situation without deliberate pursuit, she really saw Amitabha twice, and one looked very big. The second time it seemed to be relatively small, I told her not to be attached. She said that this is my blessing and I have no blessing power. This is the blessing of Amitabha. I have not seen it yet. This beginner fellow practitioner is better than me. More good roots.But it’s good to have a realm, because in fact, people who are really beginners sometimes have a simpler heart. The achievement of our method does not lie in how many years we have studied, whether we are smart or not, but in a pure heart and sincerity. heart of.So this fellow practitioner told me that I think this is very normal, so I told her that it is very good to have a realm. This is the blessing and encouragement given to you by Amitabha. When I was a beginner, I often saw Buddha. , But in a dream.This fellow practitioner unexpectedly saw Amitabha Buddha in broad daylight. This is very rare, but I especially remind her not to be attached to this phenomenon. Once you become attached, it will be troublesome.

What makes us particularly happy for her is that she feels that she is very happy to say this phrase Nanmu Amitabha Buddha, that's right, she has already felt Amitabha Buddha, so that Dharma joy arises from the heart. You don’t have to deliberately imagine it, you just have to When praising you, you can naturally have various feelings in your heart. We will talk about these feelings later.

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(XNUMX) We are the main object of Amitabha Buddha's salvation

(XNUMX) We are the main object of Amitabha Buddha's salvation

Now let’s do a review for everyone. When we studied on the first day a few days ago, the first day’s course mainly studied: the first wish, the country’s wish for no evil.The second wish is not to fall into the evil wish.

In speaking of these two vows, I hope that through the study of these two vows, everyone can deeply experience the great compassion of Amitabha Buddha that surpasses the Buddhas.Especially Amitabha, to us, sinful beings, although these two vows are about the three evil ways, they actually include us, with us ordinary people of life and death, this relationship is very deep, and they love us especially, and at the same time this method. , He first issued these two wishes. It can also be seen that we are the main object of Amitabha Buddha's salvation. This method is a special method for us ordinary beings.

So from here we can feel that Amitabha is indeed very close to us, so if fellow practitioners have learned these two wishes on the first day, they should be able to feel that the distance with Amitabha is getting closer, even I have seen some The initiates were so moved that they wept bitterly, and finally realized that in this world, they thought they could not get the love of their parents and the sincere and interactive relationship around them. They felt very lonely in this life, and did not expect to be around us. , Buddha Amitabha was waiting for us anytime and anywhere after becoming a Buddha as early as ten kalpas.

Some of our fellow practitioners have deep roots in kindness. He discovered that after he felt this fact, the current mood was really hard to describe. Sometimes when I talk about it, I can’t help myself, but I’m afraid it’s out of control. ; Just like the last time I wrote "Who knows the suffering in the world", after I really finished it, I cried for more than two hours. It was a move, not a sadness.It is a kind of touch from the bottom of the heart, interacting with the Buddha and Bodhisattva's induction, so don't look at these two wishes lightly.It turns out that I made these two wishes. We used to study and I was the same. Seeing this is nothing. There are no three evil ways in the Buddha's land in the ten directions, nothing special...

So this time through us, the more in-depth is really to stand on the position of Amitabha Buddha. We try to understand his feelings, and no longer just think about ourselves all the time in the past. What can Amitabha Buddha help me and how can I practice Kungfu? Has it become? What is the effect of reciting this Buddha name? You are thinking about what you can get all day. Of course, you can’t interact with Amitabha Buddha. So as long as we grasp this key and know how to turn around and change our position, we stand Amitabha’s position is to appreciate his heart and his wishes. At the moment, all the merits of Amitabha Buddha begin to infuse our hearts. Therefore, many fellow practitioners have been able to interact with Amitabha Buddha in these two wishes and begin to have heart-to-heart friendship. Up.

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(XNUMX) Six magical powers make all living beings quickly become Buddhas

(XNUMX) Six supernatural powers make all living beings quickly become Buddhas

Then the third vow, the fourth vow, and the fifth vow are the manifestations of Amitabha's great mercy.In order to help us get rid of the initial worries, we, especially the satanic beings, attach great importance to the ego, and attach great importance to appearance, status, and status. So it is not easy to get rid of this deep worries!Look at the forty-nine years of Shakya's preaching. Has anyone listened to the scriptures and stopped paying attention to their appearance? It is very difficult. Before they die, they are afraid that they will die too ugly, and they have to make people look better in makeup.Right? So even the makeup artist in the funeral home is famous and unnamed. From here, you can see this obsession with the outside world!It’s really heavy, especially for women, who may have been worrying about this appearance all their lives. When they were young, they started spending a lot of money on dressing, and then they went to middle-aged to go for plastic surgery, and then they were worried all day long, fearing that they would not like it. , All day long worrying about the foreign minister, then you say you want to break, it is really difficult.

Therefore, Buddha Amitabha is very compassionate and very wise. In order to help us get rid of this trouble, he simply made thirty-two appearances. The golden body is indistinguishable from each other, etc., treating us as external appearances, giving birth to all kinds of things. Worries, jealousy, pride, low self-esteem, inequality, etc.... and even the struggle between people, compared with each other, of course it is not fair, then Amitabha will not persuade, and simply satisfy everyone, everyone is equal , The most solemn and complete image.Isn't that resolved?So our method is really extraordinary. You don't need to practice at all, and you get the best right away. It's really like a fairy tale, and it's hard to believe.

What about afterwards?Various magical powers have been released. This is to help us prepare for the cultivation of the Buddha in order to achieve our rapid Buddhahood. We have the destiny, the celestial ear, the celestial eye, the other mind, the magical foot, and so on.If you have enough of these five gods, or include the omission, it is impossible for you not to become a Buddha. For example, when you think of the gods, you can instantly clone yourself and go to the ten realms to make offerings to the Buddhas. Your offering to the Buddha is for blessing. After this blessing is offered to the Buddha, the Buddha will definitely give you instructions on how to benevolence. It will be very difficult for you not to be enlightened right now. Therefore, by the twelfth vow to complete enlightenment, you can see that Amitabha has made forty-eight vows, and by the first eleven, these vows It is enough to help us become a Buddha.

So what's next?He began to send us bright and boundless wishes, touch the light and happiness, and so on.This begins to lead us to experience the merits of Amitabha’s Dharmakaya, the name of the light, the immeasurable wish of the light, and it is about the merits of the name of the light. This part is a very important key for us to practice this method. , How can we be in the name of praising, by interacting with Amitabha, we can realize the merits and benefits of the wish of immeasurable light.

We mentioned yesterday that the light of Amitabha Buddha illuminates all the ten realms, but we have been reciting the Buddha for so long, have we been illuminated by the Buddha? It doesn’t seem to have any feeling, so why is it that others can see it, and some people can still see Amitabha Some fellow practitioners here can testify. They can see Amitabha, and they can see the light and the blessings and encouragement of these phenomena. Why don’t we have none of us, sometimes we work very hard, and try our best to recite the Buddha, but we don’t feel it. Because we have no way to go and experience the inner merits of the name of light.So what I’m going to talk about in this part is the part of Amitabha’s Dharma body merits. In the past, when we chanted Buddha, we used the name as a tool for meditation, right? At night, one thought after another, this level of complexity can be said that I don’t know what I’m thinking. It’s too complicated. Then how do you stop these delusions from disappearing? There are many ways...

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(XNUMX) The name of Amitabha Buddha has powerful light energy

(XNUMX) The name of Amitabha has powerful light energy

The method in Buddhism, our Pure Land Method, is to suppress it through this name and replace all thoughts with one thought. Our previous concepts are like this, and this practice is also possible.But the effect is not so obvious. Our fellow practitioners should all have experienced it.You have been reciting Buddhism for so long. A fellow practitioner told me that after I recited the concept of Buddhism for a few years, my current level of kung fu will probably be about ten to fifteen minutes. This delusion will gradually come down, Will calm down; I told him that you are too slow to recite like this. If you really know how to recite the first sentence and even the second sentence, you can immediately feel the blessing power of this name. Is the most correct.We can all get this kind of blessing power, because the scripture says to read the eight billion kalpas felony. Could it be that what you said ten minutes ago was not effective? Is there no merit? Of course there is, every sentence.

The problem is that we can’t realize it, so why can’t we realize it? Because in our hearts, we always use Him as a tool, as a stone, cold, just to suppress our delusional weeds , Then if you think that its function is just like this, then of course you will wait... Nian Nian for about five minutes and ten minutes before you can see the effect. If you think things are right or not, you think his function is like this, That's it for him.This is not wrong, but it is not the most extraordinary practice. We need to understand that the so-called immeasurable light and immeasurable life in this name means the name. He is actually the entire life of Amitabha Buddha, the entire life body, just like our concept, We have a soul, right? This light is Amitabha, his entire life body.How did our so-called Wandehong name come from? It is the entire life body of Amitabha Buddha, perfused in it, so we can feel that this Buddha sign is alive, he has vitality, and is a powerful and complete vitality.

Some scientists have done experiments in the past to measure things with different energies. There are different energy indexes. As a result, when someone took the Buddha statue or the name, the electricity exploded. It was too strong!! It was indeed not long ago. …The last time I came to Malaysia, there was a layman in Kuala Lumpur. He went to learn from others to measure the magnetic field inside. He used a general magnetic field measuring appliance, an elliptical appliance. In fact, a key ring is also available. I tried it, and you too. You can try it, hang a long wire and start holding it, he will go to every room to test, every room is measured forward, the magnetic field is very good, and finally he is measured in his most precious son’s room, which is reversed. He was very nervous, the most painful baby son, and then he thought about it and hung it on a Buddha statue to see. As a result, the Buddha statue was hung up and tested again, and it turned into a normal rotation immediately.

Also... we often see that at every intersection or tunnel at home and abroad, there have been car accidents in various places, and then are they often haunted and disturbed? Every time a car passes by, it is easy to have a car accident. But as long as there is a statue of Buddha or Nammo Amitabha’s name, it’s okay. Why? He has power in it. It is the power of Amitabha’s entire Wande name, so why is the name Wande? Because it is Amitabha’s entire life. Inside, so if we understand the truth when we understand it, and we no longer regard it as a cold tool, then you will feel different when you are reading.

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(XNUMX) Calling the Buddha's title can immediately eliminate the sense of fear

(XNUMX) Saying the Buddha's title can immediately eliminate the sense of fear

Especially through the first two vows, the first vow and the second vow, we really feel that the relationship between Amitabha Buddha and us is so close, and he is so anxious for us to save us.So when we are reading, I am used to it. No matter what the situation, sadness or loneliness, I almost never have this... I said that most people will be troubled early or we are troubled, and all kinds of restlessness. Fear, like me today, when my little waiter that little girl has good roots, she told me that she would be scared every time she walked to a dark place, so she chanted Nanmo Amitabha as soon as possible.

The child is very innocent. If she has a feeling of closeness and trust to Amitabha with these Buddha titles, she will feel the effect when she says the first sentence. There is no need to recite for ten minutes and fifteen minutes. If it is too late, she will be scared to death. .This Buddha's name is used at any time, especially in times of emergency, when we really need someone’s help. It’s not just for practicing meditation and kungfu. It’s nothing special, so we have to know how to go. How to absorb the power of this Buddha's name.

First of all, we really have to use our heart to experience and understand Amitabha's wishes, Amitabha's mood, Amitabha's relationship with us, and what merits Amitabha Buddha has in this name. We all have to understand one by one.In fact, if you recite honestly by yourself, some old bodhisattvas can’t understand the scriptures even if you explain them to him, but they are very honest. Through honest naming, in fact, there is a name in the chanting because of the original name. Power, so he can naturally experience all kinds of merits.Then we have heavy karma, and we don’t think this Buddha name has any special merits, so of course you have no taste when you recite, and the mentality of recitation is different, so we have to analyze the teachings to lead us to experience it.

For example, in the "Blessed Life Sutra", the twelfth grade of scriptures are illuminated all over the place. When we were beginners, we had to repeat it in the training class. The old monk stipulated that we should speak from the first grade to the last grade. Honestly, I learned the whole lesson perfectly this way.Then every time I talk about the twelfth product, I really want to jump over it, because it's boring, it's just a name. Dr. Zhong Maosen also mentioned before that when he started learning "Hua Yan", he bowed down three times and worshipped the old monk. Room, please go back and start learning this "Hua Yan Jing". Of course, the whole process is very diligent. As a result, when I go back and start to learn and start reading, I keep reading and read the more and more boring. The first volume of the whole "Hua Yan Jing", Almost all the names of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, very boring.

People with such good aptitudes can’t read it anymore. Then when I was a beginner, when I saw this product, I really felt nothing. How could it be said that the Dharma Zang Yindi fourth is so brilliant and storytelling, like I told Amitabha before How to practice and how to make a vow is quite interesting.Now, when I realized the merits of the name of Amitabha Buddha, and when I really felt all kinds of joys in gratification, suddenly I saw that this product was really different. It turned out that the kind of emotion in our hearts was that at the time of gratification. This kind of touch is written in this product.

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(XNUMX) Buddha's light blessed with extraordinary benefits

(XNUMX) Buddha's light blessed with extraordinary benefits

The name of the Buddha, the Twelve Lights Tathagata in this product, is actually a brief list of these twelve names, Guangming Virtue, to illustrate the merits of the name. The name merit is Wande, and "ten thousand" stands for immeasurable, "infinite" how do we get there Experience that we will go back and take a good look.You can experience this and this grade of scripture. It turns out that when we recite the Buddha, we can immediately feel the merits and benefits of the twelve light Tathagata virtues. If you know how to recite this Buddha name with the correct mentality, every sentence you What can you feel? The pure light, joy light, liberation light, calm light, unthinking light, wisdom light and so on are written in it.

Do fellow practitioners feel this way? Have you read the Buddha happily? Regardless of whether you have it or not, even if you have it, you can take a look at it with your heart.If you don't have you, change your mood and stop practicing Kungfu. If you interact with Buddha Amitabha with your heart, his life is in this name.When you read, you will immediately feel very stable "Stable Light".Why? Because Amitabha Buddha is right at the moment of our remembrance, He is in our hearts and around us, He is with us, so we will feel very safe and not afraid.He originally had this power for us to have this kind of reaction, but we didn't know why before, but now we understand.

Then we read and read, we are very happy, very happy, and we feel very good when we read it-"Happy Light". After reading it for a few years, it seems that the karma has disappeared a lot-"Clean Light". , Body and mind become more and more pure, and then wisdom grows more and more, as if I feel that my brain is much clearer now, and I am less deceived by others. I used to be deceived by others---"wisdom light".These are all the benefits we can get in the present. We don’t wait until the moment we die and become a Buddha to gain benefits. It depends on whether we know how to use our heart.

There is also a scripture in the twelfth product, "If the light shines on all the worlds in the ten directions, all sentient beings will encounter the light, and the good will be destroyed. The body is soft." As long as sentient beings encounter this light, we really feel the light of Amitabha Buddha. .Just as the defilement destroys the good lives, our karma will slowly be eliminated.The kindness and conscience will be inspired at the moment, and then what is shown is that the body is soft, and even some are more sensitive, and the whole person is reborn.Isn't there the so-called prodigal who turned his head back? He was a very evil person, but suddenly became a good person.As long as you have the opportunity to "touch the light and be happy" to accept this kind of big change, feel it, and feel it from your heart, you can make such a big change right now.So the kids in your family are hard to teach, so hurry up and do everything possible to use this Buddha title to help him skillfully. This kind of change is the biggest and most complete.

There is another story. We people are really suffering in this world. The rich have the sufferings of the rich, let alone the poor, without blessings, wisdom, and suffering.So no matter who you are, there are always many, many injustices and resentments in your heart, especially the older people accumulate more... Generally speaking, it is like this, so how can we eliminate such accumulating injustices and resentments?It's difficult.Usually he only keeps growing with age.

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(XNUMX) Meditation to the Buddha with a sincere heart can be blessed by the Buddha

(XNUMX) Meditation to the Buddha with a sincere heart can be blessed by the Buddha

Then there is a story on our side. When a little girl was five years old, she was caught by that... that is, the house was on fire and the whole house was burned. She was also burned. Most of her whole body was ulcerated, and the house was very serious. Burned.The family was already poor enough and there was no place to live, only mother and father were left.A mother dragged three girls. This is the eldest being five years old and the other two are younger. Then the mother took her to live in a small corner in the vegetable market. …

Then my mother leaned on selling some meat in the vegetable market and lived like this.Of course, there is no money to see a doctor. This little girl is just like this, this kind of physical pain, that kind of severe burns, there is no money to see a doctor; and then in such a dirty and filthy environment, she survived for ten years. , You said that if you die earlier, you will be liberated earlier. If she does not die, it is really better to live than to die.Can you imagine it? We saw it at the time and felt it was really too miserable. If it were me, I might go crazy because I was afraid of getting dirty.I feel that the dirt is almost unbearable. What's more, her body is ulcerated. Think about the ulcerated wound, severe burns and constant inflammation...

It was only when she was fifteen years old that she had the chance to meet Lianyou to see her, and then she saw someone caring for her, so she kept begging them... You want to take me to see a doctor, I was too hard, because at home No money again.Later, Lotus friend took the doctor to see her, and checked her and said: There is no way to treat her and it is so bad.There is no way, lotus friend persuaded her to recite Buddha. She was only fifteen years old, so she told her that because she was very extreme, suffering and torture during the ten years, she couldn’t sleep well every night and dreamed that many ghosts came to catch her. , It was like having a bad life during the day, suffering, and not being able to sleep at night, so she was very extreme in her heart.

She hated her father, and why the world was so unfair. Everyone looked at her strangely and kept away from her.The family is so poor, there is no way to see a doctor. After this lotus kindly persuaded her to recite the Buddha, and told her: This world is really hard, you have to recite the Buddha, there is an Amitabha in the Paradise of Paradise, you only ask for him , He will bless you.If you still have a predestined relationship, your illness will get better soon.It is useless for you to see a doctor. There is no Amitabha Buddha to be powerful; if the time is up, you will go to the Paradise of Bliss with Amitabha, and you will not have any pain.

She was not willing at first, because of the resentment, injustice, and extreme in her heart, how obedient.But Lianyou was very patient, so he read it with her.As a result, the second day and the third day changed. Her heart began to soften, and she would no longer exude a violent emotional magnetic field that was very antagonistic to others, and she had reacted in two or three days.After that, she continued to recite for XNUMX days, only XNUMX days before and after. One day, she told her mother, "I am going to die." Ask her mother to cleanse her body and dress her cleanly. She died safely after only twenty days of her clothes.Because I was too sick to be treated.

This is when she was alive. Before she died, her mind and body had changed, and her karma had disappeared.In the end, because of the samurai... her body was so bad that she was exhausted and reborn with Amitabha Buddha in the Paradise of Bliss.Such a serious example can be solved so satisfactorily.So if we have any problems in our lives, we can use a pious heart.Because the heart of a child, after all, is relatively simple, only fifteen years old, and she has suffered too much. When a person has no other choice, her heart is very true and sincere.So why are we unable to recite the Buddha? It is really "untrue" and "insincere".

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(XNUMX) Buddhism blessed the three evil ways, all have to rest

(XNUMX) Buddhism blessed the three evil ways, all have to rest

It’s not a good thing to get too much fortune, think I still have so much money to spend, I still have a lovely wife and daughters so cute, so obedient... These are not necessarily good things, unless you can not be affected by the heart, that is not Relationship; when you are greedy, you would really want to recite this Buddha's name quickly when you are interested, and make friends with Amitabha.Therefore, if you are not able to reflect on your own mentality, there is no way to force it. You must have good roots, merits, and karma, and you can naturally feel it easily.

So when you recite this Buddha's name, it's not difficult to sense, and it's not difficult to feel that power. It's because you didn't send that heart.As long as you think about it, I really want to know the Pure Land Method, I want to practice the Pure Land Method, and I want to make a wish to become a Buddha. No matter who is of the upper, middle and lower roots, you will soon have the feeling.Just like that layman at noon today, she is just a beginner, I said last month, she only came to listen to one day, it was such a big change.This is normal, and everyone can get it, and it depends on whether you have that kind of heart.

Then in the twelfth stage, the last scripture says "If you see the light in the three paths, you will have to rest and you will be free at the end." Even if you have fallen into the three evil ways, what should you do? To the Buddha light, where is the Buddha light? The Buddha light is in the name.We already know it, right? The Buddha's bright merits are all stored in this name.So as long as we hear the Buddha's name, or even see the light directly, we will be liberated at the end of our lives.It means that you have already suffered in hell, in the three evil ways, then you can get out of the world of bliss with all your rewards.

In ancient India, there was a Brahmin, a layman, and his husband and wife.The husband likes the five desires and six dusts, is addicted, particularly lustful, likes eating, drinking and having fun, and his wife is very religious and wise, and she is very religious all day long.One practice; one does not work. I am afraid that this is also the case among our fellow practitioners.If you want to save the other half, it's not so good and you need wisdom.Then one day she thought, because she was reciting the Buddha, she would ask the Buddha and Bodhisattva to help her find a way.One day, she was inspired, and she thought of saying: We must think of a way to take her husband to practice together, otherwise...like him eating and drinking all day long, he will definitely fall to hell in the future, three ways It is absolutely certain that he is likely to fall directly to hell.

So she thought of a way and began to refuse to have sex with her.Because he is lustful, in this way, she said: If you don’t work with me, then I will share rooms with you from today, but it’s not very tough; you don’t want to learn this, you learn this, and you will go back to make trouble next time. The revolution is in trouble.She also has to persuade each other with good words. Seeing the foundation, she is also skillful.In the end, the husband had no choice but to reluctantly agree, and then every day when time was up, he would meet with his wife two people, one playing Muyu and the other one, cultivating Buddhism together at home.

After a while, the husband passed away. Sure enough, he really fell to hell. After falling to hell, he saw the scene of that hell very terrifying.We can often hear the big oil pan, usually when the name of this person is called, this person will automatically pop in. There is such a record.In fact, it was his karma that led him to jump over, so there are many in hell... We often hear iron dogs and chains, and then some people are beating those sinners. We can see this in a disguised picture of hell.

So this brahman... he was reported to be called into the oil pan to blow it up. When he saw the people in the line jump in one by one, he jumped in when he was called. He was really shocked. It's not working.Everyone imagine that if our feet were weak, we were just about to call him. He was so scared that he couldn’t do it anymore. Suddenly he uttered the phrase "Nanmu Amitabha" just like we were calling my father and mother. He blurted out naturally, just a sound, and the whole hell was shining.There is light in this name, shining light, not only him, all people have to rest.What I said here is that "you must rest when you see this light." All beings in hell stop suffering right now and are bathed in the light of the Buddha, and some people can be free right now.

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(XNUMX) Pure Pure Land Practice is XNUMX% pure other power

(XNUMX) Pure Pure Land Practice is XNUMX% pure other power

So the power of this bright name, whether you have fallen into the three evil ways, or even we can be directly sensed in the present.Large and small, of course, the matter of becoming a Buddha in the end is more important.The Japanese Master Jingzhao explained this bright and boundless wish. He said: "You must see the Buddha's might, and stun all sentient beings without seeing rare things." We just learned from the heart to understand the merits of this name, the merits of the bright name. Let us get the feeling of Amitabha from our hearts.

So here is to explain this wish by engaging in physiognomy. He said that the wish of Amitabha Buddha, the "brightness and immeasurable wish", has an effect, because all beings like to feel that if they can see the Buddha and see the light, then they will be more diligent. To practice hard work.So this bright and boundless wish also has this effect.Then our second ancestor of the Jingzong Master Shandao, he has a title called "Guangming and Gu".This is how he manifested a lot of magical powers. Whenever he recites the Buddha, he chants a Buddha's name and immediately utters a light. This is not only one or two to see. Everyone knows that and the emperor respected him as a "light monk". .

Well, the five ancestor Shaokang is called "Hou Shan Dao," which means that everyone thinks it was the "Hou Shan Dao" who came to reincarnate after the death of Master Shan Dao.why?Every time he recites a Buddha's name and speaks a Buddha, of course the Buddha also shines, and the Buddha statue also shines.Go back and practice hard, maybe there will be light after a while, so that you don't need to use electric lights or flashlights when you walk at night.This is actually nothing, it's something that would happen in the first place, but we still don't have this cause, and we still can't feel this kind of response.

Then, many lotus friends will see these visions of seeing the Buddha in the light. We can often see them when we help others in chanting.Because at the time of death, it must be the three holy sages of the West. Otherwise, Amitabha will come to pick them up. As long as they arrive, they will have fragrance and light on them, so many lotus friends who are willing to help others to read can often receive it. This is how it feels.Therefore, we must be able to gain confidence from the merits of this name. Our rebirth is based on the three sources of "faith, willingness, and action" as the main reason for the rebirth. Then action is to recite the Buddha's name.

So from here, we also have to realize that there are only these three conditions for rebirth.Then of course it is indeed dependent on the blessing of the Buddha power, XNUMX% of the blessing of the Buddha power, because the conditions are only faith and willingness, no deep meditation, no precepts, no concentration, and no wisdom.From here, we can also gradually feel that, so that we can truly understand and believe clearly, and truly understand the achievements of this method; it’s not independent of two powers, and we don’t have to rely on how to cultivate or deed. It’s all about it. Just rely on the Buddha.

If you can clarify this concept, then your heart will be stable right now, and you will be able to go in the right direction.If you have not figured out this point and have not developed absolute confidence, then you are still relying on your own two powers, while chanting Buddhism, and relying on your own practice. Your heart is still unstable, which means that there is no real way to get started. , Into this most core practice.

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(XNUMX) Relying entirely on the Buddha's power to live and decide now

(XNUMX) Relying entirely on the Buddha's power to live and decide now

Here I also use the teachings of our patriarch to strengthen our confidence. In Amitabha’s explanation, Master Huiyi also told us, he said: "The most difficult moment of life and death is the most difficult thing to do. If the habit is not removed, it will be the beginning of the strong side. If the Bodhisattva is ignorant and fainted in the next shade, how can it be allowed to be forced to dominate? We can't be careless. We also want to say that maybe we can live in the past when we are lucky. If we are not so lucky, we must find out and make sure now, he Said: "Only faith and willingness to hold fame. Relying on his strength. Buddha's mercy and willingness. Don't donate."Speaking very clearly, what Master Huiyi said is only faith and wish to hold his fame and his power, so his power is the power of Buddha, and the Buddha’s mercy is willing to donate "Amitabha sages. Now I will comfort and guide. Therefore, there is no fall. Freedom. Rebirth.” You see this sentence here is also very important. The Amitabha Sages are now consoling. We first see the Western Three Sages, and before we die, we see the Western Three Sages before they die. Like some of our fellow practitioners who have passed away, he hasn’t left yet. Before, he first saw Amitabha Buddha and the three saints, then the present is to comfort him, let him be confident and bless, and so on. Because of the present, there is no reversal, and no reversal is not reversed and he can die freely.

The Buddha saw the suffering of all beings on their deathbeds, and he specially guarded the matter.Of course, the Buddha knows that when we are dying, there will be all kinds of harassment, such as innocent relatives, creditors, unclear consciousness, and so on. How can the Buddha not know? So he will definitely show up before we die. Right now, our hearts are not turned upside down right now, that's it.So we don’t have to worry about what to do when we are dying?Handing over to Amitabha will absolutely not cause problems.

Master Yinguang also said, he said: "The Dharma is boundless, no matter how big or small it is, all methods must be based on precepts and wisdom, cut off greed, hatred, and delusion, so that they can be completely pure before life and death. This is as difficult as reaching the sky. It is not what our generation can hope for ordinary people. If you live in the West with true faith and aspiration, you can rely on the Buddha's kindness to live in the West, regardless of the depth of the skill or the merits." He said so clearly, right? We still. Do you want to worry? My Kungfu cannot be practiced entirely because of his powers. Two ancestors have already lectured, and Master Shandao has taught more and more in detail.

Master Yinguang also said: "For example, if you cross the sea in a steamer, but you can get on the ship, you can get to the other side. It is the power of the ship, not one's own ability. Believing in the Buddha to survive in the West is also the same, it is completely the power of Buddha. , It’s not our own power.” Our spiritual power is not! This is the discourse in a letter to the sequel to Zhang Jing, Shutong, and it is written very clearly. It is completely Buddha power and not our own power. , We have nothing to worry about.

Don't hear a sentence or two. Sometimes the old master will also say, and some patriarchs will also say that you have to recite the Buddha and practice Kungfu, otherwise you will not die without righteous thoughts at the end of your life.Sometimes it’s also a convenience. I really hope to persuade you not to be slacking off and to recite the Buddha quickly. This is the intention. It’s like saying that parents teach their children, you have to work hard, or you can’t graduate, so or so, then you can’t practice Kung Fu. , Can you really not graduate? As long as XNUMX points are passed, you are not yet graduated? You are not required to be called wow! One hundred points, so that is a skill.

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(XNUMX) Believe in the full merits of Buddhism and his willingness to generate energy

(XNUMX) Believe in the full merits of Buddhism and his willingness to generate energy

And it is true that many beginners are easy to slacken off, and most sentient beings have the habit of slacking, so he is good at teaching knowledge and he will persuade us according to the seasons and conditions.It's because we are afraid that we will slack off, we are always clever and skillful and convenient, and they scare you, persuade you, and encourage you, all kinds of skill are different.Don't just listen to it as soon as you hear it. That's because you scare yourself and you can't blame others. You see, we have confidence when we see this. Many patriarchs have told us very clearly.

There are some people, especially those who like to be horny, including me.I used to be too. When I was a beginner, I thought, on the one hand, I relied on the power of Buddha to live, on the other hand, I believed in what I wanted to do.I'm willing to believe, I'm willing to make a wish, I'm willing to recite Buddha, that's the second force of his own. Has anyone ever thought about it this way? I thought about it for a long time, but I couldn't figure it out. Now I finally get it through.That’s our own guess and imagination. It seems to be self-reliance to say faith and willingness to do on our side, and then add that the Buddha’s side is self-reliance, but it’s actually wrong, even if we can believe and wish today. , Being able to recite the Buddha is also blessed by Buddha power.

What's more, do we have merit for the whole life?Don’t hear people seeing you work hard, so-and-so, your merits are boundless, and you think you are truly boundless. Those are words of encouragement. Do we have merit? Do you know what merit is?Kung fu, real kung fu, then we are reborn in the Paradise of Bliss to be reborn in the Buddha kingdom, a pure Buddha kingdom. Of course, we must use pure merits as a resource, right?So no matter how we recite the Buddha, at the end of the day, we will still bring karma to rebirth, right? Since it is done by karma, it means that we are not pure. Since it is not pure, how can the merits be returned as part of self-reliance?

Therefore, our method is XNUMX% other power, XNUMX% Buddha blessing.Do you understand this? We are powerless.Master Yinguang said: "What kind of power we have is the karma since the beginning of the catastrophe." There is also a powerful "karma."It's really clear, so we have to figure out this concept. After we figure it out, we won't be too slow, and we will rely on the Buddha with all our heart.From morning till night, if there is nothing to do, please hurry up and ask the Buddha, just like a child depends on his parents. I really can’t do anything! I can’t do anything! You must rely on your parents, just like a child depends on your parents, completely. You don’t have any abilities at all. If you know how to recite the Buddha name like this, you will quickly feel the sense.

What is this feeling? Right now, you have a sense of relief as the whole stone is put down. I don't have to rely on myself anymore. I don't have the power anyway, so I finally handed all the burden to Ami Buddha.The Buddha is responsible for us. Not only will the Buddha take care of the things that will become the Buddha in the future, but also the various disasters in this world... even if you ask for wealth, all the things you ask for, as long as they are reasonable, the Buddha will bless you.If you have this kind of cognition and confidence, how happy we are, do we want to live a hard life by ourselves, or do we want to receive this kind of blessing from the Buddha?

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(XNUMX) Praising the Buddha with sincerity and respect, naturally gaining benefits

(XNUMX) Praising the Buddha with sincerity and respect, naturally gaining benefits

You won’t suffer if you accept it, right? There’s no loss, why don’t you try it? You know it’s really effective after you try it, it’s really sensible, you don’t try...Don’t talk about the test, the test is actually very bad, you Just do it. One point of sincerity earns one point of benefit, and very sincere respect earns one point of benefit. The method is very simple, you just need to recite the Buddha, and recite it honestly.It’s not easy to be honest, don’t think about things, don’t practice Kungfu, how I watch and how I practice Kungfu; you just read it when you have time, and don’t have any thoughts, I What is the purpose of reciting Buddhism, I don't want to do anything.

We already know this merit and benefit, we know it when we listen to the scriptures, and when we do it, we just need to say one sentence after another.When you go back, you can try to do this first. When you wake up in the morning, you should meditate cross-legged and sit directly on the bed. The first thing you start working hard, close your eyes and start reciting the Buddha's name for five minutes, ten minutes, half an hour, and one hour. It's okay. You will feel that because it was very quiet in the early morning at that time, when you chanted the Buddha name silently at that time, you would feel that each sentence was very clear. Then you have to feel the various conditions of this Buddha name.

You will be very clear and especially wake up early in the morning with a clear head, so our day should start with chanting Buddha, even if it is five minutes, it doesn't matter.As soon as I think I have to sit for at least an hour, I don't want to move, and then I can start a normal day and rest, you will feel very stable all day.Then, if you have time, just read... Just read... Don't have any purpose, you will find it easy to read, and you don't have to deliberately meditate. You can try to start thinking like this when you go back.

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(XNUMX) Recite the Buddha and seek rebirth is the only way for sentient beings

(XNUMX) Recite the Buddha and seek rebirth is the only way for sentient beings

Well, Master Shandao also gave us an example and an analogy. He said: If we want to develop faith in Buddha chanting, how can we arise? Sometimes it is difficult at once. The roots of faith are weak, and people with poor roots of goodness are really very good. It's difficult, so he gave a metaphor called "Erhe Baidao."There are two rivers in the second river. Fire is on the right, water is on the left, and there is a small white road in the middle. The fire and water on the left and right represent our greed, hatred, and ignorance, and it constantly floods the small bridge in the middle. The road, this little white road is a metaphor for our good roots that occasionally appear a little bit...

Then there is a man who recites Buddha, and Buddha Shakyamuni told him: You hurry up on this small road and head towards the west. There is an Amitabha Buddha on the other side. He is there waiting to pick you up. He will pick you up. Freed.Because there are a lot of people behind you... beasts, tigers, and some people with evil views. They ask you to practice this method at one time, and at the same time they ask you... to make your heart restless, to learn some evil methods and so on... And your innocent relatives. There are a lot of creditors, step by step from behind...

In fact, many people in our current situation are like this Buddha chanter. He was hesitating at the time. If I follow the words of Buddha Shakyamuni, this path is so narrow. This is a metaphor for our weak faith.Do we have confidence in the rebirth of the Western Paradise? We are not very confident, right? Many people are not very confident, as if this path is so small and a little bit of good roots, he will think if I am really obedient and move forward. Go, what if you fall into the river? What if there is no Amitabha on the shore? There are many, many cases, so he can't feel at ease and believe in the persuasion of Shakyamuni Buddha to go forward.

But just when he was hesitating, it was the same situation as we are. We are half-hearted to believe or not. Under this situation, he watched the kinsmen and creditors behind him chase and persecute them step by step. At this time, the Buddhist chanter thought, okay! Anyway, going forward may be a dead end, in case you make a mistake and fall down or there is no Amitabha on the other side...anyway, if you don’t have enough confidence, you may have a dead end.But if I stop, the kinsmen and creditors from behind will be forced to come step by step. I can't go if I don't. At least there is still a way ahead. Okay, don't worry about it.

This is what Master Shandao taught us. We may not be able to develop XNUMX% confidence in the world of bliss, Amitabha, and this method, but we only have to find out that we really have no way to go now, are we left and right? Injustices and creditors often show up, and everyone can appreciate this.There are also disasters that happen one by one. This is what we can see. Our situation is like this Buddha. Even if we stay where we are, there is a dead end. We might as well rush forward, at least there is still a way. go.Even if you go wrong, you don’t suffer anyway. You are a dead end when you stop, and you don’t suffer when a dead horse is a living horse doctor.

Just at this person who recites Buddha, just at this moment, he made up his mind that I would rush forward wholeheartedly.At this time, of course, he must have reached the other side. He has made up his mind and made the mistake to the end. As long as we believe in this kind of faith, this kind of unbelief reluctantly believe, this confidence idea together make up the determination to ensure that it will be reached. Opposite shore.This idea has been blessing the Buddha power from the moment of life, so even if you want us to truly believe it is really difficult, but this is the visualization that Master Shandao taught us, we just like this person who recites the Buddha. When the road is gone, he taught us to be convinced that we ourselves are ordinary people of sin, life and death.

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(XNUMX) Believe in their sins, ordinary people confess their sins

(XNUMX) Believe in their sins, ordinary people confess their sins

Why are we still being human today? It's because we have not been liberated or capable of liberation in our past lives, and we are now continuing to reincarnate.Does this life have the ability to be liberated?No!Are you keeping the five precepts well?We don't know how much karma we have created in this life. We can't escape even if we want to. If we have a way to escape and want to get free, we have no hope in this life, for sure.We are really just like this person who recites Buddhism, and the person who recites "Erhe Baidao" is the same, so Master Shandao specially reminded us that we must be convinced that we are in this situation and that there is no reason to leave.

Don’t think that you’re great, I’m very knowledgeable, I’m a PhD, I’m very rich, I can ask many mages to bless me, I will do more charity, my blessing will be great, and many people will come to help me... that If you are unstable, it is better to rely on people than on Buddha! If you really believe that there is nothing you can do, then you will truly believe in Amitabha’s forty-eight vows, undoubtedly worry-free and doubtless, and you will live by the strength of that vow.You have to believe that you have no way to go, then you will follow Amitabha’s aspiration with all your heart. This is the Master Shandao taught us to recognize and understand in this way, so that you can easily get into this method and become true believers and eager to pray for survival. .

It is very important for Master Shandao to guide us. As long as you practice according to such a method and direction, you will soon become involved.Now you will become very humble. If you admit that you are full of evil, life and death are sinful ordinary people, how can you be ashamed to show yourself up in front of others? It’s too late to be ashamed, isn’t it? You suddenly become humble yourself without being persuaded for a long time. Li, confession of karma all day long, the temperament of the whole person is different, just like a Buddha reciting person, Buddha disciples have to look humble and gentle. This is how you start to get started.

I don’t want a lot. When I see a lot of great protectors, I still worry about them. I raise my head very high. Anyway, I have done a lot of merit in Buddhism. I have donated a lot of money. I must have a high grade in the future.That’s not necessarily true. The grade of the deceased is based on how you use your heart. Master Shandao tells us about the grades of the deceased. It’s not like the explanations of other ancestors in the past. It’s completely different. The explanations of the ancestors of other sects are completely different. We have no part in the generations, we are all bodhisattvas, and we ordinary people have no part, and it is not a standard set for us ordinary people.

However, Master Shandao told us that the upper third grade is that the upper, middle and lower third generations are all ordinary people.The older generation meets the ordinary people, and the big is the Mahayana method, and the mind is also large. Not only do they want to be liberated, but they also have bodhicitta. I hope that they can also help others to liberate. Such people die in the older generations, and each of us has a share. .

What kind of person is the middle-aged person? In the case of small ordinary people, beware of the small-mindedness, regardless of others, you can also die but the taste is relatively poor, the middle-aged will have to stay in Huabao for a few more robberies, repent in it, and confess me Why are you so stingy that your mind is not big enough? Just take care of yourself. Gradually, when your mind gets bigger, you can get in touch with the Buddha and Bodhisattva, so that you can see the Buddha in full bloom.

We have no share in the younger generation. Before, we thought that if I could die in the next generation, I would be Amitabha.They are all too polite. In fact, the younger generation is not designed for us. The younger generation is a person who repents and lives with the evil and the evil, so we have no part.

All of us have a share in the seniors, and even when we die, we are directly transcendent. It can be said that we are born directly to the land of transcendence, and we will see the Buddha immediately. Each of us has a share. See if you understand. Use your heart to master the correct method. What we are going to learn today is to master this method and go straight to the land.

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(XNUMX) Master the correct practice and go straight to retribution

(XNUMX) Master the correct practice and go straight to retribution

It’s not like we’ve heard that there are four layers of Bliss. There are four layers: the first layer is the lowest mortal cohabitation soil, the second layer is convenient and there is surplus soil, the third layer is the solemn soil, and the fourth layer is always lonely light soil, just like us Ordinary people can only be on the fourth floor. Actually they are not.Go directly to the real report. Why?Because we rely XNUMX% on the power of the Buddha according to the eighteen aspirations, we directly merge with Amitabha's heart and aspirations, and we are directly united with Amitabha's aspirations, so of course we will live where Amitabha lives.Buddha Amitabha lives to repay the land. It is impossible for him to live better, let us live worse, we are one with him!

So if we know how to interact with Amitabha Buddha by heart, instead of saying that I want to practice kungfu and then go back, the distance is very large and there is no direct union, then you will depend on the depth of your kungfu, you just Will be born in the land where the holy cohabitation.We will talk about this later, so what we have to learn this time is how to master this core practice? When you are born directly in the land, you will see the Buddha immediately without being locked in the bud.The merits and benefits vary greatly. As soon as we go, we can return to our family members and relatives, and we don't have to be locked in a flower bud to slowly repent and slowly eliminate the karma.

So we are those who are reborn in the bliss world according to this practice. Before you leave, you can tell your family that I will come back soon. If I see the Buddha, I will come back immediately. Then your family will say: Okay, go quickly. Hurry up. If you go there, your family will also be enlightened, and you will become a Buddha.Hurry up and practice a good kung fu, I really want to hurry up, because now women have very heavy karma, their bodies are not as strong as men, and their physical strength is relatively poor. A few years ago, I wished that I would have been shut down for three years. , Because I was afraid that Kungfu would not be able to be practiced, I thought I would practice Kungfu at that time. I would say that it would be three years longer. You can never starve yourself to death, fasting and chanting Buddha, it’s dangerous. You won’t be reborn in the world of bliss. You can't make a joke when you go to the road of hungry ghosts.

So I decided for three years. I confessed to the master, "Master, I'm going to close life and death." The master scolded me, and the old master from Hong Kong scolded me in Cantonese: "You Do you still want to eat?" The Zen man said that he was very Zen-inspiring, so he directly scolded me like this, saying that you are supported by ten offerings. You should stay and make your mind. You can't run away by yourself.Because Master Shengyi himself is the incarnation of the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, I feel that when he walks, he is directly suffering from all beings.

Because once I once, I went back to Hong Kong Po Lam Buddhist Temple Jie Xia Anju in the third year. I always stayed with him for at least two hours. Longer time is fine, but I have no patience. I just get close to him for two hours. .Because there are opportunities to get close every day, I don’t want to stick around so much all day. Once I asked the teacher, I said, "Master, do you want to go to Paradise?" He is the great virtue of Zen, but in fact He has a great mind, and there is no opposition between the law and the law, so he said a word to me, but he did not answer, he just said, "The sentient beings in this world of Saha are very suffering."

Then I know what he meant. He is now suffering for all sentient beings. He has practiced asceticism throughout his entire life and devoted himself to the whole body and mind.So when he knew that I was going to make this vow to close life and death, he disagreed.Otherwise, I may not be there anymore, I may not be sitting here, or I can return as a male husband. I really thought so at the time, and I was very confident. Anyway, the pot leaker can die in three years. I should be fine.

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(XNUMX) When you recite the Buddha and become a Buddha, it is the superiority of the Pure Land Method

(XNUMX) When reciting the Buddha and becoming a Buddha, it is the superiority of the Pure Land Method

So how do we master this key practice? Let’s just skip to the eighteenth wish, because there is not much time, and there is the "Brightness and Immeasurable Wish" that we learned today, and the fourteenth "Take the Light and Happy Wish" ", the fifteenth "life-saving wish" and the sixteenth "heard of countless wishes".The immeasurable life span represents blessing, and it also shows Amitabha's compassion for saving sentient beings.He wants to have an immeasurable lifespan, so that he can teach, and spend a long time to teach sentient beings. It is not like our ordinary school teachers have to retire after ten or twenty years of teaching.

He vowed to teach and teach sentient beings with an infinite life span, and here we can feel the great compassionate power of Amitabha's Buddhism for sentient beings.So the sixteenth "Sounds and Hears Countless Vows" can get the sentient beings that he has enlightened, and of course there are countless sentient beings, boundless and boundless.Let’s simply take this over, and then the seventeenth vow is also very important. "The Buddhas praise the aspirations." If there are no Buddhas from the ten directions to introduce this method to us, we don’t know if the forty-eight wishes are fulfilled, and there is no way to truly believe it. Desire to survive, right? So this wish is also very important.

It’s just like our fellow practitioners don’t know how to teach the scriptures, it’s okay. You just need to bring people, no matter how you brought them. Just listen to it.Even if there is only one event and one Dharma fate, the power of his Vajra-seeded Buddha title will never be extinguished, and immeasurable life will never be extinguished.He can get the benefits of Consummation right now, and when he becomes a Buddha, when his karma is mature, he will naturally become a Buddha. This is what you save.It’s not difficult to save sentient beings. You have to understand the method to take advantage of your strength, you bring me to speak for you, and then Amitabha will take it for us, isn’t it all right? The division of labor and cooperation is very satisfactory and simple, right? ?

Therefore, our fellow practitioners here also have good roots. I reminded them on the first day. Everyone started bringing their families and children. It’s very rare! Then these people have planted the cause of Buddhahood because of your karma. So let’s not look at the praises of the Buddhas in the ten directions as if it has nothing to do with us. This wish is very important. Without this wish, none of us can be saved.Can't hear it!And from this wish, we can also see why all the Buddhas in the ten directions are willing to recruit students for Amitabha, because all the Buddhas in the ten directions admire Amitabha, and the five bodies cast the ground. If Amitabha does not surpass them, why should he introduce his students? To the other land of Buddhas?

It is because our method is really superior to the Buddhas in the ten directions, why is it superior?No matter how wonderful the methods of the Buddhas in the ten directions are, He only teaches you how to learn, and then He will bless you, but you still have to practice morality and concentration on your own.But only the method of Amitabha is XNUMX% dependent on the power of the Buddha, and it is really unconditionally given to you.It’s a little bit similar... It’s almost like believing in me to have eternal life, you just have to believe in it, but he is to have eternal life, we not only get immeasurable life, but also immeasurable bright wisdom, and we will be equal to the Buddha once we die. .That Christianity is different, it is also very simple, as long as you believe in it, you can get eternal life, which is a great benefit, but you still have to be children of God, and the generations are different.

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(XNUMX) When the born Buddha is equal to the Buddha

(XNUMX) When the born Buddha is equal to the Buddha

If it were me, of course I would go to Amitabha, and it would be better to sit on an equal footing and everything is equal.So there is a fellow practitioner. I came to Singapore two months ago and a fellow practitioner received me. He told me how solemn the world of paradise is, how confident he is, and how he likes it. He talked about it for a long time... He spoke really well. After talking for a long time, a layman in the back seat said to me, "Master, he hasn't made a vow to go to the Paradise, he has to go to Tusita first..." I said, "Ah, how is it possible?" He was so religious. Then I admired Elysium, and I said, "Why do you want to go to Elysium?" He said, "Because I want to go to Elysium, so first go to Elysium, and then go to Elysium from Dustage. "

I said, "Oh, it's wrong, it's wrong! You are so wrong! You will be wrong!" Some people explained that Dusitian is only in the sky, very close, in the same world of ours, so far from the world of bliss , I told him later and reversed his concept.I said you don't...I can't say you don't go, so carelessly slander the law.I said, "If your ultimate goal is really to go to Elysium, that's easy." Because he told me, when he described it, I felt that he really was...Elysium described it too well.Always admiring, I didn't expect not to go, not not to go, but to make a detour.I told him, "If you really come to Tusita first, if you go to the outer courtyard, you may be confused by those beautiful women. Even if you do go to the inner courtyard, you will still listen to the scriptures and the Fa there. To be a student, and then to be a disciple again in the future, and then to listen to the scriptures and the Fa before practicing. It’s too tired! Just thinking about it makes me very tired. You might as well live in the Paradise of Bliss, yes. Amitabha came to pick him up, why are you not sure?"

Suddenly his thoughts turned around, old practice! Well cultivated! A layman is about XNUMX or XNUMX years old, he has cultivated very well, and one is really a layman who practises the Bodhisattva path. It's dangerous that he will turn around. .He said to me, "Well, I still want to make a wish to go to Paradise."

Therefore, as soon as we rebirth into the world of bliss and clone into the ten directions, we also know our previous wishes. As soon as we pass away, we will have the ability to clone into the ten realms immediately.We can talk to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas...Of course, we go to listen to the scriptures and the Dharma, and the offering to the Buddha is also very polite to study.But in fact, all the Buddhas in the ten directions treat us like guests. Amitabha Buddha's people from the Kingdom of Bliss have a special courtesy. They are all equal, and they are honored guests everywhere.Then we are the seventeen vows "Vows of Praise and Admiration for the Buddhas". Through this praise, we can go one step closer and experience the beauty of our discipline.

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(Eighteen) according to the eighteenth vow letter, wishing to rebirth is the most effective

(Eighteen) according to the eighteenth vow letter, wishing to rebirth is the most effective

For the eighteenth vow, I will read the vow: "When I was a Buddha, when I was a Buddha, all sentient beings in the ten directions heard my name and believed in my heart. All the good roots and the heart returned to my country and even the ten thoughts. , This paragraph is the core of the forty-eight vows of this Pure Land method recognized by Goode.There is a saying by Master Shandao that the old monk often quoted "Tathagata was born out of the world, only the Amitabha's original wish sea." This original wish sea refers to the eighteenth wish, the fundamental wish of Amitabha Buddha, and his original aspiration.

Then we can analyze the forty-eight vows from here. Among them, the methods and practices of rebirth in the world of bliss are different from the object of opportunity in Oita. There are three types: the eighteenth vow, the nineteenth vow in the next paragraph, and the twenty-first vow. Wish to repent and live is another kind of wish.From this comparative analysis, we know that the eighteenth vow is the original vow of Amitabha, and the method he wants us to hold is the most core method.Its characteristic is the simplest. It is what we have been emphasizing over the past few days. All you need to do is to "believe, make aspirations, and recite Buddha", and everyone will go there.No matter what root nature is as simple as that, this is the practice of the real Pure Land Method, which is simple and easy to implement and quick and stable.

But it’s unbelievable. Because it’s unbelievable, that Amitabha had to attract sentient beings from the ten directions, so he made the following vow again. I said it again: "When I was a Buddha, all sentient beings from the ten directions heard my name and developed the bodhicitta heart and practiced all the merits and virtues. Paramita is strong and does not retreat, with good roots, return to wishing to regenerate our country with a single heart to the Buddha day and night. When we are dying, I and the bodhisattvas will meet their predecessors in a short period of time. I will be born in a moment. I will be A Weiyue to the Bodhisattva. "You see, these two vows are about the practice of rebirth.

The first eighteen wishes are very simple, as long as you believe in your heart and be happy, wish to be born in our country, and even ten thoughts.Is it faithful and willing? There is nothing else, the eighteenth vow is the condition.Then this is the nineteenth wish "famous to make a wish" or "to receive a wish at the end of life" here is different, its standard is "I hear my name, send bodhichitta, cultivate all merits, pursue the six paramita, be firm, not regress, and be rooted in goodness." Going back and wishing to regenerate our country", does he have to practice all kinds of good deeds and then go back again? This is the two powers of his own, that is, our general conceptual practice, and then the practice is hard, haha, without confidence.

Why did Amitabha Buddha make another vow after making eighteen vows?It’s just that some sentient beings don’t believe in the eighteen vows. They have no way. They really feel that they can be reborn if they believe and make a vow. In order to attract other sentient beings with different foundations, if you tell him: After accumulating meritorious deeds and then turning back, some people are more acceptable, that is to say, this is more possible, and more credible, he will respond.So this kind of sentient beings, this is this passage of this wish, are sentient beings with different roots, but this practice is more difficult and fewer people die.

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(XNUMX) Specialization is the most powerful practice in the Pure Land Method

(XNUMX) Specialization is the most powerful practice in the Pure Land Method

Just like the old layman Li Bingnan said: There are rare two or three people out of XNUMX people.why?You have listened to it for a few days. I don’t know if there is any enlightenment. Didn’t we talk about it yesterday? Is it necessary to specialize in the method of "according to the fate and miscellaneous goodness, and it may be difficult to reproduce."So if we correspond to this type of people, we think that we must rely on the power of Buddha on the one hand, and on the other hand, we must rely on my own merits, so that we can be strong enough to be safe... If it is this kind of mentality, then it shows your confidence in Amitabha. not enough.Right? And on the one hand, you become a miscellaneous cultivator, and you do this and that. If you do miscellaneous cultivating, then your confidence is weaker. Of course, the chances of inducing death are much smaller.

So it's not wrong to cultivate the two powers like this, it's very difficult.That's no way, because some sentient beings don't have enough roots for the eighteen wishes so simple, they don't believe it! That's why they started this other practice, otherwise you don't need to repeat it.There is also the twenty-first vow is another type of sentient beings. I will read another scripture: “When I was a Buddha, the sentient beings from the ten directions heard that my name is to say that my country has a bodhicitta and a strong mind. If there is any evil, if I hear my name, I will regret that I have been doing good for the way, and I will be born with the precepts of the sutras. I will never change the three evil ways, and I will be born in our country. Wish to "repent for life," this is another object of opportunity.

"If there is a bad news about my name, I will regret myself." It means to repent and live.This is another one with heavier karma. Since the karma has been in this world, the sin karma has been very heavy, and even this life is still creating evil; until the cause and condition are mature, I regretted myself when I heard my name, and the Buddha's light will confess as soon as the root of goodness matures. , Then this kind of person corresponds to repentance to make a living.Corresponding to the object of this vow, like this kind of person who died according to this wish, the taste is not necessarily the worst. It's not that we just said that it must be in the next generation, not necessarily, it depends on his heart.If his heart is the same as the eighteen vows, it is the most faithful and happy, just like the king of Ashiya, he is reborn, he is scared to go before the death of hell, and he is holding Amitabha tightly.His heart at that time corresponds to the eighteenth wish Zhixin. Zhixin was very sincere and had no second thoughts, so he was scared and had no way to go, just like calling his father and mother to hold Amitabha tightly. As a result, the rebirth of the family was a middle-class rebirth, which is recorded in this sutra.

So only the nineteenth wish... you still need to feel that it is more powerful to rely on the Buddha on the one hand and to subsidize a little merit with your own strength.If you come to Buddha with this kind of mentality, then you have to practice Kung Fu as soon as possible, and you also need your own Kung Fu dedication.You have to practice kung fu as hard as you can. People who practice this kind of practice have the lowest chance of dying.But we shouldn’t wait until the wickedness is full and then come to repent and survive. If you don’t have time to repent, it won’t be more dangerous.We are still more secure according to our eighteen wishes, and now we are guaranteed to decide that we can die.We have to confirm it now, and don't wait until later to see if there is any chance. The chances of chance are very small, so don't expect it.Because the karma we have created since our last life...too many karma, we must not be careless.

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(XNUMX) Rebirth with three hearts and go straight to retribution

(XNUMX) Rebirth with three hearts and go straight to retribution

How do we follow our eighteen aspirations to learn, and do we hinder our usual six-degree journey of "giving, keeping the precepts, patience, diligence, meditation, and wisdom"? There is no hindrance.It depends on how we work hard, we do things together, and we accumulate meritorious deeds as well as recitation of the Buddha, but we don't think that we must use them as dedication, merits of rebirth.We just do what we want, and of course there are causes and effects to do this, but it has nothing to do with the conditions of the death, so it will not be a miscellaneous practice.

Our confidence in the Buddha is still XNUMX%. We will not feel that the power of the Buddha is not enough. We still need to rely on our subsidies.If this mentality is clear, it will not prevent us from doing charity often in terms of things, and doing other good deeds, which will not hinder us.Does this understand? It depends on our intentions.Therefore, some people say: I rely on the Buddha for all of the eighteen vows, faith, and willingness.If you are wrong, you will have a wrong understanding. Don't blame us when you can't die.

A person who truly believes in the eagerness for rebirth, and relies on the eighteen aspirations, is because he truly feels the power and deeds of Amitabha Buddha. When touched, you will believe in your heart. Is it possible for a person like this not to recite Buddha?Is it possible not to observe the precepts?impossible.If your excuses say: then Amitabha Buddha believes and wishes to do whatever I want to do... Then your faith is not true. If it is not true, of course you can’t die. Tell you clearly, otherwise When the time comes, I can't go to live to find me, I will ignore you.

There is a passage in Guanjing, which has the same meaning as the eighteen vows, and the standard is the same.Let’s also take a look at "The Buddha told Ananda and Vetish, if there are sentient beings in the high-grade ascendents, those who are willing to be born in the other kingdom will send three kinds of hearts, even if they die. How three are: one is sincere, two are deep-hearted, and three are Going back to make a wish, with three hearts, one will be born in that country." You see the scripture in the first chapter of the first grade, which says that with three hearts, one will be born in that country.As long as these three minds do not require you to practice kung fu, you can be high-grade and reborn. You can see that it is completely consistent with the theory we just talked about. If we know how to use our heart, our rebirth grade is very high-straight into the retribution.

The conditions for rebirth are very simple. The sincere heart is the heart of faith, the deep heart is the heart of conviction, and the heart of rebirth is the heart of rebirth.The verses in this section of the first chapter of the upper grade are just the content of the eighteen vows. You can see that we are reborn according to the eighteen vows as the upper grade.High-grade Shangsheng can be said to be transcendent, and its limit is very close. Anyway, the flower blooms to see the Buddha immediately.Therefore, we must know how to master this key to the Pure Land Method. It is easy to live directly into the retribution, and it is easy to hold it, and at the moment it can generate the confidence to decide to die. As long as you believe in the Buddha, as long as you are really willing to make a wish, you are really willing to go. .

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(XNUMX) Ordinary people can only rely on the Buddha's power to live their lives

(XNUMX) Ordinary people can only rely on the Buddha's power to live their lives

When reciting the Buddha, Master Yinguang’s teaching is "regardless of the level of skill", right? Don’t worry, you will go straight to the land after you die.There is a passage in which Master Shandao had a question and answer in the Four Tie Sutras of Guanjing. He set up a question and answer by himself, saying: "The Buddha and the earth, the one who speaks, the master of the report, the little saint is difficult; Why enter?" This retribution is so pure, how can we mortal people die, he answered: "If you talk about the filth of all living beings, it is really difficult to enjoy. It is the entrusted Buddha's wish to make a strong condition, resulting in the fifth vehicle. Entering together." What is the Five Vehicles? "Bodhisattva Speaks, Hears, Destined to Enlighten Heaven and Man."

That is, the Buddha’s desire to have a strong condition, this very powerful condition, help the condition, increase the condition, and then we will be able to directly repay the land.This is the teaching of Master Shandao, so when we hear this now, we are also very clear, and finally figure out the Pure Land Method, so many kinds of practice, which one is the most correct and most suitable for us.Just now we have listed three categories. Eighteen wishes are the simplest, nineteen wishes from others, and twenty-one wishes to repent and live. Among the forty-eight wishes, only these three paragraphs are about the method and conditions of rebirth.Then its standards are different, and the target of the opportunity is different.

If we directly practice according to the eighteen aspirations, it is the original aspiration that Master Shandao said, "The Tathagata is born out of the world, only the Amitabha's original wish is the sea."These eighteen vows are also the conditions for the rebirth of the top-ranking birth in the Guanjing. If we practice according to this standard, all of us can transcend our taste, and even the top-ranking birth will go straight to the retribution.The scriptures tell us clearly, so how do these achievements... come from? They are all blessed by Amitabha's willingness.

Do we have faith in Amitabha?Yes!Yes!Do we have confidence in our death?Yes!Raise your hand, raise your hand confidently, quite a lot, amazing, not bad.Are there any people who dare not raise their hands, please raise their hands? No? Yes, there are some who dare not raise their hands? Those who dare not raise their hands, please raise their hands. This is a joke with you.For exercise, letting you raise your hand is to let you deepen your impression and tell yourself, because we had a deep impression in the past, and always thought that we could not die. Now, by raising my hand, I deepen the impression of myself and change the impression of the past in my subconscious. Come, I just have confidence.

Through the blessings of our whole whole, after we go back, our whole impression is completely changed. A new understanding of this practice, of Amitabha Buddha, and of confidence in oneself, especially in oneself, is produced.I think the fellow practitioners here are really lovely and generous. If you have confidence, you have confidence. This is just like the Buddhas of the ten directions, praising and admiring Amitabha.It's not like fellow practitioners in some places, because some places are more rural, and those people are more conservative, and they don't dare to raise their hands at all.I said the president because you didn't raise your hand and everyone didn't dare to raise your hand, so the president would just raise a little bit like this.

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(Twenty-two) see through, put down and guard the foolish thoughts of the Buddha

(Twenty-two) see through, put down and guard the foolish thoughts of the Buddha

In fact, everyone was very happy, and then desperately nodded secretly, embarrassed to let people next to him see.Nodding to show me this way, be more generous, not admiring ourselves, but admiring Amitabha.If you don’t have confidence in yourself, then of course you are not admiring Amitabha, or even being...not to slander, but it will also make people feel that they have no confidence in this method, right? So our performance is very important, yes If you have confidence, you have confidence. If you don't have it, of course don't exaggerate. Just say that you just tell your feelings and share with you.

For example, our confidence is not very enough, but we can say that we are not as good as someone like Erhe Baidao. Although the confidence is not XNUMX%, there is no way to go anyway, just believe it! There is no harm. ! Such a mentality is also possible, because Master Shandao knows that we are not believers or do not believe, you said that he still does not believe, where is Amitabha? I didn't see it again.There is another president who has studied for a long time. The old president, he is not old, but more than XNUMX years old. He was very excited to ask me if Master has the world of bliss, which shocked me.

I am really eager to spend a lot of money, and then it seems that everything has been invested in body and mind, which means that all the bets have gone down... He asked me this sentence at this time, and I was quite sad, in case I didn't give him an answer. The words, let his confidence completely collapse.Because of the mood he was asking at the time, it seemed that he had reached the end. In case he had no confidence anymore, he would really give up and start to eat and indulge his five desires.Because there are so many external ties, girls want to chase him, and then a lot of temptations, he has already shaken...has been trembling, and wants to find an excuse to retreat, and I have not been able to study for so long. I say this is very serious.

I told him, and I asked him, "Do you think we have this world of Saha?" Did you say it? Yes! So true, there is in the Saha world, and there is in the world of bliss.Then you can say that you don’t have it. From the negative side, it’s deeper, but everything is illusion. Dependent emptiness is more difficult.But I didn't talk about it that complicated because I was afraid that he would not understand it, and our discipline started from a certain way, so we just believe that there is something.Believe that there is, and then there will be Amitabha, and there will be a world of bliss. It is time for Amitabha to come and pick us up.

Once we are reborn in the world of bliss, we will see the truth after we become Buddhas, and at that time we will be in the realm of emptiness.The true reality "is empty or not, not empty or not" is not like us, it is either empty or there, and it is not an answer with two stares, no.But that realm is very deep, we don't need to bother about it, we just need to believe that there is.Be attached to Amitabha, hold the famous title, hold on to have.There is absolutely nothing wrong with this. Nothing in the world can be attached. The more attached you can, the better the induction.

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(Twenty-three) we must truly arouse the willingness to recite the Buddha

(Twenty-three) we must truly arouse the willingness to recite the Buddha

Well, although we have only learned twenty-one wishes in our study these days, I have tried my best to focus on the most important part, namely, the theory and methods of faith and wishes, the three resources of rebirth, and economics. The basis of the theory.They are all put forward for your analysis and reference. I hope that through this time of learning, and we will also circulate this CD in the future, we often read it ten times a hundred times. This is the core part.If you have mastered the core, you will continue to deepen, your confidence will grow day by day, and the Buddha will bless you.For those who have not fully believed, you should watch it every day, often, not too long, you'd better watch it every day, then you will gain confidence very quickly.

The stronger the confidence, the more liberated you are now. Why don't you liberate earlier? Unless you have not encountered this method, this is the most important thing.You are desperate to make money every day, so busy and tired to death, what's the use? Why do you torture yourself? Like I think...now...Professor Dongfang Beauty said that studying Buddhism is the highest enjoyment of life, but I think that chanting Buddhism is the highest in life. The enjoyment, as you go as you go, whether you are busy or empty, just mention a Buddha's name as long as it is convenient, and enjoy it right now.We reciting the Buddha are enjoying, and it is indeed a kind of enjoyment. It is very stable and we can experience it by ourselves.

We also discussed a lot today, how to recite Buddha? What kind of mentality to recite Buddha?What are the merits in the Buddha's name? Let yourself, through understanding, really develop the mind of reciting the Buddha, and the mentality is correct. If you read it, it will feel different and the blessing power will be great.Then you really recite the Buddha with a feeling of enjoyment. Just like the layman I met at noon today, she really talked about being radiant. I really like to recite the Buddha now. It’s just a beginner, especially if we are old cultivators, hurry up. Turn around, because we’ve been suffering for a long time, and I’ve been suffering for twelve years since I was a beginner...

Uncertainty, of course, there are many fascinations, but after all, there is still no certainty about the death.You still have a lot of thoughts, so this matter is the most important thing, we must put it first.Don't wait until how much money I have saved and how many things I have done to care about this matter, I am afraid it is too late.Even if the money is earned for you and your goal is achieved for you, you may not have life to enjoy, impermanence will come at any time, so this matter is the most important thing.I haven't met, I have nothing to say, if you missed it on the spot, then you can only blame yourself.The Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, as well as our fellow practitioners who are predestined, have done their best, and it is a pity that you did not grasp it yourself.

I really say that I have no practice, no virtue, and no way to provide good...Dharma support to everyone.This time I came here purely because I truly felt the blessings of Amitabha Buddha. With a grateful heart, I came to share my learning experience report with fellow practitioners and be a testimony.Therefore, I also hope that we fellow practitioners, everyone can also be big-hearted, and everyone can be "Amitabha's messenger" in your life to recruit students for Amitabha.When you persuade others, your own confidence will continue to grow, and when the time comes, the Dharma Destiny will be even better than mine.

Okay then learn here.Amitabha.

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