(XNUMX) Zhixin’s name and the Amitabha Buddha (this master has not yet set the school, if there is a typo, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)

Dear Master Yamato’s mercy, and respectable fellow practitioners, good evening Amitabha, everyone! 
Tonight is the seventh night that we are studying together here. It seems that the number of us who are about to become Buddhas is increasing. Through our studies yesterday, we have already understood that Amitabha has three special karma with us. That is: kinship, close relationship, and increased relationship.

Through this understanding, we can more deeply understand the feeling that we are getting closer and more familiar with Amitabha, and at the same time understand the way to interact with Amitabha. This medium is the six-character Hongming name, because Amitabha All of the bright merits of the Buddha are stored in this title, so yesterday through the study of the scriptures and the teachings of the master masters, we also know that only through the medium of the name of the heart can we be able to receive the light of the Buddha and receive the blessing of Amitabha.

This kind of direct induction is not available in chanting and mantras, and it is also the way Amitabha Buddha specially agreed with us. This situation is like our house has sockets everywhere, there are electricity and power, but we did not plug the sockets. We don’t use this electricity, we can’t sense it. The principle is the same.The light of Amitabha Buddha shines all over the ten directions, it does not exist all the time, and there is the light of Buddha everywhere.

But we don’t know how to receive, so now we understand that it turns out that only the name is the correct channel. At the same time, we also really understand that all the light of Amitabha is stored in this name, so we can have a deeper understanding of this name. Different experience means that it is alive, and it is not a general name. This can also increase our experience and confidence through some facts.

There is a pamphlet circulating in Taiwan. It is widely circulated. This is written by a layman. The man and his wife are both very young, only twenty-five years old. Both of them are devout Buddhist cultivators, and they belong to a Buddhist family. .Then one day his wife was reciting the Buddha in the sutra in the morning. This was their own scheduled lesson. Then when she was doing the sutra outside the house, she suddenly saw a round light on her head, just like we saw A circle of light is usually drawn on the back of the Buddha statue. She also has it on her body. She finds it very strange, but she also thinks that it may be related to the name.

Then, in order to prove it further, she deliberately didn't recite the Buddha name, and the Buddha name stopped. As a result, the circle light immediately disappeared. After a while, she continued to recite. When she continued to recite, the circle light appeared again, because it was so obvious. So they took the initiative to record this incident, and it circulated widely in Taiwan.

Then this evidence can also explain to us that it is true that this light is placed in the name, to see if we understand or not to ingest, if we only regard it as a cold object of a meditation condition, or Ordinary names, of course, we can’t be in touch with him; so next we have to learn how to recite this Buddha name, so that we can interact with Amitabha as soon as possible, and be able to receive the blessing of light. .

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(XNUMX) Experience that the life of Amitabha Buddha is in the name (the master of the draft has not yet set the school, if there is a typo, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)

Why are we not easy to sense?It’s not easy to have Dharma joy when reciting Buddha?First of all, we have to eliminate some obstacles and find out the reasons. Then I sum up there are about four reasons. One is what we just talked about. We don't realize the vitality of this name!In the past, we all knew Wan Dehong's name. This is the representative of many merits, but this level is limited to the scope of knowing. We know things, but we can't feel it in our hearts.

So now through our study of the scriptures, we know that light is one with the name, and that light is wisdom and the life of Amitabha Buddha, so we can now feel more of the special place of this name. He has life's!Then the impression will be different. If the impression is different, the taste of reading will be different. We have to understand this carefully.

Secondly, although we have been reciting the Buddha for a long time, in fact we are not familiar with Amitabha. If you want to ask you, your family or your other half, what is his (her) personality?What are his (her) habits and characteristics?You can make it very clear, but if you ask about Amitabha, how is he different from other Buddhas?What are his characteristics?I'm afraid we can't even tell it. Old Xiu is the same. At most, he can recite the "Blessed Life Sutra" very well, and recite the "Forty-Eight Wishes" to others.

We really want to treat Amitabha Buddha as a person, because we are humans. It seems easier for us to understand a person. If we want to understand a Buddha and feel that it is above all, it is difficult to understand Him. Then we can regard Amitabha Buddha as A person, first try to correspond with him from a human perspective, and generate a sense of familiarity.So we can’t be happy when we recite the Buddha, and there is no way to interact with Buddha Amitabha. Through this Buddha name, we are not familiar with Buddha Amitabha in our hearts. This is what we have been emphasizing a few days ago that we have to find a way to have a relationship with Buddha Amitabha. Very familiar and intimacy.There are a lot of specific materials. Through the teaching methods of the Pure Land Three Classics and the teachings of the Patriarch's Great Virtue, the forty-eight vows issued by him, we can all experience it. The most important thing is to use our heart.

So the forty-eight vows we have recorded recently, especially guide fellow practitioners to truly understand Amitabha from the subtle points, so this part, especially the content that Amitabha himself proclaimed to us by the Blessed One, must be To read it familiarly, we don’t just listen to the scriptures once, or watch a movie. Oh, after watching it, we know, at least we have to watch it fifty or a hundred times. You’re very familiar with it, so you know how to use it. After you speak your language, then this sutra can be considered as learned.So we have to study the scriptures like this, we continue to practice every day, we can’t listen to... listen to it once, listen to it for a day, and then after several days, open it to listen to it, then you won’t be able to connect. Ah, listening to the scriptures must be revised every day, until you are very familiar with it until you learn, then you can change to another one or another homework, so that you can have a sense of familiarity in your heart every day, not just about the scriptures. It is to be able to follow the text to observe, following what is said in the text, to truly appreciate the content.

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(XNUMX) At the end of the day, if you can’t let go of your thoughts, you will not be able to die (this is because the drafting master has not yet set the school, if there is a typo, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)

The third reason is that we are always greedy for this world. It is difficult for ordinary people to admit, saying: "Oh, this world is so miserable, I want to die soon." In fact, this is all self-deception!We ordinary people are like this. It is not enough to lie to others, but to lie to ourselves and not to admit it.You see, when we wake up in the morning, we start to plan what we want to do today...especially when we are going to spend money on holidays, go shopping, or go on vacation. That kind of mood is so happy, where can it be bitter?How would you want to go to Paradise.

No matter what, don’t talk about holidays. In your usual days, you’re planning where you’re going to eat well after get off work and what you’re going to do. You must have some ideas every day...what you want to do, but these things are the same. It has nothing to do with Amitabha, it has nothing to do with the Paradise of Bliss. Think about it for yourself?Then people ask you if you want to go to Paradise? "Yes, this world is so miserable... I want to go." Just talk about it. It's really like this. Nine out of ten are like this.So this is our biggest obstacle. We really have to admit this. We have greed for this world. The most important thing is the greed for the five desires. Especially the kind of lover women are so serious that they often have no way to die. The attachments can’t be taken off, and the world’s things and other substances can’t normally be let go. When you’re dying, you can’t let go. At that time, it’s okay to let go, but it’s hard to let go of the attachments in your heart. .

Not long ago, I was in a purgatory society in Malacca, Furong. I went to see the president’s wife. She came to tell me that there is a president’s mother who usually recites the Buddha very hard. She actually recites Amitabha before her death, but it is here. In the future, she still had a scorpion that she couldn't put down, so she asked Amitabha to wait for a while. Amitabha waited for her for more than five hours. What is she doing with this person?She was waiting for her granddaughter to take the plane back to see the last time. She didn’t want to go because she had chanted for so long, but in fact, this kind of inner attachment, a kind of human attachment is beyond her own imagination, she just has to. When she comes back, she will be willing to be willing, and Amitabha will not leave after he has come!So we can't underestimate our hearts. Sometimes when you have a thought, your attachment to little things will hinder your death. Later, Amitabha waited for more than five hours and then left. She did not die.

Why can you wait for more than five hours and leave?It’s because as long as we cling to the beginning of this cause, this cause may expand. She has been waiting and waiting until at the end she just won’t go. Her desire for life has been cut off. She has to wait for her granddaughter to come back to see the last time. No, that's why we ordinary people, this attachment force is terrible, the karma is incredible, and the karma of sentient beings is incredible, according to the Buddhist scriptures.Therefore, we usually have to be very careful about this part, and let it go as soon as possible, and let it go from the heart.

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(XNUMX) Let go of your inner attachments and do whatever you want (this time, the drafting master has not yet set the school, if there is a typo, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)

Women often come to talk to me and complain about her husband... Some women in Furong not long ago were very afraid of her. Even the president and vice presidents couldn’t do anything about it, about thirty or so. Years old, had committed suicide.Then I happened to go, and the vice chairman hurriedly seized this opportunity to ask me to enlighten her, because everyone was afraid to see her and wanted to help her. The trouble was too heavy, and the depression in my heart seemed to be quite serious.

Later, she came to see me, and she told me that she had been married for ten years, and her husband had recently divorced her. She had not had any children in these ten years, and her parents-in-law did not understand her, so the family has not been happy, maybe Recently, her husband could not bear it and insisted on divorcing her; she told me that she wanted to commit suicide, and I said, "What about your intentions? Do you want to divorce?" She said she didn't want to, and she still wanted to have a child. Child!I said, "You haven't been able to give birth for ten years. You still want to give birth now? Are you still obsessed? You are already in your thirties. This is an elderly woman, so obsessive."

She said that she had committed suicide once before, but that time when she was in a coma, she saw that she seemed to have fallen into an abyss and kept falling down. Then in the process of her coma, she saw Amitabha and Guanyin Bodhisattva go She was rescued. If it weren't for Amitabha and Guanyin Bodhisattva, she would have died long ago, and it was likely that she had fallen into three ways, and she would probably have gone to hell.In fact, the retribution is terrible, unimaginable terrible!Don't move this kind of thought.Fortunately, I didn’t die at that time, but after so long, there was no way to break through this barrier. Then I told her, "You have the ability to commit suicide, and you should have the ability to survive!", I said, "Now all When is the time? It’s more important to die as soon as possible. What's more, Amitabha will save you, be predestined with you, and be predestined with Buddhism.” She couldn’t think about it for a while.

I said, "If your husband wants to divorce you, you should divorce him, and then divorce, just to recite the Buddha well. Whether he wants to divorce or not, it’s all right. Follow the cause and conditions. Don’t have any thoughts on your own. The most important thing is to be able to achieve Dao Karma. When we are able, you have to come back on your wish, you have to give birth to a few children, you have to have another..., today your husband is going to divorce you, which shows that your karma is very serious. , I can’t stand you, right? You really don’t want your husband to divorce you. Then you should cheer up, practice hard, and let yourself become a loved one, your husband, you don’t want to leave him I’m willing, so you have to start from yourself, not begging outside. It’s useless if you ask. If he really wants to leave, you can’t help it. Even if you don’t sign, his heart is not on your body. If you don’t go home, what do you do? There is no way. Or, after all, you work hard and transform yourself first. Maybe you will be sure of your death. Then your husband will turn around for some reason. It’s all possible. A path that can truly be liberated.".

Later, after finishing the lecture at that time, at the end of the lecture, the three precepts of refuge were taught. She also took the initiative to ask for the five precepts. The whole person should have changed a lot. Suddenly, she wanted to open it. This is also blessed by the Buddha. Our clinging to this kind of attachment is often just a single thought, and it’s stuck there. You calm down and think about it... Go and get attached, what do you want to get attached to?What is there to be attached to that we can really possess?If you think about it carefully, the more you possess, it actually restrains you.

You are really going to have a baby, you are half your life, and then you have to take care of the baby for the rest of your life, to be a cow and a horse, and to take care of your grandchildren. It’s endless. You have so much energy and you won’t be in the Three Treasures. To be a volunteer?Cultivation of true blessings, pure blessings, there is no pressure in your heart, and no one will suffer for you. Everyone praises you: "Wow...this Bodhisattva with the intention", so all beings just can’t think about it, and find hardship for themselves. .Therefore, when we ask for everything, our greed for this heart will become weaker and weaker. It is not difficult to change the thoughts and directions. She looks different on the day, and her mind turns to the whole person. It's all different, Nian Nian wanted to commit suicide.In fact, it’s really not difficult. Ask for the blessings of the Buddha. As long as we can see that one of our biggest obstacles is our inner greed for the world, when we see this and find a way to turn our thoughts around, then we will be very happy when we recite the Buddha. , And soon be able to interact with Amitabha Buddha.

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(XNUMX) Care must be taken to eliminate the inability to recite the Buddha (this master has not yet set the school, if there is a typo, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)

Let’s come to the fourth point, that is, most of us have no way to truly appreciate that our time is short, time is short and impermanent. Everyone is not deep in the sense of impermanence. Really impermanence comes. We ten Eight or nine will fall to three ways!Everyone does not have that kind of alertness, so we can't be scared and don't know how to hurry up. We often feel that time is really not enough. What we lack is not money, not any material. What we lack is time, we must hurry up. Time, otherwise, once we fall into the Three Ways, it is not that simple to get out and leave.

There used to be an Arahant entering Ding, and in Dingzhong, he saw the scene that he had fallen into hell in his past life. He was so scared that he was bleeding and sweating all over his body. He really had this kind of physiological reaction.Then you see, from morning till night, when are we not selfish when we start to think?And most of it is because of a lot of evil thoughts, and I didn't notice it carefully.Hu Xiaolin himself has a good academic degree, graduate student, and good eloquence. He used to spend his life in a silly life. He spent time and drink every day, so he didn't use his head well. Although he was very clever, he was often not sober.

I have been encountering the Pure Land Method, the old monk’s cause and condition, because he has good aptitude. When he encounters the condition, he immediately realizes that his karma is too heavy. He is afraid of death. He believes in the cause and effect that he learns Buddhism. It doesn’t necessarily mean that he wants to become a Buddha immediately, and learns to become a Buddha. This is not necessarily true. According to what he said, he was afraid, and he believed that he would definitely fall into the three paths to give birth to this kind of cloth. He dare not slack off if he is afraid, not only has to make a wish to survive and escape to the bliss, but he can't slack off because there is not much time.

This is for perceptive people to know. We generally don't have a deep understanding, so we will pass day by day. Most of the time is reincarnation karma!We don’t have our heart and mind thinking about reciting the Buddha. We don’t have any heart and mind thinking about how to deepen our faith and desire. On the contrary, we will become more and more greedy for some people and things in the world. This direction is going in the opposite direction, so we have to always do this. Raise this alert.Well, we know these reasons why we are unable to recite the Buddha, and we have to eliminate them in particular. This is what we usually have to do on our own, and we often have to remind ourselves.

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(XNUMX) The method of confession must be performed every day to eliminate karma (the master of drafting has not yet set the school, if there is a typo, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)

So when we are chanting Buddha, we still don’t have a deep sense of it. How do we chant?First of all, we must be able to realize that we are indeed very heavy with karma. Many fellow practitioners can understand that there is a scripture in the "Pu Xian Xing Yuan Ping". Let us read it again: "Speaking to confess the karma, the Bodhisattva Thinking of me in the past endless calamities, from greed, hatred, ignorance, body, mouth, and thought, to do all evil karma, boundless. If this evil karma has a physical appearance, it will not be tolerated in the void world. I now know that I will purify the three karma, all At the very small moment of the Dharma realm, all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will sincerely repent and will not be remade afterwards. Persevere and purify all merits." We see this paragraph first.

From this passage, we can see that the karma created in our beginningless karma, if this evil karma has a physical aspect, it is impossible to tolerate in the Void Realm, and cannot hold it!Our karma, our evil karma is so huge, so when we first chanted the Buddha, we must use repentance to recite the Buddha. We still don’t have a deep sense of feeling, and we can’t give birth to Dharma happiness. That’s because our karma has returned. It hasn't disappeared, wisdom hasn't opened up, and it's not sensed, so it's best to recite the Buddha with a penitent heart.

If your karma hasn’t been eliminated, you won’t be able to practice Kungfu, and if we understand that our karma is profound, we must practice repentance every day, repent of the karma, know how to feel ashamed, and recite the name of the Buddha in a repentant mood, and recite one sentence after another. You don't have to use some tunes to set the chanting, you can just recite it directly: Amitabha, Amitabha... Or: Nammo Amitabha, four or six characters are fine.It seems to be telling Amitabha from the heart. This is called confession, telling Amitabha how many karma we have, but you don’t have to say the same thing, you can’t say the same thing, you can’t finish it, it’s endless. .

In your own mind, it seems that you are confessing to Amitabha Buddha, but in the form of recitation, you can just recite the Buddha's name. You can recite with this mood. If you are very attentive and sincere, you really want Confession, indeed, please calm down and think about it, the story of our life, we have been sorry for someone, what we did wrong, let’s think about it a little bit... you will find a lot of stories in three or five minutes, and then use this I am in the mood to confess to Amitabha...please repent.

Ask Amitabha Buddha to help us eliminate these karma and the bad ties with these people. Ask Amitabha Buddha to help us eliminate them. If you recite with this mood, you may cry for five or ten minutes, and you will be able to recite. You are very attentive. You don’t need to practice Kungfu to naturally generate concentration. This is something that we naturally devote ourselves to doing. Of course, we will concentrate. This kind of repentant mood comes to recite the Buddha, every day. You have to do it all, then when the karma is relatively eliminated and you become grateful, then of course you will... you can follow the mood at the time, different moods, and you can use that mood to recite the Buddha.

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(XNUMX) Buddha Amitabha lives in the name (this is the master of the drafting script has not yet set the school, if there is a typo, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)

For example, a person often feels lonely, very disturbed, and lonely. Modern people are like this. A common problem is that they have no sustenance in their hearts and often feel very empty in their hearts. Therefore, women like to shop, buy things and eat and drink, and then men. I like to invest in my career, develop continuously, or socialize. I am always busy all day long. I don’t know what I’m doing. Everyone is busy. In fact, the busier the person, the more empty his heart is. Need to find a lot of things to sustenance, the person who is truly at peace of mind, wow...he is very leisurely, and that is very different at first glance.

People in the world are busy all day long, and time is never enough, but the troubles are never reduced. In fact, it is inner restlessness. So if we feel unpleasant in our hearts and can’t tell the reason, restless, we want to find something to do. At that time, you can recite the Buddha as soon as possible. Only the Buddha's name can soothe our hearts. When we recite Amitabha, we already know that as long as we recite him, he is in our hearts and by our side, and the light can shine on us immediately. Because we already understand this matter, so when we read, we know that it will have this effect.

If you say this for five or ten minutes, you will feel very strong, your heart will no longer be restless, you don't want to run out, you don't need to run out to find a spiritual sustenance or comfort, you don't need it at all.You will feel full and stable in your heart, and you will not feel lonely. Then you will communicate with Amitabha through this process of chanting, because we know that he is alive!Amitabha Buddha lives in this name. When we recite the Buddha, we are communicating with Him with our hearts. We are communicating with Him. We don’t just read it with our mouth. It has no taste at all. We have to imagine and understand this sentence. The name of Buddha is Amitabha, as if he was standing in front of us.

Then you communicate with Him, make friends with Him, and associate with Him. Why are you boring?Also ran out.People nowadays are very dangerous. If you go out and make friends, you will be cheated. It's very dangerous. It's safer to associate with the Buddha. That's true. The Buddha will definitely help us and love us.You can also use this...just like we were making boy and girl friends at the beginning of...when we were dating, we can imagine that during this first love, we would think of each other every day, and use this mood to recite...miss Amitabha. Regardless of whether you have time to sati, we must have a Buddha in our hearts.

That’s because you’re not familiar with Amitabha Buddha. If you think about him as if you are not accustomed to it all at once, you can use the transfer method to imagine that when you were in love in the past, you missed each other all the time and had a meal. After the chat, I went home. I was still thinking about it on the road. I didn't forget it. I had to think about it again before going to bed. The first thing I woke up, or when I thought about the person, I had to turn that mood around. Indeed, this is fine.

Like we are all used to it, before we used to make connections at home and abroad, many like this...For example, in Malaysia, we arranged...one or two months as soon as the arrangement was arranged, and each place had a three-day or five-day itinerary, and then I went to Singapore again, to Indonesia and then to the mainland, so I often wake up in the morning and think, "Hey? Which country am I in? Which region am I in?" I usually think about it this way, but in the end I don't think about it anymore, even letting go of this thought, no matter where it is, it is more important to think about Amitabha, so in the end, come together in the morning, and the first thought is still about Amitabha.

We want to miss Amitabha Buddha to such an extent that we always pay attention to it. When we wake up in the morning before going to bed at night, our first thought is to think of Amitabha, just like you are thinking of that lover, that kind of mood. , If you often think like this, then you will naturally also blurt out, and you will often want to recite the Buddha, and there is a Buddha in your heart!Or as it says in the "Yuan Tong Zhang": "If the child remembers the mother, like when the mother remembers, the mother and the child are born, not far apart..." It is easy to feel, but nowadays, children seem to be relatively close to their parents. You can also try to experience it.

Like Zengzi, a disciple of Confucius, he was very filial. Once he went to the mountain to chop wood. A visitor came to his house. His mother wanted to call him back to greet the visitor. That was because of how he called on the mountain. There was no phone at the time. Just bite your finger and bite it, it will hurt!At this time, Zeng Zi felt instinctive and knew: "Hey...there must be something on the mother's side at home." He came back quickly. This is the induction.We miss Amitabha Buddha. If we miss the mother like a child, because he is very filial and often misses the mother in his heart, so it is easy to feel. We can also try to use this method to interact with Amitabha.Then, chanting Buddha will naturally want to chant, as long as we have Buddha in our hearts.

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(XNUMX) Develop the habit of chanting Buddhism so that the heart will return to purity (this time, the master of the draft has not yet set the school, if there are typos, please report the error, the merits are boundless!)

Even when we are sad, what do we usually do when we are sad?Ask a friend to complain; but it’s very dangerous to find a friend to complain. Don’t spread the matter another day. If everyone knows it, is it possible?It’s possible, so it’s not safe to complain to others. It’s best to complain to Amitabha. Then you don’t have to talk about each complaint one by one. You still need to recite the Buddha. This method is very effective.

When you are sad, you don’t want to think about anything. Let go first. If you really keep thinking about your mind and put it on the sad things, you will think harder and harder, and then in the end, you will want it if you can’t think about it. Suicide, the person who wants to commit suicide is because his thoughts are always on those sad things. That is terrible. The more you think about it, the more serious you will get. So you must put it down immediately, but when you put it down, the sadness in your heart is still there. do?Recite the Buddha!It’s very effective to recite the Buddha with that emotion. When you read it...you will find: "Hey...how do you forget the sad emotion that you just had?" It will be eliminated naturally. It is very effective. It is better than you go to see a psychiatrist. Taking that antidepressant medicine is still effective, and there are no sequelae.So when we are sad, let go of everything and don't think about it. Through this way of complaining to Amitabha, when you turn your mood when you are praising Buddha, you will also find that it is actually not that serious even after thinking about it. Why are you so sad?Eh!When your mood is good, things are different again: "Strange! Why was I so sad just now? Is it necessary?" That feeling is different. You look at the seriousness of the matter differently.

Especially when we are sick, we are panicked and afraid. People nowadays are especially prone to panic, restless, insecure, rich and insecure are the same, emergency and horror, we can use this kind of mood to deal with these kinds of situations. To recite the Buddha, we directly use our current mood.So many people say, "Oh! No way! I don't have time, I'm very troubled, I don't have time to recite Buddha! I'm very upset now, how am I doing now...", just in time to recite Buddha!Just use your current mood to read it.Many people think, "Oh, no! I have to calm my mind to be able to recite the Buddha well..." In fact, when your mind calms down, it will be almost the same if you have or not, and you are not so anxious. It’s because our minds can’t calm down and we have all kinds of bad moods that we need to recite the Buddha to help us solve our problems.So reciting the Buddha does not mean that we have to prepare to use what effort or state of mind to recite the Buddha, but the Buddha name can match our mood. We can use the current mood to recite the Buddha in any mood, and this Buddha name can help us solve it, no matter it is Any... emotions, sorrows, sorrows, and joys can all help us resolve and return to a pure and peaceful state.

If you understand this, any time is the right time to recite the Buddha. The best time is also the time when you need to recite the Buddha most. Anytime, including when you are happy, you can’t be too happy, wait for joy and sorrow. Some people have heard of it. Some people laughed to death, laughed too happily, and died after smiling. There are also too many emotions, heart attacks, and blood vessel bursts. It's all possible!So no matter what our mood is, we must know how to hurry up. It is not good to pass or fail. To adjust to a peaceful state, that is, using the Buddha's name is the fastest and safe.If we know how to recite the Buddha in this way, we will want to recite the Buddha at any time, you will develop a habit, you will rely on this Buddha's name, you will rely on Him, it is easy to develop a habit, and it is impossible to teach you not to recite.You will think that for any emotion and any situation, reciting the Buddha is the best solution. You can try to do it and see. When you try to do it, you will quickly produce results, and then you will arise. Fun: "Yeah! It really works!", you will want to read it.

I originally thought, "Oh, boring, I don’t know what to do?" Then I want to run out to find friends, call but can’t find someone, go out and traffic jams, many, many situations make you feel more and more irritable, so I just want to go out to find friends. You should recite the Buddha well, and when you are used to reciting the Buddha to solve your various emotions, teaching you to do other things will find it very troublesome. Naturally, you will not create these world karma. This is to provide Some methods and directions are for your reference. The most important thing is that we should be able to use them ourselves. We should not use them to practice kung fu, but treat them as...there is another job we are doing. The pressure in our daily life is already great enough, and it seems that we are doing it again. It's a very heavy task, so of course you will reject it before you do it, so you have to adjust your thoughts first, and then you should try it.

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(XNUMX) The root of goodness cultivated by the Buddhas is to recite the Buddha (this time the master of the draft has not yet set the school, if there is a typo, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)

Then let’s look at the essence of the eighth product: "Accumulate merits and virtues are eighth." Let’s first look at a passage: "Fasihong vows. Live in truth and wisdom. Be brave and diligent." "Yu Wuliangjie. Accumulate virtues. No. Arouses greed, hatred, and ecstasy. Touching the law without coloring, scent and fragrance. But happy remembrance. Past Buddhas. The roots of goodness cultivated.” Well, let’s read this paragraph first.The eighth product is Amitabha. After he made his forty-eight vows, he immediately lived in the real wisdom, real wisdom, and began to practice his vows. Then, he spent immeasurable kalpas on the path of Bodhisattva and accumulated virtues. It is necessary to generate Buddha's merits for the sentient beings of our ten dharma realms.

Then study at his level. When he is able to deal with the six senses of the six senses, he can not be tempted, "cannot be greedy, anger, and ecstasy. Do not touch the law without coloring, sound, fragrance, and fragrance", but we can't do this. Fortunately, it is done by Amitabha Buddha, but one thing we can do is that we can remember the roots of goodness cultivated by the Buddhas. We don't have to wait until the same realm as Him, we can do it.What is the root of goodness cultivated by the Buddhas?It is to recite the Buddha. When we recite the Buddha, on the one hand, we can become a Buddha. This is self-interested. But in fact, we can also be altruistic at the moment when we recite the Buddha.So we are now chanting the Buddha, which is actually the same as the good roots cultivated by the Buddhas. Not only can we be self-interested but also altruistic. This principle is very deep and difficult to understand. We mentioned in the first class before that we have a thorough understanding of the Zen master. We will read his teachings again. This paragraph is very important: "When you recite the Buddha. That is when you see the Buddha. That is when you become a Buddha. When you survive. That is when you die. That is when you are reborn. The three intercourses are at the same time. It is the most difficult to understand. The easiest to believe. But you can go straight to it. In the end, it will be used by the whole body. It can be said that you have finished studying. What you have done is done.".

From this discourse, we can know that indeed we are now chanting Buddha, it seems to be for us to become a Buddha, we want to be self-interested, we want to cultivate causes, in fact, when we are chanting, we are not like the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Different, we are also saving sentient beings, this is incredible!When someone accidentally heard us chanting a Buddha's name, he was saved by us. We were stupid. We didn't know if we saved people. He will become a Buddha in the future, and he will be saved by you, and the land after you become a Buddha You will see these sentient beings because you were saving them at that time. It is incredible how you let him plant the seeds of Buddhahood because of your destiny!

So children can save sentient beings. As long as you consciously or unconsciously say a Buddha's name, this person you don’t know will also save you when you hear it. This is indeed the case. The truth is very deep, "Enlightenment is the most difficult. Belief is the easiest." You As long as I believe, it’s really like this. I can save myself and others by reciting Buddhism; if you believe, you will do it often and read it to others. You will always save sentient beings. You don’t have to be as hard as we talked about, persuade you. For a long time, people may not believe it, so you just read the Buddha to him. This Buddha name saves sentient beings the fastest, and at the same time you are self-interested and self-saving, and you are accomplishing your merits.And when we are reciting the Buddha, there are many invisible sentient beings. If he has a predestined relationship with you, he can hear you recite the Buddha, and then he is saved because of your predestined condition.Therefore, it is very easy to save sentient beings by reciting the Buddha, and it is indistinguishable from the good roots cultivated by the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. This is something that every one of us can do. You can use other methods... Without enlightenment, great enlightenment, including lectures, you must have great enlightenment before you are qualified. Otherwise, where do you want to lead others?The three evil ways?It's not that simple, but the Pure Land Method is really incredible. Even this old Bodhisattva and children can start to save sentient beings.So when we recite the Buddha in the future, not only do we think that we are chanting for ourselves to become a Buddha, but we also need to know that we reciting the Buddha is also to save sentient beings. We are the same as the Buddhas and the Buddhas of the ten directions. Then you might be It is more positive and fulfilling. As long as someone hears us chanting a Buddha's name, he will be saved. You see: "When you recite the Buddha. That is when you see the Buddha. That is when you become a Buddha. When you are surviving. That is when you die. That is when you are living." Wow...this truth is very deep, we can't explain it clearly if we want to say it, we can experience it with our heart, and slowly experience some. This can't be described in words and it is very complete, "The three intercourses are at the same time. There is no front and back." This is "Hua" The realm of Yan Jing.

But although we have no way to realize this fact, we can believe it, knowing that there is such a fact, and then "but we can take it straight down. It will be used by the whole body. It can be said that we have finished studying. We have already done what we have done." We just need to believe. , "Go straight down" means that I accept it right now, and then just do it. In this case, although the truth is still not clear, it can also be said that we have graduated, and it is complete!It's so easy, and you can graduate successfully without cultivating, and you don't have to wait until you die.The Pure Land Method is at the same time of cause and effect, which is incredible, so why is it so extraordinary?All of these were blessed by Buddha Amitabha. He spent an infinite amount of time, thought of some ways, accumulated meritorious deeds, and completed such a remarkable and self-saved method.Therefore, the content of the "eighth product accumulating merits and deeds" is about how Amitabha Buddha practiced the path of Bodhisattva and accumulated deeds for us when he was practicing. Of course, we can't do these things. It doesn't teach us that we must It’s the same as the content of "Second Moral Compliance with Samantabhadra". This is something we learn as much as possible, but it’s normal if you can’t do it. It’s not that you can die if you do it. Then each of us...everyone can’t die. .This is the realm of Amitabha Buddha at the time of the ten places of bodhisattvas. What he cultivated... the method he cultivated, what he can do, then the standard for his practice.The introductions from the fourth to the eighth products above are all about Amitabha's practice at home and as a monk when he was practicing in a different place.

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(XNUMX) I believe that there is a Western world of bliss from the beginning (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!)

From these contents, we can learn in detail that Amitabha is indeed the king among the Buddhas, and he is extremely respected in light. When he is practicing in accordance with local conditions, his wishes and actions are already surpassing. , Of course, the reward is particularly complete.Therefore, the following "ninth stage" to "forty-second stage" are to introduce the various merits and solemnities of his fruitfulness and Consummation, which are divided into retribution and correct retribution, as well as the solemnity of acceptance after death.

The content of "Ninth Stage Consummation Achievement" clearly tells us that the forty-eight vows issued by Amitabha in the "Sixth Stage" have all been fulfilled.So here we first look at a scripture: "But live by reward. Now in the West. Go to Yanfuti Hundred Thousand Juju Nayuta Buddha Temple. There is a world-famous name called Bliss. Dharma Zang becomes Buddha. Named Amitabha. Since becoming a Buddha. Ten kalpas in today. Say it today. There are countless people who have heard and heard of Bodhisattvas. Respectfully surround." Let’s see this paragraph first.Starting from this product, it is from his state after becoming a Buddha. After becoming a Buddha, he wants to fulfill his wishes and fulfill his wishes. He wants to fulfill them, so he is now teaching sentient beings in the Western Paradise .

Then the name of Buddhahood is Amitabha. Since becoming a Buddha, it has been ten kalpas, and the ten kalpas are actually a new country. We are still seniors, or elders, and we are seniors earlier. The ten kalpas are actually not long ago, but there are already countless and countless Bodhisattvas who listen to the Buddha's sayings every day. It can be seen that rebirth is very easy, and there are already countless bodhisattvas there and rebirth there.So this paragraph seems to tell us one thing, which is to confirm that Buddha Amitabha has completed his merits, but there is a deeper thing we need to understand from here, that is, does the Paradise of Bliss really exist?Some people are still very skeptical, Amitabha's merits and virtues are complete, but is there a paradise or not?Here it is clear to tell us that there is, but it is also very clear in the "Amitabha Sutra": "There has been more than ten trillion Buddhas in the West. There is a world called bliss." "There is" a world.

But because some people can’t see it, and are also influenced by the Zen Buddhism to explain from this self-nature, the Amitabha spiritual pure land of self-nature, it seems that the world of bliss is only in the heart, and there is no blissful world in the West. In fact, the western blissful world and the self Is the Pure Land of One or Two? There are both, and the principles and things are one and cannot be separated.Just like this Buddha statue, some "images" have external appearances, which are external, but they have their own material, and the material is its physical form. If there is no material, could there be such an image?Impossible, right?So management and affairs are one.

The world of bliss is in the world of bliss in the West. The world of bliss in the West is realized by our hearts, the pure heart of Amitabha, but does it really exist?There is also, reason and matter are one body, it is impossible to separate, then this principle is also very deep, but we just know it, we are sure that there is.Many... and even the president. He has been practicing for XNUMX to XNUMX years, and he is about to retreat. He asked me, "Is there a world of bliss?" Do you think so?Yes!You have such good roots, how can you know if you haven't seen it yet?Did you tell us about it, right?The Buddhas of the ten directions will not lie to us, and just like the truth we just talked about, if we push it from a theoretical point of view, we are sure there must be, and we must deeply understand it from here.

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(XNUMX) Amitabha Buddha's compassion and blessings to fulfill all sentient beings (this is the master of the drafting has not yet set the school, if there is a typo, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, we know that Master Huiyuan, the first ancestor of our Jingzong, founded the Lotus Society. There were XNUMX people, which is equivalent to retreating and praying for the Buddha's death. Among them, there is one of the eighteen sages called Liu Yimin, these people. They are all excellent. He is the descendant of King Han Chu. He was originally an official, but he gave up his official position and became an official. He followed Master Huiyuan in chanting Buddhism in Lushan for death. He only saw it after half a year. Buddha light, and then continued to recite. By the eighteenth year of recitation, his concentration is very deep.

Then once he...he was able to enter the world of bliss, and once...but even though he had been reading for so long, he had the habit of being an intellectual, but he was still very suspicious and often had a lot of thoughts, he was sure He was going to the Paradise of Bliss and believed in the Paradise of Bliss, but he thought: "Ah... strange? Is the Amitabha Buddha in the Paradise of Bliss an image or is there really such a Buddha, living like us?".

Because they cultivated concentration and meditation, they were practising meditation and missed the Buddha at the time, and they were cultivating with their own strength, so he would think, "Ah...Is it just an image that I imagined in my heart?" He just missed it. Thinking of the West, there are so many delusions anyway, because he himself has been chanting for a long time and has concentration, and the induction is very strong. Then one day he enters concentration and arises this thought, and Amitabha will know about it and want to bless him.His thought at the time was: "If Amitabha is like us, he can interact with us directly, instead of a flat image, which is three-dimensional. Then, in this case, can Amitabha help me touch my head and bless me? "He just moved about this idea, and Amitabha immediately fulfilled his wish, touched his head and blessed him, then of course his doubts were resolved.

But then he had another thought: "Ah...that of the Paradise of Elysium..." He was in...already in concentration, and he thought: "Ah...the Seven Treasures of Elysium, the eight merits and virtues of water. , It’s amazing, I don’t know if I can drink it?". 
If he can enter the world of bliss, he will have this thought, and he will have only one thought. A Bodhisattva appeared next to him, and he asked him, "Do you want to drink water? I will pour you a glass.", Hey...it's true, the Bodhisattva pours a glass of water for him to drink.

After he finished drinking, he came out, and the scent on his body can last for two weeks for so long, so the world of bliss is a real existence, and Amitabha is also real, alive like us, we can think of him as he is A person, this way we will feel particularly kind, and then we will have a familiar feeling with him, associate with him, be friends with him, or treat him as an elder or parent. This is easy to feel, and it will be bad for you someday. Nian Nian... Nian Nian, have a thought, Amitabha will immediately fulfill your wish. It is really possible.

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(XNUMX) Although each person's roots are different, he can only be fulfilled if he wants to die (this is not the master of the draft, if there is a typo, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)

Not long ago, I was at the Mi Tuo Jingzong Society in Malacca, where I gave a lecture for five days. The next day there was a male crowd, probably in his thirties, and his eyes were very bright.He told me that he was a monk, and now he is still a secular man. Men can go back to a secular life seven times. He has been a monk and now he has practiced mantras in the early days. He looks a lot like a person who has practiced tantric and tantric practices. Then I said: " Where are you now?" He said, "Now, repair the pure land." Then I can talk more with you about the pure land.

He told me that he did his homework XNUMX times in a day of "Death Mantra", and then all the other time he recites the Buddha. He seemed very comfortable. He was a monk, and I know his master. The master is in seclusion and practicing asceticism. So this man It is indeed hard work, not the kind of casual talk. He told me how he would come to listen to the sutra that day because he heard a voice in his ear telling him: "Hurry up and find a friend of yours. , Follow him to listen to the sutras. Now there is a mage who is giving the sutras. You go and listen." Then he originally heard the sound and ignored it, because he had also worked hard to recite the Buddha, and he could often hear the bell or there was The sentient beings came to him for super salvation and so on, but later he ignored it.

The second time the voice appeared again, so he went to find his friend. His friend came to listen on the first day, so that night the two of them sat next to me and talked about this matter. My friend keeps nodding, and his friends are pretty...all young people, probably in their XNUMXs or XNUMXs. They agree and agree with him very much, and he believes everything he says, so he told me this is the case. Because of fate, he told me that once he had been to Paradise in his sleep, and then he was there...because he heard me talking about Liu Yimin, he also told me that night. He had this experience, but he was asleep, and his skill was a little bit worse. Then he also drank the eight merits water and came back. The smell on his body lasted for a week and lasted for a week.

His friends there kept nodding and proving that he really smelled the scent on his body for a week. They were the kind of buddies and buddies who were good fellows, rare, young men.He himself made the eighteenth big vows and showed them to me. Oh, I see these people making vows. I think...it doesn’t have to be so hard. No matter how we send them, we don’t have the completeness of Amitabha!Just accept it all!But this is personal fate, the root device is like this.He once saw the world of bliss in a dream. When he went to the world of bliss, he said, "It's so beautiful." He didn't want to go back. He saw Amitabha, Amitabha..., he said he didn't want to leave, Amitabha told him, "No, You have made a wish in your past life, and you cannot come now. You have to fulfill your wish." He said, "Go back! Anyway, you won't have a problem. You can still return to the Paradise of Bliss in the future."

He told me like this, of course, I would not persuade him: "You must hurry to die." Anyway, everyone has their own ambitions. So when he talked about the last day, he came to listen every day, and he clasped my hands together on the last day. After finishing the scriptures... Put your palms together, tell me that he hopes... He made another wish in front of me. He told me that he hopes to live in the future. When I become a Buddha, he said that I... When the master becomes a Buddha, I hope to be able to live forever. To be a monk under my seat, I want to spread the Dharma with me to save sentient beings!This is the heart, the so-called "One Buddha is born, supported by a thousand Buddhas." Well, this is the Great Bodhicitta!He supports others to become Buddhas and helps others to save sentient beings. This kind of heart is really bodhisattva. Anyway, this person is very good at making aspirations. This kind of ambition is also worthy of our admiration.

If it were me, I would hurry up and ask to become a Buddha, and then we would not dare to send the wishes of the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. That is not that simple! "Hell is not empty. I swear not to become a Buddha." So now hell is not free yet. He hasn't become a Buddha yet, so he made a wish again. Oh, let's go to the world of Saha first to save sentient beings. Run again late... finally sent him out of hell and ran back.So of course we have different personal ambitions. It's better to become a Buddha as soon as possible. Our successful wisdom can all be fulfilled, and it's better to save sentient beings.

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(XNUMX) The world of Elysium is so beautiful to the extreme (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!)

Then let’s look at "The tenth product is willing to be a Buddha." The content of this vow is mainly about King Asai and the five hundred elders. After they heard Buddha Shakyamuni introduced the Paradise and Amitabha, they made a wish in their hearts, I hope that when he becomes a Buddha in the future, he will be as extraordinary as Amitabha.This product seems to be just telling us about this matter, and has little to do with us, but in fact it tells us one thing. They are people, the World-Honored One told us that they have provided for XNUMX billion Buddhas since the immeasurable calamity. At the time of Buddha Kassapa, he used to be a disciple of the World-Honored One.

Think about it, this kind of benevolent roots who have provided for XNUMX billion Buddhas, and hearing this method in this life, he just arose in the hope that when he practiced and became Buddha in the future, he would be as victorious as Amitabha. He has not made a vow to rely on Amitabha. For his salvation, as soon as he becomes a Buddha, he still needs to cultivate slowly on his own. After the immeasurable calamity becomes a Buddha, he must be as solemn as Amitabha.You can see that if we hear this method now and can immediately make a vow to rely on Amitabha's salvation, and we will die in this life, then our good roots must exceed the good roots that provide for XNUMX billion Buddhas, and are deeper than them.That’s why the "Amitabha Sutra" says: "You must not be born into another country by virtue of a few good roots and good destiny." People with not deep roots, you look like them, when he meets him, he still doesn't know how to rely on the forty-eight vows of the Buddha!He still needs to cultivate slowly by himself, because he feels that he is not bad and he has the ability. In other words, he has not eaten enough. This person has different ambitions, so the more we feel that he is capable. The worse, the more pathless, and the heavier the karma. It was really miserable. Our roots are worse than others. But because of the fate of Amitabha, Amitabha made this great wish, and we have such a deep fate with Amitabha. There is this way out.So for us, this is actually the heavier our karma, the better the deed, the more we can hold onto Amitabha Buddha faithfully, so that we can achieve it in our lifetime, it's really cheap!That also proves that our immeasurable karma has accumulated a deep root of goodness, especially the bond we have with Amitabha, is very deep, only then can we be mature in this life and be willing to rely XNUMX% on the Buddha.

"The eleventh product of the sacred and pure borders" is about the grandeur of the world of bliss and the dignity of the environment. This is a general statement. We read a short passage: "The world of bliss. Infinite merits. Full of solemnity. There will be no suffering for all. Difficulties. Evil tastes. The name of devil's troubles.” This product is always saying that there are no sufferings, only the solemnity with immeasurable merits.

Then "the fourteenth product treasure trees all over the country", "the fifteenth product Bodhi Taoist temple", "the sixteenth product hall and building view", "the seventeenth product spring pool merit", these four-product scriptures are detailed According to the paper solemnly, detailed explanation, the treasure trees are all seven treasures solemnly, as long as our six roots come into contact with the Bodhi tree, we will be able to achieve the three kinds of forbearance, and we will not be able to retreat into a Buddha and be able to enlighten.Then the lecture hall and the academy where we live are all Qibao solemn, and it is very comfortable to listen to the scriptures and the Fa there.

Like here, we have to sit while listening to the scriptures, sitting in a serious manner. In the world of bliss, you don’t need to. You can lie down and listen. And lying in front of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas is always disrespectful, so Amitabha has changed a lot of birds. Ah, trees, and wind can all be said, and even you can listen to the Fa while taking a bath, soak in the eight-strength water, oh, how comfortable! There is also music, the sky, the breeze, and this sky Yun Manhua, think about how beautiful that scene is!

It’s enjoyment to go to Elysium to study! It’s not like working hard at all, it’s just enjoying, very at ease. How you want to listen to the scriptures, how you want to practice, this is up to your own wish , So we are really enjoying when we go to the Paradise of Elysium. It's all about living in a very happy state. Let's take a look at these products for yourself. Take a look at them. I can't wait to go right away.

This world is everywhere... You see that the sanitation on our side in Indonesia is not very good, and everywhere... The environment on the street is not very clean, and the air is not very good in all aspects. You can compare it, why don't you want to go earlier? What?Then everything is beautiful to the extreme!The quality of life here is so poor. There is really no place that is clean. We don’t have a place where we can really settle down. Many places are expensive and the quality is poor. The whole life is to buy a house and be a cow and horse. There is no time to enjoy it, so why bother?Elysium is so good, how nice it is to go quickly.Therefore, the first few products are all about the environment of the world of bliss. It is best for everyone to recite the Buddha. In your dreams and concentration, you can go for fun first, and you can experience more profoundly.

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(XNUMX) Amitabha's compassion for saving sentient beings surpasses all the Buddhas in the ten directions (this is because the master of the draft has not yet set the school, if there are typos, please report the error, the merits are boundless!)

The two products, "Rank Twelfth Brightness" and "Rank Thirteenth Shouzhong Wuliang", are introductions to the solemnity of the report.The immeasurable life represents blessings, and it also shows that the compassion of Amitabha Buddha to save sentient beings is also superior to the Buddhas in the ten directions. He wants to use... Not only can the deceased have great blessings, life is immeasurable, and he himself uses immeasurable life. Life comes to teach sentient beings, this also shows Amitabha's great compassion for saving sentient beings.You look like the teachers in our worldly schools. They will retire after ten or twenty years of teaching. Those who have a time limit. Amitabha Buddhism has no time limit for sentient beings, and they use an immeasurable lifespan to teach them.So from the perspective of lifespan is a blessing, you can also deeply understand the heart of Buddha Amitabha. His heart of saving sentient beings really exceeds that of Buddhas in the ten directions. If you don't have a life span, how can you teach sentient beings?This is a more fulfilling and more thorough aspiration for the cultivation of sentient beings. "The twelfth product is shining all over." Let's first look at a passage: "Amitabha is majestic and bright. The most respected and the first. The Buddhas of the ten directions. Unattainable." "The light of the Buddhas shines far and near. In their previous lives, seek the truth. May the merits be different. When you become a Buddha, you will get it." Well, let’s see here first.

We all know that Amitabha's light is the most respected and the first, surpassing all the Buddhas in the ten directions. Then we find it very strange, aren't all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas equal?All Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are equal. Equality is based on the realm that they have attained. When we become Buddhas, we have supreme wisdom and supreme completion. Of course, we are all equal, at the top. Some of them are equal. That is in terms of self-evidence of the inner realm. There is a difference in the appearance of things that appear on the outside. It depends on the size of the vows he made at that time.

If we make a vow now: "After I become a Buddha in the future, I will save sentient beings in a great world." Then of course your wish will be like this in the future, right?That Amitabha Buddha made his vow to save sentient beings in the ten realms, so when he becomes a Buddha, the retribution that appears will be particularly extraordinary, so we must expand our minds when we vow. Don’t be careful when the time comes. Everyone has become a Buddha. You have become such a shabby Buddha. There are not many people in your family.

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(XNUMX) Learn how to recite this Buddha's name (this time, the master of the draft has not yet set the school, if there is a typo, please report the error, the merit is boundless!) 

Let’s look at another scripture: “Amitabha Buddha. Brightness is good. Better than the sun and the moon. Hundreds of millions of times. The light is the most respectable. The king of the Buddha. It is the Buddha of immeasurable life. Also known as the Buddha of immeasurable light. Boundless light Buddha. Unobstructed light Buddha. Unwaiting light Buddha. Also known as wisdom light. Constant light. Pure light. Joy light. Free light. Stable light. Super sun and moonlight. Unbelievable light.” Okay, let’s see here first.We used to see this passage of Scripture, so I wanted to jump over it, because I think it’s nothing, it’s all names, just like the first sentence of the "Hua Yan Sutra". Almost all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are in front of it. You’ll read the title of "I", it’s very tasteless, that’s because we don’t understand it. Now when I see this paragraph, it has a special taste, and I especially like to savor it carefully.

In fact, the virtues of the Twelve Lights Tathagata mentioned in this chapter are all carefully cited these twelve kinds of virtues to illustrate the merits of the name, so we know that the name is Wande, but that Wande is very In general, how do we experience the merit of the name can be experienced from here.When we know how to use the several methods we just talked about, we really think with our heart, with a penitent heart, a grateful heart, a happy heart, a sad heart, and all kinds of moods, depending on what we have in the day. Different moods from time to time, according to the mood of the moment, we read it.Because when we read it according to our current mood, you will naturally be very attentive, and it is easy to get into that realm, and then after you fall into that realm, it is easy for you to experience it. Then in the process, you will gradually realize these kinds of things. The realm in the Virtue is "Pure light. Joy light. Free light. Stable light." Even "wisdom light." You will experience the effects of light in your heart. The most direct "light of joy" you will The more I read, the happier I am: "Ah...it was so annoying at first, how come you don’t bother to read it, and you’re happy if you read it again, right?"I was very troubled at first, and I didn’t know how to solve the problem. "Oh! Don’t care about it, just throw it aside." Keep reading and keep reading.... After you finish reading, you will find: Hey... "Freedom", my inner troubles are gone. .

You look back and think about what I was annoying just now, "Oh, that's not a big deal at all, why was I so annoying just now?" The mood will be different, and you will feel that it is not worth the annoyance. Your mood has turned around and you are relieved!Then you are stable... "Stable light", without worrying in your heart... "Pure light".Then you will find, hey...your wisdom has increased... "wisdom light", "constant light", your state will often remain intact.You can see these realm merits one by one, you can experience them, then we are right now... Can't we be able to truly receive the merits of Amitabha at the moment of chanting?This is amazing.So first of all, we must know how to recite this Buddha's name, so that we are happy, easy to settle, and concentrate. Just use your mood at the time to recite, and you will naturally concentrate.

For example, if you are sad, then you should be as sad as you can, and you can read it in a sad mood, Niannian...you want to cry a lot, and then you cry. You must be very attentive when you cry. ,right?Cry a lot, after crying, wow... the whole karma is gone!Then you will find: "Hey, it seemed like I was in meditation just now." Really, when you look back, you will feel...Wow...I really had a little time just now, unknowingly.So with my current mood, this is called the practice of letting the flow go, and the way of reciting the Buddha letting it go. This is very suitable for us. There is no need to force us to maintain a state and raise righteous thoughts, "I have a lot of delusional thoughts. You taught me how to bring up mindfulness and chanting of Buddha?” Can’t bring up, right?Forcing yourself to maintain a certain state to read, you will be very hard and stressed. We simply follow our own mood. We can enter the concentration when we recite the Buddha in any mood, be able to concentrate, and be able to receive the blessings of Amitabha, no matter what the mood, Feelings of joy, anger, sorrow, and joy, He can all absorb and help you to be placed in the best state, that is, "happy light. Free light. Peace of light." Under various states.

Respectful excerpt from disciple Shuxian

(XNUMX) Sincerely recite the Buddha, both body and mind will be transformed (this is the master of the drafting has not yet set the school, if there are typos, please report the error, the merits are boundless!)

Let us read another passage: "If it is light. All the worlds in the ten directions. There are sentient beings. Those who encounter the light. The defilement is good. The body and mind are soft. If you are in the three paths of extreme suffering, you can see this light. Rest. All hits are liberated.” These lights illuminate all the world in ten directions, so as long as sentient beings understand this light, we know that through the name of Buddha, not only will the future life be okay, but also the present "soft body and mind" "As we said before, we can transform our body and mind. The idea of ​​"soft body and mind" is originally very strong, but it has also become very soft.

There was a little girl. When she was five years old, she caught fire and burns at home. Two-thirds of her body was severely burned. She was almost impossible to save. She should be dying. She was delayed for ten years. Life is worse than death. Days, from the age of five to fifteen, she gradually became sensible, and she began to know how to resent her father, because at that time his father had already left, and there were still two or three years left to her mother. A little child, three children, she also has two younger sisters, just like that, the whole family lives like that... just in the filthy place next to the vegetable market, the whole family is nestled there, unexpectedly After ten years, she was fifteen years old.

Every day is a nightmare, and I can’t die if I want to die. Then when I was fifteen years old, there was a reason to meet Lianyou to persuade her to recite Buddhism, and then she saw someone caring for her, and usually no one cares about them, so she just I beg them to take her to the doctor as soon as possible, she is very painful, very painful!Her body was ulcerated, she suffered severe burns, she was supposed to die, but she didn’t die. Later, Lotus-you took her to see the doctor... took the doctor to see her, she couldn’t go out at all. The doctor said there was no way to treat it, it was too serious. Severe burns and the area has reached two-thirds, how to treat such severe burns?

Lotus friend persuaded her to recite Buddhism and seek death. She didn’t listen to her and wanted to...because it was too painful, she always wanted to see a doctor. Later, she tried to persuade her, but it was useless after the doctor. There was no cure, so she persuaded her She just let go of chanting the Buddha, but in the end she chanted, chanted... Within three days of chanting, her strong and cynical personality turned around, began to soften, and then began to recite the Buddha honestly, asking for it. Death, Nian Nian Nian... In less than twenty days, she can die. She told her mother that Buddha Amitabha would come to pick her up, and then help her cleanse and change into a better dress.In less than XNUMX days, she ended her ten years of suffering. The pain of life is not as good as death, because her body is too serious to live, but it can help her get rid of her karmic debts in her life and quickly die. , It was only twenty days, and she had only chanted for three days, her heart became soft, she was only desperate for death.So this is when she encounters cause and fate to persuade her to recite the Buddha, the light of the Buddha shines, she is soft in body and mind, and is willing to let go of those resentments. If she does not let go of those resentments, it is impossible to seek death with all her heart, and there is no way to get free in twenty days. A real example, as long as we encounter the Buddha's title by reason, we will truly and sincerely commend it, and each sentence will have a powerful effect of eight billion kalpas of life and death felony...the ability to eradicate crimes, we must believe in it. 

Today's time is up, let's study here first.Amitabha!

Respectful excerpt from disciple Shuxian