(XNUMX) Get close to the predecessor of the next old master of the Supreme Sage to achieve the cause and fate of the ordination (the master of the draft has not yet set the school, if there is a typo, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)

Dear Master Yamato is merciful, and respectable fellow practitioners of the Great Virtue, good afternoon everyone, Amitabha!

Today is the day when our Yuanyuan Temple teaches the Eight Passes on a regular basis every month. The fellow initiates got up for morning class before dawn, and then spent the morning fast, and then taught the Eight Passes, the Eight Passes, and then again. After giving an offering, and then a fast for lunch, there seemed to be no rest at noon, and then went on chanting the Buddha diligently. I just heard that fellow practitioners were chasing after the Buddha and chanting, the vigor and spirit seemed to be very good!Are you tired?It seems that even the elderly are in good spirits, not simple.There are also some fellow practitioners. I can see that their complexion is bright and they are really good and very hard work. This shows that our abbot Master Taihe Master. In recent years, especially from our regular teaching of the Eight Precepts, we have led fellow practitioners to learn more intensively. Since then, we can indeed see some results.Our dojo is really rare. Now it seems that Buddhism is very prosperous at home and abroad. However, most of the dojos cater to the preferences of sentient beings. sentient beings like to cultivate blessings and lively activities, so they can lead everyone to practice together regularly for a long time and every day. It is very rare to teach precepts, so you all seem to be blessed.How to say good luck?If you don’t know how to cherish this cause, and you can’t use it properly, then I’m afraid you’ve missed it face-to-face.I saw that our fellow practitioners came here to settle down last night, sleeping on a straw mat, wow!It's not easy, really start practicing asceticism!But although it is a straw mat, our floor is made of marble, which is very precious.It is Master Yamato who are often invited, and they are also running outside. Everything is to make fellow initiates have a good learning environment, so everyone should be grateful and cherish.

When I saw you sleeping on that straw mat, I thought about the past. I was ordained for about twelve years. About the next year, I went to take full ordination and got close to the old master of the upper sage on Lantau Island in Hong Kong. He belonged to the old monk Xuyun. Fazi, the ninth-generation heir of Weiyangzong, passed away on the third day of August this year.He has saved countless people in his life. His disciples and grandchildren have been five generations, not only two generations. We generally see that there are at most two or three generations. He is the fifth generation, the descendant of the five generations, the famous Hong Kong Buddha, the Tiantan Buddha, and the Baolian The Zen Temple was completed when he was the fourth-generation presiding officer. This work is very arduous. If there is no considerable mighty power, there is no way to do it, but he has done too many things in his life. There is King Kong in the mainland. The name of the law protector.However, he is relatively low-key and does not take credit at all. This kind of person is really rare now, completely silently practicing and giving silently. He has been practicing asceticism all his life, and he served as the fourth generation. After the abbot completed the Big Buddha, he retired, and then retired to Baolin and Shuangmulin in the deeper mountains of Lantau Island. I just talked about Baolian and retired to Baolin Temple. After getting off the bus, he would have to walk for nearly five years. For ten minutes, walk the deep mountain path, and there are bisons. If you accidentally bump into the bisons in front of you, you will not be able to make it through!It is really asceticism in the deep mountains and jungles. He lived there and taught his apprentices. Then I am really lucky to be able to get close to such a great virtue.He is also my mentor. Without him, I encountered a lot of difficulties after graduating from the training course. I might have been vulgar. Because in our concept, it is not necessary to be a monk to learn the Pure Land Method. It is more important to be able to die anyway, so I There is no attempt to do a major cause in this life. It is a whole-hearted request for death, but just because of the cause and condition of Master Shengyi, he achieved my ordination.

Well, you can leave after you receive the vows. Before you get the vows, he told me to go to the mountains to cultivate blessings. He explained to me that this is something that I can't bear in my life. It can be said that it is a mental method for me. In response to my cause and fate, I told me that "good things are hard to come by, and everything is low-key."Really, my personality used to be very straightforward. Before I learned Buddhism, I made a wish not to lie. I didn't learn Buddhism yet!Because I feel that lying is very exhausting, it is not worth the loss, so I am not wise and straightforward, so when I think that I will not lie, then I just say anything if I have something to say.But later, after practicing, I realized that I couldn’t speak straight. Sometimes it hurts people, and sometimes it hurts people. Then I can’t lie about what to do. I'll take care of it slowly, then don't say it!If you don’t say anything, you won’t speak lie. This is a method for your reference, that is, low-key, really "good things are hard to do, everything is low-key", this is my master’s oral confession, because he knows my cause and my personality, So he explained that, he wanted me to go to the mountain, it was asceticism in the jungle, to really cultivate fortune and hone.

Before that, I could say that I had never suffered from childhood. I couldn't even clean the floor and couldn't cook the rice. Then I just graduated from the training course in Singapore at that time. The reward was great and I didn't suffer from it.So the next day, the day before I was in Singapore, and after I flew to Hong Kong the next day, Master asked me to exercise first, but also to observe. I must pass the exam before I can take the precepts. Generally, if it is a novice, I must exercise at least two years. Master thinks that you can indeed receive the ordination before he can achieve you. Then my fate at the time was more than four months to receive the ordination.It was really bitter during that time. I think I have suffered from childhood when I grew up, and it didn’t add up to that in those four months.I remember that the day I just went there happened to be the Guanyin Festival. On the busiest day, nearly a hundred people lived on the mountain. There were not many squatters. They were all monks. Then my generation was the youngest, and the master said, "Good things are hard to come by. Keep things low-key", I dare not talk about my background, in fact, there is no background, but at least, oops!If I wear the big hat of our old monk and I can teach the scriptures and preach the Dharma myself, it might be better!But the master told me that I couldn't talk, Master didn't talk, didn't explain, couldn't talk, he explained low-key, I just thought for a long time what is low-key?I don’t know how to handle it without wisdom, oops!Don't talk about it at all, and in the end I didn't talk about anything. Quietly doing things really exhausted me.

I just went to the Guanyin Festival again. I didn’t have to rest at noon for two consecutive days. I got up at three o’clock, and then I didn’t rest at noon until ten o’clock in the evening. It was just two days later. The next night When I was sleeping, when I lay down, I suddenly felt that I couldn’t move. I really couldn’t move. I didn’t have the strength to get up and go to the clean room. It’s really hard to describe, really. It’s complicated, happy, sad, and tired, and then I feel a little bit really a little bit like a cultivator at first. Then the bed we sleep on is better than your straw mat, and your straw mat is better, wider, and three feet wide. You can also turn over. The bed we slept on was the same as the dead man slept in. When it was placed in the living room, it was about two and a half feet less than three feet. If you were to go to sleep, Ah Xiang might fall off as soon as you turn over. .The auspicious sleeping room must be obediently unmovable. A room is as big as your women. You sleep outside with a dozen or twenty beds. If you look around, it looks like a morgue!The bed board is really small, and it's a board, not a bed!Then there are two ancient traditional benches underneath. A bench is placed at the beginning and the end, and a board is laid on top of the bench. It looks like a bed for the dead?Putting it in the living room is like that. When we usually die, we put a board and put two stools in the living room. It really looks like this.It took more than four months with great difficulty, because those four months were really not easy. On the one hand, physical labor was unprecedented, and it really tested our willpower and physical strength. On the other hand, even this inner heart This kind of training is unprecedented.Because the master has to be low-key, then I don’t say anything. There are nearly a hundred masters in it. Everyone is higher than me. I am the youngest. Then we are in the jungle. The rules are very strict.Like the year we were ordained, we had four or five hundred rings. I happened to be the first altar, and the first altar was the largest. Those who received the ordination in the same year would all be behind me, and the usual ones. In this work-rest interaction, they are also lower in generation than me, not to mention that Ji La is higher than me, so everyone can direct me and scold me.

Respectful excerpts from disciple Lianying

(XNUMX) The practice should be respectful to the teacher and seek the Dharma (this time the master drafting master has not yet set the school, if there is a typo, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)

Then, but in the Sangha, the people who really want to practice are just right. It is a cause of good practice. As long as you don’t make a mistake, others won’t scold you. If you make a mistake, someone has to correct you. It’s really a good thing. You If you have money and can't buy it outside, you can fix your own problems quickly.Then I was trembling and afraid that there would be no way to complete this cause, but no matter how careful I was, it would still be repaired, because the masters of the high school asked me, "Where are you from? How are you going to...", I agree. I didn't answer, if I didn't answer, I didn't know how to make up the reasons, and I didn't want to do this.I really made up the reason, I would forget it myself. When the time comes, it will not be more ugly, so I will insist on asking how I don’t talk about it. If you don’t talk about it, it won’t work. People have to deal with this problem. People must deal with it. To figure out this matter, why I don't say anything.

Once I was reading a book, there was a small lamp beside the bed, and then suddenly I thought, my shack was on the second floor and I wanted to get something on the first floor. I thought about it for a minute or two, and I didn’t turn off the light. The result was terrible. Someone immediately followed me down, and then followed me up again. I was on my bed, because we had no place, and we had only a bed two and a half feet in space. There was also a mosquito net in the space, and the master followed me and started cursing: "Why don't you turn off the lights? Can you waste the electricity you live in? Can you bear the support of the ten directions?" He started cursing and cursing. ...Two minutes without turning off the lights and scolding for half an hour, half an hour!You may have grown up so long without anyone scolding you for so long, and during that process, one or twenty masters were all around and couldn’t speak because she was of a higher generation, so she taught me that it should be. , And I made the mistake.The lights were not turned off for two minutes, and then she actually did it on purpose, because she had to force me to ask me where I came from, some of the questions she had asked before, but oops!I don’t even know that I can be so arrogant. I still haven’t been defeated by her from start to finish. I don’t even talk about it. It’s really two stalemates, but I can’t be disobedient and can’t fight against her. We are not taught, either. The two are deadlocked, so they will scold for so long, otherwise, if anyone can scold like that, for half an hour, then many people will be surrounded by onlookers.

I've been tolerating it all the time, because it's really ugly, it's very shameless. You see someone pointed at you and scolded so many people. After a minute or two, I watched you turn your face and scolded him back. "It’s a big deal, don’t I have a place to live?" I think so in my heart, but it doesn’t work. Since we’ve set our minds to practice, no one asked you to come. This realm is just perfected, not to mention that I can’t let Master was disappointed. Master really made me compassionate. Don’t worry about him, so I just endured it and endured it until the end. I really couldn’t hold back those eyes and tears!It was getting fuller and fuller, and I kept holding back from letting it fall, but because it was too much, it finally fell. At that time, there seemed to be a little bit, and it seemed that a little bit was about to be defeated, because the tears fell.But I still didn’t say it. At the end, I told her a word and she let me go. I told her, "Master, you don’t need to ask any more, I won’t be fooled by you." It’s useless, but we can’t be disrespectful and confrontational. If the magnetic field of confrontation radiates out, it’s not acceptable. Change the order right away and get out of it. It’s really like this, but I told her sincerely, Say: "Master, you don’t need to ask any more, I will never talk about it." But I don’t say that it’s not that I’m disrespectful, but that I have my reasons. I don’t say it doesn’t mean it’s bad, because there is Sometimes people will deliberately think of some bad reasons.So I just explained it a little bit like this. I said, "You will understand in the future." I also said that it seems to be very sophisticated. You will surely understand in the future. After she finishes speaking, she thinks about it, since I have endured it for so long and I didn't confront her, I was not rude, I reasoned with her, then this is human rights, I didn't talk about my reasons, not that I deliberately wanted to oppose you, and finally ended, half an hour.

The next day, many people came to comfort me: "Oh! Don't be sad, this person is like this, she is really amazing..." Every group must have the so-called six groups of bhikkhus, six groups of bhikkhus.The so-called six groups means the most powerful, the number one person who specializes in repairing people. Every novice man has been repaired by her for two years. Don’t talk about repairing, training, and tempering. What are you like a lady, what a rich man? When people come here, they just grind them the same way. They grind them harder. They need to grind away your edges and corners and those arrogant habits, and grind you down very softly. This is really a good thing, and she is dedicated to doing this kind of thing. It usually takes two years to grind, because a person’s habits are not so easy to change.Then she repaired me like this. This time, she saw that I didn’t mean to be against her intentionally. I had a reason because it wasn’t angular. I told her the reason. But the next day, she asked me to eat. Someone else. Come to comfort me, and she herself came to invite me to eat, to express peace with me! "Oh! I didn't mean it, I just wanted to understand the situation." From now on, no one dares to bully me, no one dares to fix me, and can't talk about bullying. That is our notion of fact, and it's good if we don't make mistakes ourselves.

Originally, the Sangha had the rules of the Sangha. Indeed, I feel really grateful for that time, because everyone put down everything and cut their love and came here to practice the Taoism. They are also bitter daughters-in-law and become wives!And there are all reasons. It is to follow the precepts. The intention is on the Tao, so we really don’t have any resentment or dissatisfaction in our hearts. On the contrary, we are very grateful for people with different personalities of these people to achieve us, unlike the people in society. He came to talk to you and even spoke well. We also know that he has bad intentions, or comes to trouble because of his own habits and selfishness. Of course, if we are not satisfied, we will be easy to grudge, but practitioners don’t. Yes, we all have a standard. This standard on the precepts, the mutual discussion, supervision, and supervision on the Dao, the goal is to collectively tend towards a consummation on the Dhamma, so it is really a good thing.So more than four months in the first year have finally passed, and I have finished the vows, and then I can be free!

Because the master knew that I had a cause for spreading the Dharma outside, he didn't necessarily ask me to stay. He only asked me to recite the Shurangama Mantra.I originally wanted to use mixed ones instead of memorizing. You see that I and you are doing morning classes in the morning. I can learn all by myself. I didn’t want to memorize them. There are many five sessions. That spell is particularly difficult to memorize. , Because it is completely meaningless, you have to memorize sentence by sentence, ah!In addition, we are dedicated to chanting Buddha, in fact, we don't need to recite.However, it is best for monks to recite two homework, especially in the jungle. This is the basic homework and pays for the meal. If one is popular, this is to pay two homework and pay for the meal. This buzzword in the Sangha was meant to be confused, but it turned out to be!The master is really so old. At that time, he was over XNUMX years old. I thought he would forget when he talked about it. He told me that we should learn the precepts. He didn’t ask me to take part in Zen. Our place is the Zen dojo. He is a lawyer and preaching precepts. The lawyer who received precepts is a monk who is both a Zen master and a master. He is highly respected. He did not ask me to participate in Zen. He only taught me according to my aptitude. He only asked me to recite the Shurangama Mantra, which means that I should learn the precepts after all five lessons.As a result, I thought, if I didn’t say good or bad, I decided not to recite in my heart. Anyway, I’ll be Bye Bye after receiving the vows!

I am Xiu Pure Land, and I don’t participate in Zen, but I went to see Master again after half a month. He asked me the first sentence when he saw me: "Have you recite the Shurangama Mantra?" Ouch!It scared me... I really had numb legs and soft feet. I think he might have forgotten it. Moreover, with so many disciples and so old, it really scared me, oops!Many people in the elderly said that he has magical powers, but he is very low-key, so we are not arrogant, but we really believe that he is not an ordinary person.When he drank it in person, it was really like a Zen technique that would startle you. I will never forget it, so I began to obediently recite it.So the first year, at that time, it happened to live in Xia. It was really bitter, but the experience in many aspects, the teacher’s teaching, and the honed achievement of the same reference made us feel very deeply. I felt that the practice was really true. The taste of practice started there.Before that, when I was a layman for two or three years, the magic weapon of circulation was all good destiny. I have been giving all the time. Everyone admired me. Then the old monk got close to us and the blessing was great, and none of them really suffered. The main reason is to take root in the study of teachings, so the real practice is in the Baolin Temple, and it is very painful. At the beginning, I encountered such a test question and such a high standard. Fortunately, there is a master. Because of Master’s virtue and kindness to us, we really don’t want him to be disappointed, and we also feel that we have expectations for us disciples, and we have deep expectations. His expectations are naturally expressed, and he is to repay the Buddha. En is to do our duty, so we dare not slack off, no matter how hard we are, we have to survive.So in the second year, I automatically went back to Jiexia Anju obediently. Three months and ninety days, I went back for three consecutive years. It’s not that easy. Go and take a look. Three days. Just stay for three days. Yes, you are already there. If you really want to promote the Dharma in this life, you have a little ability and a little hope. It means that you are still a magical instrument that can be tempered by the family. You can stay for three months for a short-term, regardless of whether you are a monk at home. It's okay, you can go for exercise. For three months, then in your life you have to teach sentient beings. There is some news and a little ability. If you can stay for three years, you will have the time. It's really not easy.

Respectful excerpts from disciple Lianying

(XNUMX) The monks must also abide by the rules of the dojo (this time, the drafting master has not yet set the school, if there is a typo, please report the error, the merits are boundless!)

I remember once when we first received the ordination, there was a group of brothers who looked weird. Many practitioners were really weird, and their personalities were different from ordinary people.A female group, after she received the ordination, we took the ring of the same year and went to our place to hang the ring for a single month after receiving the ordination. Why does this person say she is weird?Because we novices are not allowed to touch money, but many people like to offer new ring, and they are more than a buddha. Don’t be underestimated to see that your family has just become a monk and that Taoism is firm and simple. It’s really amazing. It’s better than you. The layman has practiced for decades.You see, Professor Fang Dongmei did not arrive there until his deathbed in his later years... he asked for three refuges under the seat of the old monk Guangqin, and only three refuges before he died!He is a Buddhist scholar, and he studies Buddhism as philosophy, so you, a layman, no matter how deep your knowledge is, if you don't really practice it to a certain extent, what is practice?It is not easy for you to really shave your head off, cut off your affection, let go of a lot of things, and you are determined to live a light life, and you really did it, this kind of effort!It's not that you speak so nicely. You have accumulated so much blessing in your life, and people who know a lot of Buddhism can match it. This is the truth.We all admire the monks very much. Although I have a very poor cultivation and heavy karma, I respect each monk very much. It’s really not easy to respect the monks from the bottom of my heart! It is not that simple to be able to last for decades.So it happened that time, although this person looked weird, look at her this...we hold that, this one can’t touch money, and she doesn’t hold the ring of gold items, gold and silver body treasures. What kind of weird way she is, everyone offers a lot of red envelopes. , And then she... When we are leaving, we usually organize it and pick it up and give it to the master. Then everyone takes it, but she didn’t take it. Then I reminded her why not take it, she said...no Just take it away like this, it's weird to be a person, don't hold the precepts rigidly, as if it will be poisonous if you touch it.

Then, after a few days, she showed up in our Baolin. It turned out that she went to place the order. It is reasonable to say that she would go back to her permanent residence after receiving the precepts. She did not go back and went to our place to place the order. As a result, she was very cute and Zen. The meditation hall is very strict, and the rules are completely different from our chanting halls. When you enter this meditation hall, you don’t need to worship the Buddha. In Zen Buddhism, he even breaks the Buddha image. He doesn’t cling to the image. He goes straight into the empty door. He doesn’t need to worship the Buddha. After entering the door, the left side is the position of the abbot monk, and the right side is Wiener who took the incense board. Wiener’s position and position are fixed.At that time, my generation was very small, and the big and tall meditation chairs on one side were full. We sat in the small crowd near the middle of the Buddha statue. After taking this small worship mat, we sat on it and meditated, with two incense sticks. Every night, the first branch of Changxiang takes eighty minutes, and you have to sit for two in a row. It’s not easy for you to sit still. As a result, I can see clearly because I’m sitting there. This monk novice is so cute and reasonable. Speak!She could not enter the meditation hall beyond the time. As a result, she went in after exceeding that day. On the day when she was about to die, Wiener fell asleep and was dozing off. Because they were so tired, they had to grow vegetables during the day and work to chop wood!I practiced asceticism. She was too tired that day. As a result, she touched it over time. Wiener didn’t notice. The boss swaggered and prayed for three prayers in front of the Buddha. I just saw her right in front of me. Keep quiet, we can’t intervene casually regardless of our business. I just watched quietly. At this time, after the three prayers, Vina hasn’t woken up yet. It is reasonable to say that we will be kicked out as soon as we go in, but Vina hasn’t. wake up.

Next, she took a look at the seats are full, because she was late for the seat is full, she saw an empty seat, she walked over to sit, swayed to sit down, and began to prepare to meditate in three minutes.At this time Wei Na woke up and immediately called her down: "This is the position of the abbot, how can you sit?" She ran to the position of the abbot and sat down, this, maybe!There has never been anything that happened in the dojo in the past, and it may not happen in the future. This is a big deal. Although she does not understand how big the fault is, she sits in the position of the abbot. The abbot monk is the most permanent resident. Admire and admire the most beloved Master!You dare to sit in the position of the master, and she is a minority who has just received the precepts. This is terrible. Not only has she violated the rules, but she has also violated the heart of the resident. It is inevitable that she has a little attachment!Because I love and respect Master very much, how can I sit in the position of Master?This is incredible!Aroused group anger.

We have three generations in the same house, that is, the XNUMX-XNUMX-year-old Bhikkhuni master who is the same as the master's elder generation. That generation is very high, and he has been quitting Lala for decades, many decades.Take the lead in repairing her, how to repair it?Of course, it’s not torture. It’s not like that. Because she’s a pending order and a beginner, she didn’t even beat her with the incense board. I have seen it before, and I have seen this person being beaten up by the incense board in her heart. Did not hit her incense board, read her beginners, but this master bhikshuni, took the lead in silently suppressing her, silently suppressing, the most stringent in the Sangha, except for resignation, if you did not drive you away, you did not commit these eight rules. This Parayi law is the crime of decapitation. If you do not commit these eight items, you can live there, but the most stringent is silently, ignoring you, completely ignoring her, this elder nun took the lead in doing it, and everyone Very angry!I was so angry that she was too disrespectful, and there would still be this kind of emotional fluctuations, and as a result, everyone ignored her.I just watched... watching her take things everywhere to support others, no one wants to care, you don’t accept it if you want to support others, and it’s very straightforward. There are two people in the same way, and the other takes things. To support this elder nun, he had to give it to her, and the elder nun accepted this. As a result, she turned around and ignored her as soon as she looked at her. She was ugly, so everyone knew that she was being silently suppressed and repaired. No one paid any attention to her. As a result, this person was really amazing. She could stay for a month. As long as the average person couldn't stay for a day, I said that this person is very strange and is also a spiritual practitioner.Same as the Sangha, otherwise she can't stay, so embarrassing!Therefore, silence is the most stringent method of punishment, so you must be able to repent and reform yourself.

Like our monks and women, there is another one, in addition to the eight crimes of decapitation, which must be removed, and the second most serious one is the seventeen disabled monks.SanghaSha, after committing these XNUMX things, you will have half your life left, so it is called the monk disabled. The disabled are also very serious. Then this requires a long period of repentance. There are some laws to get rid of it. For public service, all your benefits must be temporarily lifted, and for the public to eliminate karma and confess. In the end, forty people, XNUMX bhikkhus and XNUMX bhikkhus will help him do the work together, so that his sin can be completely confessed. Then resume normal status benefits.So practice in the Sangha!You have to make progress very quickly, and it seems strict, but as long as you have the Dao Mind, you will feel that you are practicing all the time.And you see that there are so many people living in the mountains and the small places, people walking around!There is no place where you can slack off. It is true that you have been working diligently in the middle of two or six o'clock, so you can stay for three months, and you must have quite some experience. Of course, it is not that it is all so bitter!That's because at the beginning!We don't understand the rules and often make mistakes.For example, before I went back in the third year, I was rewarded with good fortune. When I went back in the third year, the paper couldn’t contain the fire. My background gradually became known to some people. Later, many people admired me: "Oh, you unexpectedly You can endure it." Then, and I admired us for devoting ourselves to spreading the Dharma and benefiting our lives, and we all praised with joy.So my third year’s blessing is just now. The squatter we slept in was a room with one or twenty people, and there were more than twenty beds. In the third year, I slept in the VIP area, which was six people. One is the Guanyin Pavilion, and the other is a small house, which is equivalent to a hut, and the other hut, each for six people, and you can be close to Master for two or three hours every day. That is almost impossible. There is a kind of fate. Because we are women, how can we get close to the abbot and monk? We are separated from men and women. We did not do morning classes together, and we did not do morning and evening classes together. That is also a special fate, so we can get close to Master every day. Around.

That kind of blessing power, the first one or two years is the tempering, the tempering of adversity, the third year is the master's morality, the majesty and the kind of love, through his own meditation wisdom, it is purely revealed. That kind of perturbation is very strong and strong. We can't reach this level in our entire life, but it is very clear that I know which direction to learn from.So why in ancient times, practitioners had to get close to good knowledge in the past. He could worship three steps one at a time, or walk for a few years to get close to a good knowledge, even if he heard one or two discourses, some Zen Buddhism is like this, elder After traveling for a few years to get close to a Zen master, he would curse you and beat you out, and then end your study. But the Patriarch is very compassionate. He always uses any method, no matter it is. Whether you are subdued or subdued, he has a way to benefit you and get a deep experience.So it is indeed the case. If we have the opportunity to get close to good knowledge, we really need to cherish it. Nothing can be as valuable as this kind of cause and condition, even if it is a single sentence or a situational achievement that will last us all our lives.

But at the end of the Dharma period, the good knowledge like this is really gone one by one. Our old monk also said that he will leave when the disaster comes in XNUMX. Now he is also persuading everyone to take the date of our death as the date of our death. Foresee the time!At that time, we now know that we are going to die in two years, and the time is coming. He said that if you don’t want to leave, I wish you a long life. He is leaving, the old monk is leaving, and we are also leaving. , So we now regard every day as the last day, because impermanence will come at any time, not necessarily until two years, two years are the days of our death, we come to live with this mood, so we don’t have much time Now, the old monk said that he must hurry up and accumulate contributions and do what he has to do, hurry up.

Now there is not much good knowledge and not many good dojos. Fortunately, we have such a good cause here, and the teachings of the great virtues of the Patriarch, so clear. We only need to rely on this name to be truly steadfast. To be honest and upheld, everyone can be assured of passing life, especially since we can stay here for a long time through the eight passes, through the daily life under the leadership of Master Yamato, as well as the spirit of participating in meditation. Under further study and learning, not only will we be able to be sure of our rebirth, but we can also walk in a good way for sentient beings. We can be free from illness and suffering. We can predict the time, work harder, recite more Buddhism, learn more precepts, and we will go better. To look good, even though you were reborn by the Buddha, no matter how sick you go, He still comes to pick you up.But as long as we have a cause and condition, since everyone has such good roots and is already committed to practicing, then we should cherish it as much as possible. Before we die, we make good use of this body and body to make the best use of it. Then our this, not only we go. The Ruixiang is better to set an example for all sentient beings, and our taste can be even higher!It’s best to go straight to the land without any doubts, just go straight to the land, no need to wrap it in the buds, but also to wrap up the twelve kalpas. This is something we can do. As long as we are willing to take the initiative, everyone can do it. To.

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(XNUMX) See through and let go of the disgusting Sapo, and seek bliss (The master of drafting has not yet set the school, if there is a typo, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)

Then we will continue to read the scriptures. Yesterday we learned the "Thirty-one Product". Next, we will look at the "Thirty-Second Product" to the "Thirty-Seven Product". It is our Jingzong fellow practitioners. The evening class, the scope of the evening class, is set by our old monk. This part has a lot to do with our daily practices. Let’s first read a passage: “Buddha tells Maitreya, the heavens, etc.: Immeasurable life, Bodhisattva, Merit and wisdom cannot be said; and the country is delicate, peaceful, and pure. Why not do good, the natural way of thinking, what is the world, worry and worry." Let’s see this paragraph first, because we are learning this time. It’s the main point. I’m going to give you a brief verse. This part of "The Thirty-Second Grade" is mainly for persuasion. The general persuasion is to persuade us to seek bliss and be disgusted with Sao Po. "Eleven Products", the content of this bodhisattva's practice and true merits, it is said that the bodhisattva is in the country of immeasurable life, the merits and wisdom are so extraordinary, and the land is so pure, why don't we rush to survive?Why do you want to greet this world again!It's such a tone to persuade us to ask for a student as soon as possible.

Then follow the advice of "Thirty-third Product" and tell us specifically what the people in this world are greedy for?Let’s look at a scripture: "The world is striving for something that is not urgent. In the midst of this tragedy and extreme suffering, work hard and work hard to support yourself. Inferiority, young and long, men and women. . There is no land to worry about the land, no home to worry about the house. The family’s property, whether there is the same worry, one is one less, one is one, one is one, the desires and desires are together, etc. It is small and has a lot of worry." Good!First see here, indeed, this Blessed One told us too clearly, what are people in this world busy with all day, what are they pursuing?Regardless of whether it is rich or poor, old or young, male or female, what is it that everyone is working on all day long?Controlled by this heart, greed, anger, ignorance, and greed, we can’t be the master ourselves. We are very pitiful. Being slaves of this heart, being led by it, led by it to do something, there is no land and worry about the land, No home to worry about home.No house wants a house, no car wants a car, when you have it, oops!You think it’s too little but a little more, okay!Wait until you have everything...a lot, and you are afraid that people will steal them. Do you think the rich are like this?I have to hire a bodyguard, and then add a wall outside the house. I am afraid that people will rob and my friends will borrow money again. I am worried all day long. You see, rich or not, it is hard, right?So people in the world are really stupid and stupid. There is no peaceful moment or truly happy moment, so is it right to pursue these?Of course it’s not right, so it’s not urgent to fight together!These are not important things, they are all for themselves, so people who really see the truth clearly.This is called seeing through, and those who really see through will definitely let it go. Have you seen through?You come here to express your heart to receive the Eight Passes. This heart is very hard to come by, and it is very hard. You wake up early in the morning and work hard until the evening. It is hard to reach Consummation in one day. What about after you go back?I just gave him a seven-day sleep to make up for it, right?Damn!Then you'll give up all your previous work!

We come to the dojo to practice together, especially for diligent practice. Our goal is not to finish the day in the time of this day’s meditation. No, but through the blessing of such a Three Jewels, in this process, truly Let us see through and let go. In this process of cultivating together, we must have the kind of touch in our hearts to help us truly inspire great aspirations: "Okay! After I go back tomorrow, I will start to do what I want...", the simplest Yesterday, I said that you’d better not eat at night and save a meal. It’s too easy for you to do it. If you come to the lay people, it’s best if you’re tired of home, you’d better be willing to take the "Five Precepts" and "Bodhisattva Precepts." Those who are truly blessed by Buddhism and who really get the benefits of learning in the group practice are only visible after you return, and you really need to change. Otherwise, your group practice is just for getting together.You have worked so hard today for nothing, so why bother?You can just enjoy the blessing every day at home, you can't get much effect!So coming to the dojo is to receive blessings. It is to learn how to diligently. When you go back, you have to really devote yourself to the implementation. Going back is the beginning of the practice. It is not the end when you go home here, and then you start to go back and enter the five. Desire among the six dusts.It is best for young people to start a monkhood. Here are a few young men who seem to have good roots. They need to be motivated and don't have girlfriends.Damn!It will be very troublesome for you to have a girlfriend. I tell you that this woman is very habitual. When she likes you, she pesters you all day, and when she doesn't like you, she has troubles with you all day, endless.

You see once there was an old Master Yuan Yin in that Taiwan, wow!He really admired him. He went to participate in the Seventh Buddha. He is the owner of a big company. He participated in the Seventh Buddha and got close to the old monk Xingyun, the old Master Xingyun. In Taiwan, he is also a great virtue of the Jingzong. Those who follow strict precepts, then their good roots are mature, this old Master Zhenyun!He teaches his disciples very strictly. He is very strict about being a monk and at home, so when he sees his good roots are mature, he tells him to stay and become a monk. He doesn’t help others to shave and asks him to stay: "You don’t have to go back. You can become a monk!” He was really good-natured, and he immediately made up his mind to become a monk and didn't go back.I didn't go back after playing the seventh Buddha. I made a phone call and went back to his staff and cadres and told him, "My company gave it to you. I don't want it. You help me deal with it. I want to become a monk." That's it!His staff was startled when he heard: "Boss, don't think about it. If you really want to practice, it doesn't matter if you practice. I will help you take care of the company. If you come back anytime, I will return it to you. You can practice with peace of mind." , It’s good to say that just now!There is no worries for the future, but this person has good roots. He resolutely said: "No, give it to you, I don't want it." So thorough!

From then on, I stayed in the mountains to recite the Buddha and practice asceticism. Later, of course, there was a great achievement. This is not an ordinary person. This is called true letting go, really seeing through. If we see through, we will definitely let go. If we go back, there is still no change. Then you didn’t see through. After listening a lot, I didn't hear it in my heart.Not long ago, I went to... I also enjoyed an ordination ceremony in Malaysia. A fellow practitioner of the Society started to become a monk. During that ceremony, oops!I am also very moved. This is because I became a monk twelve years ago. The scene at that time was also very touching. Because the monk... The so-called monk is to have the heart, bear the burden of the family business, and repay the grace of Buddha!It's such a heart to become a monk.So you have to cut love and resign, give up little love and love, you have to leave your family, your home, even your relatives, your favorite people!All kinds of things have to be put down. This is really not a fake. I didn’t want to become a monk at the time. I didn’t expect to be a monk. I asked for a magic weapon. After three days, I was shaved off. I was shaved, so time is in a hurry!At that time, I still had a friend who was with a group of men. He was studying the "Diamond Sutra" and I was studying the "Blessed Life Sutra". He was often in battle and had a lot of conversation.Later, after deciding to become a monk, he went to observe the ceremony. He cried from beginning to end, a man!Of course he would feel that he was missing a fellow daoist in that kind of scene, so he must have a deep feeling in his heart.When I went to observe the ceremony a few days ago, because our ordination ceremony was like this, the scene on that day was also very solemn, because it happened to be the meeting, he performed the ordination ceremony on one of the occasions of the puja, then Ordinarily, the ritual of ordination is for the master or the person who is seeking ordination. It is possible that his mother, family, or friends will come to observe the ceremony. During the ordination process, there is a singing of praise, etc., and then During this process of shave, the public will sing a verse. This verse is called "In the circulation of the Three Realms, love cannot escape, abandoning grace into inaction, and truly repaying grace." You can imagine a person who is determined to shave or become a monk for the purpose of To repay Buddha's grace is also to solve the suffering of reincarnation that has been circulating in the Three Realms since the beginning of the Tribulation.

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(XNUMX) Perseverance, attachment, desire and desire can not be released for generations and generations (this is the master of drafting has not yet set the school, if there are typos, please report the error, the merit is boundless!)

It’s the so-called seeing through. Although the person you see through has not been completely let go, because after you become a monk, you have to practice slowly, but when you really want to become a monk, you are also seeing through, seeing through the world, seeing through the transfiguration of everything, nothing in this world is worth it. Nostalgia and unreal are suffering. Only by seeking reincarnation can it be real. Therefore, a person seeking a homelessness has such a state of mind, and then this verse says: "In the Three Realms, love cannot escape. "The main reason why we can't escape from the six realms and three realms is because of affection. This attachment of affection, love does not regenerate and does not give birth to a woman, and attachment is the most difficult to give up.That’s why he wrote of grace because of love, so he cannot be separated or liberated. "Abandoning grace into inaction, truly repaying grace." He advised us to truly abandon grace. This grace belongs to family affection, family affection in the world. We are not. Talk about the kindness of parents?The kindness and kindness of these relatives must be given up, and we must truly give up first. Our worldly people say: Oh!Being a monk without filial piety at home does not seem to be filial to your parents. In fact, it is not. Being a monk is truly great filial piety. So here it is said that "abandon one's grace into inaction, and truly repay one's grace." You must first give up this little love and grace in the world and enter into inaction. Wuwei is the realm of Buddha's Nirvana. The mind is not clear, which is immortal, without any attachments to affection. It is completely based on a pure heart, reason, and compassion, and lives in this state. This is the state of inaction and inaction.When we truly abandon all kinds of involvement in the world, the involvement of love, and through our practice, we can enter into such a state of inaction, then we are the ones who truly repay our kindness.

This is the content of this verse, so this verse will be chanted by the public during the ceremony of ordination. It is very touching. I often...I have been a monk for twelve years, and on many occasions, large and small, I hear praise. In other words, even when I teach the scriptures myself... I often have to control it now. In fact, my feelings, whether it is gratitude or all aspects of mood, I show only about three points. For the other seven points, I always control my patience. Otherwise, I will often cry so much that I can't continue my lectures, and I am often very moved.Once I shared my experience with more than XNUMX fellow practitioners. When I talked about it... I couldn’t help crying, crying... I cried for XNUMX minutes and cried for XNUMX minutes. One of them shed tears, and many of them came from intellectuals. The most sensible people cried. Needless to say, the women, more than two hundred people in the audience cried into a ball. For twenty minutes, they couldn’t help it. It was out of control, so I deliberately practiced this technique later. I had to stay down, so of course I had reservations. Otherwise, I also talked about... When I was very moved, I couldn't go on.That scene that day, oops!As usual, I can’t help that tears keep streaming down. Think about it, let’s imagine the mood of this man who started to become a monk, and then this kind of compassionate achievement of the shaman, and then his parents. In the next service, the public was singing this verse, while someone helped him to shave his hair, and then his parents were praying next to the Buddha, as if to send my child out, and from then on he is no longer my child. Give it to Sambo!Let go of that kind of family situation, and then the public will sing this verse in particular!

I sing it to you, "In the Three Realms, love cannot be escaped, abandoning grace into inaction, and the true retribution. In the Three Realms, love cannot escape, abandoning grace into inaction, and true repaying. In the Three Realms, love cannot escape. Abandoning grace into inaction, and truly repaying grace.” Look at the people like this, they keep chanting this verse, and then someone helps this monk, this person who is inspiring to shave and shave his hair, seeing his hair three thousand troubles is slowly Shaved off, and then the parents kept crying on the sidelines.Damn!That situation was really touching. Compared to when I was shaving, it was worse than when I was shaving, because I didn’t cry myself when I shaving. I was conscious of it!It is a good thing to be a monk, but the people who come to watch the ceremony are crying, they are reluctant to bear me, and they are reluctant to bear me to be a monk.So this is really the behavior of a big man. This is called real seeing through. You must let go of seeing through. Young people must be more concerned. If you are not married, you must really cherish it. We are free!We owe less debts in this world, and it doesn’t matter at home. At home, we can send this bodhisattva heart, we go to receive the bodhisattva vows, learn how to learn, how to learn Buddhism and bodhisattva, how in our lives we devote ourselves to protect the Dharma and protect the Three Jewels, To protect the nuns and promote the Dharma and benefit life, our four disciples must cooperate, and we must work together to undertake the family business of the Tathagata. This is a real reward.

Although we do not have a monk by cause in this life, we have received the eight fasts, and there will be a monk by cause in the future. Then we shall be the protector, and the bodhisattva ordination will be the protector, and become a monk to promote the Dharma and live life. It is the same as our own monk practice. Everyone’s merit is Evenly divided, everyone is one, so we must be motivated. This is truly letting go. We must see through and let go, so that we can be completely liberated. We are born in this cycle, and in this reincarnation, it is really miserable, just like the scriptures. It says: "A person is living and dying alone in the midst of love and desire, going alone and coming alone, bearing the pain and happiness, and there is no generation. Why not work hard to cultivate good when you are strong, and what do you want?".This is really the Blessed One who persuades us with heart and soul. You see why we can’t get rid of it from life to life. It’s because of the attachment to this erotic desire. It seems to be really emotional, emotionally involved, husband and wife, parents, and children. In fact, this is our greed. , We are greedy!Craving for what I like and love is actually not ego attachment. I want to satisfy my own preferences. That is not true love. There is no true love in the world. True love is compassion, asking for nothing, not for my own sake. For the benefit of all beings, for the sake of all beings, true love does not cause the other person to follow the pain, and it is endless. Therefore, the Blessed One told us that this kind of love of people in the world is not true. Everyone is an only life and death. Go alone and take care of yourself, come by yourself when you are born, and when you die, like an ancient emperor's funeral, he can't really follow you, just like a husband and wife who love each other and fly separately when disaster strikes, it's still the same, that At that time it was really...it seemed really chilling. I usually talk about what love is no matter how much love. The moment of interest and the moment of disaster, every kind of love is false. That is not true love, it is desire, it is erotic desire. .Therefore, this is not worthy of greed. Between husband and wife and family members, we must turn this predestined relationship into Taoism, cultivate the Tao together, establish a Buddhist family, and jointly pursue true happiness and liberation. Only when we truly become a Buddha can we have a thorough solution. So this is true. The Blessed One persuaded us painstakingly: "Why don't you work hard to cultivate goodness when you are strong, and what do you want to do?" When will you wait until the Blessed One is a monk at the age of nineteen!You don't wait until you are old to practice. When you are old, it is very difficult to do what you have to do. It takes less than five minutes to recite a Buddha and doze off. How do you practice?Our Pure Land Method is simple enough!There is nothing simpler than this method. You have a hard time chanting Buddha, so how do you practice?

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(XNUMX) Observing the precepts and reciting the Buddha is the most complete state.

Following the "Thirty-Fourth Product" "Enlightenment", the Blessed One continued to persuade Maitreya, and the Buddha told Maitreya: "He who respects the Buddha. It is for the great good. It is true to recite the Buddha, cut off doubts, pull out all the desires, and eliminate the source of evil." Great.Just to persuade us!To truly respect the Buddha, such a person must recite the Buddha. Through reciting the Buddha is the real respect for the Buddha and the real great goodness. We should cut off our inner doubts as soon as possible. Do not have doubts about this method. Indeed, reciting the Buddha is the most direct. The easiest way can help us to get rid of the desire for love and the source of evil.At the moment of reciting the Buddha, the body, mouth, and mind are pure, and all the precepts are consummated. We must learn one by one. Of course, we will not commit it. But no matter how much you learn, it is inevitable to miss this and that. Only when chanting, the body, mouth, and mind are pure and the most complete.This is what the Blessed One tells us, tells Maitreya Bodhisattva, and also tells us that this is great goodness, and we must truly recite the Buddha. At the age of five hundred years, I suffered from all kinds of evil.” If we can’t get rid of doubts and study hard!I am afraid that even if we die, we will be born into this Biandi Doucheng, which is among the three generations and nine products. This is to remind us.

In the next "Thirty-fifth Stage", the "foul world, evil and suffering" talked about the "five precepts". This is to teach us through this "five precepts" that we must keep the precepts and recite the Buddha, and do the basics of life. So, this is to prevent us from continuing to do evil. The "Five Precepts" are no strangers to killing theft and illicit alcohol. This must be studied and upheld. Then the eight precepts we are receiving today have a total of nine precepts. In addition to the five precepts in the front, there is "no scented flowers, no scented oils, no singing and dancing, no observing."These are two precepts put together. As far as the "Ten Precepts of Novices" are concerned, there are only two precepts.In other words, you can’t put on makeup or put on perfume... Actually, why the scriptures say that where there are women, there is hell? This is true, because women like them, and women’s habit likes to dress up beautifully and use all kinds of things. Scent, all kinds of tempting men, causing men to create all kinds of bad karma, so women are really bad habits, ascetics can no longer do these things, do not promote tricks, do not watch, this It is to protect us from being clean, not to sing and dance. It is dangerous to go to such a place. If you accidentally drink and make trouble, you will be shot. It was not intended to hit you and accidentally hit you. Unfortunately, don't go to that kind of place.

It’s not just that we should not do these things when we are subjected to the eight-pass fast. Then the seventh precept is "don’t sit and lie on a large bed." It’s not more than one foot and six inches high, and then it’s six feet long. The height of the single bed, its meaning, the extended meaning is don’t enjoy too much, don’t enjoy too much, the bed that sleeps "Simmons" sleeps very softly, how much a mattress costs, the whole person will be lazy as soon as you sleep. , Enjoy!The heart is easy to relax, so I think we sleep on the hard bed very well, I like to sleep on the hard bed very much. I heard that this is also good for the spine. In short, don't sleep on that kind of very soft bed!This ring will be made to prevent letting go.That is not unseasonable. Today, our Master Dahe also talked about the cause and condition of the precepts. That is not unseasonable. It seems to be a very important precept for the practitioners to maintain. It’s also more difficult. Many people are worried: "Oh! I’m past twelve o’clock, what should I do?" I was very nervous. In fact, according to the regulations, it is this time in Japan!Before Japan and China, it was a seasonal eclipse, and after the middle of the day, it was a non-time eclipse. You cannot eat and eat. The origin of the precepts has already been discussed by Master Yamato. So now that there is not much time, we will not talk more. The main thing is to remind the same What we cultivate is that we don't need to be too attached to this time. It doesn't matter. The precepts can be opened, covered, held, and offended. We must be held rigorously. We try to hold it as much as possible.

But if you go out, the vows like us can ask and receive... if you ask and receive from others, you are in... the five congregations: "bhikkhus, bhikshunis, shishamani, novices, novices", all of you laymen can ask these five congregations If there is no one, when there is no cause or condition, you can ask and accept. In front of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, you can hold the eight passes every day. That’s why I advise you not to eat dinner. Starting from this to exercise, eating a little bit in the afternoon is considered to be a good cause, and don’t officially tell people, "I will start holding lunch now." No need!Keep the precepts and don’t follow the precepts, we just try to do well.Then if you hold it for a long time, it is inevitable that sometimes you can't control the time. Of course, it's okay to be in the dojo. It doesn't matter if you go out for a little longer.Some of our monks ordained in the dojo specializing in the study of the law, and those who practiced the precepts and heard the precepts...they were rigid. If the teachings fail, they will have to protect the precepts with you as soon as they leave the house. This has caused a lot of trouble to others. , Because you want to start the meal early, or you are afraid that you will not have time... all sorts of troubles are not good for others, then you can start the fate at that time.

Moreover, in the so-called Japan, the Buddha's ordination is not so rigid. He has the causes and conditions for his ordination. What is his fundamental intention?Don't annoy sentient beings!Look, Lord Drinking Out!His skin was very dark and his body was shiny, so when he was begging for alms, he scared people into miscarriage, right?That's why this ring is made!Don't annoy sentient beings!This is the fundamental spirit.And when begging alms in the past, begging alms sometimes had to go a long way, and when they came back they might surpass Japan and China!Why... Then don't eat it?Don't you eat it?So there is no fixed time. Of course, there are certain standards for this precept, and the rules will be set, but there are offenses of concealment. Old Master Daoyuan mentioned the "Bodhisattva Precepts at Home"... and also mentioned it, like our time in China. In terms of time, from XNUMX:XNUMX to XNUMX:XNUMX in the middle of the day is called the middle of the day. In India, at three o'clock in the day and three o'clock in the night, it is four hours!From ten in the morning to two in the afternoon!Japan and China!So don’t cling to it. You don’t have to be clingy to rigid. Then it will be very hard for you to keep the precepts like this. It is mainly not to cause trouble to others, and then try your best to protect the precepts. If you have to, you can open up the predestined relationship, no Need to worry about, let alone worry about others.

it is good!That's about it for today, and there is no time to talk about the bodhisattva vows, because our karma today is very rare. This Master Dahe really loves our fellow practitioners!Hope you can get a lot of benefits.Today, you have achieved three dharma in one day. One is the Eight Passes, the other is the Fa conference for lectures, and the other is the three o'clock reading in the afternoon, wow!It’s really rare to make so many of the merits of joint practice in one day. Everyone should cherish it. It's rare that this dojo is so outstanding. Master Dahe didn't go out to play it!He is going to run for you!In order to take care of this dojo, he doesn't want to follow your hind feet as soon as the forefoot is out. Let him rest assured!If you go out to be busy, you have to be at ease. You have to practice honestly here and make good use of this dojo. If you don’t cherish it!A good dojo will not exist, the real biggest loss is yourself!There is no difference between Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and people who save sentient beings do nothing differently. Therefore, I think Master Dahe has worked so hard. I also told him that there will be a cause and destiny to go to our side in the future. He has been off for a few days!Close the door carefully and meditate hard.

it is good!Then we will study here today.Amitabha!

(End of Game XNUMX)

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