(XNUMX) Farewell before leaving 

Dear fellow practitioners, good noon, Amitabha! (Amitabha)

Today is our last lecture at the Chinese Temple in Toronto.Thank you very much for our abbot, Master Zhaoxu, for his prayer, so that I have the opportunity to come here to make dharma with you.Then, I am very grateful for the past two months, our resident guardian of the Dharma has worked very hard to protect me on behalf of us.Well, at the last lecture today, I saw that many fellow practitioners seemed to have come to see off specially, and I was very happy to see it.Because some initiates only have time on Wednesdays and go to the library to attend classes, but it is difficult to find time to come on Saturdays.So today there are some more fellow practitioners. This should be a special way to see you off, and then maybe go back by the way and come back and forth. This is also very complete.

Well, this morning, I heard you sing that Amitabha, it was very loud.I thought everyone was very happy when I said this I was leaving, singing so loudly.Later, I saw that there were a lot of fellow practitioners.Except for the usual one, I don't know what the cause is. In short, the atmosphere today is very different.Then when I heard you sing Amitabha, I was very touched, and it reminded me of the past.I seem to be okay in terms of Fanbai.Follow the crowd, and follow the crowd are okay, they are all normal.If you ask me to be Wiener, I will often sing to the end.Do you know what it means to sing it down?If you sing Amitabha praise, if you sing it in the front, it will become Vedo praise after you sing it. This is called singing down, and it's sung wherever it goes.Only Amitabha, I can sing until I shed tears when I sing a cappella alone.Because that kind of admiration for Amitabha from the heart, a kind of gratitude.In the past, when I was meditating, I banned my feet on the mountain, and when I often practiced, I would sing and sing Amitabha in addition to Buddha.Only this praise I sing the best.So today I heard you sing so loudly, very loudly, and I was particularly happy when I heard it, and it reminded me of this.

So after this afternoon, I will go out to the airport in the middle of the night tonight.It was originally scheduled to leave on the 8th.We follow the mage very well to take care of people. Come here. Many mages who came here before will arrange some places for them to play.I am not going anywhere for these two months.They persuaded many times, and they were about to turn their faces.It seems that the master doesn't give me face.But I still declined.Including this few days after the lecture, Master Zhaoxu had also arranged to ask the Dharma protector to take me where to play.Because before, my reason was that I had to prepare for the lesson, and I didn’t want to get distracted and not go out.Now that the lecture is over, there is no reason not to go, but there is no reason, then I say that I will reschedule and go back early.Because it is, I know that Canada is beautiful, and many people will inevitably have to go out for a walk when they come here.But I feel that I don't seem to be a person in this world anymore.To be honest, there are still many places worth playing in this world.Then I'm normal too, I still know how to appreciate the beautiful scenery, and I think it's great and enjoy the delicious food, and so on.But, these are no longer what I care about.So after our course is over, I will go back early because there are still some things to do.Before accomplishment, time is not enough; after accomplishment, again, I think there is not enough time, and I have to be busy saving sentient beings.So, these things in these worlds, these world fate, just follow fate, I don't have any thoughts on this.

But this two months of Dharma Destiny, I also feel very relieved.This is a more meaningful part for me.Seeing a lot of fellow practitioners, there really is a change.I believe that when I leave, many people will want to cry and feel reluctant. I'm sure, this is very gratifying.Some fellow practitioners also left comments on my Facebook page.Because they saw my post saying that I was so happy that I was going home, they said they were happy for me, but they also felt very reluctant, and they all expressed their aspirations.

Well, in fact, we are really fellow Taoists, if we truly correspond, that fate is closer than our relatives.why?The fellow dao friends can truly achieve each other and help each other's life and death.Even to say that we improve each other in the process to avoid the retreat of the Taoist heart, the merits of this co-participation and teacher are great.This is as important as relatives.Sometimes your relatives are kinsmen and creditors.Make no mistake, you were your enemy in the past life, and revenge is possible in this life, if he doesn't practice with you.

Therefore, we practitioners should not indulge in the relationship of the world instead of being in the world.We must take Tao as the mainstay, take Tao as the mainstay, and practice as the mainstay.Then the people you associate with should be mainly like-minded people.If there are people who are different from us, and some people who do not practice, we will stay away. It is not that we are withdrawn, but that we should not be affected.This is what the Blessed One has confessed to us.In the Lotus Sutra, the Blessed One not only taught us those outsiders and those people not to come and go, he even this Hinayana disciple, in order to protect us Mahayana disciples, he said you should not get close to Hinayana disciples.Those arhats don't get close.He is completely selfless, in order to protect us, because we are afraid that we will be affected by the Hinayana.So because our Dao power is not enough, we need to understand how to arrange the causes and conditions of our own Dao, grasp our Dao heart, and get in touch with teachers and teachers more often.We should try our best to avoid the cause of retreat, because we don't have the power of concentration and wisdom yet.This is the special care and memory of the Lord.

Well, this is the predestined condition of the practitioners during this period of time, and I think I am already very satisfied.As long as one person responds, I think it's enough, let alone more than that.

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So in terms of support.I think there are still many shortcomings in our place up and down.Including us this time, especially the monk Qing came to pass the precepts.Monk Qing himself, lawyer Guo Qing is very strict in his precepts.So we didn't do a good job with his guardianship, because this lacks a lot.So personally, for example, I hold noon time, I hold noon time, this, our fellow practitioners here are all very good, so let's say we cooperate with your time, I said no, I will cooperate with everyone.I'm okay. Anyway, I'm not so clean after taking the precepts, so try my best.And I have no choice but to open fate, I do it to keep everyone from trouble.But our lawyer Guo Qing can't open fate at will, because he is an example, he is a figure of the ancestor level.This is what I said, he is not here now, if he is there, I said that Patriarch he would scold me.He is very humble.But we are very clear about our position as disciples.He is a representative elder of the contemporary law school.We can't just let him open the fate, we have to protect his vows.

So many things, we have done our best because of everyone.Then I will try my best to help.But some things are still not done well.Therefore, in the future, we still have to improve and learn.Especially on the whole, the fellow practitioners here and the entire atmosphere of the dojo, because they have not yet entered the situation very well.Our abbot has already...and tried very hard, and we have to work hard inside and out.But in fact, they have not yet been on track.Everyone's attitude toward precepts, guarding the Three Jewels, and cultivating respectful heart, all of these still need to be improved.

Well, this is the part I saw.Especially when I first came, I actually saw these problems.So I am also in this lecture, and my speech has been changing every day.In response to everyone's needs, it has been adjusted every day.So have you noticed that I often remind you how to cultivate respect and how to protect the Three Jewels? This topic has been repeated, because this is the most important place where we are anxious to take root.So in some places, the practitioners are doing very well, so there is no need to mention it. We can talk more about it. It's okay to talk about emptiness.Or to talk about some places where everyone has stricter precepts and high standards, and high standards can be discussed.But now that the foundation is not well established, we must always remind us.Then I even remind everyone how to do it, and specifically lead everyone on how to do it.

It is true that some people have changed during this period of time.They also really understood and changed.Finally I know a little bit how to implement respectfulness, and then I also see my own mistakes: for example, arrogance, disrespect, these.Some people didn't know it at first, and he didn't mean it, and then he also had troubles, because he didn't know where he was wrong, and he also had troubles, so now they have all turned around.Several turned around.If you can, you can spin, and if you can't, you ran away.No way, he didn't want to come to those who would run, and was originally here to arrange flowers.If you really want to learn, and a wizard is willing to teach you just now, you are willing
Will be able to turn.If you don't transfer, you must find ways to do both soft and hard until you transfer.

I can't make concessions, evil can overcome righteousness.One more serious one is that I talked about him in person.For the most part, I explained the truth clearly on the podium, and don't target any one person.Then when interacting in private, I will click on him again, not too much.Our fellow practitioner can't scold me directly. I scold me directly on Facebook, my student.One of the more serious issues is that I told him directly in person because it was too much.Many times, no one dared to talk about him, even our abbot did not dare to talk about him.What if he will beat you later, it's horrible.I will tell him directly: I don’t know how to respect the Three Treasures at all! Oh, you have to strengthen this aspect.I just talked directly, just stinking.Fortunately not, we are eating, but fortunately, we can hold back the whole bowl of porridge.I can observe at least he can hold it back.If others may not dare to talk about him, or even if he talks about it, he may not give you a face, at least someone who has a little bit of face can persuade you.

Anyway, we will do what we should do when we meet fate.Well, this is also a seed. Some people are born and spoiled since childhood. If you ask him to change it all at once, he can't change it.At least at the beginning, I already knew that someone would dare to remind you that your mistake was so serious.Let you whether you want to change it or not, at least let you see where your problem is.

If people usually have the intention to learn Buddhism, that would not be the case.The problem is that many people in Buddhism are here to mix, and he may not know it so obviously.Some people come to Buddhism for their own personal gain, not really want to learn Buddhism.Of course these people are also welcome by Buddhism.As long as you are willing to plant good roots, you are welcome.Then slowly let you transform in this habit.

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(XNUMX) Pre-determined directions to take root

Overall, our quality here is pretty good.Look at Singapore’s Hussilin’s entire opening. Everyone has them, this is possessed, that wandering sleeping on the street, and then the family is broken, depression, all these weird people are all Have.So if there is no protector of the Dharma in the dojo, the situation will be out all day long.For example, because our place is a female dojo, I dare not open it up, because I don't have time to deal with many weird things.

So our quality here is basically good.But this one is not bad but it looks normal.You really have to enter the standard of practice. Buddha disciples have the standards of Buddha disciples. So today, because I'm leaving, I'll summarize a few key points in particular.Give everyone another warning.Some things that our fellow practitioners need to pay special attention to, especially some things that need to be rooted.You have not done well in these grounded homework, you have learned the wrong direction, and you have the intention to diligently learn the wrong direction, it is useless, you are three-point hot.Because you are in the wrong direction, you can't see the results, and then you will soon regress, and you will soon have to do miscellaneous repairs. If the troubles come together, you will simply not repair them at the end.So the method is very important.You have to find the most important thing in front of you that you should do at this stage, and then after you have this root, you will have Dharma joy.There is Dharma happiness, and then you will have a greater strength to ascend further, and you will be very happy in learning the Dhamma, or in the aspect of concentration and wisdom.

Then I also use the way of asking questions.I use this because I don’t know how many questions you have today, so I also used a few questions, prepared a few questions, and gave you an answer.So now, but today is still mainly based on your questions.Then I prepared these contents, I will also tell you in the process.Because today is all the time we had to ask questions for you in the previous few classes, so you guys, we will stay today.Take this opportunity, you are welcome, you can ask whatever you think of.I can answer as much as I can. If I can’t answer, I’ll tell you that I don’t understand.Well, basically, I think there should be no problem. I can definitely answer your questions.But what I answered to you is not necessarily according to your wishes, I have my skill.But I will definitely respond to you, and you can ask any questions.

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(XNUMX) Have a master and a deputy in the study, you must be able to master it

Let me give you an example. Another day we have a Master Kaiyin who wants to talk about it. He talks about the "Medical Sutra".Then I saw Master Kaiyin was very familiar, the name was very familiar, then I, that didn't know, I knew this, and then I went online to see it.Because "The Sutra of Mercy" is a classic from the south, I have heard the CD of the "Sutra of Mercy" they have recorded, and that song is very nice.Hearing that melody makes people feel that that kind of compassionate melody is revealed.Then I’m very curious. For you, I’ll check it out on the Internet. Oh, so I heard him talk about it.I have already learned the "Compassion Sutra" that he is going to talk about. I learned it before you. I checked it on the Internet yesterday.

Then I probably know what he is going to talk about.Then if you who are not good at learning have resistance, we have no hindrance to our level. Where to study and what denomination, I can all be transferred to my practice, and I will not be affected. We have discernment and Dinghui force.It is really not easy for beginners to master it.For example, what he is talking about is from the South, and the "Compassion" is a classic of the Hinayana from the South.If you go to see it from this place, go to parting, it will be miserable, we will repair the Mahayana!Do you want to change the Hinayana?No, in fact, when you listen carefully, you will know that the core of the so-called "Medical Sutra" is about the four immeasurable minds in the Hinayana scriptures. This kind of compassion, joy and sacrifice!Compassion and joy, there are also Hinayana and Mahayana.

Do we Mahayana cultivate compassion?Yes, right?So what kind of mentality can you listen to when you listen to the "Medical Sutra"?I’m just listening to the Brahma Net Sutra. Does the Brahma Net Sutra emphasize compassion, right?Ten weights and forty eight light weights. Is it true that every precept should be based on compassion, right?So there is no conflict!Its entire "Compassion Classic" is about compassion.So if you listen in this way, you can learn how to understand compassion and how to inspire our compassion from another perspective of another mage, then there is no resistance.Is it another blessing power? Very good!Don't tell separately which school he belongs to, which dojo and how, and then it becomes which master I want to learn from. It's not that complicated.

We are very simple, specializing in the Pure Land, and then, of course, specializing in the Pure Land. There are three major schools of pure land thinking. There is a pure self-power, a pure self-other two powers, and some pure other powers.We are... I am guided by Shan, but do you cover other things?There are also, they are all very mellow.So how do we learn by ourselves?Depending on your cause and fate, you must talk to a teacher and listen to the pure land method taught by the teacher.The same is about the Pure Land Method, and there will be a different colloquialism among them, the skill of teaching, and even his thoughts.Our Pure Land Method is also to repair the Pure Land. Some of them are difficult to cultivate. There is no news in XNUMX to XNUMX years, right?Then we follow Shan to guide our thoughts, our second ancestor of Jingzong, will immediately let you build confidence in your death.In the future, you will naturally like to recite the Buddha, and naturally you will keep the precepts and be diligent, naturally, because you will feel the blessing power of the Buddha.

The other kind of pure land practice is that you do not feel the blessing power of the Buddha at all, and you are not even familiar with who Amitabha is.If you keep your head down all day, and do your own Kung Fu, then there is no news for you to practice for a lifetime!Because we have no blessing power ourselves, we only have karma, right?You are also cultivating the Pure Land Method, you are chanting Buddha, and you are in the world of surviving bliss. Your practice is different, and you are different from your teacher.For example, if there was something that was more difficult before, it means that there are more difficult and simpler methods for cultivating the Pure Land.The simpler practice is that Amitabha Buddha will come again, Master Shandao told us.The other methods that are more difficult to cultivate were handed down by his patriarch.They are not wrong, but they are more difficult to use them, Zen, Tiantai, and the more difficult ones. The practice of their sect depends entirely on self-reliance, and then they rebirth and rebirth their own merits. It will definitely be difficult. what.He also used the Pure Land Method as a model of their own sect. Of course it was difficult, right?Then if you follow a teacher like that, even if they have a very high realm, the Great Bodhisattva, but people who come to cultivate, we can't cultivate, we can't achieve it.So we can't follow the wrong teacher, and we are practicing the Pure Land Method, and there are differences.

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(XNUMX) Feel that good teachers and professors rely on good roots and virtues

What if you say I don’t have wisdom?There is no way, it depends on your merit.Then I can only tell you one principle. Ask yourself. After you listen to it, you feel that you are most useful, and you can understand it accordingly.Don't look at whether he is famous or not, but whether the Fa he teaches is very famous or not.I'm telling you that some people who don't make sense of teaching, on the contrary, speak very mysteriously, which makes you more confused as you listen.Then the more you listen, the more mysterious you are, and then you feel dizzy, you won't be able to tell, you will think he speaks so powerfully, right?Actually you don't understand.Not understanding is not called Gao Shen, the real advanced method is for you to understand it quickly.This is an advanced method. It can explain the profound things in a simple way, and it has the reason and opportunity.So don't be fooled by those advanced names, this vanity person will respond.You have to be a pragmatic and practical person, you will not care about those, you will directly look at your own use.

The foundation of our Pure Land Method is to use that kind of vernacular, very plain, very simple, so that you can immediately use it.This is the Pure Land Method and it is also its most special and outstanding place.It doesn't have to be that difficult, everyone can use it and get benefits, so it doesn't have to be that difficult to learn when studying.You don’t have to study very profound truths, otherwise how can children and old Bodhisattva benefit, right?He must behave very ordinary and simple. This is the best way.Then you have to be able to understand and listen to it with joy.If this master seems to be very unpleasant to you, and you have a bad relationship with him in your previous life, then forget it, and you should not learn from him.On the contrary, no matter how well he speaks, you just see him anyway and you will be upset, right?Then you should run quickly and change one.In short, you have to find one, you have to find one, and you are willing to learn from him for the rest of your life.Don't be greedy, then other mages, other conditions, don't hinder, you can do whatever you want.

For example, the cause and condition of your cultivating together must be here.I've told you before. In the first two sessions I just came here, I told you that I will give you lectures on behalf of Master Zhaoxu.Then I was also joking about this, I said that I would not take him away from the followers of Master According to Suu.Because the first one I don't accept apprentices, and the second one you follow me. If it's not for studying the Fa, I have no time to care about you.I'm talking about it at the front, and I'm doing meditation, so you can seek the Fa, but you have to study the Fa, because you can't achieve Consummation by listening to the Fa once or twice.Then, on my Facebook, we are all public and obligatory, and we are not unaffected.We include the magic weapon of circulation, we do everything ourselves, we do it ourselves.Some people take the initiative to provide for them. We never say to encourage or persuade others to support us in any way.We are completely unconditional and do charity to all sentient beings in the ten directions.So if everyone can respond to this, you can continue to learn on Facebook. It's all right, so this concept is very important.

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(XNUMX) Thoughts about the hardships of listening to the Fa

Don't be greedy!Because I have seen serious ills in many places, including ours.Because there are too many wizards who have been in contact with them, they are not respectful at all.Our mage is not here to please you, you have to figure it out.If you don’t collect money, everyone will come here to make your own mind, and then you will pay it back.Because now there are very few people who want to study Buddhism, and very few people who want to listen to the scriptures. We follow the master's teachings and consider one to be a hundred. It can be seen that everyone is truly a treasure.We are monk treasures, you are treasures, and you are lay treasures.

Then, everyone thinks that some of them think that they are, yes, I am going to listen to it, it is already very impressive, it will give you face, right?Because he knows that there are no people in the dojo, every mage is very enthusiastic and compassionate. Then, I hope everyone will listen and learn, so he will have an illusion that he is really a treasure and everyone is robbing him. He alas.To grab a listener and a believer, is there any mistake, so I talked this way several times in front of me.I told him, I said that a mage didn't come here to benefit sentient beings.Don't criticize and compare in this way.Although they are all admiring me, I still don't give face.Very sad to hear.How could it become like this, that's because it doesn't understand!There are indeed many people who don’t understand!Before he knew it, he cultivated him.

Just like some people faint if you keep admiring him, and he doesn't know who he is, it's the same.He was unknowingly affected by an illusion of that environment, he would feel that he was really a treasure, everyone would snatch him one, and then the mages would become worthless, because there are too many.The audience is small, and there are many mages, right?In this situation, it's really bad.I have created a lot of karma, and then lost a lot of blessings, I don’t even know it.And the most pitiful thing is that in the whole process, apart from creating karma, no legal benefit was obtained. What a pity, right?It's rare to have such a good cause and to be able to come into contact with so many mages, this is not easy.Too many places don't have a mage, and they have no way to contact the mage.The result is that some of these good tonics will make you dead if they come to you.

For yourself, you must first establish this attitude, then how to handle it, the forty li in the bodhisattva vows, as we just talked about, you can go to rejoice.As long as any mage comes with a cause and fate, don’t look for it yourself. Forty li, I said before, it’s not necessarily forty li is just right, but now it’s a one-day round trip, then you say one day’s round trip is from Taiwan planes can fly here.Then there is no need to be like this. Then you see how many dojos and so many mages in the world in the tens of thousands of miles a day, more than XNUMX kilometers, don't you have to listen to it?Not really, this is just to tell us a spirit: that is, we must attach importance to Fa conferences, and attach importance to Fa conferences that teach scriptures.Especially the disciples who have been given the bodhisattva vows are their own family members. We are obliged to protect the Three Jewels and promote the Dharma for life.Whether you are a listener or protector of the Dharma, you should go to listen to the scriptures and play the role of listening to the scriptures, right?

Well, this is a spirit to be grasped, and then it depends on your cause and fate, which mage you correspond to.If you don’t have a teacher of your own, then you have to go out and make friends, otherwise you can’t find the master.Well, if you already have a fixed practice, then it happens to be this place where you have time today, and then you know each other. For example, if you are all cultivating here, then Master Zhaoxu is very eager to invite the Master to come, of course you have to be solemn. Dojo, also come and learn.So this is a feeling of rejoicing, not for the sake of self-cultivation.So can you learn something with Rejoice?can.

You must treat every mage equally and respectfully and learn from his merits.Just like the example I just gave, if you don’t regard the "Compassion Classics" as a classic of Nan Chuan, you can treat it as a compassionate one. Isn’t that the same as the content of the precepts we learned before? It’s not inconsistent. Well, just to say, it happens to be this cause, so we can understand it from another angle.So if there is no special arrangement for this cause and fate, and no other mage fate, do you think you have any shortcomings with a teacher?No.With a teacher, you might not think at first that you still have no way to understand what compassion is.There is no way to understand it because your practice is not enough, you have to practice, three to five years, one in-depth, naturally you will understand what you should know.So there is no need for miscellaneous things, and there is no need for rejoicing things, understand?If you go out, you will become miscellaneous. If you feel that you are not enough, oh, this is not enough, that is not enough, my teacher only talks about pure land, no rooftops, no Huayan, and no wide-ranging, then you think I want to go more. It's enough to learn some.That's wrong, not all of the twelve parts of the Tripitaka are taught to you alone, but to XNUMX living beings with different roots.Everyone only needs one Dharma, and all Dharma and Dharma are fully possessed by the three Tibetans and twelve books.

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(XNUMX) It doesn’t take much to practice the law

Let me give an example. What Master Yin Guang told us is very simple, because I memorized this paragraph from the beginning of his teaching.At the beginning, what I recited was the forty-eight vows, and then the words of the discourse, Master Yinguang, this discourse, and then the Prajna Sutra is the Heart Sutra, this is the most famous, that is also the most important, these are very core.

Then, Master Yinguang taught that no matter who is a monk, he must be respected and reconciled, which cannot be tolerated by people and cannot be done by pedestrians.Sincerely, this is the most basic way of being a human being, right?Do you want to reconcile with others, family, and friends. After you learn this sentence, go back and do it for five years, right?How much more do you have to learn? Now, after you learn this discourse, what do you still have to learn? You haven't done it yet.Then next, what a ninja can't bear, what a pedestrian can't do, this is diligence.After five years, I will work harder and go further. When I beat you and scolded you, you are still smiling and bowing to others to be grateful. Then you can experience what it's like to be scolded and how refreshing it is.right!If you want to have this skill, then you can't bear it, and pedestrians can't do it.

Then at the end, I will say that the major of Jingzong, from the morning to the evening, from the evening to the dynasty, a Buddha's name should not be interrupted.Have you done it yet?No, you still have time to chat with others, you still have time to find some teaching methods of other sects, and you haven't done your own major subjects. These are people who can't find their way.Those who can't find the direction to get started, he needs to go to miscellaneous repairs.

If your Dharma Destiny is not in the Pure Land, it doesn't matter, it's also very good, I am happy with you.If you want to cultivate tantra, you should cultivate tantra; if you cultivate the pure land, you should follow the pure land Scriptures and follow the practice of the pure land. It’s not that I cultivate the pure land, and then think that the master of the pure land teaches well.Let me tell you that every Master speaks very well, but his performance is different in one way, and his teaching materials are different.What you want to listen to is his core Dharma, which sect belongs to which practice.Each denomination has its own characteristics, you can only find one.If you practice the Pure Land to listen to the Tantric Master, or listen to the Zen Master, you are making trouble for yourself.Because you hear a certain degree, you will find contradictions. What should you do then? You have no way to mix it, cold salad!You make trouble for yourself, because each person is different from skillfulness, and the goal is the same, but skillful is different, so you trouble yourself.When you are enlightened, you are in harmony with the Dharma and there is no hindrance, but you are not yet enlightened.So when you encounter people who speak differently on both sides, who you want to listen to, you can't move on to the next step.is not it?Why are you asking for trouble?This kind of person seems to be very serious on the surface, he is very eager to learn, and he is willing to come to learn, which is also rare.The problem is that you are wrong!The first one is that you can't cultivate sincerity, you can't really specialize, you can't go in depth, and you can't have deep enlightenment.Another thing is that your virtue can't be fulfilled, and you can't be fulfilled by your disciples.You will have obstacles in virtue and major, so this specialization is too important.

Then you say yes, OK. Just talked about the major, and finally, at the end, he said, "If you can practice according to what I said, you can be born in the Western Paradise." This is what the patriarch said.His discourse has been completed to ensure that we will become Buddhas. What else do you lack?Don't say that Master Yinguang has developed so many notes, or that there are so many Scriptures in our Pure Land Method. You will be fully equipped with this section of his teaching alone, and the Pure Land Method will be completed.As long as you do it, right, respect and harmony, basic, tolerable, diligent, five years, ten years, and twenty years, you do it. In the whole process, there is no interruption in the Buddha's name from morning to evening, you What kind of practice is still lacking, and what doctrines do you need to know?If you still need it, listen to the scriptures.

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(XNUMX) Honestly majoring and not climbing

Generally speaking, we still don’t understand the truth, so we need to listen to the Pure Land Scriptures.Don't be too complicated if you listen exclusively to a teacher, or if there are really other causes and conditions.If you go to your pure land to listen to Zen, wow, it’s miserable, you will die faster.Because of him, some he denies the Pure Land, then you will die faster.At that time, you didn't say that you just want to be happy. There are some things you can't please, you will fall, and you will really be affected.

Even went to the Hinayana's Nan Chuan, it said there is no Mahayana at all, you are done!There is only one Buddha Shakyamuni, and everything else is convenient to say, then you are miserable!People are saints, how can you tell them?That eloquence is so good, it’s strange that you don’t turn back, I have seen people like this turn back, so why do you make trouble yourself.

Therefore, the Blessed One reminds us in the Lotus Sutra and many sutras: Do not get close to the Hinayana!His own disciples told you not to get close.We are his eldest son. He said that you don’t want to be close to the younger son. Our younger son is from Xiunan, so you can give me a good approach to the Mahayana master.The Blessed One is just to protect us. That doesn't mean that he doesn't like his little son. No, for us to be able to achieve it, he especially urges us.

So you can't mess with yourself, and you have to know how to protect yourself, so you can do whatever you like.I just talked about rejoicing. For example, if we have an arrangement here, you can come and listen, because it won’t be too ridiculous.When we listen, I don’t know because we follow the mage, because he has a lot of connections, and I don’t know which mage will be invited to talk about it, but you have to know how to protect yourself, and to know how to make good use of it. Good karma, absorb the advantages of each mage, and then be equal and respectful.

There are deep and shallow destinies, but every mage must be respectful. It can’t be said that it seems to be a deliberate comparison. It is better to tell this mage that you are better, and that is not good. You are simply talking about it, right?It is destroying the harmony of our Sangha, this is a very serious crime, I don't know it!It's really serious. It's like this. Let's talk about it, and then say that you are good and he is not good, and then ran to tell him that you are good and he is not good, and then let each other fight!is not it!Then compare between the masters, is it consciously or unconsciously that it will become very complicated and some human affairs will come out. If we are not clear-headed, we will be misled by you, right?It's very serious, broken Hehe Monk!Although we are still not very harmonious, at least we generally respect each other as the monks who practice in general practice, and we don't say that we can fight. Sometimes the fight is caused by people next to us, and some misunderstandings are caused, right?I thought that I was speaking well, and I wanted to have a good relationship with us.The methods are all wrong!We people need to have righteousness and righteous thoughts, and don't engage in those who engage in groups in private, engage in relationships, and engage in fawning.If you have a clear mind, you won't buy your account, and the karma is very heavy.

So at the time I saw this situation, my heart ached, because I would feel that the four disciples were self-destructing themselves. It was very serious. Alas, I can’t see it at this time, but a bomb has been planted, what? Don't know when it exploded.Planted a landmine, accidentally stepped on it, and all died.Is it heartbreaking?It really looks like three hundred spears piercing the heart!I don't know if you feel this way, I often do, because it is inevitable that this kind of situation is encountered in many places at home and abroad.

So it becomes our random argument.I found that in the past few years, I have been talking about these things, except for Pure Land.no way.The surrounding problems are very serious in this respect.Not being respectful and engaging in right and wrong is called negligence.I don't know how to properly find the direction of my own practice. Instead, I keep seeking the Dharma out of my mind, engaging in relationships outside, with the master, with the dojo, and with fellow practitioners. They don't practice honestly.Then what are you doing with so many fate and wasting your time.

So this is about how to establish a correct attitude towards practice is very important.Many people are inadequate, and they don't even know about it all the time, or in other words, they must continue to improve!As you all know, with these deceptive principles, on the one hand, you can master the sense of being able to master your major, and on the other hand, you must establish equal respect.This is very important!If you make a mistake in this part, you will never be able to achieve it.If you master it well, you will be at ease. On the one hand, you will continue to go deep. On the other hand, you will be happy if you are destined. It doesn’t matter if you don’t. If you are destined, it will not hinder you. If you are destined, we can rejoice.Certainly, that is, fate means that it is also your cause and fate!You can do whatever you want, cherish the fate, and rejoice.

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(XNUMX) Observe the precepts and learn from the current ability

Okay, the second question is that it is difficult to hold the ten-fold and forty-eight light precepts. Is it okay to change to six-fold and twenty-eight light precepts?

Then you have to accept it again, because this time our monk is preaching ten heavy and forty-eight light. I tell you that it is not so difficult. Without these differences in difficulty, the difference in difficulty lies with you, because you seem to think that the precepts are more and less. Compare it. In fact, we said that if you think you can’t do it now, if you think you can’t do it now, you can give it up.But don’t round up to fifty-eight items and leave one or two. That would be too exaggerated, so don’t take it. If you get a fake identity, you just cut off three or five items. You really can’t do it. Yes, and it is really impossible to do, then you should give up first, and tell a person: "I want to give up this precept." Someone hears it, so that's it. Don't talk to cats or dogs. If it doesn't work, it doesn't understand it. He needs to know what you mean, so it's established. There is nothing difficult.

The Brahma Net Sutra is the most complete, and you are blessed to receive the Brahma Net Sutra that you have cultivated in your previous life. You must know that the sixfold and twenty-eight lightness are only the standard at home, and the Brahma Net Sutra is a monk at home. , Our monks also receive the Brahma Net Sutra, so you can receive the Brahma Net Sutra, which means that the cause of your birth has gradually matured. This level is different. The Brahma Net Sutra is personally spoken by Vairocana Buddha. The precepts taught by the Buddha Shakyamuni, who is incarnate in the billions, belong to the precepts of the Buddha, the level of the precepts of the Buddha. Then it is not difficult to hold it, it is not difficult, the realm is high, but if you hold it, You can learn at your current level, and then slowly improve.

No one asks you to achieve XNUMX points all at once, so if your starting point is from ten to forty-eight, then your level is much higher. Don’t feel like it, I would rather start from the standard at home. Come to cultivate, in fact, it’s not easy for you to really fix the six-fold and twenty-eight-fold light. The front of the six-fold is the same, and killing theft and adultery is the same. Is it easier?No, it just seems that there are fewer precepts. As for the precepts, we will learn them one by one. You don't have to do them all right away.

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(XNUMX) Answer to how to get close to the Master Shengyi of Zen Buddhism and still specialize in the Pure Land

The third question is, Master specializes in promoting the Pure Land method. Your master Shengyi Master is the great virtue of Zen. I would like to ask the teacher to share how he learned from him, because different methods have different practices.

This is a very good question, and it happens to be related to some of the themes I want to remind you of today. In my life, my blessings are mainly manifested in the condition of being close to good knowledge, but it is also good in material terms. But because I don’t care very much, I don’t care much about material enjoyment, and I don’t have time to enjoy them. I should enjoy it when I was young. I have eaten abalone and shark fin, so I don’t care much about it. Some, then, after becoming a monk, the only thing I think I can ask for, I will truly... Even exchange my life, is the wish to get close to good knowledge, and because of such a wish, the fate of feeling is drawn out. very good.

The first good knowledge I got close to was the old monk Jingkong. He is the great virtue of our Jingzong, the contemporary great virtue. This is recognized. No matter how people slander him, there are people in this world who slander, indicating that you have talents, but no one. Defamation means that even demons don’t bother to care about you, so we don’t have to care about those things, his dharma conditions, his manifestations, at least for me, I have a great use, because he introduced me to the Pure Land method. This is our cause, and we accidentally saw him speak the Pure Land Method "The Sutra of Infinite Life."

So when I first learned, I specialized in Pure Land, and it was very corresponding, because the Pure Land Method took us out of this world. When I encountered this method myself, I had developed disgust, and I committed suicide when I was in my early twenties. Before, I talked about this on our CD. It made a joke and turned into a comedy. You have the opportunity to watch it on the CD. So at that time I was very lucky, young, beautiful, rich, pocket I don’t want to spend money when I have money. Then I take sleeping pills. It’s funny and makes jokes. I think it’s funny. So I came across this Pure Land method accidentally because I was born and matured. No one persuaded me. I, my own heart, I must go to Paradise, but this fate was brought to me by the old monk Jingkong, so I assumed that he was my only master.

Including my master, the disciple of our old monk, he persuaded me to be... they all made me, and they continued to make me in Huazang. Later, I ran away in less than half a year, and I ran with my master. It was originally the predestined relationship with the master, the cause and destiny of studying the Fa, and that has not changed until now for nearly eighteen years. I specialize in the Pure Land and promote the cause and destiny of the Pure Land.Although my Dharma connection is also very broad, not only the Jingzong Society, but also the Buddhist monks at home and abroad, I have been connected with various denominations, but do I have any miscellaneous cultivation?No, I participated in school and I followed the cause and fate, because at that time, after I graduated from the Jingzong Academy in Singapore, I got good grades. The old monk asked me to go to Australia. The cause and fate were not mature and hindered, and then I graduated. After graduation, I was unemployed and left. There is nowhere to go, right?So there is no way.

It’s not that I have to leave the original dojo, nor do I have to go to other denominations. There is no way I have to go out to study. It was arranged by the Buddha and Bodhisattva. So when I got close to Master Shengyi, I was a bhikkhuni. She used to At the Jingzong Society, Singapore Jingzong Society placed orders, I helped her, and then she said that you must come to Hong Kong to see me in the future, I said yes, at that time, after the Jingzong Society graduates, I want to go back to Taiwan, so I can go through Hong Kong went to see her, but she dragged me to see the old Master Shengyi. I said not to go. What if he asks me to practice meditation when I go there?I look at the elderly and I dare not refuse. I have a very good relationship with the elderly, because I am the grandparents of my grandparents, and I am very close to the elderly, and they will climb on their heads, and then they will not blame me. which type.

So you see that I have been close to the old Master Shengyi, the old Master Jingkong, and the current lawyer Guoqing. Everyone is afraid of them and majestic, but the difference between me and them is very close. Then at that time, I Just because of this concern, I said "I can't do it, I don't want to go." Later, she always wanted to design me there. The bhikshuni wanted to send me to them. That's for sure. If I think I... I saw a good person. Of course, I wanted to say that I should save her to live with us. This is normal. Then I didn’t go. If she didn’t go, she said that she wouldn’t go, as if she didn’t let me go down the mountain and I died. When you come here, you have to be slaughtered. Okay, just go and bow.

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(XNUMX) The grace of the Holy One Old Master

As soon as I went in and saw the Old Master Shengyi, I immediately said in the first sentence, "Master, I will bow to you, but I am just bowing. I have already specialized in the Pure Land and dedicated to promoting the "Blessed Life Sutra". In the front, first the villain and then the gentleman, I said that, and then the Old Master Shengyi raised his head and looked a little bit like he wanted to laugh, and the corner of his eyes wanted to laugh a little bit. He was very serious. It seemed, The great virtue of Zen Buddhism, his concentration is very deep, I think he feels like a mountain in my eyes, but he actually looked up, deliberately like this, and then wanted to laugh a little, I feel so kind. Son, you won't be afraid of him.

Then he broke my attachment on the spot and told me, because I said that I want to promote the "Blessed Life Sutra", he said: "The "Blessed Life Sutra" is the "Ksitigarbha Sutra" is the "Huayan Sutra".He will break my attachments on the spot, but I know, I understand, I accept his teachings, because he doesn’t talk much, and he looks at people, and when they bow to others, he looks at him and knows what your roots are. But he talks a lot to me, so it’s a good fate.

After that, because he fulfilled the cause of my ordination, he was my monk for obtaining ordination, so my permanent residence, because I also had obstacles in getting ordination. I left the side of Master Wudao and Master. After I left, there was no way to receive ordination at that time. Then our Hong Kong Master Shengyi’s jungle is very strict. Master Zhike asked me for trouble, and later died within two years. He fell ill and died, but that is to say, that person asked me for trouble, and she really wanted to pick him up. The seat of the abbot, because I feel that we appear to be Buddhas and Bodhisattvas manifesting, but because he also manifests a negative role to me, which gives me many tests, then I will not even live for me. When we first went there, we encountered a lot of obstacles, because we left the Master after we were a monk, and you have almost nowhere to go. Most people have to return to the vulgarity, and most people have to return to the vulgarity. Otherwise, you will have no food. Eat and have no place to live.

So Master Shengyi’s kindness to me is great. He took me in when I was in the most difficult time and helped me a lot. But that was on Master’s side. When I went to Zhike Master’s side, he wouldn’t live with me because you wanted Take the precepts, if your master introduces you to place the order, I also encountered obstacles at the time and contacted Hua Zang. Of course, they would not accomplish this for me. Later...Finally, I broke through some obstacles, Master Shengyi. Write it for me personally, write the recommendation letter and give it to Master Zhike to make me an order. A jungle abbot writes a piece of paper for a small group. I still keep that piece of paper. I personally recommend that I go in and live there. , Then Master Zhike won’t live for me.

He still troubled me when I lived and asked me to pull the grass. The mow was very long. I have never worked on the mountain. Mosquitoes stung me hundreds of buds. Be careful and remember to go. Applying medicine and mosquito repellent, but the more fierce ones have already gone and died. It is very difficult for you to have such a good test opportunity. It is a very good test, and he did not take it wrong. The rule is that I’m not right. I seem to make people feel like "Are you looking for a backer?". We are also in many aspects...There must be something missing, plus saying "Where did you come from?", so you guys You must know that there must be many tests when you become a monk. If you leave your permanent residence casually, you will have nowhere to go. If someone wants to take you in, you are all Amitabha, and you are very grateful, so it is normal to find some trouble.

At that time, my obstacles were very big, but I had big Bodhisattvas to protect me all the way. Really, they were all like our old monk Jingkong, Master Shengyi and they all personally gave me a lot of support. I encountered some obstacles in the past. At that time, I almost couldn’t graduate from the Dharma-promoting training class. We were in class for six months. I almost fell in the fifth month and had to leave. I went to see the old monk and said that I was leaving, and the old monk comforted me. For some things, he was in the Buddhist Q&A. I asked him because he wrote his name, both the common name and the Dharma name, and he still read it out. The one-hour Buddhist Q&A took half an hour to answer the question. It’s blessing and supporting me. Give us such a help, so my cause is like this.

The cause in Hong Kong is that Master Shengyi wants to achieve my ordination. His place is the dojo of Zen. Is there any hindrance to my practice?This is his problem. In fact, it’s not. For me, it’s not. On the one hand, Master Shengyi is looking at the root cause. He doesn’t ask everyone to participate in Zen meditation with him. Many of us are also Buddhists, and we It is to say that if he succeeded in my ordination, I can leave and I am free. It is purely that he helped me, not that we must stay and take care of it. He really helped me achieve my ordination, because he knows that I have met. When it comes to obstacles, he also knows that I have Dao-mindedness. He unconditionally helped a younger generation like this. Then I went back to Jiexia for three consecutive years because I was grateful for him, and I had to get close to him, and there were many opportunities to go back.

Before the third year of the blessing, I still followed him for two hours every afternoon. This is absolutely impossible for ordinary women. Nothing before, no now, no later, because he has passed away, the first two Years have passed since I was the only one with such a good fate. When I went back to Jiexia for ninety days, I was with him. How many things I learned, I learned that I can’t achieve that level in my entire life, I see And what I can't do, we can see some things that we can hear and see by his side. That realm is something we can't get into in our whole life, but we have already seen what it is, do you understand?Virtue, concentration, wisdom, and his dealings with others are so precious!

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(XNUMX) Being able to return to major is not a miscellaneous

At that time, my obstacles were very big, but I have big Bodhisattvas to protect me all the way. Really, they are like our old monk Jingkong, Master Shengyi and they all personally gave me a lot of support. I encountered some obstacles in the past. At that time, I was in the Dharma-promoting training class, and I almost couldn’t graduate. We were in class for six months. We almost fell in the fifth month and were about to leave. When I went to see the old monk and said I was leaving, the old monk comforted me. Some things he was in the Buddhist Q&A. I asked him because he wrote his name, both the common name and the Dharma name, and he still read it out. The one-hour Buddhist Q&A took half an hour to answer the question. That’s blessing and supporting me. Give us such a help, so my cause is like this.

The cause in Hong Kong is that Master Shengyi wants to fulfill my ordination. His place is the dojo of Zen. Is there any hindrance to my practice?This is his problem. In fact, it’s not. For me, it’s not. On the one hand, Master Shengyi is looking at the root cause. He doesn’t ask everyone to participate in Zen meditation with him. Many of us are also Buddhists, and we It’s to say that if he succeeds in taking precepts for me, I can leave and I’m free. It is purely that he helps me, not that we must stay and take the precepts. He really helps me achieve my precepts because he knows me. When encountering obstacles, he also knows that I have Dao heart, he is unconditionally helping a younger generation like this.

Later, I went back to Jiexia for three consecutive years because I was grateful for him, and I wanted to get close to him, and there were many opportunities to go back. Before the third year, I still stayed with him for two hours every afternoon. This is It is absolutely impossible for ordinary women. Nothing before, no now, no later, because he has passed away, only two years have passed since he was born, the only one who has such a good fate, I will go back to the summer for ninety days. Following him, how many things I have learned, I have learned that I have never been able to achieve that level in my entire life. I have seen what I can’t do. By his side, we can experience some of the things that we can see and see, that level. It’s that we have no way of joining in our whole life, but we have already seen what it is, understand?Virtue, concentration, wisdom, and his dealings with others are so precious, no matter how precious I am in Zen.

Later, I studied graduate school in Taiwan. Wow, the graduate school is even more complicated. It has everything and all subjects, and some are mandatory. Some subjects you must choose, are there any miscellaneous?For me, there are no miscellaneous things. I can consolidate all of my methods into the Pure Land Method, and see how you learn it. Just like the example I just cited in the "Medical Sutra", if you treat it as a practice taught in the south, then you Then you will learn the "Medical Sutra" with the practice taught in the south. If you use the Mahayana practice to cultivate this sutra, then you will use the Mahayana standard to develop your greater compassion, right?It is also found in the Four Immeasurable Mind’s Hinayana methods, and the Mahayana method also has compassion, joy, and ecstasy. In fact, the difference between Mahayana and Hinayana lies in the mind. Everything else is the same, and the fundamental spirit is the same, so there is no conflict to me.

At that time, how did I learn from him? I still specialize in the Pure Land. For example, we meditate with two incense sticks every day. If we do our homework every night, then I will meditate and practice legs like everyone else, but I can still recite the Buddha in my heart, and Master There is no requirement that we must not recite Buddha. Many Zen masters also recite Buddha. Master Shengyi has a great mind. He did not say that everyone should participate in Zen, so there is no resistance. He even said that if your roots are good enough, you will arrive. After a certain level, you can broaden your skills, you must be specialized, and you can broaden your skills. If you have the ability to return to your major, you are not considered a miscellaneous practice, so understand?

If we are not enough to follow the sex, you can just continue to cultivate in one of our major classics, one door to the door, after you have enlightened in one, you can go to the wide reference to look at the others, and take a look. It is all through, because the principles are the same, but the names are different. Then when you have not yet become enlightened in one school, when you are still uncomfortable, you can look at the teachings of each school, and you will only look more and more. Confused, why?He said at once that there is something to say about emptiness. There are different ways of talking about emptiness, and there are different nouns. You have learned a lot, but you don’t have the same understanding. If you don’t understand the same thing, there will be a lot of contradictions. Is that clear?So telling you not to do miscellaneous practice is to protect you, don’t walk into the maze, don’t say "Oh, Master’s mind is very small, he can only learn from you, not from others", don’t use a villain’s heart to save a gentleman’s belly, this It is a correct attitude to practice.

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(XNUMX) The principle of protecting the Three Treasures


In other words, after the so-called respect is to be established, what we have just talked about is the concept and concept. How to implement it?For the second question, the question I am preparing is "a principle for protecting the Three Jewels."

After we have established the correct concepts and attitudes, and already know how to be a single teacher, one method to choose a major practice, and a sense of discretion, we should go further to practice, and what to practice?It's nothing more than double cultivation of Fuhui, right?Cultivating blessings and wisdom, so recently I have often talked about how to cultivate blessings. Buddhist disciples should do their best to cultivate blessings in Buddhism, instead of cultivating good practices in the world. Good deeds in the world are not, and good deeds in the world are done at will. Poor man, you don't care about him, you can't, just do whatever you want, but we have to plan.

The lay disciples of the World-Honored One, we have to divide our money into three parts, one part is divided into three parts, one is for family use, the other is for career use, and the other is to protect the Three Treasures for self-cultivation. There is a plan. Just like our scheduled lesson, we should recite the Buddha at least XNUMX times a day. I suggest this way, XNUMX sounds are only an hour, and worship Buddha at least half an hour a day. This is the basic homework you have to set. , Including you to cultivate blessings, to cultivate blessings in your family and to give away money and to give away. You look at your abilities. If you have money, you will pay more. If you have power, you will contribute more. You will use yourself... according to your own abilities. Whatever you want, if you have not been there yet, then you don’t have to do it. If you do it again, it hurts, regrets, and doesn’t need it, but you don’t want to be big, you don’t want to be small, and you don’t want to. , Causal conceit, you decide for yourself, don't force it.

But you must do it in a planned way before you can see the results. Then this is because you speak respectfully, and then you don’t cultivate fortune. In this case... In fact, because people have a habit of being greedy, if you If you don’t have a right plan, this is about keeping the precepts. You have to learn how to do it. You have to do it after you know it. What I just said is a fixed proportion of allocation, time still has ability, you have to allocate it, and then you just have to do it. Say what you want to do in detail. For example, when it comes to the field, what we call protecting the Three Jewels is roughly divided into three categories. The first one is that you are protecting the dojo. We have already said that it is offering Buddha treasures. Why?The dojo belongs to the place where the Dharma is passed on, so if you protect the dojo, it is equivalent to holding the Buddha treasures. This is how I divided them. If you circulate the magic treasures and then preach the scriptures, please transfer the Dharma Wheel to use the expenses in this respect, That is tantamount to holding a magic weapon, right?Next, you support the mage and the teacher. This is a treasure for the monk, and generally does not fall out of these three scopes.

For that principle, I suggest that you cultivate all and all causes, but in terms of proportions, you decide for yourself. The relationship is deep and shallow. For example, it is best for you to provide for each of our masters. Don’t say that the teacher provides, even if you don’t. The master came to teach you the scriptures and support, because my responsibility is to teach the scriptures. I want to explain the truth to you clearly. I will not have any taboos, like saying "Oh, I'm sorry to talk about it." Some said that the master Do you want money? I tell you that if we are a mage, you will never learn. I am very innocent. Why?I eat two meals a day, we live and grow our own vegetables, and then I rarely eat that vegetable material, there are some things... My students want to send me things all the time, but I don’t even want them because they are afraid I can’t finish it. If I don’t go out, I will spend less than XNUMX Canadian dollars a month for the entire dojo, because we don’t have to pay for spring water and drink spring water, there is no water bill, and the electricity bill is very small. I would go to bed very early. We spend very little.

Then, where do we take the money that people support?I will protect the dojo like a lawyer like Bi Ruoqing, because they often live in a lot of people, they have to learn the precepts of monks, we have to protect them as we please, and he is my teacher. Then last year I went to 2012, there were some lay practitioners in Singapore. I used to learn some. Fa disciples, they gave me two hundred thousand and remitted it to me, and then I thought I would not use this money, because I wanted to die in 2012, and I don’t want to do these chores anymore. I told him that I took it, and he asked me to deal with it all. I said, "Okay, then I will take it to make offerings to the monk's treasure, because it is just time for the summer to end, I will provide for you the monk's treasure, equal offerings for marriage", I went I went to India, because I wanted to see the old monk Jingkong and Baolin Hongkong during the summer, so I also arranged it along the way.

I went to support more than two thousand monks. We made offerings in the same way because we just went to the school once, and then we also wanted to learn about some situations, some of the Tibetan secret situation, so we followed the arrangement of cause and condition. More than two thousand monks, we It’s an equal support. Just one or two arhats will be terrible. You were to support me alone, but when I was helping you, you were equal to another. You support one is equal to supporting more than two thousand people, and I will support it. Our old monk Jingkong, I gave him face-to-face. He doesn't see any guests anymore. If you want to support him, you don't necessarily have the opportunity to support him, but I support you, right?Then I went to the Baolin Temple again, and every master made offerings, and there were not so many masters, but every master made offerings. We made offerings according to the Dharma. As we learned in the "Brahma Net Sutra", we mentioned that making offerings according to the Dharma. That merit is great, this is a situation.

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(XNUMX) The correct way to repair happiness in the Three Treasures

The other is the teacher you are close to, and the teacher you depend on. You can be special, and this can be special. Why?There is a master and a deputy, and the fate is deep and shallow. If you go out to make offerings because you don’t know you, of course, you don’t know you. Of course, you are an ordinary equal offering. This is also true in the monastery’s precepts. For one person, we have our precepts like this, so we are cultivating blessings in the same way. Every mage makes offerings, but you have a predestined relationship, depending on your own abilities. Well, if you don’t cultivate well, what I’m telling you now is cultivating real merits, and merits include merit.

Because our abilities are limited, of course we have to make a distribution, so if you have a deep relationship and a shallow relationship, you can... For example, you, the offering monk, the Dharma monk, the Buddha treasure, the magic treasure, and the monk treasure each have a proportion. Then in the monk treasure The master is different. For example, if you have a budget of XNUMX%, you can see it at XNUMX%, XNUMX%, or XNUMX%. You can use it for the practice related to the teacher you rely on. , XNUMX% of you can use Suixi's mage, why?Because his practice may not be our major, right?It may not be in the scope of our major to use it again, because we... For example, if you go, we certainly hope to say that the cause we have cultivated can help others obtain the most complete Buddha results. Our method is to Attracting people to become Buddhas is not just getting a little bit of the merit of the Hinayana, or saying that the level is not that high, so we must make good use of it. Money must be spent on the cutting edge. It depends on whether you have the wisdom to distribute it.

I'm just telling you some principles. Buddha, magic, and monk treasures are best to offer, but that is to say, don’t, don’t say that I am obsessed, the whole world can only identify a mage and a dojo. Don’t be too small. Yes, but there can be a master and a deputy. What is the master, because we don’t want to be human, we should focus our firepower accordingly. For example, if you are practicing together here, then I just talked about the Buddha’s treasure. Also protect the dojo. You must take this place as the main thing, because you come here to practice together, come here to benefit, everyone must have an idea that the place of the Three Jewels is to cultivate blessings for sentient beings, and monks are also for blessings for sentient beings, so Master I came to teach you to do charity. The master has cultivated to the blessedness. If you don’t cultivate, it will be a great blessing. If you didn’t teach the Fa to you or lead your leaders, you see that the monks are supposed to support the monks, and the monks are Futian, you don’t know. If you are a monk because of the predestined condition, you must hurry up to cultivate blessings, not to mention that they have given you the Dharma and have led you to lead the practice.

Or to say that the field has been provided for everyone to practice together, you have come to use it, and you still don't know how to give back, there are many people... Why do so many dojos now have to pay for everything?Why does it cost money to practice together, and to set up a memorial tablet?Because of the support you don’t understand, you’re used to it, people are so greedy, "they are very expensive", then you will give the money obediently, and then I will even think it’s good, like a normal lecture, You can also go to the social seminar for one or two thousand yuan. No, Taiwan dollars, and you think his mana is more than enough. We have no money in Buddhism. "Wow, this is not so good, that is not like this". Isn't it?Instead, you don’t cherish it. People are like this. Unless you cultivate yourself like that, you don’t know how to say, "Oh, this place doesn’t talk about transactions at all, it works like the law." You know how to grow this land, right. wrong?Rather than saying that people have to set the price, you can do it, then pay. If they don’t set the price, you’ll be fine. If you can flash, you can flash as much as possible. Who will lose in the end?You must remember your own blessings.

We want to save, where do we want to save?If you want to live a simple life in your own body, or in other words, if you want to save it at home, save it in society, and don't save it in Buddhism, why?Buddhism is a place for us to give up ten thousand retributions and cultivate great merits. On the contrary, if you come to Buddhism to take advantage and lose your blessings, you will also lose ten thousand times and countless times. Do you understand?You have to know how to account for this account. Don't think that if you take advantage of it, people won't charge you, ah, you are in the calculation!If you don’t receive money, you can use it very happily, and you will have rewards in the future. Although they are very happy to support, there is absolutely no transaction in the Three Treasure Gate. Everyone, Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha is happy to provide for sentient beings. Cultivate your own blessings, others are wise and you are cultivating blessings yourself, you are still stupid "Yes, okay, then you have a good opportunity to be greedy for cheap", sometimes you are not deliberate, but our beings are just like this , You don’t know that you are damaging your blessings, and no one dares to tell you, because after talking about it, I’m afraid that this mage is greedy for money and asks others for support, or hey, this dojo needs money for everything.

In the end, there is no way. Some dojos just set prices for everything. In such a situation, it is very bad, and there are new ills. For example, I would rather not set prices, or follow the law, but we try to educate you. If you don’t turn around, there’s no way you can’t do it. We have already fulfilled our duty of teaching, and then personally and personally bear the cause and effect. Wrong, you can’t see the reward in the end. Many people find it strange that I have been close to Buddhism for a long time, and I have not benefited from my studies, and I have no blessings and wisdom. Some of my life has not been one or two years. We have also seen a lot of troubles and troubles, so you really need to know how to do it.

Then we have to be steadfast. Like some of our fellow practitioners recently, I saw that it was very good. After he received the precepts, he began to learn the precepts, and then he had all the lectures, and some of the fellow practitioners were very good. He just learns one thing and does one. The changes are great, and he can be used. You know, because after you put it into practice, through the precepts, through the correct methods taught by our Buddhism, you should do what you should give up and hold, and practice. Fu Xiuhui, then when you get Fa-joy right now, your worries are alleviated, your heart is at ease, and Fa-joy arises. This is what you can get right now, right?Then you cultivate your blessings and wisdom to a certain level, your blessings will surely be there, the results will surely be there, it's impossible not, if there are no Buddhas in the ten directions, all the Buddhas will lie, don’t rush to cultivate a little bit over there. Waiting for "how the retribution has not come before", you must use a heart that does not ask for rewards. The more demanding your heart is, the more outstanding your retribution will be. If you ask for more, there will still be there but it will be compromised. Slowly, this is done in our minds to convict sins, and this truth is very deep.

(XNUMX) The three treasures must be protected in a planned way

Have you ever heard of a koan with two pennies?Two cents are only two cents, so we can’t talk about two cents, two cents, but its metaphor is all she has, all, for example, you can donate one million, but you only donate one hundred. But she is incapable. She can only donate two cents, but it is all she has. Whose merit do you say is great?The merit of two cents is great, so do you understand?Her ratio is not the amount, not the amount you donated, and her sincerity. She does not ask for anything in return. She thinks that as long as I have the opportunity to support the Three Jewels, it is her life's blessing. She has this heartfelt feeling for the Three Jewels. A kind of admiration, respect, this kind of feeling, let alone ascend to heaven in the next life, she originally turned from a poor girl into a queen's retribution in this world. This is called a flower rebate. The fruit rebate is in the next life. It blooms and bears fruit. With a flower, it’s already so great. When you’re alive, you’re already a queen. It’s just because of an accident that a windfall comes. So when will the reward come?It's hard to say, sometimes when you didn't expect it, it's like a gift falling from the sky.

The most important thing is that what you want to learn is that unseeking, selfless mind. When you are truly unseeking, selfless, and unseeking in return, I will tell you that when the cause is ripe, people will think of you first, right? ?The best position, the best opportunity, and the best fortune must be given to you immediately, won't it be given to others, right?He knows that you are trustworthy, virtuous, able to repay your kindness without asking for rewards. Of course, people will look for you, and if you have benefits, you will be given to you. That is a certain truth. You may be made abbot in one go, or you may be made in one go. I’m home, I might manage a very important job at once, right?You don’t need to accumulate bit by bit. Virtue is very important. If you are sincere to give, others will see it, and anyone with a discerning eye will see it. Do as much as you want, do you sincerely, do your best, do your best at the moment, you don’t have to donate more than others, donate less, that’s useless, I just said that you have that ability, but you do a little bit, The amount is more than others, and they also know that your heart is not sincere, and you can't feel the rewards well. Do you understand that?Be sure to seize the opportunity honestly, and planfully protect the Three Jewels to repair the cause for yourself.

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(XNUMX) Learn to cultivate the correct attitude to support the Three Jewels

The second thing is to say that this kind of desirelessness, gratitude, and admiration for the Three Jewels must be cultivated. What we talked about earlier is to cultivate respect, and the next step is to avoid those disrespectful habits. Let’s take a step further. We have to learn to cultivate these very good attitudes, a heart of admiration, respect, demandlessness, and gratitude. Thanks to the Three Jewels for giving me this opportunity to plant blessings and cultivating causes, and the future rewards are our own enjoyment. This is why the Blessed One made The system of beggars is like this, is there no way for monks to survive?No, he himself, the king, he doesn't want to do it, right?We monks do whatever you want. Any monks work at least twelve hours a day. If he wants to calculate his salary, he will not be less than you, right?How can't survive.

However, the monks must observe the precepts and do all the obligations, that is, to have a good interaction with the four disciples, that is, everyone has nothing to ask for, and then they achieve each other’s merits and merits. This is the Blessed One’s rule. Yes, it is to achieve our Dao Karma. If you count it, I will count it too. Okay, if you don’t support it, then I will set the price and set the price. It will lose its meaning. It’s a relationship with the world. The boss and This kind of relationship between employers is getting closer and closer. It’s not good. There are many disadvantages. So everyone must do their part. The Dharma must be achieved by each other, and no one will suffer. These concepts and methods must be required. learn.

If you really understand how much you really understand, you should do it right away. Don’t wait until a few years to do it. Do it now. Go back and schedule a class at least for us to recite the Buddha. The main course is to recite the Buddha at least ten thousand times a day. It’s impossible to recite the Buddha for an hour in the Paradise of Paradise. It’s impossible. You can recite when you walk, live, sit, or sleep. You can take a counter. You can recite a little for ten minutes, and then you can recite again when you have time. Then you can worship Buddha every day. It’s all right for half an hour. Sooner or later, at least three prayers. This is the minimum standard. Three prayers and ten minutes. If I worship the Buddha in yoga, this is still too little. It is also a beginner, at least one day. The most basic amount of one and a half hours, one hour, and then make a record, you will have a sense of accomplishment when you record it. We worship for three and ten minutes. Those classmates on our Facebook have worshipped for thousands of prayers. We have to register every day. But I didn't put pressure on them. How many worships you have to register and decide by yourself, then you will have a sense of accomplishment and will not give up.

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(XNUMX) Confidence in the Three Jewels cannot be lost

Okay, do you have any questions to ask?

Fellow practitioner: Hello Master, I have a question about when I took the precepts recently, I found that I have many habits, such as laziness, or laziness, or making excuses. In fact, making excuses is self-deception. , And I feel that one of my own karma is terrible. For my karma, I will not talk about others or my faults. My karma is terrible. I find it difficult for me to fight against it. There is another one that says The environment of the people around me, I am not talking about how others are, that is to say there is a common karma, because my own mental strength is not enough, that is, my own strength is not enough, and then I have less wisdom, and then I am very ignorant, so I say a lot. Sometimes I felt that when I was in this karma, I could only feel it, but usually I beat it, and in a common karma environment, most of the time I can only stay away from it.

Master: Ok, I’m not going to answer this part with you first. This is a principle that you have already discovered these problems. It doesn’t matter if you sit down. It’s okay to wait for you to sit down and talk about it. I was going to let you drink coffee today. Yes, don't be so serious. So I brought coffee, and there happened to be a layman to support him.

That principle, if you can see today, it means that you have begun to achieve merit. This is called awareness, which means that if you do it, you will have this awareness. Some people do not really take the precepts actively. When he did it, he didn’t feel this way. If you do it, you will find that, yes, you see the horror of karma, the horror of the common karma around you, and so on, and the horror of your own slack habits, yes, every Individuals will encounter it, and that mental strength is definitely not enough, so you must rely on the power of the Buddha, and you must ask XNUMX% of the Buddha. The more you feel that your mental power is insufficient, the more you will repent, and you must develop a penitent heart to worship the Buddha, and you must worship the Buddha primarily. In the beginning, our physical and mental karmic obstacles were very heavy. The best way to worship Buddha is that it is better to worship the Buddha than to sit and recite the Buddha. Why?Because there is only one way for the body and mind to eliminate karma. I will tell you a principle. Any setback is to worship the Buddha, you are to pray for the Buddha, be ashamed and repent, and then do your best.

Don’t ask yourself too much. At the beginning, you don’t... everyone has different levels and different roots. You can’t achieve perfection all at once. Don’t set yourself so high. You can be willing to do it, and then advance and retreat. Retirement is normal. Sometimes I will be lazy, and I will be lazy, but it is very limited, because when we slowly and continuously improve, you will be lazy again...because we have developed the habit of goodness and have transformed it. No matter how lazy you are, you are limited, understand?So this kind of thing is natural. You don’t have to force yourself at which stage you reach. You have already started, and you will move forward. Sometimes it seems that there is a slight retreat. That is also very Normally, just don't retreat to the end. If you retreat to the end, you will not be saved.

As long as you are slack, you just slack, or you have doubts in your heart, and even some of your confidence retreats, you encounter some people who give you obstacles "Oh, there is no Mahayana at all, have you made a mistake, you have been deceived", so Serious words, or say, "Hey, that mage, let me tell you, don't admire that mage, I will tell you that he has a very bad reputation, how and what he is, I will tell you...", let you If you lose confidence in your teacher, you will be tested for anything and everything. This is a test of your concentration and wisdom, whether the external environment is good, whether the Fa is true, whether the master is good or not has nothing to do with you, it’s yourself. I think it’s most important to be able to use it after learning it, let alone listen to what others say?It's not necessarily because he has his position. There is a problem with his good intentions and malicious intentions. There are even few who are really good intentions. Why?The true monks do not see the world, and the right and wrong is right and wrong. You have to know this principle, so we are not subject to any interference from outside.

We ask ourselves whether this Fa is used or not, so we won’t be affected, and then we can cultivate our own concentration, wisdom, and virtues. Don’t let people tell you that there is a problem with this master and that there is a problem with this Fa, then you. Turning back again, this is the most terrible, physical slackness is okay, because you are full of sleep and your spirit is coming again, you can still do it, so the most important thing is that you must not lose faith in the Three Jewels. Once you lose it, it will be over. He retreated to the end, and some even went to believe in Christianity, or slandered the Three Jewels. He was originally a Buddhist disciple, but he must go to hell after slandering the Three Jewels. What's the problem?

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(XNUMX) Stable confidence is not easy to slack off


Fellow practitioner: There is one more question, can you talk about sitting?

Mage: Yes... the merit is only halved, kidding!

Fellow practitioners: You can sit, you can, you can. The question is, because I think I have some arrogant habits. Sometimes this arrogant heart is hidden deeper. I want to ask the Master how to overcome this. This kind of arrogance, just tribute to the self-slow habit, and what is the biggest obstacle to this practice by this self-slow habit?

Master: There are so many obstacles. Because you are arrogant and have no respect, you have no way to get started, so I suggest you practice asceticism, right?This is because everyone’s medicine is different. Some people don’t need to suffer too much, because they are already very smooth. Then you have to have a stronger condition to suppress you and pull you, but you can bear it, and you can bear it. Got it, because you are more resilient than ordinary people, so you.... The Buddha and Bodhisattva will arrange it. He will know what method you use and where your ability is. He will give you something, and you will naturally attract feelings. Those causes, so don’t worry about anything. Give your entire life to the Buddha and Bodhisattva. The Buddha and Bodhisattva will guide you in the dark and make arrangements with you. Through your teacher and whoever you are, they will show you a way. What you have to do is to trust your teacher XNUMX% and trust the Three Jewels. Even if he asks you to jump off the cliff, it is definitely good for you. If you have this confidence, then you will definitely be able to achieve it, and you will not be afraid of death. right?I don’t doubt it anymore, because you have faith in the Three Treasures. He definitely didn’t really want me to die if he did this. It must be that I need me to be like this... I need to grind like this before I can improve. If I can get to this The degree is okay. No one can affect you. You will definitely improve until you reach a complete achievement. Confidence is the most important thing, good.

Fellow practitioner: Hello, Master. One problem is that if you have time to attend a Fa conference or listen to other masters’ lectures or practice together, sometimes you feel very pure and you seem to be more compliant with your family, but after a while, you seem to go back.

Master: Yes, yes, let me tell you, okay, you sit first, so you have to set the lesson, because the teacher may not always be by your side every day, so the lesson is that the Sambo will protect you at any time, you have to do it , If you don’t do it, you are separated from the Three Treasures, and I just told you these scheduled lessons.

Fellow practitioners: In order to schedule a lesson, but if you have time or every day...

Master: Because your confidence is not very stable yet, it is not stable yet. We have confidence in this to believe in, not to retreat, and not to retreat. If this belief is not returned to that level, of course you will advance and retreat, then you There is no way, you must be unstable at the beginning, so you should always give yourself the opportunity to get close to the Three Jewels, get close to the good knowledge, to cheer you up, join the Taoist friends, practice together, etc. This is to help you not Laziness, retreat, if you have a stable faith, then this kind of person is not afraid, he is qualified to self-cultivation, he will not slack.

Because our time is limited, if we have any questions, we can ask on Facebook. You can ask questions. Don’t be afraid of being scolded by me if you don’t ask. Our students are already very clear, and he will come out to comfort you. Say "Oh, it's good to be scolded, give you blessings", but some of the questions are inappropriate, I may not answer directly, but I will definitely give you a response, and I will give you if you ignore it. One response is that we have just opened this door so that everyone can have a channel to learn from all beings in the ten directions.

So today because the time is approaching, it doesn’t matter if we still have a few more questions. It’s probably the main point I’m going to talk about today. What I want to exhort is probably already very clear. You just need to do it, and you’ll be able to get it done. The Buddha is no problem. To do it, you must continue to do it, but the principles and methods have already been told to you.

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