(XNUMX) The blessing power of the Three Jewels is too great for you to imagine

Today at noon, we recite this Amitabha Sutra and go around the Buddha. The magnetic field is very good. From the neat and magnificent sound of our fellow practitioners, we can feel that our heart is closely integrated with the Three Jewels, which is different from the morning. I’ve just been studying feelings in the morning. I’m already in the situation. I don’t know if any fellow practitioners are like me. I’ve been in the situation from early in the morning. I have been in the situation all day until just now. This chest often feels stuffy. , This stuffy stuff is not uncomfortable, it is full of touch, and it feels very warm.

Of course, I have a little bit of concentration now, so I didn’t leave a single tear. This emotion is coherent, starting from the incense burning in the morning to now, but I actually noticed that there are fellow practitioners in the morning, and I have already felt a little touched in my heart. , I have heard that some people are crying, tearing is a kind of appearance, but in general men, men do not flick lightly when they have tears. It seems that tears are very embarrassing. This shows that this ego and my face are too heavy. lay down.

We all living beings have come to this world to suffer here. We should not deceive ourselves and others. We have to face this fact. If we face this fact, there is nothing we can do to let go. It is already very remarkable that we can devote ourselves to pursuing renunciation today. Now, they are wiser and brave than the people of the world. Many people are like Confucianism. Knowing shame is close to courage. We know that we have to be ashamed and shameful. This is already close to very brave and brave people. On the contrary, those who deceive themselves and are self-esteem. Controlling people, these people are very pitiful.

The more cowardly and incompetent people are, the more they pretend to be strong and deceive themselves. This way, once they encounter the cause and condition of the promotion, they will often miss it. Therefore, we must let go of these ego and self-images so that you can feel the Three Jewels. Blessings.

Did our fellow initiates have a break at noon?Tired?Not tired, wow!Why are you not tired?Because we have power and joy in our hearts, how big can this power be?It's too big for you to imagine.

Today is just not going to sleep at noon. Like my classmates, we have been with me for more than two years. Most of the laymen have lunch, and they all spend lunch with me without food. Everyone thinks that there are men and women. Everyone You think it’s too hard not to eat for lunch, right?

But for those of us, this is the simplest precept, and we take it naturally. If you don’t encounter this cause, and you don’t have the opportunity to practise the Dharma, ask you to hold it at home. At noon, is it possible to make your own mind to hold noon?impossible.It’s impossible to eat one less afternoon tea, it’s impossible to have a midnight snack, and it’s just lunch, right?

So how powerful is the blessing of the Three Jewels?Not only these, but even can bless you, like me, let me give my example, to what extent?When we make a vow not only to dedicate ourselves to becoming a monk, but also to be willing to be a monk throughout life, to repay the grace of Buddha, and to repay all beings. You will have such a great power to give up everything, give up everything completely, give up completely, give up to nothing, and live in peace. In emptiness, each of us has this power, so don't underestimate yourself.

(XNUMX) Only by letting go of ego and self-image can we feel the blessing of the Three Jewels.

We have two hours to improve later. Let go of our self-esteem and self-esteem, at least these two hours. Otherwise, I don’t know when this cause will happen in the future. Here is your VIP. Your VIP room, wait a minute, in order to take care of you a little bit of face, we have not put down your self-image, we turn off all the lights when we pray, we only leave the podium here, so that you will be more comfortable when you cry Sorry, but remember, don’t cry too loud or ugly.

What is ugly?Of course it’s not unpleasant to reveal true feelings, but some people’s voices are very sharp, and they can’t even control their emotions. We must know how to control our emotions. This is also cultivation. Like our classmates, we have been there for more than two years. I meet every day on the Internet, just like my family, they all say that our dojo is a dojo where you can’t see the real Liuhejing taste at home or abroad. I haven’t seen each other for more than two years. I’ve never seen each other. Every time I go to see each other, Everyone is crying.

Some people even saw that my feet were soft, leaning against the wall, and asked him what he was doing. It turned out that my feet were soft. There were several. We were also very good at Buddhism in Muar last week. There were more than XNUMX people. And all of the five precepts, one of our classmates, he is a relatively old grade, no education, no blessings and no education, but in our class is also reborn, making rapid progress, all do their homework, excerpts My notes, I knew your level was there at a glance, and the progress was very fast, so when we met for the first time, she was also very moved and one of the soft feet.

But she also made her mind to be the protector of Buddha One, but she would not control her emotions. Apart from being moved and crying all the time, she also cried. Have you ever seen crying and falling down there, I am here? When I saw in the lecture hall, I wondered how the ghost got on my body, and why someone fell down there. Later I learned that it turned out to be too touched, but if you are too touched, you have to control your emotions, because you are now responsible. You are working for the public. Service, but I can understand their mood, especially when she is older, she has no culture, so the self-control is not as good as some people who are more rational. These people can control it.

She expresses her true feelings, but this part is also what we need to learn, and we must improve our precept, concentration and wisdom.We were in Singapore, and we were in Singapore for the first two years of Buddha One and Anle Buddha One. A total of 108 people participated. It was too crowded. There were just 108 people. Almost the audience, almost all men and women in the audience were moved to tears. , The audience was crying.This is okay 108. I used to receive the ordination of Bodhisattva in Foguangshan, Taiwan's Zongshan more than ten years ago, and the ordination of Bodhisattva at home.At that time, we happened to encounter the Three Altars of Ordination and received them with the monks, so there were more than XNUMX people in total.

In the evening, we will pray in the big square in the open space. We must have the wish when we take the ordination.The tone I used today is also the tone of the ban. You have to eliminate the karma first. Think about it when there are more than a thousand people in the big square, and then the sky gradually darkens. It is a bit unclear.

There was a little bit of light, and when the audience prayed, the crying sound was simply howling ghosts, so terrifying.

It’s too intense. The voices of more than a thousand people, because the sky is dark, everyone is crying as much as possible. Anyway, you can't see me well, and I can't see you well, wow! Let's vent, that kind of emotion is really enjoyable , But people nearby are sometimes scared.

Of the 108 of us in Singapore, one of our mothers was crying very hard, but she was on the sidelines.A mother took a daughter, and her daughter was frightened.She was okay, but she felt a little bit about crying like this, and then the mother quickly took her daughter to the last row, and then continued to lie there crying, and continue to worship.So sometimes because children don't know, adults will cry like this, so we have to control this later.It’s just right. You have to be in the middle of everything, so if you don’t cry seriously, you won’t be able to pass, and crying will count as 60 points.Cry well, not too loudly or not too quietly for 100 points. We look at your inner state from the behavioral aspect. If you can't cry, you have to find a way to cry, otherwise you don't have to work hard.Because we pray for vows to eliminate karma, to save our face, and to resurrect our long-numbed heart.Now it’s hard to have this Three Treasure Hall, and the Three Treasures have such a karma to bless us, or else you go home and see if you can't cry.Yes.I cried when I was drunk. It was a riot of crying, and I didn’t know what I was crying.That doesn't make sense. I wake up in the morning and don't know what happened.But now we are clearly experiencing and eliminating karma.From this process, we can feel the grace of the Three Jewels, and from this, we can get closer to Amitabha.

If you can't cry, I will remind you a way of visualization now.In fact, if your heart calms down, you will know, think about it, what is our current situation?Don’t think that your blessings are great. The blessings in the world are not worth mentioning. For us practitioners, that is rubbish, we don’t need it, we have to put it down, and we have to clear it.Although the more we practice, the greater our blessings will be, but the bodhisattvas do not enjoy the blessings because it is dangerous.Once you enjoy a blessing, you will fall, and your habits will be bad.So even if we practice for a long time, the blessings are getting bigger and bigger, we don't enjoy the blessings, and then we go back and use it on the suffering sentient beings.

So the blessings in the world are nothing great at all. What is the truth that we want to see?It's our sin!Greedy, hateful and foolish!You really should know the shame!There is a hole in the ground to go down.Where do you see it?From the moment we were born, why are we human?Because at the moment when we were about to reincarnate in our past lives, we saw men and women, and saw our parents love and love each other, and we are happy at the moment. The idea is to reincarnate after a lifetime and become bound to them. This is the cause and fate. Come to be human.

Of course, unless you want to come again this is different, most people behave like this.So the cause of our reincarnation is impure, understand?It's Cai Se's famous food to sleep!Lust, greedy for the beauty of his parents, greedy for all kinds of happiness, he will come to reincarnation in accordance with him, understand?This is how we came.So being a human is a kind of shame, of course it is not all evil, and there are reasons for cultivating the Five Precepts in the past life, which is also a good cause.

So there is suffering and happiness in this world, because we have good causes as well as evil causes.But there are many evil causes and few good causes.So we have to recognize ourselves, don’t have to look in the mirror all day, it’s useless, how to look like that, don’t need to measure my status and status, how much money I save now, I now have the status of a doctor, that’s nothing great, or You should be ashamed, because you have not yet become holy.What is more sad?What's more sad is that every one of us has Buddha nature. We are originally perfect. This is what the Blessed One told us.

(XNUMX) Experience the mood of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas with heart

Our original Buddha-nature, from the point of view of Buddha-nature, we are originally Buddha!But we are lost, how to get lost?It's like when we go out, children can't find their way home when they go out.Where is our home?In Elysium, our true parents are Amitabha.So we have left home now, because we have been out of the house like children who have lost their way and can't get home from the whole life of ignorance. Our situation is like this, it is very pitiful.Think about it, if you have a child who goes out now, he can't find you, and you can't find him. What a pitiful situation!And there are so many bad people out there, just like the temptation of the five desires and six dusts in our world, it is always dangerous at all times.

What's so happy about our situation like this!We should raise this vigilance and worry at any time, and resolve the matter of life and death as soon as possible, and we have to go home as soon as possible.why?Because of Amitabha, because of our true parents, He is waiting for us anxiously.Do you understand this mood?Look at the statue of Amitabha Buddha, which is a standing enlightened statue. This is all expressive.The Blessed One tells us the fact that our Great Compassionate Father He is so anxious to take us home anytime and anywhere.The other Buddhas are all seated statues.Only smell and learn, not communication.Teacher Tao is the most noble.In this era of the end of the world, the teacher's way is gone, and everyone does not respect the teacher or the mage. It is no longer worthy, and it is not as good as that of rushing to the confession.

The standing statue of Amitabha is showing the Dharma, what does it show?It shows his anxious mood, and he is standing there at any time. He does not rest day and night, nor does he need to sleep. He does not rest day and night. He is always waiting for his lost children who run away from home. When you look back, if you want to go home, He will pick you up immediately.So if we are now motivated and truly willing to survive, we have already gone home now, but you don’t know that this body is still there, but our mind has already gone home, and we have already interacted with Amitabha. .

If you don't feel this way, it means that your heart of going home is not eager, and it's not true, which is what we said about renunciation.We are still thinking about the five desires and six dusts in this world. There are more plans. Think about it yourself, right?There is a little time left, deducted from going to work to make money and having fun, and a little time left to practice, then why are you eager to renounce?Our truly minded people do things all day long, but it doesn't hinder our obligations. It's this mind.This should be the case.Do we have?No.So we are very pitiful!

We are now wandering outside, and many people don’t know that they want to be enlightened or go home.The whole day of creating karma, either bullying others or letting others bully, live like this!How pitiful?How pitiful are we?Very pitiful, I can't help but want to cry when I think of sentient beings.It is necessary to bring up Dinghui power.Our waiter also loves to cry, so she often cries with others.I'm still telling you at noon that the real sentient beings are in this situation, and I don't know how to become enlightened.

This is the mood of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. We have to experience it with our heart. When you really feel it, you won't live in a trance like this all day.Seeing that our current situation is like what is said in the Lotus Sutra, we are already on fire in the Three Realms Fire House.We are the children of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. What are their hearts?Feel it and see, this is the truth, the Blessed One told us.And in our lives, we can also go to prove, we can experience and observe that this is a fact.

Don’t be busy doing business all day, busy making money, busy spending money, busy oppressing others, busy making trouble for the enemy

Account, does it make sense to live like this all day?A waste of life!What's more, the chance that we encountered Buddhism is really like the "Opening Sutras" mentioned in the book, millions of catastrophes.Now that the cause of liberation is met, I finally got in touch with our father, and I was so close and I was about to go home. As a result, I missed it face-to-face. It was so tragic.

Let’s imagine this picture. Our parents, we ran away from home and couldn’t find the way home. The parents were very anxious. They kept looking for us outside. They were finally able to find us. They already saw it, but they couldn’t get close. missed.

This passing by, immeasurable calamity is possible!So everyone, don't miss this cause, and go home quickly!After returning home, we can restore our original Buddha nature, infinite wisdom, and infinite supernatural powers. At that time, we will come again by wishing to extend all sentient beings to the ten realms.We have countlessly robbed too many parents, children, relatives, and friends. We need us to save them as soon as possible. They have been suffering. We have achieved relief earlier, and have the ability to help them earlier, so don't waste time.

We must recognize these situations clearly. Then when we worship the Buddha, we will also pray for Amitabha's blessing so that our hearts will be truly moved, so that our false minds, slack minds, and all these karma will be cleared away.

(XNUMX) Repentance is a good way to eliminate karma

Starting today, I am going to be a human again. I am going to be like a real person, a real Buddha. This character is more noble than ordinary people, and my life is cleaner and more compassionate than ordinary people.Every one of us can do it, everyone can be reborn, because the Buddha and Bodhisattva will give us strength. When our hearts are filled with this emotion, your power, incredible power, will show up, and it will grow day by day.Let yourself be transformed, give your body and mind to the Three Jewels, and pray for the blessing of the Three Jewels.The moment can be transformed, and everyone can be reborn.

Then when we are praying, I will mention it again, because we have opened a repentance area on the Facebook platform.Yesterday, our Yugang layman also reminded me that I hope I can tell you.Our confession and disclosure is a very good way to eliminate karma. After praying today, our state has been improved, we have entered into it, and after we are moved inside, we must keep on, and even continue to improve, we must always Reveal repentance, because every day will definitely regenerate karma, certainly will.Because our habits are too heavy, but we are not afraid of creating karma every day. In fact, we are creating karma every day, we are repenting every day, and through the kind of touch that we have entered into, our inner heart, numb heart has begun to resurrect, and its industry is hindered. Will keep disappearing.

So we also provide such a special area for everyone to confess. If you do something wrong every day, just write a post. If you don’t know how to do it, you can ask our fellow practitioners to help.We will broadcast the CD later when we pray. I re-recorded that. Because of the tune of this precept, they usually worship the tunes very solemnly, but they all recite many names of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, so I re-recorded it. Just recite the name of our Amitabha.Wait a moment when we recite Nan Wuji Le loving father Amitabha, worship at the extreme time, get up at the time of the Buddha, and the last sentence of Wiener depends on the time. When it arrives at 4 o'clock, we will knock on the big exhaust, and when we are in the south, we will all knowAfter chanting that sentence, you will have to ask questions when the prayer is over. When the last sentence is exhausted, you don’t need a placeWhen it’s the Buddha, it’s time to knock it out and get up, and then everyone will ask questions.

I will take you to worship together. Then only I will take the microphone, and then the public will praise it as loudly as possible. Other Wieners do not need to take the microphone. This will be too noisy.Every fellow practitioner tried his best to make a big claim.Gu Dade said "read the big Buddha out loud, and see the little Buddha quietly." This is just a description. The more relaxed you are and the more you express your mood, the stronger your feeling will be, of course to us. When the realm is very high, then our mind is calm, and there will not be much ups and downs in a peaceful state. That is another level of realm.At the beginning, we should try our best to express your feelings as much as possible.This is easy to sense.Okay, let's ask the guardian to turn off the lights now, everyone please stand up, and then we should pay attention to the time of our music and broadcast music.The front light can be turned off a little bit.Yes, that's good.

(XNUMX) Really experience the suffering in the world and naturally let go of practice

Interrogation.Okay, please take a seat.Sit still for three minutes first, close your eyes, and let your emotions return to stability.Okay, you can turn on the light. We prayed for half an hour just now. It seems that most of the fellow practitioners are very capable of sensing. Sensing is not called sensing when you see the light and flowers. The inner touch is called sensing. This is true sensing. I originally thought I had enough concentration, but I still cried miserably, because the fellow practitioners here made me feel very distressed.

When I went back to the squatter to rest at noon today, I talked to my waiter. I almost cried as I talked about it. Why?It’s because our fellow practitioners here, especially our fellow practitioners going abroad to participate in group meditation, are very difficult. It’s so difficult to ask for Fa practice in my own country, and I saw that I’ve been so deliberate about seeking Fa, but I still can’t find it The way to get started, so I was very reluctant. Studying the Fa was very hard. I also came here in this way.

We have a lot of experience in the suffering of the world, so we let go and practice as a monk. In the first twelve years, we couldn’t find a way out. I had a hard time in cultivation. I have been encountering Master Shandao, so I recalled the period when I started to practice. The journey, and seeing you again, it’s the way I was before, and I feel very distressed, so today’s mood is particularly high, and my chest is stuffy all day long, so today, your karma has also disappeared a lot, do you feel very physical and mental Cool?

Furthermore, at this time when our karma is temporarily immersed and eliminated, make a vow, make a vow to be a new person, to be a higher person, don't be a confused person, as long as you make a vow, you will do it all. To seize the time, today’s prayer is fortunately only half an hour. I remember that I wrote about suffering in the world. Who knows, that lyrics, that’s my debut, I’ve never written lyrics before, I’m not from the entertainment industry, I don’t know how to write. .

At that time, I was at the Pure Sect Society of Singapore, because after graduation, I went to Lantau Island in Hong Kong to get close to the old monk of Shang Sheng. Then, after receiving the ordination, I returned to the Pure Sect Society of Singapore to serve for more than a year. I did a lot of things in return for their cultivation of me. Among them, the general affairs asked me to write Buddhist music, and gave me a piece of music that is suffering in the world who knows. I said I never wrote it before, you If you don't want to find other masters to write, the seniors are quite good, and you can't push it for a long time, I say okay, then I will try it.

As a result, as soon as I listened to that music, less than five minutes, my chest became very boring, and an emotion came up, and then I wrote from beginning to end, it should be less than ten minutes, the Yugang Judge he heard it wrong that day Is it still... I remember it was a very short time, because many years ago, I wrote it all at once. That emotion was just my inner feeling at that time, so I just wrote it out without modification, so I don’t need to think about it for a long time. How to write, personal feelings are over.

After I finish writing it, I need to check it, to see if this is in line with the general lyrics. Every time I check it, the more sad and touched I cry. I don’t believe that this is what I wrote, and I’m writing it at the moment, What is an image in my mind?Many sentient beings in this world are suffering. That scene suddenly appeared in front of my eyes. It was this emotion that made me write down the suffering of the world. Who knows, only the Buddha knows it best.

This kind of suffering is so suffering that even the Bodhisattva and Arhat have wisdom, and there is no way to fully correct it. Only the Buddha understands this kind of suffering. The suffering of all sentient beings is suffering to such a suffering aspect. My mood at the time was Like this, you can imagine meIt is how miserable I cried, how miserable I cried after I finished writing, crying for more than two hours, crying until I fell asleep, I was tired and crying very tired, I was out of breath, and the whole spirit seemed to be exhausted. I fell asleep, because I remember that it was written in the evening, and I kept crying for more than two hours after I finished writing. Waves of moving emotions kept coming up. What I saw was the suffering of sentient beings, and I am also one of the sentient beings.

The next morning, the eyes were swollen like anything else. It was very swollen and swollen. I cried so much that the eyes were so painful. This afternoon we were chanting the Amitabha Sutra and then praising the Buddha verses. Our Vina Bodhisattva made the wrong sound. The voice of the voice may scare everyone away from this sleepy bug, but then, I immediately felt that I wanted to cry again. Even praising the Buddha's verses can touch me, and you will also in the future.

Let me tell you now that from my personal experience, this easily touched mood means that our hearts are soft, our hearts are soft, it is easy for compassion to arise, and it is often easy to be moved, even if it is just praise to the Buddha, I am following As I chanted, I felt the compassion and solemnity of Amitabha.

(XNUMX) The cause and fate of getting acquainted with lawyer Guoqing, Yizhi's mentor

I will also share with you the cause and fate of my mentor, lawyer Guoqing, my mentor, and I will share with you how it came to be. It was at the Wuguang Abode in Taiwan at the beginning of the previous year. It was a female monk who learned the commandments. The regiment is very strict. I participated in the Seventh Buddha there. At that time, I didn’t know Lawyer Guo Qing, and I didn’t know who the Seventh Lord was. I signed up purely for the enjoyment of Buddhism. The most stringent one is the Seventh Buddha, then I The Jie La is not the highest, but it is also quite tall. At that time, there should be XNUMX or XNUMX monks, plus more than XNUMX lay priests, so I was ranked first in Xidan, just seven days away from the master. The monk is very close.

That morning, I started to recite the Amitabha Sutra and finished the Prayer to the Buddha. We were on the opposite side. Then we started to sing the first sentence of Amitabha Buddha's golden body. I started to cry. I was very moved and moved. I think Amitabha is so solemn. It’s so great, I like him so much, and I feel very close to him. As a result, the verse cried from the beginning to the end, and cried to the end after singing. Maybe the seventh monk saw it, because I think he’s so often. In a few days, I often cast caring and applauding eyes, and we have a very good bond.

The first time I became rapport was at the Seventh Fa conference. Later that week, he helped me raise the calligraphy, Buddhism disciples rules, I didn’t expect it, because the disciples rules had already been printed, so in the end, I was asked to do it again. I checked it carefully. It was too late because I was going to participate in the Seventh Buddha. I sent it to me at the dojo. After reading it, I wanted to say that this book should not be wasted. I would offer the Lord Seventh Buddhist monk and ask him to comment. Maybe he would still be willing to follow it. I raised the calligraphy, and suddenly I had an idea, and then I went to ask him to submit the calligraphy, but he didn't expect that he immediately agreed. This is not a trivial matter, which shows that he is sure of the content of this pamphlet.

Before you go back, all go to the first floor to ask for these magic weapons. Please go back and study. Your blessings will become deeper and deeper. Then this is a cause and condition corresponding to the Fa. Then, before, I remember Like our lawyer Guoqing, he is also now. In addition to the abbot of Zhengjue Abode and the abbot of Yuantong Temple, he also has many legal affairs, such as the annual fasting monk in the world and the annual fasting monk in central China. He is serving as the chairman.

Then his virtue can inspire five to six thousand monks to attend once a year. It’s not to eat that meal, eat a meal and then make offerings. Some people come all the way and the fare is all. Not enough, right?It took a very hard time to go out and go back and forth for a day. I was still the monk’s own chairman. The entire Fa conference was based on him.There are XNUMX to XNUMX law-protecting volunteers added. Have you ever seen this kind of Fa conference?No, it is probably only visible in Taiwan. Not every monk has so many people going there, especially the monks are very busy. The monks are now more busy than the lay priests, and they don’t have enough time for their own practice. Impossible to go.

Once I remembered that I participated in such a meeting of fasting monks. The scene was very moving. I saw many elders and virtues. When we burn incense and praise, don’t we have to bow first?I have to bow to the bow and then ask the question to bow to the bow and come back to bow when the incense is finished. That process, but when the incense is praised, I start to cry, crying from beginning to end, how is the crying, the person who cried to our table for dinner, probably The ten bhikkhus cried with me from beginning to end. No one said a word until the end of the fast. Fortunately, we only prayed for half an hour today, or I might go to the emergency room.

(XNUMX) Only by relying on the power of the Three Treasures can people be completely reborn

We will be moved to this level, and you will also in the future. Of course, afterwards, we must practice good precepts, meditation and wisdom, and then we must be able to control ourselves, or we will suffer from tragedy or joy. No, this is it. What do you mean? These reactions mean that we are really blessed by the Three Jewels, and if we interact with the Three Jewels, we will make our body and mind soft. Our strong tempers, resentment, and cynicism always have these troubles. You can put them down, some are put off at once, some are put gradually, there will be such a great power, this is all walks of life in the world, no psychologist can do anything, only the three treasures have this power .

Before I studied Buddhism, I deeply felt the suffering in the world. In fact, I have always been very lucky. I am a very lucky person. When I was a young lady, there were many people chasing after me. The upper class people drove Cadillacs. I wanted to come and invite me to dinner, but I couldn’t have invited three visits to the thatched cottage. Three visits to the thatched cottage didn’t meet me three times. The rewards were great, and then I became a small boss, and one by one is a boss, so I don’t need to look at the faces of others. The days are okay, but my heart, but my suffering is my heart's suffering, it is very empty and calm, which is full of fear for the future.

You see, every friend around me suffers as soon as they get married. It's really scary to death when I see it, and then I also run into someone who looks like Chow Yun-fat. Wow, not bad!I was a little tempted by him. At the beginning, I thought about marrying him in the future. Oh, the more I think about it, the more horrible, the more horrible I think about it. I think I might be like those of my friends in the future, just in case he One day I’m too busy, and I can’t accompany me, so what if I have another one outside, what if I have a girlfriend, I’m thinking about the family love and the process, thinking that I’m scared to death, think about it and forget it. Forget it, don't contact again.

Such a good object is already tempted, it seems that Chow Yun-fat and then a billionaire, isn't this woman her favorite?He is rich and handsome, and he is from the same hometown. He is honest and looks low-key. Seeing that Chow Yun-fat has a good temperament, he will not be the kind of person who is very public and public. He is very low-key, so the friend I am talking about It doesn’t look like a wealthy person, like a civil servant. I let him pass for such a good person like this, because I was so scared to death. There’s really no way I can do it after Lenovo. So back then, I often felt like wow, what should I do?How do you spend the next half of your life?I don’t think it’s okay to eat, drink, and have fun. It’s not very corresponding. I have eaten abalone and shark fin, Amitabha!

I am not going to drink and stay, confess and repent, but I became vegetarian in my early twenties, and I became vegetarian before I studied Buddhism. Then my heart was very empty. I don’t know how to live in the future. I don’t know how to live. I will read Confucian books. , Reading psychology, reading any book is not enough strength, that kind of situation has almost gone to death, the kind of painful inner suffering, it looks good, people are very envious of the appearance of a single nobleman, but I can’t think about it anymore at the age of twenty. My life has reached a stage where I can’t imagine it. I really can’t live without death. I have personally experienced that I have come to the end where there is no way to go.It's not an exaggeration at all.

I don’t have much time right now, I can’t elaborate, you read my CD, I made it very clear, I am full of despair in life, and I still have money in my body and I’m beautiful, and many people want to pursue it, you guys. Everyone at the time could not tell that I was in that state of mind at the time. It was like a living dead who was suffering very much in this world. So when I was inadvertently, the Three Jewels really induced me to bless me, and I couldn't learn Buddhism.

(XNUMX) Karma of Studying Buddhism

I am completely new to Buddhism. I sweep the floor at home. I usually don’t look at the Buddhist platform. I am completely new to Buddhism. How could I jump to the Buddhist platform by myself?Very receptive, don’t know why?It was that there was no one else in the family, so it jumped to the Buddhist platform by itself, and then I heard that the Paradise of Bliss is so good, and there is no need to go there to finish the meal. . .You don’t need to cook for eating, and you don’t need to wash the dishes after cooking. I heard a lot of doubts, which attracted my attention. Because of the suffering in the world at that time, I felt in many ways. I have to cook and wash, and I'm almost tired of eating three meals outside.

I haven’t enjoyed the blessings for many years. I haven’t done so many industries, but I still have experience. Go abroad to play, go to the Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong, buy a set of clothes for XNUMX to XNUMX yuan, I dare to spend and play, abalone and shark fin . . .Moreover, people often treat guests without spending too much money. I have experienced all of them. I have experienced all the things that most women will pursue. Naturally, there is a reason why I don’t have to go after it. People ask me to queue up and make an appointment. , I got an appointment only two weeks later, everyone had a meal like this, but in short, although it seems very lucky, but the inner suffering does not know how to make it, it has accumulated to the point of despair, so when As soon as I heard about this method, I made my own mind.

I accidentally heard our old monk Jingkong talk about the Blessed Life Sutra on the satellite station. It was less than ten minutes. At first it was this. I just said this content that attracted my attention. Then I sat down and wow~ there is such a beautiful place in the Paradise of Elysium. ?No matter if it is true or not, I must go, do you say that I will believe it the first time I hear it?No, I'm an intellectual, can I believe it when I hear it?Impossible, difficult, but because I know that there is no way to go in this world, I hope it is true, so I have to believe, this is called strong belief, reluctantly.

Novices, some people will have this process, you can’t be completely free of doubts at once, but I told myself, I must believe it, because this is also an intuition, I think this place may really be a relief Because there is no other way to go in the world, it just so happened that my situation was taught by the master of good guidance. What we teach us is to understand our own situation. It is sin, life and death, and there is no way to go.

There is no happiness in this world, and there is no way to find happiness. It happens to be what Master Shandao said. We also have this kind of root nature. We are about to be able to be saved by a well-rooted sentient being. I myself have such an experience in this world. We have come to this point. We are only about XNUMX years old, more than XNUMX years old. We have matured, and our karma is mature, so we don’t need to persuade others to respond immediately when we encounter it. Of course, this is also the karma of life, otherwise why in this lifetime. It's like changing twenty-four bosses a year, there is no one interested in work, and nothing in the world is interested in one.

I often look at the white clouds in the sky and fantasize that I am the white clouds in the sky. Then what happens is that I am different from the people in the world, pursue different things, and do not correspond to the things in the world. This is also the cause of the world, so we are here. We are not ordinary people who are able to respond to and learn from Buddhism in our lifetime. We must have been practitioners in our past lives, but we haven’t encountered them.Being good at guiding the mind, without encountering Amitabha himself to guide us, there is no way to leave in every life, and no matter how long the practice is, there is no way to achieve it. It is very miserable!

(XNUMX) After building confidence in rebirth, make a vow to faithfully practice precepts and recite the Buddha

I’ve met again in this life, and in the next life, we will continue to practice. We will still practice. The seed is so deep, but it still cannot be solved. The problem of life and death, so we can really live a lifetime when we encounter it. We must cherish the method of transcending life and death, and then we truly wish to believe in those who are willing to survive. What should we do next?To make a vow to observe the precepts and recite the Buddha, learn to observe the precepts honestly, and to receive the five precepts of the Bodhisattva vows.

I’m tentatively scheduled from December XNUMXrd to XNUMXth of next year. I hope that the predestined relationship can be mature. I would like to invite our teacher Guoqing to go to Muar, West Malaysia to teach the Bodhisattva vows of the Three Conversions and Five Precepts. Just politely please. If there are not enough people, then I will not ask the monks to come all the way. Finally, there are only three ordinations. Forget it, it is too scary, so we still have to observe the cause.

So now that we are all the way, I’ll announce this news. In some places, fellow practitioners will sign up first. Then after I mentioned it to our Master Jushi, they were also very happy. Then they thought of saying otherwise. Well, we are here. If possible, we can also help them pray. Then I can also do it here in East Malaysia. Next year, it will be nearby to facilitate our fellow practitioners here to participate in the Three Conversions and Five Precepts Bodhisattva Precepts, or even a short-term monk.

They said that they had budgeted for this short-term ordination activity, but they didn’t hear this precept. They didn’t seem to have it. He said that he could do it together, and then he wanted to ask me to help. I pray that lawyer Guo Qing, at that time next year You can also come to teach the vows, and then teach everyone a short-term ordination, then if the fate is really mature, no matter if you go to Muar or here, people who have received the vows can ask for another buffalo vow. There is no limit to an unlimited number of times. .

It means that every time you have a predestined condition, especially this monk who has pure virtuousness, there are few such predestined conditions. It is very difficult to keep the precepts pure now. It is not unwilling to hold it, but often It depends on karma, it’s difficult, but the monk rarely develops karma, he is the master of lightness and weight, he is a person who practices asceticism, does not sleep for ninety days, prays and recites Buddha, and talks to the master of good guidance. Similarly, three times of retreat for a total of ten years, as if three or more times of banzhou samādhi have been cultivated. This kind of strict precepts is very difficult to encounter in modern times. Therefore, no matter whether you have received precepts or not, you must seek to gain precepts again. Get the blessings of the precepts.

Every time there is every blessing, so there is the so-called gain vows. To increase is to increase, and gain is to benefit. Gain vows means that you can increase your benefits again. You can keep asking and receiving repeatedly. The three conversions and five precepts of the Bodhisattva vows are all right. Repeated requesting and receiving means that you can have blessings every time. Then don't be afraid to say, oh, I ask for precepts. I am afraid that if you break the precepts, you will go to hell. Let me tell you that you don’t want to take precepts before you go to hell.

If you ask for precepts, you will be cautious, you will learn the precepts, and have a sense of guardian spirit to help you keep the precepts clean, and then what should you do if you do, tell you that no one does not violate the precepts, only the Buddha, in this case Everyone is going to hell, so how could the Buddha bring me to hell?If we are told to take precepts, of course there is a way to solve it, and we can repent.

For example, the five precepts to kill and commit adultery are sexual virtues and precepts. In the Hinayana, confession is unreasonable. If you commit a crime, you will go to hell. But our Mahayana is different. There is a solution for the Mahayana. The first precept to kill theft and adultery is a sexual precept, and the fifth precept is a precept of drinking and adultery. The previous killing of theft and adultery is of importance. If you kill someone and commit a serious precept, if you kill an animal, you commit a light precept. Then we ask

As for those who are ordained, you can't kill, you shouldn't buy those living things to cook, and you can't be a vegetarian, it doesn't matter if you buy three pure meats, so you won't commit a crime.

In case it is really compelling, we will accidentally trample on ants and cockroaches. This is called a light precept. If you violate a light precept, you can repent. How to repent?Confession to a monk, now like ours, the reward is great. The master here often teaches you, and you can also confess to him. For monks, you just need to prescribe lightly to monks. Then there is a revelation on the Internet. In the confession area, you can also confess, but if you commit the precepts of murder and theft, you have to confess to the monks. You can go to my message and post confession, yes.

If it is a felony, murder is a felony. You must confess in front of the four monks and confess that I killed someone.Then it’s not as if it’s finished. It’s not that simple. If you give up lightly, just say it and forget it. You can repent and change it next time. But if it’s a heavy quit that kills someone, then after you’ve finished revealing it, If we want to practice Xuxiang confession and worship confession, then we who recite the Buddha will worship Amitabha, and confession is confession. We use confession to seek the elimination of karma and confess this sin. How long will the confession last?According to the scriptures, the commandments say that you should see good looks on the first seven days or even three or seven days, that is, seeing the light and seeing the Buddha come to give you a mount, you feel that your body and mind have been purified, and your sin will be eliminated and you can regain it. After asking for more acceptance, the matter was resolved.

Even murder can be solved, what are you afraid of?You don’t have to go to hell if you are clean, but you don’t have the precepts anymore, so you have to ask for acceptance again. That’s the situation. Then you say my karma is so heavy, I can’t even worship the first seven, two seven, and three seven. What to do if you don’t see a good look when you come to the Buddha, our Qing monk said, you will worship and repent sincerely, and you can pray again after one year of worship. This is what the monk said during the lecture, then this The reason is very deep, and the monk said that we did that, so there is nothing that can't be solved that can be solved.

(XNUMX) How to learn to abstain from evil and cultivate good

If you don’t ask for precepts, you can go and break the precepts with peace of mind, don’t you?Yes, so we beings are like this. There is no pressure on you or that you have no aspirations. You must be in response to greed, anger, ignorance, and laziness. Unknowingly, it is creating karma, creating karma every day and even us. How to hold this killing precept?We must be compassionate towards all people, and we must not even have evil thoughts.

I would say in my heart that cursing him to die, it is really annoying to die, this is also a murder precept!Because our Mahayana method is based on sinning in the heart, it is not possible. Therefore, those who have taken the precepts should learn compassion. When this mind reappears, repent as soon as possible. You didn’t really kill it. This is a violation of the light precept. Hurry up and confess my repentance with a monk. Alas, I'm thinking about killing and killing again.

Theft, you said it’s hard not to do business without tax evasion. Wow, it’s so difficult. Also, I went to Canada to teach the Bodhisattva Commandments. There was a bond on the first floor. A fellow practitioner over there asked me. Some of them are very good. Seriously studying the ban is the old cultivator, he asked me that they are difficult to report the quit tax, because a tax law in Canada is that it is very trivial, don’t file a tax, it is not for tax evasion, but it is difficult to deal with it. If you don’t have it, it’s hard to reach Consummation. He might not know if you accidentally missed it. I said it’s not easy. I said it’s okay if you pay a little bit more. What does it matter if you pay a little bit more. If you have the ability, you can pay a little bit more. We will never commit the precept of stealing.

We are the country that takes care of our people, and we give back if we can. As for some political parties and political personnel of other people, it is his business if he wants to go to the dark, right?His cause and effect, we can fix our good cause, everything can be solved

Yeah, you can both kill and commit adultery. In particular, you can quickly persuade the other half to accept it. He will not dare to have an affair. You can't make random friends outside when you take the precepts. Only couples can.

Killing theft and adultery is the most basic, and the bodhisattva vows should also be asked and received, because the bodhisattva vows teach us how to do good and accumulate virtue. How could you not learn it?You take the money and go out to do things and you also create karma. If you don’t have wisdom, you don’t have blessings to repay people with karma. What they do is thankless and may not really have good results, so you have to learn. Then you say it’s easy to learn from myself. Slowly learn and learn well before you take the precepts, ah, if you learn well, you don’t have to take it anymore. What else can you take?And you can't learn well, you can't learn well.

You say that I listen to the Internet by myself. I only have a little concept. If you don’t hold it well, try it if you don’t believe it. The order must be the same. The same is true for our monks. We have three hundred and forty-eight precepts. Can you hold it all after you shave it?Do you hold it all right?Impossible, but slowly learn and hold slowly, right?It’s just such a process. First, we receive the precepts to gain the blessings of the precepts. The precepts given to us by the precepted monks are passed on to us. We have the strength in our precepts. There is the desire to receive the precepts and the desire to learn the precepts. So we started to learn the precepts every day, learn one and do one, do not have to stress, understand?

Even if you can’t even do the five precepts completely now, it’s very simple that you can receive one, two, three, or four. You don’t need to receive all of them. If you are afraid that it will be troublesome to repent, you are more certain to receive first. Yes, receiving one or two points is called “Shaofen Youbao” and “Youbaoyi” receiving “three or four” means more points. Lay, you can suffer like this.

In fact, they should all be received, because the five precepts are fundamental to being a human being. Wouldn’t it be better for you to have a guardian deity to protect you when you take the precepts?Don’t think that if you don’t have precepts, you won’t be able to create karma and there will be no retribution. You will be able to do it. It’s a great pity that you didn’t receive it. What about us today, this is to provide you with this news. .

Those who truly believe in and wish to survive, those who truly want to practice and who truly understand that the sufferings of the world come out of reincarnation, the next thing to do is to ask for precepts, learn precepts to abstain from evil and practice good, and then not leave good knowledge, the same The good knowledge, teachers, and fellow practitioners who are all cultivating good thoughts should not leave, so that you can be very stable until you become a Buddha, and you are guaranteed to become a Buddha in this life.

(XNUMX) What is the difference between being a monk and retreating at home?

Just now, a fellow practitioner asked me a question, so I hope I can answer it here. If there are other fellow practitioners who have questions, they can also ask questions. Now there is still some time, so I will answer this fellow practitioner first. Question, if the person you want to ask the question can use a microphone, this question is what’s the difference between being a monk and retreating at home?I also asked that the retreat is very good. I think I want to be diligent, so I have to ask the question about the retreat.

Is there any difference between being a monk and retreating at home?The same is all diligence and hard work, it depends on what you retreat. There are many types of retreats. There is a life and death pass. Once you enter, you will be closed until death. I had to close life and death. My master would not agree. It’s a matter of life and death, because we can’t commit suicide, right?I was guilty of suicide. At that time, I wanted to leave earlier. Master was not allowed. He wanted me to practice the Bodhisattva way.

In addition, there are short-term retreats and long-term retreats. The more formal one is that there will be a seal that will seal you up, someone will protect you, and the gate will be sealed. Then if you break the gate and get out, the gate will fail. If there is no place to come out, I will seal you in

Then someone will give you food to eat. It depends on what you practice. Some people want to overcome obstacles. They want to study the Tripitaka and twelve books, and read it twice. It looks like we have some retreats for the sake of surmounting obstacles. Do recite the Buddha.

I used to retreat as a short-term retreat. If you are more polite, we are talking about foot restraint. Don’t talk about retreat and wait for someone to say you are so arrogant. In fact, we are not arrogant, but strictly speaking, retreat is necessary. . .As far as the standard of Zen Buddhism is that enlightened people are qualified to retreat. The first one is that you are enlightened, and then you can get rid of your defilements and shut down. Secondly, when you encounter a devil, you can bring up mindfulness to solve it. Secondly, it means that you have the means to work hard by yourself, and you have the ability. Zen teaches you to cultivate after enlightenment.

You already know how you can achieve it in your practice, because you are the only one in the house, and there is no teacher to guide you, right?That’s why people with this level are qualified to retreat, so in general, those of us who are not yet enlightened are more polite to ban foot, otherwise people think that you are already enlightened, and retreat is a very sacred thing, it is quite state-of-the-art. Only those who are eligible for retreat are qualified for retreat. Then we reciting the Buddha are special. Anyone who recites the Buddha can retreat, because we rely on the power of the Buddha to reciting the Buddha honestly. You can really live in peace, and you can stay in a closed room without breaking the barrier. Then you At this level, you can recite the Buddha very securely, and you will not be obsessed with recitation.

If you really want to be honest, you won’t be enchanted, because if the devil comes, the Buddha will help you deal with it. The Buddha-blessed demon can’t get close to us, and he can’t play any role. When the demon comes, the Buddha will influence him. He will help you deal with it. Generally, you don’t rely on your own self-reliance. There is only the god of the law, and the god of the law is sometimes not strong enough, right?There is no way to help you solve the grievances of the grievances and creditors. Don’t let you go. In the last life, you killed my life and I wanted you to pay.

There are some ghosts with upper body, I have encountered them and helped others to deal with it. It scared me to death. Fortunately, I was fulfilled. I asked Amitabha, my backstage, to come out. He was really crazy on the spot. I helped him deal with it. It’s good to get back to normal right now. This is covered in my CD. It’s so thrilling. I’m scared to death. He came to me and said that many of his relatives and creditors were on him. Then he said that he had found a lot of dojos, and then also I found a monk and asked the monk to help him drive away, and the monk said that he agreed to him, so he held the mantra to help him drive away, but the monk passed out by himself when he held the curse.

I said, if the monk fainted, then you look for me, won't I die worse?Scared to death, because he looks terrifying, really. . .There is a layman next to him, like you, a XNUMX- or XNUMX-year-old cultivator. His face turned green when he was scared. He used to help the animal carcasses to be buried. He was very compassionate. Seeing that The reaction was so scared that his face turned black and blue. I was even more scared when I saw his face. I haven't dealt with it directly.

We have the first time in everything. Of course I will be scared the first time. When the truth is understood, when you really want to go to the battlefield, it is different. Fortunately, I was very calm that time because I didn’t think I was either. Lu ran, so I am a mage, what should I do if I don’t help him?There is no road to run. If my master is there, I will ask my master to take care of it. There is no way I can’t run, wow!I quickly calm down and then, I beg Amitabha for blessings and take him to recite aloud.

He has gone crazy, alas, this action is really terrifying, wow that loud drink, is to tell him to recite with me very loudly, hurry up and ask for the blessing of Buddha, he will slowly calm down, you Knowing that a person is going crazy, he said that there are a lot of kinsmen and creditors on him, so he is forcing him, and then he calms down with this Buddha name, and finally there is a very satisfactory process in the second half, you don’t have time to watch the CD by yourself. Speaking, I didn’t know that it was so perfect. Of course it was the power of Amitabha, because we were all scared to death.

Later, I felt that of course, after experiencing it once, I would be better able to deal with this kind of thing in the future, because the grievances and creditors sometimes come here to attach themselves or something, and I have encountered them several times in Malaysia. I'm in the disc i'm allIt’s said that it’s getting farther and farther and the time is approaching, so it’s okay to close the room, retreat, and recite the Buddha, so you can just order a homework. Actually, I don’t recommend it, because we don’t need this method to study the Buddha of peace and happiness. , No need to retreat, you don’t need to practice kung fu.

(XNUMX) Recalling the Buddha anytime and anywhere

I suggest you all, because we have an area for reciting the Buddha on Facebook. You report the number every Saturday afternoon. During this week, you can take a counter and recite the Buddha at any time when there is no time. Then count the number. Leave it to our fellow practitioners to help you do the general dedication. Our total dedication this week has exceeded XNUMX million sentences, more than XNUMX million sentences. Merit is great and powerful. All of our fellow practitioners in all ten methods are able to return to it, and all of them are done voluntarily.

What is the advantage of coming again? First, you don’t need to deliberately arrange time for homework. If you have time to arrange morning and evening classes, everything is fine, but if you don’t have time, everyone can chant the Buddha diligently now. Read?You will find a lot of time when you are in idle time, when you walk with the counter, when you are in a daze, and you will find a lot of time for delusions. It is easy to read at least five thousand and ten thousand in a day. Try it, five thousand and ten thousand are all. Yes, it costs XNUMX to XNUMX a week.

Our fellow practitioners all read one to two hundred thousand. Later, for the students around me, I didn’t allow them to recite too much. I had to leave a little time to practice the Bodhisattva path. We are already sure of our death, and try to do something for sentient beings. Don’t be so selfish and close the door to recite the Buddha. We recite the Buddha to inspire our compassion to practice the bodhisattva path. After we are free, we must help all living beings. Don’t say chanting one hundred thousand times from morning to night, that’s not necessary, unless you We are already very old, and we don’t have Dharma predestined. Seeing that we Vina Bodhisattva is so old, we still need him very much here, right?Then you have to be more mindful.

If there is no cause, you can close the door and recite the Buddha. Young people should not do this. You have to devote yourself to benefiting sentient beings. Then you will be blessed. You have to cultivate blessings and connect with sentient beings. Buddhists should not let people misunderstand that we are ourselves. If you are selfish and selfish, the heart is also. . .Even if you close the door to recite the Buddha, it looks like it is very good and very hard. If you are wrong, it is selfish, because this method does not need to do this, telling you that you don’t need to do this, and you have to do it, then you are not. Are you lazy?is not it?Buddhism is very leisurely and enjoyable, so I just like to do this. Isn’t it selfish?

Unless you have no cause and condition, then there is nothing to say if you have good blessings, then go to the Buddha. I am blessed and I can do this, but I still did not do it, because it is true that you can’t be idle once your bodhichitta is released, forever. There is no way to retire, unless you are sick, oh you are too old and I can go down, you can rest for a while, and then you try to look like during the shower, you can’t count, it’s okay, you just make an approximate calculation, I have a lot of time How many sentences does the concept have, and what are the benefits?There are so many benefits. The first is that you do less delusion and do a lot of karma. Second, you can develop the habit of reciting the Buddha without interruption. This should be practiced!

I want you to practice this kung fu now, not to practice your delusion to purify your mind. Is there any less delusion in your mind, whether or not your mind is purified?It is to practice this habit of reciting the Buddha. You have to develop it into a habit. Do you understand that?When you have a counter on your hand anytime, anywhere, you will think of chanting Buddha at any time, then it won't take long for you to get used to chanting Buddha, and you will be able to practice this skill.

There are so many benefits to be used to reciting the Buddha. Recalling the Buddha anytime and anywhere, you must see the Buddha before you reciting the Buddha. It is convenient and self-confident. Sometimes you become enlightened by accident. In the first place, you don’t want to be enlightened and only seek rebirth. In the end, you are not careful. Enlightened, these benefits that you can't imagine will suddenly appear, and what we have to do is to find a time to recite the Buddha.

Can you do it?Can it be done?Can it be done?It’s too outrageous if you can’t do it. Today’s come here in vain. It’s better to have fun, so we also put some counters on the first floor from Taiwan. We will get acquainted with you. Maybe if it’s not enough, we will find a way to ask for it, because of air freight. There is a limit on the quantity and weight, and there are many magic weapons to come, so if it is not enough, please go please, or use the one hundred and eight counts. You can read ten sentences instead of repeating ten sentences. Turn it again, one hundred and eight are exactly one thousand and eight hundred. I used to record a turn for XNUMX minutes or XNUMX minutes for a turn.

When walking, for example, if we walk from the fourth floor to the first floor, we can read a few more sentences as quickly as possible, but it’s more convenient to use a counter. You can’t make a mistake. If it’s like a shower, you know how much to count. , And then report the total number every Saturday afternoon. If you are not sure about your number, just say how many sentences. This is fine, and report your name and number to our fellow practitioners to help you make a total reply.

(XNUMX) The Pure Land Method does not come from the Han Dynasty who wants to cultivate both blessing and wisdom

This week is more than XNUMX million sentences. The classmates around me, I also stipulate that they should not exceed the number. Otherwise, if they are so diligent, the number of chanting should be more than that, and we will not ask you to say that you must chant. How much, because it is different from the previous practice. Our pure Pure Land practice does not practice this way. You think time is spent on chanting the Buddha, so how do you practice the Bodhisattva path?How do you repair fortune?The Blessed One teaches us to cultivate both blessing and wisdom!

The Pure Land Method of Mahayana is the Mahayana method. It’s not self-conscious. Your mind is wrong. No matter how much Buddha you recite, it’s useless. You don’t need to retreat. You don’t need to retreat. What is true diligence? ?If you have time to live, sit, or sleep, you will recite the Buddha, and then you have the opportunity to serve sentient beings and cultivate blessings. You should do your best and don’t force yourself. Reluctantly.

You can do as much as you have, and you don’t have to borrow money from a layman to repair happiness like I used to, because the money is handed over to my aunt and I don’t have any money left. If you see what you have to do, do it first. There are also some people who have a tortilla account. I want to print the scriptures. I said that the boss has no money now, so it doesn’t matter, because I'm familiar with each other, and then I will take the money with my aunt, because the money is sent to her, and it’s overdraft, that’s every overdraft. How much do we budget to spend every month, but overdraft often sees some situations, so we will do it with all our heart, and then do it happily, it doesn’t matter, it’s within your abilities.

Do it at a level where you are motivated, do it with all your heart, don't just want to close the door, think about it, is it selfishness, is it selfishness?That doesn’t correspond to the Buddha’s mind. In other words, you don’t really believe in wishing to survive, or you’reIt’s not because you really understand the practice of our discipline. You will work hard here to recite the Buddha's name as much as you can. That is a mistake. It’s not like that. Don’t say that I have to recite a hundred thousand sentences a day. Well, we have encountered this a lot.

Not long ago, when you went to Genting, when you went to Genting, you went there to watch the clouds and then stopped. Sometimes you would stay for two or three days. Like I used to go to Canada, people asked me to go out to play, so beautiful I didn’t go out, I I don’t go out to play wherever I go. I don’t have any interest or time. I didn’t go to gambling when I went to Genting. I was not interested in that casino because I was afraid that I would be kicked out as soon as I entered. !Today I lost money again. . .So I didn't dare to go in at all, I didn't even want to watch it.

When I went in, I locked up and kept my feet off, because on that floor, a mage took me there, and we were a bhikkhuni.I went, and it was locked up, and the sea of ​​clouds was so beautiful on the high floor. I just meditated over there to recite the Buddha. When I went down the mountain, my friend from Facebook just stayed with me the day before. The message said, Master, are you right now? . .If you are near Kuala Lumpur, can I make an appointment with you?I said yes.

Because I had to go by, I went to meet him when I got down the mountain, but this person was so pitiful. I took my waiter and some of my students with us, three of us and me, three of us, four of us Personally, they stayed with me in Genting. We went down the mountain to meet him. They just gave them a living teaching material, so they can often learn a lot by staying with Master, and see a lot of practical experience.

What about that layman? A female group is probably in her fifties. He wanted me to live in our dojo, and wanted to follow me, and then follow me. She didn’t mean to follow my Fa, because I didn’t know her. She wanted to find a Buddhist dojo where she could take care of the elderly. What is she doing now? She lives in a relative’s ancestral house. The ancestral house is the kind of cheap house to lend her to live in. Go to the dojo to eat. Those who don’t need money to eat, don’t work and listen to Buddhist scriptures all day long, this woman in the eyes of the world is a downright and downright woman, how pitiful!

She thought she was right to practice in this way, but in fact it was wrong, like hers, and her idea of ​​living in the dojo was wrong, so the orthodox dojo would not take her in. She went to the dojo to provide for the elderly. , The dojo is to let us all practice diligently, change our bad habits of study, improve our Taoism, and further work for the permanent residence and for the sentient beings. It is even harder. It is not a place for you to take care of the old. , Then why is this?He fixed it wrong.

I have been in Buddhism for one or twenty years. A female group has not been married and has never had a boyfriend. She was in her fifties. She came into contact with Fo Guang Shan when she was a teenager. She went there to be a volunteer, and then left again, which counts as many years. It’s more than a long time in XNUMX to XNUMX years. It means that I have spent most of my life in Buddhism. I am now more than XNUMX years old. I can’t even take care of myself in my own life. I have to rely on my relatives, and then I go to the dojo to mix. Meal to eat.

She also told me, I told you how do you live like this, how do you live normally, she said it’s not easy, I just live there, and then go to the dojo to eat without money, she still thinks what she is . . .An Pin Le Dao, she thought she was An Pin Le Dao, wrong, this is not called An Pin Le Dao.

What is peaceful and happy Taoism is that your own needs are getting less and less, like we used to eat three meals and then eat two meals, and then let everything go all the time, and then more and more blessings, doing it for the benefit of sentient beings , Your inner needs are getting less and less. This is called An Xiang Le Dao. It’s not that you don’t have money in your pocket. It’s not called An Po Le Dao. If you don’t make money, it’s called An Po Le Dao. If you don’t make money, you won’t be able to help sentient beings. It's easy to use. You can't help sentient beings if you don't have money, so the Buddha taught us to cultivate both blessing and wisdom.

(XNUMX) Practice cannot be without blessings

If you don’t have blessings, you can’t live on your own. If you want others to help you, how can you benefit sentient beings? He won’t be enlightened when he hears the scriptures and the Fa, nor can he understand, nor can he recite meditation when he recites the Buddha. He was very anxious and restless, and his karma was very heavy. He really knew how to practice in Buddhism in less than three years and was reborn. We have seen many examples. He has been ill for two to thirty years, and he went to the mainland to study Chinese medicine after he hadn’t cultivated at all. Relying on oneself is better at conditioning the body.

People who really know how to practice, just a Buddha name, what kind of great doctor is Amitabha, you still go to the mainland to learn Chinese medicine, youDon't meet a Mongolian doctor, you're Amitabha, right?I learned it again and got sicker, because he said it was hard to learn there, didn't he?Isn't the cart before the horse?It's a mess, it's not true at all. . .She didn't really go the right way in Buddhism, it seems that her merit is too bad, and she didn't encounter good good knowledge.

She wants to follow me and I can’t accept him, because he and I don’t have the conditions to live in our dojo. My requirements are very high. My requirements are very high. It’s not my personal standard, because we also have too much good fortune there. Yes, our blessings are very big. We eat organic vegetables we grow and drink spring water for no money. Although the house we live in is relatively old, we practice asceticism, but the quality of our body and mind is the best and clean. , Vegetables without pesticides grow their own fruit trees, and the environment is very peaceful, with the sound of insects and birds singing, and there is no activity at all. Only I go out to promote the Dharma, and there is no activity for pure practice. Where do you find such a place?It's hard to find it.

And our Lantau Island in Hong Kong is also a pure practice. Our Holy One Master made a vow, but that is also a practice of asceticism, because the Buddha told us to take suffering as a teacher. If you really want to practice, there is no time to enjoy it, and living is so delicious and so good. , We will take good care of the food and eat healthy and clean. This is something we must pay attention to, otherwise we will get sick and detoxify all day long, right?

Apart from that, there are no requirements and everything else is simple. This kind of environment for practice is the most extraordinary for us. It is like this in our place, so it’s not ordinary people who can live in my place, but it’s really very difficult. With Dao-mindedness, I originally only budgeted me and didn't accept apprentices. Now the previous one is going to be a monk with me, and I'm still testing her.

Originally, I didn’t accept it. I was forced by the monk Guoqing. I had been a monk for a long time. I had given up and was eligible to accept apprentices. But I didn’t make a vow. I was scared to death. Now all beings are so scared. I’m scared to death. It’s so comfortable to be alone, and there are people to entertain people everywhere. I want to take care of people and accept them like a child. You have to bear the responsibility for the rest of your life. This is not a joke. It’s not like many people are rushing to confess and accept a big deal. I won’t teach you if you pile up to rush to confess the money.

We know the cause and effect, so we don’t dare to accept it. So it turns out that our dojo doesn’t have two lots, one piece is about one piece of land, one on the mountain and the other under the mountain are very cheap, and the land in Taitung is very cheap. , It’s just a place to live. I don’t want this place either. I don’t want it at the original dojo. My students asked me to accept it. You see my magic weapon for getting married. I didn’t even assign an account. Make sure that you are really, truly respectful of the Three Jewels. If you want to cultivate the cause, I have to cultivate the cause, because the Buddha wanted us to plant blessings for sentient beings, so at that time, my budget for this dojo was for the old master.

Master Lao Jie lives in Buddhism and has contributed so many years, right?I have cultivated a lot of blessings in one or two decades, although it is not here to cultivate the mind, because our monks are all family members, so I can protect them. Our original budget is for such a purpose. I have it on Facebook. Announce these situations, so some masters come to place orders one after another, such an application, but our Qing monk wants me to expand my mind.

You have to be motivated, you have to lead the people, there is a dojo, there is a Dharma, there is no shortage of food, ah, how can you not make the effort to train the next generation of monks and nuns, because I take care of the laymen and not the nuns, but I feel tired. You take care of the layman and we will get married. When will we meet next time, I don’t know when I will meet my responsibilities right now, right?

That monk shaved is different. It is a lifetime responsibility to follow us. Wow, I didn’t have any intentions. I was forced by the monk last year. I said okay, okay, try my best. , Because I didn’t answer any requests for shavedness beforeYes, so I just talked about the layman just now. The most important thing about her is that he knows what’s wrong. She doesn’t have Dao Xin, she doesn’t have Dao Xin, and then you really don’t have the blessings, so I didn’t promise her, I help. She introduces other places and gives her a way, because each of us wants to be different.

We have a bhikkhuni in Taiwan who has cancer. He made a vow and he raised funds and built a Mi Tuo village. His intention was to accommodate five hundred people who were monks at home and go there to recite the Buddha until he died. This is his wish. , Then I said you go there and check it out. I don’t know if it’s other dojos, but the monks made this big wish. It should be good. You can go and see and I’ll introduce her to it, so we can’t practice without it. Reward.

(XNUMX) Learn how to not eat after lunch

Be careful not to be arrogant, not slacking, and not to enjoy the blessings. Life is getting easier and simpler. Therefore, those of us who are blessed here, I suggest you take the time to spend your lunch without eating. It’s hard to eat one less meal, every day. Fish, big meat, mountains and delicacies told me to practice precepts and practice. It's too difficult. You see, it's not that I don't have money to pay for it. Why should I close the door.

Tell you that there are too many benefits of not eating after lunch. Not only does it save afternoon tea and midnight snacks and dinner, it saves a lot of money, and the most important thing is to make you healthier, make you healthier, give you more time to work hard, and let you Your heart is more pure, so that your world’s various desires, wealth, food, food, sleep, and sleep will be reduced. It’s very obvious that this precept is not difficult to hold. Most of the fellow practitioners around me, men and women, do not eat after lunch, the layman’s words We just say that you don’t eat after lunch, which means that you don’t need to book that time, or you can’t do it inconveniently.

You just say that I finish eating. It doesn’t matter if I finish eating a little bit. It doesn’t have to be before midday, because you can’t do it. If you can’t do this, you can’t hold it. One way, we don’t want to eat again when we are full at noon. Some of the students around me said that they hold on to it, and none of them find it difficult. The method is explained in the disciples of the Buddhism disciples I got downstairs.

There is a way, what should I do if I get hungry?Watering, watering can also detoxify, let it scream for the cooing, and then the stomach is full, um, okay, solved, and then don’t go near those delicious things, you trouble yourself, where is there The reason for not drooling is to arrange homework so that your mind is on the Dhamma, and you don’t even want to eat.

You will notice that your stomach will growl, and after a few days, it will stop screaming. If you ignore it, it will stop screaming. You will get used to it. You will get used to it in a few days. The most important thing is that you want to Arrange your homework. You have the trust that you will not think about it at all. Now that it is over time, I have to ask you more questions and ask one more question. Does anyone want to ask?

Fellow practitioners: Hello, Master, can we use the six days of fasting to hold it.

Master: It’s okay to start with the sixth day of fasting, but as far as I feel it is that you have to keep the sixth day of fasting. It’s easier to keep it as long as you don’t eat at noon every day. You will often forget the day of the sixth fasting. It’s not good for your stomach and intestines if you don’t eat, understand?

Don’t think it’s really that stupid. Just listen to my CD and you’ll know that it’s just a thought. Your body will listen to you. It’s not a physical need for us to eat. We have enough nutrition for both meals. , It’s the tongue, it’s the appetite that wants to eat, we don’t want to be controlled by it, we should be its master, don’t be controlled by desire, then we’re simply too absentWe have dignity, right? We are controlled by wealth, food, food, sleep, and we have led a life that is not like a human being, and created a lot of karma.

Let's lead it. I said that I can do it as soon as I do it. The most important thing is that you are willing to learn a little bit, and then you learn a little method. Learning a method is to make it easier for you to do this, even if you don’t learn the method. It can be done. Some people say that they have quit smoking. You see, one of our classmates has been smoking for more than XNUMX years. If he has been smoking for more than XNUMX years, he can quit. If he quit smoking for more than XNUMX years, he also It doesn't have to say what methods are needed or what.

The most important thing is this wish, because we still have experience, so we will also tell you some ways to make it easier and easier for you to do. You don’t need to drag it slowly for six or ten days. Of course, this six fasts. The Buddha is also afraid that everyone will not be able to do it, so first practice with you to avoid eating in the future, but if you really have the intention to do it, you can do it. You don’t have to be so troublesome and just keep it. The body is better. If you want to start from the six days of fasting, of course, it is also possible. Our Bodhisattva vows include the six-day eight-pass fast.

(XNUMX) Seeing the truth of the world, impermanence is permanence

Okay, because the time has passed, we have to go back. Is there anything wrong?

Fellow practitioners: It is chanted.

Master: Wait a minute to chant. Now let’s go back, because today we have received a message that our respected Elder Huitian has passed away today and today, so we have to take advantage of this cause and conditions to make everyone’s sincere, diligent and peaceful today. Buddha One’s merits are given to his elders. I hope that he can increase his lotus products, and be able to spread all sentient beings as soon as possible. Elder Huitian is very compassionate. I heard that he has formed a bond with us and has come to fight the Buddha. Seven.

I have also played with him in the Seventh Buddha and it is very outstanding. My relationship with him is also very good. He is also my teacher. Although it is not very long-term, I am not relying on him, but I have participated in his Seventh Buddha, and He encouraged me very much and paid it back afterwards. . .I remember that I seemed to be asking him a question or something. He personally responded to me with a letter, personally wrote back to me a letter with encouragement, and then a reply. . .Wait, so this is also a great kindness.

His compassionate heart, he told us that he made a vow to bring one hundred and eight Buddha Seven in his life. I wonder if he has fulfilled his wish?I don’t know, so I hope that he can come back earlier and complete the countless one hundred and eight seven Buddhas. Then we are here, and we all stand up first, and we will pray to him three times in front of the Buddha. It expresses our sincere heart of dedication, that guide the chime, guide the chime to me.

This is impermanence, and it is also permanence!Let us see the truth in the world. Birth, old age, sickness and death happen all around us at any time. We must really see it clearly, and then actively face it and treat it. The next moment may be us. Everyone is the same, no exceptions. , So we have to take our birth, aging, sickness and death very seriously, don’t wait for the time to come, it’s really pitiful.

Then there is another one. A few days ago, I went to the Shishan Buddhist Association to forge fate there. On that day, the president told me that the neighbor’s neighbor and the village leader’s wife were in critical condition of cancer. We happened to be on the way, and the president asked me if I wanted to take a look. That was because I didn’t go there because they asked me if I had helped me read. I said I’m not helping others to read. I have Teach others how to help recite, he meant that he wanted me to go, but I did not agree, then I think it depends on fate.

I would go there for special reasons, but usually I didn’t do this kind of work. That day, I was also suffering from heat stroke. I was uncomfortable and went back and scraped the sand. My whole body was red. The cause was not sufficient, but I told them at the time. How to deal with it, how to talk to him, how to persuade him, and in fact, the wife of this village chief, afterwards I also knew that several wizards had visited him, because he was not just critically ill, he was already lying down. It's been a while, so I think it seems to be the icing on the cake when I go. I don't necessarily want me to go, so this is the reason.

Then I returned to the dojo that day, adjusted my body after a while, and then prepared the evening class. After two consecutive days of lectures, the next day they said that the village chief’s wife had passed away. This is a good thing, he After a long delay, they were joking that he would not die until the mage came.

As I mentioned yesterday, a fellow practitioner in Malaysia has been lying down for sixteen years. After lying down for sixteen years, he can’t die. It’s very bitter. Go and lie down. If you lie down for two days, your back will be sore. After I went there, I told us that their method, the mother who learned, of course, his daughter is very filial, and she is a volunteer at the learned school. I told him how to deal with it and persuade your mother to do something. I didn’t see it either. Because of his inconvenience.

His relatives and friends did not study Buddhism, so usually I rarely go out. Everyone has the responsibility of everyone. For students like us, I send them out to help others. I taught them how to do it. Personally, he was very obedient and did so. Yeah, he left after a while. After lying down for XNUMX years, he really waited for me to leave. This is fate. Buddhism talks about fate, deep fate, shallow fate, and fate. Fate is destroyed, that's it.

So today, someone came to me and asked me to help him depart. We are also very privileged by this cause. We have so many fellow practitioners through this Buddha, and we are very sincere and many people have developed bodhicitta and established rebirth. Confidence, such a merit of Buddha and one, we come to give him back. Believe him now, this Mr. Zhang Yunqing, the head of Shishan Village, believe that he now feels that our heart for his dedication, this Give him the merits, he can. . .We can help him increase the lotus product.

We don’t have to be around. We can give him the merit of our thoughts. I hope that he can also come and join us as soon as possible to spread sentient beings with us. Then, should we do the total dedication, three refuges?Does anyone ask for the three conversions?It shouldn't be necessary. We didn't have it beforehand. We will go directly back to it. If we take refuge, we will arrange another time.

Like my student friends on the Internet, I will always ask to take refuge in the Buddha, and I will teach him to take refuge on his own. We have a refuge text. If you take refuge, you can ask and receive in front of the Buddha by yourself. This doesn’t matter. The most important thing is your heart. To truly rely on the Three Jewels, to take refuge is to rely on, this ceremony does not matter.

Fellow practitioner: Come and recite directly like me

Master: It's okay. You can bring it. You want the fast version or

Fellow practitioners: fast version

Master: Yes, this is what we do in class every night, yes, but the real refuge ceremony is not like this, but it doesn't matter.Okay, this is it, then you can take everyone to chant the Three Conversions, and then you are willing to use this merit, yes, always go back to this way, okay, okay, okay, then I will step down first.

Three refuges (chanting)

Refuse yourself to the Buddha, and hope that all beings will dissolve the great path and have the supreme heart.

Self-converted to the law, we should hope that all beings will go deep into the scriptures and have wisdom like the sea.

Refuge from the monk, and hope that all beings will govern the masses without hindrance.

Back to the verse (chanting)

I would like to take this merit, solemn Buddhist Pure Land

Report the four-fold grace, and the three sufferings

He who witnesses it all shows empathy

Do this, and live together in the kingdom of bliss

Prayer to Amitabha three times!

Respectful excerpts from disciple Meihua