At present, there are very few places at home and abroad that can truly provide monks and monks to live in peace for their entire lives. Most of them are incense dojos, dharma dojos, and dojos that cultivate the good deeds of the human world. The relatively more dharma are the precepts, Buddhist academies, and research institutes. , this is more focused on the study of Buddhism, but due to the fine division of labor, the practice of each dojo has its own emphasis. In terms of guidance, there may be only a few monks who can take care of it better.Although Buddhist academies and research institutes also study Buddhism, most of them focus on academic research. Even if they live permanently, they also take into account the jungle style. The regulations may only go so far. In terms of the first meaning of Buddhism, one has to look at one’s own merit. Because of karma, you can get a comprehensive point.The main reason for these phenomena is that the general abbots are busy building temples or managing temple affairs, so they are no longer as specialized in the law as the patriarchs in the past, and most of the teachers who hired external or internal deacons can only follow the abbots. The teaching direction is just to lay a foundation for the disciples to practice.Therefore, if you want to make great achievements in Taoism in your life, you may need to go to other places to study at different stages, just like Gude, to make up for the lack of teaching methods.Unless you are lucky enough to meet a teacher with both wisdom and virtue who is willing to truly guide you and achieve your karma, so that you can live in ordination for a lifetime, this is the most ideal cause and condition.My own karma belongs to a different kind of karmic karma. Although I was ordained in the sangha according to the law, I was forced to leave the monastery for two times soon afterward. So far, for XNUMX years, most of them have relied on their own efforts at home and abroad. Those who participated in the study and gradually achieved the Dao karma, the dharma connection with Master Shaodu can be said to be very shallow and very deep. It is shallow because I remembered that from the time I had known each other for half an hour, Master took the initiative to ask me about my desire to become a monk, until the period when I left my permanent residence. , including the last thought talk to the master before leaving the permanent residence, the number of actual face-to-face formal conversations with the master should be no more than five times in total!It doesn't look like another senior brother who shaved his degree at the same time. He may have served Master at the nearby water tower for more than ten years at home, and cultivated some blessings, so he can follow Master at all times, and it has almost reached the level of being like a shadow, even overseas is not difficult. I saw the situation where the two went out and went alone, so my other fellow teacher and brother also followed the same example and got the true transmission. When he was studying and preaching at the Singapore Jingzong Society, he was also generous with a monk. During the day, I was almost inseparable. At that time, when I first became a monk, I didn’t understand that this was not allowed in the precepts. I just intuitively felt that it was very dignified. For example, it is suggested to exhort monks and nuns to get along with each other. It is necessary to pay attention to avoiding the ridicule of the public. Although Mahayana Bodhisattva convicts sin and does not matter, but the Buddhadharma does not damage the world's law, and the ridicule and jealousy in the appearance must also be upheld.After a year or two, I heard that this fellow apprentice and the fellow monk she "supported" were severely punished by the Society for the long-term inappropriate situation of men and women walking together all day long.From the point of view of cause and effect, my brothers and sisters have been blatantly hindering my contact with Master, which indirectly led to a shallow relationship between me and Master. This is actually a good thing for me, so that I can avoid this kind of situation. barrier.

Therefore, I am well qualified to give you advice on how to choose a permanent residence, because I have really experienced a very painful lesson, and I have the opportunity to see some deep-seated problems. I have visited many sangha groups, and I have a certain degree of understanding in the depth of the point and the breadth of the surface, so in order to avoid everyone going the wrong way to become a monk, I will give you some suggestions here.First of all, you must first choose a master who can truly correspond in the Fa, and who also has the ability to cultivate morality. This is the most important thing. No matter how famous or excellent he looks, if you do not correspond to him in terms of the Fa, They should not follow him to ordination or renunciation, and more importantly, women must rely on the monk monk to become a monk. If they are not obeyed, only the Sangha who have learned the precepts can uphold them, but as women, in order to protect their own rights and interests and ensure the achievement of Taoism, it is best to abide by this precept.Keeping this precept can avoid a lot of right and wrong obstacles for you. After all, there will be a lot of physical and psychological inconveniences when men and women get along, and it is even more inevitable that there will be jealous obstacles between brothers and sisters. These are all very serious. There are major obstacles to the path, so you must avoid them first. After you have cultivated to a certain level of concentration and wisdom, if it is really necessary at that time, you can go to the mountains to visit the masters to study the Fa.Because when I became a monk at the time, it was a blank piece of paper, and I didn’t know anything about the situation of the Sangha, so I was confused and became a monk and became a monk. After I became a monk, I suddenly felt like I was the junior third of the family. Being guarded by the main room, I once received a call from Master from abroad to ask about the situation of my leadership in the branch. Master also explained that you should not let your brother know about it.How strange!How to become a monk and practice and talk to the master has to be secretive, and the inner feeling is really very bad.Of course, I may be inappropriate to describe it this way, but this is really how I felt when I first became a monk.And according to my arrogant character at the time, it was impossible for me to be the leader of the family at home, and I would not be willing to make compromises after becoming a monk. Joining the group's airborne troops can only be as good as the fate, so this kind of personnel problems, if women become monks with monks, they will inevitably have to face them.All in all, ordinary people will have the habits of ordinary people, so we must find a monk who runs the Tao according to the law, and absolutely do not rely on worldly favors to maintain interpersonal relationships, otherwise it will always be the biggest obstacle in human affairs. .