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XNUMX. The world where the strong are in power

Event XNUMX. The world where the strong are in power

My shaved master once said to me face to face that people in this world only believe what famous and powerful people say, and when you speak the words of nameless and powerful people, you just broke your mouth and told the truth to the best of your ability No one will believe it.His intention at the time was to remind me not to talk casually after I left the permanent residence. For someone like me who has no name and no power, no matter how reasonable and true what he says, no one will believe it even if he speaks bluntly, so there is no need to waste time. .I think what Master warned is also true, because most of the sentient beings in this world are blind and therefore ignorant, otherwise they would not be called ordinary sentient beings. The appearance, nature, body, strength, action, cause, predestination, effect, retribution, and origin and end mentioned in the Lotus Sutra are ten things. Ordinary people can only see the appearance, and there are no other internal facts and phenomena. The ability to perceive, as long as there is a famous person with a good image, who announces that who has a problem with behavior and morality, and who has been named and noticed, there will immediately be a group of blind believers who are not familiar with the person at all, and they will immediately attack. Those who act on behalf of the heaven obey orders, and even blindly and maliciously follow them to suppress someone. They are completely incapable of seeing that their current actions are just like gangsters and villains. The appearance of a believer is not the heart and conduct that a true Buddhist practitioner should have, but he is fascinated by the appearance of Buddhism and worshipping idols. It is a group of poor sentient beings who are easily misled and exploited by people with a heart. Believers who believe in superstitious idols, if serious, will be like those fanatical religious believers, and they will continue to commit all kinds of terrible crimes in their behavior. , constantly spreading remarks slandering the Three Jewels in the mouth and karma, leading to great harm to Buddhism as a whole.

How should we ourselves face such incredible injustices in the Sangha?In fact, there is no need to be sad, because it will not be difficult for you to see this situation. As long as there are people, there will almost be such ills, so it is not necessary to have too many overly beautiful imaginations about the Sangha when you first enter Buddhism, otherwise Just like when I first faced these realms, the level of disappointment with the Sangha was almost to the point of being unbearable, so there were only a few times when I was discouraged and tried to close the gate of life and death to seek rebirth. Only by being guarded by the Great Bodhisattva can one do nothing wrong.So how do I deal with this situation myself?Years of training in the Sangha have taught me the benefits of being silent. First of all, we must learn not to be mistaken that you are opposed to the powerful, and we must first be able to protect ourselves, because it is impossible for us to rely on our own strength alone. To change the turbidity of the general environment, all we can do is to follow karma, so that on the one hand, we can keep our three karma, and on the other hand, we can cultivate strength and wait for karma. When it is time to guard against ignorance, it is necessary to guard against ignorance. This is the way for the wise to deal with circumstances. There is no need to rush to find a right or wrong among various causes and conditions.

In this incident, the most important thing is to remind everyone to know how to protect themselves first in the process of well-intentioned devotion to Buddhist practice, and never fight against any powers to avoid the tragic end of death before one’s ambition is fulfilled, because one wrong step is very wrong. You may be wrong every step of the way, and you must learn not to form bad relationships with anyone, and you must know how to take the opportunity to cultivate virtue and break ego. In a hurry to care about who is right and who is wrong, all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the dark have their own arrangements and operations, and they also have their own karma , You must be able to follow the causes and conditions thoroughly, otherwise in this evil world of five turbidities, you will really be unable to move an inch, and you will even lose the motivation of the Dao heart due to excessive collisions, and miss the opportunity to escape the suffering of samsara in this life. Small lost big.