In the end of the Dharma period, all phenomena are reversed. The Three Jewels live in the world for the purpose of liberating sentient beings from the sea of ​​life and death in samsara, but now the Buddha does not live in the world, and the monks and monks follow the Buddha's instructions, and they take on the heavy responsibility of the Tathagata's family business, let go of the worldly fame, wealth, love, and five Desire to pursue the six dusts, practice whole-heartedly, follow the Buddhist commandments, and save all sentient beings.Regarding the Buddha's teachings, the Sangha treasures that save and save sentient beings, if we do not respectfully make offerings, plant the fields of blessing widely, and follow the teachings, how will the blessings and wisdom of sentient beings grow?Where will all suffering be eliminated?Today, the roles of monks and laypeople are just the opposite. Laymen ascend to the throne and masters cook.Lay believers try to supervise the monks everywhere, and protect them under the pretense of protecting them, but they are not genuinely respectful in their innermost beings.However, the monks, for fear of losing their support, lack of Taoist food, difficult to practice Taoism, or unable to bear the fate of their blessings, will be diligent and obedient to the believers in every possible way. consider.Because such upside-down chaos prevails, the righteous belief in the Dharma cannot function, the human mind cannot be tamed, wisdom cannot be opened, and liberation from the cycle of birth and death is far away.This is the reason why monks and laymen have been unable to help each other and achieve mutual success for a long time.

In such a big environment, if we want to be independent and stick to our principles, we are often in a very difficult situation, and we cannot get the understanding and joy of most ignorant people, which will easily lead to strong misunderstandings and obstacles.Fortunately, there are still many sanghas in Taiwan and mainland religious circles who insist on leading the congregation according to the Dharma. They lead the practice of the four congregations in a proper way, and are not afraid of fame, fortune and power, and demonstrate the tenacity and Taoism of monks.And I believe that the strong and righteousness contained in these few disadvantaged groups will inevitably lead sentient beings with mature roots of goodness to become a clear stream in other karma in the common karma of the five turbid and wicked world, and still be able to practise Taoism. A proud achievement.

Here I will give a personal example of my interaction with the Dharma protector for everyone to reflect on together.When I was young, I was a person with no blessings and wisdom. After I became a monk, I was forced to leave a long time ago in order to learn the Fa from the Master. Therefore, I never had a resident to protect me. All my cultivation was completely dependent on myself.For more than ten years, although I have been under the protection of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, I have often been blessed and taught by many good teachers of the Sangha, and I have also had the opportunity to spread the Dharma at home and abroad. Fellow practitioners are walking on the path together, but in fact I feel that I have always been alone. For more than ten years, I have already experienced the situation faced by all kinds of lonely people, a person who seems helpless and powerless. , it can be said that even beggars, poor and unfortunate people will want to wait for an opportunity to bully you, not to mention those who are rich and powerful, because these people do not understand what a cultivator is, so it is impossible for them to come. Respect and support, or praise with joy from the bottom of my heart, so it will be more difficult than ordinary people on the road of cultivation, but these encounters seem to be the taste that I want to experience in my heart. I always hope to show people with this face, hoping to be able Having met a real confidant, instead of interacting with me for my external conditions, I finally concluded that in the face of ordinary people, it still needs worldly packaging conditions to be effective.Fortunately, my ancestors are a little bit of good fortune. Usually, if I encounter these people who don't understand the situation and come to me to do bad things, no matter who they are, I don't need to take action. In the end, they will always suffer and end up badly. , it's a kick to the iron plate!But as a practitioner of Mahayana, I am not proud of such a result, because it is still not perfect, and it is still unable to meet the standard of skillfully saving all beings, good and evil, so this part is what I want to improve. place.

There is a saying in the teaching world that it is easier to become a Buddha than to be a human being. This sentence, for those who have a good grasp of becoming a Buddha in this life in the Pure Land Dharma, I do agree with it deeply. Shortcuts are good.Unlike the special method of Pure Land, there is also a Buddha Amitabha who has paved the way for all living beings to become Buddhas directly in the time of innumerable kalpas.For me, after studying Buddhism for more than ten years, I have not been able to cultivate a skill that can handle all kinds of people well and handle interpersonal relationships well.Especially in those social events, or dojos that do not really practice the right way, when faced with these inappropriate karma, the peace of mind and the wisdom you have cultivated will easily fail. In the aura, I was almost completely unable to play my inner role.I am very naive and repulsive about the skills of socializing and planning, and Buddhism does not teach us these things, so before I break through this predicament and find a way to integrate with it, I have to adopt an attitude of avoidance. In this way, on the one hand, some problems of right and wrong in human affairs can be avoided, and on the other hand, one can devote himself to the study and cultivation of the Dharma.Fortunately, thanks to the development of modern technology and the Internet, while I live alone and stay safe, I can also take into account altruistic actions. In the unimpeded online world, I can spread the Dharma and benefit my life and benefit those who are destined.When I was alone, I lived a very comfortable, fulfilling and busy life. My daily life was very simple. In addition to going abroad to preach the Dharma, I usually stayed in my resident residence to prepare lessons, recite Buddhism, and do chores. I always lived in a natural environment in the mountainous area of ​​Beinan Township, Taitung. Here, breathing fresh air every day, drinking clean mountain spring water, accompanied by the singing of insects and birds, flying butterflies, and occasional groups of visiting monkeys and Bodhisattvas, our cultivating home is also lively and warm.It's just that as a woman, you are alone, and it is easy for ordinary people to pay special attention in the early days.Especially nowadays, people's minds and worries are very heavy, and what good things are in their eyes are all guessed from the bad side, so when faced with these occasional suspicions and even unfair treatment and all kinds of oppressive situations , you have to bear it yourself.Therefore, it is more difficult for people who practice alone if they want to be understood and supported by others than in a group.And under the balance of all parties, I still prefer to be alone when I haven't met a truly Dharma and corresponding Sangha, so that on the one hand, I can give myself more opportunities to hone my independence, on the other hand, I can also choose to be alone. Avoiding the right and wrong obstacles in today's turbid environment can indeed allow you to have more time to study.

As a monk, the most common contact is with the Dharma protectors around them. Interpersonal relationships in this area are unavoidable, and saving sentient beings is even more of a duty, and it is impossible to completely ignore this.I have a Dharma protector abroad who has been protecting me for more than six years. He didn’t learn Buddhism at the beginning, and the family’s financial situation is good. Because they are in the wine business, it is easy to make money, but this is a business He has a very heavy industry, so although he is also very diligent in his work and earning money to support his family, it seems that he is very hardworking on the surface to follow me to learn Buddhism, but his wisdom is not open, and the Buddhadharma is difficult to enter into the heart. Selling alcohol will make others stunned and stupid, and you will inevitably feel the retribution of stupidity.Although he has supported me to spread the Dharma for a full six years, and I have persuaded him very carefully for six years, almost like my own younger brother, but until the end of last year (XNUMX). The karma of protection still ended in vain, and everything went back to its original point.To sum up, the fundamental reason is that the Dharma protector itself does not have enough good roots, and the root of doubt is too heavy, and it is difficult to let go of the five desires and six objects. No matter how long you have been immersed in Buddhism, no matter how much blessing you have cultivated, and no matter how great the blessings and blessings you have around you, you will not be able to truly enter the Dao, because everything has not been rooted in your heart, so once you encounter an exam question, you will lose all of it. Not to be tested.

Our relationship with Honghu, on the surface, can be regarded as very rare. He is the boss of a company. He was less than XNUMX years old when he met me. It was because of my father's death that he began to notice Buddhism. , but at first I just wanted to go to the transcendence dharma meeting of the three seasons, thinking that this is the Buddha Dharma, and I was not interested in the scriptures and teachings. Later, when I heard me explaining the Pure Land Dharma door, I felt a special response, so I began to protect my Dharma, and also Keeping the precepts and reciting the Buddha, on the surface, it does seem to be very hard work. For the homework I asked for, not eating after noon, counting the number of reciting the Buddha, etc. I can do it, but I can only persuade him to give up the liquor business and ask for the five precepts. Done, still insist on doing it according to your own ideas and progress.On the surface, his attitude towards me seems to be very respectful and submissive. Like other students around me, he can be scolded and punished. Even when he did something wrong, I deliberately trained him and punished him on his knees in front of the public. Eliminate karma and break ego, and he can do it on the spot.He also spontaneously vowed in front of his classmates that he would protect me in spreading the Dharma and benefit my life, and he also vowed to give me ten years of his life. For this, I said it would be good for me. It would be best to leave early in this world, and then give it to me. I don't want to suffer for another ten years.It is very rare in modern times for the relationship between Hong Kong and protector to develop to this level. Children nowadays cannot be so obedient and respectful to their parents. Parents do not dare to say a single heavy word to their children. I'm afraid that if I don't do it well, I will be angry at people for cash. What if I don't support the believers after scolding them.But I have always been a mage who specializes in scolding the students around me, because if I don’t scold my students, I’m not good enough, and if I scold them, I can only subdue their rudeness on the surface and my arrogance. The three poisonous afflictions can only be blessed by Buddha power.

Originally, getting along with people requires time to get along. In the process, they naturally influence each other and achieve each other. Most of them are difficult at the beginning, so they need to be more tolerant and tolerant of each other. Be patient, change will happen naturally over time.All the students I teach on Facebook can benefit from the class. It has been more than four years since the class started. Except for those who were forced to drop out, almost no one left voluntarily. Most of them are in the dojos that come in and out frequently, which is very rare.When these people first came, they were almost always people who had no real understanding of the Buddhadharma, or were already veterans of Buddhism, who had long been full of negative misunderstandings about the Three Jewels. Ordinary people, after continuous teaching and drinking every day, have been able to gradually grow in behavior and absorption of the Fa. This is obvious to all practitioners.

However, the behavior and habits on the surface can be restrained by persuasion and even various precepts to the level of subduing the afflictions, but it is really not easy to get rid of the subjugation from the heart and initiate the supreme bodhicitta.As the scriptures say, how difficult is it to get rid of the delusions, afflictions and habits of ordinary beings?It's like cutting across the middle of a waterfall cascading down from a height of forty miles to make the water stop.Think about how powerful it is to drop from the sky at a height of forty miles?It is no longer known how much electricity can be generated.Such a strong force means that the afflictions and habits of sentient beings are inflamed, and it is basically impossible for you to stop it now.Therefore, after teaching for a long time, if you find that there are still no signs of transformation in the hearts of the Dharma-protecting students, they are just obedient through external packaging, and they are practising the Dharma shallowly with less as their feet. Then the motivation and enthusiasm for teaching will naturally come out. It's getting more and more backward, because it doesn't feel much meaning.We were in such a state of stagnant relationship. One day, this Dharma protector offered to offer me a shrine as a dojo for our common practice. Together with the budget for the renovation of the shrine, the value was about NT$XNUMX million. The above, the follow-up regular support is not included, and even after I agreed, I have begun to guide the designer to plan the design of the dojo. It suddenly changed to requiring me to register the Jing She under his trust fund name. In this way, the property rights of this Jing She would be restrained, and I would not be able to buy or sell it arbitrarily in the future. When I heard this, my heart went cold, and I immediately realized. Our predestined relationship is about to end. He offered to make offerings to this shrine. I have never been able to make karmic connections with anyone for more than ten years. After he said all the good things to me, he showed that it was absolutely respectful and respectful. It took only a few days for him to show his original intention. This also shows that this was actually his plan in advance. He said that he had the intention to make offerings. I believe this is indeed true, but the problem is that his mind is not right. His intention to make offerings is to cultivate blessings for himself and his family, not to truly respect the Three Jewels, nor to truly benefit sentient beings as he said. In this case, in the process of making offerings, it is inevitable that he must first consider himself in every place. All kinds of interests were planned in advance, and he demanded that it must be in accordance with his wishes, so that the temple he donated could operate under his eyes, and it would never change, so that he was not actually there. To protect me is not to make offerings to the Three Jewels, but to induce me to protect him, to be a nominal abbot. In fact, he is a cheap laborer, following his secular concepts and practices to lead the collective practice monastery under the name of his trust fund. But to the outside world, he is a great Buddhist Dharma protector who supports me.This kind of scheming is really terrifying, and I believe he didn't realize this level himself, otherwise he decided that he wouldn't be able to do such a thing.If a person can't really let go of the troubles and habits of fame, wealth and power, it is very difficult not to commit serious crimes in the calculation of intentional or unintentional, not to mention that he can truly protect and make offerings according to the Dharma, then it is better not to do it, so as not to do it while doing it. Manufacturing.In order to make things as complete as possible, I finally made it clear that I would ask him again, what if I did not agree to follow his arrangements?He also directly said that the shrine would not be able to provide support.That is to say, the unconditional Dharma offerings that I took the initiative to say before don't count.At this point, there was no misunderstanding, and everything became clear, so I told him with certainty that I don’t want the temple anymore, and I don’t want to do it anymore. In the future, the Buddha-One Dharma Conference, which is regularly invited every year. The support has also stopped, because I understand that his intention to support the Dharma meeting is not true. Over the years, the Buddha One Dharma Dharma meeting has become more and more outstanding, until the last Buddha One and Precepts Dharma meeting last year. All of his Lian friends were able to receive the precepts. Such a grand event should be rare in other pujas, but he did not feel happy or cherished for all these achievements.After so many years, I have still not been able to really help him enter the Dao with my example and words, and he still follows the three poisons and five desires as the master.In this way, a six-year relationship with Honghu was ended simply and gracefully.I think this is also very good, because instead of reluctantly maintaining a substantive relationship that has not been able to develop positively, it is better for everyone to talk and bless each other.

From this real incident, we have seen a common phenomenon among Hong Kong protectors today. To be able to sacrifice wealth selflessly as a Dharma protector, that is not something ordinary people can do, but to be able to truly respect and trust the Three Jewels and be selfless. Protecting and upholding the Three Jewels is almost the power of merit that only Buddhas and Bodhisattvas have when they return by vow.It is not difficult to see from the fact that government units are now trying to pass religious legislation proposals to further control and regulate the religious circles, and even family law protectors generally take the initiative to request the establishment of foundations, associations, etc. to protect the Three Treasures. It is not difficult to see that everywhere Do not trust the Three Jewels and want to use the public power of the world government to implement laws and regulations to supervise the monks and treasures born in the world; these people who represent the transcendental position, the celestial masters, and the outsiders make various convenient supervisions, this is the lack of ability To truly believe and respect a person who has truly abandoned family and desires, dedicated himself to the Tao, upholds the precepts and cultivates the Sangha’s character, is a great insult and disrespect to the Sangha who are truly altruistic and altruistic, and it is also a disrespect to the Three Jewels. The great damage to the overall image has accelerated the demise of Buddhism, which shoulders the sacred mission of creating a harmonious society and purifying people's hearts. This sin is boundless and boundless.

Buddhism must start with faith. The Huayan Sutra says, "Faith is the source of the Tao, the mother of merit and virtue, and it grows and nurtures all good roots."The Sangha must also be managed by the monks. If the monks have no real power, and the real power is in the hands of the Dharma protectors, who will the people under them listen to?Who will be the real abbot in the future?If the monks are just puppets, will the Dharma taught by him really be followed?Obviously, the beginning of all these injustices has already revealed the bad relationship between Hong and protectors, as well as the inevitable failure and sin in the future.

Practitioners, all things follow the fate, do it like an illusion, if there is no fate, just recite the Buddha honestly, do the Tao with one heart, and have no competition with the world, and you can be happy and at ease.The Three Jewels do not have the karma to follow the Dharma, which means that the merits of all beings are shallow, and they have no chance to receive the enlightenment of transcendental liberation.The Three Jewels seek nothing for sentient beings, because they know that all dependent arisings are empty and cannot be obtained.Because of knowing the fire house in the Three Realms, there is nowhere to be safe.Because you know the five evils, stay away from them cautiously.If the Three Jewels cannot be respected, trusted and accepted by all beings, and no amount of teachings can truly benefit all beings, then there is absolutely no need to cling to karma, and one can only follow karma.