Chapter XNUMX: Cultivating respect is the foundation of Taoism
Good evening, fellow practitioners!Amitabha!
Yesterday we talked about the origin of the online teaching special class "Pure Land Sect of Taoism" on Facebook this year. To sum up this cause, it can be said that it is the arrangement of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, because no one can achieve it alone. With such a special predestined condition, I personally only act as a person who runs errands for the Buddha and Bodhisattva in this predestined condition. Therefore, I do not have any gain or loss at the moment when I am doing it. I just do my part according to the condition, and I only need to try my best to complete it.At the same time, I can also understand that everything in this world is nothingness, so in all kinds of creations, it can be seen as a game of supernatural powers. It is purely to learn from the Buddha and Bodhisattva to cultivate through falsehood. If we are in the phenomenal world, we will give rise to all kinds of phenomena. Delusion, separation, and attachment, which will not only have no merit, but will cause oneself to create endless reincarnation karma.
Next, we will explain the outline of this theory one by one. Before explaining it, we must first establish a very important foundation for practice, "respect the teacher and respect the path, and cultivate respect." If we do not practice this Root, it will be like steaming sand into rice, like we cook a pot of rice, but instead of rice, we put sand. This pot of rice cannot be cooked into rice no matter how it is cooked, so many of our fellow practitioners are very surprised. The heart cultivates blessings and wisdom in Buddhism. In the end, there is still no way to achieve it. The main reason is that there is a problem here, so I want to take everyone to study the outline of this theory, especially focusing on this foundation.Yesterday, we talked about our pre-class pre-teaching in the Facebook General Class. It has been nearly ten months. The fellow initiates have established a very good learning attitude, especially in respecting the teacher and cultivating fellow initiates. I spent a long time on this part of our respectful heart. Once the foundation is laid, I can see that almost every practitioner has achieved very fast achievements in absorbing Dhamma and life practice.When we started this course, a lot of fellow practitioners signed up because people who surfed the Internet had all kinds of motives. Most of the people who signed up were just watching the fun and getting together. Of course, they were sincere to learn Buddhism, but they were respectful. There is still no way to compare the foundation of the mind with our fellow practitioners in the Buddhist monastery. Even if there are people with good qualities and good roots, they don’t know how to show respect. This part is indeed very serious, so today it is especially important. Give everyone an in-depth explanation in this area.
For example, when we first signed up, there was a group of women from mainland China, who were about XNUMX or XNUMX years old. Let me give you this example to give you a taste of the current situation of young people.This little girl is a very smart girl who graduated from a university in Guangxi, mainland China. How smart is it?She is quite eloquent and has a good literary level. She also has considerable contact with Buddhism. She is also considered to be someone who has a relationship with Buddhism. She has been close to tantric masters, so she thinks she is a practitioner of Buddhism, but she is also considered a practitioner of Buddhism. Those with good roots know how to get close to the Three Jewels in their early teens and early twenties. This is also very rare, but because of the initial causes and conditions, they are exposed to the tantric cultivation method, and they have not learned from the basic precepts and rules. It has not established a respectful attitude towards learning. Tantric Buddhism actually places great emphasis on respecting teachers, so it is known as the Four Treasures. What is the extra treasure?Guru, you should treat your guru as a living Buddha and respectfully. This is a very important foundation for helping disciples to truly enter the mind in the Fa.Her so-called close to Tantra is actually not really apprenticeship and practice. It's just that the believers who have been in contact with the guru, of course, have learned some so-called mantras, teachings, etc. after contacting them for a while, and they will mistakenly think that they are also old I have practiced, and I heard her talking about the teachings. The little girl was very arrogant when she first came to sign up. All the photos of Anita Mui were posted on her dynamic platform. That was her idol. With the photos of the same person, you can imagine the personality of this person, how chic and self-willed, the kind of person I want to do whatever I want, no matter what others think of such a person.Most people in the dynamics introduce their own life and so on. All of her dynamics contain only a photo of an idol. It can be seen that this person's personality is also quite unique.When she came to sign up, she told me that it was because she saw that my Dharma was solemn and wanted to come close to Master. With such a simple idea, she did not come for the Dharma after getting close, because she was already close to the Tantric master. , I also feel that I have already practiced very well. In other words, I just want to come and make friends, but I never make friends with people after I became a monk. I only communicate with fellow teachers and friends. The teaching of the discussion class is purely presented in the nature of the classroom. She never intended to make friends. Because she wanted to come close to me, of course, she thought of signing up for the general discussion class first. Then I still accept it. You can sign up on an equal basis, but after you sign up, it will be reviewed by me for a period of time, and you have to write a pre-class report to make sure that you are in line with our goals in law, so that you can be admitted and enter our specialization. Class in the club of the class.
這個小朋友，一剛開始來報名的時候習氣毛病非常的重，因為她把我當成朋友，所以很沒大沒小，但嘴巴卻很甜，一來就經常讚歎師父，師父您好莊嚴，我最喜歡您了，從來沒有看過法師像您這麼莊嚴…，真是什麽話都講得出來，而且讓你聽得還挺自然真誠的，因為她那種人感覺上就是很不屑於說謊的人，性格很酷的小女生，口才也很好，脾氣很任性，不太給人面子，很多人都知道臉書Facebook這個平臺內容是全世界的人都可以看到，對於這樣一個口沒遮攔又帥氣的小女生，剛來的時候雖然好像表現得很友善，是為了仰慕我而來結緣的，但實際上她那個態度是非常的不恭敬的，而她自己卻不曉得，很多規矩也都不懂，像講話用詞等等，但她又認為那是很帥氣，想把我當哥兒們這樣子的語氣在她來講都覺得沒什麽，因為她認為她要來找我就表示她喜歡我才要來，這就已經給足了我面子了，像她這樣現代的年輕人也不少，我們班上有一些擔任助教的同修看到她的任性言行，就會主動好意的想要勸導她，而當這些助教柔聲地勸她一兩句時，她會立刻給你回敬五六句，到最後再沒有人敢勸她，因為她口才很好，也沒有人講的過她，像這樣的一個情況，我一看沒辦法，那只好我親自出馬了，這一定要馬上糾正她才行，要不然這不好的示範對其它同修也會有不良的影嚮，所以我一開始對她的糾正就非常的嚴厲，而且我也不打算花太多時間在這上面，因為如果你真是有心要來學習，你就必須要有誠意遵守這裡的規矩，所以通常我也不會有很多機會給對方，頂多勸一次兩次，如果她不聽我就會請她離開。還好這個小朋友很聰明，眼色很好，助教勸她都沒有用，師父一講話，馬上遵命！還會很撒嬌的講，讓你完全都無法對她生氣，而且你一定會原諒她，像這樣的一個小女生，確實到目前為止我們社團錄取的二十個人中，這些人從十八歲到六十幾歲都有，每個人的口才都不能跟她相比，因為她確實是很伶牙利齒，在佛學名相上也有底子，算得上是言之有物的人，但問題是她的思想性情很不穩定，完全沒有一個中心思想，喜歡天馬行空的漫談打妄想，這就是雜修無戒的結果，但這小女孩也算是很用功，所以她的傲氣也是有她的因緣條件，像這樣的一個情況，剛開始教她規矩她都會聽而且改得很快，我才一糾正她，她會馬上就改，譬如我告訴她她平台上梅艷芳偶像要全部改放法語，她說改就改，因為我很清楚現代的人，你要是慢慢勸他，你要懂規矩啊！你要好好學佛，好好持戒，這些籠統的話，一般上是沒有什麽效果的，因為對方就算想聽話也不知道怎麼做，這是我的經驗之談，所以我現在教學生就會直接要求學生你就怎麼做，哪裡需要改進，如果真的願意學的人通常就會馬上改，我一講，這小女生她就馬上改，而且全部換上我的教學內容，全部哦！所以你看她這個性格很酷喔！然後又把她的大頭照換成我的照片，就把我當偶像供在那裡，而且她在分享我們的法語貼文也都很主動很積極，做的比起其他同修毫不遜色，一下轉過來就有這麼大的改變，超過其他同修的發心，這些表現都很好，但是後來我還是決定不錄取她，為什麽？因為我細細觀察之後，這一些東西其實都還是在於一個表面服從，表面的恭敬，這些行為只要有一點小聰明的人都可以做得到，但我觀察人是從內心，從骨子裡去觀察，這個小女生其實親近我，真的就像是她最初講的就只是看到我的相，生歡喜心而已，並不是真心想跟我學法，雖然也來課前預習一段時間，對淨土法門也認為不錯，但就只是不錯而已，對於過去這些密法以及雜修的這些習氣並沒有想改，沒有真正想要放下，當然這對她來講如果要這樣要求也是很難為，因為她本來就不是要來修淨土的，她來只是要來親近我，所以才隨喜學習淨土法門，而學了一段時間教理之後她也覺得不錯，將來也要求生極樂世界成佛比較究竟，這個教法她也能夠吸收，問題是我們凡夫眾生的習氣業力真的不可思議，經上講：眾生業力不可思議，即使已經在事相上，為了討我的歡喜心，也為了珍惜這個法緣，方方面面都做的很好，可是因為她的個性不穩定，心不定當然就會顯示出想交男朋友，想去吃喝玩樂，想去雜修，特別以前還有修密法的習氣，事實上那也談不上修密法，真正修密法是非常嚴格，要先做四加行，大禮拜十萬拜，持咒十萬遍等等，也是需要踏踏實實修行的，修密法不是像一般人概念，你只要親近過上師給你灌個頂你就是在修密法，不是這樣子的。因為她這一些背景，雖然不能要求一下放下，可是至少你要有那個心，後來我觀察發現她沒有這個心，而且最重要的是性情不穩定，思想也偏差，因為裝了很多名相之後，我們反而很難去糾正她主觀的看法，這種學生最不好教，主觀意識很強，所以有事沒事她就會經常到我的訊息找我聊天，說說她的觀念，有事沒事來找我訴苦，談心事，高興的時候也來找我講些五四三，就全然把我當朋友對待，那各位想看這要花掉我多少時間，最糟的是她對於我要教授的淨土法門都只是很輕忽的帶過，換句話說應付嘛！跟著大家一起看貼文然後按讚，這一個部份如果沒有深入的去觀察是看不出來，因為表面上她都是做的很積極，她自己也不是故意的，但是我從這裡觀察到這個學生不好教，知見上的問題，再來就是心也不定，我們這是專修的課程，如果心不定也沒有辦法成就。那為什麽她會有這些現象，除了過去宿世以來的習氣之外，主要還是因為沒有恭敬心，不懂的恭敬心，又因為她相當有主見，又非常執著的人，所以要調教也不容易。通常我教學生，選擇會比較嚴格一點，就像《阿彌陀經》上講的，淨土法門的成就「不得以少善根、福德、因緣得生彼國」，如果是少善根少福德的人是無法成就的，因為我們並沒有講很多很深奧的理論，我們不是專以理論來接引眾生，而是仰靠佛力加持，是靠眾生自己的善根福德的，所以如果是要透過一些理論辯論的教學，那不是我們淨土法門的修法，我個人也覺得不需要把時間花在根性還沒有成熟的眾生，但是我們還是會平等的給大家先種個種子。最後她就是因為恭敬心不具足，我就決定請她離開並沒有讓她正式進入專修班的社團裏學習。這是舉一個真實的例子，因為像這麼聰明也跟我緣份很好的人，因為不懂恭敬心，本身性情也很難受教，所以我就忍痛捨棄這樣的一個學生，我是以勸退的方式告訴她，我說你要不要考慮一下到動態裏去參學比較自由，剛開始她還很不服氣，馬上就質問我，為什麽？還質問我為什麼？大家可以想像這種個性，我如果真的讓她上我們的課，那我真的很快就剩下半條命，一天到晚就必須要跟她解釋為什麽？而且還要解釋到她高興，不然就很麻煩的，以後你們若有機緣當了老師你們就明瞭了，我們教學生是要考慮方方面面的問題，因為眾生的煩惱無盡，我們也要避免她造業，即使我們有能力來處理，也不必要浪費太多的時間，產生很多的波折，當時我也預料到她會這樣回應，她問為什麽，我就心平氣和的告訴她，因為你沒辦法完全遵照我的要求，我們的班規很嚴格，這樣講的話她就沒有話說，也就接受了，接受了以後，通常我們這個班被勸退學的或者自己覺得種種因緣沒辦法繼續上課的人大多還都會留在臉書動態上自學，因為在動態這個部份是自由的，沒有受到班規的限制，她也就在動態自修了一段時間一直到現在已經過好幾個月了，期間還有三次還來跟我吵著要回家，想要再像以前一樣回到我們班來旁聽上課。所以這個法緣也算是不淺，這三次當中我也曾差點心動，因為我也是儘量不捨任何一個眾生，而且一開始我也曾很用心的接引她，希望能夠幫助她，因為她年紀輕，在佛門也難得能有心學習，人也聰明機靈，甚至還期望將來她可以出家弘法利生，像這樣的對象我們當然會非常的隨喜，希望她能夠成就，所以當她幾次來吵著要回家時，我也是有點考慮，不過後來我還是堅持沒答應，堅持的原因主要還是考慮到恭敬心的問題，所以我們要知道，如果學法沒有具備恭敬心，你也很難遇到善知識真正願意教你，你看我們很多老同修在佛門裏面修學幾十年，為什麽都沒有辦法得到修行的利益，沒有辦法降伏煩惱開啟智慧，就是因為不懂得恭敬心，這個部份很多人都不懂，也並不是不願意做，是根本不懂，所以才有必要我們在這裡再深入的來研究學習。
To give another specific example, once this kid was interacting with me, she asked me to say, Master, I think it’s good to talk about the Pure Land method, but because I’m very busy, what else do I usually do..., so You only need to teach me the part of faith and willingness, and the other parts are unnecessary.That's how she talked to me. Do you think this is respectful?I believe she has absolutely no malice, and she still feels very close to Master, because Master looks very compassionate!She is not good at swearing (she had not been rewarded by me at the time, because the initial fate was not deep enough, I would be more controlled when she started.), she came to ask me like this, I saw her message at the time, she was In my private message, this conversation was not open to the public, so I answered her immediately, and that was the first time I gently rewarded her.I said you should listen to me clearly. It's not that you told me that I should teach you something, but that you have to do what I teach you. This is the respect for the teacher. Do you understand it?Many fellow practitioners don’t know how to respect the teacher. Just like this example, many people are like this. Although you didn’t directly ask Master to ask for it, it’s fine if you teach me these things. I don’t want some of them, but in your heart Do you think so?Look at it for yourself, right?You will pick what I want to learn, this dojo, these things I want to do, those things I don’t want to do, the things that the master teaches, I am more interested in this part, and that part is too difficult and too boring. If it doesn't suit my appetite, then what will happen to you, you will act like yin, even if you don't show that you don't accept it, what will the master say in front of the master, hey!Okay, yes, yes, I know, but is there anything behind it?Nothing!right?Although she is not as direct as this kid, she is just more frank and has not concealed herself. In fact, nine out of ten people are like her, and they are not as frank as her, so don't think that you are really respectful, right. wrong?Think about it for yourself, it's just that you didn't notice it yourself, and even you still think that if I am willing to come to study the Fa today, isn't it because I am already very respectful?Look at the people outside who asked him to listen to the Fa, but they still refused. I already have a good root. I will devote some money to provide for Master when I have nothing to do, and sometimes I will devote myself to protect the temple. I am already great as a volunteer, and I am respectful!These are not called respectfulness. If you think about it, no matter how much you do these things, it is because you like what you want to do, not because you should do it, right?When we are giving, ordinary people will be obsessed with the fact that I am giving, how many things we have done, how much credit we have, and how kind we are, but we rarely look at whether we have something we should have done right now. You can do it selflessly without asking for joy?For example, if you go to the dojo to practice, the dojo didn't collect money from you!Master taught you and didn't charge you tuition!Does that mean that everyone has obligations that he should take the initiative to fulfill?But most people seldom think of these things, they only notice the part that they have already paid, and then proudly admire themselves. In fact, these things you do, after all, are done for your own preferences, and they are all your own. Selfishness.It's like a boy saying that he loves a girl, if it's just to possess her, is his love true?No, if you really love a girl, you will definitely do things that are beneficial to her. Usually, men and women quarrel with each other because they each have what they want. When the other party can no longer satisfy you, love deteriorates. So this This kind of love is based on what I like. I like the way you look, so I love you, because your condition happens to be what I like, so I love you. This kind of love is fake. What is this love? ?It’s your own desires. What you really love is your own desires instead of this object. So when the object becomes ugly and it’s not the condition you like, you don’t like it anymore, so this kind of love is false. of.In the same way, you volunteer at the dojo to support the Three Treasures and so on. The part you did is actually just that you are in a good mood, and then you think you can do it for others, or it’s okay. I don’t ask for anything in return. I still have Dao Xin, so I am willing to do this. The standard of this level is still determined according to my mood and preference. This way, I still have no real respect and sincerity. Real sincere respect is completely compliant with the teacher's standard, XNUMX%. Obedient, without your own meaning, completely follow the rules of the Three Treasures of Buddhism, instead of following the standards of your own preferences. What you want to do according to your own wishes, no matter how much you do, you can’t be regarded as truly respectful. Is this clear? ?This is very difficult to understand, and it is not easy to talk about. You have to experience it yourself, because it is difficult for ordinary people to detect, you will definitely be in the picture!So the more you do, you will feel that you are very supportive and respectful of the Three Jewels, you support so many mages, you support so many dojos, and your respect is enough. In fact, it is not necessarily true. These are just superficial, you Doing so much is because you are happy now, that day you were upset and scolded by the master, then you would not do it, right?The true respect is what the teacher wants you to do, what the dojo needs you to do, and even if you are not capable, you will do your best to ask yourself to do it. This is called respect. If you can master this principle, then It's not that you do more and less about things, but that you are doing your best.
For example, if you donate more and donate less, this is not the point. The point is whether you have done your best to achieve the teachings taught by the master, and truly protect the Three Jewels as best as you can. Usually, the teacher will teach us to follow the practice. From the beginning, from giving alms, giving away our internal and external wealth, and then further abandoning our greed and worries, if you really work hard to do it, this is true respect, follow the teachings, and will not say that the teacher teaches you one. Concept, teach you a commandment, telling you to do something, you don’t listen to it right away, but you also talk about a lot of reasons to debate, like this little girl, it must be like this, and there are debates all day long. She will have a lot of her own ideas, and she will think that she will ask questions because you are the teacher and you are the teacher!So you should solve my doubts!As a result, endless questions will be raised anytime and anywhere. These behaviors and attitudes, for us as practitioners, are all climactic narratives, especially the fundamental nature of pursuing the Pure Land Method. You must be honest and obedient. If you teach you just one sentence, you just need to be honest and obedient. In a word, this kind of students are those who have mature roots of goodness and mature sexuality as Buddha roots. If there is no way to be respectful and obedient, then it is difficult for you to get started in the Pure Land Method. Why?Because you have developed respect for the teacher now, you will be able to have respect for Amitabha Buddha in the future. If a living person helps you in front of you, you can't have a respectful heart and follow the teachings. Where is the Buddha?I haven't seen it yet, will you truly respect the Buddha?Besides, he doesn't know what you are doing badly anyway, so will you really follow the teachings?Harder.So why the status of the Tantric Guru even surpasses that of the Buddha is because the Guru is the representative of the Buddha, and he shows that a living person comes to contact with you, directly teaches you, points out your shortcomings, guides you to teach, and enables you to have a personal life. The feeling of practice, so in terms of the close relationship of practice, it is indeed better than the Buddha, because the Buddha is invisible and invisible, and your knowledge of the Buddha is only a fate in theory, so the role of the guru is in Tantric Is particularly important.Personally, my choice of students is so strict, because our class is guaranteed to become a Buddha. In order to achieve this goal, I have to be so rigorously screened. Otherwise, I just choose to join the class. Then I will be very hard to teach. I'm sure that half-life is gone. How can I help every fellow practitioner to achieve smoothly? As long as I meet a kid like this, it's enough, so I must strictly check it.
On the other hand, we can also use this example to look back. If we want to encounter a good kind of knowledge today, and truly teach us the kind that we hope we can achieve, should we have respect?It must be, otherwise I promise you will never meet it.So you see that there are many masters in Buddhism, and there are many magic weapons, but can you really find a master who is really willing to teach you?It's difficult. Most people are actually self-taught. What is the real master like?It is a person who teaches you directly, can point out your habits and problems in time, and knows your personality well. This is a true good master, those famous masters, if you can’t get close to you, unless he has his own mind, Otherwise, as far as you are concerned, no matter how good his practice is, no matter how famous he is, he will not be able to bless you. If you think of the master’s CD, it is easy to make mistakes. Then, for you, he is not the best kind knowledge. The real good knowledge is someone who understands you, and this person might be your parents, the elders around you, as long as you are bound to him and you are willing to listen to him, he also has the wisdom of the Dharma, then he is your true Good knowledge.Is there such a person by your side?There are very few people like this around us. The people around us are often not convinced by anyone, but we are the best. The so-called grieving monk society!So now even parents dare not teach their children!There are many elders who persuade their children, what is the result?There have been incidents of being killed by children, and some young people nowadays are terrible.
There was an example in Taiwan not long ago, but in fact, Taiwan is really a beautiful treasure island, and the relatively bad examples I cited now are actually a few.There is a high school boy, because he was brought back and raised by his adoptive grandparents. He was behaved when he was a child. When he was in high school, he turned bad. After he got bad, his grandfather would sometimes say a few words to him, telling him not to be upset. The class was watching TV at home all day, so Grandpa persuaded him and only read him a few times!One night, this little grandson killed his grandpa with a knife, and he was very vicious. Even the fruit knife was bent, stabbing a total of XNUMX knives, and his heart was almost dug out. In the middle of the night, his grandpa was injured and escaped. , Fled to grandma's room and called for help. The little grandson then threatened his grandma not to call the police. After that, he calmly said that after I took a hot bath, I would call the police and surrender.Don’t think it’s his conscience!He had already figured out the cause and effect. He said that since I was only seventeen years old, even if I surrendered, could you keep me locked up for a few years?He thinks like this!With such a cruel behavior, he didn't have any shame or horror after he finished the killing karma. Anyway, he would be out after a few years at most, what a terrible thought!Then why did he kill him?It's just grandpa reading him a few words!Look at what we are in our lives now, and we want to meet too few people who can truly persuade us and who are willing to point out our problems. Who is willing to take the risk to offend others!So if we want to practice, we want to break the evil and cultivate the good, and want to improve our state, we must first teach you a good teacher with a sense of sincerity. It is absolutely impossible to achieve blind practice by ourselves, but it is easy to take detours and go the wrong way.How can we feel good knowledge?That is, what we just said must be respectful, so don’t underestimate this part. You don’t even understand it and you don’t even notice it. So the time of entering Buddhism just passed in the blink of an eye, but the Dao Karma did not make any progress. The problem is Out of this place.
Let me cite a few more easy-to-understand examples to illustrate what is meant by respect.There is a disciple who is a monk. If the master wants to go out, he will explain to the disciple that the flowers and plants in the dojo must remember to water the flowers every day. After the explanation is complete, he will leave. Only two days after he left, it started to rain. It rained every day in a row, you guys. Guess whether this apprentice watered the flowers?Should I water the flowers?Normal people would feel so stupid. What do they do when it rains?Waste water, right?This is called being smart, according to the standards of practice, this is called being smart. In terms of world law, smart, this person is very smart, you see that he will plan not to waste the water that he lives in, and the rain has already been poured. What are you doing!Watering is also necessary. The person who waters it is a fool. If this is true according to the standards of the worldly law, what is the perspective of the practice of the worldly law?As far as the master and apprentice are concerned, the apprentice and the master, you can see why Zen can use heart initiation as a method of spreading the Fa. It means that there must be considerable tacit understanding and trust between the master and the apprentice, so that your Fa can be taught. , Then this trust starts with being obedient. After being obedient for a long time, you will have a tacit understanding and trust with each other. Otherwise, what the master will tell you today, I think this kid might not know what he wants to make, or he might not follow suit. , Then it is impossible to generate trust, so sometimes too smart apprentices are not easy to teach. It is all his own knowledge and opinions. He still wants to tell the truth, yes!I think it's right!I am saving water for my permanent residence!What's wrong with this?
It also seems to be right. The problem is that he committed one of the most unpleasant mistakes, that is, being disobedient and not straightforward. We often say that straightforwardness is a dojo, and people in the world are determined to distinguish between what is good, what is bad, and what is right. What is wrong, and practice is about cultivating the mind. A good apprentice will be very obedient. He still waters when it rains every day. It seems to be a little waste of water, or even stupid, but that's in terms of the situation!In terms of xinxing, he can actually show respect and obedience to the master. Then such apprentices and masters must trust him, and the Fa passed to him must be unreserved, because the master knows that the Fa he teaches will never deteriorate, otherwise When it is passed to him in the future, it will change, and even misunderstood your meaning. Some are even more wicked, and later repaired. Before that arrogant trouble appeared, he turned his head to confront the master and completely overthrew it. Master’s teaching of the Fa, saying that it’s not Master’s, and to show that you are blue from blue and better than blue, with a higher level of enlightenment, isn’t the consequence very serious?Therefore, for those disciples who know very seriously, Master will basically not teach you too much, especially the Mind Fa. Can you understand this?Therefore, we must learn to be straightforward in our practice. We must not be smart. We must be obedient. You can get some benefits as much as you can. You can start by listening to your parents, and you can usually start to practice by listening to the elders. Of course, this elder is also You need to be respectful. If you think there is a problem with him, of course you can’t do it completely, but everyone should know that the standard of practice is different from that of people in the world. Practice is to put aside life and death. Master tells you to die from this cliff. Jump up and down, dare you?This is to be more thorough with the straight-hearted person. The straight-hearted person is the master who tells you to jump, and you just jump without saying anything. Even if you tell you to die, you must die. You have to let go of life and death!Anyway, I believe that Master will never harm you.In Zen Sect, some masters have any weird tricks to make their disciples enlightened, and they all have beaten, scolded, kicked and insulted!If you don't accept, doubt, turn around and leave, or even end a grievance, then of course this Fa will not be passed on, right?Must stand the test of this thrilling process.
There is an example in the Buddhist scriptures. One person looks stupid. This is not a master or apprentice, but the meaning is close. One person is stupid, and the other is clever. He deliberately wants to punish this stupid person and tell him one day. , You jump from this tree, you jump down to the cliff, after you jump down, you can fly to the sky and become a god, this fool he really believes, he believes in a simple way, he really obediently jumps Go down, because he is convinced that everything is ideal!What's the result?He really ascended to heaven and gained the Tao. This truth is very deep, and it is completely in line with truth and cause and effect, that is, a phenomenon that all wishes come true.The person who lied to him looked at it and thought about it! (Taiwanese) How could this be?I just talked to him casually about how he really got the Tao. I also tried that day, but he died after jumping off.People are truly straight-hearted and have no doubts, he has a try!right?That with different intentions, the power of thoughts is so different!So if your master tells you to jump off, then he definitely has his intentions, and he is responsible for the cause and effect. Do you dare to listen?If you dare to listen, your disciple rules will achieve XNUMX points!Because you have even entrusted your life to Master. This is the best disciple. You can’t find this kind of person anymore in the modern era of Dharma end, because nowadays the roots of greed, hatred, ignorance, slowness, and suspicion are particularly serious. You have to doubt your distrust, and you can't help but doubt your master.When I was a child, I didn’t believe my grandmother. She passed away last year. We have sent her to the Paradise to be a Buddha. My grandmother loves me very much. I absolutely believe this, but even though she loves me, I still doubt it. Her wisdom, because her old man didn’t read much. Once my ears were sore and painful. The old man didn’t have enough common sense and thought it was an ant running in. So she poured water into it desperately, trying to drown it out. As a result, The already inflamed ear hurts worse, and I won’t believe what my grandmother said anymore after that time.So if we meet someone who we can’t generate respect and trust, of course you can’t be XNUMX% obedient, and there may be trouble if you obey. Therefore, it is also important for us to choose good knowledge. Once we choose with our heart, we should truly obey the Fa. After that, then your disciple rules must be implemented. This is the disciple rules. What you just talked about tells you to jump off, you don’t need to die. This is XNUMX points to achieve the disciple rules. Of course, these rules on the surface of the disciples It's very important, but what really lies at the core is to be XNUMX% respectful and obedient to the teacher.
The so-called respect is that you are completely obedient, completely obedient, understand attentively, and accept the instructions of the teacher. You will follow all the teachings of the teacher. You will not behave in violation of the law, and will not be smart. Often many people will be smart and think. There are even better ideas than the teacher that can be done better. It seems to be very hard-hearted, but in fact you think that the master's intelligence is not as good as you, and it is not as good as you!Your method will be better, right?This is disrespect. Many people are easy to commit this, but they are not aware of it. They feel that they just kindly want to make Master's account better and more perfect!Therefore, in the process, the concept of doing things before will be used, especially those with strong ability, or some big protectors, big business people, it is more likely to fall into this problem, and use their existing secular concepts to implement the master’s account. I want to wait for Master’s praise after I have done it. In fact, it’s totally wrong. It should be to receive the incense board instead of accepting the praise. This is to completely do not understand the Buddhism disciples rules. The true disciples rules are to completely believe in Master. Accept, if you use your own ideas and practices, it will show that you have doubts about or disagree with Master's explanation.Is it true that Master’s account is really worth questioning as a disciple?Usually it’s not. Since he is a master, he has the skill and method of teaching, as well as his own realm. This level is often beyond the imagination of disciples, so let’s talk about home practice and monk practice. It’s something on a completely different level, and why the laymen can’t respect the monks, just write on the picture, thinking that I have been in the society for decades, and the career has been so big and so successful, and you What can this little maotou who has just become a monk understand?It is often such a mentality.You must know that in terms of the standards of the birth law, the more social experiences you have, the greater the pollution. Those are exactly what the Buddha wants us to let go. After letting go, our original pure face will only appear. So these What do you think is the strong ability is the Shizhi Biancong mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures. It is often a kind of pollution and heavier attachments. On the contrary, young monks and nuns do not have these burdens. They are very simple, maybe very straightforward. Just like the master we just talked about told him to water the flowers and water them as if it was raining, this kind of person is easy to gain the Tao, his realm is higher than you, and his heart is more pure, so he has the predestined condition to become a monk!Are you willing to call you a monk?You still can't let go of the five desires and six dusts!
Therefore, the level of state, whether the mind is pure or not, and the level of merit are not determined by you subjectively, but naturally there is a standard law in the Dao. We can all explain these principles and phenomena very clearly, and they all follow us in the scriptures. It’s very clear. The purer our minds, the less attachments to delusions. This is the standard, right? After attaining Buddhahood, you will become a Buddha after all delusions and attachments are fully implemented. Before you become a Buddha, you will become a Buddha. Before you become a Buddha, you will become a Buddha. The lighter the person is, the more selfless the person is. Master can do whatever the master says, even if you don’t even have a life. As far as this standard is concerned, the higher your skill and the purer your heart. Usually, those people are more likely to be. Can it be done?Those who are monks with simpler minds and look stupid are as foolish as they are, his realm is the highest!It’s just that you don’t have prajna wisdom and cannot understand, you can only use world standards to measure the depth of other people’s kung fu, so it is not easy for you to develop respect for young monks. In fact, you have misunderstood these obstacles. We must first remove these obstacles. Only then can there be a way to be respectful to the Three Jewels, and then be able to feel the cause and fate of the true teaching of good knowledge.
Take another example, this effort is even higher!In the jungle, the abbot wants to pass the throne to his successor, who would he usually choose?You see, sometimes thousands of people live in the jungle, and there are many talents. How does the abbot choose his successor?In the past, there was a typical Koan. A foreign monk went to Shifang Jungle to place an order to participate in school, because the foreign guest monk was usually excluded. You were not here for the shaman!It’s just because it’s a jungle in the ten directions, so you can still hang up the order. Some of the residents in it are ordinary after all, and they will somehow exclude the guest monks. He will only be sent to do rough work, picking big manure to make vegetable fertilizer, and he is not allowed to enter the hall. Listening to the scriptures, this is also a rule. If you are a new monk, the seniority is relatively low. According to the precepts, in the first five years, the male bhikkhus must learn to serve the teacher in the first five years. The female bhikkhus are six years old. If you can learn the scriptures, you must first lay the foundation of the precepts, cultivate blessings and eliminate karma, cultivate respect, serve the teachers, learn how to be a good disciple, that is, learn the disciplines of Buddhism. This will take five years. In six years, I will lay a foundation and learn bit by bit in life.Then this person, after he goes to the jungle to place an order, of course he must start from these basics, and the treatment he receives is more difficult than ordinary people who work step by step and study in the permanent residence. Everyone looks down on him and often finds opportunities to fix him. , Deliberately troubled him, even the abbot ignored him. All this was seen in his eyes but he didn’t say anything. The abbot usually understood everything. He just kept silent on purpose until one day he was about to announce his succession. People, this guest monk has never gone in to listen to the passing!But on the day of passing the throne, the monk abbot sent someone to call him to the hall, and everyone guessed it!They are all very clever, pass the seat to him, let him take over the position of the abbot.
The abbot usually observes and tempers him quietly. On the surface, he ignores him. It doesn’t matter if others bully him. He deliberately wants to observe his roots, and he deliberately wants him to hone his mind to a certain level. To the extent that it is certain that this person can really bear the burden of the family business in the future and bear all the hardships, it is not that simple to be a leader of the Sangha!If you are often held in the palm of your hand, or if you just understand some texts and do not have the ability to practice concentration and wisdom, there will be problems with such a person to lead the Sangha, so you really need to be able to withstand the tempering. Even some masters often cheer you directly. Such talents are those who are really facing the realm of cultivation and can achieve real kung fu. People with discerning eyes will definitely give him important positions.
The same is true for our Fa study. If we go to the dojo today, we always like to have privileges, even alas!I went to see the old monk, the old monk treated me very well!They all invite me to eat and sit at the same table, so it is good to have face. The guardians all greet me very thoughtfully and go around to promote it and feel that they have a lot of face!In fact, a discerning person knows that you are definitely not what the old monk wants to teach.From here, we must be vigilant about what kind of person we want to be. If you want to be a true spiritual practitioner, then you don’t expect your master to be gentle with you, but to expect master to teach you and fix you. Why should Master teach you?It’s that you have to let the master know that you can be taught, that you can be truly obedient, and that you are truly a Dharma implement. You can teach as much as you can to the master. Master is definitely a discerning person, and the realm must surpass you. Of course, if you don’t treat the master like this Your respectful heart is not suitable for relying on him to learn. You can find another Dharma predestined. If you can have a sincere respect for Master, this must also be the Dharma predestined forged in the old world.Choosing to follow the standard of Master’s evaluation is not based on reputation, education, and status. The most important thing is that we must first have the conditions for practicing Dharma tools. Naturally, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will help us arrange good knowledge to guide us. This Koan What I said here is a typical representative who can receive the Dharma.
There is another example. What kind of disciple does the master usually like the most?This is not necessarily the person who wants to teach the Fa. If you want to be the abbot and manage the jungle, then your mind must be very strong. And the example I want to cite is Confucius and Yan Hui, a pair of teachers and students, everyone knows The student that Confucius loves most is Yan Hui. It is not only because Yan Hui has good virtues and can really live in peace and happiness, he does not pursue all the five desires in the world, and he can do the Tao with one heart. There are also many excellent people among Confucius’ disciples. Some people are determined to be officials to serve the country, and some are to be businessmen to support their parents. Everyone has different ambitions. These are very good disciples, and Confucius is also very dedicated to teaching, but why do you say Confucius? Which is the most painful?It's not just Yan Hui's noble morals. Do you know what Yan Hui's greatest wish is?His biggest wish is not to make money to support his parents, nor to be an official to serve the country. His biggest wish is not to leave his teacher all the time, so the teacher loves him the most. That is why, if the result, Confucius loves him the most and it is not because Confucius loves him the most. Selfish!It’s not because this disciple Yan Hui loves to stick to him very much. If he is very sticky, the little girl I just raised is the cutest and the person who will play coquettishly with me the most. All day long, she said generously and naturally about Master Daen. I love you the most. She often said this and left messages in Facebook posts, but in the end I still didn’t accept her as a student in our wide-ranging class, so the relationship between teachers and students is definitely not based on emotional standards. , But the predestined condition according to law, the first thing to pay attention to is predestined condition.Yan Hui's own ambition is to never leave the teacher. This shows that he emphasizes the Dhamma the most. If you really emphasize the Dhamma, you will definitely not leave the teacher. You must feel that being close to the teacher and studying the Fa is the most important thing in life, so Confucius's disciples Among them, only Yan Hui can hear one and know ten, Zigong; the other is originally a very smart businessman, who can also know one or two after learning the Fa, but only Yan Hui can hear one and know ten. No one among the classmates is wrong. Yan Hui’s moral knowledge is convincing, so Yan Hui has the closest relationship with his teacher. He really devotes himself to learning the Fa with good knowledge, so he naturally wants not to leave the teacher at all times, although he has been living until his deathbed. It was still very difficult. Many classmates persuaded him to become an official and make money. He would not accept him if he wanted to introduce him to him. He said that his biggest wish in his life was not to leave the teacher at all times. In the end, when he succeeded in Dao industry, he did not accept it. Continue to stay with the teacher, cooperate with Confucius to organize "Spring and Autumn", and do these things, which is equivalent to doing the work of spreading the Fa. It is very meaningful and has immense merit. This is the best model of Fa-study, and it is worthy of respect for everyone to imitate. .What are the ambitions of Confucius' other students?The Fa of the world, he ran to do other things, and you learned it to serve the country. This is all very good, but the Fa taught by the teacher is not in the first place, and no one can do the same with respecting the teacher and the Tao. Yan Hui is so thorough, right?Therefore, he is the best model. Of course, everyone does not necessarily have to achieve this high standard. Many students of Confucius have also made good contributions in the end. What Yan has learned to the maximum limit is considered to be a show of gratitude and respect to the teacher, but in terms of fate, there is no such closeness between Yan Hui and Confucius.
On the other hand, we can also infer that there are ten disciples around the Buddha. The same ten disciples are also very close to the Buddha, so they are also representative in spreading the Fa.There is supernatural power first, wisdom first... There are so many disciples of the Buddha, but only ten of them are used as a representative. What does this mean?Among the thousand and two hundred and fifty Chang Sui people, this is the most important representative. This dharma predestined is the deepest, the deepest predestined relationship with the master, this is the most complete, and this is a model that we must learn from the discipline of Buddhism. what!The standard is here!Take a good look back and see how much we have achieved by ourselves?
Now many people, especially those who study the Pure Land Method, have listened to one or two lessons, oh!I know, I'm willing to do it!It's that simple, even a three-year-old kid can do it, then I know, I graduated, teacher bye!Soon after, I completely forgot the teacher, thinking that I already knew how to fix it anyway, and I got the password to open the door with Zhima. Then I left. What else would I do?Do you say that you are respectful?There is no respect, and the heart is not at ease. Such people are very empty in terms of virtue, and in fact they are not smart enough, because the Pure Land Method seems to be very simple, but in fact it is also the most difficult, because it is Pure Buddha's fruit land realm, and what is it?It is the realm of the king of Buddha!In general, the realm that big Bodhisattvas like Guanyin and Shizhi cannot understand. It’s not that you can graduate after hearing your wishes and doing what you want. Although it is said that as long as you master this key, you can really achieve it. The problem is that you can be sure of you. Can the three grains of XinYuanXing never return?Can it grow?Or can you be sure that your faith and willingness at the moment is true?These are big questions!
If we can not leave the good knowledge in the process of learning, even if we don’t want to be like Yan Huifa’s wish not to leave the teacher at all times, at least we must be far-sighted and try not to leave the teacher or the same. Fellow fellows, in this case, we will be able to guarantee success. Why?The achievement of the Pure Land Method lies in being free from inclusions, doubts, and uninterrupted. If we can send our hearts and wish to recite the Buddha, of course we will not doubt. At least initially, we can be free from doubts. , Because of inclusion and greed, these are the habits of our ordinary people without beginning. You want to learn a little when you see this, and you want to learn a little when you see that, and you also think that I can supplement the teacher’s insights by myself. These knowledge and opinions are all wrong, they are self-righteous arrogance. Only one subject can be truly deepened, and only one subject can show your respect. With one teacher and one method, one subject until you reach Consummation, this is what you are. The fulfillment of truly respectful heart, if you double-heartedly do this and the other, it's greedy, it's not enough respect for the Fa and the teacher, and not enough respect and attention. It can be seen from this behavior.and then!It is even more difficult to achieve uninterrupted practice. You can recite the Buddha for a few days at most when you practice alone, or occasionally hit the Buddha Seven, and then go back to work in society, wow!Recently, the company’s business has been very good, it has made a lot of money, and it has a good opportunity. It is the same as the world. Unknowingly, the whole person is addicted to it again. Until the setback that day is encountered, he suddenly looks back. , I found out that I hadn't read the Buddha for a long time, maybe at that time, I would deceive myself and others, and comfort myself, oops, it's okay!Anyway, as long as there is faith and willingness, I will definitely be able to die. In fact, this quality of faith and willingness!It has long been unable to withstand the test, it's just that you are still deceiving yourself after you realize it.In a situation like this in the future, whether you can die or not, certainly not, because Master Yin Guang said: "One point of sincerity will get one point, and the ten directions will benefit very much." This is very obvious. It is very obvious to the teacher and the Fa. Without respect and sincerity, you won’t get any benefit at all, unless the predestined relationship is not sufficient, and there is really no chance to get close to the teacher anymore, and there is no way to practice with the co-participants anymore. Then this is a forced situation. It doesn't matter, there is no way, it is not that you are not sincere, and this does not prevent you from passing away.If you are half-hearted, uneasy and dishonest, of course you are not obedient, I believe there is absolutely no teacher who will ask you to come and learn again when you have time, there is no time for you to do your thing, it is impossible, and there is no teacher. You will not be required to devote yourself to the long-term perspective, because only in this way can we achieve it, so no matter what method we learn, first you have to choose your true corresponding method, and then you have to get close to the teacher’s good knowledge. If you can really generate respectful and good knowledge, then you must develop a long-term mind, and end it all, so that you can truly show your respect for studying the Fa, and of course you will be able to get the benefits of Consummation. This is to give you some examples, so that you can understand more deeply, what is respectfulness, and what is the standard of Buddhism disciples.
Next, I will give some negative examples. This is to remind fellow practitioners to avoid creating karma. These situations are also very common now. Not only do they have no respect for the Three Jewels, but they are also very disrespectful. As a result, they have created a lot of karma. There are also many kinds of people, right by our side.Let me give an example. Not long ago, it was within this month. It was also on the Internet. There was a person in charge of a certain dojo in Malaysia. She should be the person in charge, because she was on the Internet to inspire me to go to their dojo to teach the scriptures and preach the Dharma. , I won’t name the dojo, it’s in Malaysia. Like the last time I was going to spread the Dharma overseas, I have been to Indonesia and Singapore. The initiation of a dojo in Indonesia was also because of Facebook. They read my article. Tie Wensheng was happy, so he invited me to promote the Dharma.The president of this Malaysian dojo should be the president. She also asked me to go to their dojo to promote the Dharma on Facebook. At the time, I did not agree immediately. I said that the schedule has been arranged and will be arranged later if there is a cause.And she will come to initiate the request, and of course she has already agreed with me to do so. One day she asked a question to my message, which is a dialogue area where there is no public information. Her question is: "Master, please take a look. This three-time dharma meeting for protecting the country and alleviating disasters and praying for blessings is the same as the name?" We often hear the phrase "Is it true?" Is it the same way in the dojo?Is this mage doing it like the law?I hear it often, right?The question she is asking me now is that the name of this Fa conference is the same as the Fa?The first time she came to leave a message for questioning, she didn’t say a lot, but simply asked me like this, then I answered very plainly, and I said, “There’s nothing wrong with it!” I said, “Master Yinguang is protecting in Shanghai. The National Disaster Relief Fa Association, it is like this too!” I said, “There is also the enlightened master of our Jingzong Institute. Didn’t the old monk Jingkong make him a monk of the three-time system? Don’t they often initiate the method of protecting the country from disasters? Will it? Because I personally don’t know how to do it, so I didn’t pay special attention to the information in this area. I just had this concept in my mind, so I replied, and I said, “There’s nothing wrong with that!” and she I replied with a message. Of course, I did not agree with my answer. This message contained three to five hundred words.
Here I just briefly mentioned the key points of her words. Of the three to five hundred words, of course they are all her opinions. She said she did not agree with the name, and then she said a lot. She said that the old monk taught us to respect the teacher and respect the teachings!How can I delete the name of Master Zhongfeng?Use this blessing to replace the name of the patriarch. Isn't this a joke in the world?Waiting for such a long talk, very indignant. At first glance, it seemed that she wanted to protect the Buddhism and emphasized respect for the teacher, because she said that the name of Zhongfeng Patriarch should not be deleted, and then she cited the words of the old monk. "It's too late for us to eliminate the karma, what else do we want to pray for?"Because there are two words for blessing in this name!Her words are taken out of context, so don’t Buddhist disciples need to cultivate blessings?The old monk will never tell people not to cultivate blessings, only karma, but not blessings, so the old monk also depends on the target of his lectures. If it is to a sentient being like her, of course, he must say that it is too late for you to eliminate the karma first, and you still want to cultivate. What blessing?Some people only think of cultivating blessings in Buddhism!I have repaired a lot of blessings, but because of heavy karma, I often quarrel with people!Disagreement!Although it seems to have done a lot of things, there is no need to get together!I don't want to look back on myself and cooperate with everyone, so the employment barrier is very serious!For people like this, of course the old monk will certainly say that it is too late to eliminate the karma, and what kind of blessing you still want to cultivate. You must eliminate the karma first, and then the blessings you cultivate can truly be blessed!For such sentient beings, of course we will tell her this way, but it does not mean that everyone does not need to cultivate blessings. Because she does not agree with this name, she intercepted the sentence of the old monk at this time to explain the three o'clock. The name of the system cannot be used for blessing, it is not correct.After reading her long story, I spent a lot of time. I was jumping and watching, probably knowing that she was sulking, and then complaining to me.It is conceivable that this incident must have caused some disputes in their dojo, so she came to ask me, and I also know who is in charge of the monks in this dojo. I know the general situation. I look at this The visitor was not kind. She asked me this question, probably to find someone to agree with her point of view, or to support her. Fortunately, I was not in the middle. When I returned to her, it was very simple. I said just do what you want. Okay, I have no problem.If I say anything to her, just a few words or two. Whenever she thinks about it another day, she will talk to someone, and Master Renjing said...what is it, wow!Then I would be miserable. It was originally what she meant, but now I mean it again. I am a little smarter now, and I will not be misled and jump into this no trap.In fact, some people didn't intentionally harm you, but she is used to it!Because she needs someone to support her point of view, she will go everywhere and find a lot of people to support her argument, so that when she quarrels with others, she can say whoever is so...the same as mine. right?Then, aren't we all hit?So I simply answered her, I have no objection.it is good!Then I told her, because I didn’t want to have a bad relationship with her, I said tactfully: "Then do as you want, because I don’t usually participate in the Fa conference. I just persuade people to recite the Buddha, and I also talk specifically. Sutras, so I don’t have any opinion!” She would definitely accept this kind of answer, because I didn’t understand the Fa conference at first, so she was very satisfied after listening to it. She said thank the Master for reminding us to concentrate on the Buddha. It's over!Then, after a week or so, another question came up. In fact, it was related to the previous question, and the matter has not been resolved yet!She came to ask!She happened to see my post saying that everyone is causal and conceited in French. She felt that when she saw this, because she agreed with my teaching, but it happened that another master did not say that, it was their dojo. The mage.She asked me again, "Master Renjing, you said that causality is conceited, this is the law of the world! Everyone is like this! Then why are there other masters who say that if there is something in the dojo, it’s not as good as the law? It’s up to him to bear the cause and effect. Others don’t have to bear it. Does the mage have such a reason?" She is now questioning what the mage has said to her. At this time, if I also follow her to make judgments, then I must follow. She was going to comment on the right or wrong of the mage!Of course I won't fall for it.In fact, it seems that from this passage, she has different opinions from the mage, I guess!Because I didn’t take the initiative to ask for the details, I guess that is, if it is the name of the three-time system, because two people are in charge, one is a monk and the other is a layman. The two people have different views. I can’t hold on to it. As far as I know, the master is actually a very principled person. He will not be controlled by a layman. He also attaches great importance to Buddhist precepts, so that master might say this. If he insists on his position and practice, he will say: "If there is something in the dojo that is not as good as the law, the cause and effect will be negatived by him." This is my inference, but in fact, I am not sure if it is the case. But if this is the case, the mage is right when he said this sentence. What does this mean? It doesn't mean that the real cause and effect will become negative for him, but he has this intention!Have this determination!He is willing to bear all the consequences!His mind should be like this. It does not mean that he wants to deny the law of arrogance of everyone's cause and effect. This is not the case. It is only used to express his personal intentions, because he wants to stick to his practice, so if there is If something is wrong, it means that he will be responsible. It may mean that.She took this layman out of context to interpret it again, thinking that to say that the law was originally causal and conceited, so why can he say that the cause and effect are borne by him? Is there such a reason?So from the perspective of these processes, this layman will have her own unique interpretation of the textual understanding, so that communication with others will easily cause friction, right and wrong, and misunderstanding.That’s because it’s the second time she came to ask, and I also think that since she came to ask me innocently, then I’d better persuade her a few more words, but I didn’t participate in the comments here, I just persuaded her, I said that because everyone speaks with his position and reason, and others may not be able to understand it after listening.Because in my opinion, she did not really understand the meaning of the mage, so I persuaded her like this, just like in society, the husband and wife are talking, although they are a family, the husband and wife may not be able to understand. What the sir meant, there will be a misunderstanding!right?What's more, your layman has to understand what the monks say. One is to be a monk and the other is to be at home. The precepts are completely different. One is to be born and the other is to enter the world. It is really impossible to imagine.I personally became a layman and then I became a monk again, so I can understand that there is a big difference between the two. The direction of thinking and point of view are different. The lay family should never use their own standpoint to guess the thoughts of the monk, eight out of ten. Nine will guess wrong, and it is easy to misunderstand, so I specially reminded her, I said that everyone's standpoint is different, how do you know the motive and true meaning of the words of that Master?Therefore, we practitioners must know how to insight, we must cultivate ourselves, not others.At this time I really started to persuade her, whether she listened to it or not!Probably I can't listen to it, but I will do my duty. You have come to ask twice, and I always want to give you a little real Fa and tell you a little truth!I said that practitioners should look inward, and always observe their own three karma, and don't look at the right or wrong of others.Look at her, these two questions are all about the faults of others!I talked about it again and again, and then I told her, I said that not only do we practitioners do not look at the faults of others, but lay practitioners do not even look at the faults of the Three Jewels. This is a very big fault. In the end, you will definitely lose respect for the Three Jewels. , If you go to see the mistakes, you will definitely have no respect. If there is no respect, then you will never accomplish anything in your life in Buddhism.We just talked about so much before, just to emphasize the importance of respect. If a layman goes to see the faults of the Three Jewels, you certainly can’t have true respect, so you must know how to protect yourself, even if there is something wrong with the Three Jewels. It is their own cause and effect. We must know how to protect our pure heart. If you feel that this place is not as good as the Fa, this mage is a wicked master, and this dojo is not as good as the Dharma, it is a cult, then don't get close, won't you be fine if you leave?You don’t have to criticize, you don’t have to act as if you are acting for the heavens, as if yours is correct, and then you have to comment on them everywhere, or even confront them, and try to enlighten them (the Three Treasures). To elevate yourself too much, and forget your own position and duty. This is a very serious fault. It is not our position, not our duty, and it is not what we should do. We should not do it, nor can we do it well. Just like the precepts of our monks, the monks are determined by the monks!The precepts of monks, if the monks do wrong things, the monks meet and everyone decides that the laymen must not control the monks. This will cause problems in the precepts, let alone lose their respect, so this is very important.
This is a simple piece of persuasion I gave her, but I knew it was useless, because from the three to five hundred words in the previous article, the very exciting content knew that she would not easily accept my persuasion. Talking about this is just to do a little bit of personnel.After I answered her, I immediately posted the calligraphy written by our old monk "True monk, never see the world" to remind her with her so-called respectful old monk's words, because for her, I just Little Mage, our persuasion ability is limited!So I took out the teachings of the respectable Shangjingxiakong Master in her mouth as well, so it seems to be more powerful!Ask the old monk to come and bless her, and persuade her with me, then I respect the teacher too!right!It turned out that even the respectful teachings of the Master of Shangjingxia Kong that she usually talked about before the karma appeared didn't work at this time.She responded by leaving a message. At this time, her message was left directly on the news, not in private messages. This is what the whole world can see. Because my post was on news, she answered there, she Said: "She would rather be a sinner in the world than to allow the Master to behave in ways that are inferior to the law, because the state has national laws and the family has house rules." Wow!As soon as I saw this, I thought to myself, house rules!What house rules?Did you make it?What she meant may be her decision, because every dojo has a permanent residence agreement!She may be referring to this house rule.I thought to myself, wow!Our monks observe the precepts of the Buddha, as well as the jungle regulations set by the ancestors of the jungle. As for the dojo, of course, every place, like the spirit of our so-called precepts, also includes observing the law, observing the laws of the country, and observing all laws. This is all Yes, the spirit is covered by all the rules, but who makes this family rule?Then what is the standard?From this answer, we can see that she does not allow the mages to be inferior. Such a strong and strict attitude like this, the attitude of disciplining the monks, I am really shocked!So she had better not come and invite me to give them lectures, or she would wait on me with the incense board, because sometimes I would violate the family rules of the lay family by accident. I only want to abide by the Buddha's precepts. Dharma, I don't know much about the house rules set by the layman, and I don't know if I accidentally commit it, so it's better not to go.
This is a very specific example. I have made connections with many societies in Malaysia in the past two years. Most of the fellow practitioners in Malaysia I have seen are actually very kind, because the folkways here are very simple, but because they are very kind. When he came into contact with the Dharma, when he wanted to practice and protect the Dharma, his very passionate and dedicated attitude, and his spirit and behavior might not be comparable to fellow practitioners in other countries, then if his point of view is wrong It would also be terrible, as the old layman Li Bingnan said, why is there such chaos in Buddhism?It's just that there are too many "good people", and all these bigger right and wrongs are made by these people who think they are kinder and more motivated, and they don't know when they are creating karma.Look at the layman I just talked about, what mistakes did she make?She used the ring to quit others, not herself, right?Secondly, she misunderstood the meaning of the teacher's teaching, and used the old monk's words to support her argument to criticize others. This is disrespectful to the teacher.Generally speaking, disrespect of the Three Jewels, slander of the Three Jewels, and seeing others before, all of these have been committed. The rules are the karma of hell. It is terrible. I see that there are really many such people. Our feeling is very pitiful. People, because she did not intentionally, she is very motivated, but this motivation is based on her own point of view, her own preferences, and her own values. It does not follow Buddhism's commandments at all. It is because of curator Han Yu. The established Taoism, the layman is in charge of the family, so everyone does not think it is wrong, but you must know that the leader of the people Han Yu is really committed to support, so no matter how strong her behavior is, she has truly become a man after all. The Great Master (Old Master Jingkong), so she has her karma. If we want to learn, we must learn from her achievements, learn from her skills in guarding the law, instead of learning from her harshness to the monks. It would be bad if we learned it wrong.The Jingzong Society has this special family tradition, which is impossible in the jungle. So far, it is impossible for a layman to take care of the family in the jungles of China and Taiwan. There is simply no way to teach it!If it is such a reversal, how can your monks teach the Fa?How to go to propagate?There is no way to get the benefits of the law after talking about the layman, so this position must be placed right first, and absolutely cannot be reversed, because many of our laymen may not have anyone to teach, and no one dares to talk about it, because after talking to the laymen, the guardian will not protect it. So I don’t have a great protector. I haven't had a great protector for more than ten years. Now I finally come across a great protector who can truly respect the Three Jewels.In fact, I personally don't care about these, I am just loyal to my own duty, I am a person who promotes Dharma!I have to clarify the truth. I don’t have personal preferences or my own persistence. As a layman, how do you practice? Of course, you have personal karmic factors!If you aspire to be such a protector, and you just cultivate blessings, that’s okay, but what we want to make here is that even if you can really cultivate a little bit of blessings like this, at the same time you have created a lot of karma and you I don’t know that, even if you just want to be a protector, you just want to cultivate blessings and don’t want to practice, then you must know how to avoid creating karma, so you must learn, and you must build respect for the Three Jewels. With respect, you must You will put yourself in the right position. Even if you have your opinions, you are responsible for the management of the layman. The mage has the management of the mage. If you have any opinions, you can communicate, right?Don't use your own persistent perseverance. It seems that there is absolutely no room for communication. It is very strong.Because the curator Han Yun we learned is from Shandong, Ren Gao Ma Da looks really strong. I know that there are many scholars who have learned so. They really made a wish to learn from curator Han. If you learn from Han The curator's heart is very good to protect the Three Treasures, but you must learn the right things, don't learn them wrong.Now that the time has come, we will continue to explain this part tomorrow. We still have to cite some examples in-depth for this part of respect, so that everyone can fully understand and become a new concept in your own heart, and then put this foundation Really lay well.it is good!thank you all.Amitabha!
Yesterday we talked about the origin of the online teaching special class "Pure Land Sect of Taoism" on Facebook this year. To sum up this cause, it can be said that it is the arrangement of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, because no one can achieve it alone. With such a special predestined condition, I personally only act as a person who runs errands for the Buddha and Bodhisattva in this predestined condition. Therefore, I do not have any gain or loss at the moment when I am doing it. I just do my part according to the condition, and I only need to try my best to complete it.At the same time, I can also understand that everything in this world is nothingness, so in all kinds of creations, it can be seen as a game of supernatural powers. It is purely to learn from the Buddha and Bodhisattva to cultivate through falsehood. If we are in the phenomenal world, we will give rise to all kinds of phenomena. Delusion, separation, and attachment, which will not only have no merit, but will cause oneself to create endless reincarnation karma.
Next, we will explain the outline of this theory one by one. Before explaining it, we must first establish a very important foundation for practice, "respect the teacher and respect the path, and cultivate respect." If we do not practice this Root, it will be like steaming sand into rice, like we cook a pot of rice, but instead of rice, we put sand. This pot of rice cannot be cooked into rice no matter how it is cooked, so many of our fellow practitioners are very surprised. The heart cultivates blessings and wisdom in Buddhism. In the end, there is still no way to achieve it. The main reason is that there is a problem here, so I want to take everyone to study the outline of this theory, especially focusing on this foundation.Yesterday, we talked about our pre-class pre-teaching in the Facebook General Class. It has been nearly ten months. The fellow initiates have established a very good learning attitude, especially in respecting the teacher and cultivating fellow initiates. I spent a long time on this part of our respectful heart. Once the foundation is laid, I can see that almost every practitioner has achieved very fast achievements in absorbing Dhamma and life practice.When we started this course, a lot of fellow practitioners signed up because people who surfed the Internet had all kinds of motives. Most of the people who signed up were just watching the fun and getting together. Of course, they were sincere to learn Buddhism, but they were respectful. There is still no way to compare the foundation of the mind with our fellow practitioners in the Buddhist monastery. Even if there are people with good qualities and good roots, they don’t know how to show respect. This part is indeed very serious, so today it is especially important. Give everyone an in-depth explanation in this area.
For example, when we first signed up, there was a group of women from mainland China, who were about XNUMX or XNUMX years old. Let me give you this example to give you a taste of the current situation of young people.This little girl is a very smart girl who graduated from a university in Guangxi, mainland China. How smart is it?She is quite eloquent and has a good literary level. She also has considerable contact with Buddhism. She is also considered to be someone who has a relationship with Buddhism. She has been close to tantric masters, so she thinks she is a practitioner of Buddhism, but she is also considered a practitioner of Buddhism. Those with good roots know how to get close to the Three Jewels in their early teens and early twenties. This is also very rare, but because of the initial causes and conditions, they are exposed to the tantric cultivation method, and they have not learned from the basic precepts and rules. It has not established a respectful attitude towards learning. Tantric Buddhism actually places great emphasis on respecting teachers, so it is known as the Four Treasures. What is the extra treasure?Guru, you should treat your guru as a living Buddha and respectfully. This is a very important foundation for helping disciples to truly enter the mind in the Fa.Her so-called close to Tantra is actually not really apprenticeship and practice. It's just that the believers who have been in contact with the guru, of course, have learned some so-called mantras, teachings, etc. after contacting them for a while, and they will mistakenly think that they are also old I have practiced, and I heard her talking about the teachings. The little girl was very arrogant when she first came to sign up. All the photos of Anita Mui were posted on her dynamic platform. That was her idol. With the photos of the same person, you can imagine the personality of this person, how chic and self-willed, the kind of person I want to do whatever I want, no matter what others think of such a person.Most people in the dynamics introduce their own life and so on. All of her dynamics contain only a photo of an idol. It can be seen that this person's personality is also quite unique.When she came to sign up, she told me that it was because she saw that my Dharma was solemn and wanted to come close to Master. With such a simple idea, she did not come for the Dharma after getting close, because she was already close to the Tantric master. , I also feel that I have already practiced very well. In other words, I just want to come and make friends, but I never make friends with people after I became a monk. I only communicate with fellow teachers and friends. The teaching of the discussion class is purely presented in the nature of the classroom. She never intended to make friends. Because she wanted to come close to me, of course, she thought of signing up for the general discussion class first. Then I still accept it. You can sign up on an equal basis, but after you sign up, it will be reviewed by me for a period of time, and you have to write a pre-class report to make sure that you are in line with our goals in law, so that you can be admitted and enter our specialization. Class in the club of the class.
這個小朋友，一剛開始來報名的時候習氣毛病非常的重，因為她把我當成朋友，所以很沒大沒小，但嘴巴卻很甜，一來就經常讚歎師父，師父您好莊嚴，我最喜歡您了，從來沒有看過法師像您這麼莊嚴…，真是什麽話都講得出來，而且讓你聽得還挺自然真誠的，因為她那種人感覺上就是很不屑於說謊的人，性格很酷的小女生，口才也很好，脾氣很任性，不太給人面子，很多人都知道臉書Facebook這個平臺內容是全世界的人都可以看到，對於這樣一個口沒遮攔又帥氣的小女生，剛來的時候雖然好像表現得很友善，是為了仰慕我而來結緣的，但實際上她那個態度是非常的不恭敬的，而她自己卻不曉得，很多規矩也都不懂，像講話用詞等等，但她又認為那是很帥氣，想把我當哥兒們這樣子的語氣在她來講都覺得沒什麽，因為她認為她要來找我就表示她喜歡我才要來，這就已經給足了我面子了，像她這樣現代的年輕人也不少，我們班上有一些擔任助教的同修看到她的任性言行，就會主動好意的想要勸導她，而當這些助教柔聲地勸她一兩句時，她會立刻給你回敬五六句，到最後再沒有人敢勸她，因為她口才很好，也沒有人講的過她，像這樣的一個情況，我一看沒辦法，那只好我親自出馬了，這一定要馬上糾正她才行，要不然這不好的示範對其它同修也會有不良的影嚮，所以我一開始對她的糾正就非常的嚴厲，而且我也不打算花太多時間在這上面，因為如果你真是有心要來學習，你就必須要有誠意遵守這裡的規矩，所以通常我也不會有很多機會給對方，頂多勸一次兩次，如果她不聽我就會請她離開。還好這個小朋友很聰明，眼色很好，助教勸她都沒有用，師父一講話，馬上遵命！還會很撒嬌的講，讓你完全都無法對她生氣，而且你一定會原諒她，像這樣的一個小女生，確實到目前為止我們社團錄取的二十個人中，這些人從十八歲到六十幾歲都有，每個人的口才都不能跟她相比，因為她確實是很伶牙利齒，在佛學名相上也有底子，算得上是言之有物的人，但問題是她的思想性情很不穩定，完全沒有一個中心思想，喜歡天馬行空的漫談打妄想，這就是雜修無戒的結果，但這小女孩也算是很用功，所以她的傲氣也是有她的因緣條件，像這樣的一個情況，剛開始教她規矩她都會聽而且改得很快，我才一糾正她，她會馬上就改，譬如我告訴她她平台上梅艷芳偶像要全部改放法語，她說改就改，因為我很清楚現代的人，你要是慢慢勸他，你要懂規矩啊！你要好好學佛，好好持戒，這些籠統的話，一般上是沒有什麽效果的，因為對方就算想聽話也不知道怎麼做，這是我的經驗之談，所以我現在教學生就會直接要求學生你就怎麼做，哪裡需要改進，如果真的願意學的人通常就會馬上改，我一講，這小女生她就馬上改，而且全部換上我的教學內容，全部哦！所以你看她這個性格很酷喔！然後又把她的大頭照換成我的照片，就把我當偶像供在那裡，而且她在分享我們的法語貼文也都很主動很積極，做的比起其他同修毫不遜色，一下轉過來就有這麼大的改變，超過其他同修的發心，這些表現都很好，但是後來我還是決定不錄取她，為什麽？因為我細細觀察之後，這一些東西其實都還是在於一個表面服從，表面的恭敬，這些行為只要有一點小聰明的人都可以做得到，但我觀察人是從內心，從骨子裡去觀察，這個小女生其實親近我，真的就像是她最初講的就只是看到我的相，生歡喜心而已，並不是真心想跟我學法，雖然也來課前預習一段時間，對淨土法門也認為不錯，但就只是不錯而已，對於過去這些密法以及雜修的這些習氣並沒有想改，沒有真正想要放下，當然這對她來講如果要這樣要求也是很難為，因為她本來就不是要來修淨土的，她來只是要來親近我，所以才隨喜學習淨土法門，而學了一段時間教理之後她也覺得不錯，將來也要求生極樂世界成佛比較究竟，這個教法她也能夠吸收，問題是我們凡夫眾生的習氣業力真的不可思議，經上講：眾生業力不可思議，即使已經在事相上，為了討我的歡喜心，也為了珍惜這個法緣，方方面面都做的很好，可是因為她的個性不穩定，心不定當然就會顯示出想交男朋友，想去吃喝玩樂，想去雜修，特別以前還有修密法的習氣，事實上那也談不上修密法，真正修密法是非常嚴格，要先做四加行，大禮拜十萬拜，持咒十萬遍等等，也是需要踏踏實實修行的，修密法不是像一般人概念，你只要親近過上師給你灌個頂你就是在修密法，不是這樣子的。因為她這一些背景，雖然不能要求一下放下，可是至少你要有那個心，後來我觀察發現她沒有這個心，而且最重要的是性情不穩定，思想也偏差，因為裝了很多名相之後，我們反而很難去糾正她主觀的看法，這種學生最不好教，主觀意識很強，所以有事沒事她就會經常到我的訊息找我聊天，說說她的觀念，有事沒事來找我訴苦，談心事，高興的時候也來找我講些五四三，就全然把我當朋友對待，那各位想看這要花掉我多少時間，最糟的是她對於我要教授的淨土法門都只是很輕忽的帶過，換句話說應付嘛！跟著大家一起看貼文然後按讚，這一個部份如果沒有深入的去觀察是看不出來，因為表面上她都是做的很積極，她自己也不是故意的，但是我從這裡觀察到這個學生不好教，知見上的問題，再來就是心也不定，我們這是專修的課程，如果心不定也沒有辦法成就。那為什麽她會有這些現象，除了過去宿世以來的習氣之外，主要還是因為沒有恭敬心，不懂的恭敬心，又因為她相當有主見，又非常執著的人，所以要調教也不容易。通常我教學生，選擇會比較嚴格一點，就像《阿彌陀經》上講的，淨土法門的成就「不得以少善根、福德、因緣得生彼國」，如果是少善根少福德的人是無法成就的，因為我們並沒有講很多很深奧的理論，我們不是專以理論來接引眾生，而是仰靠佛力加持，是靠眾生自己的善根福德的，所以如果是要透過一些理論辯論的教學，那不是我們淨土法門的修法，我個人也覺得不需要把時間花在根性還沒有成熟的眾生，但是我們還是會平等的給大家先種個種子。最後她就是因為恭敬心不具足，我就決定請她離開並沒有讓她正式進入專修班的社團裏學習。這是舉一個真實的例子，因為像這麼聰明也跟我緣份很好的人，因為不懂恭敬心，本身性情也很難受教，所以我就忍痛捨棄這樣的一個學生，我是以勸退的方式告訴她，我說你要不要考慮一下到動態裏去參學比較自由，剛開始她還很不服氣，馬上就質問我，為什麽？還質問我為什麼？大家可以想像這種個性，我如果真的讓她上我們的課，那我真的很快就剩下半條命，一天到晚就必須要跟她解釋為什麽？而且還要解釋到她高興，不然就很麻煩的，以後你們若有機緣當了老師你們就明瞭了，我們教學生是要考慮方方面面的問題，因為眾生的煩惱無盡，我們也要避免她造業，即使我們有能力來處理，也不必要浪費太多的時間，產生很多的波折，當時我也預料到她會這樣回應，她問為什麽，我就心平氣和的告訴她，因為你沒辦法完全遵照我的要求，我們的班規很嚴格，這樣講的話她就沒有話說，也就接受了，接受了以後，通常我們這個班被勸退學的或者自己覺得種種因緣沒辦法繼續上課的人大多還都會留在臉書動態上自學，因為在動態這個部份是自由的，沒有受到班規的限制，她也就在動態自修了一段時間一直到現在已經過好幾個月了，期間還有三次還來跟我吵著要回家，想要再像以前一樣回到我們班來旁聽上課。所以這個法緣也算是不淺，這三次當中我也曾差點心動，因為我也是儘量不捨任何一個眾生，而且一開始我也曾很用心的接引她，希望能夠幫助她，因為她年紀輕，在佛門也難得能有心學習，人也聰明機靈，甚至還期望將來她可以出家弘法利生，像這樣的對象我們當然會非常的隨喜，希望她能夠成就，所以當她幾次來吵著要回家時，我也是有點考慮，不過後來我還是堅持沒答應，堅持的原因主要還是考慮到恭敬心的問題，所以我們要知道，如果學法沒有具備恭敬心，你也很難遇到善知識真正願意教你，你看我們很多老同修在佛門裏面修學幾十年，為什麽都沒有辦法得到修行的利益，沒有辦法降伏煩惱開啟智慧，就是因為不懂得恭敬心，這個部份很多人都不懂，也並不是不願意做，是根本不懂，所以才有必要我們在這裡再深入的來研究學習。
To give another specific example, once this kid was interacting with me, she asked me to say, Master, I think it’s good to talk about the Pure Land method, but because I’m very busy, what else do I usually do..., so You only need to teach me the part of faith and willingness, and the other parts are unnecessary.That's how she talked to me. Do you think this is respectful?I believe she has absolutely no malice, and she still feels very close to Master, because Master looks very compassionate!She is not good at swearing (she had not been rewarded by me at the time, because the initial fate was not deep enough, I would be more controlled when she started.), she came to ask me like this, I saw her message at the time, she was In my private message, this conversation was not open to the public, so I answered her immediately, and that was the first time I gently rewarded her.I said you should listen to me clearly. It's not that you told me that I should teach you something, but that you have to do what I teach you. This is the respect for the teacher. Do you understand it?Many fellow practitioners don’t know how to respect the teacher. Just like this example, many people are like this. Although you didn’t directly ask Master to ask for it, it’s fine if you teach me these things. I don’t want some of them, but in your heart Do you think so?Look at it for yourself, right?You will pick what I want to learn, this dojo, these things I want to do, those things I don’t want to do, the things that the master teaches, I am more interested in this part, and that part is too difficult and too boring. If it doesn't suit my appetite, then what will happen to you, you will act like yin, even if you don't show that you don't accept it, what will the master say in front of the master, hey!Okay, yes, yes, I know, but is there anything behind it?Nothing!right?Although she is not as direct as this kid, she is just more frank and has not concealed herself. In fact, nine out of ten people are like her, and they are not as frank as her, so don't think that you are really respectful, right. wrong?Think about it for yourself, it's just that you didn't notice it yourself, and even you still think that if I am willing to come to study the Fa today, isn't it because I am already very respectful?Look at the people outside who asked him to listen to the Fa, but they still refused. I already have a good root. I will devote some money to provide for Master when I have nothing to do, and sometimes I will devote myself to protect the temple. I am already great as a volunteer, and I am respectful!These are not called respectfulness. If you think about it, no matter how much you do these things, it is because you like what you want to do, not because you should do it, right?When we are giving, ordinary people will be obsessed with the fact that I am giving, how many things we have done, how much credit we have, and how kind we are, but we rarely look at whether we have something we should have done right now. You can do it selflessly without asking for joy?For example, if you go to the dojo to practice, the dojo didn't collect money from you!Master taught you and didn't charge you tuition!Does that mean that everyone has obligations that he should take the initiative to fulfill?But most people seldom think of these things, they only notice the part that they have already paid, and then proudly admire themselves. In fact, these things you do, after all, are done for your own preferences, and they are all your own. Selfishness.It's like a boy saying that he loves a girl, if it's just to possess her, is his love true?No, if you really love a girl, you will definitely do things that are beneficial to her. Usually, men and women quarrel with each other because they each have what they want. When the other party can no longer satisfy you, love deteriorates. So this This kind of love is based on what I like. I like the way you look, so I love you, because your condition happens to be what I like, so I love you. This kind of love is fake. What is this love? ?It’s your own desires. What you really love is your own desires instead of this object. So when the object becomes ugly and it’s not the condition you like, you don’t like it anymore, so this kind of love is false. of.In the same way, you volunteer at the dojo to support the Three Treasures and so on. The part you did is actually just that you are in a good mood, and then you think you can do it for others, or it’s okay. I don’t ask for anything in return. I still have Dao Xin, so I am willing to do this. The standard of this level is still determined according to my mood and preference. This way, I still have no real respect and sincerity. Real sincere respect is completely compliant with the teacher's standard, XNUMX%. Obedient, without your own meaning, completely follow the rules of the Three Treasures of Buddhism, instead of following the standards of your own preferences. What you want to do according to your own wishes, no matter how much you do, you can’t be regarded as truly respectful. Is this clear? ?This is very difficult to understand, and it is not easy to talk about. You have to experience it yourself, because it is difficult for ordinary people to detect, you will definitely be in the picture!So the more you do, you will feel that you are very supportive and respectful of the Three Jewels, you support so many mages, you support so many dojos, and your respect is enough. In fact, it is not necessarily true. These are just superficial, you Doing so much is because you are happy now, that day you were upset and scolded by the master, then you would not do it, right?The true respect is what the teacher wants you to do, what the dojo needs you to do, and even if you are not capable, you will do your best to ask yourself to do it. This is called respect. If you can master this principle, then It's not that you do more and less about things, but that you are doing your best.
For example, if you donate more and donate less, this is not the point. The point is whether you have done your best to achieve the teachings taught by the master, and truly protect the Three Jewels as best as you can. Usually, the teacher will teach us to follow the practice. From the beginning, from giving alms, giving away our internal and external wealth, and then further abandoning our greed and worries, if you really work hard to do it, this is true respect, follow the teachings, and will not say that the teacher teaches you one. Concept, teach you a commandment, telling you to do something, you don’t listen to it right away, but you also talk about a lot of reasons to debate, like this little girl, it must be like this, and there are debates all day long. She will have a lot of her own ideas, and she will think that she will ask questions because you are the teacher and you are the teacher!So you should solve my doubts!As a result, endless questions will be raised anytime and anywhere. These behaviors and attitudes, for us as practitioners, are all climactic narratives, especially the fundamental nature of pursuing the Pure Land Method. You must be honest and obedient. If you teach you just one sentence, you just need to be honest and obedient. In a word, this kind of students are those who have mature roots of goodness and mature sexuality as Buddha roots. If there is no way to be respectful and obedient, then it is difficult for you to get started in the Pure Land Method. Why?Because you have developed respect for the teacher now, you will be able to have respect for Amitabha Buddha in the future. If a living person helps you in front of you, you can't have a respectful heart and follow the teachings. Where is the Buddha?I haven't seen it yet, will you truly respect the Buddha?Besides, he doesn't know what you are doing badly anyway, so will you really follow the teachings?Harder.So why the status of the Tantric Guru even surpasses that of the Buddha is because the Guru is the representative of the Buddha, and he shows that a living person comes to contact with you, directly teaches you, points out your shortcomings, guides you to teach, and enables you to have a personal life. The feeling of practice, so in terms of the close relationship of practice, it is indeed better than the Buddha, because the Buddha is invisible and invisible, and your knowledge of the Buddha is only a fate in theory, so the role of the guru is in Tantric Is particularly important.Personally, my choice of students is so strict, because our class is guaranteed to become a Buddha. In order to achieve this goal, I have to be so rigorously screened. Otherwise, I just choose to join the class. Then I will be very hard to teach. I'm sure that half-life is gone. How can I help every fellow practitioner to achieve smoothly? As long as I meet a kid like this, it's enough, so I must strictly check it.
On the other hand, we can also use this example to look back. If we want to encounter a good kind of knowledge today, and truly teach us the kind that we hope we can achieve, should we have respect?It must be, otherwise I promise you will never meet it.So you see that there are many masters in Buddhism, and there are many magic weapons, but can you really find a master who is really willing to teach you?It's difficult. Most people are actually self-taught. What is the real master like?It is a person who teaches you directly, can point out your habits and problems in time, and knows your personality well. This is a true good master, those famous masters, if you can’t get close to you, unless he has his own mind, Otherwise, as far as you are concerned, no matter how good his practice is, no matter how famous he is, he will not be able to bless you. If you think of the master’s CD, it is easy to make mistakes. Then, for you, he is not the best kind knowledge. The real good knowledge is someone who understands you, and this person might be your parents, the elders around you, as long as you are bound to him and you are willing to listen to him, he also has the wisdom of the Dharma, then he is your true Good knowledge.Is there such a person by your side?There are very few people like this around us. The people around us are often not convinced by anyone, but we are the best. The so-called grieving monk society!So now even parents dare not teach their children!There are many elders who persuade their children, what is the result?There have been incidents of being killed by children, and some young people nowadays are terrible.
There was an example in Taiwan not long ago, but in fact, Taiwan is really a beautiful treasure island, and the relatively bad examples I cited now are actually a few.There is a high school boy, because he was brought back and raised by his adoptive grandparents. He was behaved when he was a child. When he was in high school, he turned bad. After he got bad, his grandfather would sometimes say a few words to him, telling him not to be upset. The class was watching TV at home all day, so Grandpa persuaded him and only read him a few times!One night, this little grandson killed his grandpa with a knife, and he was very vicious. Even the fruit knife was bent, stabbing a total of XNUMX knives, and his heart was almost dug out. In the middle of the night, his grandpa was injured and escaped. , Fled to grandma's room and called for help. The little grandson then threatened his grandma not to call the police. After that, he calmly said that after I took a hot bath, I would call the police and surrender.Don’t think it’s his conscience!He had already figured out the cause and effect. He said that since I was only seventeen years old, even if I surrendered, could you keep me locked up for a few years?He thinks like this!With such a cruel behavior, he didn't have any shame or horror after he finished the killing karma. Anyway, he would be out after a few years at most, what a terrible thought!Then why did he kill him?It's just grandpa reading him a few words!Look at what we are in our lives now, and we want to meet too few people who can truly persuade us and who are willing to point out our problems. Who is willing to take the risk to offend others!So if we want to practice, we want to break the evil and cultivate the good, and want to improve our state, we must first teach you a good teacher with a sense of sincerity. It is absolutely impossible to achieve blind practice by ourselves, but it is easy to take detours and go the wrong way.How can we feel good knowledge?That is, what we just said must be respectful, so don’t underestimate this part. You don’t even understand it and you don’t even notice it. So the time of entering Buddhism just passed in the blink of an eye, but the Dao Karma did not make any progress. The problem is Out of this place.
Let me cite a few more easy-to-understand examples to illustrate what is meant by respect.There is a disciple who is a monk. If the master wants to go out, he will explain to the disciple that the flowers and plants in the dojo must remember to water the flowers every day. After the explanation is complete, he will leave. Only two days after he left, it started to rain. It rained every day in a row, you guys. Guess whether this apprentice watered the flowers?Should I water the flowers?Normal people would feel so stupid. What do they do when it rains?Waste water, right?This is called being smart, according to the standards of practice, this is called being smart. In terms of world law, smart, this person is very smart, you see that he will plan not to waste the water that he lives in, and the rain has already been poured. What are you doing!Watering is also necessary. The person who waters it is a fool. If this is true according to the standards of the worldly law, what is the perspective of the practice of the worldly law?As far as the master and apprentice are concerned, the apprentice and the master, you can see why Zen can use heart initiation as a method of spreading the Fa. It means that there must be considerable tacit understanding and trust between the master and the apprentice, so that your Fa can be taught. , Then this trust starts with being obedient. After being obedient for a long time, you will have a tacit understanding and trust with each other. Otherwise, what the master will tell you today, I think this kid might not know what he wants to make, or he might not follow suit. , Then it is impossible to generate trust, so sometimes too smart apprentices are not easy to teach. It is all his own knowledge and opinions. He still wants to tell the truth, yes!I think it's right!I am saving water for my permanent residence!What's wrong with this?
It also seems to be right. The problem is that he committed one of the most unpleasant mistakes, that is, being disobedient and not straightforward. We often say that straightforwardness is a dojo, and people in the world are determined to distinguish between what is good, what is bad, and what is right. What is wrong, and practice is about cultivating the mind. A good apprentice will be very obedient. He still waters when it rains every day. It seems to be a little waste of water, or even stupid, but that's in terms of the situation!In terms of xinxing, he can actually show respect and obedience to the master. Then such apprentices and masters must trust him, and the Fa passed to him must be unreserved, because the master knows that the Fa he teaches will never deteriorate, otherwise When it is passed to him in the future, it will change, and even misunderstood your meaning. Some are even more wicked, and later repaired. Before that arrogant trouble appeared, he turned his head to confront the master and completely overthrew it. Master’s teaching of the Fa, saying that it’s not Master’s, and to show that you are blue from blue and better than blue, with a higher level of enlightenment, isn’t the consequence very serious?Therefore, for those disciples who know very seriously, Master will basically not teach you too much, especially the Mind Fa. Can you understand this?Therefore, we must learn to be straightforward in our practice. We must not be smart. We must be obedient. You can get some benefits as much as you can. You can start by listening to your parents, and you can usually start to practice by listening to the elders. Of course, this elder is also You need to be respectful. If you think there is a problem with him, of course you can’t do it completely, but everyone should know that the standard of practice is different from that of people in the world. Practice is to put aside life and death. Master tells you to die from this cliff. Jump up and down, dare you?This is to be more thorough with the straight-hearted person. The straight-hearted person is the master who tells you to jump, and you just jump without saying anything. Even if you tell you to die, you must die. You have to let go of life and death!Anyway, I believe that Master will never harm you.In Zen Sect, some masters have any weird tricks to make their disciples enlightened, and they all have beaten, scolded, kicked and insulted!If you don't accept, doubt, turn around and leave, or even end a grievance, then of course this Fa will not be passed on, right?Must stand the test of this thrilling process.
There is an example in the Buddhist scriptures. One person looks stupid. This is not a master or apprentice, but the meaning is close. One person is stupid, and the other is clever. He deliberately wants to punish this stupid person and tell him one day. , You jump from this tree, you jump down to the cliff, after you jump down, you can fly to the sky and become a god, this fool he really believes, he believes in a simple way, he really obediently jumps Go down, because he is convinced that everything is ideal!What's the result?He really ascended to heaven and gained the Tao. This truth is very deep, and it is completely in line with truth and cause and effect, that is, a phenomenon that all wishes come true.The person who lied to him looked at it and thought about it! (Taiwanese) How could this be?I just talked to him casually about how he really got the Tao. I also tried that day, but he died after jumping off.People are truly straight-hearted and have no doubts, he has a try!right?That with different intentions, the power of thoughts is so different!So if your master tells you to jump off, then he definitely has his intentions, and he is responsible for the cause and effect. Do you dare to listen?If you dare to listen, your disciple rules will achieve XNUMX points!Because you have even entrusted your life to Master. This is the best disciple. You can’t find this kind of person anymore in the modern era of Dharma end, because nowadays the roots of greed, hatred, ignorance, slowness, and suspicion are particularly serious. You have to doubt your distrust, and you can't help but doubt your master.When I was a child, I didn’t believe my grandmother. She passed away last year. We have sent her to the Paradise to be a Buddha. My grandmother loves me very much. I absolutely believe this, but even though she loves me, I still doubt it. Her wisdom, because her old man didn’t read much. Once my ears were sore and painful. The old man didn’t have enough common sense and thought it was an ant running in. So she poured water into it desperately, trying to drown it out. As a result, The already inflamed ear hurts worse, and I won’t believe what my grandmother said anymore after that time.So if we meet someone who we can’t generate respect and trust, of course you can’t be XNUMX% obedient, and there may be trouble if you obey. Therefore, it is also important for us to choose good knowledge. Once we choose with our heart, we should truly obey the Fa. After that, then your disciple rules must be implemented. This is the disciple rules. What you just talked about tells you to jump off, you don’t need to die. This is XNUMX points to achieve the disciple rules. Of course, these rules on the surface of the disciples It's very important, but what really lies at the core is to be XNUMX% respectful and obedient to the teacher.
The so-called respect is that you are completely obedient, completely obedient, understand attentively, and accept the instructions of the teacher. You will follow all the teachings of the teacher. You will not behave in violation of the law, and will not be smart. Often many people will be smart and think. There are even better ideas than the teacher that can be done better. It seems to be very hard-hearted, but in fact you think that the master's intelligence is not as good as you, and it is not as good as you!Your method will be better, right?This is disrespect. Many people are easy to commit this, but they are not aware of it. They feel that they just kindly want to make Master's account better and more perfect!Therefore, in the process, the concept of doing things before will be used, especially those with strong ability, or some big protectors, big business people, it is more likely to fall into this problem, and use their existing secular concepts to implement the master’s account. I want to wait for Master’s praise after I have done it. In fact, it’s totally wrong. It should be to receive the incense board instead of accepting the praise. This is to completely do not understand the Buddhism disciples rules. The true disciples rules are to completely believe in Master. Accept, if you use your own ideas and practices, it will show that you have doubts about or disagree with Master's explanation.Is it true that Master’s account is really worth questioning as a disciple?Usually it’s not. Since he is a master, he has the skill and method of teaching, as well as his own realm. This level is often beyond the imagination of disciples, so let’s talk about home practice and monk practice. It’s something on a completely different level, and why the laymen can’t respect the monks, just write on the picture, thinking that I have been in the society for decades, and the career has been so big and so successful, and you What can this little maotou who has just become a monk understand?It is often such a mentality.You must know that in terms of the standards of the birth law, the more social experiences you have, the greater the pollution. Those are exactly what the Buddha wants us to let go. After letting go, our original pure face will only appear. So these What do you think is the strong ability is the Shizhi Biancong mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures. It is often a kind of pollution and heavier attachments. On the contrary, young monks and nuns do not have these burdens. They are very simple, maybe very straightforward. Just like the master we just talked about told him to water the flowers and water them as if it was raining, this kind of person is easy to gain the Tao, his realm is higher than you, and his heart is more pure, so he has the predestined condition to become a monk!Are you willing to call you a monk?You still can't let go of the five desires and six dusts!
Therefore, the level of state, whether the mind is pure or not, and the level of merit are not determined by you subjectively, but naturally there is a standard law in the Dao. We can all explain these principles and phenomena very clearly, and they all follow us in the scriptures. It’s very clear. The purer our minds, the less attachments to delusions. This is the standard, right? After attaining Buddhahood, you will become a Buddha after all delusions and attachments are fully implemented. Before you become a Buddha, you will become a Buddha. Before you become a Buddha, you will become a Buddha. The lighter the person is, the more selfless the person is. Master can do whatever the master says, even if you don’t even have a life. As far as this standard is concerned, the higher your skill and the purer your heart. Usually, those people are more likely to be. Can it be done?Those who are monks with simpler minds and look stupid are as foolish as they are, his realm is the highest!It’s just that you don’t have prajna wisdom and cannot understand, you can only use world standards to measure the depth of other people’s kung fu, so it is not easy for you to develop respect for young monks. In fact, you have misunderstood these obstacles. We must first remove these obstacles. Only then can there be a way to be respectful to the Three Jewels, and then be able to feel the cause and fate of the true teaching of good knowledge.
Take another example, this effort is even higher!In the jungle, the abbot wants to pass the throne to his successor, who would he usually choose?You see, sometimes thousands of people live in the jungle, and there are many talents. How does the abbot choose his successor?In the past, there was a typical Koan. A foreign monk went to Shifang Jungle to place an order to participate in school, because the foreign guest monk was usually excluded. You were not here for the shaman!It’s just because it’s a jungle in the ten directions, so you can still hang up the order. Some of the residents in it are ordinary after all, and they will somehow exclude the guest monks. He will only be sent to do rough work, picking big manure to make vegetable fertilizer, and he is not allowed to enter the hall. Listening to the scriptures, this is also a rule. If you are a new monk, the seniority is relatively low. According to the precepts, in the first five years, the male bhikkhus must learn to serve the teacher in the first five years. The female bhikkhus are six years old. If you can learn the scriptures, you must first lay the foundation of the precepts, cultivate blessings and eliminate karma, cultivate respect, serve the teachers, learn how to be a good disciple, that is, learn the disciplines of Buddhism. This will take five years. In six years, I will lay a foundation and learn bit by bit in life.Then this person, after he goes to the jungle to place an order, of course he must start from these basics, and the treatment he receives is more difficult than ordinary people who work step by step and study in the permanent residence. Everyone looks down on him and often finds opportunities to fix him. , Deliberately troubled him, even the abbot ignored him. All this was seen in his eyes but he didn’t say anything. The abbot usually understood everything. He just kept silent on purpose until one day he was about to announce his succession. People, this guest monk has never gone in to listen to the passing!But on the day of passing the throne, the monk abbot sent someone to call him to the hall, and everyone guessed it!They are all very clever, pass the seat to him, let him take over the position of the abbot.
The abbot usually observes and tempers him quietly. On the surface, he ignores him. It doesn’t matter if others bully him. He deliberately wants to observe his roots, and he deliberately wants him to hone his mind to a certain level. To the extent that it is certain that this person can really bear the burden of the family business in the future and bear all the hardships, it is not that simple to be a leader of the Sangha!If you are often held in the palm of your hand, or if you just understand some texts and do not have the ability to practice concentration and wisdom, there will be problems with such a person to lead the Sangha, so you really need to be able to withstand the tempering. Even some masters often cheer you directly. Such talents are those who are really facing the realm of cultivation and can achieve real kung fu. People with discerning eyes will definitely give him important positions.
The same is true for our Fa study. If we go to the dojo today, we always like to have privileges, even alas!I went to see the old monk, the old monk treated me very well!They all invite me to eat and sit at the same table, so it is good to have face. The guardians all greet me very thoughtfully and go around to promote it and feel that they have a lot of face!In fact, a discerning person knows that you are definitely not what the old monk wants to teach.From here, we must be vigilant about what kind of person we want to be. If you want to be a true spiritual practitioner, then you don’t expect your master to be gentle with you, but to expect master to teach you and fix you. Why should Master teach you?It’s that you have to let the master know that you can be taught, that you can be truly obedient, and that you are truly a Dharma implement. You can teach as much as you can to the master. Master is definitely a discerning person, and the realm must surpass you. Of course, if you don’t treat the master like this Your respectful heart is not suitable for relying on him to learn. You can find another Dharma predestined. If you can have a sincere respect for Master, this must also be the Dharma predestined forged in the old world.Choosing to follow the standard of Master’s evaluation is not based on reputation, education, and status. The most important thing is that we must first have the conditions for practicing Dharma tools. Naturally, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will help us arrange good knowledge to guide us. This Koan What I said here is a typical representative who can receive the Dharma.
There is another example. What kind of disciple does the master usually like the most?This is not necessarily the person who wants to teach the Fa. If you want to be the abbot and manage the jungle, then your mind must be very strong. And the example I want to cite is Confucius and Yan Hui, a pair of teachers and students, everyone knows The student that Confucius loves most is Yan Hui. It is not only because Yan Hui has good virtues and can really live in peace and happiness, he does not pursue all the five desires in the world, and he can do the Tao with one heart. There are also many excellent people among Confucius’ disciples. Some people are determined to be officials to serve the country, and some are to be businessmen to support their parents. Everyone has different ambitions. These are very good disciples, and Confucius is also very dedicated to teaching, but why do you say Confucius? Which is the most painful?It's not just Yan Hui's noble morals. Do you know what Yan Hui's greatest wish is?His biggest wish is not to make money to support his parents, nor to be an official to serve the country. His biggest wish is not to leave his teacher all the time, so the teacher loves him the most. That is why, if the result, Confucius loves him the most and it is not because Confucius loves him the most. Selfish!It’s not because this disciple Yan Hui loves to stick to him very much. If he is very sticky, the little girl I just raised is the cutest and the person who will play coquettishly with me the most. All day long, she said generously and naturally about Master Daen. I love you the most. She often said this and left messages in Facebook posts, but in the end I still didn’t accept her as a student in our wide-ranging class, so the relationship between teachers and students is definitely not based on emotional standards. , But the predestined condition according to law, the first thing to pay attention to is predestined condition.Yan Hui's own ambition is to never leave the teacher. This shows that he emphasizes the Dhamma the most. If you really emphasize the Dhamma, you will definitely not leave the teacher. You must feel that being close to the teacher and studying the Fa is the most important thing in life, so Confucius's disciples Among them, only Yan Hui can hear one and know ten, Zigong; the other is originally a very smart businessman, who can also know one or two after learning the Fa, but only Yan Hui can hear one and know ten. No one among the classmates is wrong. Yan Hui’s moral knowledge is convincing, so Yan Hui has the closest relationship with his teacher. He really devotes himself to learning the Fa with good knowledge, so he naturally wants not to leave the teacher at all times, although he has been living until his deathbed. It was still very difficult. Many classmates persuaded him to become an official and make money. He would not accept him if he wanted to introduce him to him. He said that his biggest wish in his life was not to leave the teacher at all times. In the end, when he succeeded in Dao industry, he did not accept it. Continue to stay with the teacher, cooperate with Confucius to organize "Spring and Autumn", and do these things, which is equivalent to doing the work of spreading the Fa. It is very meaningful and has immense merit. This is the best model of Fa-study, and it is worthy of respect for everyone to imitate. .What are the ambitions of Confucius' other students?The Fa of the world, he ran to do other things, and you learned it to serve the country. This is all very good, but the Fa taught by the teacher is not in the first place, and no one can do the same with respecting the teacher and the Tao. Yan Hui is so thorough, right?Therefore, he is the best model. Of course, everyone does not necessarily have to achieve this high standard. Many students of Confucius have also made good contributions in the end. What Yan has learned to the maximum limit is considered to be a show of gratitude and respect to the teacher, but in terms of fate, there is no such closeness between Yan Hui and Confucius.
On the other hand, we can also infer that there are ten disciples around the Buddha. The same ten disciples are also very close to the Buddha, so they are also representative in spreading the Fa.There is supernatural power first, wisdom first... There are so many disciples of the Buddha, but only ten of them are used as a representative. What does this mean?Among the thousand and two hundred and fifty Chang Sui people, this is the most important representative. This dharma predestined is the deepest, the deepest predestined relationship with the master, this is the most complete, and this is a model that we must learn from the discipline of Buddhism. what!The standard is here!Take a good look back and see how much we have achieved by ourselves?
Now many people, especially those who study the Pure Land Method, have listened to one or two lessons, oh!I know, I'm willing to do it!It's that simple, even a three-year-old kid can do it, then I know, I graduated, teacher bye!Soon after, I completely forgot the teacher, thinking that I already knew how to fix it anyway, and I got the password to open the door with Zhima. Then I left. What else would I do?Do you say that you are respectful?There is no respect, and the heart is not at ease. Such people are very empty in terms of virtue, and in fact they are not smart enough, because the Pure Land Method seems to be very simple, but in fact it is also the most difficult, because it is Pure Buddha's fruit land realm, and what is it?It is the realm of the king of Buddha!In general, the realm that big Bodhisattvas like Guanyin and Shizhi cannot understand. It’s not that you can graduate after hearing your wishes and doing what you want. Although it is said that as long as you master this key, you can really achieve it. The problem is that you can be sure of you. Can the three grains of XinYuanXing never return?Can it grow?Or can you be sure that your faith and willingness at the moment is true?These are big questions!
If we can not leave the good knowledge in the process of learning, even if we don’t want to be like Yan Huifa’s wish not to leave the teacher at all times, at least we must be far-sighted and try not to leave the teacher or the same. Fellow fellows, in this case, we will be able to guarantee success. Why?The achievement of the Pure Land Method lies in being free from inclusions, doubts, and uninterrupted. If we can send our hearts and wish to recite the Buddha, of course we will not doubt. At least initially, we can be free from doubts. , Because of inclusion and greed, these are the habits of our ordinary people without beginning. You want to learn a little when you see this, and you want to learn a little when you see that, and you also think that I can supplement the teacher’s insights by myself. These knowledge and opinions are all wrong, they are self-righteous arrogance. Only one subject can be truly deepened, and only one subject can show your respect. With one teacher and one method, one subject until you reach Consummation, this is what you are. The fulfillment of truly respectful heart, if you double-heartedly do this and the other, it's greedy, it's not enough respect for the Fa and the teacher, and not enough respect and attention. It can be seen from this behavior.and then!It is even more difficult to achieve uninterrupted practice. You can recite the Buddha for a few days at most when you practice alone, or occasionally hit the Buddha Seven, and then go back to work in society, wow!Recently, the company’s business has been very good, it has made a lot of money, and it has a good opportunity. It is the same as the world. Unknowingly, the whole person is addicted to it again. Until the setback that day is encountered, he suddenly looks back. , I found out that I hadn't read the Buddha for a long time, maybe at that time, I would deceive myself and others, and comfort myself, oops, it's okay!Anyway, as long as there is faith and willingness, I will definitely be able to die. In fact, this quality of faith and willingness!It has long been unable to withstand the test, it's just that you are still deceiving yourself after you realize it.In a situation like this in the future, whether you can die or not, certainly not, because Master Yin Guang said: "One point of sincerity will get one point, and the ten directions will benefit very much." This is very obvious. It is very obvious to the teacher and the Fa. Without respect and sincerity, you won’t get any benefit at all, unless the predestined relationship is not sufficient, and there is really no chance to get close to the teacher anymore, and there is no way to practice with the co-participants anymore. Then this is a forced situation. It doesn't matter, there is no way, it is not that you are not sincere, and this does not prevent you from passing away.If you are half-hearted, uneasy and dishonest, of course you are not obedient, I believe there is absolutely no teacher who will ask you to come and learn again when you have time, there is no time for you to do your thing, it is impossible, and there is no teacher. You will not be required to devote yourself to the long-term perspective, because only in this way can we achieve it, so no matter what method we learn, first you have to choose your true corresponding method, and then you have to get close to the teacher’s good knowledge. If you can really generate respectful and good knowledge, then you must develop a long-term mind, and end it all, so that you can truly show your respect for studying the Fa, and of course you will be able to get the benefits of Consummation. This is to give you some examples, so that you can understand more deeply, what is respectfulness, and what is the standard of Buddhism disciples.
Next, I will give some negative examples. This is to remind fellow practitioners to avoid creating karma. These situations are also very common now. Not only do they have no respect for the Three Jewels, but they are also very disrespectful. As a result, they have created a lot of karma. There are also many kinds of people, right by our side.Let me give an example. Not long ago, it was within this month. It was also on the Internet. There was a person in charge of a certain dojo in Malaysia. She should be the person in charge, because she was on the Internet to inspire me to go to their dojo to teach the scriptures and preach the Dharma. , I won’t name the dojo, it’s in Malaysia. Like the last time I was going to spread the Dharma overseas, I have been to Indonesia and Singapore. The initiation of a dojo in Indonesia was also because of Facebook. They read my article. Tie Wensheng was happy, so he invited me to promote the Dharma.The president of this Malaysian dojo should be the president. She also asked me to go to their dojo to promote the Dharma on Facebook. At the time, I did not agree immediately. I said that the schedule has been arranged and will be arranged later if there is a cause.And she will come to initiate the request, and of course she has already agreed with me to do so. One day she asked a question to my message, which is a dialogue area where there is no public information. Her question is: "Master, please take a look. This three-time dharma meeting for protecting the country and alleviating disasters and praying for blessings is the same as the name?" We often hear the phrase "Is it true?" Is it the same way in the dojo?Is this mage doing it like the law?I hear it often, right?The question she is asking me now is that the name of this Fa conference is the same as the Fa?The first time she came to leave a message for questioning, she didn’t say a lot, but simply asked me like this, then I answered very plainly, and I said, “There’s nothing wrong with it!” I said, “Master Yinguang is protecting in Shanghai. The National Disaster Relief Fa Association, it is like this too!” I said, “There is also the enlightened master of our Jingzong Institute. Didn’t the old monk Jingkong make him a monk of the three-time system? Don’t they often initiate the method of protecting the country from disasters? Will it? Because I personally don’t know how to do it, so I didn’t pay special attention to the information in this area. I just had this concept in my mind, so I replied, and I said, “There’s nothing wrong with that!” and she I replied with a message. Of course, I did not agree with my answer. This message contained three to five hundred words.
Here I just briefly mentioned the key points of her words. Of the three to five hundred words, of course they are all her opinions. She said she did not agree with the name, and then she said a lot. She said that the old monk taught us to respect the teacher and respect the teachings!How can I delete the name of Master Zhongfeng?Use this blessing to replace the name of the patriarch. Isn't this a joke in the world?Waiting for such a long talk, very indignant. At first glance, it seemed that she wanted to protect the Buddhism and emphasized respect for the teacher, because she said that the name of Zhongfeng Patriarch should not be deleted, and then she cited the words of the old monk. "It's too late for us to eliminate the karma, what else do we want to pray for?"Because there are two words for blessing in this name!Her words are taken out of context, so don’t Buddhist disciples need to cultivate blessings?The old monk will never tell people not to cultivate blessings, only karma, but not blessings, so the old monk also depends on the target of his lectures. If it is to a sentient being like her, of course, he must say that it is too late for you to eliminate the karma first, and you still want to cultivate. What blessing?Some people only think of cultivating blessings in Buddhism!I have repaired a lot of blessings, but because of heavy karma, I often quarrel with people!Disagreement!Although it seems to have done a lot of things, there is no need to get together!I don't want to look back on myself and cooperate with everyone, so the employment barrier is very serious!For people like this, of course the old monk will certainly say that it is too late to eliminate the karma, and what kind of blessing you still want to cultivate. You must eliminate the karma first, and then the blessings you cultivate can truly be blessed!For such sentient beings, of course we will tell her this way, but it does not mean that everyone does not need to cultivate blessings. Because she does not agree with this name, she intercepted the sentence of the old monk at this time to explain the three o'clock. The name of the system cannot be used for blessing, it is not correct.After reading her long story, I spent a lot of time. I was jumping and watching, probably knowing that she was sulking, and then complaining to me.It is conceivable that this incident must have caused some disputes in their dojo, so she came to ask me, and I also know who is in charge of the monks in this dojo. I know the general situation. I look at this The visitor was not kind. She asked me this question, probably to find someone to agree with her point of view, or to support her. Fortunately, I was not in the middle. When I returned to her, it was very simple. I said just do what you want. Okay, I have no problem.If I say anything to her, just a few words or two. Whenever she thinks about it another day, she will talk to someone, and Master Renjing said...what is it, wow!Then I would be miserable. It was originally what she meant, but now I mean it again. I am a little smarter now, and I will not be misled and jump into this no trap.In fact, some people didn't intentionally harm you, but she is used to it!Because she needs someone to support her point of view, she will go everywhere and find a lot of people to support her argument, so that when she quarrels with others, she can say whoever is so...the same as mine. right?Then, aren't we all hit?So I simply answered her, I have no objection.it is good!Then I told her, because I didn’t want to have a bad relationship with her, I said tactfully: "Then do as you want, because I don’t usually participate in the Fa conference. I just persuade people to recite the Buddha, and I also talk specifically. Sutras, so I don’t have any opinion!” She would definitely accept this kind of answer, because I didn’t understand the Fa conference at first, so she was very satisfied after listening to it. She said thank the Master for reminding us to concentrate on the Buddha. It's over!Then, after a week or so, another question came up. In fact, it was related to the previous question, and the matter has not been resolved yet!She came to ask!She happened to see my post saying that everyone is causal and conceited in French. She felt that when she saw this, because she agreed with my teaching, but it happened that another master did not say that, it was their dojo. The mage.She asked me again, "Master Renjing, you said that causality is conceited, this is the law of the world! Everyone is like this! Then why are there other masters who say that if there is something in the dojo, it’s not as good as the law? It’s up to him to bear the cause and effect. Others don’t have to bear it. Does the mage have such a reason?" She is now questioning what the mage has said to her. At this time, if I also follow her to make judgments, then I must follow. She was going to comment on the right or wrong of the mage!Of course I won't fall for it.In fact, it seems that from this passage, she has different opinions from the mage, I guess!Because I didn’t take the initiative to ask for the details, I guess that is, if it is the name of the three-time system, because two people are in charge, one is a monk and the other is a layman. The two people have different views. I can’t hold on to it. As far as I know, the master is actually a very principled person. He will not be controlled by a layman. He also attaches great importance to Buddhist precepts, so that master might say this. If he insists on his position and practice, he will say: "If there is something in the dojo that is not as good as the law, the cause and effect will be negatived by him." This is my inference, but in fact, I am not sure if it is the case. But if this is the case, the mage is right when he said this sentence. What does this mean? It doesn't mean that the real cause and effect will become negative for him, but he has this intention!Have this determination!He is willing to bear all the consequences!His mind should be like this. It does not mean that he wants to deny the law of arrogance of everyone's cause and effect. This is not the case. It is only used to express his personal intentions, because he wants to stick to his practice, so if there is If something is wrong, it means that he will be responsible. It may mean that.She took this layman out of context to interpret it again, thinking that to say that the law was originally causal and conceited, so why can he say that the cause and effect are borne by him? Is there such a reason?So from the perspective of these processes, this layman will have her own unique interpretation of the textual understanding, so that communication with others will easily cause friction, right and wrong, and misunderstanding.That’s because it’s the second time she came to ask, and I also think that since she came to ask me innocently, then I’d better persuade her a few more words, but I didn’t participate in the comments here, I just persuaded her, I said that because everyone speaks with his position and reason, and others may not be able to understand it after listening.Because in my opinion, she did not really understand the meaning of the mage, so I persuaded her like this, just like in society, the husband and wife are talking, although they are a family, the husband and wife may not be able to understand. What the sir meant, there will be a misunderstanding!right?What's more, your layman has to understand what the monks say. One is to be a monk and the other is to be at home. The precepts are completely different. One is to be born and the other is to enter the world. It is really impossible to imagine.I personally became a layman and then I became a monk again, so I can understand that there is a big difference between the two. The direction of thinking and point of view are different. The lay family should never use their own standpoint to guess the thoughts of the monk, eight out of ten. Nine will guess wrong, and it is easy to misunderstand, so I specially reminded her, I said that everyone's standpoint is different, how do you know the motive and true meaning of the words of that Master?Therefore, we practitioners must know how to insight, we must cultivate ourselves, not others.At this time I really started to persuade her, whether she listened to it or not!Probably I can't listen to it, but I will do my duty. You have come to ask twice, and I always want to give you a little real Fa and tell you a little truth!I said that practitioners should look inward, and always observe their own three karma, and don't look at the right or wrong of others.Look at her, these two questions are all about the faults of others!I talked about it again and again, and then I told her, I said that not only do we practitioners do not look at the faults of others, but lay practitioners do not even look at the faults of the Three Jewels. This is a very big fault. In the end, you will definitely lose respect for the Three Jewels. , If you go to see the mistakes, you will definitely have no respect. If there is no respect, then you will never accomplish anything in your life in Buddhism.We just talked about so much before, just to emphasize the importance of respect. If a layman goes to see the faults of the Three Jewels, you certainly can’t have true respect, so you must know how to protect yourself, even if there is something wrong with the Three Jewels. It is their own cause and effect. We must know how to protect our pure heart. If you feel that this place is not as good as the Fa, this mage is a wicked master, and this dojo is not as good as the Dharma, it is a cult, then don't get close, won't you be fine if you leave?You don’t have to criticize, you don’t have to act as if you are acting for the heavens, as if yours is correct, and then you have to comment on them everywhere, or even confront them, and try to enlighten them (the Three Treasures). To elevate yourself too much, and forget your own position and duty. This is a very serious fault. It is not our position, not our duty, and it is not what we should do. We should not do it, nor can we do it well. Just like the precepts of our monks, the monks are determined by the monks!The precepts of monks, if the monks do wrong things, the monks meet and everyone decides that the laymen must not control the monks. This will cause problems in the precepts, let alone lose their respect, so this is very important.
This is a simple piece of persuasion I gave her, but I knew it was useless, because from the three to five hundred words in the previous article, the very exciting content knew that she would not easily accept my persuasion. Talking about this is just to do a little bit of personnel.After I answered her, I immediately posted the calligraphy written by our old monk "True monk, never see the world" to remind her with her so-called respectful old monk's words, because for her, I just Little Mage, our persuasion ability is limited!So I took out the teachings of the respectable Shangjingxiakong Master in her mouth as well, so it seems to be more powerful!Ask the old monk to come and bless her, and persuade her with me, then I respect the teacher too!right!It turned out that even the respectful teachings of the Master of Shangjingxia Kong that she usually talked about before the karma appeared didn't work at this time.She responded by leaving a message. At this time, her message was left directly on the news, not in private messages. This is what the whole world can see. Because my post was on news, she answered there, she Said: "She would rather be a sinner in the world than to allow the Master to behave in ways that are inferior to the law, because the state has national laws and the family has house rules." Wow!As soon as I saw this, I thought to myself, house rules!What house rules?Did you make it?What she meant may be her decision, because every dojo has a permanent residence agreement!She may be referring to this house rule.I thought to myself, wow!Our monks observe the precepts of the Buddha, as well as the jungle regulations set by the ancestors of the jungle. As for the dojo, of course, every place, like the spirit of our so-called precepts, also includes observing the law, observing the laws of the country, and observing all laws. This is all Yes, the spirit is covered by all the rules, but who makes this family rule?Then what is the standard?From this answer, we can see that she does not allow the mages to be inferior. Such a strong and strict attitude like this, the attitude of disciplining the monks, I am really shocked!So she had better not come and invite me to give them lectures, or she would wait on me with the incense board, because sometimes I would violate the family rules of the lay family by accident. I only want to abide by the Buddha's precepts. Dharma, I don't know much about the house rules set by the layman, and I don't know if I accidentally commit it, so it's better not to go.
This is a very specific example. I have made connections with many societies in Malaysia in the past two years. Most of the fellow practitioners in Malaysia I have seen are actually very kind, because the folkways here are very simple, but because they are very kind. When he came into contact with the Dharma, when he wanted to practice and protect the Dharma, his very passionate and dedicated attitude, and his spirit and behavior might not be comparable to fellow practitioners in other countries, then if his point of view is wrong It would also be terrible, as the old layman Li Bingnan said, why is there such chaos in Buddhism?It's just that there are too many "good people", and all these bigger right and wrongs are made by these people who think they are kinder and more motivated, and they don't know when they are creating karma.Look at the layman I just talked about, what mistakes did she make?She used the ring to quit others, not herself, right?Secondly, she misunderstood the meaning of the teacher's teaching, and used the old monk's words to support her argument to criticize others. This is disrespectful to the teacher.Generally speaking, disrespect of the Three Jewels, slander of the Three Jewels, and seeing others before, all of these have been committed. The rules are the karma of hell. It is terrible. I see that there are really many such people. Our feeling is very pitiful. People, because she did not intentionally, she is very motivated, but this motivation is based on her own point of view, her own preferences, and her own values. It does not follow Buddhism's commandments at all. It is because of curator Han Yu. The established Taoism, the layman is in charge of the family, so everyone does not think it is wrong, but you must know that the leader of the people Han Yu is really committed to support, so no matter how strong her behavior is, she has truly become a man after all. The Great Master (Old Master Jingkong), so she has her karma. If we want to learn, we must learn from her achievements, learn from her skills in guarding the law, instead of learning from her harshness to the monks. It would be bad if we learned it wrong.The Jingzong Society has this special family tradition, which is impossible in the jungle. So far, it is impossible for a layman to take care of the family in the jungles of China and Taiwan. There is simply no way to teach it!If it is such a reversal, how can your monks teach the Fa?How to go to propagate?There is no way to get the benefits of the law after talking about the layman, so this position must be placed right first, and absolutely cannot be reversed, because many of our laymen may not have anyone to teach, and no one dares to talk about it, because after talking to the laymen, the guardian will not protect it. So I don’t have a great protector. I haven't had a great protector for more than ten years. Now I finally come across a great protector who can truly respect the Three Jewels.In fact, I personally don't care about these, I am just loyal to my own duty, I am a person who promotes Dharma!I have to clarify the truth. I don’t have personal preferences or my own persistence. As a layman, how do you practice? Of course, you have personal karmic factors!If you aspire to be such a protector, and you just cultivate blessings, that’s okay, but what we want to make here is that even if you can really cultivate a little bit of blessings like this, at the same time you have created a lot of karma and you I don’t know that, even if you just want to be a protector, you just want to cultivate blessings and don’t want to practice, then you must know how to avoid creating karma, so you must learn, and you must build respect for the Three Jewels. With respect, you must You will put yourself in the right position. Even if you have your opinions, you are responsible for the management of the layman. The mage has the management of the mage. If you have any opinions, you can communicate, right?Don't use your own persistent perseverance. It seems that there is absolutely no room for communication. It is very strong.Because the curator Han Yun we learned is from Shandong, Ren Gao Ma Da looks really strong. I know that there are many scholars who have learned so. They really made a wish to learn from curator Han. If you learn from Han The curator's heart is very good to protect the Three Treasures, but you must learn the right things, don't learn them wrong.Now that the time has come, we will continue to explain this part tomorrow. We still have to cite some examples in-depth for this part of respect, so that everyone can fully understand and become a new concept in your own heart, and then put this foundation Really lay well.it is good!thank you all.Amitabha!