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Gen-la Kanmi replied: My shortcomings have been with me for many years, and they have become a habit, how to take the first step
Question: Please be merciful and enlighten Master, I know that I have many shortcomings, and I want to correct them, but these shortcomings have become habits after following me for so many years, so how can I take the first step? Shi Kuanjian: Start moving now! Read more about Venerable Venerable Buddhist Questions and Answers
Han charactersDate: 2025-07-22
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Gen-la Da'an: How to choose good knowledge in the period of the end of the Dharma
Question: Good knowledge is very important in the end of the Dharma period, how should we choose? Venerable Da'an replied: The importance of good knowledge in the end of the Dharma period lies in establishing correct faith, correct knowledge, and correct views for you. In this period of the end of the Dharma, you don't have to ask for any good knowledge, whether there are supernatural powers, whether there is any
Master DaanDate: 2025-07-22
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Gen-la Kanmi replied: My husband doesn't care about anything, and he has been with others outside, what should I do?
Question: My child's father doesn't care about anything, he has been with others outside, and I take care of the child and the old lady alone, what do you think I should do? To go or not to go? Gen-la Kuanjian: After learning the Dharma, you have to learn how to deal with it, how to choose? Go, or no
Han charactersTime: 2025-07-21
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Gen-la Da'an: How do you think about awakening memories of past lives through hypnosis?
Q: In recent years, Western psychology has used hypnosis to awaken people's subconscious memories of past and present lives. These large numbers of cases are very consistent with the Buddhist concept of cause and effect. As a disciple of the Buddha, how do you view this phenomenon? Venerable Daan replied: Hypnotism is used in the West
Master DaanTime: 2025-07-21
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Master Da'an: "If the heart is not removed, the dust cannot come out" and the Pure Land "bring karma to life" how to understand?
Layman: "Lengyan Sutra" cloud: "If the lustful heart is not removed, the dust cannot come out." I also heard Master say that if you have to cultivate to the attainment of an arhat, you can stop your lustful thoughts, so it seems that it is very difficult for us ordinary people to come up with the six realms of reincarnation. But the Pure Land Dharma also says that all sentient beings only
Master DaanTime: 2025-07-21
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I want to release my life, how should I do it?
Venerable Yuan Yin replied: Anyone can do it anytime, anywhere, with more money and less money, as long as you see that your life is in danger, you can show compassion and contribute money and efforts to redeem it at the last moment, and take it to an appropriate place to take refuge in the Buddha and release it so that it can regain its vitality
Release Q&ADate: 2025-07-20
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Gen-la Da'an: How do you look at the Pure Land Method?
Question: Now that Tantra is flourishing, many Tantra practitioners look down on reciting the Dharma, how should we look at this? Venerable Daan replied: We don't want to make too much of the Tantric practice itself, because there are different causes for this. But if the tantric practitioner doesn't see it
Master DaanDate: 2025-07-19
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How to make the gourd old
How to make the old gourd, the popularity of the gourd is that it not only has the characteristics of the general gourd, such as the pronunciation seems to be the same as "Fulu" but also the mascot of our country's ancient traditionTraditional Taoism even uses the gourd as its own magic weapon, such as: Shouxing Lao,
Collect knowledgeDate: 2025-07-17
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Pure Land Dharma Master: You have to ask yourself this question, not to others
Are there any people who recite Buddha in our world who have passed away? Yes, not much. There are many people who can't die after reciting the Buddha for a lifetime, and it's disproportionate, and there are indeed too few and too few of them; There are not too many who can't die. We observe calmly and carefully
comeuppanceDate: 2025-07-17
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Open the window of your heart and accept others
Once upon a time, in a village in a remote mountainous area, there lived a well-known carver; Because this master has good carving skills, a temple in a nearby village invited him to carve a "Bodhisattva statue". But to get to that village, you must
comeuppanceDate: 2025-07-15
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How to prove the existence of the six realms of reincarnation
People often ask, "Master, is there a heaven and a hell?" Where exactly is Heaven and Hell? Buddhism does not talk about heaven, but only about the upper three good pleasures and the lower three bad pleasures. According to the original teachings, it can be summarized into three heavenly paths (including heavenly beings and non-heavenly beings), and middle
Six reincarnationsDate: 2025-07-15
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Gen-la Cause: When you do anything, think about the possible cause and effect of the matter
Believing in cause and effect is a basic theory in Buddhism, and one cannot get out of the circle of cause and effect until one becomes a Buddha. If there is such a cause, it will definitely produce such an effect, and it cannot be forced in the slightest. Some people do bad things and insist that they don't believe in cause and effect, this kind of person is just
comeuppanceDate: 2025-07-12
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Venerable Dayuan: How do you deal with greed and anger in a day?
We need to know the stage in which greed arises. Just like a doctor who goes to help someone treat a disease, he must first know what kind of illness the person has. In the same way, if we want to deal with our afflictions, we must first be able to know the stages of our afflictions and make it easier to deal with them. General Fan
Han charactersDate: 2025-07-10
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What are the causes and effects of obese people in the eyes of Buddhists, and how to lose weight?
When the Buddha was alive, Yu Sheweiguo was a disciple of the Dharma, and thousands of monks and nuns around him, even the female laymen in the city, would come to the Buddha three times a day to listen to the Buddha's teachings. At that time, the king of the kingdom of Shav, Persian, took refuge under the Buddha's throne and became the Buddha's home
comeuppanceDate: 2025-07-10
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Venerable Dayuan: How do we save sentient beings and cultivate sentient beings?
The first point is that only those who make supreme bodhi vows and have great wisdom with a great mind can have the courage to cultivate the 32 phases of karma and attain the 32 phases and 80 kinds of merit wisdom that follow the forms, and strive to cultivate them. The second point is that after making a vow
Han charactersDate: 2025-07-09
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Venerable Da Yuan: Zen and Charity – How to Sow the Seeds of Thousands of Wealth
Zen and Charity: How to Sow the Seeds of Thousands of Wealth (1) Source: Zen Culture Author: Master DayuanTime: 2011-06-04Human beings have three kinds of life: physical life, spiritual life and spiritual life. The life of the flesh needs heat to nourish it;
Han charactersTime: 2025-07-08
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Venerable Da'an: "Where do Westerners commit sins, but where do they want to survive by chanting Buddha?" How to understand
Question: In the "Altar Sutra", it says: "Where do Westerners make sins, but where do they recite Buddha to survive?" How to understand? Venerable Da'an replied: The "Altar Sutra" is a classic book recorded by the disciples of the teachings of the six patriarchs Huineng. The six ancestors inherited the family style of Bodhidharma Patriarch Zen Buddhism, and did not set up words, but took the heart
Master DaanDate: 2025-07-05
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Venerable Da'an: How to educate children in Buddhism
Question: As a preschool teacher, how can a disciple educate his children about Buddhism so that parents who don't believe in Buddhism don't misinterpret it as indoctrination of religious consciousness in their children? Gen-la Da'an answers: As a preschool teacher, out of compassion, you should teach the children in your class first
Master DaanDate: 2025-07-05
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Master Da'an: How can the predestined fate be changed?
Question: People's fate is predestined, and reciting Buddha can change fate. However, some people have some supernatural powers and goddesses and the like, they can really change people's fate, as a disciple of the Buddha, how can they defeat the magic cast by the goddess and control their own destiny? Destiny is predestined
Master DaanDate: 2025-07-04
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Gen-la Da'an: How to generate true and unfeigned compassion
Question: Master, how do you generate true and unfeigned compassion? Venerable Da'an replied: Compassion is the seed of Buddhahood, and this unconditional compassion is a feeling sublimated from emptiness, and it is not easy to be true and unpretentious. We and other ordinary people have not been able to prove it
Master DaanDate: 2025-07-04
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Venerable Yan Tzu answers: How should busy lay people practice Buddhism?
Question: Venerable Compassion, what is the convenience and step-by-step method for the family members who are busy with their lives and want to devote themselves to practicing the Dharma, and ask the Venerable Master to give teachings? Venerable Yanci replied: Busy people should recite the Buddha more when they practice. "Amitayus Sutra" cloud: Buddha
Han charactersDate: 2025-07-03
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Venerable Da'an: How to recite the Buddha's name until you are focused without interruption
Question: How do you recite a Buddha name without interruption until you are focused? Venerable Daan replied: When we know that Amitabha Buddha's merits are incredible, it is good to recite the Buddha's name every day, but it is normal to have delusions, distracting thoughts, disturbing emotions, and disturbances every day. Ordinary people just have delusions
Master DaanDate: 2025-07-03
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Venerable Yan Tzu: How do lay people build a Buddhist family?
People are a member of the family, the family is the prototype of the society, if you want to think of the country's peace and security, social purification, you must start from the family; If you want to make the empty court happy, you must start by yourself. People in society
Han charactersDate: 2025-07-02
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How to pick a golden cicada Bodhi
How to choose the golden cicada Bodhi, the golden cicada is a category of Xingyue Bodhi, but it is harder than Xingyue Bodhi. Because each grain is like a golden toad, it is called a golden cicada. It can be used to make Buddha beads, single or several strings as pendants, which can gather in the house to increase wisdom and bring luck and peace to people
Collect knowledgeDate: 2025-07-02
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Venerable Da'an: How to recite the Buddha can be regarded as a deep wish
Question: Under the influence of our daily busy work, life and various concerns, what is the specific level of our vows to be recited, so that we can be regarded as deeply convinced? Please be merciful. Venerable Da'an replied: I am convinced that it will be achieved
Master DaanDate: 2025-07-02
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Venerable Da'an: How to treat the drowsiness of the Buddha
Question: I like to study the scriptures and teachings, and I can't release the books with my hands, and I enjoy them with relish; And when you chant the Buddha in the name, you are either drowsy or dropped, what is the reason for this phenomenon? How is it treated? Venerable Da'an replied: Most of the cultural people who study Buddhism are happy to study the teachings, and they always want to get it from the scriptures
Master DaanDate: 2025-07-02
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Venerable Daan: What is the meaning of "Qingzhu throwing into turbid water" and "shouting throat in vain"?
Asked: "The pearl is thrown into the turbid water, and the turbid water has to be cleared." The Buddha's name is cast into the chaotic mind, and the chaotic mind has to be the Buddha" and "the mouth chanting the Buddha is scattered, and shouting the throat is in vain", how can the Master understand it correctly? Venerable Da'an replied: The one in front of me was revealed by Gude
Master DaanDate: 2025-07-02
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Venerable Shengxu: The standard of good and evil
Guangxi Mashan Lingyang Temple 2010 Lunar Twelfth Lunar Month Reciting Buddha Seven Dharma Meeting Venerable Sheng Xu Lecture (Afternoon of the Third Day of the Lunar New Year) What is the standard of good and evil? What is evil? If you do things in accordance with reason, you are called good, and if you violate reason, you are evil. There is no merit in evil
Han charactersTime: 2025-07-01
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Venerable Da'an: People who chant Buddha also eat meat? How to fix it
Question: Some people also recite Buddhism, but they still eat chicken, duck and fish, how should they be solved? Gen-la replied: First of all, you don't set the bar too high. He has just learned Buddhism, and as long as you are willing to recite Buddhism, you have to praise him. You can't say, "You can't recite the Buddha."
Master DaanTime: 2025-07-01
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Gen-la Daan: How to get rid of karma
Eliminating karma is also an important subject in Buddhism, but we have to have a basic understanding that the negative karma that we have created since the eons of eons is immeasurable and boundless, and if this negative karma has volume, it cannot be contained in the void. This is in "Fugen's Wishes".
Master DaanTime: 2025-07-01
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Gen-la Da'an: How to deal with bad thoughts in your heart
Question: Is it a sin to have bad thoughts in my heart all the time? How do you stay in here? I have a lot of lustful thoughts, and they arise unconsciously, what can I do to deal with them? Venerable Daan replied: We will have all kinds of delusions and miscellaneous thoughts in our hearts, and there are more lustful thoughts in these delusions
Master DaanTime: 2025-07-01
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Venerable Sheng Xu: How do you repay the favor?
Amitabha, hello everyone! Today I would like to share with you: how to repay the favor. Every life comes into the world without its own parents. Only with our own parents can we have the opportunity to hear the Fa and grow up in a good and healthy life. at
Han charactersDate: 2025-06-30
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Gen-la Jinghui: How to recognize the deception of false monks
Question 39: "Recently, several 'high monks' have appeared on the streets of Dezhou, and the 'high monks' sell Buddhist ornaments to passers-by. However, these people are not masters, but big liars under the guise of 'high monks'. After verification, this 'monk' king
comeuppanceDate: 2025-06-30
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Gen-la Renhuan: How do Pure Land cultivators practice on a daily basis? After handing over his life, the idea of surviving in the West is sincere and unchanging, so that he can be reborn in the Pure Land
Do you need to do a career after giving your life to the Buddha? Buddhists should understand that the world is people-oriented, the family is also people-oriented, and people are life-oriented. The purpose of studying Buddhism, the purpose of giving birth, is to ensure that life becomes immeasurable. We can't say that if we give our lives, it's nothing
Han charactersTime: 2025-06-29
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Buddha Brother Says Buddhist Knowledge Story 13: About how to worship the Buddha
Worshipping the Buddha has the meaning of repenting of sins, practicing meditation and gratitude and respect, and expressing respect and gratitude for the Three Jewels of the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, as well as self-examination and repentance of the karma created in the past, which not only helps to improve one's personality, but also to one's physical and mental stability. So
Buddha cultureTime: 2025-06-29
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Fang Haiquan: How to eliminate the biggest suffering and unhappiness
What the Buddha said about suffering is great suffering. to get rid of the pain of life and death. It is best if the Buddha does not teach us to avoid karma without receiving karmic retribution. Everyone has karma, and it's normal to have setbacks that don't go well, it's a small suffering. The six realms of reincarnation fall into the three evils
comeuppanceTime: 2025-06-29
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Pure Venerable: Right and wrong are liberated by not arguing
A layman told that a fellow practitioner who studied Buddhism out of jealousy spread rumors and slandered herself, and quarreled with her several times for this, and asked someone to give her a message, but she still did not change, so she wanted to find someone to stop her on the street and beat her. Pure spoken
Han charactersTime: 2025-06-26
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Wealth comes from good fortune, and good fortune comes from benefiting others
Many people are full of enthusiasm and talent, but they can't always do things, while some people don't have talent and knowledge, but they can do a good job. Those who have graduated from college now generally work part-time for those who have graduated from elementary school, or even those who have not graduated from elementary school. place
comeuppanceTime: 2025-06-26
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Yinguang Master: How to understand that cause and effect is the power to govern the world and liberate sentient beings?
If you want to know the cause of the past life, the recipient of this life is. If you want to know the consequences of the afterlife, the author of this life is. When a person claims that the bitterness and happiness he enjoys in this life is his life, he does not know that it is the result of his good and evil deeds in his previous life. There is no way for good and evil, only people call themselves. The retribution of good and evil follows you like a shadow. If everybody
comeuppanceTime: 2025-06-25
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Gen-la Nenghong: How to subdue jealousy_ How to deal with my slow heart and comparison heart
How do you control jealousy? How should this jealousy be subdued? To subdue jealousy, it is necessary to cultivate the joy of the heart, and there is joy merit in the "Fuxian Wish". Rejoicing means rejoicing in the great and small achievements or good fortunes, merits, and even the goodness of a thought
Han charactersDate: 2025-06-24
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Gen-la Nohko: How to deal with anxiety and stress?
A person has anxiety and stress, how to relieve it? In fact, in this modern society, in a world where material civilization is highly developed, but social pressure is very heavy, everyone may not have an easy life. But if we can do it outside of work, we can
Han charactersDate: 2025-06-24
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How can Buddhism be used to deal with conflicts in the family?
How can Buddhism be used to deal with conflicts in the family? Question: How can you better use Buddhism to deal with conflicts in the lives of husband and wife, husband and wife's parents, and wife and husband's parents in the family? Answer: As some great masters say, the most difficult practice is
Buddha cultureDate: 2025-06-24
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Be the best version of yourself so that you can meet the best others
A young man went to buy a bowl, and when he came to the shop, he picked up one and struck it lightly against the others, and when the bowls touched each other, there was a dull, muddy sound, and he shook his head in disappointment. Then go try a bowl... He almost picked
comeuppanceDate: 2025-06-24
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Gen-la Nohko: Don't always look at other people
Don't always look at other people, but look at your own mind and bring up mindfulness, which is the practice, so that you can increase concentration and wisdom. To bring up mindfulness as it comes, don't be too depressed, but don't be too relaxed either, it's important to keep it
Han charactersDate: 2025-06-23
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How can the same money be used more reasonably for release?
Answer: There is no reasonable or unreasonable problem, as long as you have a pure heart and do your best to release the animals. Don't have a utilitarian mentality to give to the upper and lower levels. For example, is it better to release a yak for 2,000 yuan, or to release 100 fish for the same amount of money?
Release Q&ADate: 2025-06-23
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For example, Master Xiao: The necessity of learning Buddhism: how to recognize the truth of life and obtain ultimate happiness and goals
The Necessity of Studying Buddhism: How to Recognize the Truth of Life and Achieve Ultimate Happiness and Purpose – Master's Lecture on Amitabha Buddha during the 2010 National Day Meditation Retreat, Good afternoon, everyone! Let's take a little time in the afternoon to make an analysis of the necessity of studying Buddhism. This
Han charactersDate: 2025-06-21
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"Buddhist knowledge" is how to give it in order to have real merit
It's so special! People have donated so much to build a temple, I must donate more than her, and the merit is greater than hers. On such a special day today, you must burn incense. There are so many great masters, you must sit next to the masters to get blessings. This division
Buddha cultureDate: 2025-06-18
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Gen-la Daojian: Buddhism is a non-profit organization, so there is no need for competition
Buddhism is a non-profit organization, so there is no need for competition – and answer to the question of loyu8848 Venerable Wen Jian loyu8848 asked: How does Buddhism in the new era compete with other religions? How should the relationship between the Buddhist Association of China and the temples create harmony? Answer: Buddhism is a non-profit organization.
Han charactersTime: 2025-06-17
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Venerable Dao Jian: How can Buddhism strengthen its own construction and contribute to economic and social development: Learning from the spiritual testimonials of the 17th National Congress of the CPC Central Committee
How Buddhism Can Strengthen Its Own Construction and Contribute to Economic and Social Development: Learning from the Spirit of the 17th National Congress of the Central Committee The victory of the 17th National Congress of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China indicates that China still adheres to the four basic principles under the leadership of a new generation of national leaders
Han charactersTime: 2025-06-17
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Master Xuanhua: Don't lie or talk about people's rights and wrongs
And sinners. Be prepared for suffering. Thousands of yaksha and evil spirits. Mouth like a sword. The eye is like lightning. Hand re-clawed copper. Drag sinners. There is a yaksha holding a large iron halberd. Guilty of the human body. or mid-orsalome. or mid-ventral dorsal back. Flip and flip. or in bed. There is also the sin of the Iron Eagle
The Venerable Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-06-17