Thirty-five periods, can I burn paper money after learning Buddhism?
Enlightened people are ignorant of cause and effect Pure Land Dharma Master (1) 1 One of the initiates wondered what the phrases "not falling into cause and effect" and "not ignorant of cause and effect" meant. This is a public case of the master of Zen Buddhism. In the public case, the wild of Master Baizhang
comeuppanceTime: 2025-06-25
Now people in this world are selfish, and they do things that harm others and benefit themselves in everything they think and do. In fact, harming others is not self-interested, if harming others can really benefit yourself, you are worth it. If you think about it, Qin Shi Huang in ancient China wiped out the Six Kingdoms at that time
comeuppanceDate: 2025-06-24
When you are old, you can no longer work, you have to do things in the next life, this life is already over, what should I do in the next life? If you don't recite the Buddha, you have to engage in reincarnation. Think about the thoughts and words that arise in this life, is it good or evil? Is it merit or dereliction? Reflect on it, even though
comeuppanceDate: 2025-06-23
Refuge is divided into refuge in rituals and refuge in the Dharma. The monk master gives you refuge, which is a ritual refuge; After taking refuge, one has to take refuge every day, for example, the monastery has to take refuge every day, which is the refuge of practicing the Dharma. The refuge of cultivating the Dharma is the end of one's life, this lifetime
Han charactersDate: 2025-06-22
Question: Master, in the process of practicing, how do you practice the two methods of prajna and willingness? When facing different objects, should the use of these two be emphasized? Master Ruxiao: Generally speaking, the Mahayana method is to use the power of prajna and wishes.
Han charactersDate: 2025-06-22
It is very true that Master Xiao taught Sun Fei to sort out the Dharma, no matter how good the foundation is, no matter how bad the foundation is, he must come in a down-to-earth manner. In this process, as long as you don't break the big principles, he will basically move forward on this path, that is
Han charactersDate: 2025-06-21
May there be two aspects: one is rational, and the other is material. Logically speaking, I would like you to make a wish to have the feeling of being born. What is the feeling of birth? It is the search for the truth of life. In Buddhism, it is to achieve the Buddha's path, which is the rebirth of life
Han charactersDate: 2025-06-21
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
Meditation is the best way to heal the soul, and one of my disciples told me that there was a person who had hurt her and caused her a lot of physical and mental pain, and now this person came to her again, and she was very scared and asked me how to deal with it. In fact, life is a book,
Han charactersDate: 2025-06-21
Knowing oneself - how to know life and life such as Master Xiao, Peking University LectureNovember 24, 2010 I am very happy to have this opportunity to communicate with you, I myself feel very ashamed, because I am more confused, and I still can't understand the meaning of the Buddha. but
Han charactersDate: 2025-06-21
Our life is not in books at all, not in other people's opinions of you, nor in some mature or immature practices and thoughts, it is really the painful grinding of blood and tears, which is the stepping stone to a stable life. So when I looked for it myself
Han charactersDate: 2025-06-21
Question: Master, in the process of practicing, how do you practice the two methods of prajna and willingness? When facing different objects, should the use of these two be emphasized? Master Ruxiao replied: Generally speaking, the Mahayana method is to use the power of prajna and wishes
Han charactersTime: 2025-06-20
On the Lotus Sutra, the Lord tells us a story. When the Lord was alive, there was an old man who asked to become a monk with the Buddha. In the past, monks had to attain fruition, and at the very least, they also had to attain the fruition of Sudra, and there were countless people who attained the fruition of Stohan, Arhat, and Bodhisattva
Pure Land MethodTime: 2025-06-20
Practicing the five precepts and ten virtues, the ten virtues of the highest grade, and the way of heaven; Ten goodness, humane; The Ten Virtues of the Lower Grade, the Asura Path. If it is the cause, it is the effect. Karmic karma is true, and Buddhists often say that all dharmas are empty, and cause and effect are not empty. Therefore, causal education is the most important thing in religious education
comeuppanceDate: 2025-06-10
It is only natural that people should stop evil and cultivate good. Which of all sentient beings does not seek good fortune, and which one wishes to encounter calamity? But you have to understand where the good fortune comes from and where the calamity comes from, these eight words are the root of good luck and bad luck. But
comeuppanceDate: 2025-06-08
1. Why do people in the world have "love and separation"? This is because we created bad karma for ourselves in our past lives, destroying other people's families, and making other people's families unable to get together, so we receive retribution in this life. 2. In ancient times, there were few things that destroyed people's families
comeuppanceTime: 2025-06-07
Shi Foguang: The Mother of the Buddha Bodhisattva Li Guiqing Date of the Death of the Buddha Bodhisattva Master: November 4, 2013 Author: Shi Foguang Li Guiqing is the mother of the Buddha Bodhisattva of the Buddha Bodhisattva in the Buddha Jing Temple, and a native of Qinggang City, Heilongjiang. He passed away peacefully at 9:53 a.m. on August 23, 2013.
Be a personTime: 2025-06-06
Pure Land Dharma Master: What is the difference between karma and cause and effect? Question: This is a question about cause and effect, is there a cause and effect? What is the difference from cause and effect? Master Pure Land replied: This is to clarify the meaning of these three words. Everything is the birth of a thing
comeuppanceDate: 2025-06-05
Master of the Pure Land Method: The cause and effect are different, and the path is different. It is said that where you are born, the retribution will follow, and you will never give up, and you will feel the retribution of good and evil according to the cause of your karma." There are two kinds of retribution, and this is because there are two kinds of karma
comeuppanceTime: 2025-06-03
The Diamond Sutra and the Six Patriarchs Hui Neng taught the Good Dharma Good Dharma: Buddhism refers to the method of cultivating good fruits. "Vajra Prajnaparamita Sutra": "In addition to covetousness, generosity from outsiders, corresponding from inside and outside, immeasurable blessings, seeing people doing evil, not seeing their faults, not giving birth to differences in nature, is the name of separation."
Be a personTime: 2025-05-31
The tower metaphor Zen pure tantric French teachings Zen Buddhism is the spire. What Zen Buddhism needs is a large root apparatus. Tantra is in the tower. Tantra needs to be supplemented by exercises in addition to the root organs. The Pure Sect is the bottom of the tower. The pure sect is the three roots of the pu, which are inorganically disadvantaged. Modern people live in a high-tech society, and there is no very
Han charactersDate: 2025-05-26
In the twenty-fourth year of the Republic of China (1935), in the early June of the ancient calendar summer, Rugao Xiang Zhiyuan and Bai Deyi, mother and daughter, invited Li Zhang Zhixun to go to Suzhou Baoguo Temple to meet his mentor Master Yinguang. They are all refuge disciples of Venerable Yinguang. Between Rugao and Suzhou
Knowledge of BuddhismDate: 2025-05-26
Master Daxing (1899-1952), a native of Dongtai County, Jiangsu Province, graduated from Dongtai Normal School at the age of 23. In the autumn of the eleventh year of the Republic of China (1922), the famous journalist Ge Gong Zhenxian
Knowledge of BuddhismDate: 2025-05-25
Ask Master to explain how a child can go into the Buddhist hall to recite the sutra or come to hear the Dharma. Venerable Ming Zheng taught: Children, if they can be born in a lay family, most of them have made a vow in their previous life, before they die, that they will be born to study Buddhism for the rest of their lives
Han charactersTime: 2025-05-22
Master, Amitabha. Every time a disciple recites the Buddha, his heart will be sour and he wants to shed tears. Venerable Ming Zheng taught: This is because you have made offerings to the immeasurable Buddhas before, and you have planted all the good roots in the immeasurable Buddhas
Han charactersDate: 2025-05-21
Amitabha, please tell the Grand Master what it means to make offerings to the Buddhas. Do you put lamp oil or flowers or food in front of the Buddha to make offerings to the Buddha? Venerable Ming Zheng taught: The so-called offering to the Buddhas is the practice of the Dharma. Do you take lamp oil or flowers or food and place them in front of the Buddha to worship the Buddha as an offering?
Han charactersDate: 2025-05-20
According to foreign media reports on September 23, a new study published in the American magazine "Obesity" found that in order to successfully lose weight, three meals a day are more effective than eating fewer meals. Researchers at Purdue University in the United States found that eating a high-protein diet with geocalories was overweight or fat
Beauty & FitnessDate: 2025-05-20
The true connotation of liberation is to initiate a compassionate heart from the heart that does not bear the suffering of sentient beings, and cannot bear to see them suffer the difficulty of killing and dying, so as to redeem them, let them live, and let them regain their freedom. This is the core of the release, and it is also the most basic point and requirement
Han charactersDate: 2025-05-19
100 Years of Summer Meditation 7 Teachings 100 Years of Summer Meditation 7 Teachings (1) Meditation 7 is to reconcile our body and mind in seven days. One is the body and the other is the mind, and it is necessary to reconcile the body and mind. After being reconciled, let go; Laid down after we
Han charactersDate: 2025-05-12
Buddha Nature and Dharma Nature - In the autumn of '99, the monks practiced diligently and taught Buddhist scriptures that "all dharmas are empty", and "dharma" refers to the worldly dharma, the dharma out of the world, the dharma of doing things, and the dharma of non-action, which is very wide-ranging. No matter what the Dharma is, after the perspective and the reflection, everything
Han charactersDate: 2025-05-12
Master Longdao: A mediocre mortal, Master Longdao will carry a beautiful small round box everywhere he travels, which is not only his most cherished memento, but also a proof of his convenience. "Anyone, no matter how heavy the karma is, whether or not they have practiced or not, just recite it
Be a personDate: 2025-05-12
Sincerity Now is the five turbid and evil worlds - turbidity, turbidity of seeing, turbidity of troubles, turbidity of sentient beings and turbidity of life, and there are too many mental illnesses. In our practice, we must be sincere and sincere in our practice, for the sake of the Dharma, and not depart from the Dharma. If it is "diligent cultivation of good roots to make offerings, do not give up the bodhisattva karma to make offerings, and do not leave the bodhisattva."
Talking about the Buddha and talking about Zen enlightenment lifeDate: 2025-05-12
In the ninety-fifth year, the abbot of Zen Meditation on the Seven Perfection Day Teacher gave a lecture (1) If there is a tenth, there should be an offering, right omniscience, clear action, good death, worldly solution, supreme master, regulating husband, heavenly teacher, Buddha, and world-honored person, among which there is "regulating the husband", and now we will talk about the meaning of "regulating the husband". 「
Han charactersDate: 2025-05-11
Question: What are the causes of lowly and noble karma? Answer: "Five things are often born lowly, and they are slaves and slaves. 1. Arrogant and disrespectful to two parents; 2. Strong and unscrupulous; 3. Three respects of indulgence and rudeness; 4. Stealing for a living; Fifth, the debt is evaded. "There are five things that must be honored,
comeuppanceDate: 2025-05-11
For example, what is the meaning of calling a monk a monk, and his Dharma name is specially added with the words "up and down"? Cutting love and retiring relatives, knowing the heart and reaching the root, and solving the law of inaction, is the name of Shaman (Sanskrit sramana). In order to save themselves, monks must go to the Dharma to nourish the Dharma body and wisdom, hence the name of the Dharma
Han charactersDate: 2025-05-10
"Mida is a great grace, subtle and difficult to think", our fate must not be missed, this miss is really wrong. It doesn't matter if you miss everything in the world, it's a trivial matter, and this decision can't be missed. "Passing away with confusion, as soon as you go to the other land, there will be no turn", this
comeuppanceDate: 2025-05-10
Excerpt from Master Pure Land Dharma "The Buddha Says Ten Good Karma Sutras" If your thoughts correspond to the Buddha, you will decide to become a Buddha. Don't doubt that you don't have good roots, you don't have Buddha seeds, that's wrong, all sentient beings have Buddha seeds, so you have to have faith. "Pure Karma and Three Blessings"
comeuppanceTime: 2025-05-09
1 In our present society, everyone's life is inseparable from worries and troubles, and life is very hard. 2 Everyone wants to be free from suffering and be happy, and they want their lives to be happy, and all living beings in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad, pray there, and have this wish
comeuppanceTime: 2025-05-06
Do you often praise others? Do you feel that praise and encouragement are indispensable motivation for your own progress? The praise of the Buddha can not only strengthen the confidence of the public in practice, but also have incredible benefits for themselves! Once upon a time, there was a king of Ashanga in India. although
Knowledge of BuddhismDate: 2025-05-05
XUANHUA MASTER FRENCH: LOVE TO DEATH IS A DISEASE OF THE EXTINCTION OF THE COUNTRY AND THE EXTINCTION OF THE SPECIES, AND I HOPE THAT WE IN CHINA WILL NOT LOSE THE COUNTRY, AND WILL NOT LEARN THIS KIND OF BEHAVIOR FROM THE WEST (REFERRING TO THE LOVE WITH XING). Those who study Buddhism should abstain from sexual desires, have a pure heart and few desires, and do not redouble desires, this is important, this is
The Venerable Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-04-25
Today is the Spring Festival, the year of the 60th Jiazi, which belongs to the Year of the Dog. Some people will be seriously injured by dog bites, and some people will be protected by dogs and be safe. Dogs are protective of the good and bite the wicked. The wicked are evil, but they have peace for a while. Why? The so-called "
The Venerable Master XuanhuaDate: 2025-04-24
Since studying the Dharma, I have deeply felt the experience of the spirit of the Dharma, which does not come from anyone or anywhere, but only the transformation of the truthful truth into the confirmation of one's own mind. Some people think that to describe truth in modern terms, perhaps abstract or philosophical
Han charactersDate: 2025-04-22
One of my students attached great importance to his identity after becoming a monk, especially when he became a veritable "Sect Teacher", and he had mixed feelings in his heart, and he instantly took on the burden of "seeking from above and from below". I also used to position myself as a "sect teacher",
Han charactersDate: 2025-04-22
No one is wrong, it's all the fault of reincarnation! The jeweler and the Elder Desher "are born in the womb: those who do evil will fall into hell, those who are righteous will ascend to heaven, and those who miss all will attain nirvana." ["Southern Transmission of the Dharma Sutra" Evil Product No. (126 verses)] This verse is the Buddha's Yuyi
Han charactersDate: 2025-04-22
Two days after I came to the Duobao Monastery, I was fortunate enough to participate in the Dharma meeting of the White Manjushri Ritual Seminar, which was really the compassionate blessing of the Three Jewels, and I thought to myself that there would be no such great good roots in the past. The monk first introduced Hai Gongshang
Han charactersDate: 2025-04-19
1There is no accident in the world, there must be a reason for something, and there must be a cause for an effect—what kind of cause, what kind of retribution, karma, not at all!2 As the saying goes, "A drink and a peck, it is not predetermined", who decides? The Buddha told us: Karma is determined. 3rd
comeuppanceDate: 2025-04-16
It's almost two o'clock, and I don't feel sleepy at noon today, and I want to talk about cause and effect with my friends. In the morning, I was reciting the mantra in the main hall, and suddenly I called for a "tablet of the past life", and I asked, "Who?" Hu Yue is gone—"Hey! Amitabha, I put my hands together and chanted the "Six Paths."
comeuppanceDate: 2025-04-15
And one more, killing. Where do you kill people? Abortion is homicide. How many abortions are there in the city we live in every day? I've heard people tell me that there are more than 50 million abortions every year in the world, and more than 100 million in two years; Two years, more than 50 million in a year,
comeuppanceDate: 2025-04-14
First, all living beings and ourselves are our blessed fields. We must learn to plant good fields in order to have a good harvest. Second, if we think that if we don't plant seeds, we will grow on our own, then we will achieve nothing and suffer in vain. Third, one
Han charactersTime: 2025-04-13
Ordinary people cultivate blessings, wisdom, and concentration, and cultivate a lot. But many people don't know how to make a vow. As a result, the effect is not visible. This is all due to some traditional ideas. What kind of traditional notions? That is: first, do good deeds without asking
Han charactersTime: 2025-04-13
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