Gen-la Zhaohui: Who said bhikshunis can't see "nakedness"?

Pure Land Dharma Master: When I think about my father's condition, my hair stands on end

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

Gen-la Ruxiao: What are ritual refuge and Dharma refuge?

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

Venerable Filial Piety: How do you practice Prajna and Wish?

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

Master Ruxiao: Jade is not cut into a tool

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

Master Ruxiao: There are two aspects to wishing

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

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

Shakyamuni, why did he refuse his aunt to become a monk three times, and did the "Eight Respects Dharma" discriminate against bhikshunis? We know that before Shakyamuni became a monk, he was Kapilawei

Talking about the Buddha and talking about Zen enlightenment lifeDate: 2025-05-25

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

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

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

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

Text: Cause and effect are the foundation of the Dharma, and before you study the Dharma, we have to know that first of all, you have to believe in cause and effect. If you do something wrong, you will definitely be punished, and you will be retributed. Therefore, many of our initiates do not dare to receive Bodhisattva

comeuppanceTime: 2025-04-13

Recorded from episode 529 of "The Interpretation of the Pure Land Sutra", "Distinguishing between respect and inferiority, without losing its integrity, is a famous gift". Etiquette is about fame, respect, and up, and etiquette, so it does not lose its moderation. For example, in our daily life, the etiquette prescribed by the state now,

comeuppanceDate: 2025-04-11

Master Yuanjing of the Song Dynasty, there is no image in the word. The common surname is Xu, and he is a native of Hangzhou. He became a monk at the age of 10, and when he was a little older, he relied on Master Tzu Yun to study. After the master was gone, he relied on the wise mage. Listen to and explain the method of meditation and comprehend the first truth. At the request of Taishou Lu Zhen

Knowledge of BuddhismDate: 2025-04-02

A lifelong practice of meticulous and strict dying Rui Ying passed away - remember the bhikshuni Tongyuan Venerable Tongyuan Master Tongyuan (1913-1991), commonly surnamed Zhai, ancestral home in Shandong, his father served as a member of the National Assembly, a superintendent of transportation, the governor of Fengtian Province, etc., and his mother died in a normal school and served as a primary school principal. afterward

Han charactersDate: 2025-03-21

The 13th day of the third lunar month is the 106th anniversary of the birth of Venerable Long Lotus, the first bhikshuni in contemporary China. Venerable Long Lian was a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference; Member of the Sichuan Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Standing Director, Executive Director, Deputy Secretary-General and Vice President of the Buddhist Association of China; Sichuan

Han charactersTime: 2025-03-19

From the Pure Land Dharma Master "Lectures on the Dizo Sutra" [Karma is very great, it can defeat Sumeru, can deep the huge sea, and can hinder the holy path. Karma is great, how big is it? Here are three things. "Sumeru" This is a big mountain, karma can move mountains and seas, mountains and seas are deep,

comeuppanceDate: 2025-03-14

I used improper means to get a high position and a lot of wealth, not by legitimate means, but what I got was what I wanted, not only in my life, but also discounted. For example, if your position in life is a minister, what if it is discounted? As soon as you discount it, you become

comeuppanceDate: 2025-03-14

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

comeuppanceDate: 2025-03-14

The Buddha told us in the sutras that the blessings of people in the world are obtained by cultivating "wealth and generosity", and the more you give, the more wealth you will get. Today, we see that there are many business tycoons and big entrepreneurs in the world, and they have a lot of money

comeuppanceDate: 2025-03-13

Topic: Buddhist Lecture 1 89 Speaker: Offering Dharma Master Place: Shilin Civic HallDate: July 25, 98 Roughly speaking, the habits that we sentient beings develop are because we have scattered minds, and we all pursue all kinds of attachments, some greedy for money, some greedy for sex, and some greedy for sex

Han charactersDate: 2025-03-12

Dharma Lecture 91: Afflictions Like Babies with a Mind: "Afflictions are like babies, the more they grow and grow when someone takes care of them." The same is true of our troubles. Our troubles are because of our delusions, and when the delusions come, you don't know how to control them

Han charactersDate: 2025-03-12

Topic: Lecture on Buddhism 94 - True AppearanceSpeaker: Venerable PuxianLocation: Yuanguang TempleDate: September 6, 2009Good morning, Amitabha. Everyone has come from Taipei and Changhua, and Lion's Head Mountain welcomes everyone with the best air and the best temperature

Han charactersDate: 2025-03-12

Bitterness and happiness are all in the six realms. Is there any joy in hell? Yes Shakyamuni Buddha told us that Devadatta fell into the Abi Hell and that he enjoyed the same thing in the Abi Hell as he enjoyed in the Abi Hell as he did in the Asariya. He is indeed in hell, but he is on earth

comeuppanceDate: 2025-03-12

From the Pure Land Dharma Master's "Lectures on the Huayan Sutra" The First World War was twenty years after the Second World War, and it has been more than half a century since the Second World War, and the Third World War did not break out, what is the reason? Thanks to the current high-tech information, there is a gap between each other

comeuppanceDate: 2025-03-09

If you treat him with kindness and sincerity, he will immediately suspect what you are trying to do? What are your intentions? Be on guard immediately. Can you blame him? No. Why? Today, all sentient beings in the whole society have lost faith, not only to say goodbye

comeuppanceDate: 2025-03-09

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