Greed is like poisonous gas

Master Da'an: The harm of greed is greater than that of poisonous snakes

The five desires harm people, just like stepping on a poisonous snake, and you get a little illusory happiness of the five desires, as if you get it in a dream. Everyone likes wealth, so let's talk about a koan about wealth: when the Buddha was alive, one day he came back from a beggar with Venerable Ananda

Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-17

It's all the fault of greed

Wen Mou, a college graduate, was quite talented, and after entering the workplace, due to his strong work ability and good work performance, he was soon promoted to the head of the unit department. Because of greed, he cheated for personal gain and corrupted the law.

Other causal storiesTime: 2024-08-26

Master Shengxu: Don't be confused by the evil of lust and greed, and naturally reap its merits!

Namo Amitabha! Hello fellow practitioners! Today, I will continue to study the five evils and five good deeds of the "Infinite Life Sutra" with you. The third great evil says: We all live in the heavens and the earth accordingly. In other words, everything is made up of the harmony of all conditions

Han biography figuresTime: 2024-07-03

Greed is like a fire that burns the body

In ancient times, there was a powerful king in the Western lands, and because he owned seven peerless treasures, the surrounding countries did not submit to him. These seven treasures are: a flying golden wheel, a white elephant, a red and blue horse, a bright moon pearl, and a look

comeuppanceTime: 2024-02-10

Sodaji Khenpo: Can meditation on impure meditation completely cut off the greedy mind? Question: Can meditation on impure meditation completely cut off the greedy mind? Sodaji Khenpo answered: After we know the impurity of the body, can we completely cut off greed? In the end, there is

Buddhist common senseTime: 2023-09-02

Sodaji Khenpo: Can aversion to centrifugation be generated by satisfying greed as much as possible? Question: Can the inner frenzied and uncontrollable greed give rise to aversion to centrifugation by satisfying it as much as possible? Answer: All greedy enjoyment in the world has an insatiable nature, man

Buddhist common senseTime: 2023-08-31

What deceives you is greed, rather than cursing the cunning and treachery of the liar, it is better to bow your head and examine whether your heart is blinded by momentary greed. You know, this is the root of why all deception has become a deception! In life, many people have been deceived

Buddhist story: Zen and look awayTime: 2023-08-25

Those who hold greed, in a state of conformity, are greedy for pleasure, and their hearts are insatiable. Anyone who is tainted with the desire for money, beauty, fame, etc. is guilty of this crime. When the Buddha was alive, there was a very rich elder named Nanda in Sravasti, India. Although he is incalculable, he is natural

comeuppanceTime: 2023-08-09

The mind is free from greed, and the Buddha's "Buddha Says Ten Good Karma Taoist Sutras" says: "If you are free from greed, you will achieve five kinds of freedom. What are the five categories? The first and third industries are free, and all the roots are sufficient. 2. Property is free, and all enemies cannot take it away. 3. Virtue is free, as you wish, everything is ready

Selected CollectionsTime: 2023-08-07

Deformed greed People often say that without desire, it is strong, and once people have greed, they will fall into a terrible state. Zen Buddhism is like a mirror that allows everyone to see their own hearts clearly and abandon their own bad thoughts. There is an ancestor named Jin Bifeng, who has been cultivated

Buddhist Stories: Talking about Buddha's Zen and Enlightenment LifeTime: 2023-08-02

4. Greed is like a burning fire In ancient times, there was a powerful king in the Western land, and because he had seven peerless treasures, the surrounding countries did not submit to him. These seven treasures are: a golden wheel that can fly, a white elephant, and a red and blue

Buddhist Stories: The Complete Collection of Master Haitao's StoriesTime: 2023-07-26

Nowadays, the society is rich, and many people are very obese because of dietary problems. This obesity leads to many diseases, such as cholesterol, high blood pressure, and various diseases. How to control diet, this is one of them from history

Han biography figuresTime: 2023-07-24

Desirelessness The Buddhist scriptures say: "If you can be free from greed, you can attain the three karmas." Freedom is freedom. No matter which aspect the sentient beings in the world are, they are constrained by all kinds of constraints and cannot be free as they please, and the main reason is that they are

Follow the FrenchTime: 2023-07-19

Master Haitao: Specific methods to cut off greed, anger, slowness, and distraction Question: How to understand the cultivation of impure contemplation to cut off greed, to cultivate compassion to cut off anger, to cultivate impermanence to cut off my slowness, and to cultivate peace and to cut off the thoughts of enlightenment? Answer: Do you not cultivate pure contemplation to cut off greed? Mortal hearts have more or less

Buddhist common senseTime: 2023-07-17

Master Haitao: How to stop greed, anger, slowness, and scattering? Question: How do we understand the cultivation of impure contemplation and the cessation of greed, the cultivation of compassion and anger, the cultivation of impermanence, the severance of self-arrogance, and the cultivation of peace? Answer: Do you not cultivate pure contemplation to cut off greed? The mortal heart has desires to some extent,

Buddhist common senseTime: 2023-07-10

Master Haitao: How do we understand the cultivation of impure contemplation and greed, the cultivation of compassion and anger, the cultivation of impermanence, the severance of self-arrogance, and the severance of enlightenment? Question: How do you understand the cultivation of impure contemplation and the cessation of greed, the cultivation of compassion to cut off anger, the cultivation of impermanence to cut off my slowness, and the cultivation of peace and the severance of awareness?

Buddhist common senseTime: 2023-07-10

Master Haitao: How to get rid of greed, anger, slowness, and scattering in your heart? Question: How do we understand the cultivation of impure contemplation and the cessation of greed, the cultivation of compassion and anger, the cultivation of impermanence, the severance of self-arrogance, and the cultivation of peace? Answer: Do you not cultivate pure contemplation to cut off greed? The heart of mortals is more or less

Buddhist common senseTime: 2023-07-10

Greed (Buddhist interpretation) greed, Chinese vocabulary. Pinyin: tān y analysis (1) endless seeking (2) insatiable desire (3) excessive demands Buddhist saying: greed, hatred, ignorance, arrogance and suspicion are the five blunt envoys, hindering people's hearts from becoming pure. In the Buddhist scriptures

Buddhist nounTime: 2023-07-06

Time: 1970-01-01

If we want to eliminate ego, we must rely on the power of meditation. Cultivate the power of cessation through meditation, and cultivate the power of view through listening, thinking, and viewing. First of all, we must conceptually recognize that the five aggregates are empty, the physical body is empty, and the mountains, rivers, and earth are empty. Recognize the outside world and me

Tibetan BuddhismTime: 2023-04-02

To abandon delusions, the main thing is to cut off desires, whether they are greedy for people or money, they must be abandoned. Greed is the root of reincarnation, which will bring disasters and disasters to us in this life and the next. All disasters and disasters come from one's own greed. We

Tibetan BuddhismTime: 2023-02-08

How to remove the greedy cover. What are the convenient ways to meditate before acupuncture? For lay people, it is mainly to eliminate greed, and for monks, it is mainly to eliminate desire. In fact, what are the five covers for? You don't look at the physical level, you raise it a little bit, in the energy

Great wish mageTime: 2022-05-25

The Buddha traveled to Sravasti and lived in the Garden of Solitude. One day, the Buddha asked the monks: If there is a poor man with a very greedy heart, and he is greedy for material things in his heart, will he cause great distress? The monks replied in unison: Yes! Buddha

Other articlesTime: 2022-03-16

Q: When you come into contact with some people of the opposite sex, greed often arises involuntarily. How can it be stopped? Sodaji Khenpo replied: Ordinary people often develop a paranoia about things of the same nature due to ignorance and ignorance. For example, the components that make up a woman's body are no

Sodaji KhenpoTime: 2021-10-18

Question: For people with a strong sense of greed, the world is full of greedy objects, so how can greed and other troubles be extinguished? Sodaji Khenpo answered: Although greed and other afflictions are observed from the surface, they arise from the environment on which they depend, but they are dependent

Sodaji KhenpoTime: 2021-07-31

There is such a saying in Tibet, people go crazy with money, animals go crazy with grass, this sentence is very reasonable, many people don't seem to have a particularly big greed when they don't eat or wear, once they have money, greed is stimulated, and they will chase wealth like crazy;

Sodaji KhenpoTime: 2021-07-02

In the early days of the calamity, when the world was about to be formed, the light and sound of the heavenly beings who were about to run out of blessings were reborn as humans and came to this world, feeding on joy, their whole body was bright, and they flew freely with divine powers, and there was no distinction between men and women, gender, respect and inferiority, and the public

Other articlesTime: 2021-06-30

The first is to learn impure views. If you remember the ten impurities in your heart, that is, one of the impure aspects of consciousness, and then the nine impure aspects of ignorance, that is, the nine views of the cemetery, you can eliminate greed. The second is to practice impure views. The view of impurity is the thirty views of the body

Great wish mageTime: 2021-06-13

There is nothing more crazy in the world than greed, so we should be diligent in cutting off greed and troubles. In the "Great Solemn Treatise", Bodhisattva Ma Ming mentioned that in the past, I heard that when the World-Honored One practiced the Bodhisattva path, there was a life in the era when there were no Buddhas, and neither sages nor saints were born. while

Other articlesTime: 2021-05-13

Q: How to deal with your greed for attachment? Answer: Lust is the law of dependent arising: it has its cause, that is, past habits; There is a reason for its origin, that is, the stimulation of the current environment and the inner thoughts. Therefore, when dealing with lust, we also need to follow cause and effect

Other articlesTime: 2021-01-25

On Nanhao Street in Gusu, there was a man who often worked as a servant in the underworld, coming to work every few days. A neighbor said to him, "Can you take me to the underworld to play?" The clerk replied, "Yes." You just need to stay quiet in your bedroom and tell your family not to open the door. I will take you away and send you back. If the neighbor orders him to stay in the bedroom, the servant will be there

Buddhist storiesTime:2014-02-14

The cause of all suffering is greed; If greed is eliminated, there is no place to rely on. -- "Lotus Sutra Volume II. This verse says that the root of all kinds of pain and afflictions is greed, and if the problem of greed is solved, it is equivalent to removing the root of bitterness. It can be seen that "greed" is many

Han Chuan mageTime:2014-02-16

The lowest standard of good and evil in Buddhism is Hinayana. If it is for the world, everything you do is evil; If it is for liberation, everything you do is good. If you don't have any greed for the world and seek liberation day and night, this is renunciation. The crowd of the upper three paths

Tibetan MasterTime:2014-02-16

greed causes worry, greed breeds fear; There is no greed, what is there to worry about? The cause of greed Greed is a common problem of sentient beings, which is called greed in the realm of desire, and its nature is not good, and in the realm of form and formlessness, it is called greed, and its nature is covered without memory, and it can obstruct the holy path, both of which are the same

Han Chuan mageTime:2014-02-24

In the modern metropolis, a model of material civilization, the environment is seriously polluted, the air is filled with automobile exhaust and industrial exhaust gases, people feel chest tightness and depression, the ears listen to noisy noise, and the eyes see colorful mottled colors

Tibetan MasterTime:2014-05-29

If you give some "sweetness" to those innocent children, they will easily laugh happily; Extend a helping hand to those who are lonely and helpless, and they will immediately feel warm. But many of us are becoming more and more unsatisfied, and we are always in it

Tibetan MasterTime:2014-06-01

Buddhism believes that the reason why a person encounters all kinds of troubles and pains is because people have the three poisons of greed, anger, and infatuation. Among the three, greed is in first place. A person's greed is endless, and people's greed is like a mouthful that can never be filled

Han Chuan mageTime:2014-07-10

"The "Huishu" says: Desire is the cause of all suffering, and the precepts (degree) can be separated." In today's society, too many people regard desire as the cause of all pleasures, they do not know that it is suffering, they think it is enjoyment. Buddhism talks about five categories of desires: wealth, sex, fame, food, and sleep

Han Chuan mageTime: 2014-10-28

If you say you like that flesh and want to see and touch it, then why don't you want it? Some people think: "I don't like kapok pillows because it's not a woman's body, I'm interested in women's fine skin and tender flesh, and I don't like to hug those ruthless things." This statement

Tibetan MasterTime:2015-09-06

In addition to material life, people should also pay attention to the purification and improvement of the soul. If you only know how drunk and spend your days drinking, no matter how much wealth you have, your heart will always be poor and will fall in the future. If you are greedy, you belong to the hungry ghost path; It is compassionate

Han Chuan mageTime:2015-09-12

There are five terms for afflictions in Buddhism: greed, anger, foolishness, slowness, and doubt, that is, greed, hatred, foolishness, pride, and doubt. If you can have less greed, you can have more compassion; If you have less hatred, you can be more forgiving; One less foolishness

Other articlesTime:2015-11-27

To be able to cut off greed is to overcome all suffering. ——"Buddha's Quotations" A young man went from home to a Zen monastery and saw an interesting story on the way, and he wanted to use it to examine the old Zen monk in the Zen monastery. When he came to the Zen monastery, he and the old Zen master were chatting while drinking tea, and they were cold

Buddhist storiesTime: 2015-12-17

Some people think: "I don't like kapok pillows because it's not a woman's body, I'm interested in women's fine skin and tender flesh, and I don't like to hug those ruthless things." "This statement is not reasonable, how can it be unreasonable?" If you say you like that meat, you want to see and touch it

Tibetan MasterTime: 2015-12-20

We seek the truth with an incomparably noble desire, but we do not know that the truth is right in front of us, in the moment of raising our eyebrows; We are very eager to discover the beauty in life, but we don't know that the body and mind are so beautiful inside and outside, and every moment is unmatched

Han Chuan mageTime: 2016-01-29

Question: Can the inner frenzied and uncontrollable greed give rise to aversion to centrifugation by satisfying it as much as possible? Answer: All greedy enjoyment in the world has an insatiable nature, and the more people enjoy pleasure, the more greedy their hearts will grow

Tibetan MasterTime:2016-05-06

Question: Can the inner frenzied and uncontrollable greed give rise to aversion to centrifugation by satisfying it as much as possible? Answer: All greedy enjoyment in the world has an insatiable nature, and the more people enjoy pleasure, the more greedy their hearts will grow

Tibetan MasterTime:2016-05-10

Question: Can the inner frenzied and uncontrollable greed give rise to aversion to centrifugation by satisfying it as much as possible? Sodaji Khenpo replied: All greedy enjoyment in the world has an insatiable nature, and the more people enjoy pleasure, the more greedy will grow.

Other articlesTime:2016-05-26

Q: When you come into contact with some people of the opposite sex, greed often arises involuntarily. How can it be stopped? Sodaji Khenpo replied: Ordinary people often develop a paranoia about things of the same nature due to ignorance and ignorance. For example, the components that make up a woman's body are no

Tibetan MasterTime:2016-06-08

Question: Can meditation on impure meditation completely cut off the greedy mind? Answer: After we know that the body is impur, can we completely cut off greed? In the end, there are certain difficulties, so the "Theory of Entering the Middle" says that the impure view is the upside down intention

Tibetan MasterTime:2016-09-07

Greedy and depraved reincarnation In this beginningless reincarnation, we have also enjoyed wonderful desires countless times, and we can be sure that there is no greed that has not been enjoyed. We used to enjoy it, but today our greed is still growing, and it is not with us

Tibetan MasterTime:2017-02-07