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
Chapter 1 The Intersection of Bitterness and Happiness We often say: Life has ups and downs, and life is full of joys and sorrows. The pursuit of happiness is what everyone wants. What are the joys of life? The title of the gold list is happiness, career success is happiness, and wife and son filial piety are
Master DaanTime: 2025-06-15
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
Master Mingzheng, Amitabha. The disciple has heard that both good and evil are silent, and they can forget both, but when they recite the Buddha. Because I am afraid of delusion, I visualize the seed character of Amitabha Buddha as the cause, is this right? Venerable Ming Zheng taught: No, the key to chanting the Buddha by name is to do so
Han charactersTime: 2025-05-22
Amitabha Buddha is the head of the Western Elysium, and the statue of Amitabha Buddha is always standing, why? The statues of Amitabha Buddha are all standing, why not sitting statues? The Buddha saw that sentient beings were about to fall into the fire pit of the Three Evil Realms, and at this time it was not permissible to help and rescue them
Master DaanTime: 2025-05-16
Amitabha Buddha saved my ordinary mother, I am a disciple of the Five Precepts, and I will not lie. My mother was a simple, traditional woman. She is kind-hearted, so no one who knows her does not say that she is good. The mother is simple-hearted and not highly educated. So she didn't
Enlightened timeTime: 2025-05-16
Gen-la Pure Realm: Before getting to know Amitabha Buddha, first understand his characteristic method of reciting the Dharma, which is practiced by many people throughout the world. But let's take a closer look at the fact that among so many people who recite the Buddha, there are people who really have a true understanding of the teachings of the Pure Land
Han charactersDate: 2025-05-15
Amitabha Buddha said don't doubt that remembering the Buddha and reciting the Buddha will definitely be able to give birth to Master Xuan of the Tang Dynasty in China, a native of Shanxi and Bingzhou, is a monk who has practiced diligently, and all the scriptures he has studied can be fully understood, and the Dharma that he has understood and what he has done with his body and mouth,
Enlightened timeDate: 2025-05-15
Question: What is the purpose of Master Shandao's Hongyuan Gate? Venerable Da'an: Master Shandao is the second patriarch of the Pure Land sect in China, and in his "Four Sutras of the Sutra", he narrated that Shakyamuni Buddha was invited by Mrs. Wittig to "open the door of the Pure Land", Ami
Master DaanDate: 2025-05-15
Amitabha Buddha's Miraculous Rescue My name is Zhang Yan and I am an accountant at North Asia Trading Co., Ltd. in Yantai City, Shandong Province. At about 9 o'clock in the morning of December 29, 2001, Mr. Hu Quanming, the manager of the company, and Mr. Dong Xiaohua, the manager of the company, and the eldest sister Dong Xiaohua went to a unit in the eastern suburbs to run errands
Enlightened timeDate: 2025-05-15
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
Amitabha Buddha, also known as Amitayus Buddha, how to prolong life without killing the first thing to live a long life, and there are many different ways to prolong life, and now we will mention them one by one. Abstain from killing and not harming sentient beings. Among the various methods that have the effect of prolonging life, there is no one that has the most strange response
Talking about the Buddha and talking about Zen enlightenment lifeDate: 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
How far is Amitabha Buddha's Western Pure Land from us? Let's take a look at a Pure Land poem by the master of the provincial hermitage: it is said that the Pure Land is idealistic, and more than 100,000 journeys are external seeking. However, the delusional mind is inside (if it is said that the West of the Ten Trillion Buddha Kingdom is an external seeker, then it is the same if you recognize the delusion of the mind inside.)
Talking about the Buddha and talking about Zen enlightenment lifeTime: 2025-05-09
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
Amitabha Buddha's blessings to me Pure Land Magazine 2011 No. 5 Around the Spring Festival this year, my old illness recurred. As the saying goes, "Men are afraid to wear boots, and women are afraid to wear hats." "However, my feet were swollen, my face was swollen, and I had fluid in my chest and abdomen, and my heart was stuffy
Buddhist fablesDate: 2025-05-08
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
Amitabha, although it is only four words, includes all the Dharma. Every sutra that Shakyamuni Buddha said, there are people who ask for the Dharma, but no one asks for the Dharma in the Mida Sutra, so they don't ask for themselves. Why didn't anyone ask for the law? Because no one understands this Dharma. Pure Land Law
The Venerable Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-04-25
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
Question: Are Amitabha Buddha's three vows for three different root sentient beings? How to understand the similarities and differences between these three vows? Answer: Amitabha's 48 great vows are made for sentient beings of the immeasurable root mechanism of the ten directions, and there are vows for ordinary sentient beings, as well as for others
Master DaanDate: 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
Huang Nianzu: Amitabha Buddha has been kind to us in his past life, "cultivating the Bodhisattva Path, accumulating virtue in immeasurable eons." "Bodhisattva" is altruistic, practicing the Bodhisattva path. "Tribulation" means a long period of time and is the name of time. How long is this? not
Other causal storiesDate: 2025-04-15
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
Faith and Wish Walk are the three foods to the Western Elysium—the three fares. This path is very straight, as long as we recite Nam Mu Amitabha Buddha and show faith, wishes, and intentions, this is enough. Therefore, faith, wish, and action are the three kinds of food and three kinds of travel expenses to the Western Elysium.
The Venerable Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-03-27
Worshipping Amitabha Buddha can reduce our sins and tribulations, enable us to attain positive results and get rid of the sea of suffering more quickly and quickly in our practice, and can also eliminate distractions and resentments in our hearts, so that our hearts are clearer, purer, and clearer
Learning Buddhism inductionDate: 2025-03-25
Those who have recited, received, and written the Ten Wishes of the Bodhisattvas can see themselves born in the lotus blossom of the Western Elysium. There are only men and no women in the Western Elysium, and all people are incarnated by lotus flowers; Hua Kai saw the Buddha, that is, the Amitabha Buddha for him
The Venerable Master XuanhuaDate: 2025-03-24
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