Wise people in general tend to say that we are often just trying to do what we like, which is actually wrong. What you like can be good or bad. If it's bad but you like it, then you're going to create a lot of bad karma. For one
Han charactersTime: 2025-07-07
ConnotationI often say: when you do something, what kind of mentality and motivation do you have? Moreover, personal introspection is very important in the process of doing. The success or failure of an event is very important to ordinary people. However, for practitioners, success or failure is the difference between success and failure
Han charactersTime: 2025-07-07
A few years ago, one of my students came to Pulau Ubin to find me and wanted to work there for five days. After he had packed his luggage, I had just left on his own, and when I saw him again a few hours later, he told me that he had something to do, and thought
Han charactersTime: 2025-07-07
The level of Fuhui dual cultivation is very broad, and it is not just hiding in the mountains. If you're going to study three studies, then you need a quieter environment, that's for sure. But if you want to cultivate good fortune, ability and wisdom, you have to be in the crowd. Only between people
Han charactersTime: 2025-07-07
Emperor Shunzhi of Vipassana went to live in the temple for a while, and before he left, he said such a sentence: Becoming a monk is a great husband's business, and it is not something that a general can do. Why? Although generals and prime ministers can have countless subordinates and command millions of people, he is not
Han charactersTime: 2025-07-07
Once, the Buddha made an analogy. The piano makes a sound when a person plays it, but a person cannot find the sound in the instrument, even if he takes it apart. Why? The composition of the piano is a combination of strings, wood, etc.; If you have a piano, you still need it
Han charactersTime: 2025-07-07
Meditation is meditation, which is to let the mind be in a calm state and to think about those wrong habits and thoughts. Therefore, it is also called thinking practice. Through the understanding of the Dharma, you can guide yourself in how to think in order to achieve the requirements for the relief of suffering. What to "repair" to repair
Han charactersDate: 2025-07-06
Practical practice is a kind of cultivation and self-cultivation, and it is an empirical effort, rather than just talking about the Dharma and not doing it. During the Song Dynasty, there was a literati named Su Dongpo, who made a poem in praise of the Buddha and sent it to the Buddha Yin Zen Master who lived on the other side. After reading this, Buddha Yin Zen Master
Han charactersDate: 2025-07-06
When you are doing this, you have to discover that if your mind is not moving, when you don't have the thought of leaving, your feet will not move forward, and the reason why you are moving forward is because you have already moved the thought of leaving. If you can find out that it's because you want to go, then you're leaving
Han charactersDate: 2025-07-06
After discovering the immovable mind, and knowing how to look back at the three poisons in your own heart and the reaction to the outside world, you will know what is the cause and effect behind each thought and reaction. Do what is right, and turn it into the right if it is wrong; Especially aware of what they are playing
Han charactersDate: 2025-07-06
Question: There are so many unpredictable and unsolvable problems in life, life, family, personnel, and environmental hazards, why do people live? Mage: Yes. When we grow up and face various situations in life, we will ask ourselves this same
Han charactersDate: 2025-07-05
Guangxi Mashan Lingyang Temple 2010 Lunar August Seven Dharma Meeting Master Sheng Xu Lecture (Morning of the Fifth Day of the Lunar New Year) There are eight major sects of Buddhism, and the Pure Land Sect is one of them. Although there are different sects of Buddhism, the purpose is the same, that is, the purpose, the same
Han charactersTime: 2025-07-01
Lecture 2: Understanding the Dharmakaya We talked yesterday about entering the Great Light Treasure of the Divine Power, the Samadhi is being received, and everything is as it is being the abbot, which is the state of liberation that is described, and it is very difficult for us to guess the state of the so-called path of liberation, because we are disturbing beings and we don't know what it is
Han charactersTime: 2025-07-01
Zen Master Foguang interprets the twenty-second lecture of the "Diamond Sutra" from the twenty-six products, basically all the teachings of the Diamond Sutra, basically complete. What about the latter products, what is it, the later use points (from the twenty-seventh product to the thirty-second grade, it belongs to the later use points) also
Han charactersTime: 2025-07-01
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
Zen Master Foguang interprets the nineteenth lecture of the Diamond Sutra According to the meaning of the scriptures, we follow his line of thought to ponder emptiness. We have a so-called habit of thinking that we have to have something to be attached to, we have to have a so-called
Han charactersTime: 2025-07-01
Lecture 3: The Three-Step Replacement Rule for Breaking IgnoranceThe book I have in hand is a lecture on the Yuanjue Sutra written by Venerable Yuan Ying in the form of ancient judgments, which are used in the teaching of Buddhist colleges. Buddhist scriptures plus the rules of the ancient people Xiushi (the ancient Chinese understood the text
Han charactersTime: 2025-07-01
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
Amitabha, hello everyone! Today I would like to share with you: many diseases, many disasters, and many difficulties, all lie in thoughts. People's thoughts are very important, and if you always think about sad things and pessimistic things, it is easy to bring many illnesses to the body. Because when people's thoughts are always thinking about bad places
Han charactersDate: 2025-06-30
Yesterday I shared with you: chanting Buddha and doing good. How can we do good deeds while chanting the Buddha? The purity of the three karmas of body, mouth, and mind is a kind of goodness. How to recite this Buddha name becomes a thought in the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind, it depends on the person you recite the Buddha
Han charactersDate: 2025-06-30
Guangxi Mashan Lingyang Temple 2010 Lunar Calendar August Seven Dharma Meeting Master Sheng Xu Lecture (Afternoon of the Sixth Day of the Lunar New Year) First of all, everyone came here to chant the Buddha for a few days, and felt that chanting the Buddha had merit. If we can get a family, and even the people around us, to recite the Buddha, then
Han charactersDate: 2025-06-30
Before I studied Buddhism, I often encountered ghosts, several times a month. Why is this happening? Because I have in my heart the desire to kill. When I was sixteen or seventeen years old, I went hunting every day and came back every day with my game, so I always went on to do it
comeuppanceTime: 2025-06-27
1 The first person in this world is the sin of murder! Why do you create killing karma? Because of greed. People in the world are greedy for delicious food, for the tongue of three inches, I don't know how many sentient beings have been killed?2 Gluttony, this is a common disease of all sentient beings! Ordinary people are greedy for deliciousness, for three
comeuppanceTime: 2025-06-27
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
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 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
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