Old monk Mengshen: Behind the fact that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva "backfired"

Master: From the path of liberation to the path of bodhisattva

The Buddha once taught us: "Before you become a Buddha, you must first form a relationship," and the later study of preaching is to uphold this principle. This time I came to the United States to form a bond with Fayun Temple Buddhist College, which I couldn't ask for. 1. Introduction to a few years

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-08-04

What does "bodhisattva" mean?

【Introduction to the Classics】"Upasaka Precepts", seven volumes. Translated by Tan Wu from Beiliang. It is also known as the "Good Life Sutra" and the "Upasaka Precepts". The Buddha spoke the Mahayana Upasaka precepts (lay precepts) for good beings, and unfolded around this, explaining the six paramitas such as generosity. The content of the whole scripture

Buddha statue knowledgeTime: 2025-07-31

The Three Buddhas, the Three Bodies, the Medicine Buddha and the Medicine King Bodhisattva

Ninghai Xiangshan Guangde Temple Daxiong Treasure Hall 1. About the Three Buddhas and the Three Bodies of the Buddha Daxiong Treasure Hall enshrines three Buddha statues: the Three Buddhas and the Three Bodies of Buddha [Note] The head of the Buddha has a meat bun (J) on the top of its head, spiral hair on its head, and white hair between its eyebrows (it is a symbol of Buddha's enlightenment).

Buddha statue knowledgeTime: 2025-07-29

Master Xinyuan: No bodhisattva can surpass the vows of Dharmazang Bodhisattva

The third door is to describe the forty-eight great vows made by Dharmazang Bodhisattva, which are transcendent and supreme, and are very worthy of our admiration. The Buddhas of the Ten Directions made general vows and other vows in the practice of the Bodhisattva of the Land Land. May everyone be the same, the four vows, we

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-07-28

In the twelfth article of the Ksitigarbha Sutra, "Seeing and Hearing Benefits", it is said that when reading the sutra, we have no memory, and we have this to a greater or lesser extent. For example, if we can't memorize all the sutras after reading them, or even worse than this, what should we do? Make an offering in front of the statue of Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva

Buddha statue knowledgeTime: 2025-07-27

Today we took the big ship of Amitabha Buddha and came to Wutai Mountain to get close to Manjushri Bodhisattva. We have already said before we set out from the Infinite Life Temple that all Buddhism cannot be separated from prajna wisdom, and Manjushri Bodhisattva represents prajna wisdom. Many of us bodhisattvas are practicing

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-07-25

All sentient beings, as long as they are inspired by their own good and evil karma in reincarnation, have an essential characteristic, which is the feeling of suffering. This bitter fruit comes from the karma of the bad karma he has created. For example, in our world, it is called Saha, also known as Kanto. What is indicated

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-23

Bodhisattva is the abbreviation of Sanskrit transliteration Bodhisattva. Its Chinese translation of Bodhi is enlightenment, and the Chinese translation of Sattṣṇa is sentient beings, or sentient beings (all animals with feelings), and the full translation should be: enlightened sentient beings, Taoist sentient beings, and enlightened sentient beings. According to the meaning of this word, ancient Chinese translation

Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-07-07

Dazhen Khenpo: Rejoicing in the Bodhisattva, it turns out that the merit is so incredible, here is mainly about the field of blessings! If a bodhicitta can generate joy or faith in the bodhisattva, this merit and merit is also incredible! If any sentient being

Buddhist Questions and AnswersTime: 2025-07-06

2. Bodhisattva, also known as Guanyin Shakyamuni Buddha spoke at the Lotus Meeting on Lingjiu Mountain, there were more than 80,000 bodhisattvas, of which there were eighteen important great bodhisattvas, and Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva was one of the eighteen great bodhisattvas. "Avalokiteshvara" is the name of Kumarajiva's translation

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-07-04

3. The cause and effect of a bodhisattva gaining a thousand hands and a thousand eyes We now know that the bodhisattva with boundless mana is actually formed by mortals. According to Buddhist scriptures, the date of enlightenment of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva is the 19th day of the sixth lunar month, the date of becoming a monk is the 19th day of the ninth month, and the birthday is the 19th day of the second month

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-07-04

Last year, a friend who was proficient in the I Ching said to me: "From March 5th to April 5th next year, you will be very bad." After the Spring Festival, he said to me again: "As soon as you enter March, you have to be extra careful, if you don't do it well, your job will be gone." I said to him, "I'll fight you."

comeuppanceTime: 2025-06-29

Looking at the faces of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, a violinist held his first concert, and the teacher said to him: "When playing, don't panic because of the people in the audience, I will sit upstairs in the front room

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-06-26

The suffering behind milk: cows are not milk-producing machines The suffering behind milk is what we eat, and the food we eat in our mouths not only affects our appearance, but also affects our thinking, for our health and the sustainable future of the global environment

Origin of releaseTime: 2025-06-12

According to the "Biography of the Tripitaka Master of the Great Tang Dynasty Great Ci'en Temple", when Master Xuanzang was studying scriptures in India, he would worship devoutly every time he went to a holy place, and when he arrived at the holy place of Buddha enlightenment, he saw the Buddha statue made by Maitreya Bodhisattva, bowed sincerely, bowed to the ground, sad and annoyed, and sentimental

comeuppanceTime: 2025-06-10

Can you burn paper money and ingots to offer to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas? Some laypeople burn paper money and burn ingots to make offerings on the happy days of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and Master Yinguang clearly instructed that Buddhism does not support this kind of thing, but it does not oppose it. this

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-06-08

As usual, every Sunday after the release ceremony, there is always a group of people sitting on the shore of Lake Green Fields to listen to the Dharma. Half an hour ago, I saw the old Bodhisattva Huang in a black shirt staggering towards him with a cane on his cane. He had a hoarse voice and a Teochew dialect, gushing

Release the disease to healTime: 2025-06-07

The good man asked: Master, some people lie about which Buddha or Bodhisattva he is again, and some say what kind of general he was in his previous life. Master Renqing answered: This situation is actually a type of lie, which is wrong. The Buddha said in the

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-06-03

Lantern (Sanskrit name, Badipa) refers to the light of the lamp. Also known as lamps. It also refers to the lamps offered in front of the Buddha, including oil fire, candle fire, etc., and incense flowers are widely used as tools for offering honorifics. The origin of the use of lamps in Buddhism is according to the fiftieth chapter of the "Four-Part Rule"

The Buddha prepared the ritual vesselsTime: 2025-06-02

On March 2, 2010, his mother passed away. Excuse me: My mother speaks Cantonese and doesn't speak Mandarin. Can she understand the scriptures in Mandarin? The teacher replied, "Yes." I was stunned. The master said: The Buddhas and Bodhisattvas will tell her. It is only joyful on the face. --- "Just Like the Master's Zen Words"

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-05-31

Vajra Hand Bodhisattva is a collection of the power of all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas Warm reminder: Before reading, let's develop supreme bodhicitta together! Vajra Hand Bodhisattva is the sum of the power of all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, Sudaji Khenpo, I also want to take refuge in Vajra Hand Bodhisattva, a prisoner of Yama with hatred

He was a person in the worldTime: 2025-05-31

If the body of this master is in harmony with the four major aggregates and five aggregates, in the process of life, it is inevitable that there will be four major imbalances and illnesses, at this time, you should find a doctor with excellent morality and skills to diagnose and treat you

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-05-08

In the face of illness and suffering: the great compassion of the Bodhisattva "Looking at this disease, it is all because of the cherishing of life and property, which annoys the audience; it is also incomplete in keeping precepts, sick and short-lived; it is also weak in mind, unable to endure, and unable to protect the body and spirit; it is also a lack of effort and no good remedy; It is also without the power of meditation, for

golden sayingTime: 2025-05-01

Master Zhenyuan answered: Have you read the book "Water Knows the Answer"? If you don't have it, you can refer to the article to learn the benefits of tantra: and the meaning of the mantra: From this, it should be known that the water used to chant the Buddha and offer to the Buddha can be drunk, and it has a wonderful use to eliminate sins and produce goodness, not only for oneself but also for the belly

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-04-28

During the Nanjing Massacre, people were also chanting the Bodhisattva's blessing, why couldn't they be spared from being killed? Questioner: (Hengshui Mingcheng) Master Zhenyuan answered: Killing karma is a manifestation of the sins accumulated in our previous lives or even previous eons. From a worldly perspective, we should be full of justice and righteousness

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-04-27

Tianmu Mountain Zenyuan Temple: In the early morning, the sky will be white. A leopard with a tawny body and copper coin-colored fur paced out of the bushes, its paws on the ground lightly and almost silently. It went down

Talk about Buddhism and Zen enlightenment lifeTime: 2025-04-20

Those who are good at discussing the nature of the mind will certainly not abandon cause and effect. Those who firmly believe in cause and effect will eventually have a great understanding of the nature of the mind. ——"Quotations of Zen Master Chewu" The Buddha told Puguang that there will be evil people in the future world. Those who do not believe in cause and effect, reincarnation, or the existence of saints, only pursue the interests of this world

Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-19

The way Guanyin Bodhisattva helps us is to cut off suffering. If Guanyin Bodhisattva can save me, don't wait for me to recite it, just save me. This kind of thinking is that I don't know much about Guanyin Bodhisattva helping me

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-04-18

Once going up the mountain, a Taoist friend asked the old monk Mengshen: Why do we often see good people in this world who are not rewarded? Cause and effect are mutually obedient, cause and effect, effect follows cause, cause and effect give rise to cause, nature and emptiness arise, cause and effect are not chaotic, good will be rewarded, and evil will be done

comeuppanceTime: 2025-04-16

Shancai passed through the realization of Maitreya Pavilion, and in a short time, he arrived at the city of Sumona in the country of Pumen, which is 110 cities away. The city gate is extremely tall. Good money stands at the city gate, thinking of Manjushri to benefit the boys. Suddenly a huge hand pressed on the top of Shancai's head, and Shancai suddenly felt all over his body

Buddhist knowledgeTime: 2025-04-06

The "Ksitigarbha Sutra" is also known as the "Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Original Wish Sutra", which records the filial piety of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva to save his mother, the great compassion and the testimony of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's vows are incredible. Of all the scriptures, the teachings are simple and easy to understand, and they are not needed

Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-03-26

The difference between Buddhism and Confucianism is that one advocates the law of the world and the other is the law of the world. However, the law of birth is achieved by the law of the world, not by leaving the law of the world and there is the law of birth. Confucius is an unprecedented great sage in China, a prophet and foresight

Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-03-26

Reciting the Bodhisattva can reduce our karma and calamities, make us more quick and focused in our practice, and can also eliminate distractions and sorrows in our hearts, making our hearts clearer and more peaceful and full of positive energy, and through recitation

Learn Buddhist inductionTime: 2025-03-25

Since the immeasurable eons, we have been born and died, died and reborn, and have been going around in the six reincarnations, and we have never been able to get out of this reincarnation circle. Because we have more sins than good merits, and greed and ignorance exceed precepts and wisdom. Although we do good, we make meritorious contributions and stand

Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-03-24

Master Zhihai answered: It depends on which angle you look at it. If we define renunciation, it is renunciation from all constraints. We now see that centrifugality is a matter of detachment from reality. The problems we face now are all due to false distinctions. The question is false, see

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-03-17

1. The Avatamsaka Sutra talks about continuous Buddha seeds, which is the first priority of a bodhisattva. If no one speaks of the Dharma, even if the wisdom cannot understand it, then there will never be a way to renounce. We encourage all Buddhist children who have received the three refuges to make a dedication to promoting the Dharma. You say I haven't learned yet, what

comeuppanceTime: 2025-03-16

September 2004 was a major turning point in my life, I was reborn, and many questions about the meaning of life were answered overnight. Dependent Origin is a Buddhist book "Dharma and Life" (published by Zhuhai Publishing House in 2003). Thick

Vegan healthTime: 2025-03-07

The recitation of the Bodhisattva's holy name can make our hearts more peaceful and kind, so that the resentment and gloom in our hearts can be eliminated, and it can also break the gloom and sadness in our hearts, so that our minds are clearer and full of positive energy, and through the recitation of the Bodhisattva

Learn Buddhist inductionTime: 2025-03-06

Zen Master Sengya, commonly known as Mou, was different from ordinary children when he was young. Every time he visited the mountain spring, he would bow first and then drink, and sometimes he would sit all day looking at the stream without blinking. When people asked him why, he replied: "It's disgusting, I will definitely burn it in the future." Fishing is put into the water

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-02-27

Master Xuanhua compassionately enlightened: "Puxian Bodhisattva, that is, stand up from his seat, bow to the Buddha's feet, and say to the Buddha: I have been the prince of the Dharma with the Tathagata of the Hengsha, and the Tathagata of the Ten Directions taught his disciple Bodhisattva Root, cultivate the Universal Virtuous Conduct, and establish a name from me. World-Honored One! I listen with my heart to distinguish between sentient beings and places

Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-02-24

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If there is no Buddha, you will serve your parents as Buddhas. Filial piety to support his father

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva platformTime: 2025-02-10

Why did the Buddha compare these four great bodhisattvas with Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva? The Mahayana Great Collection of Ksitigarbha Ten Wheel Sutras" dream of the old monk explains [Good man. If there are people. To his Maitreya. And wonderful auspiciousness. And look at freedom. The universal virtuous are the top leaders. The great bodhisattvas such as Shakyasa Sha

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva platformTime: 2025-02-10

"Firmly believe in cause and effect". When I first read the "Sutra of Infinite Life" in my early years, I had doubts when I read this sentence: The third of the Three Blessings was practiced by a bodhisattva, and the bodhisattva still doesn't believe in cause and effect? Later, when I read the "Avatamsaka Sutra" and read the "Ten Ground Products", I suddenly realized that this was it

comeuppanceTime: 2025-01-15

Briefly explain the Huayan Sutra The old monk said upside down that the scriptures, strictness, Hua, Buddha, fakes, squares, and great scriptures are doctrines; strict is always said to be the fruit of the solemn Buddha; Hua is the cause, because of this cause, there is such a result, Hua is an adjective, because of the fruit of the Buddha:

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-01-11

[It can destroy all serious sins of sentient beings. Remove all obstacles. Now I can live in peace. Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva has such great blessing power, and he will forgive you any sins of going to hell. He guarded at the gate of hell and said: This is my disciple, he has believed in me and will not let him go down. you

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-01-08

The old monk Mengshen talks about the Ksitigarbha Sutra 5 Saints are quite convinced of Buddhism, and their beliefs are very true. But her mother didn't believe it, and her mother believed in evil, believed in cults, and despised the Three Jewels. The saintess wanted to transform her mother, so she appeared to transform her mother, and she set up all kinds of conveniences and skillfulness to make her

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-01-07

Amitabha's forty-eight great vows (twenty-fifth vow: Bodhisattva performs all wisdom) If I attain Buddhahood, the bodhisattvas in the country cannot speak to all wise people and do not attain enlightenment. If I become a Buddha, a bodhisattva in the country, and cannot speak all wisdom, I will not attain enlightenment.

Han biography figuresTime: 2024-12-30

In order to avoid suspicion, he built a house in the field and persevered for twenty years. If you don't get close to women, your financial will will not be broken, and your twenty years of work will be gone. There are two Wang brothers in Gaoshiqiao, Chongming Island (now Shanghai), Jiangsu Province, the eldest brother has forgotten his name, and the younger brother is called a monk, and both parents are dead. The eldest brother is over

Buddhist knowledgeTime: 2024-12-29

Cui Lixi, the governor of Chang'an during the Song Dynasty, recorded in the Jizoang Induction Records, was the governor of Chang'an and the younger brother of Cui Shangshu Long. In the second year of Kaibao, he died of thirst, but two days later, he came back to life. He recounted the events of the underworld, saying: "When I first died, two officials helped me as I walked away." He also saw the white horse soldier driving over, not knowing how many miles he had traveled, but he knew he had reached the northeast

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's Inspiration RecordTime: 2024-12-28