Pure Land Method: All must be able to endure and subdue their arrogant habits

Master Daguan: Know yourself

Know yourself We don't have to envy others or imitate others, because everyone's conditions are different. Understanding your own strength and positioning is the key. There is a person who loves horseback riding, so he learns equestrianism from the horse master. After three months of training, he also became a fine person

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-08-08

Lushan Pure Land Collection Ask the Buddha Samadhi and answer Master Huiyuan asks Kumarajiva answers

The Mahayana Great Righteousness Chapter asks about the Buddha's Samadhi and answers Master Huiyuan's question Kumarajiva replied to Yuan's question: The Buddha's samadhi, said in the "Prajna Sutra Recitation of the Buddha's Chapter", often uses dreams as metaphors. Dreams are the realm of ordinary people, and the confusion and solution are self-inflicted, and they are reasonable. And the sutra says: Reciting the Buddha's samadhi to see the Buddha,

Pure Land TreatiseTime: 2025-08-08

Master Da'an: It is impossible to survive in the Pure Land with the goodness of miscellaneous poisons

Original text: To understand the practice and practice of all sentient beings' body, speech, mind, and karma, they must do it in their hearts, and must not show the appearance of virtue, goodness, and diligence, and must not show the appearance of virtue and diligence on the outside. Although it starts three industries, it is called the good of mixed drugs, and it is also called false behavior

Master Da'anTime: 2025-08-06

Master Da'an: Being able to tolerate others is good for you

"Attack their evil, do not attack the evil of others", "Sit quietly and think about your own faults, and don't talk about others' faults." The saints of Confucianism and Buddhism are telling us that we must be strict with ourselves and be lenient with others. In fact, each of us should check it, be lenient with others, and tolerate others' mistakes, which is not very tolerant

Master Da'anTime: 2025-08-06

Master of the Pure Land Method: Retribution for grievances is endless

'Symbiosis and reciprocity', this is retribution for grievances, endless. "Symbiosis from each other", we are reincarnated in this life, we are destined to be with our parents, brothers and sisters, relatives and friends, and we can get together together in this life, which is called common karma, and the result is called

comeuppanceTime: 2025-08-05

2. Rebirth and Buddhahood 1. The ultimate goal of learning Buddhism is to become a Buddha. In the middle of Buddhahood, you must go through many stages of study. In the process of learning the way to Buddhahood, the method of practice is formed according to the difference between self-strength and other power

Pure Land ExplorationTime: 2025-08-04

All faults are attributed to oneself, and there is great grace in the view of all beings. When contemplating worldly bodhicitta, all faults and bad things in the world should be blamed on oneself, and one should not blame others. But in life, many menstruation

comeuppanceTime: 2025-08-04

Good and evil cause and effect cannot be canceled, this must be understood. So what to do? What should I do if I can't offset it? Buddhism teaches us to strengthen good causes; For the evil, what was created in the past, no more. Let the power of good be strong and the power of evil weak, when you die in the future

comeuppanceTime: 2025-08-04

3. The body is truly golden May the human skin color and race of the earth world be complex, and the Dharma Tibetan monk said: 'When I become a Buddha, if the color of the heavenly beings in the land is not true gold, then I cannot fully attain the Buddha's path. In our world, by

Pure Land ExplorationTime: 2025-08-03

My classmates are not in good health, and they are reciting Buddhist scriptures, honestly, very honestly, why are they still sick? There is a passage in the rooftop "Zhi Guan", which we have also learned before, and we repeat it again, it is very important. "Zhi Guan" says, "Or it is the karma of the previous life", bad karma

comeuppanceTime: 2025-08-03

From the perspective of Aham meditation, the process of entering the liberation of righteousness from the birth of the world is the most important key to the practice of a meditator who has embarked on the journey of liberation from birth to death

Pure Land ExplorationTime: 2025-08-03

Master Huiyi's chronology was written by Master Hongyi based on the master's own "Biography of the Eight Buddhas", and the "Continuation of the Biography" was transcribed and written. I also reviewed the additions and revisions in the "Religious Discussions," and made additions and revisions with reference to other commentaries, prefaces, and postscripts. On the twenty-ninth day, he lived in Qiantang, first draft. On the twenty-ninth, the house was buried in Yongjia, and it was changed

Patriarch of the Pure SectTime: 2025-08-02

Text: Can people who study Buddhism know their fortune and misfortune without fortune-telling? The answer is yes. There are three ways. The first is to perceive the Buddha's emptiness through the changes in the surrounding things. Since it is one, then its own fortune and misfortune

comeuppanceTime: 2025-08-01

6. The Buddha's body appears like the moon 'The Buddhas appear and are born, like the moon rises; The Buddhas enter Nirvana, like the moon disappearing. When the Buddha appears in a certain world to liberate sentient beings, the sentient beings there are called Buddha in the world; When the Buddha enters Nirvana in a certain world, the beings there say that the Buddha has died; And the moon is real

Pure Land ExplorationTime: 2025-07-27

(4) The sound of the Pure Land must be returned to the Mahayana Bodhisattva path 1. Those who are reborn in the lower grades will first develop the mind of becoming a Buddha (1) How can the lower beings inspire the vows to become Buddhas? According to the Buddhist Sutra of Infinite Life, those who are born in the lower grades are reborn in the Seven Treasures Lotus Pool of the Pure Land after seeing the light of the Buddha and being reborn in the Seven Treasures of the Pure Land

Pure Land ExplorationTime: 2025-07-27

(1) Fertility - lotus incarnation, free from fetal suffering' In the Western world of peace, there is now an Amitabha Buddha, if sentient beings, whether monks or laypeople, can correctly accept the name of that Buddha and use this merit to return to the Western Pure Land. At the end of his life,

Pure land sceneryTime: 2025-07-24

Is there a difference between seeking to survive in the Pure Land and seeking to ascend to heaven? The answer is yes. My teacher Yin Hairen once said that his teacher Yin Shun had a good summary of this. Yin Lao summed up three points: the Pure Land of Survival is an ascent rather than a fall, and it is equality rather than a step

Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-07-24

(1) Land 1. The glass is the earth, and the seven treasures are the boundary (immeasurable treasures, the phase is the earth) 'The blissful world, with gold as the ground. ' —— "Amitabha Sutra". 'The Pure Land is usually made of glass on a glass floor, interspersed with gold, but it can also be said to be made of treasures, not necessarily limited to a certain one

Pure land sceneryTime: 2025-07-24

Master Kuanjian answered: When you encounter a problem, always look for problems from yourself? What problems can I have in myself? ※※※: Master once taught to always look for problems in yourself, not from others. When a disciple encounters a problem and thinks about Master's teachings

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-07-21

Layman: The "Sutra of Rangyan" says: "If the lustful heart is not removed, the dust cannot come out." I also heard Master say that if you want to cultivate to the position of an arhat, you can cut off your lustful thoughts, so it seems very difficult for us ordinary people to come up with the six realms of reincarnation. But the Pure Land Method also says that any sentient being is only

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-21

Q: You have repeatedly mentioned the importance of faith in your lectures, but it is not easy to make true and earnest wishes. Buddhist practitioners often make true vows for a while, but once they return to the world or realm, they are infected by the five desires and six dusts, and they retreat from the Tao and cannot keep their minds. wide

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-20

Question: Nowadays, Tantric Buddhism is very prosperous, and many people who practice Tantric Buddhism look down on chanting Buddhism. Master Da'an answered: We don't want to evaluate the practice of tantric Buddhism itself, each has its own cause. But if people who practice tantric Buddhism don't see it

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-19

Question: Nowadays, some people say that the "Disciple's Rules" are the Buddha's precepts, and if you do not learn the "Disciple's Rules", you will be reborn in the Pure Land. Is this statement correct? Master Da'an answered: It is also a good phenomenon to promote the "Disciple's Rules". Because of our Chinese mainland's past hundred years of traditional literature

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-19

Dazhen Khenpo: Putting yourself in the position of others and thinking is a very effective way to practice. I am high everywhere, and others are low everywhere. At any time, I am doing myself

Buddhist Questions and AnswersTime: 2025-07-18

Have any of the people who have seen Buddha chanting in our world passed away? Yes, not much. There are many people who cannot die after reciting Buddhahood all their lives, and they are disproportionately reborn. There are too many who cannot be reborn. We observe calmly and carefully

comeuppanceTime: 2025-07-17

To save a person's life, it is better to create a seven-level Buddhist temple Abortion is murder, it is to kill one's own own children, and parents must bear causal responsibility. The mother directly killed her children, her sins were heavier than her father's, and the causal responsibility was heavier. Killing one's own children is not an ordinary grudge

comeuppanceTime: 2025-07-16

A layman told me that he especially wanted the people in his place to do business prosperously, and that everyone would be healthy and wealthy. I said, you are really a bodhisattva! Because those who practice Buddhism just want everyone to be well. He said, "Master, I am not a bodhisattva, I am an ordinary person. I feel it

comeuppanceTime: 2025-07-15

Therefore, we can say more directly: "The Pure Land Method is where the complete and true benefits of the Buddhas lie!" Because it clearly shows the endless great compassion, great wish, great strength and great use of the Buddhas. This is what Master Yinguang said that the Buddhas of the Ten Directions do not have the Pure Land Method, and there is no way to save them

Master Dharma Zang: The deep meaning of the Pure LandTime: 2025-07-15

"When you give up your life, you fall with the weight, so the cloud follows the direction of sin", this period of life is up, the person dies, the person who sacrifices his life dies, and after death, he goes to be reincarnated again. What is the weight of the fall? It is your thought, and this thought is your serious wrong thought

comeuppanceTime: 2025-07-14

Today, this phenomenon of breaking harmony and harmony is very common, not only creating heavy karma and bringing disasters to sentient beings, but what kind of disaster? sentient beings have no opportunity to hear the Dharma. This is called cutting off the wisdom of all sentient beings, which is heavier than killing their own lives. Kill his life, and he will be blessed, forty

comeuppanceTime: 2025-07-14

Yesterday I went to the University of California to give a lecture, and after the lecture, a Chinese student came outside and asked me, "Does Buddhism believe in cause and effect?" I said, "Yes! This cause and effect must not only be believed, but it is indeed true. If you believe, there is also cause and effect; If you don't believe it, there is also cause and effect

comeuppanceTime: 2025-07-14

To practice Buddhism, in addition to establishing correct knowledge, it is also necessary to practice it personally. If you study Buddhism as an academic discipline, you will not be able to obtain the true benefits of Buddhism without using it in your daily life. Some people hear Buddhism talk about "cause and effect" and think it is negative and confusing

comeuppanceTime: 2025-07-13

To practice Buddhism, in addition to establishing correct knowledge, it is also necessary to practice it personally. If you study Buddhism as an academic discipline, you will not be able to obtain the true benefits of Buddhism without using it in your daily life. Some people hear Buddhism talk about "cause and effect" and think it is negative and confusing

comeuppanceTime: 2025-07-11

1 In this world, we ordinary people have few good connections with all sentient beings, but many bad connections. Why is this happening? Ordinary people always want to take advantage of others, always want to make the benefits accumulated by others their own, and have this possessive heart, so they associate evil with sentient beings

comeuppanceTime: 2025-07-11

Fate is active, not rigid, everything is in your own hands. Master Xuanhua said to the ancients on October 7, 1982: "A gentleman has the knowledge of life-making, and his life is established by me, and he seeks blessings for himself." "Fortune and misfortune have no door; only people can summon themselves." Heaven, earth,

Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-07-10

[Practice is safe to chant Buddha.] When the true rest (Zen master) is called the Pure Land Dharma, it directly goes up to the root vessel and leads the middle and lower streams. It is also said that the sect under the cave is dedicated to esoteric practice, and it is especially simple to see the Buddha through the Pure Land. It is also said that the Buddha is the ancestor, both in teaching and in Zen, all cultivated

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-05

The important scriptures established by the Pure Land Sect are the "Buddha Says Infinite Life Sutra", "Buddha Says Infinite Life Buddha Sutra", "Amitabha Sutra" and "Theory of Rebirth", which are the main scriptures, and the rest of the "Huayan Sutra. Universal Virtue Bodhisattva Fulfillment" and "Rangam Sutra. The general trend is to the Bodhisattva chanting Buddha

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-07-03

Chapter 4 Pure Land Gate Maitreya Pure Land Pure Land Method can be divided into Maitreya Pure Land and Amitabha Pure Land. But now the Pure Land generally referred to as the Pure Land refers to the Pure Land of Amitabha. Maitreya Pure Land refers to the fourth of the six heavens of the desire realm, and the life span of the Tushita heavenly beings is about 4,000 years, and the day and night are equivalent

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-07-03

Xiaoqiang fell into his colleague's teacup, because there was still some water left in the teacup, and Xiaoqiang swam desperately in it. One classmate shouted: Hurry up and burn him with boiling water. I said: When you fall into the water and ask for help, how do you feel when passers-by pour boiling water on you? He should

Release experienceTime: 2025-07-03

God has the virtue of good life and awakens people's conscience. Let us learn to release animals, maintain the ecological balance of nature, save birds from being caught in nets, break out of the cage, return to the blue sky, soar freely in the vast sky, and make our sky even better

Release libraryTime: 2025-07-02

Lingyang Temple in Mashan, Guangxi 2010 Lunar Eighth Month Recitation of the Seven Pujas of Master Shengxu Lecture (Afternoon of the Sixth Day of the Lunar New Year) First take care of yourself Everyone comes here to chant the Buddha for a few days, and feels that the Buddha has merit. If we can make a family and even the people around us chant Buddha, then

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-06-30

Do you need to do a career after chanting Buddha's life? Buddhist practitioners should understand that the world is people-oriented, and the family is also people-oriented, and people are life-oriented. The purpose of learning Buddhism and the purpose of handing over life is to ensure that life becomes immeasurable. I can't say that we have surrendered our lives, so it's nothing

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-06-29

What is the special advantage of chanting Buddhist teachings? The Buddha knew that sentient beings in the middle and lower roots of the Dharma End Era could not be saved by education alone. Can deaf people in particular understand your education? Can a comatose patient understand? Can people with dementia understand? What to use then

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-06-29

Usually we think that releasing living beings is a good deed and has merit. The Buddha spoke of two kinds of merit, one is tainted and the other is untainted. Untainted merit is the merit accumulated through devotion to the Buddha, especially through meditation, to be in the present moment, no

Release experienceTime: 2025-06-29

At that time, Master Yin Guang also preached the Original Wish Method, but he did not speak publicly because some people objected. He felt that the cause and effect had not yet arrived, so he could not speak openly. Is there no objection to it now? There is definitely one, but whether it is opposition or recognition, it is necessary

Han biography figuresTime: 2025-06-28

Before I learned Buddhism, I often encountered ghosts, several times a month. Why is this phenomenon happening? Because I have the idea of killing in my heart. When I was sixteen or seventeen years old, I went hunting every day and came back with my prey every day, so I often did it in the future

comeuppanceTime: 2025-06-27

1 The first thing for people in this world is to create the sin of killing! Why do you create killing karma? Because of greed. In order to covet delicious food, people in the world have killed many sentient beings for their three-inch tongues? 2 Gluttony, this is a common problem of all sentient beings! Most people are greedy for delicious food, for three

comeuppanceTime: 2025-06-27

Enlightened people do not understand cause and effect Master of the Pure Land Method (1) 1 A fellow practitioner wanted to know what the words "do not fall into cause and effect" and "do not understand cause and effect" mean. This is a koan of the Zen master Baizhang. In the koan, the wild that Master Baizhang saved

comeuppanceTime: 2025-06-25

Nowadays, people in this world are selfish, and they do things that harm others and benefit themselves. In fact, harming others is never good for yourself, if harming others can really benefit you, you are worth it. Think about it, Qin Shi Huang in ancient China destroyed the Six Kingdoms at that time

comeuppanceTime: 2025-06-24

A young man went to buy a bowl, and when he came to the store, he picked up a bowl, and then gently touched the other bowls in turn, and when the bowls touched each other, they immediately made a dull and muddy sound, and he shook his head in disappointment. Then go try the next bowl... He almost picked

comeuppanceTime: 2025-06-24