What is "burning the merit forest"

Zhao Puchu: What is the continuation of cause and effect?

Q: What is "cause and effect continuity"?Answer: All dharmas arise from cause and condition are impermanent, but are continuous, like flowing water, passing by before and after, and arise after cause and effect, without interruption. This is in terms of vertical aspects.From the horizontal

Cause and effectTime: 2025-07-29

What method can be used to prove that the past and next life does exist?

Nowadays, many people chant Buddha's name every day. It is a good thing to be able to chant Buddha's name every day, but chanting Buddha's name alone is not enough. You must know the principle of chanting Buddha's name. What is the ultimate greatness of Buddha?Where is the excellence of the Buddha's wisdom?Take the four most common words to save sentient beings as an example. Those who truly study Buddhism

Buddha statue knowledgeTime: 2025-07-28

Master Xuanhua: Those who practice Buddhism will not be moved by their minds no matter what state they are in.

Those who study Buddhism should understand Buddhism and practice Buddhism, that is, eat Buddhism, wear Buddhism, and sleep with Buddhism.Both walking, standing, sitting, and lying down are in Buddhism.Those who know Buddhism should benefit others as the premise and never make plans for their own interests.In short,

Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-07-27

What is the difference between a temple?

What is the difference between a temple and a temple? In various news reports about Buddhism, you can often see journalists calling Buddhist temples a temple. Sometimes when chatting with some lay Buddhists, you can often hear them say: I went to the temple to burn incense one day or another.That

Buddha statue knowledgeTime: 2025-07-26

What is ignorance?

What is ignorance?Ignorance: Ignorance is affliction, and it is also one of the different names of afflictions.Focusing on the cause is called ignorance, while focusing on the result is called trouble.There are two major differences, namely one thought of ignorance and beginningless ignorance.One thought of ignorance is also called afflictions and confusion of views and thoughts.Ignorance without beginning is also called

Buddha statue knowledgeTime: 2025-07-25

Khenpo Dazhen: What is the biggest problem?When I was sick that year, I was not nostalgic for this life. I had nothing to let go, but I was not very sure about the bardo and the next life, although I also knew the whole process.At that time, there was only one around me

Buddhist Q&ATime: 2025-07-25

What does it mean to be born from the realm?It seems that when we meet a good friend, we teach you Buddhism and do good deeds. If you listen to him, you will learn Buddhism and do good deeds;If you meet a bad friend and teach you how to spend money and do something bad, you will listen to him too much.

Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-07-24

Is there any difference between seeking rebirth in the Pure Land and seeking ascend to heaven?The answer is yes.My teacher, Yin Hairen, once said that his teacher, Yin Shun, had a good summary of this.Mr. Yin summarized three points: Rebirth in the Pure Land is ascending rather than depravity, and equality rather than rank.

Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-07-24

VariedIs itWhat about it? It is called "Yang"?You often feel a sense of joy. The joy in your true nature is not on the surface.Is itjoy;It is very happy in the nature of one's own nature, which belongs to the yang.If you are always depressed in your nature, you will be sad and troubled all day long, and you will be suffering.

Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-07-24

「Tathagata is one of the ten figures of the Buddha.A lay Buddhist asked me, "Is Tathagata Buddha different from Amitabha Buddha?"In fact, the name of each Buddha is "Tathagata", "Sakya Tathagata", and "Medicine Tathagata".It’s not that this Buddha is called Tathagata.

Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-07-24

The universal gate of the Mahayana power can be explained on the ground of causality or fruit.In the causal realm, in the process of self-realization of Bodhicitta and practicing the Bodhisattva Path, one can truly enter the Mahayana through all the convenient gates.What is all convenient doors?that is

Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-07-23

What is concentration in Buddhism?It is not that we can close our eyes, see nothing, hear nothing, and have no thoughts.This is just a preliminary stage, not a real determination.What does it mean?It is certain to be unaware of various external states

Buddha toolsTime: 2025-07-22

Disciple: My child’s father doesn’t care about anything and has lived with others outside. I take care of the child and the old lady alone. What should I do? Leave or not? Master Kuanjian: After learning Buddhism, you must learn how to deal with it. How to choose? Leave or not

Han peopleTime: 2025-07-21

Question: What Buddha should people with deep karma chant? Kuanjian Master: No matter what sutra or Buddha chant, they are all harmonious and unobstructed, and they are all one and not two. Reciting one Buddha is chanting countless Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.Ordinary people will always be led by others, and they will be fickle. If they really treat each Buddha and a Bodhisattva

Han peopleTime: 2025-07-21

The Buddhas and Bodhisattvas give us their kind wishes, or the merits and blessings they have achieved, which is called the addition.The so-called holding is like taking it with our hands, holding it up, and holding it.Buddhas and Bodhisattvas use their compassion, wisdom and merits to give us all kinds of wishes and help

Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-07-21

Enlightenment can be achieved through the practice of chanting Buddha's name and practicing Zen.How to be enlightened?To use the term modern philosophy, that is, how to understand the world, this is the epistemology of Buddhism.Buddhist epistemology includes dependent origination and causality, which is separated from dependent origination and causality,

Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-07-18

When the Buddha was alive, the monks led by him included seven disciples including monks, nuns, nuns, nuns, nuns, nuns, shikhamana, upass, and upas. In terms of the permanent followers around the Buddha, there were as many as 1,250 people.How can the Buddha govern such a huge monastic community?

Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-07-18

What is the special meaning of wearing Buddhist beads? I talked about the topic of "Who can bring Buddhist beads" in my previous blog. Many people are following it. Today we will continue to talk about the special meaning of wearing Buddhist beads.Perhaps, some friends think that anyone can wear it now

Han peopleTime: 2025-07-17

Who is destined to be a Buddha? Li Ming has been very successful since he was a child. He had excellent grades when he was in school. It was not a problem for him to go to school. He got married soon after work. His wife was a classmate who had been in love for many years. Everyone envied them as a golden boy and a jade girl.How much work

Han peopleTime: 2025-07-17

When Buddhism looks at the universe and life, it is neither a materialist nor an idealist, nor a Theist, but a dependent theory who advocates the harmony of cause and condition.Therefore, Buddhism analyzes a person's composition from three aspects: psychology, physiology and physics.above

Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-07-17

Nirvana refers to the state of liberation of life and death and dying, and achieving the state of liberation of inaction, that is, neither birth nor death.Nirvana is translated as passing away. The perfect merit is called perfection, and the extinction of karma is called silence.Nirvana is the highest state that Buddhist practice must reach.Why should Nirvana Buddhism think

Buddha toolsTime: 2025-07-16

When you come to this world, whether in the past, present, or future, people need blessings to nourish their physical body and satisfy their insatiable greed.There are many ways to obtain great blessings, some people say it depends on hard work

Cause and effectTime: 2025-07-15

The charity asked: Master, my husband always lie flat on his body, sleeping with his hands on his pillow, and he is always nightmarished when he sleeps for several years. I have never dared to sleep on his body, and I will be nightmarish when I lie flat on my body. I always dream at night and have poor sleep. What is the reason?

Cause and effectTime: 2025-07-15

Q: What is releasing animals?Master Yuanyin replied: Release animals is an act of seeing living beings, captured, captured, imprisoned and killed, panic, and death in a critical moment, showing compassion, buying goods to save and release them!

Release Q&ATime: 2025-07-12

A senior brother asked: What is the difference between a Buddhist intellectual and a cultivating master?Buddhist intellectuals, [Knowledge points ]，Corresponding to this is [Non-intellectual ]。A master with cultivation is [Monks ]，Corresponding to this is [At home ]。So just

Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-07-11

Go to Wenchang to watch the satellites coming into the sky, Dai Huiwen Buddhist Beads returned home safely.Hainan Huiwen Government, Huiwen Buddhist Beads Association, and Huiwen Buddhist Beads Trading Market are the only designated Buddhist bead cultural exchange platform.For those who practice, rosary is an indispensable magic weapon, no matter it is a monk.

Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-07-11

The standard for testing whether you have woken up is actually a sentence from Bodhisattva Zhishou in the "Avatamsaka Sutra" to Manjushri Bodhisattva: For a person whose life has awakened, he can achieve no faults in body, speech, and mind karma.The seven words "no fault" are very good

Han peopleTime: 2025-07-09

There is a female lay Buddhist who was still very distressed after she studied Buddhism.Once I said: I had troubles before, so I hope that studying Buddhism can eliminate troubles.But it seems that after I studied Buddhism, I felt more troubled.Because I feel that after learning Buddhism, my son seems to be too

Han peopleTime: 2025-07-08

The Buddha talked about the fundamental principles of being a human being to listeners with shallow roots, kept the five precepts, and practiced the ten virtues, which was called the human and heavenly vehicle;For people with strong sense of world-weariness, they talk about the method of liberation from life and death, which is called the Hinayana of the Shravakas;For listeners with deep roots and compassionate wishes to transform the world,

Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-07-04

What is Indian Old Hill Sandalwood?The origin of the name of Laoshan Sandalwood in India has always been controversial. In fact, Laoshan Sandalwood is just a name for the Chinese people themselves, and there is no such name in India itself.Why is it called Laoshan Sandalwood?There are three different statements

Buddhist bead materialTime: 2025-07-02

Question: Amitabha! What is the principle that chanting the Buddha's name can eliminate the serious sins of life and death for eighty billion kalpas? Master Da'an replied: It seems that you still have doubts! The sentence in the "Amitabha Sutra" is born from the lower level. This sentence is undoubtedly true.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-01

What kind of brush is used to draw white brushwork in various ancient times? Poems written in fine brushwork using white brushwork techniques seem plain and savor carefully, but they are meaningful.Such as Meng Haoran's "Spring Dawn" and Tao Yuanming's "Returning to the Garden and Fields" (Nothing suitable for the rhyme )They all cherish the ink as gold, and they are thick

Collect knowledgeTime: 2025-06-28

1.The disadvantages of blaming the sky and others: blaming the sky and others destroys blessings the fastest, one resents reduces 3 good things, no matter how great the blessings are, it will be cut off. Master Yin Guang said in person: If you encounter adversity and do not blame the sky, then your descendants and descendants will prosper. 2. The disadvantages of losing temper: losing temper is called

Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-28

Nowadays, most women have been engaged in the office and marrying computers all year round. They have monotonous work, tense expressions and huge pressure. There are many people with gastrointestinal dysfunction, either too thin, too obese, diarrhea is difficult to stop, or constipation is unsolvable, which makes people feel sad.

Beauty and fitnessTime: 2025-06-27

The Great Compassion Mantra comes from the "The Great Compassion Dharani Sutra of Thousand-Handed Thousand Eyes Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva's Great Compassion Dharani Sutra". It is an important formula for Guanyin Bodhisattva's great compassion, supreme bodhicitta, and a great formula for saving the world and saving people, practicing Taoism and becoming a Buddha.The full text of the Great Compassion Mantra has 84 sentences, each sentence is correct

Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-06-24

1+11The combination of cucumbers and peanuts can easily cause diarrhea: cut cucumbers into small cucumbers and mix them with boiled peanuts. As a refreshing and cold dish, it is often active on the dining tables of many families. Many men also like to mix cucumbers with a plate of peanuts when drinking.That

Vegetarian HealthTime: 2025-06-24

Refuge in sub-rituals and refuge in practice.The monk will receive refuge for you, which is a ritual refuge;After taking refuge, you must practice refuge every day, such as in temples, you must recite refuge every day. This is the refuge of practicing Dharma.The conversion to practice Dharma is to live a life of life, and this life

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-22

1. Origin of Buddhism: The ancestor of Buddhism is Shakyamuni Buddha.Sakyamuni is the name of a family. Sakyamuni Buddha was born in a royal family, and the name of this family is Sakyamuni.Then Muni is his real name, Muni is translated in Sanskrit.

Buddha toolsTime: 2025-06-21

Release of animals is a common folk custom in Tibetan areas. It belongs to the category of folk religious activities. The manifestations in various places are roughly the same. Release of creatures to nature and let them live and die.The origin of releasing animals is in Tibetan areas, and many customs are related to religion.

Release GuideTime: 2025-06-18

Answer: In addition to reciting the Seven Buddhas and Tathagata, you can add a Tathagata to the Tathagata. All living beings can be reborn in heaven after hearing this.If you want to chant mantras, the most standard is? Manibebemei? The six-character mantra can help sentient beings escape from the cycle of reincarnation of the six animals; there is also a mantra for protecting life, which is the treasure-supreme

Release Q&ATime: 2025-06-13

It is not easy to practice Taoism, even if you are a good person, it is not easy to be a good person.Most people will not commit physical karma, kill, steal and adultery, but the easiest thing to commit is verbal karma.Whether a person is rich depends on his oral karma.Therefore, oral karma is very important, especially for women, many blessings

Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-10

What kind of tree is agarwood? As we all know, agarwood is known as the king of incense, and agarwood jewelry has also become the new favorite in the market.With the development of society, life has gradually become richer, and people have also begun to pay attention to the purchase of accessories, and agarwood rich in cultural connotations has become

Collect knowledgeTime: 2025-06-10

Fellow practitioner: What does the sentence "Anuttara Samyaksambodhi" mean? Master: In Buddhism, it is called "supreme enlightenment" and "Buddha nature".In order to show respect for Buddhism and respect for Buddha nature, we keep the original sound untranslated.Mainly

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-08

Fellow practitioner: Some people say that releasing animals cannot survive every life. What is the meaning of releasing animals? Master: Releasing animals is indeed of great merit and very special.During the process of releasing animals, we pray to all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas for their compassion and blessings.

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-07

Fellow practitioner: What is the basis for the disciples who are at home to study Buddhism? Master: When we study Buddhism, we must "go a thousand miles of journey starts with a single step". We cannot pursue me and do what we should do immediately. That is a wrong mentality.First of all, you need to adjust your mindset, adjust your body, and keep your eyes on

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-06

Fellow practitioner: Master, I wrote a poem: Love, emotions, emotions are like mountains falling, and emotions are like mess.All the love of children and all the worldly loves, you can solve the problem with your heart, you can go from this shore to the other shore, and you can be happy every moment.This is

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-06

What is the difference between fine brushwork and freehand painting? It is generally believed that Chinese painting is divided into fine brushwork and freehand painting. Fine brushwork is the vulgar production of craftsmen, and freehand painting is the elegant art of literati; because the former puts painting first, and is passed down by painting and by painting.

Knowledge of calligraphy and paintingTime: 2025-06-06

Believers: Master, we dedicate merits to sentient beings. What kind of merits are the greatest?Master: When we dedicate our merits to sentient beings, it is based on our practice.For example, we just recite Amitabha Buddha, we just do our homework.

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-05

Master Pure Land Dharma: What is the difference between fate and cause and effect?Question: This is a question about cause and effect. Does fate have cause and effect?What is the difference from cause and effect?Master Pure Land Dharma replied: This requires clarifying the meaning of these three words.The life of anything

Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-05

Some people say that I only recite the Buddha's name to seek rebirth, which is very simple. I have complete faith, aspiration and practice, and ensure that I can be reborn without losing my mind at the end of my life.When you get there, which one do you have to sit on the ninth-grade lotus? It depends on how much effort you have put in here now. You can't just buy it if you want to buy it.

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-04