Thailand's "Erawan Shrine" is not actually a "Buddha"

Gen Daan: Elysium is not an illusionary mirage

In the Pure Land Method, you don't need to see the Tao, you take the Buddha's seeing the Tao as your own seeing the Tao, and you start with faith. We must not stand on the narrow perception of ordinary people and think that we cannot see the Western Elysium: "Where is the Western Elysium?" You can take it out and I'll take a look

Master DaanTime: 2025-06-15

The Suffering Behind Milk: Cows are not machines for milk production

The Suffering Behind the Milk: The Cow Is Not a Milk-Producing MachineThe Suffering Behind the MilkWhat We Eat Will Be Like, The Food We Eat in Our Mouths Not only affects our appearance, but also affects our thinking, for the sake of our health and the sustainable future of the planet's environment

Origin of releaseTime: 2025-06-12

Life is not a toy: "Les Miserables"

Life is not a toy: when I was a child in "Les Miserables", I didn't understand anything, and when I played in my daily life, pranks were common, and some people only realized repentance in their old age, and some people were covered by ignorance and stupidity all their lives, and they never knew confession

Origin of releaseDate: 2025-06-08

Fellow Initiate: I don't even dare to touch anything that has life. Mage Vow: It means you've killed a lot in the past, hehe. Q: No matter what happens, I always feel scared and scared. Venerable Vows: Recite the Buddha well. Q: I don't think I've done anything

Han charactersTime: 2025-06-07

Money and fame are not our place of refuge, some do not know how to seek refuge, some seek refuge, and some seek refuge by mistake, so why not seek refuge? Fascinated by the things of this world, I think it is very meaningful and full of happiness. When impermanence comes, when you wake up from your dream,

golden sayingTime: 2025-06-01

Jujube core: I am not the "stand-in" of Phoenix Eye Bodhi, I am very beautiful in my own right! In the cultural game circle, there are often some of them, which have disc playability and good value, but because they are very similar to popular cultural games, they have been criticized by many players, such as red sandalwood, for example

Buddhist fablesDate: 2025-05-25

Words don't carry knives, but they can pierce people's hearts. Those who used to lie in previous lives will often be slandered or deceived by others in this life. For example, there are people who have no fault of their own, but are often slandered by others. There are those who have not sinned, but who have been falsely accused

comeuppanceTime: 2025-05-13

The weather is dry in autumn, the main external evil is dryness, it is advisable to sit quietly, order a plate of Yilian agarwood, warm and moisturize and dispel dryness, and calm the nerves. Yilian agarwood is famous for its elegant and comfortable fragrance, the fragrance is favoritous, with a hint of sweetness, elegant and pleasant, but not sweet

Agarwood knowledgeDate: 2025-05-08

Unless you have money, it doesn't last long, either you have the body, or you have got married, or you have to talk about cause and effect in the "Dizang Sutra" of your children, but it is not easy to be familiar with cause and effect. Because the "Jizo Sutra" talks very generally about the issue of cause and effect. For example, in the question of money

golden sayingTime: 2025-05-03

The Lord and Ananda were walking around the Sangha residence and saw a sick monk lying in dung with no one to help him. The Buddha stepped forward and asked, "Bhikkhus, what disease do you have?" The monk replied, "Disciple has an uneasy stomach, World-Honored One. "Is there a waiter, bhikkhu?" Nothing, World-Honored One. ”

Knowledge of BuddhismTime: 2025-05-01

Xue Mo: The enemy is not the world, but your discriminating mind who knows what you see and hear, and my heart is not my body. After recognizing the sincerity and knowing how to keep the position, you still can't be complacent, relax your vigilance, and can't immerse yourself in the freedom and leisure of that blank and empty life

Buddhist fablesTime: 2025-04-28

Date: 1970-01-01

Question: On page 38 of the Ko Song, there is a passage: "Only when all sentient beings can live after becoming a Buddha can be perfected." But the Buddha also has three cannots: 1. The Buddha does not save people who have no fate; 2. It is not exempt from employment; 3. A Buddha cannot exhaust the realm of sentient beings. As it looks at the above

Han charactersDate: 2025-04-19

What is cause and effect? Karma, also known as karmic karma, is one of the basic principles of Buddhism. "Cause" is the cause, also called karma. "Fruit" is the result, also called the fruit. Whenever we do something, say a word, or even move a thought

comeuppanceDate: 2025-04-16

【Daily Master】Lamrim Lecture Notes - ExcerptsIf you want to practice, that is, everyone wants it, but not everyone has the conditions to practice. How do you say that? We may wonder why everyone wants to practice. Right! Take our Dharma now

Han charactersTime: 2025-04-12

There is no point in competing for the incense stick at a high price! Because what the Buddha likes is not this one, but the people who have begun to achieve a well-off life in the social tranquility and material abundance of the heart have begun to strive to pursue a spiritual life other than material civilization, and some people have come out

golden sayingDate: 2025-03-28

"Extremist" thinking has never been the rational core of orthodox religion, and Zong Shun, director of the research department of the Suzhou Institute of Buddhist Studies, has been the most shocking keyword in the entire newspaper and the Internet for a period of time, and the most shocking keywords in the entire newspaper and Internet have always been "terrorist attacks," "bombings," and "bloodshed"

Han charactersTime: 2025-03-27

When Master Huineng saw that his disciples were meditating all day, he asked, "Why do you meditate all day long?" I'm in Zen! The disciple replied. Meditation and meditation are not the same thing at all. But don't you always teach us to settle our easily lost minds and observe everything quietly, and tell me

Zen public caseDate: 2025-03-13

Once upon a time, there was a Buddha who had a Buddha in Sanskrit. Because of the local enlightenment, he was born in a farming family. Both parents believe in Buddhism, and since the age of six, they often go to the monastery with their parents to worship the Buddha. When I was eight years old, one day I saw an old monk in the monastery teaching the Fa to everyone; When heard: I am not who I am when I am

Zen public caseDate: 2025-03-13

Zen Master Weikuan was once asked by a monk: Do dogs have Buddha nature? Yes. Zen Master Weikuan replied. Do you have Buddha nature? I didn't. Why do all living beings have Buddha nature and you don't? Because I'm not the sentient beings you call them. Are you not sentient beings, are you Buddhas? Neither is it.

Zen public caseDate: 2025-03-12

In the middle of a hazy moonlit night, in a cave near the sea, an old monk was meditating cross-legged. Suddenly, he heard several weepings, which seemed to come from the seashore at the foot of the mountain, and the weeping person was a young woman. It's been such a late night, and it's happened

Zen public caseDate: 2025-02-25

So the emergence of the universe is not an explosion, and the Big Bang does not make sense. The Buddha is talking about the unconsciousness of one thought, that is, this fluctuating phenomenon appears, and when it appears, the whole universe appears at the same time, which is called a momentary appearance, and there is no time interval. According to Maitreya, this speed is there

Pure Land MethodTime: 2025-02-04

If you can't bear the burden of the family business, then we can cash out your Dharma in our daily life, and in the same way, you can also attain liberation, birth and death, and you can go out of the Three Realms. Now us

Han charactersDate: 2025-01-26

In ancient times, incense had a set of solemn rituals and connotations, not a simple synthesis. And in ancient times, 1, refers to harmony. "The Book of Rites" has a gentle voice; 2. Moderate and appropriate. The Analects of Confucius is precious for the use of rituals; 3. Harmony and harmony; 4. Reconciliation and modulation.

Agarwood knowledgeDate: 2025-01-26

Feng Shui 1.What caused me to grow up in an orphanage and not enjoy motherly love like everyone else? Why do I have to move twelve times? What causes me to suffer from high blood pressure, thyroid and mental breakdown? Why can't I stand it when I hear a child screaming, it has to

Other causal storiesDate: 2025-01-22

You can't go anywhere and fight people! The Venerable Master Xuanhua gave a compassionate teaching: In the Vimala Sutra, Manjushri asked the Vimal layman, "What is the First Truth?" "Guess what Vimal said? How did you reply? If any of you know now

The Venerable Master XuanhuaDate: 2025-01-22

Others are not you in Yongping Temple, there is an eighty-year-old Zen master with a back, drying mushrooms in the sun, the abbot monk Daoyuan Zen Master saw it, and couldn't help but say: Elder! Why do you have to work so hard to do such a thing at such an old age? Please don't

Zen public caseDate: 2025-01-03

Some people think that reciting the Buddha must be recited for a long time before the kung fu will be sufficient, or that people who have been reciting the Buddha for a long time must have better kung fu, but this is not necessarily. This is because reciting the Buddha is based on our "intention at the moment", not at seniority and resume. We

Han charactersDate: 2024-12-09

Khenpo Tazhen: Ascetic practice is not a painful practiceSome people who study Buddhism do not have a complete method of practice, and they do not have a correct goal and direction. Learn this today, practice that tomorrow, I am not proficient in anything, I am half-understood, I don't seem to understand it, my brain

Talking about the Buddha and talking about Zen enlightenment lifeDate: 2024-12-08

Khenpo Dazhen: Diligence is a kind of urgency, not a kind of reluctance Some people have a particularly strong sense of evasion, and when they talk about reincarnation, hell, hungry ghosts, and other beings, they don't want to listen to it. Persistence, gains and losses! You put reincarnation

Talking about the Buddha and talking about Zen enlightenment lifeDate: 2024-12-01

Reciting Jizo Bodhisattva, you will never fall into the three tus. However, there is a little more reincarnation, whether it is the "Jizo Sutra", the "Zhancha Sutra", or the "Ten Wheel Sutra", as long as you recite the name of the Jizo Bodhisattva, you can get these merits now that you have a relationship. Because of Jizo

Dream ginseng old monkDate: 2024-11-19

1. Many lay people believe that refuge is only a formality, and that the practice of Buddhism focuses on substance, and thus mistakenly believe that refuge is not important. This understanding is one-sided and incorrect. 2. We usually say that refuge is just a formality, but in fact, the original meaning of this sentence is to tell

Lay figuresDate: 2024-11-02

On one occasion, the Buddha lived in the Garden of Nijr, on the Acropolis of Kapila. At that time, the eldest son of the Buddha's uncle, King Huhan, Mahanan, came to the Nijū Ritsu Garden to meet the World-Honored One. Upon arrival, the Mahāna bowed to the Lord and sat down. Mahaman asked the Buddha, 'World-honored one

comeuppanceDate: 2024-10-18

1 When we recite Buddhas, the only wish in our hearts is to be reborn in the Pure Land of the West, and before we die, our body is still in the world, and we can't leave this society, we can't leave this society, we have to get along with everyone. What attitude to get along with

To the Pure LandDate: 2024-09-30

There is a lot of suffering in life. Faced with a series of suffering situations, it seems that there is an unbearable need to escape urgently, and people's self-consciousness sometimes panics in this place. In the midst of life's many hardships, if there is a good feeling

The story of abstaining from sexual immoralityDate: 2024-09-29

The first impression of the city of Chiang Mai in Thailand was in a movie, because of the bizarre plot on TV, we were so curious about everything here, and always thought that the city was so mysterious. I had the privilege of learning about it at a later time

Cultural ramblingTime: 2024-09-25

A young couple is arguing over the purchase of new furniture in a rented suite, the woman is sharp and the man is resolute. It didn't take long for her husband to be bombarded. After a while, both of them shouted exhausted and said no

Lay figuresDate: 2024-08-31

The bar swings the Buddha in a row and looks like a double cultivation of men and women: it is not a woman who is holding [Picture] Recently, a bar in Lijiang placed a 'Molten Buddha' worth tens of millions of dollars to attract tourists to frantically stroke a Buddha statue in a bar in the ancient town of Lijiang. Lijiang has been a saint in love

Other causal storiesDate: 2024-08-26

Text/Nature Zen Master 1 Letting go is the realm, not the way to let go of others is not easy, and it is even more difficult to let go of yourself! 20 years ago, I tried to let go of my grievances with others, but today, I am still entangled with myself. Back then, Zen Master Yan Yang and Zen Master Zhaozhou had a conversation: Zen Master Yan Yang

Learn Buddha NavigatorTime: 2024-08-18

◎The entire cosmic environment is realized in this way, you are self-inflicted, how can you complain about others? How can you blame others, everyone has cause and effect, everyone bears it, this is a good saying, what cause you create, what phenomenon will appear, and the retribution, you yourself will receive it, when you receive it

To the Pure LandDate: 2024-08-08

No wonder the Bajie sand monks failed to become Buddhas, in fact, they were destined from the beginning, look at what their names are? No wonder the Bajie sand monks failed to become Buddhas, in fact, they were destined from the beginning, look at what their names are? "Journey to the West" accompanied us throughout our childhood, yes

The people of clothTime: 2024-08-04

1 Cause and effect are true, and they are never false, for you will be rewarded for doing good, and you will be rewarded for doing evil. A person himself must know how to seek more blessings for himself, and he did not know in the past, and he created sinful karma, which is understandable. Now that I know, I will change my past mistakes and devote myself to cultivating good accumulation

To the Pure LandDate: 2024-07-29

Xiaobao came back from school angrily, and told his parents about what happened at school, saying that there was a classmate in the class who was too annoying, and he didn't know how to do his homework and always had to copy others, Xiaobao didn't copy it for him, and he actually said that Xiaobao didn't pay attention to righteousness and didn't help his classmates, so Xiaobao would be with him

Han charactersDate: 2024-07-11

For many women, if they want to really control the man, they may not do it so well, and if they suddenly want to let their man leave them, they may feel that they should master it

Feng Shui knowledgeTime: 2024-07-07

1 The chief of all evils and fornication, which the ancients said, should not be underestimated. Where do the world's disasters come from? This is where it comes from, and this is the root of the scourge. 2 The Buddha tells us in the Lengyan Sutra that "the lustful mind is continuous, and it cannot transcend the six realms of reincarnation", and there are many practitioners

To the Pure LandDate: 2024-07-03

In today's society, everyone probably wants their work to be easy and decent. Therefore, as a white-collar worker, it will be a profession that many people admire. In this case, the place where you usually bring more to your work is your office. you

Feng Shui knowledgeTime: 2024-07-02

Teenagers are the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning. The most beautiful thing in life is youth, but for the vast majority of us Pure Land pedestrians, it is no longer a teenager to learn Buddhism. I was fortunate to be able to come into contact with Buddhism, especially the Pure Land Method, at a young age.

Master DaanTime: 2024-07-02

Since ancient times, feng shui arrangement is valued by the world, some people want to increase their wealth through office feng shui arrangement, some people want to change their luck, some people want to rise step by step, in fact, for the office, some green plants are not suitable for placing on the desk

Feng Shui knowledgeDate: 2024-07-01

Nowadays, people say that they have fallen into the eyes of money, in fact, it is not an exaggeration, because many people now feel that it is getting more and more difficult to make money, so they want to meet some good luck one day and make a lot of money at once. However, hard-earned money still needs to go through itself

Feng Shui knowledgeDate: 2024-06-29

When a man or a woman marries, they usually hear that they need to choose an auspicious day, and before the newlyweds get married, they will choose the appropriate auspicious day of the zodiac through the birth dates of both parties

Feng Shui knowledgeDate: 2024-06-26