The Buddhist method of being a human being: to live, let nature take its course

Colleagues, classmates, and good friends on the seventh day of the seventh day: Today is Sunday, November 15, 2009, September 29 of the lunar calendar, which is the consummation day of the first seven. Through the seven heavens and the earth diligently meditating, everyone has improved to varying degrees, and each has received the benefits of meditation. Yes

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Many people think that time is life, but they equate time with money. We can think about it, during work, whether it is a cyclist or a driver on the road, it is like playing with life, scrambling to rush forward. I once asked one at the intersection

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Question: As a mother, how can you use the wisdom of Buddhism to educate your children well? Master Zongxing: Is this asking the wrong person? I can't be a mother or a father, I can only be a monk! However, the monk is both a mother and a father, why? Because

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1. Preface All cosmic phenomena in life have their reasons for their occurrence and development, and the reasons for their occurrence and development must also follow certain laws, which is a proposition that mankind has explored together for thousands of years. In the view of Buddhism, all cosmic phenomena in life

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Those who study Buddhism must know and practice Buddhism, that is, eat Buddhism, wear Buddhism, and sleep Buddhism. Walking, sitting, and lying down are all in the Dharma. Those who know the Dharma are all premised on benefiting others, and never plan for their own benefit. All in all, it is necessary

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Layman: May I ask you a question, Buddhism does not talk about the first cause, right? Master Kuanjian: If you don't talk about the first, it's like a chicken laying an egg, or an egg giving birth to a chicken, which is the first cause? This statement does not make sense. Layman: This question has stumped many great thinkers and scientists.

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In the territory of the Northern Qi Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was a monk named Yan Tong, whose surname and origin were unknown. Although he became a monk, he was not a person who really wanted to practice. What he really wanted to do was to use people's faith in Buddhism to make a fortune. He is everywhere

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Living to be fooled? Or dead and fooled? We also study the word "meat": "There are two people in the word meat, and the inside is covered with outsiders, and sentient beings still eat the flesh of sentient beings, and think carefully about people eating people." "Therefore, it is best to be vegetarian. But when you are fasting, don't fast again

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Question: There are so many unpredictable and unsolvable problems in life, life, family, personnel, and environmental hazards, why do people live? Master Wu Miao: Yes. When we grow up and face various situations in life, we will ask ourselves the same

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Question: Compassionate Master, may I ask if there are any convenient and step-by-step methods for laypeople who are busy with their lives and want to practice Buddhism, and what are the steps to do to practice Buddhism? Master Yan Ci answered: Busy people should recite more Buddha when practicing. The "Infinite Life Sutra" states: Buddha

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The Dharma word in Buddhism, Sanskrit is Bodhidharma. Buddhism's interpretation of this word is: to hold one's own nature and understand the principles of life. This means that every thing must maintain its own unique properties and appearances, and has its own rules, so that people can understand what it is when they see it.

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Living in the world, you must have a temperament, this temperament is most admired by the atmosphere, pride, grandeur, righteousness, for men to have ambition, courage, blood, courage, for women to have aura, beauty, tranquility, softness, each qi contains a spirit

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Today, let's understand the method of sacrificing one's life and giving it all together. Many initiates come here for the first time, and they have never even heard of it, and they are afraid of sacrificing their lives for all the commitments, and they do not dare to make such conversions because they do not have a good understanding. If you really sacrifice your life to give it all, will you?

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Why do some people get rich first and then poor, while others are poor and then rich? The sutra says this: Excerpted from "The Buddha is the Elder Who Speaks of Karma Differences", and there is also karma at the beginning of happiness and then suffering. It seems that there are sentient beings. He was encouraged by others. I am happy to do charity. The heart is not strong. Later, he regretted it. Thus, it was fate.

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There was a person who liked fishing very much, and the later result was that his upper lip often festered. There is also a person who often cuts chicken legs, and the later result is that his knees often hurt and festered. The Ksitigarbha Sutra says that people will suffer all kinds of punishments in the underworld, and they will use their tongues to plow and use iron

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How to use Buddhism to deal with conflicts in the family? Question: How can we better use Buddhism to deal with conflicts between husband and wife in the family, in the lives of husband and wife's parents, and between wives and husbands? Answer: As some great virtues say, the most difficult practice is

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Practice does not mean that cultivation can be achieved immediately, but I have been chanting Buddha for a long time, and I can solve it after reciting scriptures for a long time. There are too many troubles, habits, and karma that have been around since the beginning, and we need to have a certain amount of wisdom and endurance to fight them slowly

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If a monk only satisfies his own desires and cannot make others happy, he may not be happy himself. If you don't make others happy, you won't be happy. Do not practice in exchange for Taoism, Buddhism is not a trade. To cultivate the Tao, one must understand cause and effect, and understand the law of dependent origination

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Where is the peace of mind of Buddhism? Meditation starts with breathing. ——Tsinghua President Humanistic Literacy Advanced Seminar Meditation Course On the morning of October 23, 2009, Master Mingzang taught Master Zang: First of all, you expect to come here to participate in such a class and expand the learning content

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The so-called living Buddha is a living practitioner, and the so-called living Buddha means a practitioner who has experienced reincarnation. From this perspective, as long as a person becomes a monk and practices, he can be counted as a living Buddha. Because according to the Diamond Sutra, it is related to many righteous scriptures

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Fellow practitioner: I have studied many Buddhist scriptures, but I still can't understand the Dharma, why? Teacher: Arhats are also called unlearned, they have learned a lot in the world, and after studying, they have graduated. Some people have studied the Dharma of the world for countless eons and have not yet graduated, why? Because the worldly law you cling to is coming

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Amitabha! First of all, I would like to thank the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas for their compassionate blessings, thank you for the protection of the Dharma Protector Long Tian, and thank you to all the Dharma protectors for their long-term support of the Dharma Ashram. And today may be the first teaching puja in Linyi in recent years! This is also the case

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Please tell Master how to let a child enter the Buddhist hall to chant the sutra or listen to the Dharma. Master Mingzheng said: If a child can be born in a layman's family, most of the children have made a vow in his previous life before he died, may I be born in my lifetime, in Buddhism

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Master Mingzheng, Amitabha, in today's society, on campus, including in Buddhist academies, there are many people who do not have the right knowledge, but go everywhere to preach incorrect Buddhist teachings and teach incorrect practice methods. Master Mingzheng said: This is not

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How to use Buddhism to look at what you encounter in life Learn Buddhist culture in life, life in the world, everything is a chance, there is a reason to leave, there is a reason to lose, all encounters and getting along are a kind of established fate, leaving

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"The Sutra of Observing Good and Evil Karma" At that time, Kṣitigarbha Bodhisattva Mahasattva. The words are firm and pure, believing in the words of Bodhisattva Mahasattva. Good men listen carefully. If the Buddha is in the evil world after his death. There are bhikkhus, bhikshunis, upasakas, upasai, upahi. In the world of cause and effect. I can't study until I have decided to believe it.

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Master Ruben answered: The life of Buddhism does not leave the life of the world, but only enlightenment from the life of the world! If you leave the life of the world and look for a life of Buddhism, if you want to attain bodhi (Sanskrit bodhi), you will be of no use. In other words: a sense of life

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Master Chongci answered: There are two types of attachments that Buddhism needs to break: 1. Ego; 2. Enforcement. Ego, that is, attachment to me, is for ordinary people; Dharma attachment, that is, attachment to the Dharma, is for the saints above the two vehicles. The ego of ordinary people is selfish and narrow-minded, and everything is self-centered

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Master Chongci answered: Of course, you can, and you should dress up. But it is still the sentence that must be consistent with objective requirements such as identity, occasion, and behavior. If you don't dress up at all, let alone learn Buddhism, even the minimum common sense of life will be messed up. Buddhist disciples don't dress up

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Question supplement: Is it true that a person who is upright and kind but does not recite scriptures or release living beings belong to accumulated virtue? In addition, whether the person with a flower heart belongs to the crime. I hope the master will give me an answer, thank you! (Questioner:) Master Zhenyuan answered: It is a good deed, but it is not a Buddhist good deed

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Since I have practiced Buddhism, I have deeply felt that the experience of the Dharma spirit does not come from anyone or from anywhere, it is just a confirmation of the true truth into one's own heart. Some people think that to describe truth in modern terms, perhaps abstract or philosophical

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◎ Master Xuan Gong gave a lecture on August 23, 1987 at San Jose Church University in California, USA, to eat fasting, which is to live and suffer losses; If you don't eat fasting, you will suffer losses after death. Vegetarian? Eat meat? What do I know? It is to suffer more losses and not take advantage. If you really understand

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I myself have believed in Buddhism for many years, but I can't help but feel a sense of fear when I think of my youthful and frivolous past. Because my past is unbearable. It's not that my experience is so bitter that I can't look back. But when I think of the vastness of Buddhism and the reluctance to leave anyone, I feel ashamed that I have heard the Dharma

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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

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I think you all know that the so-called "six entrances" refer to the six roots - eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind. Why is it said that six is entry? If an object is seen by me, its impression will be reflected in our hearts. I have already realized in "Five Yin Correspondence": for

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After the monk Nanda received Buddhism, he practiced Aranjo and heard this: At one time, the Buddha lived in Sravasti and gave the garden of solitude. At that time, Venerable Nanda was the mother and son of the Buddha's aunt, who liked to wear good clothes and dye, polish the luster, hold a good bowl, and enjoy playfulness, and walked around with jokes. There are many at that time

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There are too many Buddhist teachings, and the purpose of learning Buddhism is to "remove the bonds". The lives of all living beings have always been glued to love like absorbing superglue, and once they get on it, they can't get rid of it, and they are addicted and addicted. In daily life, we are often troubled by various people and things,

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Zen Master Matsu Daoyi: Buddhism is not artificial: Hu Kan text: Hu Kan text: Portrait of Zen Master Mazu Daoyi (1) Matsu Daoyi's theory since the Sixth Patriarch has been clarified and clarified. Matsu said that the nature of the self is originally sufficient, but it does not stagnate in good and evil matters, which is called cultivation

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The sixty-second day of peace (3): Do not increase or subtract from the fourth kind of positive practice of the Buddha and Bodhisattva——"Fourth, he has no three treasures in all worlds in the ten directions, and the abbot is the solemn Buddha Dharma Sangha Treasure Treasure Treasure of the sea of merit. Show them all the ways to practice truthfully. Verse. What a world is nothing, the treasure of Buddhist merit,

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In Buddhism, there is no second, it is the first, no matter which Dharma is the first. Someone asked me, "There are 84,000 methods of Buddhism, which method is the first, the highest, and the best?" Guess how I answered? I said that there are 84,000 methods in Buddhism,

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It is said that the Dharma smells bad, but we smell it now, and we just need to believe in it and practice it in the future. How to believe and accept? It is to understand the profound meaning of the Dharma. How to uphold it? Follow the law. The Dharma allows you to do what you do, and don't do what you don't do

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Those who have read, practiced, and written the Ten Wishes of the Bodhisattva can see themselves being born in the lotus flower of the Western Pure Land. In the Western Pure Land, there are only men, no women, and all people are reincarnated as lotus flowers. Hua Kai saw the Buddha, and he was Amitabha Buddha

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Amitabha Buddha Great Dharma King Bodhisattva personally took him to the West morning and night, holding the name and dedicating himself to sincerity, always visualizing good thoughts, and not being confused into samadhi, all things are empty into the lotus state, and the Buddha of no birth appears. "Amitabha" is Brahman

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Promoting Buddhism - The Eternal Mission of Monks Standing at the dividing line at the turn of the century, Master Jingbo talked with everyone about the sacred mission of Buddhism in the 21st century, and a sense of responsibility and pressure naturally arose in his heart. You know, as a member of Buddhism,

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Evil YIN is the root of suffering, quit evil YIN, be a good person, change your destiny, learn nameless, as shared in the previous article, is the retribution of adultery, what I want to talk about today is because of the various effects on the body and life. cause

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Master Zhihai answered: Of course, there are many ways to chant Buddha. It is best not to reject other methods because of our own foundation. If we know that our lives are in danger and that we know our karma, as long as we can make a vow to the Pure Land, it is the same as when we learn from the Tripitaka and the Twelve Sutras

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I met it once when I was giving a lecture at the World General Assembly of the Red Cross Society in Jinan, and now I might as well bring it up to tell you. One day when he was resting after a lecture, he was red

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It is also very good to recite the Dharma to seek marriage, which is also helpful for us to seek marriage, we can recite and practice the Junti mantra, which is a particularly powerful mantra, and we can ask for many things. Let's take a look at it

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Nanjing Wang Jiabin asked: Buddhism is in the world, not leaving the world, this sentence is from the Huayan Sutra, leaving the world to seek Buddha Dharma, just like looking for rabbit horns, Buddhism is the worldly law, worldly law is Buddha; As I explained, our earth is the world, and Shakyamuni Buddha practiced in the snowy mountains and said everywhere

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Shanghai Wang Xiaoxu asked: Among the six roots of the disciples, it seems that the roots of the eyes are sharp, for example, when they see their names in the world, they often turn around and forget, but when they see their names, they can remember them

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