Master Da'an: This world takes the eight sufferings as its master

Master Da'an: After converting to Buddhism, can Taoism worship be possible?

Question: After converting to Buddhism, can Taoism worship be possible? Master Da'an replied: Converting to Buddhism means determining the spiritual destination and life value goals.When we received the Three Refuges, we solemnly promised: since we take refuge in the Buddha, we will no longer take refuge in the devils and heretics; when we take refuge in the Dharma

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-05

Master Da'an: Are you qualified to be reborn if you have deep karma?

Usually we often feel inferior, and we feel: "I have done things myself and thoughts and actions, and the three karmas of body, speech and mind are inevitably harmful to others and benefit ourselves, and have committed some evil karma."So I often worry: "I have created so many karma, so Amitabha Buddha is so happy

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-05

Master Da'an: "West people commit sins, and in which country do they chant Buddha's name to seek rebirth?「How to understand

Question: The "Platform Sutra" says: "White people commit sins, and what country do they want to be reborn in the world?" How do you understand it? Master Da'an replied: The "Platform Sutra" is a teaching of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng, a classic recorded by his disciples.The Sixth Patriarch inherited the family tradition of Master Bodhidharma, without establishing words, with the heart

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-05

【Those who know that they are small but not big, and those who see near but not far are the common parts of sentient beings.】———The Quotations of Zen Master Chewu First propose the narrow and inferior characteristics of sentient beings on the cognitive level: "knowing that the small but not the big, seeing the near but not the far."The wisdom that we sentient beings should

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-05

【It is safe to practice to recite the Buddha's name.It's really a break (Zen Master )，It is called the Pure Land Dharma, which directly leads to the upper and lower arbitrariness and leads to the middle and lower arbitrariness.It is also said that the sect below the cave is all committed to practicing secretly, and to see the Buddha through Pure Land, which is particularly simple to the sect.Also, it is Buddha and ancestor, and in teaching and meditation, all of them are purity.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-05

Question: How can a disciple educate his children in Buddhism and let parents who do not believe in Buddhism be misunderstood as indoctrinating religious consciousness in their children? Master Da'an replied: As a teacher in the preschool class, out of compassion, he should first do the Tao to the children in the class.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-05

5.The suffering that cannot be obtained is to pursue what you love is not satisfied with. This is to say that the suffering that cannot be obtained is to seek.Too much devoted and conscientious in everything becomes persistence. Attachment produces excessive consequences and causes the suffering of inability to seek.All sentient beings in the Saha world have different requirements, including seeking wealth, health, fame and fortune,

Han peopleTime: 2025-07-04

Question: A person’s destiny is destined, and reciting the Buddha’s name can change his destiny.But some people have some supernatural powers and witches. They can really change their destiny. As Buddhist disciples, how can they defeat the spells imposed by the witches and grasp their own destiny? Destiny is destined.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-04

Please see below.The third question: "I would rather protect you than the demon".Someone asked, will Amitabha Buddha appear in front of him at the moment of death? Many people have this problem now.Just like when I asked a question yesterday, I didn’t dare to have the intention of making a vow to see the Buddha.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-04

This life is all about having a dream. In the dream, we often don’t know it is a dream. We regard everything in the dream as very real. So we keep dreaming in the dream, and there are dreams in the dream, and there are dreams in the dream, and dreams are trapped in the dream.So this dream makes us more and more awake

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-04

Question: Master, how can you develop true and unfair compassion? Master Da'an replied: Compassion is the seed of becoming a Buddha. This heart of great compassion without cause and great compassion with one body is a sentiment that sublimates from emptiness. It is not easy to be true and unfair.I am not able to prove it

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-04

One of the characteristics of the monk who lost all the loss is that he has realized that "people and me are empty", no longer the concept of "me", and of course there is no concept of "me".If we go to the Western Paradise and have a concept of "I" and "I have all", that's amazing

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-04

Question: I often chant the name of Amitabha Buddha to pray for problems such as illness and unsuccessful exams, but none of them seemed to be of no use.Some people say that it is because I did not do my sincere heart when I prayed and chanted. I feel that the hearts of ordinary people and sentient beings are very distracted, and I usually recite the Buddha's name and seek rebirth.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-04

Master Yongming gathered Mahayana Buddhism into one body, inherited the idea of the Three Sects of Cimin and integrating various sects and returning to the Pure Land, advocated the interpretation of the ancestors and Buddhas and the Zen teachings, and compromised the Dharma, the Three Treatises, Huayan, and Tiantai, and integrated them through the integration of Zen.The master is strict in his laws and is eager to be reborn, and he is

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-03

Someone asked: People’s horoscopes are destined, and reciting Buddha’s name can change their destiny.But some people have some supernatural powers and witches. They can really change their destiny. As Buddhist disciples, how can they defeat the spells cast by the witches and grasp their own destiny? Destiny is

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-03

Question: How to keep reciting the Buddha's name to concentration? Master Da'an replied: When we know that the merits of Amitabha Buddha are incredible, it is good to recite the Buddha's name every day, but it is normal to have delusions, distracting thoughts, troubles, and interference every day.Ordinary people have delusions

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-03

Reciting Buddha's name can also cure diseases.Don’t we have a high medical expenses now? When we get sick every day, we must know that Amitabha is the supreme great doctor! The six-character great name is Agata medicine.What does Agata medicine mean in Sanskrit? It is the treatment of all diseases.Other prescriptions are one prescription to treat one

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-03

Question: If you take the Five Precepts, do you have to seek repentance in front of the Buddha? Can repentance be purified? Master Da'an replied: The Five Precepts, especially the first four precepts: killing, stealing, adultery, and lying, belong to the fundamental precepts.You have already suffered in front of the Buddha and in front of the master

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-03

Master Sheng'an (1686-1734 AD )，His name is Shixian and his courtesy name is Siqi. He is from Changshu, Jiangsu. He was born in a family of scholars for generations.The master has never eaten meat since he was a child, and he has ambition to be extraordinary when he was young.The father died early, and the mother Zhang knew that her son had good roots, so she ordered him to come out.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-03

Believers: Master, what are the methods that can effectively enter the Buddha's knowledge and views? Master: The original intention of the Buddha's teachings is to enable us sentient beings to enter the Buddha's knowledge and views.What is Buddha's knowledge and insight? It is spiritual knowledge without thoughts.To eliminate the confusion of views and thoughts, we will obtain all wisdom; to eliminate the confusion of dust and sand, we will obtain the wisdom of the Tao;

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-02

Question: Under the influence of daily busy work, life and various concerns, what level should those of us who are "poor" in life have to reach the level of faith and wish of chanting Buddha's name to be considered to be a deep faith and sincere wish? Please give me compassion.Master Da'an replied: I am convinced and sincerely wish to achieve

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-02

Believers: Nowadays, various Buddhist struggles are strong, not only between different methods, but also within the Pure Land Dharma. There are many different opinions on the same issue, and they all say that they are based on the scriptures or ancient sages. What's going on?

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-02

Believers: Are the Buddhist rituals done in temples such as salvation, returning to life, and paying for good fortune and debts in good fortune? Can we do it? Master: What is Buddhist rituals? Buddhist rituals can enable sentient beings to realize the Buddha nature that is inherent in our own nature, return home on the way, and escape from life and death

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-02

Question: I like to study the scriptures and teachings, but I can’t put down the volumes and enjoy it with relish;When reciting the name of Buddha, it is either drowsy or restless. What is the reason for this phenomenon?How to deal with it?Master Da'an replied: Most cultural people who study Buddhism are happy to study doctrines, and they always want to learn from the scriptures.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-02

Question: "The clear pearls are thrown into the turbid water, and the turbid water has to be clear.The Buddha's name is thrown into a chaotic mind, and the chaotic mind has to be Buddha" and "The mind is distracted and it is in vain to shout it out." How do the master correctly understand it? Master Da'an replied: The previous verse was revealed by ancient sages

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-02

Question: Some people also chant Buddha's name, but they still eat chicken, duck, fish and meat. How should they solve it? Master Da'an replied: First of all, don't set the threshold too high.He has just learned Buddhism, and as long as he is willing to chant Buddha's name, you must praise him.You can't say, "If you recite the Buddha's name, you can't

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-01

【When Master Yongming was born in the ancient Buddha body, he took advantage of his wish to be born.But he was able to speak and teach and write books to spread.I was also afraid that the scholars would be confused and their interests were chaotic, so I tried my best to say a brief verse of four materials.It can be said that he has promoted the principles of the Great Tibetan Buddhism and was a teacher who was wrongly involved.Let scholars in eighty words suddenly

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-01

Eliminating karma is also an important subject in Buddhism, but we must have a basic understanding: that is, the evil karma we have committed over countless kalpas, and if this evil karma is large, it cannot be accommodated in the entire void.This is in the "Samuhadravatae's Practice and Vows"

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-01

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

Practicing asceticism has no direct relationship with rebirth, but it has an indirect relationship. This is because rebirth in the Pure Land is not reborn by asceticism, but by faith, aspiration and chanting the name and chanting the Buddha's power.In fact, the Pure Land method of chanting Buddha's name is a happy method of practice, and it is not

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-01

Question: Do you have any bad thoughts in your heart? Are you guilty? How to suppress them? I have many lustful thoughts, which arise unconsciously. What can I do to cure them? Master Da'an replied: We have all kinds of delusions and distracting thoughts in our hearts, and these delusions are more lustful thoughts.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-01

Someone is promoting now (The land nearby is very good and produces this kind of specialty, so many things educate me )。There is another person nearby who promotes: "As long as you recite the Buddha's name, you will not be sick, old, or die."I have said this all year round.As a result, that day, he

Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-30

The most tragic pain in the world is to kill everything we suffer in this world is deserved by sin.If you think the world is good, you can smell the fish, snails you release, as well as the boars and hares, and then you will know that the gods smell yours

Release experienceTime: 2025-06-29

The first article is the intersection of bitterness and joy. We often say the joy of life: life has ups and downs, and life is full of joys and sorrows.The pursuit of happiness is what everyone hopes for.What happiness does life have?The title of the Golden List is happiness, success in career is happiness, and the wife is virtuous and the children are filial

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-15

Among the five original translations of the "Amitabha Sutra", there are two sutras that teach the cause and effect of rebirth in the border area: one is the sutras of the three generations of rebirth, which shows that the causes and practices of rebirth in the middle and lower generations of rebirth, respectively, the situation of rebirth in the corresponding causes and practices of rebirth in the middle and lower generations of rebirth.this

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-15

Layman: Master, how do you understand chanting Buddha's name, chanting Dharma, and chanting monks? Master Da'an: This is mentioned in the "Amitabha Sutra". You can hear all kinds of sounds from the Pure Land of the West, the sounds of the eight merit waters, the sounds of birds singing together, and the sounds of the instruments singing without drumming in the void.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-15

In the Pure Land Dharma, you do not need to see the Tao. If you take the Buddha's seeing the Tao as your own, start with faith.You must never stand on the narrow knowledge and view of ordinary people and think that you cannot see the Western Paradise: "Where is the Western Paradise? Can you take it out and I will take it out and take a look

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-15

After understanding the cause and virtue of the name of Amitabha Buddha, we should chant the name without hesitation.A three-year-old child can recite the name of Amitabha, but it is difficult for an eighty-year-old man to hold on to the name of Amitabha forever.Therefore, it is better for those who practice pure karma to understand

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-15

1.Master Yin Guang in his life (1861-1940 AD )，He was named Shengliang, his courtesy name was Yin Guang, and his alias was Changsha Monk, and he was from Heyang, Shaanxi.When he was young, he followed his brother to read Confucian books, he was very responsible for inheriting Confucian sages, and responded to the advice of Han and Ou to repel Buddhism.Later, I was sick for several years and realized the past and suddenly changed my mind.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-14

The Pure Land Dharma flows out from Amitabha Buddha's great compassion and great equality mind, and all sentient beings with sharp and dull senses are saved from them.Among the general methods, the sutra of all beings with great principles should not be admired by all beings. For example, the Buddha gave a speech on the "Avatamsaka Sutra" in the Great Blessings and Broad Buddha, and at that time the highest virtues

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-14

1.Master of Life Intercept (1628-1682 AD )，His taboo was Xingce, and his family surname was Jiang, and he was a native of Shunkang in the early Qing Dynasty.His father's name is Quanchang, and he is an old scholar in Yixing. He is a friend of Master Hanshan.Three years after Master Hanshan passed away, one night, Quanchang dreamed of Hanshan entering the bedroom,

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-14

1.Master Shandao (613-681 AD )Born in the ninth year of Daye, Sui Dynasty, Sizhou, Anhui Province (A talk about Linzi, Shandong )A man becomes a monk at a young age.Looking at the master's life virtues and deeds, there are two outlines: (1)After returning to the Pure Land of Heart, Master Dao practiced "

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-14

1.Master Huiyi in his life (1599-1655 AD )，Named Zhixu, nicknamed Xiyou, nicknamed Babudao Ren (He said: In ancient times, there were Confucianism, Zen, laws and teachings, but the Taoist dared not dare; now there are Confucianism, Zen, laws and teachings, but the Taoist is disdainful.Therefore, it is called Eight Bu )。Vulgar

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-14

The practice of Pure Land belief is progressing in parallel with the translation of Pure Land scriptures and the study of Pure Land theory.As a foreign heterogeneous culture, the Pure Land method of chanting Buddha's name will inevitably rub, collide with local Confucian and Taoist cultures until it is integrated.Recite the Buddha's name

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-14

The Yue army sacrificed Wu Zixu, which was from "The Book of Wu Su", was also a very magical thing.Wu Zixu - a doctor of Wu in the late Spring and Autumn Period, was a capable minister of Wu King Fuchai. At that time, Wu Zixu, like Gongsun Sheng, also disagreed with letting King Goujian of Yue return to the country.The King of Wu was furious

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-13

Layman: I am a college student. I converted to Buddhism at the age of 9 and now I am studying for a bachelor's degree in English.I would like to ask, why do you still have many distractions and troubles in your studies? Learning has always been good, but sometimes you have the idea of suicide. I hope the master will give you guidance.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-13

Question: Reciting scriptures and chanting Buddha’s name cannot be pure, and there are always delusions and distractions. Is it in vain to recite them? Master Da’an: No.It is normal for us to chant the Buddha's name without being pure: ordinary people and sentient beings have delusions and distinctions, so many Buddha's names are in the background of delusions.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-13

Question: Can the guardian enter the temple? (The original question on the first day )Answer: On the first day, I saw a question about whether the guardian could enter the temple. I heard that this guardian was a possession of him afterwards. I hadn’t figured it out yet.Your possession is very bad now.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-13

Layman: Master, is there any difference between the Bodhisattva precepts of the "Brahma Net Sutra" and the Bodhisattva precepts of the "Uphisattva"? Master: The Bodhisattva precepts of the "Brahma Net Sutra" are ten levels of forty-eight light precepts, and are both monks and lay people at home, which is called the "Sudden Precepts".Whether he has received the Three Refuges and Five Precepts, as long as he can

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-13

Q: I am a college student. I converted to Buddhism at the age of 9 and now I am studying for a bachelor's degree in English.I would like to ask, why do you still have many distractions and troubles in your studies? Learning has always been good, but sometimes you have the idea of suicide. I hope the master will give you guidance.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-13