Old Monk Mengsan: Shurangama Sutra

Master Jingjie: Are ordinary people of life and death qualified to learn the Shurangama Sutra?

Question: Are we ordinary people in life and death qualified to learn "Lingyun"?Master Jingjie replied: The "Lingyun Sutra" is the ones that are added to us ordinary people of life and death, as well as the two vehicles who have particularly strong attachment to Dharma.You read the scriptures: At that time, Tathagata will live in peace and declare the profoundness of the meetings.

Han peopleTime: 2025-05-16

The leaves flying in the wind actually made the little monk realize

Editor's note: Many people like to advance tomorrow's worries and want to solve tomorrow's worries earlier.If you have troubles tomorrow, you will not be able to solve them today. Every day has every life lesson to do. Only by living in the present seriously is the most real

Buddhist knowledgeTime: 2025-04-27

Once up the mountain, a fellow Taoist asked Mr. Mengsan: Why do you often see good people in this world that you cannot get good rewards? Cause and effect are to follow each other, cause and effect follow the result, cause and result produce the result, and the result produces the cause and the cause and effect are empty and dependent. There is no confusion in doing good, and good rewards will be rewarded, and evil will be

Cause and effectTime: 2025-04-16

The fake monk told lies and walked out of the end of Daru Lane. The words that several children who returned home after school were sniffed were unexpected."Fake monk, fake monk."Children's words are not bad, maybe I am too far from the object in their minds.Can't help but turn around and ask

Han peopleTime: 2025-03-30

In ancient India, the most important way to punish those who committed serious crimes was to remove their hair.Therefore, in India, most people have long hair, including those who are ascetic, their hair will be very good.

Han peopleTime: 2025-03-28

Regarding the phenomenon of fake monks cheating in society through begging for alms, seeing a doctor, fortune telling, etc., National People's Congress representative, President of Heilongjiang Buddhist Association, and abbot of Jile Temple in Harbin City Jingbo believes that the disclosure of Buddhist knowledge and information should be increased and the society should be promoted

Han peopleTime: 2025-03-22

1、The Avatamsaka Sutra says that the Buddha seeds are constantly circulating, which is the first priority of Bodhisattvas.If no one can explain Buddhism and even if wisdom cannot be understood, then there will never be any way to escape.We encourage all Buddhist students who have received the Three Refuges to make up their minds to promote Buddhism.You said I haven't learned it yet, what

Cause and effectTime: 2025-03-16

During the Revolution of 1911, the Qing emperor abdicated, and the provinces expelled monks and destroyed temples. The wind was on the rise. At that time, the one who mastered the new army in Yunnan Province was the General Secretary Li Genyuan. He hated the monks from all sides not obeying the precepts and would personally supervise soldiers to the mountains to chase monks and demolish temples. He also thought that the old monk was a poor monk, so why did he do this?

Buddhist knowledgeTime: 2025-03-03

--- Excerpted from "Memoirs of Shadow Dust" Da Guangji Liu Weng, a disciple of Master Nengxu in Zhanshan, read the Shurangama Sutra as if he had been in a demon. He often stayed in front of the Buddha all night long, but he had a sense of experience! One day he was reading the Shurangama Sutra in the medicine shop, and there was a sitting on the oar opposite him.

Han peopleTime: 2025-02-27

In May of the Gengzi year, the Boxer Rebellion was in great trouble every day. With the call of "helping the Qing Dynasty and destroying the foreign countries", the embassy secretary of the Japanese embassy and the German minister was killed. The empress dowager secretly condoned it. On May 17, it issued an edict to declare war on all countries, and the capital was in chaos.Tianjin lost in June, July

Buddhist knowledgeTime: 2025-02-27

1934The old monk arrived in Caoxi. In the winter, all the guardians asked for the precepts. When they saw the palace collapsed and the houses were damaged, they had to build a bamboo house to live in the crowd. Hundreds of tourists from all over the world came to rejoice. Many officials and gentry from Shaoyang of Guangdong came to rejoice. Many people converted to the old monk. On the 17th of the winter month, the altar was set up.

Buddhist knowledgeTime: 2025-02-26

In Wuzhou.The teacher met Cao Xi's secret order, free and easy things, regardless of the details, and begging for alms until the end.When the master traveled to the north, he met Zen Master Xia Zhihuang, the fifth ancestor, who had been practicing meditation for 10 years, and then asked: "Shima here?" He replied: Entering meditation.The master said: If you enter into concentration, you will be able to enter concentration with great minds, and if you enter concentration without minds, you will be able to enter concentration without minds.

Zen caseTime: 2025-02-25

The 26th year of Guangxu (1900)，Foreign enemies invaded Beijing, and the capital was in chaos. The emperor, empress dowager, ministers, eunuchs, and palace maids fled to Chang'an (Today's Xi'an )。Prince Qing heard that Mr. Xuyun was a Taoist monk, so he asked Mr. Xuyun to travel west to ensure safety.At this time

Buddhist knowledgeTime: 2025-01-29

In the New Journey to the West, the Buddhist beads worn by Tang Monk and Monk Sha, carefully looked at the surface of the beads. The color was black and shiny, and the material should be made of African ebony.African ebony is hard and smooth, and is made of Buddhist beads made of ebony.

Buddhist bead cultureTime: 2025-01-16

A brief explanation of the title of the Huayan Sutra, Dreams and Old Monks, On the contrary, the sutra, sanctity, Hua, Buddha, fake, square, and great, are doctrines;Yan means always saying that the Buddha’s virtue is solemn and dignified;Hua is the cause. Because of this cause, there is such a result. Hua is an adjective. The cause can constrain the Buddha's virtues:

Han peopleTime: 2025-01-11

Teach the teachings of running incense in the meditation hall, one by one, don’t run around, this skill must be there when running. If you look at the chorus, you can’t lose this step. You have to keep the chorus. The purpose of running incense is to work hard. If you just point to running incense, that is not a skill.

Han peopleTime: 2025-01-08

What did Lu Zhishen keep the Three Refuges and Five Precepts?In addition to this matter, what did Lu Zhishen keep the Three Refuges and Five Precepts in his life?In addition to this incident, his life as a monk can be said to be a mess of Uncle Pengpai's past (Issue 20) depicted in "Water Margin"

Being a personTime: 2025-01-08

The old monk Mengsan said that the 5th Sutra of Ksitigarbha's Original Vows of Ksitigarbha is quite loyal to Buddhism and has a very true belief.But her mother doesn't believe it. Her mother believes in evil, believes in cults, and despises the Three Jewels.The saint wanted to change her mother, so she showed her to save her mother. She set up all kinds of conveniences and skills to make her

Han peopleTime: 2025-01-07

The teacher's name is Daoqin.The Dali dynasty sect invited him to the capital and was called Zen Master Guoyi.Emperor Suzong came to worship the teacher, and the teacher stood up when he saw the emperor coming.The emperor said: Why did the master come to see me? The master said: Tan Yue Yinshimo saw me in the four dignity? Asked: What is the intention of the ancestor coming from the west? The master said: You should not ask.

Zen caseTime: 2025-01-03

Zhuozhou (Today in Hebei )Paper clothes monk (That is, the one who overcomes the Tao ),The Dharma heir of Zen Master Linji Yixuan.When the monk paper-clothed monk first paid tribute to Zen Master Linji, he asked: What is the way to seize people but not the realm? Zen Master Linji said: On a warm day, the ground brocade will be paved, and the baby's hair will be as white as silk.The monk in paper clothes asked again: How

Zen caseTime: 2024-12-25

I have a fellow Taoist who is only in his forties and is the first student of my Nan Min Buddhist College.He was very stupid when he was studying and could not learn, but he would release animals.All his money, even borrowed money, was used to release animals.Once, when I was releasing animals, I went to the beach in Xiamen

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-12-18

The first vow is to make a vow whenever you encounter any situation. The Buddha said the Amitabha Sutra. The old monk Mengzan explained what the Bodhisattva did? Benefit all living beings.In short, it is to benefit all living beings.To benefit sentient beings, you must have wisdom, and you must have this wisdom.

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-12-16

na mo a mi tuo fo Southnone Ah Mi Why did Buddha recite these two Bodhisattvas more in this world? Why did he recite Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva more in this world? What is the reason?Because these two Bodhisattvas have made a special wish in Saha.

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-12-16

《The Eighth Translation of the Eternal Translation of the Old Monk Mengsan’s Original Vow Sutra of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva (two )Therefore, we have to rely on our own faith to change the environment without being transformed by the environment! People say that they are Bodhisattvas, so we visualize that they are Bodhisattvas, just as I said, killing cows and pigs. Bodhisattvas.

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-12-16

Old Monk Mengsan: If you do not violate this precept, there will never be a shortage of treasures. "The Ten Wheels of Ksitigarbha Sutra of the Mahayana Collection" Old Monk Mengsan explains [Recommendation.Good man.If a Bodhisattva, Mahasattva.It is impossible to get the whole life.That is, giving to all sentient beings without any fear.No heat

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-12-16

The lecture on the "Sutra of the Original Vow of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva" by the Old Monk Mengsan [Another universal and broad.If all living beings in the future.On the first day of the month.Eight days.Fourteenth day.Fifteen days.Eighteenth.Twenty-three.Twenty-four.Twenty-eight.Twenty-nine days.Even thirty days.These days, etc.All sins

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-12-15

There is a monk Xiangfeng who lives in Xiangji Temple when he first became a monk.He is a creature by nature. Every time he passes by a noodle shop with a tank of live eels at the door, he always lingers, saying, "Kill, kill.""The owner didn't understand the meaning, and thought he was

Life care storyTime: 2024-12-15

When reciting Amitabha Buddha, you must be able to measure and time.If you are not quantitative and irregular, your own enterprising spirit will gradually disappear.It’s like you’re going to make ten thousand calls a day, no matter how busy you are, no matter what you do, whether you cook in the living room or in the big ward, no matter which one you do

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-12-15

Taking good care of your thoughts means walking on the path of liberation, which is practicing the Tao.Practice Taoism according to what the Buddha taught. From the morning, you should be careful about your heart, so that it will not do evil, and recite the Three Jewels every time you are in the mind. Don’t forget the Buddha’s teachings. You should recite the Buddha’s name frequently. You should recite the Buddha’s name in your heart.

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-12-15

【If there are more sentient beings than lust.Always recite and respect Guanyin Bodhisattva.Then you will be free from desire.If you are too angry.Always recite and respect Guanyin Bodhisattva.Then you will be free from anger.If it is too stupid.Always recite and respect Guanyin Bodhisattva.Then you will be free from ignorance.】This is the "three poisons", and every sentient being needs to solve it

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-12-15

Question: Many places in the "Ksitigarbha Sutra" talk about the people who protect the gods of heaven, earth, ghosts and gods, who chant Buddha and burn incense, and do not allow evil things to be introduced, water, fire, thieves, and all evil things will be eliminated.But I have seen many lay Buddhists who worship Buddha and recite scriptures, and I even have some dissatisfactions.

Cause and effectTime: 2024-12-07

Mr. Guangqin often teaches Master Daozheng about the great master of the generation, and everyone praises him as the "national treasure of the Buddhist world". The photos he took two days before he passed away at the age of 95, his eyes were still bright! When the old monk was 92 years old,

Han peopleTime: 2024-11-25

◎Instructions to the temples ★To seek liberation, one should practice in the most basic daily life - one should not have greed in clothing, food, housing, fragrance, taste, touch, and Dharma. ★The evil karma we have committed in the past lives is higher than a mountain, and will appear in this life when we become a monk, so sometimes I feel that

Han peopleTime: 2024-11-24

Elder Mengzan, a contemporary monk, was born in 1915 and is now in peacekeeping in Zhenrong Temple, Mount Wutai.He became a monk in Beijing in 1931, with the Dharma name "Awakening". He believed that he had not awakened nor awakened. In addition, he became a monk because of his dreams, so he named him "Dream Gan".Dream

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-11-20

Combining Buddhism with daily life to verify this mind is nothing more than a method of training the mind. I have said so much in a complicated way, all of which are explaining "refining the mind".Where should "refining your mind" be practiced? It's in life! It's just that you face everything

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-11-20

How to practice? There are several important points that we should understand first.Generally speaking, what we call practice is to repentance, chant sutras, chant Buddha's name, or attend morning and evening classes.In fact, this kind of practice is not enough. We often ignore the present state.

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-11-20

Keeping precepts is to cultivate blessings! Do not do anything that is not conducive to sentient beings, do not say anything that is not conducive to sentient beings, and do not think of anything that hurts others.clearnetThe three karmas do more things that are beneficial to sentient beings.If your heart is not greedy and attached, your worries will be lighter! What kind of worries are you doing now?

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-11-19

《"The Sutra of the Original Vow of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva" by Mengsan, the old monk, explains [Being a lowly bitch, and having a short life again.He is thirteen years old and falls into the evil path.What are you going to do to get rid of me? 】I was originally the owner of this family, but now I have been born into the child of this family servant, and my life span is still there

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-11-19

If you recite Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, you will never fall into the Three Paths.However, the cycle of rotation requires a little more. Whether it is the "Ksitigarbha Sutra", "Zhancha Sutra", or the "Ten Wheels Sutra", as long as you recite the name of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, you can get these merits after you have formed a connection.Because of the hiding

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-11-19

Let’s talk about the limitations. When you do something, do it well and do it well after you finish it. You will not be greedy or attached to it. Dedicate it to all living beings and make them happy.Of course, let our hearts give to all human beings at once

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-11-19

◎The old monk Mengsan said in the "Sutra of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's Original Vow" that we will tell a story first. In the Sutra, an Indian picked up a flower. The flower was golden and very solemn.He wanted to insert it into his head first to be solemn, but later he thought that this head was impermanent

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-11-18

Host: I feel very happy today because you are the longest-lived one among the guests I have interviewed! Old Monk Mengsan: There is no long life or short life in my head, and I don’t have the so-called life for a few more years or how to work.

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-11-18

The old monk Mengsan said to remember my name in the "Zhancha Sutra of Good and Evil Karma" (Ksitigarbha's name )This person will die after he will never fall into the eight difficulties of the evil paths.After death, you will not fall into the three evil realms, nor will you fall into the eight difficulties.You can also listen to the Dharma and practice faith and practice, and you can also follow your wishes

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-11-18

What era are we in now? It is called the Dharma-Ending End.What is the situation of the Dharma-Ending Age? The devil is superior to the law and the law is weak, and evil sayings are rampant.It is obviously the Dharma, but he has said it to you as evil, and he has added a lot of things. If he does not mark the uniqueness and innovate, he will not show his morality.He always says differently from others,

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-11-18

1、How to worship Buddha? Pay attention to it when worshiping. If you are very sloppy during the week and worship with arrogance, it is not allowed. My teacher taught me that you will never squat and bow down to the ground, so we kowtow.Master Hongyi said that he had to put on airs when worshiping Buddha, and this is called arrogance.

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-11-17

Pray to Guanyin Zen Temple in Dongtai City: The Dharma will last for a long time, and the Dharma will always turn! You can get such great benefits by offering to Ksitigarbha statue ◎Excerpted from the "Sutra of the Original Vow of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva" Lectures by Mr. Mengsan at Pushou Temple in 2007 [World-Honored One].I look at the future and present sentient beings.In the place where you live.

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-11-17

《The Avatamsaka Sutra talks about ten kinds of Buddhas.What are the ten kinds of Buddhas? We often say "Buddha", and we speak Chinese as "Awakening".There are three kinds of awareness: self-awareness, one can achieve oneself, be aware of it, let it make all sentient beings awaken, be aware of it, be perfect, and be self-aware

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-11-16

When practicing Taoism, you should have the help of the cause and condition. What is the help of the cause and condition? When practicing Taoism, you should dress, eat, and have a place to live.This is the cause and condition to help the Tao and to support you in practicing Taoism.Without the merit of relying on it, you will not be able to succeed in practicing this way.you

Old Monk MengsanTime: 2024-11-16

This is a monk company during the Anti-Japanese period. He was deceived by Japanese spies: If the country is not protected, how can the temple exist?During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Mount Wutai was the birthplace of the Jin-Cha-Hebei Border Region, the first anti-Japanese democratic base behind enemy lines established by the Communist Party of China, and was responsible for creating the border area.

Golden and good wordsTime: 2024-11-15

Sitting cross-legged towards the west and returning to the Pure Land, bathing in the lotus pond, wading intestines, and only calling out to the sky, regretting the death of Zen, the young man has been chanted for many years.When I returned, I chanted the Buddha's name and carried a hoe on the edge; I helped the Buddhist temple to revive the hardships, secretly practiced the best lotus, burned my arms and offered me true offerings, Kong was still sad and sad when he died.Live to this day

Han peopleTime: 2024-11-10