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Zhong Maosen: What is the difference between precepts, concentration, wisdom, faith, aspiration and practice
Zhong Maosen: What is the difference between precepts, concentration, wisdom and faith, aspirations and practices. Answer: Precepts, concentration, wisdom and wisdom are called the "three studies". They are all methods, and the 84,000 methods taught by the Buddha can make you become a Buddha;However, faith, aspiration and practice are mainly discussed in the Pure Land Sect.Faith, it is said in Pure Land Sect
Golden and good wordsTime: 2025-05-29
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Master Da'an: I have delusions when reciting scriptures and chanting Buddha's name. Is it in vain to recite it?
Question: Reciting scriptures and chanting Buddha's name cannot be pure, and you always have delusions and distracting thoughts. Is it in vain to recite them? Master Da'an replied: 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: 2025-05-19
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Master Da'an: It is difficult to develop faith without establishing the Pure Land view
Layman: What is the view? Can you be reborn without the view of the Pure Land Sect? View, cultivation, and practice are the entire process of practice. How to deal with the relationship between the three? Master: The Pure Land Sect also talks about the view, and each sect has the problem of view.The view is our knowledge and insight
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-19
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Master Da'an: How to get out of the sea of love and desire, and cut off the flow of life and death
Question: How to get out of the sea of love and desire to cut off the flow of life and death? Master Da'an replied: We must develop a mind, obtain a human body in this life, hear the Dharma, and embark on a path of liberation, and have to have the courage of a hero who cuts his arm, and must cut off the turbulence of life and death cycles for countless kalpas
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-19
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Master Da'an: Return the West's homeland "early"
Lu Xiumei of the Qing Dynasty, the wife of Wu Changlian, the sixth-rank official, was from Suzhou, Jiangsu.He was kind and generous throughout his life, practiced and offered sacrifices widely, and once invested 30,000 taels of silver to build Buddha statues, and spent a lot of money to release animals every year.Someone ridiculed her for not knowing how to enjoy happiness, but she replied: "The property in the world is
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-19
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Master Da'an: I often dream of ghosts or deceased relatives. What is the situation?Who are you asking for help?
Question: What are the situations of dreaming of ghosts and gods or deceased relatives? Who can I ask for help? Answer: The Buddha said in the "Ksitigarbha Sutra" that if all sentient beings in the future are in dreams or awakening, they will see many ghosts and gods and all kinds of strange ghosts and gods.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-19
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Master Da'an: If you don't keep the precepts, you are not qualified to be a Buddhist
Question: If you believe that you can be reborn even if you commit the five evils and ten evils, you do not need to quit smoking, drinking, or kill, steal, adultery, and lying. Can you be reborn if you commit the evil karma? Master Da'an replied: The "Amitabha Sutra" says that sentient beings who commit the five evils and ten evils will appear in front of the hell when they die. At this time, good teachers
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-19
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Master Da'an: Treatment of three types of diseases
There are three types of diseases: one is karma disease, evil karma in previous lives;The second is internal injuries, and the internal organs are damaged, which is called internal injuries;The third is external sensation. The external wind, cold, heat, and dampness, and the evil qi will cause diseases.Among these three diseases, the most difficult thing to treat is karma
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-18
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Master Da'an: After a long time of separation in my hometown, I will never stay there
After a long autumn separation in my hometown, I will never stay there.I chant Amitabha Buddha and chant me, and the innocent father and son are in harmony.——Master Chengwu, we must recognize the extraordinaryness of the Pure Land Dharma, recognize the kindness of Amitabha Buddha, recognize that we have been wandering in the six realms of reincarnation for too long,
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-18
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Master Da'an: I don't know whether I can recite the scriptures
Question: I want to recite a sutra every day: "The Samantabhadra Practice and Vows" or "The Sutra of Amitabhadra".If I still can't understand the meaning of the scriptures in the Buddhist scriptures, do I have to understand it before I can recite this sutra? Master Da'an replied: It's normal not to understand it.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-18
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Master Da'an: Can you be reborn if you recite the Buddha's name in a scattered mind?
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 of your throat." How do you correctly understand it? Master Da'an: The previous verse is revealed by ancient sages.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-18
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Master Da'an: Will the Buddha three thousand years ago know about the computers now?
Last time a believer came to ask me, and he said, "Does the Buddha know everything? Will the Buddha three thousand years ago know the computer today?" I said, "If the Buddha didn't even know the computer today, can he become a Buddha? When will the Buddha rain after countless kalpas?
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-18
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Master Da'an: How to master the speed of chanting Buddha's name when a patient dies
Question: When the patient is chanting, do you have to chant the Buddha's name quickly? Or do you chant slowly according to the speed of chanting the Buddha's name? How to flexibly grasp the speed of chanting the Buddha's name when the patient dies? Master Da'an replied: The speed of chanting the Buddha's name should be based on the patient's feelings.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-17
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Master Da'an: Improving the ecological environment requires starting from the heart
Due to the increasing expansion of material desires and self-centerism of human beings, the earth's ecological environment is constantly being destroyed and deteriorating, falling into a deteriorating and difficult-to-extricable ecological imbalance and environmental pollution.According to the report (Environment )With the official report (Body and mind karma )and transfer
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-17
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Master Da'an: How to repay the Buddha's kindness
Question: How to repay the Buddha’s kindness? Master Da’an replied: We must think about the kindness of Buddha to us, which is higher than a mountain and wider than the earth.It is difficult to compare the height of the mountains and the vastness of the earth to the Buddha's kindness to us sentient beings, which is one hundred thousand trillionths of a piece or two!
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-17
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Master Da'an: This life is the last life of wandering
It is not possible for ordinary sentient beings to live in the five turbidities and evil world to save sentient beings. This is like a large cube of ice. If you want to use a small bowl of boiling water to melt it, it seems to melt a little when you pour it down. After a while, you will see that the ice cubes appearing out of that place are even more
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-17
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Master Da'an: When chanting Buddha's name, my head is very tight and I'm very swelling. How to solve it
Question: Why is my head very tight and swelling when chanting the Buddha's name, and the more diligent I feel, the more uncomfortable I feel. Recently, all kinds of bad thoughts have occurred. Is it possessed? How to solve it? Master Da'an replied: It is normal for these situations to occur when chanting the Buddha's name.Because we are in Alaya consciousness
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-17
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Master Da'an: How to treat the evil people around us
There are many evil people in the world that we think are evil, but all evil people have their kind side, but they are evil in front of you.So what should we do to these evil people? We cannot repay violence with tooth, we cannot repay violence with violence
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-17
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Master Da'an: Why does the statue of Amitabha always stand
Amitabha Buddha is the leader of the Western Paradise. The statue of Amitabha Buddha is always standing. Why? Amitabha Buddha always stands, why not sit in the statue? The Buddha saw that sentient beings were about to fall into the fire pit of the three evil paths. At this time, it is not allowed to help him to save him.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-16
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Master Da'an: How to understand the true faith and joy
Question: How to understand the true faith and joy? Master Da'an replied: We talk about the eighteen vows: "If you have the true faith and joy, you will be reborn in our country, and even recite ten times of the Buddha's name, you can recite the six words "if you have the true faith and joy, you will be reborn" and are not easy to achieve."Sincere", extremely sincere
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-16
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Master Da'an: Greater than Buddha
Although our teacher, Shakyamuni Buddha, has the ultimate concern for transcendental Dharma, the Buddha cares about the world in this way, and asks us practitioners to start by filial piety to support our parents.The classics tell us that being able to be filial and respect your parents is equivalent to offering to supplement your life.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-16
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Master Da'an: What's going on when you often dream of ghosts or deceased relatives
In the "Ksitigarbha Sutra", the Buddha said that if all sentient beings in the future are in dreams or awaken, they will see many ghosts and gods, as well as the strange shapes of ghosts and gods.These ghosts and gods are either sad, crying, or sad, or sighing
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-16
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Master Da'an: Is it useful to mix suspicions when chanting Buddha's name?
Question: I have some doubts about the various solemnities of the Western Paradise, and I always feel: Is there really such a place? I insist on chanting Amitabha Buddha every day, but I always have doubts about the Paradise. Is this kind of chanting useless? Master Da'an replied: You are more
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-16
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Master Da'an: Use that name to show my own nature
In terms of appearance, Amitabha Buddha refers to Amitabha Buddha, the leader of the Western Pure Land."A" means "nothing", and "Amitabha" means "quantity".Among the infinite merits, there are two core merits: one is infinite life and the other is
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-16
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Master Da'an: Four kinds of faults of oral karma
《The 38th Lectures of the Amitabha Sutra of Pure Land magazine /Please read the scriptures for Da'an: The Buddha said: The four evils are the people in the world, and they do not think about practicing good.Turn to the command of each other and do all evil.He spoke terrified and spoke frivolously.Slanderous thieves fight and hate good people.Destroy the wise
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-15
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Master Da'an: The connotation of Amitabha's "great vow"
Question: What happened to Master Shandao’s Great Vow Sect?Master Da'an: Master Shandao is the second generation of the Chinese Pure Land Sect. In the mysterious meaning section of the "Four Posts of the Avatamsaka Sutra", he described the request of Sakyamuni Buddha "that is, to open up the key points of the Pure Land" by Mrs. Vitishi.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-15
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Master Da'an: How to establish faith in the Pure Land Dharma?
How to build confidence?Generally speaking, from the perspective of confidence building, there are two types, one is sudden belief, and sudden belief.He is a practitioner of chanting Buddha in this life. He has practiced the method of chanting Buddha in his previous life and has formed a profound Dharma relationship with Amitabha Buddha.In this life,
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-15
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Master Da'an: Master Yin strongly recommends a wonderful recipe for curing diseases and saving lives
Note: The following seven rules are excerpted from the literary notes of Master Yin Guang, and are recognized and circulated by Master Yin.1. Alum life-saving prescription Fan accidentally eats puffer fish and all other poisons.Or because of an accident, he intends to commit suicide, swallow opium, arsenic, gambola, everything
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-15
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Master Da'an: Why did the Buddha preach the "Three Blessings of Pure Karma"?
“The proposal of the Three Blessings of Pure Karma comes from the "The Buddha's Sutra on the Amitabha Sutra". I think all practitioners of Pure Karma have read this sutra, and its background is still very dramatic.When the Buddha was alive, a palace coup occurred in the Kingdom of Magadha, and King Bimbisara was
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-15
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Master Da'an: How to have true faith in the Pure Land Dharma
Question: How can you have true faith in the Pure Land Dharma?Master Da'an replied: Faith is generated by faith, and faith is reflected in the fact that no matter what he says, no matter what he says, it cannot shake you or destroy your faith in the Pure Land Dharma.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-14
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Master Da'an: Destiny can change when implemented in serious behavior
《"The Four Lessons of the World" I think those who study Buddhism are probably better understand.Here we briefly look at the inspiration it gives us, which is that Yuan Liaofan changed his fate.This is a scholar in the Ming Dynasty.I originally wanted to go to the doctor, but I encountered a fortune teller
Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-21
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Master Da'an: It is better to recite the Buddha's name early rather than late
The teenager is the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning.The most beautiful thing in life is youth, but for most of us Pure Land practitioners, we are no longer young people who study Buddhism.It is already lucky to be able to come into contact with Buddhism, especially the Pure Land Dharma, in your youth.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-20
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Master Da'an: All kinds of incredible magic will come out with sincerity
If you really have sincerity, all kinds of incredible magic will come out.I can tell you a case first. This is a very strange book "Liezi" from China. What is the case in it?Shangqiu opens a false letter, Shangqiu
Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-20
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Master Da'an: Everything goes wrong, is there any obstacles to enemies, relatives and creditors?
Question: Sometimes our practice is not effective, there are obstacles, and everything goes well, because our enemies, relatives, creditors and our ancestors come to cause trouble for generations, and some people advocate doing superpowers.So is it okay to do super?Does it work?What other ways
Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-20
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Master Da'an: How will we maintain a calm mind
Q: I am very happy to come to Donglin Temple to experience a different jungle life.In fact, we all understand many truths, but we cannot do so calmly when things happen to ourselves.I am used to expanding small problems and always like to think too much.Can take it, but can't let it go
Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-20
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Master Da'an: How to place the Buddha statues in the Buddhist temple at home
Question: There are many Buddhas and Bodhisattvas worshipped in my family.There are statues of Amitabha Buddha invited by Donglin Temple, two pictures of Western saints coming to welcome you, the solemn picture of Yizheng in the Western Paradise, the treasure statue of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, the treasure statue of Water Moon Guanyin, the treasure statue of Thangka Thousand-Hand Guanyin, etc.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-20
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Master Da'an: Is the three wishes of Amitabha Buddha to guide birth to three different aptitudes?
Question: Are the three wishes of Amitabha Buddha to absorb the birth of life aimed at the three different aptitudes of sentient beings?How do you understand the similarities and differences of these three wishes?Answer: Amitabha’s forty-eight great vows are made for sentient beings with infinite aptitude in the ten directions. They include the vows to capture ordinary sentient beings, and they also include them.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-19
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Master Da'an: How can you enter into meditation by chanting Buddha's name?
Question: In my life, I warn myself by "Sitting in meditation and thinking about my own mistakes, chatting without judging others' faults", and I keep calling the Buddha, but I just can't enter into samadhi. How can I enter into samadhi?Master Da'an replied: It seems that you still have a attachment and desire to enter into meditation.Your thought is obsessed with greed
Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-19
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Master Da'an: View and use wealth correctly
All Buddhist scriptures require us to see clearly that this property is an insolid object, and to use this insolid object to cultivate solid merits.Don’t think that the property is yours. It belongs to five companies: if the flood comes, your property will not be preserved;The fire is coming
Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-19
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Master Da'an: Are the merits of reciting the four-character name the six-character name the same?
Question: Is the merit of reciting the name "Amitabha" or "Namo Amitabha" the same?Master Da'an replied: First of all, whether chanting the Buddha's name is chanting the four or six characters, in principle, it is equal.But if it is best to read "Namo Amitabha" for the first time
Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-19
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Master Da'an: Blacksmith chants Buddha's name and is reborn in the Western Pure Land
The method of reciting the Buddha's name can permeate our practice, stay, sit, and lying. When you don't need to worry about walking, you chant the Buddha's name step by step;You can also chant Buddha's name when you wait for the car, and you can also chant Buddha's name when you sit in the car;You can also cut vegetables and chant the Buddha's name at a time."Record of the Sages of Pure Land"
Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-19
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Master Da'an: Slandering Buddhism and Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, destroying Buddha statues, ridicule others to worship Buddha and respect Buddha,
Those who are good at talking about their nature will never abandon cause and effect.Those who believe deeply in cause and effect will eventually understand the mind and nature.——"Quotes from Zen Master Chewu" Buddha told Pu Guang that there will be evil people in the future.Those who do not believe in cause and effect, do not believe in reincarnation, do not believe in the existence of saints, and only pursue the benefits of the present world
Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-19
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Master Da'an: The meaning of "The Essentials of the Buddha's Amitabha Sutra" (8)
Please read the scriptures.“Shariputra, why is that land called Pure Land?All living beings in this country have no suffering, but only receive all kinds of happiness, so they are called Pure Bliss."Okay, read this passage first.So now we will enter the discussion of authentic parts.Authentic is divided into three structural levels: the first is
Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-18
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Master Da'an: The meaning of "The Essentials of the Buddha's Sutra" (16)
OK, this is what the general teaching and judgment standards in our world tell us.But is this standard suitable for the Pure Land Method?Not suitable.Only the common people and saints in the Pure Land of Blissland "everything is wrong, everything is right."Both are not like perfection, both
Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-18
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Master Da'an: Equal giving without any worries
Question: When we donate to beggars on the roadside, our friends said that the beggars were liars and pointed out that the act of giving money was not appropriate when we knew they were liars.Wealth donation is to cultivate compassion, but like a liar, the wealth donation made by the disciples of the Three Jewels has a bad impression on others.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-18
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Master Da'an: Love and mercy are the same as wisdom
There are various differences in the aid of sentient beings. The Buddha is compassionate and reluctant to let go of sentient beings, and divides various bodies to save sentient beings.The Buddha lives in the realm of eternal light, and can manifest the physical body and manifest various forms according to the joys of sentient beings.Or show the body of a man, the body of a woman, the body of a dragon, the body of a Brahma
Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-18
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Master Da'an: The Buddha's speech on the Amitabha Sutra must explain the meaning (eleven)
OK, please read the following scriptures."Also, Shariputra, the land of that Buddha is always filled with heavenly joy, gold is the earth, and the mandala flower is rainy on the rainy day.In the land, all sentient beings often use their clothes to enrich the wonderful flowers and offer them to ten trillion Buddhas in other places.That is, when you eat, you will return to your country and eat
Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-18
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Master Da'an: Reciting Buddha's name can avoid all the obstacles of demons
It is not easy to practice in this era.Because our hearts are too scattered, the entire social environment is polluted.Our psychological state is isomorphic to the outside, and the water outside is polluted, and the water in our body is also polluted;A fast-paced lifestyle outside—
Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-18
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Master Da'an: Promote the responsibilities of Buddhism, Dharma and Sangha
Chinese civilization has a very glorious past in the pattern of world civilization, and Chinese culture takes ethics as its core.But to this day, the moral culture of Chinese people cannot even maintain the bottom line, and is considered to be uncultured in their international image.Talk about the Chinese nation
Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-17
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Master Da'an: The meaning of "The Essentials of the Buddha's Amitabha Sutra" (V)
Please read the scriptures.“I heard that the Buddha was in the Jetavana tree in the Kingdom of Shravas and was accompanied by a thousand,250 monks.All are great Arhats, and the knowledge they all are: Elder Shariputra, Mahamamogalyayana, Mahakasyapa, Mahakasyapa, Mahakasyapa, Mahagayala, Lipa
Master Da'anTime: 2025-04-17