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Master Dayuan: What is the most important homework we need to do now
There is a female lay Buddhist who was still very distressed after she studied Buddhism.Once I said: I had troubles before, so I hope that studying Buddhism can eliminate troubles.But it seems that after I studied Buddhism, I felt more troubled.Because I feel that after learning Buddhism, my son seems to be too
Han peopleTime: 2025-07-08
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Master Yonghai: The meaning of keeping precepts
《The 42 Sutra of the Middle Agama Sutra: At dusk, Ananda sat up from meditation and came to the Buddha. He bowed his head and bowed his feet and sat back aside. May I ask the Buddha: "Buddha! Is there any special meaning of keeping precepts?" The Buddha said: "Ananda! Does it mean to keeping precepts or not.
Han peopleTime: 2025-07-07
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The meaning and origin of releasing animals
Release animals is to save lives, and releasing animals is to repay debts;Release animals is to help, and releasing animals is to be compassionate;Release animals is enlightenment, and releasing animals is practice;Release animals is active, and releasing animals is convenient;Release animals is to change fate, and releasing animals is to resolve grievances;Release animals is to eliminate disasters, and release animals is to
Release experienceTime: 2025-07-03
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Even if you can only save one life, it has great significance
The Buddha said that among all good deeds, the merits and benefits of saving sentient beings are the greatest.When we are in danger of being killed, if someone saves our lives, this must be the most grateful for us, and other help is not as good as life-saving grace
Release libraryTime: 2025-07-01
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【Buddhist knowledge] The significance of consecration of the Bodhi Buddhist beads
Go to Wenchang to watch the satellites coming into the sky, Dai Huiwen Buddhist Beads returned home safely.Hainan Huiwen Government, Huiwen Buddhist Beads Association, and Huiwen Buddhist Beads Trading Market are the only designated Buddhist bead cultural exchange platform.Nowadays, many people sell Buddhist beads, and they all say that their Buddhist beads have been consecrated by the master.
Buddha statue knowledgeTime: 2025-06-29
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Buddhism often says the merit of "rejoice"
Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, one of the four great Bodhisattvas in Buddhism, has ten great practice vows, among which the fifth great vow is to rejoice in merits.The so-called rejoicing means following the rules, following the rules, and following the power and reality.Joy is joy, celebrate the cause and the result, and be glad to pursue and promote Buddhism.The present one
Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-06-24
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Master Nenghong: Why should you live in the mountains _The significance of practicing in the mountains
When your mind calms down, the mountains are pure lands just like outside the mountains, which is indeed the case!Because all the things in the universe show the wisdom of Tathagata.Everyone, every thing, every thing, everything, everything, everything, is empty in the body, is originally liberated, everything
Han peopleTime: 2025-06-22
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Master Kaiyuan: Some people say that it is impossible for every life to survive by releasing animals. What is the meaning of releasing animals?
Fellow practitioner: Some people say that releasing animals cannot survive every life. What is the meaning of releasing animals? Master: Releasing animals is indeed of great merit and very special.During the process of releasing animals, we pray to all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas for their compassion and blessings.
Han peopleTime: 2025-06-07
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Master Chengguan: The meaning of the Thirty Treatises on Consciousness-Only, Chapter 3: Consciousness-Only, Section 7: Consciousness-Only, and Continuation of Life and Death
Section 7 Although there is internal consciousness and no external cause, why does sentient beings have a continuation of life and death? The verse says: The verse says: The two karma and habits are all preceded by different karma and habits. The different karma are fully reborn and reborn. The rest of different karma is annotated by the comments on the karma: karma, Sanskrit Kama Karma, Meaning is creation doing,making, actio
Han peopleTime: 2025-05-23
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Master Chengguan: The meaning of the Thirty Verses on Consciousness-Only, Chapter 5, Five Positions of Consciousness-Only, Section 3, Enlightenment
Section 3: The level of enlightenment is the way of enlightenment. The level of enlightenment is the third: the level of enlightenment.It means that the way of seeing that all Bodhisattvas abide by is in the realm of enlightenment and is truly enlightened.What is the appearance? The verses say that when you have nothing to gain in the mind of the mind, you will be in the two aspects of consciousness-only consciousness, so you will comment on the level of enlightenment: also known as the level of seeing the way.The original place.This is for Bodhisattva
Han peopleTime: 2025-05-23
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Master Xuanhua: The meaning of this in Buddhist scriptures I heard
There are two main orders: the order of initiation and the order of verification.The preface to initiate the reason for the preaching; the preface to prove that the preface to prove that the preface to prove that the preface to the sutra is the preface to the Buddhist scriptures of Venerable Ananda and preached to the sentient beings in the future. In order to make the sentient beings prove that this sutra is trustworthy, we will first say four words: I heard this.this
Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-05-22
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Master Weijue: The meaning of "Three Passes"
「The meaning of the three levels (one )Practice is to clarify the current thought. After the thought is clarified, it will have infinite wisdom, supernatural powers and wonderful uses, which will be able to make great use of great things, not only to receive infinite benefits, but also to benefit all sentient beings."Three Passes" is a proper noun for Zen Buddhism, and it is also
Han peopleTime: 2025-05-11
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Master Ruben: The Meaning of Arhat
Arhats are able to fly and change, live for a long time, and move the world. Arhats are the ultimate fruit of Hinayana and the name of the fruit position.Arhat ( Arhan) It is Sanskrit, and translated into three meanings in China: 1. Translation: Killing thieves: the meaning of killing thieves.2. Translation and offering: to receive human and heaven
Han peopleTime: 2025-05-10
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Master Ruben: The meaning of monks begging for begging
Becoming a monk means leaving the tangled and choreographed by the secular people, in order to realize the supreme Bodhi as the sect, and aim to seek Buddhahood and transform sentient beings.For oneself, one should save oneself and benefit oneself, cultivate wisdom and blessings, understand one's mind and nature, realize the worldly and transcendental Dharma, and achieve the Buddha's path.For him
Han peopleTime: 2025-05-10
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For example, Master: I call him a monk, and his Dharma name is specially added to the word "up and lower" and what is its meaning?
For example, Master Ben: Called a monk, his Dharma name is specially added to the word "up and down". What is the meaning? He gave up love and said to his relatives, knew the heart and understood the origin, and understood the law of inaction. This is called the Sammen. (Sanskrit sramana)。In order to save oneself, monks must beg for the Tathagata’s Dharma to nourish the Dharma body and wisdom life, so the Dharma name is
Han peopleTime: 2025-05-10
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Master Ruben: Six meanings of cemetery
What is the meaning of facing the mountain?There are many ways to practice, but there is no other way to return to the original world. Chaoshan is one of the methods of practicing Buddhism. There are six true meanings of Chaoshan. What are six?1. Facing the mountain can cultivate our humble voice and eliminate our arrogance.2. You can lead to the beginning of learning when facing the mountain
Han peopleTime: 2025-05-09
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Master Pure Land Dharma: What is the most important thing about becoming a Buddha?Recite the Buddha's name
Excerpted from the "Talks of the Buddha's Sutra on the Ten Good Deeds" by Master Pure Land Dharma. Every thought is consistent with the Buddha, and you will decide to become a Buddha.Don’t doubt that you have no good roots and no Buddha seeds, that would be wrong. All sentient beings have Buddha seeds, so you must have faith."Three Blessings of Pure Karma"
Cause and effectTime: 2025-05-09
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Lecture 27: The Consciousness-Only Dharma System promised by Madhyamaka
In life, Wuchang is the biggest boss. People often think that time passes so fast. It was just a scorching sun and heat, and they are worried about global warming. In a blink of an eye, it is cold in the cold month, and they are starting to worry about the influenza again... Wuchang is the decision, time changes, no matter what you worry about,
Han peopleTime: 2025-05-04
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Master Daji Niang: Repentance is the pretext for entering the Tao (Recite the Buddha and repent "The meaning and purpose of the practice of repentance and repentance" )
Repentance is the pretext of entering the Tao (Recite the Buddha and repent "The meaning and purpose of the practice of repentance and repentance" )(one )The correct meaning of saluting Amitabha (two )In order to seek Buddhist path, you should first repent of all sins (three )There are three kinds of things to repent of sins (Four )The ritual repentance of ordinary people and the ritual repentance of saints
Han peopleTime: 2025-05-02
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Master Daji Niang: When you first enter Buddhism, you should understand the principles of cause and effect from the meaning of the six realms of reincarnation.
First entering Buddhism, we should understand the principles of cause and effect from the meaning of the six realms of reincarnation. 1. We live in the six realms of reincarnation in the six realms of reincarnation, the Sutra of the True Dharma Mindfulness and the Sutra of the Collection of Dharma, and the Sutra of the First Book of the Buddha’s Differentiation of Karma.
Han peopleTime: 2025-05-02
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If you cannot understand the essence of reason, nothing will be meaningless
A long time ago, there was an old woman who was a devout Buddhist. She never left her rosary every day in her life and Amitabha Buddha kept her mouth.She lives by grazing and raises many sheep at home. She keeps twisting the rosary in her hands when she grazing sheep every day, and Amitabha in her mouth
Buddhist knowledgeTime: 2025-04-27
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Meet Tibet: The "initiation" in Tibetan Buddhism has four meanings!
Meet Tibet: The "initiation" in Tibetan Buddhism has four meanings!In Tibetan Buddhist sects, initiation ceremony is often held, and most Han believers rushed to attend, as if they thought they would get some benefits immediately after they sat there.Unfortunately
Time of enlightenmentTime: 2025-04-13
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Master Wei Chuan: The teachings of the Four Mindfulness Meditations 3. The meaning of worshiping Buddha
3. The meaning of worshiping Buddha 1. Overview of this section was originally the time to worship Buddha, but half of the students were unable to correctly understand the meaning of worshiping Buddha. Therefore, during this first time in my meditation and worshiping Buddha, we will explain the meaning of worshiping Buddha again so that everyone can correctly
Han peopleTime: 2025-04-04
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Master Jingbo: Why do you need to be consecrated?The significance of consecration
People have always had stubborn and strong misunderstandings about consecration, thinking that consecration will work. Is that true?The answer is not certain.Then why consecrate?Because it can be used as a belief and as a starting point for learning Buddhism.From the perspective of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, consecrate
Han peopleTime: 2025-03-25
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The meaning of the multi-treasure string
The treasures in my eyes are not just a simple string of beads, but a commemoration and journey of life.When you are determined to gather a bunch of treasures, you will work hard to find each bead, search, lock, obtain, and collect. This can be regarded as a kind of cultivation
Arts and play braceletTime: 2025-03-22
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Master Yan Pei: The Twenty Verses of Consciousness-Only
Master Yan Pei: Twenty Verses of Consciousness-Only, the Second Five Records of the Buddha's Calendar O In the spring of the eighth year, the lecture on Master Yan Pei in Miaoyin Jueyuan, Xinjiapo, summarized the exploration of the thought of a mind. Master! Lay people! Today we can gather in the Buddhist temple of Miaowu Jueyuan to discuss the Twenty Verses of Consciousness-Only. This is true
Han peopleTime: 2025-03-03
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Advanced Buddhist College carefully studied and understood the spirit of Comrade Sun Chunlan’s important speech
The Advanced Buddhist College carefully studied and understood the spirit of Comrade Sun Chunlan’s important speech On the morning of September 8, Comrade Sun Chunlan, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the Central United Front Work Department, cordially received the representatives of the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Advanced Buddhist College and delivered an important speech.middle
Golden and good wordsTime: 2025-02-22
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Master Da'an: This thought is very, very important now
Our current thought is very, very important. Practitioners must grasp this thought, and all the great masters of the ancestors will give guidance to them.So when this thought arises, it will definitely have a fate to be reborn.How to say it?Let's say Einstein has a formula
Master Da'anTime: 2025-02-16
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It is so important to recite scriptures in the morning, and all Buddhists should do it!
The ancients said that they would earn half a day when they got up early.Why? Because I am very efficient in the morning.One hour is worth two hours during the day.The least efficient work is done at noon, from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.It is more efficient to do things from 7 to 9 in the morning.So everyone has to follow the birth
Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva PlatformTime: 2025-02-10
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Master Pure Land Dharma: The most important thing in learning Buddhism is to cultivate a pure mind
1 Life is short, life is too hard, life is too short, and the older you are, the easier it is to experience it.Especially in today's society, the whole society is abnormal.Abnormality means violating one's own nature, which is from our Buddhist perspective; if we look at worldly laws, violating ethical ethics
Pure Land DharmaTime: 2025-02-03
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Master Pure Land Dharma: Pure mind is more important than anything else
《The Treatise on Rebirth talks about "true wisdom, inaction Dharma body", which is also about this matter.When we talk about abstinence, we are actually abstinence in the "true wisdom, the Dharma body of inaction."The most important thing in this sentence is "inaction". If you have action, the Dharma body will
Pure Land DharmaTime: 2025-02-03
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The meaning of incense scar
The meaning of burning incense scars: There is a paragraph in the "Four Pure and Pure Tears": If after I die, a monk has made a determination to practice Samathi, and can burn a lamp, burn a knuckle, and then on the body before the image of the Tathagata. (sound ru, The meaning of burning )A incense stick.I said it was a man, no end
Other Causal StoriesTime: 2025-01-22
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Master Jing: This is the true meaning of education and love!
Regarding the three principles of education and education: 1. The principle of empty bottle 2. The principle of seed 3. The principle of awakening what is a person?People are nothing, like an empty bottle, whatever they hold is what they hold!Bad people teach us to plunder, good people teach us to create, and saints teach us to discover.one
Han peopleTime: 2025-01-21
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Choose a temple and a good teacher. These three points are very important. Learn to enjoy it for a lifetime!
Choose a temple and a good teacher. These three points are very important. Learn to enjoy it for a lifetime!Buddhism is full of convenient methods. As we said in the previous article, in addition to shaving your hair and becoming a monk, you can also choose to practice at home.The latter is not changing every aspect of life
Golden and good wordsTime: 2025-01-15
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Master Weixian replied: What is the middle way of consciousness?
Question: What is the middle way of consciousness-only? Master Weixian answered: The middle way of consciousness-only is established based on the three aspects of universal planning, dependent origination, and perfect reality.These three aspects include the world and beyond, defilement, purity, and inaction, and are actually the complete view of the universe in Buddhism.1. Perfection and scrutiny: refers to the inverted and false appearance of the meaning, such as
Han peopleTime: 2025-01-07
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Master Weixian replied: What is the criterion for a good teacher?
Master Weixian replied: It is divided into several types: good teachers who are virtuous and guided in morality; good teachers who are extensive in Buddhism; good teachers who are good at walking with each other, and those who practice together can be good teachers.Of course, generally speaking, only good morals and knowledge are called good teachers.
Han peopleTime: 2025-01-06
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Master Weixian: Lectures on "The Universal Door of Guanyin Bodhisattva"
《The Universal Door Chapter of Guanyin Bodhisattva Lecture on the 19th day of the lunar month of the 19th day of the lunar calendar in 1985 (one )Overview before the title 1. Three conditions for obtaining the quilt of Guanyin Bodhisattva. The 19th day of the lunar calendar is the anniversary of Guanyin Bodhisattva's enlightenment. Ciyun Temple holds this Guanyin Dharma Assembly.
Han peopleTime: 2025-01-06
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Master Weixian replied: Science is very developed now and people’s material life has improved. Is this contradictory to Buddhist thought?
Master Weixian replied: No contradiction.Buddhism talks about the Five Mings, and there is science in the Five Mings.The Yoga Sage says: Bodhisattvas should seek in the five wisdoms.The inner wisdom among the Five Mings is Buddhism. Other medical principles, skillfulness, statements, and reason are all in the world, but we must use Buddhist teachings.
Han peopleTime: 2025-01-06
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Master Weixian replied: Facing the 84,000 Buddhist practice methods, how can you choose the one that suits you the most?
Master Weixian replied: There are many methods, but the paths are the same, and the goals are the same. In the Yogacara school, Buddhism is divided into five levels: the level of merit, the level of preliminary practices, the level of seeing, the level of cultivation, and the ultimate level.These five ranks are connected by each sect and sect.The level of merit is to gather blessings
Han peopleTime: 2025-01-06
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Master Weixian replied: How to preach the Dharma and ask questions without leaving the meaning of emptiness?
Master Weixian replied: You should not be attached to appearances. You should teach according to the situation. Don’t be obsessed with famous quotes. That is eloquence. Teaching according to the situation is called eloquence.When someone who understands literature comes, you need to speak a good word to him and be knowledgeable about literature; when someone who does business comes, you need to have business knowledge.
Han peopleTime: 2025-01-05
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Master Weixian replied: How to gain a view of the Dharma Realm during meditation?
Master Weixian replied: Keep meditation in meditation, keep true mind, and keep the Tathagata mind, so that you can contemplate.With meditation and Tathagata mind, there will be big among the small, small among the big among the small, many among the one among the many, one among the many, and one among the others, and I will be the one among the others, space, time, and people
Han peopleTime: 2025-01-05
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Master Weixian replied: Master, what is the point of your name "Zhengrong"?
Master Weixian replied: Being should be like the sea and can accommodate all rivers.A broad mind is the realm of Buddha, and it is the Buddha's heart.Be able to accommodate everything and tolerate everything, have a large mind, and the rewards that are affected by a large mind are also solemn in appearance.Therefore, this character has two contents
Han peopleTime: 2025-01-05
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Master Weixian replied: What attitude should we adopt towards the evil in the world?
Master Weixian replied: There is a certain difference between good and evil, and good and evil are clearly distinguished and cannot be confused.In Buddhism, goodness is based on the premise of benefiting others, and evil is based on the premise of harming others.If you can be altruistic, you can benefit both yourself and others, which will benefit both yourself and others, and that is good.Fake
Han peopleTime: 2025-01-05
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Master Weixian: How to deal with the relationship between faith and family and career?
Buddhism talks about the path of practice, which cannot be separated from the evidence of faith, understanding, practice. What is the evidence of faith, understanding, practice?1. Among the four Buddhist disciples, the lay believers account for about 90% and the monks account for only 10%, which is a minority.Monks and monks are specializing in practicing Buddhism, just wait
Han peopleTime: 2025-01-04
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Master Weixian: What is spent on "happiness" is life
Since ancient times, both worldly morality and transcendental religion have been negative about desire.The traditional Song and Ming Neo-Confucianism even completely opposed desires and morality, and put forward the idea of destroying human desires and preserving the laws of nature.From the perspective of Buddhism, desire follows ethics
Han peopleTime: 2025-01-04
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Master Weixian: Two methods and five ways to help practice to achieve the method of reciting Buddha's name
The right practice means holding the name of the name. The six-character great merit is great. Eliminate delusions in the name of the Buddha and purify yourself in the name of the Buddha. If I recite the Buddha's name, I will definitely be reborn in the Western Paradise.Here are two ways to recite the Buddha’s name: (one )Combination of the three combinations of verbal chanting, mind observation, and ear listening.
Han peopleTime: 2025-01-04
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Master Weixian: What is the meaning of "fa" in Buddhism?
The Sanskrit word for Dharma is Bodhidharma ( Dharma)。 Buddhism’s explanation of this word is: to maintain one’s own nature and to understand it biologically.Resist the self-nature: The method can maintain the self-nature (their own nature) without changing. For example, a person has his own nature, flowers, plants and trees
Han peopleTime: 2025-01-04
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Master Weixian: Praise Daxiong
The great hero is praised for subduing the four demons and being called the great hero, solemn and wonderful to show kindness; he suffers hardships and wisdom in many lives, and accumulates virtues for many generations to achieve special merits.The Saha world's merciful wish is to ride an elephant in the sky to celebrate the palace; the palace is not obsessed with singing and dancing, and the burning house is like a cage.Traveling through the four gates, and watching the old farmers in the fields;
Han peopleTime: 2025-01-04
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Master Weixian: Lighting the lamp in the world of Buddhism
Seven-character poems, five poems, one person, Buddhism lights up the lights of history, and is innovative in history; keeping pace with the times and catching up with the new century; the red flag flutters on the earth, the rising sun shines brightly on the world; the socialist scenery is beautiful, and the spring is warm and prosperous.Two hundred years of monsters are exposed in shape, and the Buddhists on earth point out
Han peopleTime: 2025-01-03
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Master Weixian: Endless Psalm
The endless compassion and wishes are filled with poems. Shu Weixian Taixu, the master of the Three Collections, is proficient in the Three Collections, and is well-versed in ancient and modern times, has a harmonious wisdom, and is compassionate.He is not only a profound Buddhist scholar, but also a virtuous monk who practices his own actions, but also a talented poet monk with witty words and talent.His poems come from the realm of enlightenment
Han peopleTime: 2025-01-03