01 2009Records of the Meditation of Teacher Nan Huaijin at Taihu University Hall (I): In September 2009, the class started

Master Yuanfan: Meditation

Meditation "Zen" means meditation, which is to let the mind worry about those wrong habits and thoughts in a calm state.Therefore, it is also called thinking repair.Through understanding of Buddhism, guide yourself to think, so as to achieve the requirement of relieving pain.What to practice for "cultivation"

Han peopleTime: 2025-07-06

Release of animals and meditation

Hanshan asked Shide: Can you become a Buddha by releasing animals?The answer is: All Buddhas have no mind, but only love things as their mind.If a person can save the suffering of things, he can fulfill the wishes of all Buddhas.Therefore, one thought of compassion and saving a life is one thought of Guanyin.Releasing animals every day will increase compassion every day and will continue for a long time

Release libraryTime: 2025-06-26

Master Mingyi: Meditation can lead to freedom

Meditation can lead to freedom. We often say that we cannot be liberated or free.One big reason here is that our knowledge is outdated, and we are bound by our own old knowledge."The elephant was tied to a wooden stake by a small rope." This is our Chen

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-16

Master Mingyi: The first condition for meditation is to understand the cause and effect

When we talk about meditation, we will think of Master Jianxiang walking around carrying the incense board in the meditation hall.Each of them abstains their eyes and works hard, or counts their breaths, or looks at the koans, or talks about the koans, or recites mantras, or visualizes, or chants the Buddha's name, etc.Place

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-15

Master Mingyi: Meditation can bring harmony to society

There has been a saying in the world since ancient times that "nothing happens to happen."This sentence vividly describes our heart that is accustomed to chasing the external environment.Because our hearts cannot calm down, we are used to chasing ourselves outward, and we always have to do something or grasp something

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-15

Meditation can eliminate troubles and our troubles are everywhere, because our three poisons of greed, anger and ignorance are everywhere.Learning Buddhism is to eliminate our three poisons of greed, anger, and ignorance, and purify our three karmas, body, speech, and mind.This way we can reduce our troubles

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-14

Extreme experience: Meditation as a means of practice to escape from birth and death, there are too many extremes.Because life and death themselves are an ultimate problem, the means to solve this problem are naturally an ultimate method.Because life and death are for everyone

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-14

Where is the method of peace of mind in Buddhism? Meditation starts from breathing.——Tsinghua President’s Advanced Training on Humanities Qualification Panchen Lama on the morning of October 23, 2009, Master Mingzang taught Master Xuanzang: First, you hope to come here to participate in such a class and expand your learning content

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-12

Meditation can better understand ourselves by understanding what Zen is first.If you come here to participate in meditation, you will definitely want to understand meditation. So what is Zen in your mind? One hundred people may have a hundred and one expression.In Buddhism, we call Zen meditation

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-10

Master, how can we deal with the delusions arising from meditation?Don’t use another idea, such as not thinking about random hints to suppress it, just do what you should do and treat that idea as a passing guest.You know its arrival clearly

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-01

Buddha nature and Dharma nature ──In the autumn of 1999, monks often emphasized that "all dharmas are empty", and "all dharmas" refer to worldly dharmas, transcendental dharmas, conditioned dharmas, and inaction dharmas, and the scope is very wide.No matter what method it is, through perspective and reflection, everything

Han peopleTime: 2025-05-12

19. "The Zen Heart of Wisdom" is about sharing some short articles from "The Zen Heart of Wisdom" with you.The author of the book "Smart Eye and Zen Heart" is Anthony. Daimele is an Indian priest.Although he is a priest, he said

Han peopleTime: 2025-04-04

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

13. The practice of Dharma Mindfulness 1. Now let’s continue to introduce Dharma Mindfulness to you.The Dharma mindfulness in the "Four Mindfulnesses" and the Dharma mindfulness of in and out of the Instant and Aura Prana are the same and connected.The first specific Dharma mindfulness in the "Four Mindfulness"

Han peopleTime: 2025-04-04

4. Key analysis of the practice of mindfulness in the body 1. Overview, please read the information in your hand first, which is also the second in the book "The Stages of the Path to Liberation of Agama" ○○Page, the information on you are 5 b。 Let's take a look at this paragraph first.The Buddha told sentient beings, "Bhikkhu

Han peopleTime: 2025-04-04

8. After you can clearly develop the awareness and development of mindfulness in mindfulness;Then you will be able to continue to be more clearly aware of the mindfulness.The mindfulness is all kinds of feelings, ﹤Practice the Four Mindfulness ﹥In the scriptures, and in the Miscellaneous Ahgama

Han peopleTime: 2025-04-04

13. The interpretation of the truth of reality means that we all want to understand what the Buddha has realized?What is the state of liberation that the Buddha guides us?This is something we all hope to be able to actually prove it

Han peopleTime: 2025-04-03

11. The eighty-four thousand methods taught by the Buddha Wuwei teaches us, which refers to all methods of practice, but these are all conditioned methods.Whether you are chanting mantras, chanting Buddha, meditating on koans, celebrating the sect, meditating, reciting sutras, worshiping Buddha, doing good deeds, or giving

Han peopleTime: 2025-04-03

1. Retract the mind back 1. Summary meditation is to calm our mind, which is a process of cessation.Stop is just the beginning, the next step is to observe.So we focus on the first and second days to stop, so that everyone's heart can gradually be absorbed

Han peopleTime: 2025-04-03

Before the death of the great wise Hassan, one of his students asked him, "You are so wise, who is your teacher?" Hassan replied, "I have thousands of teachers. If I say all their names, I'm afraid I won't say it for months or years.

Buddhist knowledgeTime: 2025-03-31

Speech at the opening ceremony of Master Chunkong's calligraphy exhibition Minghai December 4, 2004 Dear leaders, friends from the literary and artistic circles, and lay Buddhists: Good luck for everyone! We have been preparing for this calligraphy and painting exhibition for a long time, and today it has finally started smoothly.head

Han peopleTime: 2025-03-14

The fifth episode of the seventh year speech of Buddha Seven, the second issue of the seventh year, was published on the heart and returned to the Heart Sutra. There are two types of chanting Buddha’s name, one is visualizing and chanting Buddha’s name, and the other is chanting Buddha’s name.When the Pure Land Sect first arrived in China, practice more visualization.After Monk Shandao, he practiced the name of chanting Buddha's name.

Han peopleTime: 2025-03-05

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

Teacher Gao Mingdao: Giving, kindness, doing good, and leaving desire. Some people say that Buddhism is the most in-depth psychology, while others emphasize that it does not conflict with science;Some people like to treat Buddhism as an extremely wonderful philosophy, while others advocate it as a religion

Being a personTime: 2025-02-22

The speech of the Eight Consciousness Rules in the Eight Consciousness Rules was created by Master Xuanzang."Circle" must follow "rules", and "square" must follow "rules", which is the law of creation.Master Xuanzang wanted to allocate the amount of "mind factors" under the "eight consciousnesses", as well as "nature", "quantity",

Han peopleTime: 2025-02-13

9. The main premise of speech in the theory of Mingming’s theory - anyone who advocates the elimination of desires will destroy the race, and the minor premise - Buddhism advocates the elimination of desires and cases - so Buddhism will destroy the race.This is a conflict with "nationalism".The prerequisite—Anyone who advocates abstaining from killing,

Han peopleTime: 2025-02-13

3. The speech of the Thirty Verses of Consciousness-Only Verses, the original verse of the Thirty Verses of Consciousness-Only Verses was last written by the Bodhisattva Vajra, but I regret that I have not explained it.Later, Bodhisattva Chenna and others explained it one after another, and there were ten schools of thought. Master Xuanzang interpreted it with the justice of the Dharma Protector Bodhisattva.Later, it was invited by Master Kuiji,

Han peopleTime: 2025-02-12

6. During the recitation of Buddha's name, you should seek to prove the compassion of all the good people: Daoyuan said a few more words to make trouble, and the ancient devil said: "Life and death matters are great, and impermanence is fast."Time is very fast. In a blink of an eye, it has been six days since the seven-day chanting Buddha's name. It's really impermanent and rapid! The truth about life and death is that only Buddha

Han peopleTime: 2025-02-10

4. Reciting Buddha's name and repenting karma, the best good people are compassionate! Daoyuan said a few more words, and he made a fuss: The third vow among the ten great vows of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva mentioned yesterday is "extensive practice and offering", and today we will continue to talk about the fourth vow, "repentance of karma".Please listen carefully! The following is divided into three sections

Han peopleTime: 2025-02-10

6. Taking one mind without distraction as the destination of the pure mind, yesterday said: "All kinds of asceticisms are helpful for practicing Taoism."When practicing hard, especially chanting Buddha's name to seek rebirth in the West, you must see through and let go of your body.Because we are ordinary people, we often stick to our bodies for me and love them in various ways

Han peopleTime: 2025-02-10

4. Reciting the Buddha's name will make you wish to be reborn in all the good people: Time is so fast! We have been doing the seven-day chanting Buddha's name for four days, and more than half of it has passed in these regular seven days! How are you using your skills? You need to reflect on yourself.If it's the upper root

Han peopleTime: 2025-02-10

2. The two forces correspond to the concentration and rebirth of the highest good people are compassionate: Daoyuan says a few words and makes trouble.Yesterday I talked about the Bodhisattva Mahasthamaprapta who learned the Samadhi of reciting Buddha through the Buddha's transcendence of the sun and moonlight.Today's topic is: The two forces correspond to concentration and are born into the Pure Land.Talked in three paragraphs: ㈠It is very difficult to recite the Buddha's Dharma by relying on one's own strength

Han peopleTime: 2025-02-09

Now let me tell you why you need to meditate and practice meditation.Meditation and cross-legged practice have little to do with realizing the mind and seeing the nature.True understanding of the mind and nature does not necessarily rely on meditation, but it has an absolute relationship.If you want to return to your original pure face, you can further change this physical body

Manjushri Flowers BloomTime: 2025-01-23

Those who believe in Buddhism say that they do not speak lies - they do not speak lies, and they have true credibility.You speak with true trust, who doesn’t believe in you, who doesn’t work with you?If you are not trustworthy and are all lying, who dares to work with you?This kind of cleverness is harmful to myself, so I have to say

Han peopleTime: 2024-12-26

Dear fellow practitioners of the meditation, in the morning I talked about the issues of the origin, emptiness and karma of Buddhism, and in the afternoon I will talk about some methods of practicing meditation based on Master Ciyu’s intention.Zen Buddhism is divided into five schools: Linji, Caodong, Yunmen, Dharmayan, and Weiyang.

Han peopleTime: 2024-12-23

Giving food is a good deed that can help us gain a lot of blessings and merits, because through giving food, we can not only keep us away from the harm and invasion of all demons and ghosts, make our bodies healthier, but also break the worries and sorrows in our hearts and make me

Learning Buddhism and inductionTime: 2024-12-04

The real record of Shi Fuxiu's rebirth, Shami Ni Shifuxiu, female, 65 years old, commonly known as Wang Xiuwu, is from Harbin, Heilongjiang Province. She practices medicine and is single for life.There is an adopted daughter and an apprentice.two ○○November 1, 4th (The 19th day of the 9th day of the lunar calendar )，In Shandong Province

Pure Land RebirthTime: 2024-10-22

Education is the lifeline of the country and the national spirit.Our education has been transformed several times over the past sixty years from the old traditions to the present.But we have to admit that our current educational thoughts and education system still exists even though they are similar to progress.

Layman charactersTime: 2024-08-29

Chinese Buddhism in the 20th century----A brief history of Chinese Buddhism development Section 1 The decline of Buddhism since the Qing Dynasty 1. The decline of sects since the mid-17th century. Although Buddhism was still believed in after the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, the Qing court was still respected and believed in order to win over the border ethnic groups in the Mongolian and Tibetan areas.

Layman charactersTime: 2024-08-29

《The benefits of the Sutra of Compassion should be written. In the Buddha's time, five hundred lay Buddhists became monks and became monks, and their practice was very good.One day, they asked the Buddha to allow them to go to the forest to meditate. After the Buddha allowed them, they set out from one village to another.

Theravada figureTime: 2024-08-25

Zen Master Chami’s teaching on spreading the Dharma (3)I just forgot to ask everyone what is the root cause of suffering? It is ignorance, and ignorance is the root cause of suffering.So what is the nearest cause of suffering? The nearest cause of suffering is greed. For example, when you come here to meditate, you open up your

Theravada figureTime: 2024-08-25

Lecture 4: The first wisdom of viewing: the wisdom of distinguishing name and form (Awareness of the mind and object of concern )I am very happy to see you come here to study the Dharma, and I am very happy to see you meditate.We all want happiness and satisfaction, and we have been pursuing satisfaction throughout our lives.If you ask, "I've found it

Theravada figureTime: 2024-08-24

Lecture 5: The first and second contemplation wisdom: the wisdom of distinguishing name and form and the wisdom of knowing cause and condition welcomes meditation. I am very happy to see you.Some people come here to meditate very early.It is encouraging to see you come here to meditate, which means you really want to meditate and like meditation.

Theravada figureTime: 2024-08-24

Namo tassa BhagavatoArahato Samma-sambuddhassa.(Pay homage to the Buddha Arhat )Yo ca vassasata j?veduss?lo asamhito,ekha j?vita seyyos?lavantassa jhyinoti. ─Dhamma

Theravada figureTime: 2024-08-23

＊Practice ＊How to go ◎Find a place that can be safely walking around for about 20 ～40 Don't be disturbed by the distance of the step.In a quiet place, it is better to be able to fight barefoot. ◎Stand straight, with your neck straight, look at the ground in front of you without squinting your eyes. ～6 Stepping place

Theravada figureTime: 2024-08-22

◎Functions of meditation: Will you be too tired? Sore? Originally, meditation was not tired, so I did it while reciting. It was not tired by myself, so it was very easy.Now you move clearly: raise your heels, slowly leave the ground, slowly move, move straight, lower, touch the ground,

Theravada figureTime: 2024-08-21

◎Practice breathing, inhaling and exhaling, everyone practices. People who sit in meditation for the first time should pay attention: the spine should be straightened, the lower forehead should be slightly retracted, the shoulders should be relaxed, the shoulders should be equal, the target should be placed in the nostrils, the mouth should be closed, the eyes should be closed, the middle of the nostrils and the hands should be flat

Theravada figureTime: 2024-08-21

◎Quietness can enhance the energy of the six senses. Have you practiced to inhale the left and right feet throughout the week. Do you feel like it? Is it clearer to inhale and exhale? Although it is four parts of the hand and the foot, it is actually affected by the whole body.When inhaling, the whole body is not

Theravada figureTime: 2024-08-21

Time: 1970-01-01

I like meditation very much, so I often lead others to meditation, so I can often see the benefits that people get after meditation.Improvement of the body, reduction of diseases, enhanced memory, improvement of concentration, and reduction of troubles in real life

Han peopleTime: 2024-08-08