Defining the Master: Manga "Za Ahan" (Volume 22) ~ I 597 Sutra (Wonderful Color Sutra): This sutra describes the Buddha's statement to the Son of Heaven that holding the precepts and fixing wisdom can obtain wonderful colors, achieve the path of multiplication, and be supported by the heavens.

Venerable Ming Zheng: Could you please explain what it means to make offerings to the Buddhas? Do you put lamp oil or flowers or food in front of the Buddha to make offerings to the Buddha?

Amitabha, please tell the Grand Master what it means to make offerings to the Buddhas. Do you put lamp oil or flowers or food in front of the Buddha to make offerings to the Buddha? Venerable Ming Zheng taught: The so-called offering to the Buddhas is the practice of the Dharma. Do you take lamp oil or flowers or food and place them in front of the Buddha to worship the Buddha as an offering?

Han charactersDate: 2025-05-20

Gen-la Da'an: If you don't take the vows, you're not qualified to be a Buddhist

Question: If you can trust and be able to pass away with the five rebellions and ten evils, so you don't need to quit smoking, drinking, or killing, stealing, adultery, etc., do you have negative karma that hinders you to your rebirth? Venerable Da'an replied: The beings who have created the five evils and the ten evils mentioned in the Sutra of Meditation have good knowledge at this time before the fierce fire of hell appears at the end of their lives

Master DaanDate: 2025-05-19

Master Longdao: A mediocre mortal, with many relics

Master Longdao: A mediocre mortal, Master Longdao will carry a beautiful small round box everywhere he travels, which is not only his most cherished memento, but also a proof of his convenience. "Anyone, no matter how heavy the karma is, whether or not they have practiced or not, just recite it

Be a personDate: 2025-05-12

Pure Land Dharma Master: What are the causes of lowly and noble karma?

Question: What are the causes of lowly and noble karma? Answer: "Five things are often born lowly, and they are slaves and slaves. 1. Arrogant and disrespectful to two parents; 2. Strong and unscrupulous; 3. Three respects of indulgence and rudeness; 4. Stealing for a living; Fifth, the debt is evaded. "There are five things that must be honored,

comeuppanceDate: 2025-05-11

For example, if this Dharma Master is called a monk, his Dharma name is specially added with the words "Shang and Down", what is the meaning of it?

For example, what is the meaning of calling a monk a monk, and his Dharma name is specially added with the words "up and down"? Cutting love and retiring relatives, knowing the heart and reaching the root, and solving the law of inaction, is the name of Shaman (Sanskrit sramana). In order to save themselves, monks must go to the Dharma to nourish the Dharma body and wisdom, hence the name of the Dharma

Han charactersDate: 2025-05-10

The Male Soldiers Descend from the Heavens: Fight to Defeat the True and False Divine Body of the Buddha! The strongest monkey brother hasn't shown up yet! In the series of anime "Company of Soldiers", not only did many gods of major galaxies appear, but also a character from our Chinese mythology - Sun Wukong

golden sayingDate: 2025-05-10

"Mida is a great grace, subtle and difficult to think", our fate must not be missed, this miss is really wrong. It doesn't matter if you miss everything in the world, it's a trivial matter, and this decision can't be missed. "Passing away with confusion, as soon as you go to the other land, there will be no turn", this

comeuppanceDate: 2025-05-10

Excerpt from Master Pure Land Dharma "The Buddha Says Ten Good Karma Sutras" If your thoughts correspond to the Buddha, you will decide to become a Buddha. Don't doubt that you don't have good roots, you don't have Buddha seeds, that's wrong, all sentient beings have Buddha seeds, so you have to have faith. "Pure Karma and Three Blessings"

comeuppanceTime: 2025-05-09

1 In our present society, everyone's life is inseparable from worries and troubles, and life is very hard. 2 Everyone wants to be free from suffering and be happy, and they want their lives to be happy, and all living beings in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad, pray there, and have this wish

comeuppanceTime: 2025-05-06

Do you often praise others? Do you feel that praise and encouragement are indispensable motivation for your own progress? The praise of the Buddha can not only strengthen the confidence of the public in practice, but also have incredible benefits for themselves! Once upon a time, there was a king of Ashanga in India. although

Knowledge of BuddhismDate: 2025-05-05

In Shewei Kingdom, the wife of an elderly man gave birth to a good-looking baby boy, who was able to speak only a few days after he was born. The baby boy asked his parents, "Is the Lord still alive?" The elderly couple replied, "Yes." Then he asked, "Then Sariputta."

Knowledge of BuddhismTime: 2025-04-28

Many Buddhas asked how to make offerings to the Three Jewels. To make offerings to the Three Jewels, first of all, to offer to Nyolai, who is a two-legged deity of the Heavenly and Human Masters, and his old man does not lack any sentient offerings, just as a rich person does not need alms from others. However, offering as it comes is a manifestation of what we do

Han charactersTime: 2025-04-27

Incense and Buddhism offerings and types of offerings, also known as offerings, offerings, offerings, offerings, offerings, offerings, incense, flowers, food and other items, the Dharma, the Three Jewels of the Sangha (as well as teachers, ancestors, parents, the deceased, etc.). The offerings used for different methods of offering are as follows

Be a personTime: 2025-04-27

Incense and offerings are made with various offerings such as food and drink, the Dharma, and the Three Jewels of the Sangha. Common offerings are incense, flowers, food, etc. Among them, the incense represents purity and righteousness, which can cleanse all dirt and impurities, as well as hot and dry troubles; Offering incense to the Buddha represents the elimination of all life and death troubles

golden sayingTime: 2025-04-25

Achieve one's own Elysium – Venerable Master Xuanhua is now reciting "Nam no Amitabha", which is the world of bliss that each person creates, the world of bliss that everyone dignifies, and the world that everyone achieves himself. This Elysium

The Venerable Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-04-23

Since studying the Dharma, I have deeply felt the experience of the spirit of the Dharma, which does not come from anyone or anywhere, but only the transformation of the truthful truth into the confirmation of one's own mind. Some people think that to describe truth in modern terms, perhaps abstract or philosophical

Han charactersDate: 2025-04-22

One of my students attached great importance to his identity after becoming a monk, especially when he became a veritable "Sect Teacher", and he had mixed feelings in his heart, and he instantly took on the burden of "seeking from above and from below". I also used to position myself as a "sect teacher",

Han charactersDate: 2025-04-22

No one is wrong, it's all the fault of reincarnation! The jeweler and the Elder Desher "are born in the womb: those who do evil will fall into hell, those who are righteous will ascend to heaven, and those who miss all will attain nirvana." ["Southern Transmission of the Dharma Sutra" Evil Product No. (126 verses)] This verse is the Buddha's Yuyi

Han charactersDate: 2025-04-22

When I was a child, I came into contact with bad friends, and I hurt myself, and I looked at things between men and women very casually, and when I was a child, I had more friends around me than who had girlfriends, who slept with many women, and I took out such things to show off, and I had a lot of sexual relations

The story of abstaining from sexual immoralityDate: 2025-04-22

1There is no accident in the world, there must be a reason for something, and there must be a cause for an effect—what kind of cause, what kind of retribution, karma, not at all!2 As the saying goes, "A drink and a peck, it is not predetermined", who decides? The Buddha told us: Karma is determined. 3rd

comeuppanceDate: 2025-04-16

It's almost two o'clock, and I don't feel sleepy at noon today, and I want to talk about cause and effect with my friends. In the morning, I was reciting the mantra in the main hall, and suddenly I called for a "tablet of the past life", and I asked, "Who?" Hu Yue is gone—"Hey! Amitabha, I put my hands together and chanted the "Six Paths."

comeuppanceDate: 2025-04-15

And one more, killing. Where do you kill people? Abortion is homicide. How many abortions are there in the city we live in every day? I've heard people tell me that there are more than 50 million abortions every year in the world, and more than 100 million in two years; Two years, more than 50 million in a year,

comeuppanceDate: 2025-04-14

First, all living beings and ourselves are our blessed fields. We must learn to plant good fields in order to have a good harvest. Second, if we think that if we don't plant seeds, we will grow on our own, then we will achieve nothing and suffer in vain. Third, one

Han charactersTime: 2025-04-13

Ordinary people cultivate blessings, wisdom, and concentration, and cultivate a lot. But many people don't know how to make a vow. As a result, the effect is not visible. This is all due to some traditional ideas. What kind of traditional notions? That is: first, do good deeds without asking

Han charactersTime: 2025-04-13

The flower pickers made offerings to the Buddha for one day, and the Buddha traveled through the city of Rayuegi, and it happened that a group of people who were picking flowers for the king returned from outside the city. They saw the Buddha from afar, the benevolent light of the World-Honored One, shining through the dark earth like the sunrise. The group of people held the freshly picked in their hands

golden sayingTime: 2025-04-13

Text: Cause and effect are the foundation of the Dharma, and before you study the Dharma, we have to know that first of all, you have to believe in cause and effect. If you do something wrong, you will definitely be punished, and you will be retributed. Therefore, many of our initiates do not dare to receive Bodhisattva

comeuppanceTime: 2025-04-13

Recorded from episode 529 of "The Interpretation of the Pure Land Sutra", "Distinguishing between respect and inferiority, without losing its integrity, is a famous gift". Etiquette is about fame, respect, and up, and etiquette, so it does not lose its moderation. For example, in our daily life, the etiquette prescribed by the state now,

comeuppanceDate: 2025-04-11

7. The Achievements of the Shravaka Teachings and the Virtues of the Mahayana Teachings on the Fourth Day (Recording corresponds to 4-2) 1. Observe the present with the Buddha's heart and heart, observe the present situation, and continue to study the 12 great vows of the Medicine Master Liuliguang Nyorai to seal our hearts. The difference between the wishes of the Buddha and the wishes of all sentient beings is manifested

Han charactersDate: 2025-04-09

Settlement Day 69 (3): The Effect of the Five Thoughts - Doing Freely and Freely Achieving the Pure Land Method, if we don't understand the two ways of rebirth and returning to the Pure Land Method, then we can't do what Venerable Tan Luan said, "Doing at will and doing freely", because

Han charactersTime: 2025-04-07

The Hundred Karma Sutra is a profound sutra of the Buddha's proclamation of cause and effect, with more than 100 moving stories involving bhikshus, bhikshunis, novices, novices, novices, upasas, upasaks, immortals, kings, ministers, brahmins, benefactors, residents, and hunters

Knowledge of BuddhismTime: 2025-04-07

How to educate children to have lofty ambitions, to achieve themselves, to benefit all beings, and to benefit society? (2010.1 Shenyang 22) Answer: This is also a very good phenomenon, parents can let their children get in touch with the correct outlook on life as early as possible, it is very important for their children. Small children such as

Han charactersTime: 2025-04-05

Master Yuanjing of the Song Dynasty, there is no image in the word. The common surname is Xu, and he is a native of Hangzhou. He became a monk at the age of 10, and when he was a little older, he relied on Master Tzu Yun to study. After the master was gone, he relied on the wise mage. Listen to and explain the method of meditation and comprehend the first truth. At the request of Taishou Lu Zhen

Knowledge of BuddhismDate: 2025-04-02

Question 1: Is it true that when I make offerings to my relatives, my mother dreams of them? Mother, how did she do it? 2. Why did my mother work hard when she was young, but she was comfortable and happy in her old age? What karma caused her to get cancer? After death

Dream Cause and Effect Questions and AnswersTime: 2025-03-27

Question 1: What kind of karma caused Grandpa to be crushed to death by a bag of rice, was it a punishment from the gods, or was it retribution for breaking the rat's vertebrae and forming a grudge against the rat? Where did he go after he died? Have you received the merit you dedicated? 2. Why the Father

Dream Cause and Effect Questions and AnswersTime: 2025-03-22

Twenty-five, dedication to the Buddha four wishes to achieve the poem says: "For the Buddha to pray for the birth of four sons, business and agriculture are all fruitful; The financial officer Fuller can get all-round, and he volunteers to become a monk. "The most important thing for believing in Buddhism and learning Buddhism is to practice according to the three qualities of Buddhism: faith, vow, and action. First, there must be

A collection of causes and conditions for Buddhist saintsDate: 2025-03-16

From the Pure Land Dharma Master "Lectures on the Dizo Sutra" [Karma is very great, it can defeat Sumeru, can deep the huge sea, and can hinder the holy path. Karma is great, how big is it? Here are three things. "Sumeru" This is a big mountain, karma can move mountains and seas, mountains and seas are deep,

comeuppanceDate: 2025-03-14

I used improper means to get a high position and a lot of wealth, not by legitimate means, but what I got was what I wanted, not only in my life, but also discounted. For example, if your position in life is a minister, what if it is discounted? As soon as you discount it, you become

comeuppanceDate: 2025-03-14

1. Why do people in the world have "love and separation"? This is because we created bad karma for ourselves in our past lives, destroying other people's families, and making other people's families unable to get together, so we receive retribution in this life. 2. In ancient times, there were few things that destroyed people's families

comeuppanceDate: 2025-03-14

The Buddha told us in the sutras that the blessings of people in the world are obtained by cultivating "wealth and generosity", and the more you give, the more wealth you will get. Today, we see that there are many business tycoons and big entrepreneurs in the world, and they have a lot of money

comeuppanceDate: 2025-03-13

Topic: Buddhist Lecture 1 89 Speaker: Offering Dharma Master Place: Shilin Civic HallDate: July 25, 98 Roughly speaking, the habits that we sentient beings develop are because we have scattered minds, and we all pursue all kinds of attachments, some greedy for money, some greedy for sex, and some greedy for sex

Han charactersDate: 2025-03-12

Dharma Lecture 91: Afflictions Like Babies with a Mind: "Afflictions are like babies, the more they grow and grow when someone takes care of them." The same is true of our troubles. Our troubles are because of our delusions, and when the delusions come, you don't know how to control them

Han charactersDate: 2025-03-12

Topic: Lecture on Buddhism 94 - True AppearanceSpeaker: Venerable PuxianLocation: Yuanguang TempleDate: September 6, 2009Good morning, Amitabha. Everyone has come from Taipei and Changhua, and Lion's Head Mountain welcomes everyone with the best air and the best temperature

Han charactersDate: 2025-03-12

Bitterness and happiness are all in the six realms. Is there any joy in hell? Yes Shakyamuni Buddha told us that Devadatta fell into the Abi Hell and that he enjoyed the same thing in the Abi Hell as he enjoyed in the Abi Hell as he did in the Asariya. He is indeed in hell, but he is on earth

comeuppanceDate: 2025-03-12

From the Pure Land Dharma Master's "Lectures on the Huayan Sutra" The First World War was twenty years after the Second World War, and it has been more than half a century since the Second World War, and the Third World War did not break out, what is the reason? Thanks to the current high-tech information, there is a gap between each other

comeuppanceDate: 2025-03-09

If you treat him with kindness and sincerity, he will immediately suspect what you are trying to do? What are your intentions? Be on guard immediately. Can you blame him? No. Why? Today, all sentient beings in the whole society have lost faith, not only to say goodbye

comeuppanceDate: 2025-03-09

1 In modern society, it is common for husbands and wives to be at odds, fathers and sons, and brothers. Why is there discord? You have to talk about the cause, and that's the cause of the world. 2 Family disharmony, other people's discord, stirring up, this is just fate. What is the cause? Because it is

Pure Land MethodTime: 2025-03-07

1 Now Maitreya tells us, how many sheets of the universe in our senses are put in one second? One thousand two hundred and eighty trillion. 2 Twenty-four sheets have deceived us, and now it is a thousand two hundred and eighty trillions, and we know not at all that it is false, and that it is pure at all

Pure Land MethodTime: 2025-03-07

The initiate asked a question, and he said, "You said that cause and effect are not empty, and that there is no need to ask for anything as long as you understand the principle that 'there is no way for good or evil, but people call themselves'. But reciting the Buddha can eliminate sins, 'reciting the Buddha is the cause, becoming a Buddha is the effect', everything in the world, and more

Pure Land MethodDate: 2025-03-06

Cause and Effect (950126 Breakfast Teachings) Both Prajna and the Pure Land place place special emphasis on karma – if it is a cause, if it is an effect, if it is a cause, if it is a cause, if it is a cause, if it is a cause, if it is a cause, if it is a cause, if it is a cause Therefore, if we can think of the future retribution, our hearts will naturally converge and we will naturally be calm.

Pure Land MethodDate: 2025-03-06

The second half of the Diamond Sutra says that 'all dharmas are empty, but cause and effect are not empty'. 'All dharmas are empty' means that all the dharmas that come out of the world are illusory and unreal, and 'cause and effect' are also dharmas and illusory, but they are 'not empty'. Why does the Sex Sect say that 'cause and effect are not empty'?

Pure Land MethodTime: 2025-03-05