How Buddhism defines a "fool".

How to play with the gourd

How to play with the gourd, because the "gourd" and "Fulu" sound the same, it is a symbol of wealth and wealth, representing longevity and auspiciousness. There are many themes about gourds in ancient auspicious patterns. Therefore, the text plays the gourd to imply that a happy life is in your own hands. You guys

Collect knowledgeDate: 2025-07-14

Karma for using the Dharma to cheat money and disrespect Buddha statues

In the territory of the Northern Qi Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was a monk named Yan Tong, whose common surname and place of origin were unknown. Although he was a monk, he was not a person who really wanted to practice. What he really wanted was to use people's faith in Buddhism to make a fortune. He's going around

comeuppanceTime: 2025-07-13

How to choose the best walnuts to play

How to choose the best walnuts to play, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the wind of walnuts in the palace was even worse. A pair of good walnuts in his hand turned out to be a symbol of value and taste at that time. At that time, there was a rumor in the capital: "Baylor has three treasures in his hands, a wrench, a walnut, and a caged bird." "Every time

Collect knowledgeDate: 2025-07-09

Venerable Master Xuanhua: No matter how much you practice, all your troubles are fake

If we don't keep the precepts, we don't practice, and if we keep the precepts, we can follow the teachings, and then we will have true wisdom, and we won't be reversed at any time, and we won't break our fast. Therefore, a monk should always be able to refrain from self-denial and control himself well

The Venerable Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-07-08

How should the Seven Treasures of Buddhism be built in the literary play

Among the bracelets, the most popular is the Buddhist Seven Treasures, and the streets and alleys have become popular. The Seven Treasures of Buddhism can not only be strung in their own strings, but they are also the most sought-after side beads! For a bracelet, the quality of the matching beads and the coordination of the color matching

Buddha utensilsDate: 2025-07-05

Question: Venerable Compassion, what is the convenience and step-by-step method for the family members who are busy with their lives and want to devote themselves to practicing the Dharma, and ask the Venerable Master to give teachings? Venerable Yanci replied: Busy people should recite the Buddha more when they practice. "Amitayus Sutra" cloud: Buddha

Han charactersDate: 2025-07-03

How to oil the six-petal Vajra Bodhi seed, Vajra Bodhi is the core of a large evergreen broad-leaved tree, which mainly grows in the plateau area above 2,000 meters above sea level in tropical and subtropical areas, among which the climate in eastern Nepal is the most suitable, so

Collect knowledgeDate: 2025-07-03

The Dharma word in Buddhism, Sanskrit is dharma. Buddhism's interpretation of this word is: to hold on to one's own nature, and to follow one's own understanding. That is to say, every thing must retain its own peculiar nature and appearance, and have its own rules, so that one can see it and understand what it is.

Buddha utensilsDate: 2025-06-30

Why do some people get rich first and then get poor, while others get poor and then rich? The scripture says this: Excerpt from "The Buddha is the Shoukya Elder Says the Difference in Karma Sutra" There is karma at the beginning and then suffering. If there are sentient beings. Persuaded by others. Rejoice in giving. The heart is not strong. Later, he regretted it. It's karma.

Buddha cultureTime: 2025-06-29

[If all sentient beings in the future world are dreaming or sleeping, seeing ghosts and gods, and all forms, or sorrow or crying, or sorrow or sighing, or fear or fear. This is a lifetime, ten lives, a hundred lives, a thousand lives past parents, male and female siblings, husband and wife dependents, lies in the evil taste, not

comeuppanceTime: 2025-06-29

How is amber formed? Scientific research believes that amber is a kind of resin fossil formed after a certain chemical change after the resin was buried in the ground tens of millions of years ago, and it is an organic mineral. It is the resin of the Tertiary cedar family, which has been subjected to geology

The Seven Treasures of BuddhismTime: 2025-06-27

How to choose a good Vajra Bodhi seed, with the increasing improvement of people's living standards, there are more and more people who like to play Bodhi seeds. In recent years, some young people have also added bracelets such as Vajra Bodhi, Phoenix Eye Bodhi or Xingyue Bodhi on their wrists. These bodhi are paired with pine

Collect knowledgeTime: 2025-06-27

When the Spring Festival arrived, the little pig said to the mother pig: Mom, how do we spend the Spring Festival? Mother Pig held back her tears: Child, go to bed early, you have to take good care of yourself in the future. Looking at the sleeping child, the mother pig left tears: Mom can't celebrate the Spring Festival anymore

Release LibraryTime: 2025-06-26

Someone here raised a question: Since the family does not believe in Buddhism, there is no Buddhist hall in the family now, how should I worship and confess? Please ask Master to speak. There is no Buddhist hall at home, but you can also worship and confess, how to worship? A temporary Buddhist hall can be set up. So how to set up a Buddha temporarily

Han charactersDate: 2025-06-24

How do you control jealousy? How should this jealousy be subdued? To subdue jealousy, it is necessary to cultivate the joy of the heart, and there is joy merit in the "Fuxian Wish". Rejoicing means rejoicing in the great and small achievements or good fortunes, merits, and even the goodness of a thought

Han charactersDate: 2025-06-24

How can Buddhism be used to deal with conflicts in the family? Question: How can you better use Buddhism to deal with conflicts in the lives of husband and wife, husband and wife's parents, and wife and husband's parents in the family? Answer: As some great masters say, the most difficult practice is

Buddha cultureDate: 2025-06-24

What do you think about releasing animals to eat other animals? I wanted to release the grass turtles, but I heard that the Brazilian turtles were overflowing, and the grass turtles had no room to live. To understand the meaning of release. Liberation is mainly about compassion and compassion for sentient beings, seeing that life is going to be taken away, and thus

Release Q&ADate: 2025-06-23

Question: Master, in the process of practicing, how do you practice the two methods of prajna and willingness? When facing different objects, should the use of these two be emphasized? Master Ruxiao: Generally speaking, the Mahayana method is to use the power of prajna and wishes.

Han charactersDate: 2025-06-22

On the Lotus Sutra, the Lord tells us a story. When the Lord was alive, there was an old man who asked to become a monk with the Buddha. In the past, monks had to attain fruition, and at the very least, they also had to attain the fruition of Sudra, and there were countless people who attained the fruition of Stohan, Arhat, and Bodhisattva

Pure Land MethodTime: 2025-06-20

Cultivation does not mean that cultivation can be achieved immediately, I have been reciting the Buddha for a long time, and after chanting the sutras for a long time, I can solve it; We have too many afflictions, habits, and karmic obstacles since we have no beginning, and we need to have a certain amount of wisdom and stamina to fight against them, slowly

Han charactersDate: 2025-06-19

If a monastic only satisfies his own desires and cannot make others happy, he may not be happy himself. If you don't let others be happy, you won't be happy. Don't practice by means of exchange, Buddhism is not trade. To cultivate the Tao is to know cause and effect, and to understand the law of dependent origination

Han charactersDate: 2025-06-19

Venerable Mingyi replied: Wouldn't it be better to have the opportunity to find freedom, when we encounter difficulties, we often want to die. I have had these thoughts myself, which is mentioned in "A Conversation with a Mother". However, now that I have studied Buddhism, I know that life is rare. Now there is

Han charactersTime: 2025-06-17

How to wear Vajra Bodhi, we are indispensable to clean Vajra Bodhi when we play Vajra Bodhi, but there are many precautions for cleaning Vajra Bodhi, let's learn how to wear Vajra Bodhi together. Vajra Bodhi hand string wearing

Collect knowledgeTime: 2025-06-17

Teacher Fu: I am a layman, and I really don't understand the cause and effect of the three lives, because I don't think it can be confirmed in real life, but this is the most basic theory of Buddhism, can you please teach it? Master Mingyi replied: Look at life and death in an instant! See

Han charactersTime: 2025-06-16

How to make the Donkey Kong Bodhi red, the Vajra Bodhi is a large evergreen broad-leaved tree. Its scientific name is Elaeocarpus Ganitrus and its species is Tiliaceae. It mainly grows in the plateau area above 2,000 meters above sea level. Mainly found

Collect knowledgeTime: 2025-06-16

Where is the Dharma method of peace of mind? Meditation starts with the breath. On the morning of October 23, 2009, Venerable Mingzang instructed Master Zang: First of all, you should come here to participate in such a class and expand the learning content

Han charactersTime: 2025-06-12

Buddhism talks about fate, some people think that since it is fate, there will be something in life, and there is no need to force what is not in life, then good, I will accept fate, no need to bother about anything, no need to work hard, this is a wrong understanding. To learn the cause is to learn the right thoughts

Buddha statue knowledgeTime: 2025-06-12

Initiates: I have a friend who has just entered Buddhism, and someone said to him, "You have a lot of karma, and there are many sentient beings on you, and the unjust creditors have locked you up, so be careful." How should we look at this? Teacher: In the process of studying Buddhism, we have correct knowledge and correct view

Han charactersDate: 2025-06-08

Initiates: Master, I would like to ask how to deal with the fact that my family has saved a lot of incense and ashes after burning incense and incense roots every day. Teacher: Be respectful, wrap the incense ash in a red cloth, and it is better to find a clean place to bury it. It's best to find a clean place to melt the vein. (July 10, 2010.)

Han charactersDate: 2025-06-08

Initiates: A relative's child has autism, but the relative doesn't believe in cause and effect, only believes in Western medicine, believes in instruments, and gives the child Western medicine, but the child is very young...... I don't know how I can help them and cure my child's illness. Teacher: This

Han charactersTime: 2025-06-07

Initiates: If you want to become a monk, what should you say to your parents? How to deal with your social responsibility? Teacher: Not everyone can become a monk, and it takes fate, not necessarily everyone has the fate to become a monk. If you really practice for yourself, it's different

Han charactersTime: 2025-06-06

Initiates: I have studied a lot of Buddhist scriptures, but I still can't understand the Dharma, why? Teacher: An arhat is also called an unlearned, and he has learned a lot in the world, and when he finishes his studies, he graduates. Some people have studied the law of the world for countless eons and have not yet graduated, why? Because the worldly Dharma that you are attached to is coming

Han charactersTime: 2025-06-06

Initiates: Master, I wrote a poem: Affection, emotion is like a mountain, emotion is like chaos. If you let go of all the love of children and all the feelings of the world, you will be able to solve the Dharma of your heart, you will be able to go from one shore to the other, and you will be happy all the time. This is

Han charactersTime: 2025-06-06

How to mount the painting brushstrokes, the so-called ancient brushstrokes, most of them are colored on silk, and are often used to decorate fans, lamps, beds, screens and other daily utensils. So how do you mount the strokes of the painters? Mounting paper is an important part of the painting, such as:

Knowledge of calligraphy and paintingTime: 2025-06-06

Benefiting farmland and being able to benefit farmland should also be understood correctly by those of us who live in cities. If you can master this use of the Great Compassion Mantra, you will definitely be able to settle many things, for example, what if you have flies and mosquitoes in your house? Let's say you have this flower

Han charactersDate: 2025-06-05

How to color freehand landscape painting, landscape painting sketches through brush and ink to complete the shaping of the image of the scene, but also expressed in the exploration and creation of the form of brush and ink composition. The original amorphous shape of the pen and ink is amorphous, although the scenery objectively exists, but it can be based on the different feelings and rationalities of each person

Knowledge of calligraphy and paintingDate: 2025-06-05

Amitabha! First of all, I would like to thank the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas for their compassionate blessings, the Dharma Protector Longtian for their protection, and all the Dharma Protectors for their long-term support for the Dharma Rectification Dojo. And today, perhaps the first time in recent years that a puja has been held in Linyi! This

Han charactersTime: 2025-06-04

How do we deal with these things and some helpless things? Do your best, do your best to ambulance. If there is really no way for us to do it, then there is no way. You can't stand this in your heart, how do you do it? I can't stand it,

Han charactersTime: 2025-06-04

Master, how do you deal with delusions that arise in meditation? You don't suppress it with another thought, like don't think about it like that, just do what you have to do and treat that thought as a passing guest. You know exactly where it's coming

Han charactersTime: 2025-06-01

Question: Master is merciful, I often encounter some things that don't go well in my work and life, and I am troubled, is this just a negative relationship, how can I change it, please be merciful and enlightened. Master Huiguang: Life is less than 100, and I often have a thousand years of worries. If you can really improve

Han charactersTime: 2025-06-01

Zhong Maosen: When a woman gives birth, how can she keep her mother and child safe? When you are in labor, if the labor does not go well, there will be a lot of pain, and even you will not be able to give birth for several days, and you may even die because of difficult childbirth. Even in the present medical technology is well developed

golden sayingDate: 2025-05-29

How to evaluate the value of celebrity calligraphy and painting in auction, in recent years, the celebrity calligraphy and painting trading market has ??? The field is gradually becoming popular, whether it is celebrity calligraphy and painting collection, celebrity calligraphy and painting investment, and celebrity calligraphy and painting auctions, they have been sought after by many people, and the scene is very hot. But with the celebrity word

Knowledge of calligraphy and paintingDate: 2025-05-26

Everyone knows how to study Buddhism, but do you know how to read the Heart Sutra? Even if you don't study Buddhism, many people know several Buddhist classics "Diamond Sutra", "Jizo Sutra", "Heart Sutra", etc., and they also know that several Buddhist Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who live the world with compassion such as: Guanyin Bodhisattva

Buddhist fablesDate: 2025-05-25

How to distinguish the true from the fake, wenge wood is also made as "emu wood" or "wolfberry wood", the new wenge wood is divided into new and old, the new wenge wood is rough, purple and black, the texture is turbid, and stiff and rigid, and it is easy to warp and stubble; The old wenge wood has a delicate texture and has a purple color

Collect knowledgeDate: 2025-05-24

Master said that if there are insects in the vegetables, I should sprinkle the medicine and recite the mantra of great compassion, but I didn't recite the mantra of great compassion, I recited the mantra of Amitabha Buddha or the mantra of rebirth, and I would dig up earthworms when I dug up the vegetable field? Venerable Clarity taught: You don't have to worry, because there is a principle in the vows that is, 'I don't

Han charactersDate: 2025-05-23

Ask Master to explain how a child can go into the Buddhist hall to recite the sutra or come to hear the Dharma. Venerable Ming Zheng taught: Children, if they can be born in a lay family, most of them have made a vow in their previous life, before they die, that they will be born to study Buddhism for the rest of their lives

Han charactersTime: 2025-05-22

People are afraid of not being satisfied, and not being satisfied is suffering, and being content is happiness. The so-called contentment and happiness, can endure self-peace. To be happy is to be content, to be able to endure and be at ease. To be happy is to be content, and to be at ease is to be at ease. Discontentment is the most painful thing. How can you be dissatisfied? It seems like

The Venerable Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-05-22

Venerable Enlightenment, Amitabha, there are many people in today's society, campuses, including Buddhist academies who do not have correct knowledge, but they go around preaching incorrect Dharma and teaching incorrect practice methods. Venerable Enlightenment taught: No

Han charactersDate: 2025-05-20

Too many people have this question: Are there ghosts in the world? Why can't I see it? If you can see ghosts, you are a man of God. The air can't be seen, and we don't breathe it every day. The accurate answer is: yes, definitely, although many people

The Venerable Master XuanhuaDate: 2025-05-20

Question: Why is my head very suffocated when reciting the Buddha, the more I work harder, the more uncomfortable it becomes, and all kinds of very bad thoughts have appeared recently, is there possession, how to solve it? Venerable Da'an replied: It is normal for these situations to occur when reciting the Buddha. Because we are aware of the alayas inside

Master DaanDate: 2025-05-17