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Master Da'an: "West people commit sins, and in which country do they chant Buddha's name to seek rebirth?「How to understand
Question: The "Platform Sutra" says: "White people commit sins, and what country do they want to be reborn in the world?" How do you understand it? Master Da'an replied: The "Platform Sutra" is a teaching of the Sixth Patriarch Huineng, a classic recorded by his disciples.The Sixth Patriarch inherited the family tradition of Master Bodhidharma, without establishing words, with the heart
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-05
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Master Da'an: Pure Land is the method of practicing by the highest aptitude
【It is safe to practice to recite the Buddha's name.It's really a break (Zen Master ),It is called the Pure Land Dharma, which directly leads to the upper and lower arbitrariness and leads to the middle and lower arbitrariness.It is also said that the sect below the cave is all committed to practicing secretly, and to see the Buddha through Pure Land, which is particularly simple to the sect.Also, it is Buddha and ancestor, and in teaching and meditation, all of them are purity.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-05
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What are the Mahayana and Hinayana in Buddhism?
The Buddha talked about the fundamental principles of being a human being to listeners with shallow roots, kept the five precepts, and practiced the ten virtues, which was called the human and heavenly vehicle;For people with strong sense of world-weariness, they talk about the method of liberation from life and death, which is called the Hinayana of the Shravakas;For listeners with deep roots and compassionate wishes to transform the world,
Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-07-04
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Master Kuanyun: Where to go in life Chapter 4 Pure Land Gate 4 Pure Land Sutra
The Pure Land Sutras and the Pure Land Sect’s important sutras and treatises established include the “The Buddha’s Sutra of the Amitabha Sutra”, the Buddha’s Sutra of the Amitabha Sutra, the Amitabha Sutra and the Amitabha Sutra of the Amitabha Sutra, the rest of the “Avatamsaka Sutra, the Samantabhadra Bodhisattva’s Practice and Vows” and the “Lingyun Sutra of the Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva’s Recitation of the Buddha’s name.
Han peopleTime: 2025-07-03
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Master Kuanyun: Where to go in life Chapter 4 Pure Land 1 Maitreya Pure Land
The fourth chapter of the Pure Land, Maitreya Pure Land, the Pure Land method can be divided into Maitreya Pure Land and Amitabha Pure Land.But the Pure Land that is generally mentioned now refers to the Pure Land of Amitabha.The Pure Land of Maitreya refers to the fourth Tushita Heaven among the six heavens in the desire realm. The lifespan of Tushita Heaven is about 4,000 years, and the sky is equivalent to one day and night.
Han peopleTime: 2025-07-03
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What is the old hill sandalwood in India
What is Indian Old Hill Sandalwood?The origin of the name of Laoshan Sandalwood in India has always been controversial. In fact, Laoshan Sandalwood is just a name for the Chinese people themselves, and there is no such name in India itself.Why is it called Laoshan Sandalwood?There are three different statements
Buddhist bead materialTime: 2025-07-02
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Master Da'an: What is the principle that chanting Buddha's name can eliminate the serious sins of life and death in eight billion kalpas?
Question: Amitabha! What is the principle that chanting the Buddha's name can eliminate the serious sins of life and death for eighty billion kalpas? Master Da'an replied: It seems that you still have doubts! The sentence in the "Amitabha Sutra" is born from the lower level. This sentence is undoubtedly true.
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-01
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Master Da'an: Is there any direct relationship between practicing asceticism and rebirth?
Practicing asceticism has no direct relationship with rebirth, but it has an indirect relationship. This is because rebirth in the Pure Land is not reborn by asceticism, but by faith, aspiration and chanting the name and chanting the Buddha's power.In fact, the Pure Land method of chanting Buddha's name is a happy method of practice, and it is not
Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-01
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Master Renhuan: How do those who practice Pure Land practice on a daily basis?After placing your life, you can only be reborn in the Pure Land if you have a sincere thought of rebirth without changing.
Do you need to do a career after chanting Buddha’s name with your destiny? Buddhists should understand that the world is people-oriented, the family is people-oriented, and people are fate-oriented.The purpose of learning Buddhism and the purpose of giving up life is to ensure that life becomes infinite life.It's not like we're going to hand over our lives.
Han peopleTime: 2025-06-29
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What strokes are used to draw fine brushwork in various ancient times?
What kind of brush is used to draw white brushwork in various ancient times? Poems written in fine brushwork using white brushwork techniques seem plain and savor carefully, but they are meaningful.Such as Meng Haoran's "Spring Dawn" and Tao Yuanming's "Returning to the Garden and Fields" (Nothing suitable for the rhyme )They all cherish the ink as gold, and they are thick
Collect knowledgeTime: 2025-06-28
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If you don’t believe there are hungry ghosts in hell, come and see the six paths around you
Last winter, a friend and I had a meal at a Chongqing snack bar on the street. We ordered two dishes and two bowls of rice. While waiting for the dishes, we started discussing Buddhism.Although she has planned to be a Buddhist, she describes Buddhism
Six Paths of ReincarnationTime: 2025-06-28
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Master Pure Land Dharma: Why do you often encounter ghosts?
Before I learned Buddhism, I often encountered ghosts, and I always encountered them several times a month.Why does this phenomenon occur? Because I have the idea of killing in my heart.When I was sixteen or seventeen, I went hunting every day and brought my prey back every day, so I often went on the road
Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-27
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Master Pure Land Dharma: How much meat you eat in this life, you will definitely pay it back in the future.
1 The first thing people in this world do is to commit the sin of killing! Why do they commit the sin of killing? Because of greed.People in the world are greedy for delicious food, and they are three inches of tongues, and I don’t know how many sentient beings have killed? 2 Greedy is a common problem for all sentient beings! Most people are greedy for delicious food, and for the sake of three
Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-27
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What to eat in winter to beautify your beauty
Nowadays, most women have been engaged in the office and marrying computers all year round. They have monotonous work, tense expressions and huge pressure. There are many people with gastrointestinal dysfunction, either too thin, too obese, diarrhea is difficult to stop, or constipation is unsolvable, which makes people feel sad.
Beauty and fitnessTime: 2025-06-27
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Master Pure Land Dharma: The enlightened person does not obsess with cause and effect
The enlightened person does not obsessess the Pure Land Dharma Master (I) 1 A fellow practitioner wants to know what the two sentences "not obsessed with cause and effect" and "not obsessed with cause and effect" mean.This is a case by Master Baizhang of Zen.In the case, the wilderness that Master Baizhang passed by
Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-25
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Master Nenghong: How should I repent if I don’t have a Buddhist temple at home?
Someone asked a question here: Since the family does not believe in Buddhism, there is no Buddhist temple at home yet. How should we repent?Please give me a lesson.If you don’t have a Buddhist temple at home, you can also repent. How can you worship?A Buddhist temple can be set up temporarily.How to set up a Buddha temporarily
Han peopleTime: 2025-06-24
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【Buddhist Knowledge: What does the Great Compassion Mantra mean?
The Great Compassion Mantra comes from the "The Great Compassion Dharani Sutra of Thousand-Handed Thousand Eyes Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva's Great Compassion Dharani Sutra". It is an important formula for Guanyin Bodhisattva's great compassion, supreme bodhicitta, and a great formula for saving the world and saving people, practicing Taoism and becoming a Buddha.The full text of the Great Compassion Mantra has 84 sentences, each sentence is correct
Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-06-24
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Master Pure Land Dharma: This is a great merit that Mr. Jiang did in his life
Nowadays, people in this world are selfish, and they do things that harm others and do things that harm others and benefit themselves.In fact, harming others will never benefit yourself. If harming others can really benefit yourself, you will be worth it.Think about it, Qin Shihuang in ancient China destroyed the six kingdoms at that time
Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-24
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What is the best way to eat cucumber?
1+11The combination of cucumbers and peanuts can easily cause diarrhea: cut cucumbers into small cucumbers and mix them with boiled peanuts. As a refreshing and cold dish, it is often active on the dining tables of many families. Many men also like to mix cucumbers with a plate of peanuts when drinking.That
Vegetarian HealthTime: 2025-06-24
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Master Pure Land Dharma: Think about the situation when my father left, I was so cold that I stood up.
If you can’t work when you are old, you have to do things in your next life. This life is over. What should you do in your next life?If you don’t recite the Buddha’s name, you will have to reincarnation.Think about whether there are good or evil thoughts and words in this life?Is it a merit or a mistake?Reflect on it, even if
Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-23
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Master Ruxiao: What are ritual refuge and practice refuge?
Refuge in sub-rituals and refuge in practice.The monk will receive refuge for you, which is a ritual refuge;After taking refuge, you must practice refuge every day, such as in temples, you must recite refuge every day. This is the refuge of practicing Dharma.The conversion to practice Dharma is to live a life of life, and this life
Han peopleTime: 2025-06-22
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Why did the pain not improve after release?
Question: I have a very serious disease. I know that releasing animals will eliminate my karma and improve my disease. I have released animals more than once, but why didn’t I feel the pain improve?Answer: Although you are releasing animals, your karma is increasing again.
Release Q&ATime: 2025-06-22
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What is Tibetan Buddhism
1. Origin of Buddhism: The ancestor of Buddhism is Shakyamuni Buddha.Sakyamuni is the name of a family. Sakyamuni Buddha was born in a royal family, and the name of this family is Sakyamuni.Then Muni is his real name, Muni is translated in Sanskrit.
Buddha toolsTime: 2025-06-21
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Master Pure Land Dharma: This old man has not planted good causes for five hundred lifetimes, so how can he become a monk?
In the Lotus Sutra, the Buddha told us a story.When the Buddha was alive, an old man asked to become a monk with the Buddha.In the past, one must have attained the fruit of the monks. At the lowest possible limit is that there are countless people who have attained the fruit of Sotapanna, Stuka, Arhat, and Bodhisattva.
Pure Land DharmaTime: 2025-06-20
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Master Xuanhua: Who will give you the most blessings
《Chapter 42 Sutra: It is better to eat a good person than to eat a hundred evil people; it is better to eat a good person than to eat a thousand good people; it is better to eat a five precepts; it is better to eat a Sotapanna with a hundred thousand foods; it is better to eat a Sotapanna with a hundred million foods; it is better to eat a Anakan with a hundred million foods; it is better to eat a hundred million foods;
Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-06-19
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Master Xuanhua: If you commit this kind of problem, you will never come out of hell.
Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-06-19
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What is the custom of releasing animals in the snowy area?
Release of animals is a common folk custom in Tibetan areas. It belongs to the category of folk religious activities. The manifestations in various places are roughly the same. Release of creatures to nature and let them live and die.The origin of releasing animals is in Tibetan areas, and many customs are related to religion.
Release GuideTime: 2025-06-18
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Master Xuanhua: The situation of hell
【Ksitigarbha’s words.The kind.Retribution of sin in hell.The matter is like this.Or there is hell.Take the tongue of a sinner.Let the ox plow it.Or there is hell.Win the hearts of sinners.Yaksha eats it.Or there is hell.The pot of soup is boiling.Cook the sinner body.Or there is hell.Red-burned copper column.Let sinners be hugged.or
Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-06-16
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What should I recite when releasing animals?
Answer: In addition to reciting the Seven Buddhas and Tathagata, you can add a Tathagata to the Tathagata. All living beings can be reborn in heaven after hearing this.If you want to chant mantras, the most standard is? Manibebemei? The six-character mantra can help sentient beings escape from the cycle of reincarnation of the six animals; there is also a mantra for protecting life, which is the treasure-supreme
Release Q&ATime: 2025-06-13
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I did not follow the rituals when releasing animals. Is this the same method?
Question: When we do the ritual of releasing animals, we recite the "Amitabha Sutra" and preach the Three Refuges, and recite the six-character great name without chanting the "Great Compassion Mantra" according to the rituals. Is this the same method?Please give me kindness to the old monk.Answer: If you recite the Amitabha Sutra, you must recite the Mantra of Rebirth, and this is also true.
Release Q&ATime: 2025-06-13
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If the person in charge does not use the money for printing the scriptures
Question: The next question is, please ask about the donation of the money for printing scripturesback,If the person in charge does not use the money to print the scriptures, will the donor also fall into hell?Can it help provide a real blessing?Master Jingkong replied: Your intention to print the sutra is a true field of blessings.
Release Q&ATime: 2025-06-12
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Master Da'an: Is it enough to just worship the Three Western Saints?
Question: In addition to the Three Saints of the West, there are also Medicine Buddha and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. In the morning and evening, I only worship the Three Saints of the West and Shakyamuni Buddha, as well as the Three Treasures of the Ten Directions and Three Ages, and the Pure Sea Bodhisattvas. Can I no longer worship Medicine Buddha and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva?
Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-12
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What kind of person is most likely to become a person with bad fate?
It is not easy to practice Taoism, even if you are a good person, it is not easy to be a good person.Most people will not commit physical karma, kill, steal and adultery, but the easiest thing to commit is verbal karma.Whether a person is rich depends on his oral karma.Therefore, oral karma is very important, especially for women, many blessings
Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-10
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What kind of tree is agarwood
What kind of tree is agarwood? As we all know, agarwood is known as the king of incense, and agarwood jewelry has also become the new favorite in the market.With the development of society, life has gradually become richer, and people have also begun to pay attention to the purchase of accessories, and agarwood rich in cultural connotations has become
Collect knowledgeTime: 2025-06-10
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Master Pure Land Dharma: Truely understand the cause and effect, and people will naturally practice good and not commit evil.
Practice the Five Precepts and Ten Virtues, the top ten virtues, the heavenly way; the middle ten virtues, the human way; the lowest ten virtues, the Asura way.Such a cause, such a result.Karma, cause and effect are real. Buddhism often says that all things are empty, and cause and effect are not empty.Therefore, causal education is the most important part of religious education
Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-10
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Who is the one who causes us to be evil YIN The "master behind the scenes"!
Many people have a very difficult life after committing adultery, and it is difficult to talk about this kind of suffering with relatives and friends around them. They can only complain on the Internet to relieve their inner depression.From this point of view, we adulterers are actually quite pitiful, and they commit sins because of ignorance.
Retribution of evil lustTime: 2025-06-09
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Master Kaiyuan: What does the sentence "Anuttara Samyaksambodhi" mean?
Fellow practitioner: What does the sentence "Anuttara Samyaksambodhi" mean? Master: In Buddhism, it is called "supreme enlightenment" and "Buddha nature".In order to show respect for Buddhism and respect for Buddha nature, we keep the original sound untranslated.Mainly
Han peopleTime: 2025-06-08
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Master Pure Land Dharma: These eight words are the root of good and bad fortune
It is natural for people to stop evil and cultivate good.Which of all sentient beings does not seek blessings, and which one hopes to encounter disasters? But you have to understand where blessings come from and where disasters come from. These eight words are the root of good and bad fortune.But
Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-08
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Khenpo Dazhen: Is there any reincarnation?Is cause and effect empty or not?
No matter how good your practice is or how high your level is, you cannot be crazy or confused when your words and deeds are.However, there are many such Buddhists in Tibet and Han: "I studied esoteric Buddhism and the Great Perfection Dharma..." Some people in the Han Dynasty who practice Zen Buddhism and other methods are themselves
Cause and effect reincarnationTime: 2025-06-08
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Master Kaiyuan: Do those who recite scriptures must keep the Five Precepts?Some people say that if you do not keep the Five Precepts, the merits of reciting scriptures will be less or have almost no merits.
Fellow practitioner: Ask a teacher, do those who recite the scriptures must keep the Five Precepts? Some people say that if you do not keep the Five Precepts, the merits of reciting the scriptures will be less or have almost no merits.However, the Five Precepts are difficult for those who have just entered Buddhism. There are many controversies around them. Please give me advice.Teacher: First
Han peopleTime: 2025-06-07
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Master Kaiyuan: Keep releasing animals, how great is the merit of releasing animals?How to reflect it?
Fellow practitioner: Keep releasing animals, how great is the merit of releasing animals? How does it manifest? Releasing animals, the situation at home has not been good. Is it because you have not had enough blessings? Is the merits not enough? Master: It is a good thing to keep releasing animals, which means that your practice has not been interrupted. This is your sincerity.
Han peopleTime: 2025-06-07
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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 Pure Land Dharma: Destroying other people’s families, this cause and effect is very serious
1、Why do people in the world have "love and separation"? This is because we have committed bad karma in our past lives, destroying other people's families and preventing other people's families from gathering, so we are rewarded in this life.2. In ancient times, there were few things that destroyed other people's families,
Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-07
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Master Kaiyuan: What is the basis for lay disciples to study Buddhism and practice?
Fellow practitioner: What is the basis for the disciples who are at home to study Buddhism? Master: When we study Buddhism, we must "go a thousand miles of journey starts with a single step". We cannot pursue me and do what we should do immediately. That is a wrong mentality.First of all, you need to adjust your mindset, adjust your body, and keep your eyes on
Han peopleTime: 2025-06-06
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Master Kaiyuan: If you want to become a monk, what should you say to your parents?How should I deal with my social responsibilities?
Fellow practitioner: If you want to become a monk, what should you say to your parents? What should you do with your social responsibilities? Master: Not everyone can become a monk, it requires fate, and not everyone has the fate to become a monk.If you really practice for yourself,
Han peopleTime: 2025-06-06
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Master Kaiyuan: I let go, I don’t want anything... What is letting go?How to understand "let go"?
Fellow practitioner: Master, I wrote a poem: Love, emotions, emotions are like mountains falling, and emotions are like mess.All the love of children and all the worldly loves, you can solve the problem with your heart, you can go from this shore to the other shore, and you can be happy every moment.This is
Han peopleTime: 2025-06-06
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Master Kaiyuan: If you have not violated the five precepts in your body, but have this thought in your mind, have you violated the precepts?
Fellow practitioner: Master, if you have not violated the five precepts in your body, but have this thought in your mind, have you violated the precepts? Master: The precepts are divided into Mahayana precepts and Hinayana precepts.In the Hinayana precepts, such as drinking, you want to drink, but you don’t drink, this does not mean that you violate the precepts, Hinayana precepts.
Han peopleTime: 2025-06-06
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What is the difference between fine brushwork and freehand painting
What is the difference between fine brushwork and freehand painting? It is generally believed that Chinese painting is divided into fine brushwork and freehand painting. Fine brushwork is the vulgar production of craftsmen, and freehand painting is the elegant art of literati; because the former puts painting first, and is passed down by painting and by painting.
Knowledge of calligraphy and paintingTime: 2025-06-06
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Master Renqing: Does the Western Paradise really exist?Where is the Western Paradise?
The lay Buddhist asked: Chant the Buddha's name every day to seek rebirth in the Western Paradise.Is there really a world?Where is this world?Master Renqing replied: My answers are all very long. First of all, I will talk about: "The prerequisite for learning Buddhism is to believe in Buddhism." What does it mean to believe in Buddhism?Believe in Buddha
Han peopleTime: 2025-06-05
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Master Renqing: What kind of merit is the greatest?You cannot dedicate the sutras and mantras and can only recite the Buddha's name, right?
Believers: Master, we dedicate merits to sentient beings. What kind of merits are the greatest?Master: When we dedicate our merits to sentient beings, it is based on our practice.For example, we just recite Amitabha Buddha, we just do our homework.
Han peopleTime: 2025-06-05