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Master Jingkong replied: The difference between merit and blessings?

Chinese Master 2014-01-27

ask:What is the difference between merit and blessing?

 Master Jingkong replied: OK, this question is good."De" means exactly the same as "get" you get. Merit means you get this blessing, and merit means you get the merit you have cultivated. This virtue means you get the same meaning.But merit is different from blessings. Merit refers to the five desires and six dusts, which is external, which belongs to blessings.So I can share my blessings with everyone. I have a house that can be given to people for living, I have food and clothing that can be given to people, donated to people, and offer to people, and offer to people, and share my blessings with everyone.If you don’t have merit, merit is your inner strength, and I can’t give you this.If we have a way to give this thing to us, we should not practice it. Shakyamuni Buddha gave us the merits of his practice, and we won’t we get all of it?Therefore, merit is not good. The ancients said that the common people can practice the good, and the mother can cultivate the good, and if they don’t practice it, no one can help anyone.

What we saw at the Shurangama Conference, you see Ananda thought that Shakyamuni Buddha was his cousin and loved him the most, thinking that he did not practice: You should practice asceticism, but you would not get it if you do not practice asceticism. I will probably give it to me by then.At the Shurangama Conference, I was still suffering from the trouble of the Modengga girl. Only then did I realize that it was not possible. No matter how good the relationship was, I would not be able to give it to you. Therefore, the merit was to cultivate it yourself.The easiest thing to understand is, for example, keeping precepts is your own business, and keeping precepts is well maintained. What do you get?What you get is concentration, and concentration is generated by precepts.This term in Buddhism is called Samadhi. If you attain Samadhi, in our current words, you will obtain a pure mind.Therefore, the merit of keeping precepts cannot be given to others. I have obtained samadhi and pure mind. This is what I have obtained, and I cannot give it to others.If you have merit in cultivating concentration, it is virtue to open up wisdom. You see, Buddhism often says, "Stubation is born through precepts, and wisdom is opened up through concentration."So where does wisdom come from?Wisdom comes from precepts and concentration. If you do not keep precepts or practice concentration, you will not have wisdom.No matter how much you hear or see it, this is called worldly wisdom and eloquence in Buddhism. That is not true wisdom, and that still cannot solve problems. It requires true wisdom to solve problems.Therefore, merit corresponds to precepts, concentration and wisdom, and there is no blessing.All he asked had something to do with this.

(Master Jingkong·Add a question and answer to the questions and answers of Hong Kong fellow practitioners: 4th 2004 /10/9)

2024-02-05 18:04
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