Khenpo Dazhen: Is it okay to guide all sentient beings around you to chant Buddha’s name and recite scriptures?

Master Da'an: All beings have to rely on "faith and wish" to convey Amitabha Buddha.

The first article is the intersection of bitterness and joy. We often say the joy of life: life has ups and downs, and life is full of joys and sorrows.The pursuit of happiness is what everyone hopes for.What happiness does life have?The title of the Golden List is happiness, success in career is happiness, and the wife is virtuous and the children are filial

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-15

Master Da'an: How to understand chanting Buddha's name, chanting Dharma, and chanting monks

Layman: Master, how do you understand chanting Buddha's name, chanting Dharma, and chanting monks? Master Da'an: This is mentioned in the "Amitabha Sutra". You can hear all kinds of sounds from the Pure Land of the West, the sounds of the eight merit waters, the sounds of birds singing together, and the sounds of the instruments singing without drumming in the void.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-15

Master Da'an: "The Pure Land Religion Course" method of chanting Buddha's name is sincere and dedicated

After understanding the cause and virtue of the name of Amitabha Buddha, we should chant the name without hesitation.A three-year-old child can recite the name of Amitabha, but it is difficult for an eighty-year-old man to hold on to the name of Amitabha forever.Therefore, it is better for those who practice pure karma to understand

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-15

People can have bad luck, but not bad luck

Robert Philip, an expert in personality analysis in the United States, once received a wanderer in his office who had gone bankrupt, was heavily in debt, and left his wife and daughter to wander around because the business he had started.The wanderer said: I decided to jump to Lake Michigan and live this life.I've

Vegetarian InformationTime: 2025-06-15

The Yue army sacrificed Wu Zixu, which was from "The Book of Wu Su", was also a very magical thing.Wu Zixu - a doctor of Wu in the late Spring and Autumn Period, was a capable minister of Wu King Fuchai. At that time, Wu Zixu, like Gongsun Sheng, also disagreed with letting King Goujian of Yue return to the country.The King of Wu was furious

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-13

Question: Reciting scriptures and chanting Buddha’s name cannot be pure, and there are always delusions and distractions. Is it in vain to recite them? Master Da’an: No.It is normal for us to chant the Buddha's name without being pure: ordinary people and sentient beings have delusions and distinctions, so many Buddha's names are in the background of delusions.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-13

The body of the reborn person in the Pure Land is very tall, and he does not need to transition from childhood to youth to middle age, nor does he need to breastfeed or nurture.This phenomenon of life is not the scope of our common sense.This body is made of good roots and blessings

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-12

The Pure Land Patriarch said, "If you are willing to establish your mind, your path will be accomplished" - making a vow is the first priority.So what kind of wish should we make? Someone made a vow after studying Buddhism: "I will become a monk for generations, meet good teachers, go deep into the sutras, and spread the Dharma." There have been such people throughout history.That

Master Da'anTime: 2025-06-11

Can you burn paper money and ingots to offer to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas?Some lay Buddhists burn paper money and ingots to offer sacrifices on happy days of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Master Yin Guang had a clear instruction that he did not support such things in Buddhism, but he did not object. Why?this

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-08

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

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

Fellow practitioner: Please ask Master, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva should save suffering and help sentient beings in urgent need and fear. Although the bodhisattva's vows are profound, is it contrary to the cause and effect that sentient beings suffer? Is this kind of rescue a temporary change in the retribution? Will it be possible to continue in the future

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-07

Doctors at Georgetown University in the United States have found that a vegetarian diet can reduce or eliminate the need for two-thirds of patients with diabetes to receive medication.They pointed out that although the scale of this study was small, the results were much better than studies using traditional diets.Georgetown

Vegetarian InformationTime: 2025-06-07

Fellow practitioners: People should make more contributions to society so that human society can make progress; if everyone chants Buddha's name and is in temples, can human civilization develop? Master: China has a history of nearly five thousand years. In the process of continuous inheritance and development of human civilization,

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-06

I was once a confused person who didn’t understand Buddhism and didn’t know the cause and effect.After getting involved in Buddhism, I began to believe in cause and effect.And looking back, there have indeed been many examples of karma and retribution around me, some of which have been experienced by me personally, and some have been to me.

Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-06

Reciting Buddha's name and Guanyin can all eliminate disasters and difficulties.It is advisable to recite the Buddha's name more and less.When encountering difficulties, it is advisable to concentrate on chanting Guanyin.Because Guanyin has a very compassionate heart, it has a deep relationship with sentient beings in this place.If you cannot see that this statement is said, it means that the Buddha's compassion is not as good as Guanyin.It is important to know that Guanyin is the Buddha's name

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-05

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

There is this saying.For example, if you put Mengshan, you put Mengshan is a lay Buddhist at home. If you don’t understand, don’t be familiar with it, try not to do it, you can learn it.Some people just put the CD or the original tape at home to listen to it.Listen at home, some

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-04

This meaning is found in the Nirvana Sutra. In this sense, sentient beings have three lifetimes. How do they understand the three lifetimes?Three lives are this life, past life and future life.The past life includes it again, the past life after life, and the future life is the same, and it is constantly flowing.

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-03

When we find something that is not in accordance with the Dharma, I think it is not in accordance with the Dharma. If you think so, then he is him, I am me, and we will become a personal Buddha, do you understand?One year I was preaching in a place, and an old lady stood up: Master, my neighbor, received the Bodhisattva

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-03

These are the key points: how to chant Buddha's name and how to practice. They have the same theoretical basis. They are rational and diligent. These are the key points. In the process of chanting Buddha's name, you must have a very good understanding of the principles of Buddhism.

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-03

Nowadays, many people don’t choose cause and effect when they hear that “all things are empty”.This still does not really understand emptiness.If you only practice emptiness and not choose cause and effect, you will also practice bias.In emptiness, we must also practice all causes and effects.All dharmas are empty, and empty means nothing

Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-03

When a person is bored and entangled, you will be relieved for him, and that is the best gift.For a sentient being who drifts in the sea of ​​suffering of life and death, teaching him to chant Buddha is like giving him a lifebuoy and pulling him onto a Dharma boat. That is the most precious gift.In the Great Prajna Sutra

Han peopleTime: 2025-05-29

Only a person who knows how to die can truly develop the mind of life and death.From the cycle of reincarnation, we can never go to the cycle of reincarnation.When the Buddha was alive, there was a public gathering and a sixteen-year-old girl came.She is a textile worker

Han peopleTime: 2025-05-29

When the big chime sounds, you are alert to impermanence and will not come for a moment. Where can you come to the Buddhist temple? It is to test your own skills.Can you recite this sentence Amitabha?If you can't read it, there are still many people who can read it for you.If there are 300 people in the Buddhist temple, 299 people will be

Han peopleTime: 2025-05-28

《The Wide Lotus Treatise on Shakyamuni Buddha is written by the omniscient Mipham Rinpoche and translated by Sodakhi Khenpo.The crystallization of the profound wisdom of the omniscient Mipham Rinpoche is an unprecedented and complete work in the history of Buddhism that fully preaches the life and deeds of Sakyamuni Buddha.Complete

Buddhist knowledgeTime: 2025-05-28

《The Wide Lotus Treatise on Shakyamuni Buddha is written by the omniscient Mipham Rinpoche and translated by Sodakhi Khenpo.The crystallization of the profound wisdom of the omniscient Mipham Rinpoche is an unprecedented and complete work in the history of Buddhism that fully preaches the life and deeds of Sakyamuni Buddha.Complete

Buddhist knowledgeTime: 2025-05-27

Wang Bailing (1889—1942Year )，He was originally a powerful general, with science first and military strength high. He not only did not believe in Buddhism, but even opposed Buddhism, but he converted to Buddhism in middle age and became a devout Buddhist disciple and a powerful guardian of Dharma.This transformation has gone through

Buddhist knowledgeTime: 2025-05-26

Master Daxing (1899—1952Year )，The secular family surname is Yuan, from Dongtai County, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from Dongtai Normal School at the age of 23. His monk had an indirect relationship with Master Yin Guang.In the 11th year of the Republic of China (1922Year )In autumn, famous news reporter Ge Gongzhenxian

Buddhist knowledgeTime: 2025-05-25

Li Chuanshu, a teacher at Nanyang Middle School, took a detour on the road to learning Buddhism. Later, he met Master Yin Guang at Taiping Temple and embarked on the path of practicing Pure Land again.When Li Chuanshu was young, when his father recited sutras and Buddha's name, he often followed him to recite with him.

Buddhist knowledgeTime: 2025-05-25

Shuntaka Suzuki: The Third Part of the Original Aspiration of Zen Master 13: Everyone can be a Buddha when he is meditating, and we will attain Buddha nature, and each of us is a Buddha.I am very happy to be here on the day when the Buddha realized the truth under the Bodhi tree.In Bodhi

Being a personTime: 2025-05-24

If you are afraid of being restless at night.The terrifying person is in and out.Take white thread as a rope.The mantra is three or seven times.Make twenty-one conclusions.Department.Terror is eliminated.Not only terror.You can also eliminate sins."If you are afraid of night's anxiety": Suppose there is such a disease; what disease? If you are afraid of darkness, at night,

Master XuanhuaTime: 2025-05-23

When reciting the Buddha's name, there will be delusions and distracting thoughts. Is there any distracting thoughts due to karma? How should you stop the delusions or have no delusions? Master Mingzheng replied: Recite the Buddha's name with your mouth and think about the Buddha's name in your heart; or listen to the sound of your own chanting Buddha's name, this is called chanting Buddha's name with your mind. Do you focus on thinking about what distracting thoughts you have, and you know when you have distracting thoughts.

Han peopleTime: 2025-05-22

Master, when Amitabha Buddha chants the Buddha's name, is it okay to have ten chants and lotus flowers? There are very few delusions like this. Amitabha Buddha, thank you, the disciples, and the ten? Master Mingzheng's teachings: Yes, obviously you are using visualization, not listening to the sound of the Buddha's name. These are two different ways.

Han peopleTime: 2025-05-21

Can I burn the scriptures for all Buddhas? Someone told me that if I copy scriptures, I can burn the scriptures for tangible and intangible sentient beings, so that intangible sentient beings can have scriptures to read. Is this true? Master Mingzheng replied: All Buddhas do not need you to burn paper, nor do you need to burn scriptures. This is the most important thing.

Han peopleTime: 2025-05-21

Master, Amitabha.Every time I chant the Buddha's name, my heart is so sore and I want to cry. Please give me a lecture? Master Mingzheng's teaching: This is because you have offered to countless Buddhas before, and have planted all the good roots in countless Buddhas. They are not ordinary people, and we are not the same.

Han peopleTime: 2025-05-21

The good man asked: Master, can we read Buddhist scriptures with questions?Master Miaohua answered: This question is very big, involving the differences between Chinese and Western philosophy.Do you know?You are now learning Buddhism as a religion, and you can use it very rationally

Han peopleTime: 2025-05-20

Question: Reciting scriptures and chanting Buddha's name cannot be pure, and you always have delusions and distracting thoughts. Is it in vain to recite them? Master Da'an replied: No.It is normal for us to chant the Buddha's name without being pure: ordinary people and sentient beings have delusions and distinctions, so many Buddha's names are in the background of delusions.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-19

Question: I want to recite a sutra every day: "The Samantabhadra Practice and Vows" or "The Sutra of Amitabhadra".If I still can't understand the meaning of the scriptures in the Buddhist scriptures, do I have to understand it before I can recite this sutra? Master Da'an replied: It's normal not to understand it.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-18

Question: "The clear pearls are thrown into the turbid water, and the turbid water has to be clear.The Buddha's name is thrown into a chaotic mind, and the chaotic mind has to be Buddha" and "The mind is distracted and it is in vain to shout it out of your throat." How do you correctly understand it? Master Da'an: The previous verse is revealed by ancient sages.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-18

Question: When the patient is chanting, do you have to chant the Buddha's name quickly? Or do you chant slowly according to the speed of chanting the Buddha's name? How to flexibly grasp the speed of chanting the Buddha's name when the patient dies? Master Da'an replied: The speed of chanting the Buddha's name should be based on the patient's feelings.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-17

Question: Why is my head very tight and swelling when chanting the Buddha's name, and the more diligent I feel, the more uncomfortable I feel. Recently, all kinds of bad thoughts have occurred. Is it possessed? How to solve it? Master Da'an replied: It is normal for these situations to occur when chanting the Buddha's name.Because we are in Alaya consciousness

Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-17

There are many evil people in the world that we think are evil, but all evil people have their kind side, but they are evil in front of you.So what should we do to these evil people? We cannot repay violence with tooth, we cannot repay violence with violence

Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-17

Student: Master is merciful. I have a question for you. Last time, Master mentioned that there is a useful light and lotus thoughts. If I want to practice this part as a convenience to help you practice, can I say it? Because it is not easy for you to visualize it?

Han peopleTime: 2025-05-16

Question: I have some doubts about the various solemnities of the Western Paradise, and I always feel: Is there really such a place? I insist on chanting Amitabha Buddha every day, but I always have doubts about the Paradise. Is this kind of chanting useless? Master Da'an replied: You are more

Master Da'anTime: 2025-05-16

Xin 2. Transforming ruthless sounds and accumulating the resources of wisdom. The "Book of Sutra" talks about two causes and conditions: the first is the voice of sentient beings, the sound of Buddhism produced by a bird with clear nature; the following talks about the ruthlessness without clear nature, and it will also make sounds.Let's read the scriptures:

Han peopleTime: 2025-05-15

Amitabha Buddha said not to doubt. If you remember the Buddha with one mind, you will definitely be reborn in the Tang Dynasty monk Xuan of our country. He is a native of Bingzhou, Shanxi. He is a monk who practices diligently. He can fully understand all the sutras and treatises he has learned, and understands the Dharma and the practice of the body and mouth.

Time of enlightenmentTime: 2025-05-15

Ade Sutra: How to be a qualified lay Buddhist and who is chanting Buddha’s name?Buddhist culture has extremely important cultural characteristics in China, and there are also many sentient beings who have not become monks and practice Buddhism in their lives, which are called [Landits].Lay Buddhists also play an extremely important role in Buddhist culture

Time of enlightenmentTime: 2025-05-15

The earth is at the lowest point. We dig foundations and build buildings on the earth, plant trees and flowers on the earth... We can nourish the earth and destroy the earth, but it is the same for the earth.Whether it is to protect it or destroy it, the earth

Cause and effectTime: 2025-05-09

Some people are easily lost in poverty;Some people always want to make money, but they can’t make money even if they try their best;Some people make some money temporarily, but they quickly lose it and become a poor person... This is karma, it is in the past life

Cause and effectTime: 2025-05-09