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Master Dayuan: Zen and Charity—How to sow the seeds of thousands of wealth

Zen and Charity - How to sow the seeds of thousands of wealth (one )Source: Zen Culture Author: Master Dayuan Time: 2011-06-04 People have three kinds of life: physical life, spiritual life and spiritual life.The life of the flesh needs calories to nourish;

Han peopleTime: 2025-07-08

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

Master Da'an: How to educate children about Buddhism

Question: How can a disciple educate his children in Buddhism and let parents who do not believe in Buddhism be misunderstood as indoctrinating religious consciousness in their children? Master Da'an replied: As a teacher in the preschool class, out of compassion, he should first do the Tao to the children in the class.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-05

Question: A person’s destiny is destined, and reciting the Buddha’s name can change his destiny.But some people have some supernatural powers and witches. They can really change their destiny. As Buddhist disciples, how can they defeat the spells imposed by the witches and grasp their own destiny? Destiny is destined.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-04

Question: Master, how can you develop true and unfair compassion? Master Da'an replied: Compassion is the seed of becoming a Buddha. This heart of great compassion without cause and great compassion with one body is a sentiment that sublimates from emptiness. It is not easy to be true and unfair.I am not able to prove it

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-04

Question: Master is compassionate. What kind of convenience is used by lay people who are busy with life and want to practice, and there are also sequential methods to practice Buddhism. Please give me advice?Master Yanci replied: When busy people practice, they should recite the Buddha's name more often.The Amitabha Sutra says: Buddha

Han peopleTime: 2025-07-03

Question: How to keep reciting the Buddha's name to concentration? Master Da'an replied: When we know that the merits of Amitabha Buddha are incredible, it is good to recite the Buddha's name every day, but it is normal to have delusions, distracting thoughts, troubles, and interference every day.Ordinary people have delusions

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-03

Home-based people should understand the method of managing the family and do their own role. People are members of the family and families are the prototype of society. If you want a prosperous country and a peaceful people and purify society, you must start with the family;To make the empty courtyard happy, you must start by yourself.People in society

Han peopleTime: 2025-07-02

How to choose the golden cicada son Bodhi, the golden cicada son is a type of star and moon Bodhi, but it is harder than the star and moon Bodhi.Because each grain is like a golden toad, it is called Jin Cicadazi.It can be used to make Buddhist beads, single or several pieces of pallets to make pendants, which can gather wisdom in the house and bring people luck and peace.

Collect knowledgeTime: 2025-07-02

Question: Under the influence of daily busy work, life and various concerns, what level should those of us who are "poor" in life have to reach the level of faith and wish of chanting Buddha's name to be considered to be a deep faith and sincere wish? Please give me compassion.Master Da'an replied: I am convinced and sincerely wish to achieve

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-02

Question: I like to study the scriptures and teachings, but I can’t put down the volumes and enjoy it with relish;When reciting the name of Buddha, it is either drowsy or restless. What is the reason for this phenomenon?How to deal with it?Master Da'an replied: Most cultural people who study Buddhism are happy to study doctrines, and they always want to learn from the scriptures.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-02

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." How do the master correctly understand it? Master Da'an replied: The previous verse was revealed by ancient sages

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-02

The second lesson on understanding the Dharma body. We talked about entering the Great Light Garland of Supernatural Powers, Samadhi Right Reception, and All Tathagata Light Garcinia Abbot. This is the state of liberation that is described. It is difficult for us to guess the so-called state of liberation, because we are troubled sentient beings and do not know what it is.

Han peopleTime: 2025-07-01

Question: Some people also chant Buddha's name, but they still eat chicken, duck, fish and meat. How should they solve it? Master Da'an replied: First of all, don't set the threshold too high.He has just learned Buddhism, and as long as he is willing to chant Buddha's name, you must praise him.You can't say, "If you recite the Buddha's name, you can't

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-01

Eliminating karma is also an important subject in Buddhism, but we must have a basic understanding: that is, the evil karma we have committed over countless kalpas, and if this evil karma is large, it cannot be accommodated in the entire void.This is in the "Samuhadravatae's Practice and Vows"

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-01

Question: Do you have any bad thoughts in your heart? Are you guilty? How to suppress them? I have many lustful thoughts, which arise unconsciously. What can I do to cure them? Master Da'an replied: We have all kinds of delusions and distracting thoughts in our hearts, and these delusions are more lustful thoughts.

Master Da'anTime: 2025-07-01

Hello, Amitabha!Today I will share with you: How to repay kindness.Every life comes to the world and cannot be separated from their own parents’ causes and conditions.Only with your own parents’ causes and conditions can we have the opportunity to listen to the Dharma and enable our lives to grow up well and healthily.exist

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-30

Question 39: "Recently, several 'high monks' appeared on the streets of Texas, and 'high monks' sold Buddhist accessories to passers-by.However, these people are not masters, but big liars under the guise of "high monks".After verification, this 'monk' king

Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-30

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

Worshiping Buddha has the meaning of repenting sins, practicing meditation and gratitude. By worshiping Buddha, expressing respect and gratitude to the Three Jewels of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, and reviewing oneself and repenting the karma created in the past, not only helps improve one's personality, but also can make people's body and mind calm.so,

Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-06-29

What the Buddha said about suffering is great suffering.Get rid of the pain of life and death.It’s not that you are suffering from small suffering. It’s best that the Buddha does not teach us to escape karma and not receive karma.Everyone has karma, and it is normal for setbacks to fail. This is a small suffering.Six realms of reincarnation, falling into the three evils

Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-29

Chapter 5: Good words are good to protect your mouth and karma. Words are important tools for communication between people. The so-called "a good word warms up in three winters, and a bad word hurts people in six months." Speaking good words can make people happy; speaking bad words can not only make people feel annoyed, but also have to suffer from evil karma.There are four types of mouth: two

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-25

Chapter 3 Holographic Network Most people often have a wrong idea, believing that if they do not directly engage in something, they will not have to bear any responsibility. In fact, from a broad perspective, the entire society or even the entire world is one, and everyone and it

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-25

If you want to know the causes of the previous life, you will receive them in this life.If you want to know the fruits of the next life, the author of this life is.People always say that the suffering, happiness and misfortune enjoyed in this life are fate, but don’t they know that it is the consequence of good and evil done in their previous life.There is no way to good fortune and fortune, only people can call you.The reward of good and evil is like a shadow.If everyone

Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-25

How to subdue jealousy?How should this jealousy be subdued?To subdue jealousy, one must cultivate the heart of rejoicing. The "Samortificate of Practice and Vows" contains the merits of rejoicing.Rejoice means that others should be happy with all their achievements or blessings, merits and even good things that they have achieved.

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-24

How to relieve an anxiety and stress of a person?In fact, in modern society, in a world where material civilization is highly developed but social pressure is heavy, everyone may not live easily.But if we can do it outside of work,

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-24

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

Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-06-24

Answer: There is no reasonable or unreasonable problem. As long as you have a pure mind and do your best to release animals.Don’t give or give to the top and bottom with a utilitarian attitude.For example, would it be better to spend 2,000 yuan to release a yak, or would it be better to spend the same amount of money to release a 100 fish?

Release Q&ATime: 2025-06-23

The necessity of learning Buddhism: How to recognize the truth of life and achieve ultimate happiness and goals - Master’s teachings to Amitabha during the National Day meditation in 2010, good afternoon everyone! Let’s take some time in the afternoon to analyze the necessity of learning Buddhism.this time

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-21

Knowing oneself - How to understand life and life, Master Xiao, lecture at Peking University on November 24, 2010, I am very happy to have this opportunity to communicate with you. I feel very ashamed because I am quite confused and cannot understand the Buddhist meaning until now.but

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-21

It's so special! I donated so much to build a temple. I must donate more than her, and the merits are greater than her.On such a grand day today, you must burn incense.There are so many great masters who must sit next to them to receive blessings.This teacher

Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-06-18

How Buddhism strengthens its own construction and contributes to economic and social development—Read the spirit of the 17th National Congress of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in Huayan Temple in Chongqing, the successful convening of the 17th National Congress of the Central Committee of the Central Committee marked that under the leadership of a new generation of national leadership, China still adheres to the four basic principles

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-17

The Bodhi Seed is a very artistic name for the Bodhi Seed.Stars, moons, and Bodhi can bring people to the depths of the ethereal world at once. Wearing a Buddha bead of Stars, Moons, Bodhi, will feel light and refreshing, and will isolate your mind from the body and the downtown area.How to choose

Buddhist bead materialTime: 2025-06-16

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

Mysterious phenomena are not necessarily only religious, but also people who do not believe in religion, but they treat mysterious phenomena as hallucinations.As for the phenomenon of ghosts and gods, people are still very confused and unknowable and unpredictable. They think that they are nothing, but they actually have it.

Buddha statue cultureTime: 2025-06-13

Meditation can better understand ourselves by understanding what Zen is first.If you come here to participate in meditation, you will definitely want to understand meditation. So what is Zen in your mind? One hundred people may have a hundred and one expression.In Buddhism, we call Zen meditation

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-10

Some people may say that if you don’t sweep the snails by the river, you may not necessarily be picked up, and it doesn’t make much sense.But I believe that doing this is not wrong at least, and it will definitely allow sentient beings to enjoy safety and benefit.Work hard and uninterruptedly, so

Release GuideTime: 2025-06-09

01Before Bailu Festival, he will die in a sudden disaster.There was once a young man whose family was extremely poor and often put them in a pot for a few days without rice.That year, he was going to Beijing to take the exam, but a fortune teller on the street who had a very accurate fortune telling told him that he would be subjected to the White Lu Festival before the Bailu Festival.

Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-09

1) Killing. Killing is the first priority in all behaviors. You can buy meat and eat it, but you cannot buy live food to kill and cook. Cook it to death by 1 life, and cut the fortune to 20 good things.Even insects and ants cannot be hurt. If you educate your children not to kill insects and ants when you are young, your blessing will not be

Cause and effectTime: 2025-06-09

After we practice, some people have a strong sense of hatred, and we dedicate the merits of our practice to that person.Is it the merit obtained by the spiritual consciousness, or is it the merit obtained by the physical body?What is the relationship between spiritual consciousness and physical body?Let’s first talk about the fact that hatred is very strong, what is hatred?

Han peopleTime: 2025-06-05

How to identify rosewood. Today's rosewood market has many rosewood products, which are very popular, and are often filled with many bad merchants, using inferior products to deceive customers.Therefore, customers need to understand the method of identifying rosewood

Collect knowledgeTime: 2025-06-05

Question: How to let go of worries? Answer: In life, worries are always inevitable. Some worries are easy to let go, some worries cannot be let go for a while, and some worries are not easy to let go. This is very normal.Think about ways to "accept, deal with, let go" it, but don't

Han peopleTime: 2025-05-30

How to buy agarwood hand beads. After purchasing agarwood, many people like to use wooden methods such as agarwood hand beads to achieve a bright and smooth effect and have certain ornamental value.So how to buy agarwood hand beads? For ordinary people,

Collect knowledgeTime: 2025-05-25

How can I find the eighth consciousness when I bow to my master?How do the sixth consciousness learn from the eighth consciousness?How does the sixth consciousness change to the eighth consciousness? Thank you Master?Master Mingzheng’s teachings: It means how to be enlightened. There are five conditions for enlightenment, one must be missing. First, enlightenment must be enlightened.

Han peopleTime: 2025-05-23

How to maintain natural agarwood bracelets? Agarwood is regarded as the king of incense and is ranked first among the "Shentan Dragon Musk". Its special fragrance cannot be synthesized today when science is developed.Feeling it carefully, you will feel that the fragrance of agarwood cannot find a contrast in daily life, but

Collect knowledgeTime: 2025-05-23

Recently I saw a post about a fellow practitioner describing the apnea during Vajra chanting and triggering the "kundalini".First of all, I rejoice in my senior brother’s diligence in his practice!Secondly, based on the experiences and classic explanations of the last lesson, let me talk about my views on this, and let me introduce my eyes to fellow practitioners for reference.(1)

Talk about Buddha's Zen and enlightenment of lifeTime: 2025-05-23

Please give me a message to you, how can I let my child enter the Buddhist temple to recite scriptures, or listen to the Dharma? Master Mingzheng said: If a child can be born in the house of a lay Buddhist, most of the children have made a vow before he died, wishing that I will be born in the Buddhist world for generations to study.

Han peopleTime: 2025-05-22

Can you please teach the Master again the method of kung fu to achieve success? Master Mingzheng taught: This method is very simple, so simple that it cannot be simple. The question is whether you are willing to practice this simple method because people are quite annoying. They always want to make a fortune and are unwilling to be lonely. Wow,

Han peopleTime: 2025-05-22

How should we understand the nature of hearing? Master Mingzheng said: What does hearing mean? The hearing of news has two meanings in Chinese. Originally, this hearing was heard and witnessed by hearing, so it has one word, and there is an ear in it. Now the people say it in spoken language, you can hear it.

Han peopleTime: 2025-05-22

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