BUDDHIST UNIVERSITY (PART 16)

Ten types of rebirth centered on samsara as follows :

First, the Buddha advised us to " verify the cause and effect", These four words are very good. Intelligence is not superstition. For the truth of truth, you have to make clear, thoroughly thorough, honest believe the cause and effect. Buddha said all business does not leave the cause, the world can not escape from cause and effect, Buddhism can not escape cause and effect. The absolute effect is not superstition, melon planted with melon, planted bean, it is causal. Cultivation can not be planted, melon planted bean, so the good manners are good results, evil people are certain to feel evil. But perhaps we will see that some phenomena in society do not seem to be compatible with what the Buddha taught, some who are evil, the good is suffering, the life is very miserable This does not seem to fit with the truth of the results of the Dharma that the Buddha taught.

So do not understand " faith causation"New born misunderstanding. Cause all three generations, this point we must definitely believe, must affirm. Any living being has past, present, and future lives. Cause all three generations, the previous life of good virtue, that is to grow good people, this life is rich and rich. What they enjoy is the blessing, the result is too great, even though this generates a lot of pitiful but the blessing is not yet fully enjoyed, so they continue to enjoy the blessing. But you have to know, in this life, they just enjoy the poor pardon, not to bless the great blessings will also quickly dissipate. The blessings can be so great that when they die, great blessings are still present, the crime has not yet appeared, but their next life is catastrophic, this we often see. Those are the great blessings, those who do not have such great blessings, they enjoy the blessing nor the blessing, but also create evil. In the past few years, the blessings will no longer exist, so long as they are called bankruptcy, the end of their lives is not guaranteed. In society, we have seen many of these phenomena.

For the blessing, lifelong life is very difficult due to past lives do not bless so now they have to bear retribution. Today they improve the good, good people, the future they are rich. Therefore, the rich and not the rich, the poor are not eternal poor. Naturalized for the very righteous, this life is blessed, the next life is guilty; The life of this life is blessed, the next life enjoy blessing, cause the results do not go wrong. When we understand the truth, communicate the truth, we must work hard efforts to improve the evil, ignore karma, karmic retribution in this life can show money, can enjoy. That is the intelligent people. So the four words " Wisdom of cause and effect " you honestly understand, to do will change their destiny.

Proverbs of the Ming dynasty had changed their own destiny. In his network no name, also called academic. He did not get a degree. The book is very good but the exam does not pass, because there is no such network. If the network is not good books but the exam also met a few known, they pass. Prophet Lieu Pham in the network does not have a high degree. His degree only came to the Baccalaureate, but eventually he obtained his doctorate, the highest degree. Because he evil tu tu, accrued merit that the bridge, the true " Buddhist meditation bridge to meet all" In his network he had no children but he prayed for his son. As a result, he gave birth to two sons, good and evil. In his life is not long, only about 53 years old. He does not demand life expectancy, but not long life expectancy, but the accretion of natural virtue he was increased life expectancy to more than seventy years.

In the network is not available but can be. Many people of the present world to the shrine to burn incense Buddha head to promote the development, when the need to be as the Buddha Bodhisattva is very spiritual. Actually in your network there, just in that year you have to spend money, you go begging also meet not the Buddha Bodhisattva protection. It is in the network there. Assuming that the Bodhisattva Buddha is so active, then every one who begs must be able to advance, one is promoted, one hundred people go begging, but only one person, and the other ninety-nine I do not believe in them. This must be a little head of our mind, do not be so mad fascination. Only the Buddha teaches us a person who begs a recipient, ten thousand people begged, ten thousand people received, can not be missed, It has a moral in it. So we must honestly believe in the cause and effect. Studying the Buddha must be cause and effect that begins.

I advise everyone to learn the Buddha, teach people from the " Liao Feng Tu Huan " that learn. I do not teach them to start from the textbook, which you first bring " Huan Feng Xihuan " read over three hundred times. Have a read-only period, at least once a day, in a year. You will believe, understand, explain, life has a change. Every day you have to read through a new useful. This philosophy is also in the teachings we have proposed, " An Intrinsic Path , ". Reading interruptions will not work.

In the days before the great master An Quang taught people, his teaching was so. The whole life of the whole heart full of initiative " Lieu Pham Tu Huan ", initiated " Touch Heaven ", and initiated " An Si Toan ". These three types are genuine repentance, teach us to cultivate the " Karma except the Karma " of Pride and Sorrow. You read the truth, true comprehension, truthful comprehension, then you deal with the material, your way of thinking will naturally switch back, will all the evil of all good. You do not have the strength of these three hundred variables, the evil consummation is very difficult to do, why? Evil is the gas from non-existence to now, do easily switch. Therefore, the " faithful cause and effect " of the Buddha, " Minh"Is extremely important. You must have wisdom, absolutely not superstition. After sincerely trusting cause and effect, you naturally will not push forward responsibility, will not say you create yourself is poor by other people. The things I did wrong and pushed on to others, this crime is extremely deep.

Today we see in the catastrophic society around the globe, they never say, " That's my responsibility ." Be mindful to think, for decades of living in this world, have you ever seen anyone blame themselves for earthquakes, yes or no? Not only did not see through, even heard not heard. Assuming that the majority of people are for him is the type of people, this natural harm has nothing to do with who, what excuse should take responsibility? Actually, it is our responsibility, especially the four disciples of our Buddha, at home, go out so. As monks, we are not like a monk, do not do good work of the monk to get caught up in the cataclysm of this world, it was not the Buddha said "Report by the transfer newspaper . Our reporters are not good so feel free to report the accident immediately, of course, our responsibility. At the Buddhist school is no exception. No matter how you go through life, from career to job, you are not at work in your career but the Bodhisattva. Studying Buddhism is nothing more than the practice of Bodhisattvas.

What is called Bodhisattva? Set a good example for all beings, the monk should be a good example for the monk; The housekeeper must set a good example for the lay person. You are the wife of the family is a good example for the wife in the family. You open the shop, the store should also be a good example for all shops, the heart of people, social justice, this newspaper will automatically convert. Disciple of the Bodhisattva Bodhisattva, do not comment from any career, must definitely develop the mind. We use the way of life, use our career to serve society. We offer social service, there is no greed, no fame, only service, that is the Bodhisattva. If it is a purpose, it is the mind of a man. Doing the same work, Bodhisattvas and ordinary people are not different, only the mind on the notion is not the same. A person for himself, a person for society, for beings.

The Singapore area is blessed with many Bodhisattvas. How do you know there are many Bodhisattvas? We are here to preach business Bodhisattva, you see a lot of Bodhisattvas to hear. But if you teach this area in other areas will not have many listeners. When the United States taught the sutras, there were a hundred listeners. Such conditions have been considered as winners. One time Shui Shui told me that he was invited to come to the United States by Princes Trinh. At that time he did not know what the US situation was so happy, leaving all that was in Singapore, immigrants to the United States. Immigration is also very convenient, immigrant invitations come right in the day, only half an hour is received. This case is very rare. He immigrated to the United States on the same day, teaching the French speaking at New York's pagoda, it is the colonial leader of the lay disciple Gia Thinh. That day, the Dharma Speaker gave more than fifty listeners. After the lecture, everyone complimented them, praising their charms for their attendance. Shakyamuni recounts: "I heard them say tears from down to the feet. I am in Singapore lectures there are thousands of people to hear, where only fifty people who have been the lawsuit is too fateful. I hurried back to Singapore, no green card in the United States anymore, "it's true

Today you speak the dhamma anywhere in the world, the number of people to listen to most only in Singapore or Taiwan. It is not easy to maintain the number of listeners every day. Occasionally speaking once, there will be several thousand people come to participate, the atmosphere is busy, busy, every day to lecture will not be so exciting. People come to hear every day is the new real Bodhisattva, want to come to learn Bodhisattvas, practice the Bodhisattva. In this place, I stop teaching ten years. In the past ten years, audiences have grown without decreasing, more than a few people each year. So I say there are many Bodhisattvas.

Second, " self-reproach" Bodhisattva true self ashamed, blamed themselves themselves not good to bring new beings suffering suffering, making the world so many catastrophes. To blame yourself, to strive hard to cultivate the practice, so this remorse is a great motivation for yourself, to promote yourself diligently, evil cultivate. Workers need to work with fame force motivational, you can make a lot of money, because the money that risky, when the economic downturn, money immediately deficit. Difficult to earn much, suddenly no longer. However, if the emitted Bodhi mind, because the society, because the public that work hard, they will forever not be wasted, forever diligent, forever upward, true generous merit great virtue. , fruit can not think the table. The same reason,

Third, the Buddha reminds us of " evil fears" Those are three evil lines that business has said, evil way easy to step in, difficult to step out. Three evil lines caused by which cause? The Buddha tells us, the hungry ghosts due to greed, the heart of grave lust in the demon; the hell of anger; Livestock by dense mind. The mind is foolishness for the righteous, true, good and evil, harm is not clear, dreamed of a lake, it is foolish. This good and bad people in this world are not clear, the good things are not good, always do crazy things, retribution will be in the animal. Some say that the livelihoods seem to be short life expectancy, which is not easy to escape from the livestock. In fact, livestock have some short life cycles but also have very long lifespans. Despite their short life, they are not easy to escape. The animal is so ignorant that it attaches to the form that it is, After death, it is still possible to return to the animal. This will be very troublesome, for example on Buddhist scriptures tell a story.

In the past when Shakyamuni Buddha remained in the world, Yin Qi Xa has a few works, when the construction saw a hole in the ground. The Buddha immediately smiled, the students follow the Buddha asked: " Why do you smile these ants? "Buddha replied:" Ant colonies fool, seven Buddhas that it has not escaped from the body . " A Buddha to the loss of three a rise in life, let alone the seven Buddhas, twenty years after a rise, but it is still ants, when the dead and reborn still do ants, eternal life Life can not change one body. So the animal is not easy to escape the animal body.

The longevity of the long demon, the Buddhist scriptures say, one day in the demon realm a month in our human. The lifespan of the demon world is the same as our humanity. One year three hundred and sixty days, twelve months, but remember one day is a month of our humanity. Their longevity, the network also takes a thousand years, the network is thousands of thousand years old, is scary? You fall into the way the devil can always be. If you count thousands of years later you can exit. Those days are miserable. In the realm of the devil you can not see the sun. The sun, the moon, the three are not visible, the sky is always dark. We do not see the sun was very uncomfortable, let alone in the demon realm to bear ten thousand not see the sun, Think of those dates as miserable? Devil life is terrible. So in the three paths, the demon realm called the map, the animal is called blood plasma. The dead animals are not eating well, blood flowing to eat each other, animals do not die still, large children eat baby. Why the devil called the map? Dao is often used to kill people, their minds are often insecure, always live in terrible. Hell called fire, a sea of ​​fire. Buddhist scriptures have different ways of speaking about the longevity of hell but it is not true that the Buddha is wrong. The difference in longevity is because of the different types of hell, there are some very long lifetimes in hell, but there are also some of the hardships in hell that are relatively light, so the life expectancy is a bit shorter. Livestock is called blood plasma. The dead animals are not eating well, blood flowing to eat each other, animals do not die still, large children eat baby. Why the devil called the map? Dao is often used to kill people, their minds are often insecure, always live in terrible. Hell called fire, a sea of ​​fire. Buddhist scriptures have different ways of speaking about the longevity of hell but it is not true that the Buddha is wrong. The difference in longevity is because of the different types of hell, there are some very long lifetimes in hell, but there are also some of the hardships in hell that are relatively light, so the life expectancy is a bit shorter. Livestock is called blood plasma. The dead animals are not eating well, blood flowing to eat each other, animals do not die still, large children eat baby. Why the devil called the map? Dao is often used to kill people, their minds are often insecure, always live in terrible. Hell called fire, a sea of ​​fire. Buddhist scriptures have different ways of speaking about the longevity of hell but it is not true that the Buddha is wrong. The difference in longevity is because of the different types of hell, there are some very long lifetimes in hell, but there are also some of the hardships in hell that are relatively light, so the life expectancy is a bit shorter. Their mind and body are often insecure, always living in horror. Hell called fire, a sea of ​​fire. Buddhist scriptures have different ways of speaking about the longevity of hell but it is not true that the Buddha is wrong. The difference in longevity is because of the different types of hell, there are some very long lifetimes in hell, but there are also some of the hardships in hell that are relatively light, so the life expectancy is a bit shorter. Their mind and body are often insecure, always living in horror. Hell called fire, a sea of ​​fire. Buddhist scriptures have different ways of speaking about the longevity of hell but it is not true that the Buddha is wrong. The difference in longevity is because of the different types of hell, there are some very long lifetimes in hell, but there are also some of the hardships in hell that are relatively light, so the life expectancy is a bit shorter.

So we base on the Sutra to know in hell road, one day is two thousand seven hundred years in the human. The country we live in is called the ancient civilized country has a history of five thousand years, but for the hell is less than two days. Buddhist scriptures, hell is also counted as one year three hundred and sixty days, but one day they are longer than two thousand seven hundred years us. Their life is also ten thousand years old, longevity to the age of ten thousand, very terrible. So every hour every minute must be high alert, should not create karmic career, the three lines can not create. Buddha said in the ten negative karma, the most serious is the hell, next to the hungry ghost, the lightest to the animal.

Ten negative karma, body created killing, theft, adultery; mouth create lie, say two-dimensional, said embroidered with sweet words delicate heart, said rude; greedy greed. Assuming that every day create ten kinds of karma, your money does not need to ask other people, certain to three evil lines. So the more frightening we think, we definitely do not do this, not only do we not suffer the three evil lines that three paths in the six realms, we also do not need, why? Because there is no end. You want to cultivate blessing blessing, the next life is blessed person, the beneficiary blessing rare people have mindfulness, rare people do not love, so your blessings enjoy. This time people have a lot of blessings, we also have the opportunity to meet. They enjoy the poor blessings, want to help them that can not help. You are advised, They do not want you to say anymore, so there is no way. They still depend on the temperament, their karma, through the life of craving desire, consuming the blessings of the past life was cultivated. Then came three evil lines to confront. Only that, we see how pitiful but no way to save, so definitely must keep the mind "Frightening the evil road ".

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