MAINTAINING THE VOLUNTEERS (PART 20)

May Fifth, "Suit of merit"

First, recognize what " merit " is. This place can not be ambiguous. We see in many parsons there is a box on the top of the " Box of merit"He immediately said that he just put money into it will have merit. So wrong, there is no merit at all. Chinese martial art chef is famous as a Buddhist monk, is the legal guardian of the Buddha. When he was in office, he created four hundred and eighty monasteries, today we call monasteries, scale is very large. He always encourages people to go home, see the monk is very happy. So he leveled them several hundred thousand, he himself felt arrogant when doing such great merit. At this time, Bodhidharma, meditation master, came to China. He heard that the king of China to protect the French so naturally have to worship. Venerable Wu is also very happy to welcome the rising monk from India. At the meeting, Luong Vo De told the master of the merits of his protector. After saying this,Is my merit great? " Dat Ma honest answer: " No merit ." Salute Vo listen, then the heart is not happy. After that, Luong Vo De not defend him, making him to Shaolin Temple turned nine years wall, to a Huey.

Are the words of the dharma teacher right? It's correct. Merit and merit are not the same. Suppose Luong Vo De asked: "My merit is big? ", The devotee said," It is great! so big! He is blessed too great . " Blessing and merit are clearly different. The virtue must be self-cultivation. We give a simple example, the morality has merits, the public that you maintain the precept is elaborate, you maintain the elaborate world. Determined is virtue. For the public is the virtue, virtue is the result, you are destined to call new merit. If you keep the rules very well, very serious, but can not be determined, then your morality is just blessed, not work. You do not have elaborate precepts only be blessed. Human boundaries, the new law is called meticulous.

Why is there a morality set, and some morons can not be determined? Due to legal or not legal. Studying the law has merit, tu tu tu not legal merit. This point, fellow initiates, not at home, must be thorough. Therefore, it must be legal, because the new method is compatible.

The great monk Huỳnh, in particular, teaches the precepts, telling us, " If you are the right man, do not see the world ." Our rule of law is very good, see that other people do not abstain from the contempt for contempt, despise, and yourself to pay high tribute. What is the effect of such exclusion? People are precepts are determined, from the wisdom of wisdom; I have to pay tribute to the high water, what to do elaborately.

But is the morality good? Good. The morality that brings blessings, is the blessed monk in the six worlds. I do not say good-natured blessings, I say good-looking blessings in six lines. Why? Although they are not human body but only the animal body, the demon body also enjoy the blessing. You see the livestock, if there are great blessings are still loving care, how can we human beings can equal. There are pets that the whole family down, see it as a pension, while we do not care. That kind of animal that was formerly blessed should be so.

Merit in the demon realm is not small. We see many people in China worship these spirits. The residence of the Lam seems to have a shrine Dai Ba Cong, which is the demon realm of blessings. The gods, the land, the royal city is the ghost realms have been blessed should be in the realm of blessed.

So the Buddha must teach us to merit merit. In the virtue of virtue there is merit. In merit without merit. How should virtue be cultivated? This is the first business that the Buddha had spoken for forty-nine years. Huayen thread is still next to this business. The theme of " Pureness, Equality, Enlightenment ", or in other words, our study should correspond to " Pure, Equality, Enlightenment", That is the merit. We maintain the precepts, even in the world of pure mind, mind equality, then our world has merit. Mind is pure, determined to have public, intellectual disclosure is the virtue. If you can not declare wisdom, that is just a blessing. But you should know, the blessings of the blessing of the gender is not the same. Phuoc's concentration is much bigger.

Blessed by the three sexes are entitled, only hell is not entitled. The blessings of the do not in the evil, at least from the sky Da. You can not in the intellectual development, the blessings from heaven to Da Ma heaven to heaven non-thinking non-ideal land is the blessing of the. It is fortune that is blessed, not merit. Intention to merit intellectual disclosure. Declaration of wisdom is transcendent of the three worlds, the elimination of samsara, that is the tu had merit. So we have to understand the merit clearly clear, thoroughly thorough.

We see that people who practice virtue often arise the idea of ​​jealousy; Seeing other people better than me immediately uncomfortable, frustrated, think of all the way obstacles, even think of sabotage, this sin is so great.

Bodhisattva merit merit

Bodhisattva market right in the society, young men and women. What they do is often called social charity. But the Bodhisattva with the world we do social charity is a bit different. The meticulous observation can understand. Bodhisattvas do charity work, finally definitely help them to disenchantment enlightenment, that is the merit. If only charity work, do not teach them enlightenment enlightenment, then belong to the merit.

Why, for beings, first have to use charitable relief to help? It is the Four Freedoms, a means of living sentient beings of the Buddha. In the business, the Buddha also teaches us "Prophecy of profit, post-spiritual Buddha". You see the Buddha is compassionate to the peak. You try to tell the world to study Buddha, they will shake head not come; But you invite them to eat rice, they are very happy immediately accept the word. Having eaten rice, you just told them to study the Buddha, so it's easier, because receiving the gift then, not listening will be very difficult. So the Buddha used this kind of charity: generous, loving speech, companion, profit are all to life beings. Then tell them the truth of the cosmic universe, the true nature of ourselves and the circumstances of our life. When they understand the truth, they will turn to the shore.

If accepting the generals that do, so is still the blessing. If you leave the general, not the general, the third can not do, that is to benefit the welfare of the merits. By humanity is determined, is the merit of his own learning. These two types of merit will be envious, obstacles. So when we have to have intellectual knowledge of high degrees, must have clever means. Our status as low as possible, treat any person as critique, destroyer, sabotage us, we must also use the heart of reverence treat them, make them gradually moving, can turn enlightened head. We bring the destiny turned into good grace, turn the evil work turned into genuine merit, which is called custom. We must do it ourselves; Become a good example can teach beings.

Today, everywhere in the world, wherever we go, we have a total goal, the total direction, "Learning the Sphinx, the Divine Action." All the Mahayana Dharma are no more than these two sentences. He is exemplary, absolutely not about the monk. Every house practitioner has to be an accomplice. In the present work, in the present life must be a good example for the public, that is the penalist. The Bodhisattva Buddhas are the best example for all sentient beings. We must understand this.

In the past, I said, someone asked me, parents are very difficult to supervise children. Children do not listen to parents, students do not listen to the teacher, workers do not listen to the boss, it is a serious problem in society. The world is full of intelligent leaders, many academics and religious leaders are looking for ways to solve today's social problems. Where did the mistake come from? Last year, I went to the Beijing Normal University, seeing that there were eight words in the school: " Learning from the Sphinx, the Body of the Faith, " because of the short time in school. . The ancient Chinese patriarch taught us "to act, to work, to work ," so when I saw these eight words immediately associated. Confucius teaches us "the military spending, the expenditure itself, the chi masters ", we can not understand in a narrow sense. With this statement, thinking that Confucius expects the leader of the nation, unrelated to ordinary people like us, so wrong. The teachings of Confucianism and the Buddha are for all beings, not class, male and female, young and old; no occupation.

What is force? Be a good leader, kind; For their subordinates to sincere care, sincere love, sincerely direct them. You are a good leader and must be a relative. Use the mind of parents love lower level. In ancient China, the head of the local government called the patriarch. At present, the democratic era is called the servant of the people. Tu tuanh is the master, the servant. Relative boss, servants at times also deceive the owner. This way of calling does not show true honesty to you. But parents who love children do not have conditions. So we still hope the mandarins are our parents, not our servants. The servants are so untrustworthy, parents are much more reliable than servants. Leaders must be relatives, bring the mind of parents.

No matter how our status today, even a low-level worker must do these three conditions. Without this position, there is no place for these three types of mind to influence our own colleagues, affect our friends and acquaintances, and then expand our social, People can develop "mind , body, work, " this is called sincerity as the merit. Benefit for people, the virtue of interests do have obstacles? Not only do not have obstacles, but also resolve the whole force of gratitude to help the general public to develop together, bringing the true benefits society.

The good of evil world too much, why the Buddha specifically stated "the harmony of merit"? Because the Buddhist mind disturbance of the gas of all beings accumulated from countless lives. Each and every one of them has a greedy temperament from birth, no need to teach. You keep a close eye on children. How many months old babies do not speak, put two children of the same age. A child has candy eat, the other does not, the jealous minds emerge, they compete with each other. You see who teaches them. Rewrite the merit of the heart is the arrogant mind, jealousy, especially jealousy. Chastity arrogant creation is extremely poor, but if the middle of a thought of conversion, immediately turn into immeasurable merit. The Buddha is different in this place. Beings can not be transferred, depending on the negativity rolling in birth six realms. And the Buddhas Bodhisattva in about a concept of transformation, achievement of immeasurable merit. So we have to learn to move, transfer is very fast. After the transfer, then the merit of great merit, you just how much virtue, not necessarily different. Absolutely can not say this man meritorious merit, their merits are great, I just like the little virtue. There is no such thing.

People are suffering miserably, you just as well as the merit as big as them. So how much benefit do you see? The Buddha taught us the merits of Amitabha Buddha transformed into his own merit. How to move? Y according to this business that study. The Buddha taught us to live, to recite, because the speaker spoke. You just need to do these three sentences, then transfer the merit from the countless lives of Amitabha Buddha to the merits of his own. At the same time we teach, we share the same spirit, volunteering, the same virtue, with the Buddha Amitabha Buddha, his merit transformed into his own merit, which is the most intelligent . If you practice the merits of Amitabha Buddha only rely on yourself, then you have to cultivate in what lifetime? We in the short decades of life, just understand the moral, understand this method, The practice of the Buddha for a number of years with Amitabha Buddha practiced countless hours. Huayen says "birth anniversary dung ", we can come true. So do not despise missed opportunities, definitely take this opportunity, a lifetime of accomplishment merit fullness.

The Lord Ly Moc Nguyen build the colon, inviting the magician to know how much power. That is his merit. Today we come here gladly, so his full virtue, we all get. You introduce your dear friends to hear the business, is also you take advantage of the director, take advantage of this charm of the layman Li Jiao that the degree of being a Buddha, you say your merits are great are not? They may live a single life can be spiritual education, can be reborn or not, that is another matter, nothing, just go to the director, see the Buddha statue, listen to a sentence two, " once Listen to the ear, forever planted good . Seeds of permanent ginkgo will not decay, there will be encountered on the current condition, the future they recite Buddha will rebirth Buddha.

May Friday, "Divert the wheel"

Many initiates profoundly felt their karma severely, accidentally. Nobody thinks of a way to kill karma? how to avoid crashes? Then to the Buddha's door, the shrine gods incense, worship the Buddha and god protect. Can you do this? We must observe calmly. How many people can pray? The bridge is not, people still come to the bridge busy. Even know the bridge is not expected but still go, but better than the bridge. They kept embracing the psychology of sewing.

The word of the Buddha said no hope, that "the Buddha meditation, meet all the requirements ", that is not true, there is a need to meet. You can find the Buddha can reach, this is the hardest part of the world. Buddha, but also other things are just trivial things, there is something that can not be. But the Buddha taught us to pray is to teach us as the law that the bridge, you can achieve. Your expectations must be legitimate. If it is not reasonable, not legal, you definitely do not need. The law of causality is what the Buddha teaches us. You have to cultivate, then the new karmic results. Conversion of the wheel to resolve these views.

Our lectures are not just about the audience. People are sitting in front of the TV screen, because these tapes are brought to the satellite TV station for broadcast. TV stations require our content to be beautiful. They have told me so many times, to find art experts who draw screen backgrounds. I think behind us only a few flowers, the scene is not so good. This morning, I went to the flower shop to see and choose these plants. The meaning of the tree is very deep. Feeling is life, founding. To set up the director, to set up Buddhism, to establish the birth of the universe. Flowers, I especially choose the national flower of Singapore. Yes, I picked the pomegranate. Good pomegranate, many seeds, are the expression. There are trees, flowers, fruit, behind hanging stars by accident. Very good. There are Buddhas, there are books, full of Three Jewels, we do not need to spend a bit of strength, to ask people to draw context. Flower sellers are also very enthusiastic, each week they will change once in about five years. As the air conditioner blows, these plants can be more dynamic, lively than canvas.

Often we do not see the audience, we do not know how much. When it was broadcast in the United States, fellow initiates in the United States told me, there were twenty thousand people signaling. This number is constantly increasing. So TV stations require us to use state-of-the-art machines to produce the best data. Everything we meet, hoping to reach their standards. Penthouse is currently installed, four sides are soundproof, under the carpet. Lay practitioners always hope that every fellow practitioner goes to the lecture hall to sit for two hours to enjoy, to comfortably discuss Buddhist teachings and teach sutras.

In short, " turning the wheel " is the method of earning the most victims. Do any merit to dispose of the disaster is not equal to invite the Buddhist teaching, acting Buddha Dharma. The listener happy mind, the birth of enlightened mind. Enlightenment, the new genuine accident can be eliminated. Inadvertently, there is an accident. Where did the karma come from? from mesmerizing, crazy out; From false thoughts, wrong interpretations, false acts of ours arise. So you have to bring the notion of converting into right view is the right view of karma accident beginningless lifetimes can be neutered, have such merit, " sometimes turning of the wheel"Will be very big, very deep meaning. If we alone can not find the shaman, we can associate some practitioners to gather forces, everyone together, the merit is the same, the win is not equal. Teaching the sermon influence the larger the merit will be as large; The deeper the influence, the deeper the virtue.

Today, in every society, every area, city, town, many people view Buddhism as a religion, it is a great misunderstanding. We are the same people, especially those who have been exposed to Buddhism, first have to correct this misconception, then can introduce Buddhism to them. If you do not edit, then you have the wrong start, then continue to false to the same. This we can not ignore. So the transformation of everyone's mistakes is boundless merit, we must definitely think of its profound influence. Where are the big influences? The more the colonists in the Buddha's house, the more they hear, the more the influence of misconceptions is not strong enough.

In place for the Buddhist dharma thought, because all beings that worry, our minds will grow. Bhagavan is special because we show in the Great Hall of the United States Buddhist Sutra. Another week we will start this sutra. This scripture is not required to teach the Bodhisattva, although participating in the Huayen conference is forty-one legal dharmas, or in other words not beings in ten legal world, not even Bodhisattvas in the legal world. Buddha in the ten world, if according to the way of Tiantai, is the Buddha of Buddhism, the Buddha of the doctrine, not out of ten legal world. Teachings, transcendental teachings are not because the Bodhisattva, not because the barbarians prune, so why? Because ordinary people and beings.

We are ordinary beings, are beings so we have. However, one must satisfy one condition, that is, the ordinary mind. The psychoanalyst is not small but must be large. How big? Of course, it must be as big as the Buddha, the mind of the Buddha is not over all the legal world. If we have such a great volume, the Flower Adornment just touched the fullness, true no less lack of any. Flower Sutra teaches contemporary mind ordinary Currencies experiencing the life of the Buddhist Bodhisattva, a life of ultimate perfection, are also three types of truth that the Infinite Life Sutra said " the true currency," " The true wisdom, "the" true wisdom benefits ". The three types of true money do not have to wait until the time, that is the real interest.

As you may know, inviting lecturers to teach business is extremely important. Today's society, because people do not recognize the Buddha, do not understand the Buddha Dharma, said that there are many types of Buddhist scriptures can help drain the disaster, that is serious misunderstanding. Are Buddhist ritual episodes effective or not? Yes, but you have to know what it means to be effective. Understanding the meaning of it, only on the form and not get any effect. Y in the form to do is not. For example meditation, the past great virtuous monk, when the study came to study, teacher, senior monk did not say anything, only give a finger. Those who come to school have seen the enlightenment, the results. Now, if someone else asks, Can we give a finger? Can they be enlightened? Not just enlightenment but also fascinated crazy. So there can not be only movement, but what type of people they are.

In the past, their rituals were effective, and now we follow these rituals that are ineffective. So our flat in the Buddhist rules only initiated two early evening chanting course, lock the Buddha, the same period of thought. Do the meditation period, first carefully met through the once. The best Royal Repentance must also be meticulous reminding Luong Hoang once. Participants must strive to listen, then in the ritual where the text of the restaurant. You do not know anything with the etiquette is not, so it is no different to draw a lot, no matter how drawn there is no internal content. Therefore, it is necessary to have a lecturer who teaches the sutra, which is the true karmic retribution, true freedom from all accidents.

In fact, there are still a method to recite the Buddha. Find some people to dissemble, more or less does not matter. We seek a holiday so that everyone has time, then find a place of pure purity that can recite one day a night, two days two nights, or up to ten days. That virtue is infinitely more boundless, more effective than any reminder. Should not think that a Buddhist sentence easy to recite, do have merit. Essentially, Buddhist merit can not think.

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