if you are not able to do them, make a vow to do them in the future or tell others to do them; and you should release as many captive animals as possible. The main thing is to chant “Gwan Shr Yin Bodhisattva” or “Ong Ma Ni Bei Mei Hung” a lot.(2/3)展开全文
Ethical discipline, concentration and wisdom lead to realization while hearing, thinking and practising belong to the scholarly aspect of the teaching. Neither is dispensible. ——Mistaken Ideas in Actual Cultivation(from Special Topic on Hearing, Thinking and Practicing）展开全文
According to the scriptures, Shakyamuni Buddha gave up his body to a yaksa for half a Buddhist verse and it is recorded in the sutras that just the two words “Chang Zhu” (“those living in the monastery”) in sutras can remove the afflictions of living beings.展开全文
wealth, long life, good health and many children and grandchildren in the household, even if your wishes become true, what good does it do to the liberation from life-and-death? When this life is over, you won't have any of them in your next life.展开全文
One's lifetime is not very long, with only a few dozen years. The total amount of time we have for really practicing Buddhism is not much at all, perhaps only a few years. If you drift along in ignorance and wait till old age, //@Guru_ZhiMin: 展开全文
Besides being a form of sustenance to the three jewels, offerings of lights also have the meaning of carrying forward the torch or passing on the light, with the hope that we can receive the light of wisdom passed on from the Buddha and, after we ourselves are illuminated by it,展开全文
