Although many people have heard of the Eighteen Vows, I will tell you today that there are many important concepts in it.
This wish seems simple. The eighteenth wish is the core of the forty-eight wish. If there is no such wish in the forty-eight wish, the other wishes will not work well. In other words, even if the other wishes can be passed through, if there is no such wish, it really won't work. Therefore, in the "Blessed Life Sutra", this wish is worth the money of the old nose, this is the most valuable wish. Everyone knows that there are eighteen vows in the "Blessed Life Sutra":

Pray text

When I was a Buddha, sentient beings from ten directions,

Smell my name, I believe in my heart,

All the roots of goodness, hearts and minds,

Wish to be born in our country, even ten thoughts,

If you are not alive, you don't get enlightenment.

Except for the five inverses, slander the Dhamma.

This is its vow. Everyone has heard of this a little bit, so let's not talk about it as usual, now we have to go straight into it. In fact, we have to tell you the truth about this Pure Land Method. It is an unbelievable method, let's know! It is simple and hard to believe. There is a saying in the "Blessed Life Sutra" called "Easy to go without no one." You see, it's easy to die, and no one can go.
Why do you say that? Do you think there are many people who study Buddha and few people go there? Is that right? -Easy to go and no one. Tell everyone, it is really difficult. Why is it so difficult? Do you know that it is actually the most difficult, where is the difficulty? It is difficult to "believe in my heart and be happy, and be willing to be born in our country." It is difficult in these two sentences.
Belief in the heart is actually a letter; wishing to be born in our country is wishing. However, just these two sentences, look at us, for so many years I have been chatting with you, talking about it, talking about it for a long time, in fact, they all revolved around this letter.

Because once your faith is strong, your chanting skills will come out naturally, you know!

And many people recite the Buddha a lot and don't believe in wishes. It can be said that many people can't achieve it. Many people don’t understand: Whoops! He played his life chanting Buddhism, but in the end he could not become it; for some people, it was easy! In fact, the easy reason is faith. This principle, everyone has not turned this corner in this principle, that is, you have not turned around—why is the relationship between faith and meditation such a concept. Originally these three are one, but why emphasize faith and wish? Think about it, everyone!
Let me ask everyone, if you pay attention to this official account, do you think you have to "believe"? If you don't believe it, why are you in this official account? Why can't many of them come in? Hey, look, there are too many people who study Buddhism and recite Buddhism? Why can't he enter this official account? He doesn't believe it, can he not come in? If you don’t believe it, you don’t want to come. So, what can he do? He sees this official account and doesn't click on it, he won't come in! Can you understand this? is not it? He didn't believe his wishes. He saw this public account, which was equivalent to walking to this door; yes, just come in, he walked to our door, he didn't pay attention to it, and didn't come in. You know the truth of this faith! When you have a true wish, you will naturally open the door and come in, so that the line can be honored. Why do the Patriarchs always emphasize faith and wish? The reason is as simple as that. However, we all ask why we can’t succeed, and the secret lies in our letter.
Therefore, the importance of these eighteen vows is to speak out the core of the Pure Land Method——

"To the heart and believe in happiness, I would like to be born in our country."

How often do we, you know? Just use this name and practice the Pure Land Method to "struck it empty". The meaning of stepping on empty means: Ah! I just went to recite the Buddha's name, as if I also went to listen to the sutras. In fact, what can't it be? In the concept of faithfulness,-stepping on the empty space, it means that you have not implemented that concept. So, why can’t everyone succeed in learning Buddhism for a long time? Why can't it succeed? It's at this point of faith. So, we don’t know how much the Pure Land Method reduces the conditions, do you know? It's down to the point that as long as you come up with a letter and wish-of course you have to add "OK", and you can fulfill your wish!

But, let me tell you about this, everyone, listen carefully, you can understand all of my words now, do you really believe it? ! Really wish? ! You know, the difficulty of Buddhism, in fact, is nothing else,-you say you believe, but you don't believe it! Do you know why you don't believe it? Let me tell you a truth, because you can't see or touch this benefit. Think about it, is it true? Think about it now!

You are like Xiao Han, if you really know it all at once: Ouch! As long as I believe and wish to recite this Amitabha Buddha, I can truly be reborn in the world of bliss! And know the benefit of Elysium. That's it! People like you, don't let you understand. If you understand, you can't hold back. Other things about you, you can't wait to quit your work. However, I still don’t want you to resign. Why? You are immature, right! Your daughter-in-law still has to point to you to raise it, and your girl-in-law still points to you to raise it-no way! Like Xiao Zhang too, let him put it down right now, what about the two sons? What's the deal! Open your mouth to keep him asking for food, don't you? But, let me tell you, this truth is not there, it is because you really know it. You know that the unbelievable is the unbelievable..., the condition is reduced to three words-"believe, willing and do".

This is a lot of practitioners. Why do you all look down on the Pure Land Method? Do you know that they are always talking about what they want to talk about?-You have to have proof, you have to have kung fu, do you know? That is, practice is about kung fu! What is your skill? What kind of evidence do you have? To what extent? Also, you have to smell like a saint. You see that some practitioners look like a saint, right? You see, when everyone sees me, I don’t look like a saint, what an ordinary person, right! Many people, wherever they go, their faces are pointed at one end, looking at the way there is a saint. However, people who have no discerning eyes can't see that they are still arrogant. How do you know? What is his foundation, you don't really understand. Therefore, most people talk about "you have to practice, you have to deepen that understanding."

Let me tell you, the Pure Land Method just tells you-be honest, obedient, and real, then it's OK. Now that we are in trouble, the difficulty lies here. This is to tell you the truth. This is not something we can persuade, you know! Why? It's because of your own thoughts. It's not that you can change it if you ask you to change it. Do you know this?

Take Xiao Zhang, for example. Xiao Zhang has been born for many years, and he has developed the habit of referencing, thinking, and thinking by himself; besides, he has successful cases. You ask him to say: "I don't think about it! I just listen to the teacher! Let me do what I do!" Is it possible? This tells you that there must be a process. Why is Xiaohua obedient? He has no other way, he is dying! Therefore, he had no other consideration. Xiao Zhang is not in this position now, it is impossible for him to fully adopt this honest and obedient attitude. Therefore, everyone here knows that this is because you don't have a deep understanding of the principles of the Fa. You can't do this, let's know!

So, how many people have mistaken these eighteen wishes, you know! Many people have listened to the eighteen vows in the "Blessed Life Sutra", and I tell everyone: I made a mistake! Why did you make a mistake? Some people think: "Okay, I know the Pure Land Method, so I will recite the phrase Amitabha, and when I am dying, I will wait for Amitabha to come and pick me up!" Well, he has a little faith at most, but he does not have it on his wish. Therefore, many of them will not succeed in the end; and the people who spread it, they don't know. Why?

The concept he inherited doesn't have this in it, do you know? Just believe it, and walked to the door, do you know? Don't push the door! Understand? This "wish" is equivalent to: Ah, I believe it, I am here; I can do it, I am here! But what about walking to the door? Don't push the door,-can't get in! Understand? Look, it's that simple to look at. However, believing is not so simple. Therefore, many people use the wrong mind.

Therefore, many of us today have this kind of people who want to learn Buddhism, want to practice, and want to be well in Buddhism. Have you ever noticed that after you have been studying for a long time, it is useless for you to keep trying. You are like Teacher Jin. She is here because she is bored in society. Why is she here? Find happiness! She learns with this kind of heart, so she hasn't opened her heart for so many years, and has only just started to start now,-what a loss! She was the first person we knew me here, earlier than Xiao Dan, she was the first one. So everyone knows, do you think it's so easy? do you know?

Everyone knows what a wrong confession is, do you know? Misrecognition means to what extent. Pay attention, this is not a joke with everyone, saying that you must read the degree to what extent, because now many people teach the Fa and say: There is a kung fu to make a movie, and there is a single mind for things, a reason for a single mind, right? Tell everyone that this condition does exist. But, let me tell you, when you want to read to this level. People can read Kung Fu into a movie, one mind, and one mind. People read it on the basis of faith and wish. Many people don't know this. When you see people reading to that level, I’m sorry, you think you’re playing with your life, not necessarily!

I once said that a person said that this person recites 100,000 Buddha's horns a day, and a person wants to see him. What did he say in the end, do you know? "If you don't recite five or six thousand Buddha's horns a day, I won't see you!" As soon as you say this, this person is saying that he is ill-considered. In our opinion, his skill is definitely not enough, do you know? Don't look at chanting one hundred thousand Buddha's horns a day. Why, you know? When he chanted 100,000 Buddha's horns, he just chanted it, and he didn't believe it. He didn't believe in his wishes, everyone knows, he can't talk to Amitabha, do you understand? Just enter this door, believe, believe, just run here, want to come, right! Willing to come. So, how about walking to this door? When you push the door in, do you have to have faith in it, push the door again, be willing to open the door, and then walk in, do you have to have all three of them? That's the truth.

So, let me tell you, all of us who are studying Buddhism, let me tell you a little bit, and let me hit everyone: when most of you are listening to the scriptures and the Fa, you can't be hooked to the faith. I guess this sentence did not hurt you, why? You recognize it! Think about it now, how many of them were linked to your faith when you heard the principles of the Fa? Do you guys know, but you don’t know that the two words "faith" and the three words "xing" are actually linked to Wanfa, but you don't know how it can be hooked!

Therefore, this is like "If one's mind is not chaotic, we can die." Do many of us always say, and the Buddhist scriptures also say that we can die without being confused. right? Well, it’s really okay to say this in the Buddhist scriptures. However, there is some truth behind this "unhappiness". He probably thought that the original "belief and willingness are not chaotic" is also "not chaotic." Believe it, is it chaotic? Believe it, is it chaotic? But let me tell everyone that the faith we are studying now is messy, do you know? How to prove that you are messed up?

I will break it for you in one sentence: When you recite Amitabha, do you think that your Buddha's name carries faith in it? Without faith, it is messy, OK! Hey, look, you have to be able to listen to this. So, the original letter and wish, when you have not really formed the letter and wish, the letter and wish are really chaotic; after the formation, there will be no chaos. This is when everyone is practising Buddhism, and this concept is rarely used.

When I used to communicate the Dharma to many people in the society, I often said that faith and wishes were done, and it was completely plain, you know! Why do so many people like to listen to me? When I came up, I didn't talk about the faith and willingness of the Dharma. why? In fact, everything in our lives, as long as you start it, you will do what you want, right? The question is-in the practice of the faith and wishes of the Buddha, whether we can fully connect this concept with life, this is a skill of yours.

For example, what are the eighteen vows we are talking about here? ——"Ten thoughts must be born", right? This "ten thoughts", do you know what this "ten thoughts" means? Some people will also say that saying that "ten thoughts" are ten dying thoughts and they can take you to rebirth. This is also a way of saying; sometimes even one thought can be reborn.

Tell everyone, this "ten thoughts" principle, let everyone pierce through,-all the thoughts are "ten thoughts"! Look, this is window paper, this is window paper!

Now we can't understand this concept, so the effort we put in when we were studying Buddhism was not enough. Why does it make sense to say that an eminent monk is a great virtue, a truly powerful person, who chants Amitabha more than 100,000 times than we chant, it makes sense, you know! It is his voice that is directly linked to our own nature; when we say a hundred thousand voices, we can't even touch our own nature. People are high, high in this place. You have to understand, people are high, where is the height, I will tell you directly, it is directly in the self, and it is directly linked to it! If we are able to link mindfulness to our own nature now, you say you are still unsuccessful! You are it! ! You don't have to worry about your future, you will have won in your life!

So, why does the scripture say "to believe in happiness", to the heart, the "to", is to rely on Amitabha deeply. Relying on Amitabha deeply and letting go of oneself completely, this is called Zhixin. Relying deeply on Amitabha is what you really call "Tongshen Lean".

Sister Hu talked about a topic that day. Everyone took a look at this topic. She said this topic was quite interesting. After she finished talking with me, I also realized it. She said: "Say it in Tantra, saying that this master is more important than the Buddha." It stands to reason that this sentence depends on where you stand. This truth, you see in Tibetan Buddhism, is the worship and respect for the guru, and that level is incredible.
Of course, there is a danger here, that is, if there is a problem with the guru you depend on, you will be miserable-the guru goes to hell, and you also go to hell. I'm sure to tell everyone about this. Just you and the wrong person, he will go to hell, and you will go, 100%, this is true, the only danger is this! But, say that the guru surpasses the Buddha, do you know what is behind the head? Because: Buddha, he can't give you face-to-face guidance; Master, if you encounter a bottleneck problem, he can directly point out your problem. You have to analyze this truth from this perspective, and it's okay; when you just listen to that sentence, it's easy to cause other misunderstandings. This truth is true, understand!
So, why can a person who has achieved it achieve it? When you have a bottleneck, by yourself, your wisdom is not open, and you can't break it. Here is the truth. However, those of us, we usually have no problems. If there is no problem, I will tell you a real truth today: it is not that I want to "beg" you and let you ask me questions. Let me tell you the secret: you have no problems. Most of them are in your daily practice. Don’t think about correcting yourself, and don’t want to destroy yourself. Worries, attachments, bottlenecks, your heart is less moved in this respect, so you have no problems. So you always think-I'm pretty good! Hey, you know? You don’t even know!
Just like a mage, he is by his side, how about him? He thinks he is pretty good! ——Ah, I'm following Master, I'll go wherever Master tells me to go! ——He is obedient! You see, that's how the jokes are, that's the way the jokes are! Therefore, all of us just can't understand the true principles in Buddhism. So your utmost heart, you don’t have deep reliance on Amitabha, this kind of leaning heart, and then completely let go of yourself, your utmost heart cannot be taken out.

So, let’s be honest with you, say you got something, everybody, I’ll ask you the truth, what do you think you get can keep you excited and happy, just look at it and touch it when you think about it. 、Feel it, do you have such a thing? rare.
Money, after you get it-huh! Just know what to spend, what to do..., right! What is easy to make you have such an attempt? Let’s not talk about Buddhism. In your life, you want a painting, or a diamond, worth several hundred million, just such a thing. I tell you, this kind of thing must be on your body. After you get it, you will often-take it out and see and feel it! Why, do you know? After you get it, you feel very at ease: I have no money, and I will have money as soon as I resell it; this is so good! One billion, now another two billion has grown, oops! This this……! Do you have it in your mind? But, the problem is that if you didn't get it, you would know if you got one. That thing, it really makes you think about it all the time, why? What drives you? --Benefit!
Now I will give you a book of Scriptures. This book tells you the true truth of the universe and life that comes from your own nature. Do you take it seriously when you get it? I ask everyone, do you think you value it? You ponder this truth carefully,-don't pay attention to it! Why? Because this thing is useless to you, you can't reach it! The truth is waiting here.
So, we are now chanting the phrase Amitabha, do we recite it to the Buddha "straightforwardly"? Are there any doubts? So, to tell everyone, I always say that it is the most difficult to show the "true heart"! All of us, in fact, the greatest secret of Buddhism is "truth." Let's tell you the truth. And "sincere", why can't I speak in particular, do you know, because after I have spoken too much, everyone will definitely think that I am tempting everyone to be "sincere" to me, and finally misled everyone.
Therefore, sincere is a thing that could have been said, but it cannot be said too plainly. After you speak too plainly, when you carry your ideas, you will hear the wrong way; once you hear the wrong way, it will be troublesome. So, everyone knows how difficult this "sincere" is! Moreover, to tell everyone clearly, going to the Western Paradise is actually "sincere." Because once you start "True Heart", do you believe it when you take it out? Just wish, right? Then you can't recite the Buddha's name really? It must be true. Wouldn't that be it! Therefore, everyone does not know that after studying Buddhism for a long time, they have not been deeply enlightened by the "truth"!

Therefore, how many of us now study Buddhism are all on the edge, spinning around, pondering, pondering! Because some people have to be tensed, I have to hold my own shelf, you know! You hold it, will you hold it when you die? It's not good, it's late, it's too late then! So, tell everyone that opportunities are in your hands; but this thing is too difficult! Take me for example. You said that I will teach you this Fa. Generally speaking, I love to be full when I teach the Fa. It means to tell you that becoming a Buddha is full, right? However, some Fa-teachers may not be able to be "one" in both body and mouth, which means that there is a question of whether body and mind can be unified. In fact, the true "one" of the body and mouth depends on saying that the deeper the legal person's knowledge of self-nature, the closer the body and mouth are to the "one".
So, sometimes the Fa of our fate, such as this blessing, good root, cannot be reached, what should you do? Only accumulation, only accumulation! Why? The reason why you can't keep up with your body and mouth is your good roots and merit. You are not enough, understand? Everyone is studying Buddhism now, for example, if you understand my truth, you think you can't do it. In fact, the real reason is that the past good roots, merits, and karma are not enough. This is the real secret, here.
However, let me tell everyone that there is a real opportunistic way for people with insufficient roots, merit, and destiny. Do you know what it is? There is an opportunistic method, but if I tell you about this opportunistic trick, you are helpless. Opportunity is all in-meet! edge! Do not! same! Do you understand this sentence? Hey, many people don't understand! So, those of us who are studying Buddhism now, let me tell you, people who are new to Buddhism, such as Xiaoming, like you, are beginners to Buddhism; like this Xiao Han, Xiao Han is also a beginner.
For those who are new to Buddhism, what do you know is the most difficult?
Those who are new to Buddhism are the most difficult to "believe"! do you know? "Faith is the mother of Daoyuan Gongde" Ah! Faith—"the great dharma of Buddhism, faith is entry, wisdom is ability." It is faith, which is especially difficult. However, Xiao Han has a good fate. When he enters here, he can hear that it is reasonable. If he can accept it, it is easy for him to believe it.
So, do you know what is next? Pay attention! -Ashamed and ashamed. Let me tell everyone that if you are a Buddhist, if you are not ashamed, you can learn Buddhism very well—no play! ! Let me tell you all, do you understand this? People with no shame and no shame, if you want to enter this Buddhism, you can't enter! Being ashamed means knowing that I was wrong, you know! Saying that you don't even know that you have made a mistake, can you get into this door! Tell everyone, the "faith" and "ashamed" I said, this is the level of just getting started!
Going deeper, do you know what it is? Going deeper, it means "no greed, hatred, and ignorance". There is no greed, hatred, or ignorance. Such a talent is one step higher. So everyone, think about it: Are you greedy? Is there any hatred? Is there any stupidity? Stupidity means upside-down. Looking at the problem is looking upside-down. This is a higher level than the "trust" and "ashamed" just now. Can you understand it?
After you know "no greed, no hatred, no delusion", what is going to be higher? Going higher, it is-"Diligent"! Not only did this man say that he was not greedy, anger, ignorance, but he began to diligently practice! This is even higher. So everyone feels, look at this level.
After diligence, there is even higher-"Qing'an". What is Qing'an? The heart has been cleansed down and can be settled! Then you see if this Kung Fu is there? What I'm talking about is in general practice. It's not from the Pure Land Method. I just said that we are in this kind of routine practice. What about the high-level words in the future, like "no harm", "don't let go", "doing"... What are those principles, do you know? Those truths are all more advanced "goodness"! I'll start from the elementary level, and when it comes to spiritual practice, it's difficult for everyone to just talk about these things.

However, our Pure Land Method tells everyone that we have picked up a bargain, and now let you directly cut into "Faith and Wish Actions". If you don’t cut it from those angles, if you are "doing what you want to do", you will naturally do what you just did. Do you know? You don't know. You can fulfill all of these in the practice of "Faith and Wish Action".

——You say "ashamed", you have never been ashamed in the past, but you are in your heart, after I really "believe", when I recite this Buddha's name, I would like to ask: What are you doing while reciting the Buddha's name? Woolen cloth? Is that "ashamed" cutting it? is not it?

——Then you are "greed, hatred, and idiot", right? When I am in "Amitabha Buddha, Amitabha...", will I still be greedy, hateful, and foolish? Do you understand? Let me tell you, I just said, this can be connected together.

So everyone knows that in Buddhism, if you really recognize your mistakes, then it is called "true"! So "sincerely". Real heart, many people say take real heart, do you know why you can’t take it out? Today I will tell you a concept that is exactly the opposite. Many teachers and masters are all advising you to "do good and take sincerely" and tell you:

If you are willing to correct your mistake, you are "sincere"!!

Do you understand this sentence? Precisely, a lot of people heard this,-I don't accept it anymore! Why? ——I’m not wrong!

So, how do you improve? Why are you sincere? Everyone listens this way, do you understand? Let me tell everyone, you have heard this, but you have never heard of it! Therefore, when we want to cultivate this concept, we must nurture it. With this knowledge, you can nurture it, and it is from the inside out. In our current practice, many people practice from the outside to the inside, and they rarely know how to really go inside, you know!

Therefore, in your current practice, I want to tell you a sincere word-all that is used is to practice outward. Today I’m politely telling you: In fact, you don’t know whether you are consciously or unconsciously. What you use in your practice is to seek the Dharma out of your heart, and you don’t know it yourself! Do you know why? I will tell you this truth, and you will understand:

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You go into your heart and you find that you can't reach it! Do you understand this sentence? ——I close my eyes when I'm finished, my heart, what can I do for it? Total darkness! is not it? Look at your heart,-no feeling! I have been closed for a hundred years and it is also black. What am I looking for here? Can't find it! Isn't it, in this heart?!

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You can see it from the outside, high-rise buildings, car houses, beautiful women and hunks... can you all see it? This is all true!

Therefore, you can see from the outside, but you can see in your heart,-can't see! Why can't I see it inside? Because you have no way, of course you can’t see it, because you don’t have the right concept. Therefore, we all rarely talk to ourselves, believe it or not? Seldom talk to yourself—unless you have a predestined relationship, you can talk to him, and rarely talk to yourself. Because if you want to say something, others will think you are insane, you have something wrong, right?

Therefore, our current study of Buddhism, it can be said that there is no concept, you know?

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There is no "strong heart"

The first one is called-there is no "firm heart". Sturdy, these two words are very clear, right? For example,

You recite the Buddha's name, and you recite the "Buddha's name"-firmly;

You put that "faith"-firm;

You put that "will"-firmness.

Are you using this concept? Everyone now ask yourself, do you think you are studying Buddhism, do you use this concept? A firm heart, to put it plainly: there is no interference from the outside world, and you are all in your mind-strengthening your faith and willingness, this is called real "firmness"! Do you definitely use less in this area?

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There is no "lasting heart"

The second one is-there is no "long-term heart". Just now I talked about "firming" and strengthening this faith and willingness. Long-term heart is to stick to the end. Do you think you have a long-term "faith, aspiration, and deed"? In other words, besides this, how about any other world-born laws? Don't worry about it, don't worry about it. How difficult is this! Think about it, everyone, can you do it? To put it bluntly, it is in your mind that you are thinking about this "belief and willingness", and other things, you don't care about it at all!

Let me tell you a more incredible concept-what is the real high state of faith. Everyone hasn't heard it before, and your eyes will be bright after hearing this sentence! This is the first time I have said it publicly here, but I haven't said it. How scary! The question is understand? -"Return to plain".

"Return to the ordinary"

Let me tell you all, if you read this sentence suddenly, you may not understand it. It's in the ordinary and ordinary, that's what I want to go. For example, many of us chant the Buddha's title: Amitabha, Amitabha...! Read it hard, read it hard, and read it for a while, that's not the case; if you read it for a while, he will let it go, and he can't hold on, you know. People who really have kung fu in reading, he actually reads really kung fu, that is, "return to plain".

Let me tell everyone that only those who "remain ordinary" will become the last ones. That's the joke. Therefore, you can't forget the old man, he has now entered the feeling of "returning to the ordinary", that is, he naturally and unnaturally doing this every day-this joke is just playing with us all.

And we can't "revert to the ordinary" now, what's the reason? Every day we have a bunch of tangled things in our hearts troubling you, why do you become ordinary? People who really have kung fu, tell everyone that life and work should be done correctly. As a result, doing those things doesn’t matter at all, and then recite the Buddha here and recite the "indulgence". This person is okay. Let's take it! This is called real kung fu. I really want to go, tell everyone, it's not ideal!

So, let me tell you now, most of us who are studying Buddhism are in ideals. Let us tell you that many religions are ideal. Why, you know? First, in theory, there is no argument to the ultimate position; second, in terms of practical cultivation, there is no proof to the ultimate position. Therefore, many of them are theories and cannot be fulfilled in the end. I also talk about a lot of ideal concepts. Many things are idealized concepts. If you don't practice it, you won't be able to realize it in the end!

Let me tell you, Buddhism is true and not false, but we don’t believe it! How do those who do not believe that you do not believe it is that in your behavior, you only do superficial behaviors and do not practice deeply to correct your own mistakes! If this is the case, the true and true Buddhism will also be idealized. Really, if each of us regards Buddhism as if you are doing money-making things all day, it will be done one by one. Take that spirit of going to work, after you finish-make money! That's it.

Note that this is by no means to say that you are allowed to use the Dharma to make money, but to make a metaphor. If you use the energy of working to make money in studying Buddhism, you will be able to cultivate sooner or later. The problem is-we don't have this concept, you know? We learn Buddhism, and now we are still playing with Buddhism, using it as a way of showing off Buddhism, knowing Buddhism, and happy Buddhism. He is not really as valuable as money, you see! So what is this? The Dharma we have learned now is called idealization, idealism, and it is completely ideal. It's that we don't know the real truth behind it.

So, what we can really do is in nothingness, in plainness, and purity. What will happen if you know that? Listen! ——The power to recite the Buddha is great when you truly recite the Buddha in purity!

Look at this joke, Buddhism is like that with us. Why do we have no power to recite the Buddha now? It is because we recite unnaturally and our faith and wishes have not been fully rooted, so what is the reason for us? If you are clinging to reading, you will be heart-wrenching when you read, and you will get bored when you read, and you won’t be able to read anymore. So, don’t ask anything else, everybody, have you recite the Buddha, have you chanted happiness? Haven't read happiness, remember: I haven't been on the Dao yet!

Do you know that if you really recite the Buddha in purity, why is that powerful? Let me tell you more about this theory: because "emptiness" is so powerful. Let me tell everyone that all power is no better than the power of "emptiness". We have to compare layer by layer,

Let me tell you that the real power comes from "air force"; and the Buddha name that you read by coincidence is "the power of the self", it is the real "air force"!
Look, it made such a big joke with you. So, this power of emptiness, once you connect it, it's over! Your life, from then on, you will--haha laugh! It's okay, you'll be - all right! The real thing, the big thing has been done! It's not like an Arahant-it doesn't have the aftermath. What he said is: Really do it, and surely win!

Therefore, when we recite the Buddha now, the concept has not been established, is not firm, and does not last; therefore, our Dharma cannot be improved. Why am I telling you that we have started to improve as a whole now. It is in this state that when you learn Buddhism again, how will you really start? That power can go up. It turns out that everyone is really listening in confusion; now, more and more people who really take it seriously are about to appear. Here, I personally feel a little like this. Therefore, the current Fa will become more and more stellar as it is taught, and I will tell you all.

Then there is something else, it's about this realm, let's practice. What are you practicing? For example-"Wish to be born in our country" is this kind of "will." Look at us now. Every day we have one of the biggest troubles. Many people can't get through this level-the opposite situation, when you are angry, if you don't believe it, you can't get the name of Buddha 100%, right? Just be straightforward, just say straightforwardly, right? Can't mention it 100%. Do you know what is here? Still concept. If you add an idea: Today, when I was most annoyed, when I was most angry, I happened to practice that I mentioned the Buddha's name when I was angry!

Especially like Teacher Jin, you often swear this oath: When I am most troubled, when I am least satisfied, at this time, when I lift up the Buddha's name, I will do it with my heart, just like that. Let me tell everyone, the more bitter you are, the more you will die. So, you have to know that when encountering that unlucky state, let me tell you the truth: In fact, in a certain sense, you are not unlucky. In addition to your great roots, you want to die in this life, basically There is no way. Don't point to you living a very happy life, happy life, in the end, your hope of success is very low and very low; you really have to meet fate before you can really change you, let me tell you the truth.

However, this thing is not to make everyone unlucky, it does not mean that, you know! I now close my eyes and think: Anyone who can really be helped by me is unlucky! All the people who didn't do well with me are all—it's okay! Nothing happened! There is no chance of getting better. It's that simple, I conclude, it is really like this!

So, like Xiaobo, she is not unlucky to be able to listen to me like this, so she is not easy. In fact, Xiaobo said: I'm not unlucky yet, I'm unlucky enough, ha! But, you compare them with others, can you compare with them? Can you compare with Xiao Zhou? Can you compare with Xiaohua? Can you compare with Sister Sun? There are many people here, you can't compare to them, and you can't compare with Xiaoyin, right? So, do you know why you can’t get it out when you practice the method of "opposing the environment"? Just not ruthless, just not ruthless, you know!

Let me introduce you to the most ruthless one, which you have never heard of. You can try this suggestion. You have never heard of it, this is really a very "crooked" trick. Everyone will be happy at first sight! Let me tell everyone, this trick is good, is it ruthless? Who is wrong, think about it! If the lectures are here in the world, everyone in the audience will be dumbfounded, saying that it is not the bottom person, that this person is crazy, the person who lectures is crazy. -"Thinking about dead."

I can tell everyone that you don’t know that I have never used this trick lightly. It is the most entangled person, using this trick-Trane! In other words, you yourself, when your troubles are over, you think of yourself as: I am a dead man now, this is a dead man dragging a corpse. After I went where,-I'm all dead! So, where I go, when it is a concept of a dead person, I can’t talk to others...-I am a dead person! Therefore, he himself had already died of that heart, no more. So, where did you go-it's okay. The question is: do we dare to think about it? dare? Let me tell everyone that this is a way to surpass yourself, and this must be associated with it-it is lingering!

Let me teach everyone that you make a wish: Tomorrow I will be a dead person, a corpse, and after that, I will live a day. I lived with a corpse for a day. If you don’t believe me, try it once, and you will find: Hey, this day, you live with the concept of a dead person; however, there is a premise that you have to visualize yourself as a dead person everywhere. , You have to visualize yourself as a dead person to this day. This is a kung fu. If you continue for one day, two days, or one month, you will have to do it for half a year—it’s troublesome, I’ll tell. When you visualize your own death, pay attention. When visualizing the dead, there must be a prerequisite-you must recite the Buddha! I am a dead person, but I am a dead person who recites Buddhism.

Pay attention to this, this can't visualize death, because of what? Pay attention, "All the ways to live from the heart", come back and think about it, really "want" to die, and when it's over, it's time to settle the account with me! After all, the ghost is coming to me,-I'm super you! At that time, I will save you directly to hell! It's okay, you are going to die unjustly, find me, I really care about you, let me tell you! Really, this really can't, give yourself to "want" to death.

What does that mean to die? That is: I'm all dead, I'll be fine! is not it? Attention, the purpose is here. However, your notion really wants to activate yourself to die. As a result, I tell you, if you don’t believe you think you are dead, after it’s over: Hey, I'm all dead! This..., this is not a problem, then I'm all dead! Look who,-I'm all dead! What else do I...? Hey, let me tell you, if you don't believe this concept, you can try it with one, it will work! Oh My God! Never heard of it!

Koan: "Don't Be Timely"

In ancient times, there was a koan called "Don't Shi Yi". Well, it’s certainly not easy for everyone to know about this. At that time, Buddhism was handed down during the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties. Buddhism began to come in during the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties. It began to enter during the Han Dynasty, and this Buddhism was passed down from the beginning during the Wei, Jin, and Southern and Northern Dynasties. There are many sutra translators and so on, they all appeared from that time, like Kumarajiva; in the Tang Dynasty, it was Master Xuanzang; in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, how did the Buddhism begin? You know, a sect was established Yes, Buddhism started to establish sects at that time.

In the beginning, it just spread; later, sects were established. In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, this Pure Land School, this "death of ten thoughts", was adored by many "everyone", what does this "everyone" mean? ——The great virtues of the eminent monks, even the great practitioners and the authority, are all judged as "other times." At that time, "everyone" often talked about "don't let it go" to the Pure Land Method. Do you know what it means? Tell everyone, these people want to learn from cause and effect. That is to say: If you cheat you to recite the Buddha, there is no such thing as a true death. Oh my god! In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there was such a situation-"It is just to coax you to recite more Buddha, just like coaxing a child to accumulate a little blessing." Look at this, it sounds ah. , "Then in your next life, you will learn that subtle level of Dharma." Do you understand this? This is already understood.

Do you know this kind of thinking, how many people who study Buddhism after this wave comes? Lost confidence! Isn't it? Doesn't it lose confidence? Even in the history of the time, many problems also appeared. How did he know these individuals. However, at that time, Master Shandao appeared in the Tang dynasty. After that, many great patriarchs came again, to refute this concept of "other times." This is because the other meaning of "don't think about it", that is to say: Your merits of chanting Buddha will only appear in the future, and it is not known how many lifetimes it will take. It is these people who commented: "Ah, you can't do it now, but how many lifetimes will come in the future!" But they don't know that the Pure Land Method is to be born!

You see, just this "don't expect it" concept-"you can't get it in this life and in the next life", how many people have broken the dharmakaya and wisdom life! On this topic, almost a hundred years have hindered the confidence of the boundless believers in Pure Land. You see, there will be such a situation at that time. And where we are now, do you think there is none?

So, tell everyone, if you can meet the Pure Land Method, you can only meet with many lives and many calamities and blessings. Why are so many people listening, listening and learning other things? After some people have studied for a long time, you seem to be following me. After someone left me, they followed the master to promote the Dharma and benefit birth. As a result, depending on what he said and what he did, they were not practicing, they were all In cultivating blessings, there is no merit. do you know? Didn't do anything to get rid of one's own life and death! These things, I have seen more than N people. Guys, do you know my mentality? You can't imagine it at all. I looked at them so clearly that I didn't say a word.

People who came to me regularly for a year came to me, "Bab Baba" reported what they had done in the year they were out, gained insight, and talked about it. Yes! It's all about Buddhism, but it doesn't have anything to do with cultivating yourself, you know? Just fix some blessings,-continue reincarnation! But, how about me? Not yet! Know why? Because they already have a dependent master, they say,-people don't listen! Am I not called climbing?! Can you understand? Why! Such people, let me tell everyone, I see them very clearly, so I just hold back and don't say anything! It's not that I'm not merciful, does he listen?!

So, tell everyone, what about this "ten thoughts must be born"? We tell everyone that there is nothing else, the "faith" must be locked up, your "ten thoughts"-it is done! And the "ten thoughts", as I said just now, "the ten thoughts are all ten thoughts", isn't it? This is really true: chanting Buddha,-"return to the ordinary." Everyone, this "return to the ordinary", we have to tell everyone, really "return to the ordinary", with a special nice word-naturally. Let me tell you, Buddhism, the real kung fu, is that the more you learn, the more okay you will be-naturally!

Today I see Xiao Zhang’s state, I think he is improving and becoming more and more natural. Good job, Xiao Zhang! The teacher praises you in public! In fact, Buddhism is not playful, it grows in nature. I believe that Xiao Zhang's eyesight will not be so stupid. Seeing everyone's real improvement, in fact, everyone's real improvement, have you found that it is because the facial expressions have become more natural. See this! Hey, let me tell everyone, this is Buddhism.

Buddhism, if you let everyone study it for a long time, and become a tribute, selfish, and righteous self, there must be a problem! ! Moreover, I do tell everyone clearly that they are still talking about the principles of the Dharma of right knowledge and right view, but there are still such problems. This is also called a problem! So, don't think that you are saying "Fa-rectification" as if you think there is a problem. What is "Fa-rectification"? When we talk about the righteousness here, it is righteous; it's because everyone is doing righteousness or not!

Everyone doesn’t really know this, do you know? This is indeed directly related to talking about legal persons, because where he leads everyone to go, the degree to which the principles of the law enters the mind differs, and the benefits are different. So, if you are here, do you have the best experience? Every time you come here, the Fa can enter your heart. Does it feel like this? This is the most rare, you know! The greatest thing about Buddhism is to tell everyone, nothing else, it lies in the ability of the Fa to enter the mind. This is the most successful place!

How many of us are now studying Buddhism, those who think they are very capable, do you know where their tragedy lies? ——"Why don’t you recite Amitabha Buddha! Isn’t it just believing and doing it! Isn’t it just letting go! Isn’t it just being clean, equal, and enlightened! Isn’t it just being compassionate! It’s not just seeing through and letting go! Get rid of this greed, hatred, and idiot! Kill, steal, and lewd!" You see that they are a lot of self-righteous. After listening to the master to teach the Fa, "Oh, I've heard it all! That's it!" , Oops, it's really annoying! Talk something fresh, talk too low!" Did you know! ——The law is not in your heart! When he listened to the Fa with this mentality, he didn't even know that his arrogance completely blocked this self. So he was miserable, and in the end, he didn't achieve it! Therefore, I hope that we all really have to show this kind of sincerity, and you are OK!

Well, today, "ten thoughts must be born", that's it!