Many people like to go to temples to burn incense when they encounter difficulties, especially during festivals. The temples are crowded with people, and many people even travel thousands of miles to burn incense at famous mountains and temples. Many northerners also have to go t

When many people encounter difficulties, they like to go to temples to burn incense, especially during festivals. The temples are crowded with people, and even many people travel thousands of miles to burn incense. Many northerners also want to go to famous mountains and temples to burn incense by train. Many people take the train to Putuo Mountain , many south people, and also go to Wutai Mountain by plane.

This phenomenon is a good thing. Because you are pious, you will go to the temple to worship at all costs. Is this practice really correct?

In fact, this is certainly possible, but the premise is that you have to do one thing first, otherwise going to the temple to burn incense will be of no use.

This thing must be done before going to the temple. Many people have not done this, so they go to the temple several times, but it has no effect. No matter how much incense you burn, it still cannot solve any problem.

Buddhism often says: "It is better to respect your parents at home than burning incense for thousands of miles." Before we go to the temple to burn incense, we must be filial to our parents first. If you don't do this well, going to the temple is useless, and no matter how much incense you burn is, it is useless.

Many people ignore the issue of being filial to their parents. In fact, this matter is the most important and ranks first. If you are often unfilial to your parents, even if you kneel there and burn incense every day, no matter how much you kowtow, it is useless, because you have not listened to Sakyamuni at all.

Shakyamuni tells us: There are three kinds of blessings in the world. The first is to be filial to parents, the second is to respect teachers and the third is to practice the ten good deeds. This is what Sakyamuni said in person. What we need to do is to first filialize our parents, rather than to be filial to the Buddha statue first. If you are filial to your parents, it will make sense to go to the temple.

If you don’t have the kindness of your parents’ care, will you still live in this world? If your parents’ kindness is not repaid, just respect others? Is this approach consistent with cause and effect? If you figure this out, you will know how to do it.

Respect your parents at home, why not burn incense far away? We can go to the temple, but this must be done well. If you have limited energy and can only do one thing well, you must be filial to your parents first. When you have greater abilities, it is not too late to go to the temple.

The ancients said: "It is better to offer to your parents than to the twenty-eight days of treasures in the earth." "It is better to give to your parents than to respect the gods of heaven and earth than to be filial to their parents." This is all warning us that the importance of being filial to our parents. If you can do this well, it is better to give to you countless charity and burn incense.

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