Danggan Old Monk Lifelong lectures
Proficient in exoteric and esoteric, high tree Dharma pagoda, virtue is the four sides
is known as "a beacon in the mountains"
This article is oral based on the disciples who are close to the old monk html
quoted some interesting talks about the old travel to Taiwan during the preaching of Dharma
to see the random education of the elderly, the fun and convenient wisdom
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Someone asked: Old monk, what is Tantra?
Historical monk: I said it would be a secret to you.
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Someone asked: Old monk, how do we practice after learning the Heart Sutra?
Historical monk: You chant first, chant the scriptures first.
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Someone asked: Old monk, how can people develop Bodhicitta?
Historical monk: Don’t think so, people’s hearts are so evil, so you need to save them, otherwise who will you save? Do you go to the Bodhisattva world to save Bodhisattvas? Come and save me? I don't need you to do it.
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Someone asked: Old monk, why is the world so unfair?
Old monk: I have lived 100 years old. I think everything is fair, I suffer from it myself, and it is not fair.
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Someone asked: Sometimes when we face unfair situations, what kind of mentality should we use to deal with such unfair situations?
Historical monk: I used to be like you, but now I think everything is self-inflicted. I can only help him to repent and not accept it, let him worship Buddha, worship Buddha, and recite Buddha every day.
or I also read it for him, he came to find me, he is destined to be! I will dedicate the merits to him.
His strength is not enough, my strength is enough, I help him to think about it, he will solve the problem, and his confidence will increase.
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Someone asked: How can one achieve the realm?
Historical monk: Let me tell you the truth, you can't do it in your life.
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Someone asked: Should I take ten precepts ?
Historical monk: If you can keep the precepts, you can take the precepts. You can’t even keep the Three Refuges, what precepts are you taking?
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Someone asked: Old monk, when is the best time to chant Buddha's name?
Historical monk: You should chant Buddha's name now.
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Someone asked: How can nuns keep the precepts?
Historical monk: Take care of yourself first.
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Someone asked: How to be enlightened?
Historical monk: I don’t know, I am not enlightened either. But you are not better than me, and it will take eighty years to reach my level.
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Someone asked: How many times a day will the cessation wheel be pure?
Historical monk: If you think so, you will not be pure.
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Someone asked: I have been reading " Diamond Sutra " for more than ten years and have not understood at all. Should I change to another sutra?
Historical monk: I have been studying for eighty years, and I don’t understand it either.
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Someone asked: Why do you need to recite scriptures every day? What are the purposes of chanting scriptures and mantras?
Historical monk: Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva Why do you still hold a rosary to chant Avalokitesvara Bodhisvara? It is better to seek yourself than to ask others!
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Someone asked: The old monk is talking about the "Avatamsaka Sutra". In the "Pure Practice", the "Practice of Purification" talks about "making good use of the mind". In daily life, how do we make good use of the mind?
Historical monk: Make good use of his heart means knowing that he will not do anything, and knowing that he should not take what he should not take, he will not take what he should not take.
every move is making a vow, one vows to save sentient beings, and the other vows to become a Buddha. Becoming a Buddha means being an enlightened person, a person who understands things and will not do confusing things.
Hand, staying, sitting and lying down for a day, all of them have this heart. In this way, the society we see is very different.
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Learning monk: When a disciple meditates and recites the Buddha's name, he can only hear the sound of himself chanting the Buddha's name after quietness. There is darkness in front of him, nothing is empty. How to deal with fear in his heart?
Historical monk: Let me tell you for your leader, turn on an electric light for you in the room of your practice, and turn on an electric light and it will not be dark. If you don’t have enough skill, you will have the light of the Buddha to shine on you. The Western Paradise is bright and can be shined on all ten methods. When you chant the Buddha’s name, visualize the light of Amitabha Buddha on your head.
You don’t have enough skills. If you have enough skills, the light of this chanting Buddha’s name will appear before you, and the darkness will be gone. If you still feel fear in your heart, the Buddha is not good at chanting well. If you recite well, the more you fear the more you recite, the more you recite, the fear will disappear.
Because we recite the Buddha's name to achieve life and death, the horror of life and death, the horror of hell, all the words Amitabha Buddha disappeared. You don’t have enough concentration in your heart, so you should focus in the future.
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Learning monk: Can the disciples get evil thoughts in front of their thoughts, and then they can be eliminated by awareness?
Historical monk: You learned it, you did not practice it. Can you know that the previous thoughts are evil? If you know that you can stop your mind and cannot arise afterwards, you will be able to move in the ten-faith Bodhisattvas. If you can move in, and keep your mind down, you will be the first to move in.
Now you don’t have this skill, just fight in this regard. When you realize that the previous thoughts are evil, you stop at that time.
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Learning monk: How should we practice and repent in our daily life?
Historical monk: Recite Amitabha Buddha.
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Learning monk: How should I practice when a disciple has just become a monk and is young?
Histor: This is very simple. Let’s learn from the past teachers and those who have been monks for a long time.
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Learning monks: Do you have to go to Buddhist college as a contemporary monk? This is not what the disciple thinks.
Historical monk: Do you don’t want to live in Buddhist College ? You can't live in Buddhist colleges, but you can't learn the scriptures. If you don't learn, you won't know the way.
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Learning monk: What should I do if my disciples can’t recite Amitabha Buddha and feel troubled?
Historical monk: Look at the ten thoughts of chanting Buddha’s name taught by Master Ouyi.
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Learning monk: Why do you need to be reborn in the Pure Land?
: Because it is the most convenient and simplest, it depends on the Buddha's blessing, so chanting Buddha's name is the best.
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Learning monk: What kind of heart should we recite the Buddha's name and worship Buddha?
Historical monk: The first is to repent, the second is to sincere, repentance and sincerity must start with faith and wish, and the other is faith and wish.
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Learning monks: What should I do if monks today like to meddle in other people’s business?
Historical monk: Just keep it alone.
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Learning monk: How can you be liberated?
Historical monk: It’s very simple, let it go and you’re relieved.
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Learning monk: Old monk! How do you deal with your worries when you have troubles?
Historical monk: You practice your own, what does the old monk do?
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Learning monk: I really want to practice the Ksitigarbha Dharma. What homework does the master need to do?
Historical monk: Recite the "Ksitigarbha Sutra" and recite the holy name of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. Recite one thousand times a day, and ten thousand more times, and you will fulfill your wishes for anything you want.
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Learning monk: How should a fellow Taoist want to return to the world?
Old monk : Everyone has their own karma, everyone has their own karma, and everyone has their own karma.
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Learning monk: How to practice while walking, standing, sitting, lying down, eating, dressing?
Historical monk: It’s very simple. When you eat and dress, you never forget the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. This is practice. When you eat, you think of me repaying the Buddha’s kindness. If I eat this bite of food, you will receive the blessing of the Three Jewels and eat like this.
said to go into the toilet and urinate, do you know what to do when you enter here? Eliminate greed, anger, and ignorance, and diligently cultivate precepts, concentration and wisdom. When we are having a meal, you recite so many verses, and you should recite them when you are eating. When you eat and dress, you are practicing, it depends on whether you execute it or not.
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Learning monk: How can I make people who have no faith at all?
Historical monk: You don’t have this ability yet.
Source | Zhenrong Temple
Image Source | Ten Wish Encyclopedia
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