Recently, the master of one's fate felt that everything was not going well and wanted to become a monk, but it was not easy to become a monk. You think about all this too simply.
If you want to become a monk, you must first graduate from Buddhist college , and you need a high degree of education and a certain degree of Dharma. If you have a master who accepts you as your disciple and is willing to teach you and take you, it all depends on your own karma and whether you have such blessings.
Temple is not a hotel. You can go wherever you want, and you can go wherever you want. It is not a shelter. If you encounter any difficulties, you will escape here. Being a monk is to practice for sentient beings, not to avoid troubles, which is contrary to the original intention of practicing.
To become a legal monk, you also need to be recognized by the state, the United Front Work Department, the Religious Bureau, etc., and you also need to investigate your ancestors. Your parents must sign and agree before you can become a monk.
If you hide it from your parents, no temple will accept you.
Because this is an act of unfilial piety, monks must repay the four kinds of kindness, namely, the kindness of parents, the kindness of teachers, the kindness of the country, and the kindness of sentient beings.
The first one is the kindness of parents, so you must first get the consent of your parents, secondly, the consent of the master, the consent of the state and the consent of believers.
It is not easy to become a monk. You need great blessings and truly make great wishes to practice for all sentient beings to escape suffering and gain happiness. Only in this way can you have the fate of becoming a monk.
If you just volunteer in a temple and feel the life of monks, it will be the same everywhere.
Secondly, you have to understand.
It is not that you can stay away from earthly affairs by going up the mountain and becoming a monk.
You should know that temples are also a world of martial arts.
also has open and secret struggles, and there are also deceiving lies.
It is not that the masters do not really practice, but that the true practice will be the same. It’s not just a monk’s robe or a saint, but they are just mortals who continue to learn from another place.
When you arrive in this place, you are just continuing your life as a mortal, three meals a day, chanting scriptures and sweeping the floor, cooking and chopping firewood, planting flowers and picking soil, etc., which are actually the same as your current state.
needs to work the same way, and need to worry about survival.
It’s not that you are here. If you do nothing every day, just meditate quietly, recite scriptures, etc.
also needs to work and do things.
You may think, since that is the case, how can you practice?
In fact, three meals a day, working and earning money to support the family is practice.
What monks do is the same as what we do. There is no difference.
is just the contents they do, just slightly different.
If the temple has no rice, it will be very anxious and will try every means to ask the public to give. For the public's donation, it is necessary to do various rituals, resolve them, etc.
Practice is inseparable from the food, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea.
There was once a lay Buddhist who wanted to seek Buddhist paths, so he knelt three times and nine times to Jiuhua Mountain . When he saw a monk, he went up to worship and wanted to worship and devote himself to practicing. Finally, the monk asked him what he was practicing? This lay Buddhist said that practicing is to recite scriptures and chant Buddha's name, meditate and meditate. Finally, the old master said, no, no. Practice is about eating, dressing and dressing.
What the master wants to say is that practice is every bit of life.
When you go to work, work is to practice.
You go to cook, cooking is to practice.
You go to get married, marriage is to practice.
Everything is to train our hearts, cultivate our hearts, and everything we naturally experience is just for this heart. Since it is all for this heart, how can we separate the things we experienced?
Carrying water and chopping wood are the same as chanting sutras and chanting Buddha’s name. They are all tools to bring peace to our hearts.
Therefore, if you are not a monk, you will have no worries. If you have greed, anger, ignorance, arrogance, and doubt in your heart, it will be painful no matter where you are.
If there is any error in this article, I will repent. If there is any merit in this article, I will dedicate it to you. May all suffering beings in the universe and Dharma Realm be free from suffering and gain happiness, May all eliminate all the troubles of the three obstacles and obtain wisdom and true wisdom. ——Tiandao Chinese Studies
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