If you Truly Cultivate, There's No Need to Run Anywhere

Each of us should look within and ask ourselves: From the time I was born until now, what kinds of things have I done?.

We left-home people are burdened by wealth to the point that we fall into the hells, turn into hungry ghosts or become animals.

Ning-bo, located in southeast China, is known for its skillful sculptors.

Karma is what embellishes the mundane destinies at all times and in all places

King Asoka is also known as King Without Worry.

You will just keep waiting for that flavorful experience to reoccur.

Springtime is here, and our holding a Chan session is like when spring comes to the earth.

We are living in unfortunate times, the world has temptations so strong that people are lost in money and dizzy over profit.

Why is it said that “people gather with their own kind?”

The cycle of karmic retribution results in ceaseless transmigration

Why is it said that “people gather with their own kind?”

All of you have come from ten thousand miles away to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas.

Today marks the completion of the recitation of the Avatamsaka Sutra..

Study Buddhism for one year, and the Buddha is right before your eyes.

To all elderly Good and Wise Advisors, all Good and Wise Advisors in the prime of life,...

In cultivation, we should hold fast to our principles, and not forget them.

Buddhist disciples must possess the Dharma-selecting eye, so that they can clearly recognize true principles and differentiate right from wrong.

All Good and Wise Advisors: Today we have gathered together in this great hall to discuss the matter of education.

I have two vows.

We should pay special attention to the aspect of food.

The world must now unite, all nations must come together as a single family;

Good and Wise Advisors: Today we are holding a Celebration to Respect the Elderly in Sacramento.

"Before I speak Dharma, I have to beg something from each of you." Will the Venerable Master's introductory ...

In this world there are many unusual things that are beyond people's imagination.

If we can teach children to understand the doctrines of Buddhism...

The children's problem does not lie with the children. It lies with the families.

If you really cultivate, it is impossible not to become a Buddha even you don't want to; however, if you don't cultivate, it is impossible to become a Buddha even you want to.

Those of us who wish to become Buddhas must rely on the false to cultivate the true.

That which is beautiful is wholesome and good.

From limitless kalpas until the present we've been born and we have died.

Good and Wise Advisors! When I left the home life, someone told me this is the time of the Dharma's end.

Those of us who wish to become Buddhas must rely on the false to cultivate the true.

There's no knowing how many times we've met together before, as if in a dream.

No matter what method you use in applying your effort at cultivating the Way--whether it be reciting the Buddha's name, holding mantras,...

All of you good knowing advisors, honored guests, and elders, what you have not finished eating, please take your time and eat slowly.

By reciting, upholding, and silent chanting, diminish thoughts and words.

I am not opposing this country's way of giving children freedom ...

Han Chang Li said,“Universal regard is humaneness.

Here in the Chan Hall, we must be orderly and well-mannered; we cannot put on airs or try to stand out.

A person in samadhi appears to be dead, but in fact, awareness and feelings still remain..

People who meditate in the Chan Hall are actually taking a test.

Of those of you who have come here today,some have already heard the principles of sitting in Ch'an meditation ...

As we begin this Kuan Yin Bodhisattva Recitation Session, everyone should bring forth a resolve for the Way;

Let me pass on a secret to you today.

Do not do any evil but do everything that is good.

Today, science is extremely advanced, something new and ingenious is taking place all the time.

I believe what is foremost on the minds of people now is the war in the Middle East.

All conditioned dharmas are things that are done, expressed, and have form; they are mundane dharmas.

The frequency of natural and manmade disasters has been on the rise in recent years.

One passage of the Shurangama Sutra discusses two kinds of perverse and false views. What are the two kinds of perverse and false views?

Today, I have some thoughts that I would like to share with you -- words from the bottom of my heart.

For the first time in U.S. history, a state governor's inauguration invited Buddhist monks for introductory remarks.

The aim of sitting in meditation is to open our wisdom. Enlightenment is the opening of our wisdom.

The basic rule in Chan meditation is: “Let your eyes contemplate your nose; let your nose contemplate your mouth; let your mouth contemplate your mind.”

Virtuous ancients said, "Those with superior virtues do not consider their virtues virtues; those with inferior virtues are attached to virtues.

Everyone has an atom bomb (afflictions) waiting for the right opportunity to explode.

Let me talk about why there was a war in Vietnam.

If we want our family to be at peace, then we must not quarrel; otherwise the wife may become a nun or the husband may become a monk.

Whoever wants to become a Buddha first has to be a good person.

This group of ours goes everywhere to propagate the Buddhadharma and education.

Humane ones love people, they are people who are humane and loving.

Without undergoing bone-chilling cold, how can we smell the fragrance of a bouquet of plum blossoms?"

Let me explain the Shurangama Mantra for you now.

There are eight guidelines to education.

Due to living beings' karma, various disasters occur in the world..../div>

"People's minds are not as they used to be, for moral virtue has plummeted and died."

All wise teachers: I wish you a happy New Year! Happy New Year! We have two New Years.

When the Great Spiritual Path (the Tao) is practiced, everything is public.

There are four stages to everything: formation, dwelling, deterioration, and emptiness.

During the era of Spring and Autumn in China, a sage was born and he was Confucius.

Our world today consists of many countries; each country consists of many families; and each family consists of many individuals.

Humaneness, justness, propriety, wisdom, and faith are what people come replete with.

With the old year passing, we welcome the new one.

The Filiality Sutra says, "Cengzi attends to Confucius at his ...

Here's wishing all of you a Happy New Year!

Buddhists ought not be curious or overly ambitious.

Eating is a very important matter in everyone's life, as are wearing clothes and sleeping.

Let's inquire into this major issue: cause and effect.

"People die for money; birds die over food." Who's right and who's wrong?

Life is not about money; life is a priceless gem; it cannot be bought or sold with cash.

People who study the Buddhadharma are starting to plant their seeds in the soil.

Kids! Do you know what the fundamentals to being people are?

In studying Buddhism we must renew ourselves every day, day after day.

We are most unlucky, being born in this Saha World.

The three types of disasters vary only in degree.

People in ancient times had relatively few thoughts and desires; hence they had fewer calamities.

All wise teachers, the most serious retribution in the world comes from killing.

Laotze said in theTao Te Ching that "the kind of beauty that is considered beautiful by everyone is unsightly; the kind of kindness that is considered kind by everyone is unkind." first?

All fellow cultivators,some people do not understand why I do not speak first; instead people who accompany me speak first?

All elder teachers, all teachers in their prime, all young and capable teachers!

One passage of the Shurangama Sutra discusses two kinds of perverse and false views.

Today, science is extremely advanced, something new and ingenious is taking place all the time.

Wars cause loss to people's lives, damage properties, and add to the pollution of our planet.

We are born during this Age of Decline of Dharma.

"When things reach an extreme, they turn around. When things become frightening, fortune is at hand."

If you don't lay a good foundation, your house will not be sturdy;the wind will blow it down and the rain will wash it away.

The Shurangama Sutra is a demon-spotting mirror, which when shone on the demons, can expose them.

Most people say we need to eat and drink to sustain the body.

Today I will tell you about something I personally experienced.

At all times be attentive; at all times be cautious.

Today let's talk a little about money.

There isn't a peaceful place in this world.

The world is going through changes every day: people are changing, things are changing, the times are changing

Some people born into this world come to repay their debts.

People basically feel that they do worthwhile things

People basically feel that they do worthwhile things

People who cultivate must actually go ahead and do it.

All the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas have come to this world solely for the purpose of teaching and transforming living beings.

A group of students and their instructor visited the Dharma Realm Buddhist University campus...

Each false thought is like a speck of dust, floating in space.

A group of students and their instructor visited the Dharma Realm Buddhist University campus...

Here we listen to the Sutra lectures every day, but the most important thing is to actually practice.

The distance between heaven and earth is far, the space between the four seas broad.

Being a person is fine.

They felt it better to be a dog during times of great peace in the world...

If cultivators can let go of their parents and immerse themselves in cultivation, they are on the right track.

Sooner or later, this world will be destroyed.

Preparations on the Eve of Death Cultivate seriously and uphold the precepts carefully at all times and in all places, setting an example with your own conduct.

If you don't intend to seek the good, then the ghosts seeking revenge for offenses don't come to find you.

There is someone who asked me, "Ultimately, is there such a thing as the hells or not?"...

Today we meet with many of long life, the world’s most honorable people. This is not to say that they honor themselves, but that they receive the respect of others.

When laypeople go to the temple, they think that the more incense they burn, the more merit they will have.

The Shurangama Sutra is a demon-spotting mirror which, when shone on the demons, can expose them.

If you understand, you can put it down.
If you don’t understand, you will be attached

"Seeing through it" means understanding, and "letting go of it" means being liberated. Only when you are liberated will you truly master yourself.

In cultivating the Way, sometimes you may find that you are unable to find the Path, that you don't know how to go about cultivating.

According to the cosmology of the Flower Adornment (Avatamsaka) Sutra, there are limitless seas of worlds, each with its own particular properties and various distinctions.

People are strange creatures in that they only have the flesh eye the physical eye and so they can't discern the relationship between previous causes and later effects in their lives.

A Collection of the Venerable Master's Rules:

If we do many good things while we are turning on the wheel of rebirth, and generate enough wholesome merit and virtue, then we can be reborn in the heavens where we will enjoy the many delightful blessings of the divine realm.

At the very start, before heaven and earth came into being, there weren't any people.

Each of you should think for a moment: in the past, the Buddha had to cultivate limitless and boundless merit and virtue before he could become a Buddha.

All the disasters in the world happen because people don't hold the Five Precepts and practice the Ten Good Acts.

When you have wisdom, you are able to readily solve any kind of problem; when you don't have wisdom, there are obstacles everywhere.

During the Dharma-Semblance period of Vipasyin Buddha, in the country Varanasi there lived a rebellious official, Rahu, who plotted to overthrow the king. Rahu led troops in mutiny and murdered King Raja.

Every breath we take, every move we make, every word, every action, every thought, every reflection affects the time and space in the universe.

"Who is mindful of the Buddha?" Each time you investigate that, it's like a Precious Vajra Sword cutting through a bit of emotional desire and lust.

You don't want to get fixated on the eloquence that comes with delight in speaking Dharma and end up being lead around and turned by living beings.

In society, many people do a lot of talking-so much talking that people do not really pay attention to what's being said.

If a person sits quietly in Dhyana samadhi for an instant...

It is because they are the Sangha of the pure field of blessing.

He told me that he wanted to come to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas to serve Buddhism.

Every breath we take, every move we make, every word, every action, every thought, every reflection affects the time and space in the universe.

Don't wait until old age to cultivate the Way. Inside the lonely graves, there buried people of young age.

Today is the second day of the Buddha Recitation Session.

Today is the first full day of the Buddha Recitation Session. Those who have chanted the Buddha's name before know of its advantages.

Limitless kalpas ago, Shakyamuni Buddha was in the mountains cultivating the practice of patience.

Why was it that Shakyamuni Buddha left home to cultivate the Way?

So far, I have explained three techniques of Buddha Recitation: "contemplation by thought," "contemplation of an image," and "holding the name."

The Avatamsaka Sutra is also known as the Sutra of the Dharma Realm, the Sutra of Empty Space.

Everyone can practice the Buddha-recitation Dharma-door.

Astronauts are being trained to be able to rocket into outer space; While we are training to reach "outer" enlightenment.

In Buddhism, the term "Three Poisons" refers to greed, hatred, and stupidity. In Taoism, the term is "Three Corpse Spirits," but refers to the same thing.

Reciting Amitabha during walking. Reciting Amitabha during walking. Reciting Amitabha during walking. Reciting Amitabha during walking. That means, you have to recite Amitabha during walking, standing, sitting and laying. Recite it until you find it is impossible to stop reciting.

The place where we live is forever disturbed by countless terrors, miseries, and troubles.

Who told you to act so recklessly and brashly when you were free of sickness, instead of cherishing and taking care of yourself?

The Dharma-ending Age is the time when the demons are strong and the Dharma is weak

"When Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara was practicing the profound Prajna Paramita, he illuminated the five skandhas and saw that they are all empty, and he crossed beyond all suffering and difficulty."

You can go off to rebirth at any time you choose;you are free to come and go as you please.

To end birth and death in the world is not easy.

If you can sit in meditation until your state is such that "inside you have no body and mind," outside you have no world, and ...

In the name Bodhidharma, "Bodhi" means enlightened and "Dharma" means the teachings. In the sequence of great masters who enlightened to the Dharma, ...

Today, I'm going to tell you about some faults I used to have in the past.

So, people of like types get together in this world. Students get together with students and form close relation ships.

Today, I'm going to tell you about some faults I used to have in the past.

The entire world is filled with natural disasters and calamities; it is covered in blackness and there is no light.

I want to tell you what to do after I'm gone. All of you should prepare yourselves psychologically. I may depart at any time. Nothing is fixed.

You don't see that the thousand hands and thousand eyes of Kuan Shr Yin Bodhisattva are always emitting an unhindered light that shines throughout the universe on all beings who have affinities.

This four characters: A Mi Tou Fwo (Amitabha Buddha) means inconceivable, so it says,

The Manifestation Chapter of the Flower Adornment Sutra say "There is not a single living being who is not replete with wisdom of the Thus Come One."

You could say that Earth Store Bodhisattva is the most dumb of Bodhisattvas and also the most intelligent.

It isn't easy to become a person. Holding on to a human body is even more difficult.

Everything in the human realm is created from a single thought

The Buddhadharma can be divided into different stages in time: the Proper Dharma Age, the Dharma Image Age, and he Dharma Ending Age.

Families have rules that families follow; nations have laws that nations are run by; and monasteries have regulations that those in the monasteries accord with.

Now I will speak some crazy words, which are not in accord with any rules or regulations.

All elderly Good and Wise Advisors, all Good and Wise Advisors in the prime of life, and all young and promising Good and Wise Advisors:

Every person among us has created manifold karma-some of it is good karma, some of it is bad.

The Tao is near but people seek afar. Things are easy, but people seek what's difficult.

Now I am explaining the Shurangama Mantra for you and it is extremely difficult to encounter such a rare Dharma assembly as this. Billions of eons pass and no one explains the Shurangama Mantra even once.

As we recite "Namo Amitabha Buddha" we each create and adorn our own Land of Ultimate Bliss.

Constantly base yourself on the spirit of public justice, open-mindedness, and great courage

A great hero must have the spirit of firm, unshakable perseverance to conquer every kind of suffering.

All Good and Wise Advisors, Happy New Year! Like Professor Tsu, I would like to wish all of you a Happy Chinese New Year in advance!

1. I vow that as long as there is a single Bodhisattva in the three periods of time throughout the ten directions of the Dharma Realm, to the very end of empty space, who has not accomplished Buddhahood, I too will not attain the right enlightenment.

At a place where there are true cultivators, demons often come to test them.

I see that people are not very clear about the Dharma door of reciting the Buddha's name, and so they do the reciting very sloppily and don't perfect their skill.

It's said, The good assemble together, The bad form gangs, People seek out their own kind.

If you want to be true Buddhists, then you definetely cannot contend, be greedy, seek anything, be selfish, pursue benefit, or tell lies

Sitting in the lotus posture can eradicate karmic obstacles gathered over limitless eons,end birth and death, and generate limitless merit and virtue.

All the people here in the Saha World enjoy happiness and dislike suffering.

The Dharma-door of Chan meditation points directly to the human mind. It teaches us to see our nature and to become a Buddha.

Without wasting a single moment, I worked relentlessly at my investigation, constantly applying my efforts to it.

When you recite "Namo Guanshiyin Bodhisattva," Guanshiyin Bodhisattva is mindful of you

The entire world is filled with natural disasters and calamities; it is covered in blackness and there is no light.

Why should we recite Guanshiyin Bodhisattva's name?

Sages cultivate in order to fathom the process of cause and effect. Ordinary people continue to create causes and undergo effects.

The great golden-winged peng bird's heart emits a radiant light.

Demons helped the Buddha attain the Way. If there were no demons, there would be no Buddha, either. Demons come to test you, to make you take another step forward.

Our recitation of Guanyin Bodhisattva's name should continue nonstop, like an ever flowing stream, until everything becomes one.

Wars result in the loss of life, property damage, the waste of our own energy; they also increase environmental pollution.

People are strange creatures in that they only have the flesh eye-the physical eye-and so they can't discern the relationship between previous causes and later effects in their lives.

Religious leaders, good and wise advisors, and greatly virtuous ones from all nations, I ask for your compassion today as we gather together to investigate the relationship between Buddhism and world peace.

Good advisors! The most terrible retribution in the world is that for killing.

Wherever I go, it's the same as being at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas.

Each of us should look within and ask ourselves: From the time I was born until now, what kinds of things have I done?

We shall now attempt to look into this big problem.

Good and Wise Advisors! People who study the Buddhadharma should not have thoughts of greed or contention. Some people are such that the more they study, the more they want to contend; the more they study, the greedier they become.

If we do not do a good job as human beings, we cannot become Buddhas.

Faith, vows, and practice are the three prerequisites of the Pure Land Dharma-door.

The University of California is a very well-known educational institute.

As to we people who are born in this world: some of us have come to repay our debts. Some have come to make debts. Some have come to cultivate the Way. Some have come to create karma.

Guan Shih Yin (Avalokiteshvara) Bodhisattva has a great affinity with living beings in the Saha world

In the world today, there are too many who take life and too few people who save lives.

Cultivating the Way means to cultivate true morality by not obstructing others and not being afraid of being obstructed by others.

The four great Bodhisattvas have come to the Western nations to help the Buddha
spread the Dharma and teach people, and to make Buddhism flourish.

Why can't we demolish our ignorance, eliminate our afflictions, and reveal our wisdom? Because we crave food and sex.

If you can't find a good Way-place, then even if you want to cultivate, you won't be able to.

When you are cultivating, you should be able to "pick it up" and "put it down"; that is, be serious about what you're doing.

In his quest for perfect wisdom, the Buddha dedicated his life to vigorous cultivation.
How can we expect to achieve Buddhahood without any effort at all?

Sages cultivate in order end the process of cause and effect. Ordinary people continue to create causes and undergo effects.

Cultivation is not a one-day affair. Rather, we must cultivate in thought after thought, from morning to night, year after year and month after month.

If all people would free the creatures instead of eating them and all would practice vegetarianism, then all the worldly disasters would disappear and a crisis would be averted.

Stand outside a slaughterhouse at midnight. Listen to the pigs, sheep,and cows bleating and wailing, begging for their lives. Then, you'll know where war comes from.

Some people hate to do good deeds and only like to do wicked things, thinking they can gain advantages that way.

It's only when there are karmic disorders that such false illusions arise.

Love is a kind of emotional attachment that weighs us down. People suffer psychological trauma because of love.

If the universe is filled with auspicious proper energy, then the earth will not blow up.

Intelligent people correct their errors; ignorant people don't.

We have come here to practice Chan, not to fritter time away

It's because the Way and virtue are a person's foundation. Once we have the Way and virtue, we can stand on our own feet.

First I would like to wish all of you "Happy New Year," and I hope you are all healthy and in good spirits.

In Buddhism, the retribution you receive for each share of merit and each share of offense you create will not be off by a hairsbreadth.

Fate can be changed, and the power to do so is in our own hands.

Sweet dew and Dharma-water are used to dispel the poisonous energy in the world. For each bit that is dispelled, the world obtains a bit of peace.

In every move you make and every word you say, you should aim to be true.

This place originally had no water, but now it does. Is it possible that I really brought the water with me?

Always use precepts, samadhi, and wisdomto alert yourself; this will help you in your cultivation.

How can we bear to let them suffer, and not find a way to bring them happiness?

Recite the Bodhisattva's Name to Understand the Mind and See the Nature

5 Precepts

Why should we receive and uphold the five precepts?

The Four Stages of Cultivation

We could consider the day we took refuge as our birthday, and start counting the stages of our ...

If you don’t make the call, then who’s going to answer the phone?

From morning till night, we should bow to the Buddhas and recite the Buddhas’ names to eradicate our obstructions from offenses, and we should be busy for the sake of the Dharma.

No matter in front of whom we are repenting, we must say our confession clearly. Don’t be vague and vacillating.

If one is truly repentant, it can certainly be worked out.

We only need persist in our vigor, and we can certainly go home.

One cannot speak of true advantages. It is just as someone will know the warmth or coolness of a glass of water only after drinking from it.

It’s because the Way and virtue are a person’s foundation. Once we have the Way and virtue, we can stand on our own feet.

If you always wear a phony mask to cover yourself, you'll never get selected to be a Buddha.

The greatly virtuous High Master Gunavarman, was born into the royal family of Kashmir.

On Tuesday, May 19, 1992 over a hundred students led by Dr. Tais DeRosa from Lowell High School in San Francisco came to Gold Mountain Monastery in Chinatown to hear the Venerable Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua's talk on Buddhism and education.

The High Master Dharmaraksha was a native of central India.

We should have a sense of responsibility in everything we do

The word propriety is defined by a homonym in Chinese which means "to set up" or "to stand."

I would rather die while making one last step towards the West,than live by retreating one step towards the East

There are people who have been evil to begin with and later changed to become good people

The Venerable Buddhabhadra was of the same family as Shakyamuni Buddha since he was a descendant of the Buddha's paternal uncle, Amritodana

When your mind is proper, great, and bright, you can shine right through all the darkness!

One flower blossoms with five petals, and the fruit will come ripe all by itself.

The participants in our Chan Session are working at a very superficial level.

Examine yourself at all times and reform any faults that you find. If you find no faults, then press on.

We must look within ourselves and clearly see our own faults.

The High Master Buddhayashas was a native of Kashmir.

The companion replied, "This water contains bugs and the precepts do not permit drinking such water.

What is meant by the "the ultimate meaning of the Middle Way"?

Earth Store Bodhisattva is the Bodhisattva of great vows, and his vow power is immense.

"Manjushri" is a Sanskrit word that is translated as "wonderfully auspicious."

The Vajra Sutra says, "There is no dharma that is fixed.

We bow to the Buddha and recite the Buddha's name in order to be reborn in the Land of Ultimate Bliss.

The Saha World is the place where a myriad sufferings intermingle and a myriad evils abound.

Maitreya Bodhisattva is also known as the Bodhisattva of the Compassionate Clan

Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Hearers, and Those Enlightened to Conditions are the Four Sagely Dharma Realms; gods, human beings, asuras, hell-beings, ...

The father of Tripitaka Master Kumarajiva (344-413 A.D.), was Kumarayana, Kumarayana was the son of a high official in India and, although he was heir to his father's position, he renounced the world instead and travelled everywhere in search of a Good knowing Advisor.

Before I reached age twelve, I was obstinate to the extreme.

To "investigate" means to look, to look for the one who is reciting the Buddha's name.

The hells’ anxiety and suffering, Is devoid of doors, yet one bores right in. Giving rise to delusion, deeds are done. The retribution is borne in due accord.

The ghostly crew delights in hate, Deluded by effects, confused about cause; Their ignorance and upside-downness Grow greater each day, deeper each month.

The way of men is harmony, With merit and error interspersed. On virtuous deeds you rise; offenses make you fall. It has nothing to do with anyone else at all.

Asuras have a violent nature,Laden with blessings, lacking power.Absolutelydetermined to fight, They bob along in karma's tow.

A thought of goodness increases the proper energy in the world;a thought of evil increases the world’s bad energy.

Beings of the Six Desire and the Brahma heavens, Practice the five precepts and the ten good deeds. Planting seeds with outflows, They cannot terminate their transmigration.

The Shravaka disciples, Both men and women, Contemplate and practice the Four Noble Truths, Concealing the real and displaying the expedient.

The holy sages enlightened to conditions, Doze high on mountain peaks alone. Springtime’s flowers wither in the fall In a cycle of twelve interconnecting links.

Sentient beings when enlightened, Leap out of the dust., Their six perfections and ten thousand practices, At all times are nurtured.

Neither great nor small,Neither gone nor come,In worlds as many as motes of dust, They shine upon each other from their lotus thrones.

For cultivators,it’s important to be able to endure cold and heat, wind and rain, hunber and thirst, and insults and beatings.

If anyone wishes to understand, All people of the three periods of time, He should contemplate the nature of the Dharma Realm; The Tathagatas are made from the mind alone.

High Sanghan Vighna was from India. His grandfather and father were both externalists who cultivated the worship of fire.

The Greatly Virtuous Indian Bhikshu, K'ang Seng Hui of the Third Century, A.D., mastered all worldly knowledge by an early age.

Living beings on the wheel of rebirth in the six paths cannot avoid cause and effect.

Kashyapa Matanga and Gobharana were two Dharma Masters from India who co-translated the Sutra In Forty-Two Sections, in the later Han dynasty.

In this era, when technology and materialism flourish, we want to take a careful look at the thinking of the times and ask ourselves whether or not this is a good age to live in.

In cultivating the Way, actual skill is all that counts. Don’t publicize yourself.

Buddhism goes through periods of flourishing and decline. It flourishes when living beings have abundant blessings and declines and disappears as their blessings become scarce.

Confucius once said, "When there are three people walking, my teacher is bound to be among them.

The principle of the Dharma Realm Buddhist Association has always been:

Talk less and meditate more: this is the fundamental requisite of cultivation.

Living beings are born without a beginning, and die without an end. Without beginning and without end, they transmigrate, revolving in birth and death.

The basic rule in Chan meditation is: "Let your eyes contemplate your nose; let your nose contemplate your mouth; let your mouth contemplate your mind."

Today I have some feelings and would like to tell you what has been on my mind. If you want to listen, fine.

As long as you have patience, you'll succeed at whatever Dharma-door you practice.

Shakyamuni Buddha said to all the Bodhisattvas Mahasattvas:

Seeing Amitabha Buddha's great vow, I also wanted to turn the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas into a Land of Ultimate Bliss.

The In the world today, there are too many who take life and too few people who save lives.

Why do we recite "Namo Amitabha Buddha?" It is because Amitabha Buddha has a great affinity with living beings in the ten directions.

If we do not do a good job as human beings, we cannot become Buddhas. Therefore, we must lay the foundation. What is the foundation for being a human being?

Don't do any evil. Do only meritorious acts. Do only the things that benefit people. You should work only for the people's welfare, not for your own.

All elderly Good and Wise Advisors, all Good and Wise Advisors in the prime of life, and all young and promising Good and Wise Advisors:

Now our Chan session is about to begin. In the Chan Hall, we don't recite the Buddha's name; and during the Buddha Recitation Session, we don't practice meditation.

For the most part, these people with strange illnesses had sought "bargains" in their past lives and had been unwilling to take a loss.

Every dharma is found within the Shurangama Sutra, so there are no potentials it fails to attract. It is the essential Dharma for all generations: It is the right seal for becoming a Buddha or a Patriarch.

On behalf of Heaven, proclaim and transform with kindness. For the country, teach the people to be loyal and filial.

The proper dharmas are: not fighting, not being greedy, not seeking not being selfish, not wanting personal advantages, and not telling lies.

When you practice good deeds, you should do them in a genuine place.Everyone, put your palms together and close your eyes.

There’s a Guanshiyin Bodhisattva inside the mind of every living being.Every day, we recite Guanshiyin Bodhisattva's name.

The Flower Adornment Sutra is the Sutra of the Dharma Realm and the Sutra of Empty Space. To the exhaustion of the Dharma Realm and empty space there is no place where the Flower Adornment Sutra is not present.

The Shurangama Sutrais a Sutra that acts like a demon-spotting mirror in Buddhism. All the celestial demons, externalists, and the li, mei,and wang liang ghosts reveal their true appearance when they see the Shurangama Sutra. They have no way to hide and no place to flee to.

Why is it called "White Universe"? Because it was so cold that it froze into ice.

The Six Great Principles. The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas has Six Great Principles which are the goals for cultivation.

Venerable Master Hua Lectures on Great Master Bu Xu's "Prophetic Poem of the Great Events of One Hundred Years in China".