If your circumstances do not allow you to live a monastic life, then you should support the Three Treasures and help maintain the monastery. As a layperson, you can help build monasteries for people to come and practice. By planting this cause, you will have blessings that will give you good circumstances for practicing as a monastic in the future. Good results come from good causes; please plant more good causes toward practicing as a monastic!
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So what is suffering? Not being satisfied is suffering. What is bliss? Contentment is bliss.
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The giving of wealth yields blessings; giving of Dharma yields wisdom. Practicing both types of giving will help you end the cycle of birth and death, and realize Buddhahood.
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Upholding the precepts will enable you to chant the Buddha’s name more earnestly. Likewise, chanting the Buddha’s name earnestly will enable you to uphold the precepts more purely.
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Pray to Guan Yin Bodhisattva to liberate sentient beings from suffering
We know that in this world there is nothing we can rely on. We need to seek assistance from the most compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva to help us, along with our parents and teachers over the infinite past, as well as all sentient beings, to find relief from suffering. We are all together in the Six Paths of Transmigration. We not only want to free ourselves from suffering, but also vow to help all sentient beings attain liberation together. This is the right mindset to have when praying to and chanting the name of Guan Yin Bodhisattva.
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Precepts are the roots of Bodhi. As it is said, “Precepts are the foundation to Bodhi and Nirvana.” How important is it to uphold the precepts!
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During the time of cultivation, upon hearing the Great Compassion Mantra from Thousand Light King Dwelling Stillness Buddha, Guan Yin Bodhisattva advanced from the first stage to the eighth stage of Bodhisattvahood. How powerful the merits of the Mantra are! Guan Yin Bodhisattva vowed, “If sentient beings uphold this Great Compassion Mantra, all of their wishes will be fulfilled.”
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The Five Precepts are like a golden chain that guard the body and mind. Use them to prevent the body from committing acts of killing, stealing, and sexual misconduct, and stop the mouth from engaging in two-tongued speech, harsh speech, false speech, and frivolous speech. This is the essence of the Five Precepts.
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To become a Buddha, we need to cultivate the Four All-Embracing Virtues and Six Paramitas. To be reborn as a human, we need to uphold the Five Precepts. To be born in the heavenly realms, we also need to follow and cultivate the Path of Three Virtuous Thoughts. We will fall into the Three Lower Realms if we break the precepts as a human.
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