To refrain from vice is to cherish blessings; to do all good is to cultivate blessings. By cherishing and cultivating blessings, the body and mind naturally become pure and both blessings and wisdom are enhanced.

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Wisdom and experience come from the diligence and drive in our work.

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How can you gain blessings and wisdom?
The lack of blessings or wisdom comes from stinginess and greed. Leaving the good to others and taking on the bad is a way to cultivate blessings. Sharing your knowledge and willingly teaching others are the means to cultivating wisdom.

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The best way to leave wealth to your children is to earn merits on their behalf by making offerings to the Three Treasures and by doing wholesome deeds.

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Chant the name of the Buddha.
Transfer the merits to all sentient beings who will attain rebirth in the Western Pure Land.

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Control your temper when you are angry.
Think before you speak. Watch out for mistakes when you are busy.
Use your wisdom to distinguish right from wrong.

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By engaging in the Repentance, the merits of repenting our sins not only eliminate our own bad karma, but also help all sentient beings. We must transfer our merits to all sentient beings so that they will have the same merits.

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If we do not cultivate to gain blessings and wisdom, then we are wasting our lives and we will remain transmigrating within the six paths of birth and death.

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Increase your wisdom and virtues through the new year
For this new year there should be growth in one’s wisdom and virtues. Ignorance and karmic hindrances must be eliminated, efforts should be made towards the perfection of one’s Bodhi cultivation, and afflictions and karmic hindrances should all be purified.

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Over the passing year, everyone has been accumulating merits and virtues.
As we age a year, we increase our blessings and wisdom as well as Samadhi meritorious virtues.

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