Eating the vegetables alongside the meat
You may say, “It is inconvenient to be vegetarian!” If that is the case, then you can be expediently vegetarian. What does that mean?
When you dine out, the circumstances might prevent you from being purely vegetarian, so you do not need to request separate vegetarian food and clean utensils.
You can simply eat the vegetables alongside the meat—not the meat alongside the vegetables! Can you maintain your compassion?
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If you aspire to perfect your blessings and wisdom, you must follow the precepts. This applies equally to the desire to be rid of suffering. There are eighty-four thousand methods of cultivation in Buddhism, and all can be summarized thus: “Refrain from all wrongdoing and cultivate virtue.” This essence can be further condensed into a single word: “precepts.” So long as you give up lazy, unwholesome behavior and diligently cultivate virtue, you will certainly become both blessed and wise. With these qualities, others will respect you—how dignified you will be!
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By Venerable Master Tze Cheng
The Avatamsaka Syllabary begins with the syllable ‘a’. By adding different syllables after it, we give it different meanings. All phenomena originate from this one syllable ‘a’, and ultimately return to the syllable ‘a’. The syllable ‘a’ gives rise to all of the myriad phenomena. It represents our essential nature, our original pure mind.
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By Venerable Master Tze Cheng
The syllable ‘a’ is like our self-nature, our pure mind. Which syllables will you place after it? If you place an ordinary word after it, it will merely be a secular term. If you give it limitless light and limitless life, then it becomes Amitabha Buddha.
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By Venerable Master Tze Cheng
In your Bodhisattva practice, if you already have the intention to seek transcendence, and have given rise to the mind of great compassion, you also need to practice contemplation of emptiness. This relates to the part of the syllabary where we recite, “with the universal vow that all sentient beings enter the prajna paramita door.”
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By Venerable Master Tze Cheng
Adding different syllables behind ‘a’ to form various combinations changes its effect. From this we can see that all phenomena work in the same way. Different arrangements produce changes, but they do not change its essence. All phenomena arise interdependently from the syllable ‘a’, and finally return to the syllable ‘a’.
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Did you know that having a smile on your face could solve most of your problems?
Generally speaking, have you noticed that people will not fight with you when you have a smile on your face? If someone appears angry and tries to hit you, just smile and apologize. Say, “I’m sorry. It’s my fault!” Even the biggest dispute can be resolved that way.
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Cultivating virtue not only brings peace and happiness to us but also to everyone and to the whole world.
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By Venerable Master Tze Cheng
Just as in our self-nature, there are originally no such things as karmic obstacles. It is because delusive thoughts are like wind that causes delusive thoughts to arise in our self-nature and cause us, to do various deviant actions which become karmic obstacles.
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By Venerable Master Tze Cheng
May the pure sound of our chanting of the Flower Adornment syllables fill the entire Saha World. And even go beyond the Saha World and permeate the worlds of the Ten Directions with fragrance.
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