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Everyone has taken the Five Precepts, which are like the foundation to a high-rise building, and the base of a wall in a mansion. Now that you have taken the Five Precepts, it is as if the base of the wall has been laid down. Upon this foundation, in the future you can work on building skyscrapers, jeweled pagodas—a seven-story jeweled pagoda, 81-story jeweled pagoda, 108-story jeweled pagoda, 84,000 countless jeweled pagodas. I hope everyone will make a great resolve!

專輯: Daily Dharma

分類: Master Miao Lien

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We should know that “it is still possible to temper the effects of natural calamity while it is impossible to alter the consequences of man-made disaster.” If we do not behave ourselves, there will inevitably be troubles and disasters. So, we should sincerely chant Guan Yin Bodhisattva’s name and pray for the country’s safety and world peace. As long as the country is safe, sentient beings can be guided and liberated. Without peace, when can sentient beings be freed?

專輯: Daily Dharma

分類: Master Miao Lien

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If there is anything I would like you to learn from my life experience, it is to be grounded in humility and fulfill the responsibilities of your role.

專輯: Daily Dharma

分類: Master Miao Lien

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Sincerely chanting Guan Yin Bodhisattva’s name and prostrating to the Bodhisattva will cleanse your mind of lust and desire.

專輯: Daily Dharma

分類: Master Miao Lien

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Prostrating to the Buddha is the best exercise! At the beginning, prostrate twelve times every day—representing the twelve great vows of Guan Yin Bodhisattva.

專輯: Daily Dharma

分類: Master Miao Lien

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Prostration can improve blood circulation for the whole body which result in good health.
Prostration also eliminate negative karmic and accumulates blessings and wisdom.

專輯: Daily Dharma

分類: Master Miao Lien

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Learn to free people from suffering and give them happiness just like Guan Yin Bodhisattva does.
You chant Guan Yin Bodhisattva’s name, and I wish that you will also learn to be like Guan Yin Bodhisattva! Before becoming a Bodhisattva, Guan Yin was an ordinary being, too. How did he accomplish his cultivation? He started by being compassionate, freeing others from suffering and giving them happiness. Since you cannot yet be as greatly compassionate as a Bodhisattva, you can start by practicing compassion little by little. Gradually, when you perfect your cultivation, you can be like the Bodhisattva.

專輯: Daily Dharma

分類: Master Miao Lien

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Many people think that chanting the name of Amitabha Buddha will lead them to the Western Pure Land but that chanting the name of Guan Yin Bodhisattva won’t do it. They also think that chanting the name of Guan Yin Bodhisattva can save them from hardships, but that chanting the name of Amitabha Buddha won’t do it. This is wrong! All Buddhas and Bodhisattvas have the compassion and the power to help sentient beings fulfill their wishes! Just give your utmost sincerity and you will be able to receive a response.

專輯: Daily Dharma

分類: Master Miao Lien

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As Buddhist practitioners, and as monastic practitioners, there is no negotiating when it comes to the precepts. For every ounce of effort that you put into upholding the precepts, you will generate an ounce of beneficial value. For every part that you do not uphold, you will experience one part of suffering.

專輯: Daily Dharma

分類: Master Miao Lien

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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.

專輯: Daily Dharma

分類: Master Miao Lien