Ladies and gentlemen, what a blessing it is to have such an environment to support you, and you don't have to worry about food, housing, and schooling!

I often say to my fellow believers, 'Reflect yourselves, how can you be supported by this?' That's why I often say that there is a precept saying:

Consider your own merits and measure where they come from.

This is very important.

When we accept offerings from others, we have to reflect on what merits we have done and estimate whether or not this person should accept their offerings to us.

It's not that you don't have examples in these places, but you have living examples, but you don't know them.

Sometimes when you are happy, you want to scold them, and if you are unhappy, you can only sigh, this is what the Buddha said, to the pitiful, the stupid are pitiful.

If they have enough merit and wisdom resources, they can cultivate the Great Fa.

The superior Dafa says, "Of all the offerings, the Fa offers the most."

The diet, clothes, bedding, and decoction just mentioned are still easy to understand, so how do you call them offerings?

It is the enlightenment of the human beings themselves, and the attainment of the enlightenment of the three bodhisattvas is the Dharma offering, and it is also the true Dharma almsgiving.

Some people say in secular terms that Dharma offerings are spiritual offerings, but this is not true.

The best Dharma offering is one's own enlightenment, and secondly, the mind is free from distracting thoughts, delusions, and afflictions at all times.

Whether it can be done or not is a question.

Therefore, Vimala lay monk taught the elders the principle of Dharma offerings, and he said that the most important thing in holding a charity conference is not to give money and goods, but to give Dharma is the real charity.

I said, "Layman, what is the Dharma Society? ”

The elder son Shande then asked Vimal, "What is the Dharma puja called?" ”

"Those who give to the Dharma, without any one before or after, make offerings to all sentient beings at one time, and it is a meeting of the Dharma."

It's easy to understand, and you can read it and it's gone.

Therefore, later generations call chanting scriptures endorsements, and there is nothing wrong with endorsements, I have already said that now you young people rely on notes to read, which one can memorize? If you can't memorize a book, you can't be inspired by wisdom.

The Buddhist method of endorsement is very good, it is called chanting, chanting is reading, and reading it out of the mouth.

Why do you knock on the wooden fish when you chant the scriptures?

What is a wooden fish used for?

The ancients believed that fish do not sleep, in fact, fish also sleep, but because fish never close their eyes, so the wooden fish is to remind us to be awake day and night, not to be ignorant, not to be drowsy, not to be nonsense, and to keep our minds clear.

The purpose of knocking on the wooden fish is that every word is not scattered when chanting the scriptures, and the recitation is clear, which is called chanting.

Vimala's answer, literally, is that the Dharma of Dharma giving is given to even those who have lived in the universe in the past and in the future, which is unprecedented and unprecedented, and it provides for all sentient beings at the same time, which is called Dharma almsgiving.

Do you understand this? Hmph, I don't understand anything! This is called "interpreting the meaning according to the text, the three generations of Buddhas are wronged", if you only interpret the meaning of the scriptures according to the text, the Buddhas of the past, present, and future will cry out for wrongdoing.

Here are two more sentences:

The word deviating from the scriptures is allowed to be the devil.

If you say, then I don't follow the scriptures, but my own practice and experience. But if what you say does not agree with the teachings of the sutras, it is a demon's doctrine, not a Buddha's doctrine.

Therefore, those who really study Buddhism must understand the scriptures, the teachings, and the sects, and they must have their own enlightenment and kung fu, and they must be able to do everything.

No matter how strictly speaking, you must understand the inner knowledge, you must gain the Tao within yourself, you must also learn from the outside, and all the knowledge in the world must be passed, so that you can learn Buddhism.

If you're on your own, then what's the point of studying Buddhism? Those who truly study Buddhism do not care about themselves alone, but must always think of benefiting others.

Nowadays, those who write Buddhist treatises are interpreting according to the text, grasping a topic, going around one by one, and then writing some annotations and citations, and the three Buddhas of Zhenjiao will cry out for injustice.

Can you do the Dharma giving that Vimala talks about, offering to all sentient beings at the same time, without a front or a back?

Is it possible? Even if you are a psychotic fantasizer, if you can fantasize about your ability, I will confirm that you fantasize about becoming a bodhisattva.