The Mahasiddha said, "The more devotion you have, the more blessings you will receive." "Powerful blessings come from a strong devotional heart. It's not that there is a difference in the blessings of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, but because there is a difference in the size of our devotions. A person who is not pious, even if the Buddha walks in front of him, it is useless.

We often ask our teachers for blessings, and the teachers are also very compassionate, and they often touch our heads and recite sutras for us, is this blessing useful? Of course it works. Why is it useful? Because you are pure, pious, and trusting in Him in the moment of praying for your blessings, their mercy will be received by you. We often say metaphorically: Buddha and Bodhisattva are like a fisherman, the Dharma is a fishing rod with bait attached, and sentient beings are like fish, if the fish does not eat the bait and does not take the bait, even if the Buddha and Bodhisattva want to catch a fish and want to save us, it is useless. Although this metaphor of "those who wish to take the bait" is not very good, it is actually so!

Some people think that they can get different blessings and more blessings by going to the empowerment and running track everywhere. Actually, the blessings are not all obtained by seeing with the eyes, hearing with the ears, or running out with the feet. To receive true blessings, you have to feel the Buddha's teachings with your heart! Life is short, karma is impermanent, when you have a full human body, when you encounter good karma, you must grasp it, in the moment of grasping, the blessing power is not fake, and you will naturally feel it!

The practice of true Buddhism is to observe one's own mind inwardly, that is, we often say that Buddhists should be inward-minded. Buddhists do not act in a way that focuses on form and appearance, nor do they act in a way that is mixed with secular law. In the commercial era, many religious activities focused too much on the outside, so much so that the arrangement of practical practice and the activities in which sentient beings participated were like performing a stage play, making Buddhism a "face-saving method".

To be a Buddhist, you can't rely on slogans on the surface to benefit sentient beings, but on the inside you want to satisfy your own desires. To be a true Buddhist, you should not criticize others because of how famous and wise your master is. The most important thing in studying Buddhism is to be internal, to be down-to-earth, to treat the Dharma as a meditation and practice, not just as a scholarly discussion, and to criticize the scriptures that have not been learned according to the surface of the text. After listening to the Dharma, we must learn to think, and after thinking about it, we must practice it, and we must unite our words and deeds, so that the words and teachings of the Dharma can continue to be passed on.

The excitement outside is none of your business, and the "heart of the law" is the most important. Only when the meditation is done satisfactorily can the Dharma continue to be transmitted. If the mind can be articulated in the same way, it will be able to attain the happiness and liberation of the same way. If the mind works with the five poisons, it will receive endless suffering and reincarnation. By cultivating devotion to the Dharma and accumulating good retribution and gratitude, you will be able to tolerate differences in your own thoughts from the outside world.

Don't use Dharma arguments to observe others or criticize others, but understand yourself. Cultivating the Dharma should be practiced honestly, and doing good deeds does not have to be known by others, but the focus is on benefiting sentient beings. If you have the ability to do it, try to do it, if you can't do it, you will rejoice in the good deeds done by others, and don't expect to be praised by others. And do it consistently for a long time, not like a bubble.

If you use the Dharma as a tool to frame your face, to whitewash your inner vanity. Then our originally upside-down delusional minds have another layer of shackles. This kind of mentality of putting on a show of practice will only make one's vanity more frothy. This is because the understanding of the Dharma requires us to listen and meditate with correct knowledge and correct insight, with the aim of breaking off evil and cultivating good to generate unfeigned bodhichitta of compassion for sentient beings, so that it is possible to break the suffering of samsara. But if we don't value the true utility of the Dharma from our hearts, we try to cover up our vanity, and we tend to make ourselves comically miserable.