What is the habit, since the beginning of the calamity, our daily behavior, develop a variety of habits, such as this person in the previous life stealing, because there is no cut off the cause of stealing, there will be the habit of stealing when the cycle of this life is turned, just like a rich man, although very rich, there is no lack of anything, but because of the habit of stealing, will steal things, and there are some small animals, will like to steal the owner's money and socks to hide, these reasons are the residual habits left in the previous life, some people have created a new karma in this life, such as a person touching porcelain, when he reincarnates in the next life, there will be a surplus of habits will also touch porcelain, we also see some pets in life on the pretend to be lame, no one is there to resume normal walking, these are all the remnants of the previous life.

My dad didn't graduate from elementary school, and he didn't learn to repair electricity, but in this life, when he encounters electrical appliances or something, he will repair them after looking at them, and there are many people who have this situation, some things, they have not been in contact with, but once they have been contacted, they feel familiar, and some places have not even been to, but once they meet, they feel familiar, or they have met some people, and they always feel as if they know, or you have encountered them in this life, Christianity, Taoism, Buddhism, etc., as soon as you meet you, you will be happy and interested, which are all habits of the previous life.

For example, Su Dongpo was a monk in his previous life, and although he is a scholar in this life, he has a habit of wearing monk's clothes.

Su Shi, the word Zizhan, the number of Dongpo layman, now many people only know that he is a great writer and calligrapher and painter of the Northern Song Dynasty, once served as a bachelor of Hanlin, and the official to the Ministry of Rites, but he did not know that his previous life was a practicing monk, in fact, he himself has mentioned his past life many times in the poems, such as: "I am a cultivator, and I have accumulated refinement in three lifetimes." If you lose your thoughts in the middle, you will be punished for a hundred years.

Nanhua Temple

Su Shi (Song)

When Yun He sees the ancestor, he must know the true face.

The people in the pavilion asked me what I saw.

Poor Ming sat down, and ten thousand laws were electric.

Drinking water is self-aware, and it means that there is no dizziness in the moon.

I am a cultivator, and I have accumulated and refined in three lifetimes.

If you lose your thoughts in the middle, you will be punished for a hundred years.

In April of the seventh year of Yuanfeng, before Su Zhe arrived in Yunzhou, the monk Yun'an dreamed that he and Su Zhe, the Cong monk of Shengshou Temple went out of the city to meet the monk of the five precepts, and felt very strange after waking up, so he told Su Zhe about the dream, Su Zhe had not yet spoken, the Cong monk came, Su Zhe said to him: "I talked about the dream with Yun'an just now, do you want to talk about the dream together?" Cong monk said: "I dreamed last night that the three of us went together to meet the monk of the five precepts. Su Zhe stroked his palms and laughed: "It's really strange that there are really three people in the world who have the same dream!"

Soon, Su Dongpo's letter arrived, saying that he had now arrived in Fengxin and would be able to meet everyone soon. The three of them were very happy, and trotted all the way to Jianshan Temple twenty miles outside the city and other Su Dongpo. After Su Dongpo arrived, everyone talked to him about the three of them having the same dream, Su Dongpo said thoughtfully: "When I was eight or nine years old, I also dreamed that I was a monk in my previous life, going back and forth between Shaanxi and the right. Also, when my mother was just pregnant, she dreamed that a monk came to stay with her, and the monk was very beautiful and blind in one eye. Yun'an exclaimed: "The monk of Wujie is a native of Shaanxi, blind in one eye, and traveled to Gao'an in his later years, and passed away in Dayu. "Everyone counts that fifty years have passed since this incident, and Su Dongpo is now exactly forty-nine years old. Judging from the time, place, and similar dreams of many people, there is no objection that Su Dongpo is the reincarnation of the Wujie monk.

Su Dongpo later wrote to Yun'an: "The monk is not afraid of people's jokes, and he is cheeky and comes out again, which is really ridiculous! But since it is a chance for Buddhism, I have sharpened my strength, hoping that I can return to the original place in the future, which is a great honor."

Su Dongpo always likes to wear monk's clothes, which may be caused by karma in his previous life. Song Zhezong once asked Chen Yan, an attendant: "What kind of clothes is Su Dongpo wearing under his court clothes?" Chen Yan said: "It's a monk's robe." Zhezong laughed.

When Su Dongpo was in Hangzhou, he and his friend Shen Liao traveled to the Shouxing Temple on the edge of the West Lake, Su Dongpo looked around and said to Shen Liao: "I have never been here in my life, but what I see in front of me seems to have personally experienced this, from here to the confession hall, there should be ninety-two steps." After calling the number, it was exactly as he said. Su Dongpo said to Shen Yu: "I was a monk in the mountains in my previous life, and I used to be in this monastery. Since then, Su Dongpo has often gone to this Buddhist temple to take a rest.

Who is this monk of the five precepts? He is blind, and there is a senior brother named Mingwu, because of the difference in one thought, the five precepts have an affair with the woman Red Lotus, and commit the precept of evil yin, but the matter is seen through by the enlightened monk who already has supernatural powers, and the five precepts are ashamed and embarrassed, so they sit down and reincarnate. Mingwu had already foreseen that the five precepts might slander the Buddha and the monks in the next life, so that there might never be a day to come out, so he also hurriedly sat down and chased after the five precepts and reincarnated. In this life, Wujie was reincarnated as Su Dongpo, and Mingwu was Su Dongpo's good friend Buddha Yin monk. Su Dongpo really didn't believe in Buddhism at the beginning, and was obsessed with fame, but the Buddha Yin has always followed him unabandoningly, painstakingly persuading him to become enlightened. His own personal experience, coupled with the continuous persuasion and enlightenment of the Buddha Yin, Su Dongpo finally woke up, not only believing in the theory of reincarnation of cause and effect, but also believing in Buddhism and concentrating on cultivation.

I still remember when I used to work as a waiter in the hotel, I often chanted Buddha to return to the animals that were killed in the hotel, and there was a guest who ordered food, never added onions, ginger and garlic, this is the habit of the previous life, because of the reasons of the previous life, eating in this life will also be affected by the habit.

If you don't eat green onions, green onions will give rise to resentment, and garlic will give rise to lustful thoughts. It is best not to eat.

[All sentient beings, who are born after eating sweetly, and die when they eat poison, are all sentient beings, seek samadhi, and cut off the world, the five kinds of pungent vegetables, are the five kinds of pungent food, and the cooked food is promiscuous, and the birth is increased. If it is the world, people who eat hard food, even if they can preach the twelve scriptures, the ten heavenly immortals, they think they are filthy, and they are far away from salt; The hungry ghosts, etc., lick their lips and kiss them because they eat the times, and often live with the ghosts. Fortune is fading day by day, and there is no profit in the long run. It is a person who eats hard food, cultivates samadhi, bodhisattvas, immortals, and good gods of the ten directions, and does not come to protect them. It is the five kinds of pungent vegetables, cooked food is promiscuous, and if you cook it and eat it, it will increase your lustful mind. The same is true of meat, so why don't monastics eat meat? It is because meat helps people's lustful minds and increases people's lustful minds.

These five kinds of bitter things also increase people's desires; It does not increase legitimate desires, but increases such lustful thoughts. If there are too many things to eat, and the lustful thoughts are about to go crazy, men can't do without women, and women can't do without men, so there is a special nature that can't be tolerated. "Giving birth to and increasing the sorrow": This "sorrow", you should not misunderstand it, this is the "sorrow" of "sorrow", not the "wisdom" of "wisdom". The same sound, "Oh! doesn't it increase your wisdom?" No, it increases your stupidity. What do you call increasing your stupidity? Really! Increasing your temper is increasing your stupidity. A wise man does not lose his temper; Most people who lose their temper can't tell the difference between things themselves. If you can't see things through, there is an obstacle that you can't solve; There's no way to solve it, I'm going to lose my temper, and the result won't help things. That's why do you get angry, why do you have a big temper? Just because eating this kind of meat will increase your ignorance. Eating Wuxin will also increase your temper, increase your ignorance, and the more you eat, the greater your temper will be!

"All the hungry ghosts lick their lips and kiss them because of their food": You can preach the twelve sutras, but you are not fasting and pure, and those hungry ghosts who have nothing to eat, because the person who preaches the scriptures has eaten the five hardships, this ghost will come to kiss you. He is that person; After eating, it was finished. Because when you have finished eating, your lips have this smell of five pungent eyes; It rejoices in the smell and wants to eat it, so it comes to kiss you, the one who eats the five spices, and licks your lips. The Buddha said that this ghost is a touch of food, so if you have a smell here, it will come there and touch it. Left touch, right touch, you see, you eat five hard things, you eat meat, that ghost approaches you every day, kisses you. "Constantly dwelling with ghosts, good fortune is sold every day, and there is no profit for a long time": In this way, those who do not fast and are not pure, and eat five hardships, often live with ghosts, and they do not know it or see it; His good fortune is disappearing day by day, and there is no benefit at all. The immortals of the ten directions hate it and stay away from it, "if they are the people who eat hard food in the world, even if they can preach the twelve sutras": like the people who eat the five spicy or drink alcohol and eat meat in this world, even if they can preach the twelve sutras, "the ten heavenly immortals hate its stinkiness, and they are all far away from the salty": the immortals of the ten directions hate this kind of person as unclean, and they all stay away from this person. All those who preach the Dharma, if you fast and are pure, do not eat the five bitters, do not drink alcohol, and do not eat meat; At this time, the immortals of the ten directions will come to support you.

Those who cultivate Bodhi will never break the five hardships; Yes, it is called the first step of enhancing practice. Did you hear me say? "Those who practice the Bodhi path must not eat these green onions, leeks, shallots, garlic, and xingqu. If you eat these things, you will run to the demon king; If you don't eat these things, you'll come to the Buddha's dependents. "Yes, it is called the first progressive progression": this is the first progressive progression of the cultivation path. Cultivation requires the removal of the supporting causes, but what are the supporting causes of the demon king? These are the five hardships. You don't take it simply, because you have five hardships, you become cloudy, you are not pure. If you are not pure, you will be in harmony with the demon king's family.

The family of the demon king is not pure; The more impure it is, the more joyful it is. This kind of person who is blessed by the devil and falls into the infernal prison and eats the five hardships, because the heavenly immortal protectors, the bodhisattvas and good gods do not protect him, so the powerful demon king gets convenience, and he realizes the body of a Buddha to tell him the Dharma of the devil, praises the evil behavior, praises the foolishness, and praises the foolishness. As a result, such a person is deceived by the demon king, and has no correct knowledge and correct view, and no true wisdom. What does he have? The demon king said that fornication is good, and he also believed, "This Buddha told me! The Buddha told me that adultery is okay and doesn't matter!" and said, "It doesn't matter if you are troubled, you are troubled by Bodhi, and this is what the Buddha told me." Originally, it was the Dharma that the demon king told him, and he said that it was the Buddha who said it; This is called "recognizing the thief as a son, recognizing the demon king as a Buddha". "At the end of your life, you will be the family of the demon king": At the end of your life, you will die. So when his life was at the end of his life and he had enjoyed all the blessings in this world, he obediently ran to the demon king and became the demon king's dependent. When he has received all the blessings of the demon king, he will go to hell and suffer again.

In the morning, the water of the Ganges River flowed quietly, and Venerable Bilinga Buddha came to the sparkling banks of the Ganges River with a clay bowl in his hand. The morning sun shone on his golden robe, shining like gold, and the sky brightened up in an instant. His Holiness stepped barefoot on the bank of the Ganges, and the soft and thin sand of the Ganges gently covered his ankles, white and crystalline. His Holiness frowned at the gurgling Ganges and bowed his head in thought:

"The elder Rama on the other side of the river invited me to go into the city to make offerings, but the Ganges River has no end to it, and there are no boats nearby, so how can I cross the river?

His Holiness was anxiously pacing the banks of the Ganges, seeing that the sun was already high in the sky, and when he was anxious, he suddenly remembered the events of a few days ago. On that day, the Buddha was preaching the Dharma to his disciples, when suddenly a figure wearing a high crown and a brocade robe appeared, accompanied by a group of beautiful women. Since the Ganges god is a refuge disciple of the Buddha's mentor and has the same karma as himself, there must be no problem in asking him for help. His Holiness then shouted to the Ganges:

"Ganges, little maid, make a waterway for me to cross the river to the dervishes. ”

The god of the Ganges River in the crystal palace heard an earth-shattering lion roar, and hurriedly looked at it, and it turned out to be the Venerable Biling Gyabha, a disciple of the arhat in front of the Buddha's throne, and his eyebrows couldn't help but gather together. He is a god of the Ganges River who rules one side, but he is scorned as a little maid. But the other party is a great arhat who has been rid of his troubles and attained enlightenment, and since he has taken refuge in the Three Jewels, he should respect the Three Jewels and not insult them. The god of the Ganges had no choice but to endure the resentment in his heart, and with his divine power, he opened up a smooth road from the turbulent waves, so that His Holiness could cross it safely. His Holiness saw the surging waves in an instant, and quickly retreated to both sides, and a white refining in the sea stretched straight to the other shore. His Holiness crossed to the other side of the Ganges, turned his head, thanked him with joy, and said:

"Thank you, little Ganges!"

From then on, His Holiness had to dress and carry a bowl every day and go into the city to make offerings, and the god of the Ganges River had to open the way to cross the river for His Holiness every day, and be a competent ferryman, but at the same time, he had to accept His Holiness's call of "Little maid!" The god Ganges was so annoyed that one day he could not help but complain to the Buddha:

"Buddha, I have to serve His Holiness every day and cross the river for him, but he calls me a little maid and makes me too powerful to rule the people. ”

The Buddha kindly looked at the Biringa Po who was sitting on the Tan of the main nun and asked softly and forcefully:

"Is this true? If it is true, you should apologize to the god Ganges!"

His Holiness stood up from his seat in response, and he would fold his hands respectfully and say:

"I'm sorry, little Ganges!"

The Buddha turned to the Ganges god and his disciples with a wry smile on his face and said:

"Blinga Po called you a little maid, and there was no contemptuous malice. Although he has broken off the obstacle of afflictions, he has not eliminated the evil habits of the past five hundred eons, so he will inadvertently violate you. Disciples, bad habits are hard to get rid of, everyone must be diligent and don't let go!"

Some people have become accustomed to scolding, and sometimes it is really difficult to change the language of praise, and the husband who chases the smell by the sea, if he is invited to live in the room of Zhilan, he is afraid that he will be sensitive and unable to settle down. Troubles are like garbage, easy to clean, and habits are a dense breath that is difficult to get rid of. On weekdays, we should take care of our body and mind, develop the habit of saying good things, doing good deeds, and having good thoughts.

The first five consciousnesses, eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body, everything they feel produces thoughts, and the sixth consciousness arises, and the sixth consciousness becomes obsessed and attached, and then forms the consciousness at the end of the seventh consciousness, and when it falls into self-attachment and cannot extricate itself, it hides in the eighth consciousness and becomes a seed and appears when it encounters fate, just like a scattered mind reciting a sentence of Nam no Buddha, which is the thought of the sixth consciousness, although it is only a thought, but this one thought, at the end of the seventh consciousness, that consciousness is the cause of continuity, and when it is hidden in the eighth consciousness as a seed, it will be manifested when it encounters fate, so the Lotus Sutra says that if a person scatters his mind and recites a sentence of Nam no Buddha, he will also become a Buddha for this reason, and the same is true for matter, and there is no substance at the beginningAt this time, the sixth consciousness is dominant, and the conscious thoughts will create all kinds of things of various shapes, and the thoughts of the thoughts will become the continuum at the end of the seventh consciousness, and the eighth consciousness, the alayya, which is the seed, and when the cause and effect come, it will appear, and at this time various material forms will be formed.

The first six consciousnesses, the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind, are born and destroyed, this body, born by karma, extinguished by karma, the sixth consciousness, the consciousness of people's thoughts, the beginningless eons formed, thinking about this and that, because they did not cut off delusions, they created all kinds of things with their thoughts to form karma, and the sixth consciousness was born and destroyed, and at the end of the seven consciousnesses, that consciousness was the cause of continuity, and in the self-continuum, and finally it was hidden in the eighth consciousness, the alayya, which became a seed, and then the cause and effect were formed, and when the causes and conditions converged, the retribution was also self-suffering.

The karma created by the first five consciousnesses is formed through the various thoughts generated in the mind, and although the sixth consciousness is born and destroyed, but the delusions are not broken, and sentient beings have thoughts, they will hide in the self-attachment continuum of the consciousness at the end of the seventh consciousness, and hide the eighth consciousness of the alayas as seeds, and when they encounter karma, they will receive retribution, and when a person loses his physical body, the karma created by the seven consciousnesses has nowhere to hide.

The reason why we should keep the vows, why we have no self, and keep the vows, selflessness, is to prevent us from falling into the continuum of self-attachment, the first five consciousnesses, the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, the actions and feelings form the sixth consciousness through the imagination of the mind, so as to produce the mind of good and evil, and because there is a desire in the heart of the mind and do not let go, then they fall into the cause of the self-attachment at the end of the seventh consciousness, and then they will disappear into the eighth consciousness of alayas as the seed of the fate and appear, holding the five precepts, not committing adultery, not killing, not lying, not stealing, not drinking, so we will change the six consciousnesses, the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, mind, and the six consciousnesses will change, but the seven consciousnesses are the cause of the continuum, and it is not enough to hold the five precepts, it is only a blessing for people, so we must be selflessAt this time, the seventh consciousness continuum, because of selflessness, is hidden in the eighth consciousness of alayas and becomes a seed, and it becomes selfless. At this time, true liberation is immortal and immortal, and it enters the realm of the One True Dharma, and in the end, it is nirvana, and it can come and go and naturally transform sentient beings.

"Ranga Abhatara Sutra" Volume 2 "All Buddha Words and Hearts": "The Buddha said to the Great Wisdom: "I said that if I come to Tibet, I am different from what the foreign way says. Sometimes it is said that emptiness, non-appearance, unwillingness, such as, actuality, dharma-nature, dharma-body, nirvana, detachment from self-nature, immortality, original silence, self-nature nirvana, and so on, and so on. If you come, you should make offerings, and so on, in order to cut off the foolish man and fear the selfless sentence, saying that you are away from the delusion and have no realm, such as coming to hide the door. The future and present Bodhisattva Mahasattva should not be self-determined. For example, the potter, in a mud gathering, with artificial water and wood wheel rope to make all kinds of utensils. If it comes, it is the same, and there is no self in the Dharma, and it is all kinds of wisdom and skillful convenience, or it is said that it is hidden, or it is said that there is no self. For the sake of it, I said that if I came to hide, I was different from what the foreign way said. It's the name that says like it's hidden. Quoting all the foreign paths, saying that if you come to hide, you will see delusions if you are not true, and you will enter the realm of the three liberation gates, and you will be able to attain the three bodhisattvas of the three bodhisattvas. If not, then I am the same as what the outer way says. Therefore, great wisdom! For the sake of leaving the foreign way, we should hide it without me.

Understanding these is only enlightenment, not the result of enlightenment.

Everyone now understands the reasons for the formation of habits, so we must change bad habits, such as someone Zhou, it is impossible to work part-time, only stealing to maintain a living, because of the wrong concept, develop the habit of stealing, and then was arrested and imprisoned for labor reform, and now it is out, and it is also repentant, so everyone used to have bad habits, and those bad karma must be changed. As long as you cut off and change, there will be no more bad habits.