After studying Buddha for so many years, can you worship Buddhas and Bodhisattvas?

After studying Buddha for so many years, can you worship Buddhas and Bodhisattvas?Some people worship Buddha to purify their body and mind and eliminate karma, while others worship Buddha but are confused.

Old monk Mengsan French

Body and mind ritual

How to respect Buddhas and Bodhisattvas by the old monk Mengsan teaches you how to respect Buddhas and Bodhisattvas

　　Pay attention to this week. If you are very sloppy during the week, you cannot worship with arrogance. My teacher taught me that you will never squat and squat, so we kowtow and knock down the ground.Master Hongyi said that worshiping Buddha requires airs, which is called arrogance.。

　　There is another type of fame and etiquette.This means that if I worship Buddha, I will gain a good reputation in the future. This is a false practice, seeking fame, and seeking praise from others.

　　And physical and mental gifts，The body is kowtowing, and the mind is also visualizing. If the mind does not visualize, it is just the body is worshiping, this effect is not great.

　　Some people say that when you go to the Buddhist temple, you cannot look straight to the Buddha statue like this, thinking that this is impolite. I explained at the time that this is wrong. If you don’t pay attention or visualize, you will worship Buddha, who will you worship? This is the first one.

　　Some people are not polite in their body, some people are not polite in their body, and some people are not polite in their body, and your heart is not sincere. This is a matter of being polite in their body, mind, and mind; both body and mind must be polite in their body, mind, and mind must be polite in their mind, and their mouths are chanting, praise, and their body kowtow. The three karmas of body, mouth and mind are purified.

　　There is also a kind of wise salute，All defilements are pure and wisdom appears. We are not saints, but we also visualize this way. I can recite the verses of the Avatamsaka Sutra over and over again. This is what wisdom and respect are.

　　Going deeper is to enter the Dharma Realm，This is Samantabhadra's visualization. All Buddhas in the Dharma Realm have me bow to him in front of him.Sometimes we can't do it, not as far as visualization, but if the visualization is correct and visualize the "one realm", then we can respond.

　　《Isn’t the Sutra of Divination about the present moment of good and evil karma? Although the correct view cannot be achieved, the etiquette of sincerity should be achieved, and the courtesy of sincerity should be done.If you are not sincere, it would be better if you are not respectful. If you are sincere and sincere in your heart, you are infinitely polite, and you are thinking about it in your heart. You can worship Buddha, fame, profit and wealth, but the blessings you receive are too small, which is not called sincerity.

　　Be sincere and earnest, and don't think randomly, butIf I want to ask for something, then you have to make a vow in advance, face the Buddha statue, visualize and make a vow while saying，Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva bless me,I am worshiping the Bodhisattva today, what do you ask for? Say what you ask for?，When you worship, you will sincerely visualize the Bodhisattva's statue. Without the image, you will visualize that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva has come to you, or that Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva has already lived on your head. If you practice this way, you will appear as soon as you think about it.

　　The last giftIt is the true equality of the "Jiancha Sutra of Good and Evil Karma"，I am the same as Buddha and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, equal and equal,My worship of the Buddha is to worship myself, and all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the ten directions and three times are to worship myself.

　　There is an old practitioner who worships all Buddhas every day. There are three heads that worship all sentient beings, saluting all sentient beings, including mice and mosquitoes.

　　Because the "Avatamsaka Sutra" says that all Buddhas in the ten directions are equal and all sentient beings in the ten directions are equal and equal; isn't this the Bodhisattva in the Lotus Sutra like this? When I see sentient beings, I dare not be disrespectful to you. You are the future Buddhas. This is called the "Equality of the Truth".

　　It is not what ordinary people have obtained now, because our visualization is not in line with each other. You will start to observe when you offer sacrifices and worship, and you must think in your heart to correspond.If you don’t think about it, kowtow in a daze, offer offerings in a daze, then you’ll just put it in a daze. This won’t work, don’t be arrogant.

　　But don’t listen to me. Go to other people’s temples to rejoice in merits, or go to Zhuangyan Temple to worship the Medicine Buddha’s repentance, put the mat of others to open the mat and say, “I dream of the Master’s words, this is called arrogance!” Then you will take the blame for me. You will be happy with everyone and have the same visualization in your heart. I will follow the fate.

　　When I go there, I kowtow on the mat. Sometimes people ask me to kowtow if I kowtow. If I kneel on the ground and learn from Tibet, I am afraid everyone will stare and say that I have a strange appearance, which will give everyone a bad impression.I know in my heart that if you are in front of your Buddha statue at home, you must not put a mat. It is best to kowtow to be healthy, both physically and mentally. Kowtow to one hundred big heads a day, so that you can eat an extra bowl of rice, both physically and mentally and feel healthy, and you will be uncomfortable.

Elder Mengshen French:

We are inspired in our hearts when listening to the sutras and hearing the Dharma. We don’t know it before now, but can we use it?Then you need to think more and do it in practice, so that you can truly get it from the heart.For example, when the weather is cold, you have to buy a cotton coat and wear it on your body, which can solve the problem.

2.When your body is worshipped, eliminate your physical karma;When you recite the Buddha's name with your mouth, what you eliminate is your oral karma;When you visualize the Buddha, eliminate the mind karma.This is called eliminating the three karmas of body, speech and mind, increasing precepts, concentration and wisdom. The three karmas are gradually eliminated, and wisdom gradually grows, and you will be liberated.

There was an old practitioner who worshipped Buddha for more than 20 years, and later he said that he had "been masters."Isn’t worshiping Buddha eliminating karma?Why is he "being possessed"?Practitioners must follow the Buddha's teachings and understand the doctrines.《The Shurangama Sutra says:When you encounter a good state, you will not be a holy heart.If you have a saint's understanding, you will suffer from all evil.

3.Our dominant idea of practice must be understood. What exactly do you want to ask for?Some fellow Taoists said that when they were worshiping Buddha or meditating, they suddenly saw the light and smelled the fragrance. How do you understand?

There is nothing special about these. If you don’t make holy interpretations, there will be nothing. If you become attached, you will enter the “demon realm” without any “holy interpretations”.It’s good that we can practice honestly. It’s useless to think randomly and persevere in response. There is no need to seek any strangeness in real practice.

4If your heart is true, you will be sincere. If your heart is not true, you will not be able to be sincere.It is very important to always take things into consideration in the Saha world now.As for whether you are born or not, you can recite Amitabha Buddha according to your circumstances. If you think like this, you will not be able to be born in the Pure Land.It will only last until your heart is sincere.

Today is the beginning of winter, the water begins to freeze, and the ground begins to freeze. May you not be warm and donate the Dharma to more people!