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A Christian bishop came to ask Venerable Master Chin Kung on the issue of the end of the world and anti-Christ. Venerable Master Chin Kung replies that it is not other people that rejected Christian. It is Christian rejecting Christian. In a broader sense, it is religionist rejecting religionist, that causes the end of the world attitude. Education no longer teaches moral concepts, but useless knowledge; Media teaches the evil concept of self, greed, hatred and ignorance. teaches killing, lust, stealing, intoxications, and lying.
Sooner or later the root of moral concepts will be uprooted; how can there not have the issue of end of the world. American empire fall not because of terrorist but because of the tv media. Now the Internet media is even worst.
Children fight when they are young; upgrade it becomes a battle; upgrade it becomes a war; upgraded it become end of the world. Sociality is walking into a path of grave and had reached a point where less can be made. Family education had fail; School education had fall; Society education had too fall; except a last hope on Religion education.
Religionist don't reject religionist, Christian don't reject Christian. Buddhist sects don't reject Buddhist sects. Buddhist sects now no longer interact with each other. We must know that Shakyamuni Gotama, the Buddha, passed down our teachings. He is like our father, and different sects are like siblings. Bother and sisters no longer love each other; imagine how our father felt when he sees this. We are a big family; other religions are like our cousins. We should treat all as one big family. Buddhism is the eye; Christian is the
nose; Moslem is the mouth; Hinduism is the ear etc; all are but one face; all are number one, nobody is number two.
This is the forth most attitude that we must uphold. This is meaning of religionist anti religionist, not other religion anti-ing one religion. God loves all people, not God loves his believers only. I am part of all people, and I love all people. God and me are but one compassionate love. Believers only love God but dislike all people. You and God had different ideas of love, how can God love you back. God talks on love; Buddha talks on compassion are all base on one unconditional emptiness. This is the meaning of anti-Christ.
It's sad thing to see that people are arguing about wrong and right when only our mind makes it so. Pointing people mistakes, when one should be pointing at one's own deluded mind. If we want the world to be good. start from oneself and don't aspect others to start first.
Ps: One had even communicated with the spirits. Spirits had already turned over a new leaf; only human are still so stubborn and deluded. Hence when the spirits are liberated, we human shall take over their places. The bad karma that we now create is more than a 100 times more than that of the pass karma that the spirits had created.
However we should not under estimate the power of repentance. During Buddha's time, there's a evil person who breaks the five inhabitants states of deprivation, but repented in his later life was then liberated to Amitabha Pureland in Top middle class!!! It's a skeptical truth but real. We might think at least a Bottom lower class is more suitable for those who committed evils, but no, he repented to a Top middle class. So we should not look down on evil
peoples, as we might not imagine that he/she might attain a higher realisation at the very last moment.
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Very good point from MCK. I think what we really need is to personally achieve the state of An-Hsiang no matter what religion we believe. In that state of mind, we'll open our mind and treat others like ourselves.
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Jesus Christ is a Great Bodhisattva.
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Dear folks, please do not start a thread for flaming
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Dear mod,Originally posted by An Eternal Now:Jesus Christ is a Great Bodhisattva.
They are really not the same
Please beware of fake buddhist teachings
Books after 6th Zen master hui neng are FAKES
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As far as I am concerned Thicht Naht Hanh is a Great Zen master, definitely enlightened person. As for Fake Buddhism, this is a list of Buddhist Cults: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/4886/cults.htm
Shariras and relics is a very interesting topic. I am beginning to translate an article on Shariras and Relics. Watch for it in the forum in the coming days.
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Can't reply much now, am going to my dharma centre.
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Ok I have finished translation for 5 pages with the help from Utpala (a #buddhist operator), I'm now waiting for Sinweiy to do translation for 2 pages.
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Actually, i wont agree that jesus is a buddha, mostly its because his teachings are different, especially on the holy trinity, non-belief on reincarnation, and god etc
also, we dont know whether such a person truly exists. also, this is from the christian forum itself, that they live by the faith and bible, and from what i read in this forum,buddhists dont have to obey the sutras to the letter. there are space for doubt and questions and great deal of thinking
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I have a site to recommend...
http://www.plotinus.com
Christ and Buddha and other enlightening articles can be found here.
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My Master Chin Kung said, got relics also does not mean one is out of samsara, it would just mean that one is out of the three evil realms. He had encounter a lady with no Buddhism study, but she was a moral person who likes to do good deeds, she also produce relics or shariras. Noted that those who rebirth in heavens will also produce relics.Originally posted by maggot:Books after 6th Zen master hui neng are FAKES
A lot of so-called Zen masters after they have cremated their bodies found no relics left...so they are fakes
but i do agree that after Master Hui Neng, people who practice Ch'an still undergo rebirth. no relics also mean, they are still within samsara. From the Record Books of Sages of Pureland Rebirth, most Pureland Masters recalled that they used to be Ch'an Masters in their previous lifes.
True liberation would need real levels of samathi and prajna or stage of 'Bu er fa meng'.
Ch'an aimed to reached Ming Xin Jian Xing or Da Ce Da Wu.
Jiao xia aimed to reached Da kai Yuan Jie.
Mi aimed to reached San Mi Xiang Ying(?)
Pureland aimed to reached Yi Xin Bu Ran.
All are the same.
ps: some bodhisattvas teach in heavenly realm, only if one is not indulge by the pleasure in heavens.
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If memory serves, my master and many of my dharma teachers were abbots/monks/nuns from a monastery in Kyoto, Japan. The Japanese monks even went to Taiwan to visit them... with a picture of one of my dharma teacher in previous life which highly resembles his looks. I was told the name of the monastery before, but right now I have forgotten it.
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Is it Ryoanji? (Lung an shi)Originally posted by An Eternal Now:If memory serves, my master and many of my dharma teachers were abbots/monks/nuns from a monastery in Kyoto, Japan. The Japanese monks even went to Taiwan to visit them... with a picture of one of my dharma teacher in previous life which highly resembles his looks. I was told the name of the monastery before, but right now I have forgotten it. -
As far as I know, many Ch'an Masters return here just for helping others.Originally posted by An Eternal Now:But of course there are some who are Bodhisattvas and return out of Bodhisattva vows and attain Buddhahood. -
Yes, and Bodhisattva practitioners have to be 'reborn' many times into the world to perfect the 10 paramitas before attaining Buddhahood.
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Don't knowOriginally posted by namelessness:Is it Ryoanji? (Lung an shi)
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It's OK. Thanks anyway.Originally posted by An Eternal Now:Don't know