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“弘法是家务，利生为事业”，出家者应以弘扬佛法ã€�利益众生为己任。
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4��誉远闻
甚深微妙的佛法能令闻者对佛ã€�法ã€�僧三å®�生起æ�æ•¬ä¹‹å¿ƒï¼Œä»¥æ˜¯å› ç¼˜ï¼Œè¯´æ³•è€…å¾—ä»¥ç¾Žèª‰è¿œæ’，闻å��é��迩。
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�缘为人说法能令闻者了解佛教�开�智慧，故得�慧�智之果报。
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Human life: mothers and children, husbands and wives. A person’s family and dependents are all there due to the nexus of causal factors from past lives. Temporarily they join together, but in the end they must be parted. This in itself is not sad or painful. What is sad and painful is to pass a lifetime in vain, without being mindful of the buddha, without practicing buddha-remembrance.
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"Fame and fortune can vanish instantly.
Meritorious deeds and the cultivation of virtue are long lasting.
The Three Realms are like a burning house; only by settling our body and mind can we find the Pure Land." -
To shoulder a difficult task, one should have strength and no anger. To deal with a difficult person, one should have skills and no complaints. To walk a difficult path, one should have faith and no fear. To endure the unbearable, one should have tolerance and no blame. - Ven. Hsing Yun
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"To endure a moment's anger increases limitless meritorious wealth.
To have a virtuous thought eliminates limitless bad karma."
-366 days with Wisdom
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The Buddha considered such practices as fortune telling, wearing magic charms for protection, finding lucky sites for buildings, prophesising and fixing lucky days to be useless superstitions and he expressly forbade his disciples to practise such things. He called all these things 'low arts'.
The dictionary defines luck as 'believing that whatever happens, either good or bad, to a person in the course of events is due to chance, fate or fortune'. The Buddha denied this belief completely. Everything that happens has a specific cause or causes and there must be some relationships between the cause and the effect.
Buddhism teaches that whatever happens does so because of a cause or causes and not due to luck, chance or fate. People who are interested in luck are always trying to get something,usually more money and wealth. The Buddha teaches us that it is far more important to develop our hearts and minds.
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"An unwholesome or negative state of mind cannot arise at the same moment as a moment of mindfulness."
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"An unwholesome or negative state of mind cannot arise at the same moment as a moment of mindfulness."
- Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
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Nice and soothing Buddhist songs!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qgGIPPba0Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO-w-mRWEfI