#去寺廟和教堂的真正意義✨
寺廟不是用來乞求恩惠的地方。到寺廟應為了發展智慧。不是一直祈求觀音菩薩、諸佛菩薩賜給我們恩惠。要成為觀世音菩薩才對。我們應該努力成就觀世音菩薩的果位，度眾生脫離苦海。不然，只有一位觀世音菩薩，卻有無數眾生祈求她，不是很可憐嗎？我們身為她的信徒，怎麼沒有慈悲心呢？她一個而已，好可憐！她要負擔悠樂、中國、泰國、印度、斯里蘭卡、所有國家的人。所有信佛的國家都向觀世音菩薩祈求，卻沒有人想成為觀世音菩薩，或達到她的果位，分擔她所承受的業障和她的工作。
✨如果有心去寺廟參拜，就應該學習。如果有心去教堂，就應該向神父請益。那才是去寺廟和教堂的意義。寺廟或教堂設立的目的是讓人學道和清淨修行。因為在紛亂的塵世，人們很難安心打坐。寺廟應該用來禪修。現在的寺廟經常有俊男美女，穿著好看的衣服來。只是燒幾柱香，供養幾顆水果而已。這樣就說：「我去寺廟參拜！」然後回家。去寺廟之前和之後並沒有學到更多。有什麼用？他們不知道壇上的佛有沒有答應他們的祈求。只是喃喃祈求。不管佛有沒有回答。就回家去了。你們祈求什麼，要等到回應不是嗎？佛還沒有回應，你們怎麼就回家了？這樣好浪費你們的水果。我建議你們，你們到寺廟拜佛時，應該等佛開口回應，然後才回家。
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很多人說他們是基督徒、佛教徒，他們不需要做什麼。他們不需要跟隨任何明師，因為他們有信仰耶穌，他們有拜佛，他們認為這樣就夠了。不，不見得，因為你的頭腦會騙你，會讓你心思雜亂。無法真正專心念佛。佛陀在阿彌陀經中解釋道，如果你誠心念誦阿彌陀佛的名號，一心不亂…！你要多久才能念到一心不亂？除了一心不亂，還要仔細觀想釋迦牟尼佛描述過的阿彌陀佛淨土，莊嚴諸相。觀想這一切，並觀想佛，沒有任何雜念。然後你才能往生到阿彌陀佛的淨土。基督徒也一樣。他們認為去教堂唱聖歌，之後去隔壁喝點酒，或是喝點咖啡之類，然後回家吃那些已經為他們宰殺備妥擺在餐桌上的肉…他們哪裡都去不了，親愛的。我真的很抱歉。我必須告訴你們真相。事實就是這樣。因為這世界會讓你分心。會分散你的注意力。了解嗎？（了解，師父。）你無法時時都記得保持善良和美德。光是吃肉，已罪業深重了。聖經是這麼說的。「肉為了肚腹，肚腹裝了肉，但神要叫這兩樣都毀掉。」「不要與吃肉喝酒的人為伍。」聖經裡，上帝這樣說，白紙黑字，清清楚楚。
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The temple is not a place for us to come and ask for favors. It’s for us to open our wisdom. We should not always ask Quan Yin Bodhisattva or Tathagata Buddha for favors. We have to be a Quan Yin Bodhisattva instead. We should always try to be a Quan Yin Bodhisattva, try our best to attain sainthood in order to deliver beings from suffering. Otherwise, Quan Yin Bodhisattva is alone with countless sentient beings who keep praying to Her, then isn’t that very pitiful? As disciples, why don’t we have compassion? Just Her alone, how pitiful! She has to shoulder people from Âu Lạc, China, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, all kinds of people. Everyone from Buddhist countries prays to Quan Yin Bodhisattva. But no one wants to practice to become a Quan Yin Bodhisattva or to reach Her attainment in order to share with Her the karmic burdens and Her work.
✨So if you say you truly go to temple, you must study. If you truly go to church, you must try to find the priest and ask them thoroughly. That’s the meaning of going to temple or to church. Temples or churches were originally built for people to come and study the Truth and meditate in peace. Because the outside world is chaotic, so sometimes people can’t meditate peacefully. A temple should be a place for meditation, a meditation center. Nowadays, temples are usually just a place for young people to come, dressing up and looking nice. Just burning a few incense sticks, offering a few fruits. That’s all and say, “I went to the temple!” And then go home. They don’t learn anything more before and after going to the temple. So what’s the use? They don’t even know whether the Buddha on that altar will grant them what they wish for. They just pray. He answers or not, it doesn’t matter. They just go home. When you wish for something, you have to wait for the answer, no? He hasn’t answered, then why do you run home? That’s a waste of your fruits, really. Now I suggest every time you go to the temple to worship the Buddha, wait for Him to open His mouth first before you go home.
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🔔Many, like they say they are Christian, they’re Buddhist, they don’t need to do anything. They don’t need to follow any Master, because they have Jesus and they worship Buddha and they think that’s enough. No, not really, because your mind will trick you, will make you wander around all over. You cannot really concentrate on the Buddha alone. The Buddha in the Amitabha Sutra, He explained that if you recite the name of the Amitabha Buddha sincerely, one-pointedly…! How often can you be one-pointed? One-pointedly, and have to remember all the details of the Buddha’s Land, the Amitabha Buddha’s Land, that Shakyamuni Buddha has described. Remember all that, and remember Buddha, don’t think of anything else. Then you will be born in His Land. The same with the Christian people. They think they go to the church singing, and then go next door drinking some alcohol and coffee or whatever afterward, and go home and eating the meat that is killed for them already on the table and… They’re not going anywhere, sweetheart. Truly, I am very sorry. I have to tell you the truth. It’s like that. Because this world, they distract you. The world distracts you. You understand? (Yes, Master.) You can’t just remember all the time to be good and virtuous. And just to eat meat is already a great sin. It says so in the Bible. “Meat for the belly, belly for the meat, and God shall destroy both meat and them.” (Yes, Master.) “Be not among meat eaters and wine drinkers.” God says that in the Bible, black and white.
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