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Chanting for parents and ancestors benefits descendants

Chanting for parents and ancestors benefits descendants (September 2, 2017)

Question: “Ancestors should bless the descendants with prosperity and peace. However, why are some people constantly suffering from bad luck, disease, financial woes and breakups?
Let me share a story that may be of some help to many people.

One day, a mother brought her child to see me.
The mother said, “Since birth, my son’s whole body has knife-like stripes. I took him to see both Western doctors and Chinese physicians but to no avail as none could identify the cause of his problem. He constantly had nightmares of blood dripping from his body and body turning into a pile of bones. Master, please help save my son!” After further probing, I found out that the mother’s father and forefathers were all chefs. Their expertise was cooking live fishes. The cuts that they made on the fishes resembled those marks on his son’s body.

I told the mother, “Go before the Buddha, chant and repent sincerely for your parents and ancestors. Not only that, you have to diligently carry out good deeds such as releasing captive animals, offering lights before the Buddha and contributing to the construction of dharma cultivation halls. Otherwise, I have no other way.”
She followed my advice and did a series of good deeds. A month later, the marks on her son’s body cleared out almost half.
Thus, the force of merits accumulation and sincere repentance is great! Past misdeeds of ancestors and parents would be passed on to the descendants in the form of uneasiness, illness, obstacles and hindrances in lives.

There is a saying - Sincere chanting of Buddha’s name is worth more than a ton of gold. Through light offering and sincere chanting for our parents and ancestors, we seek blessings from the Buddha and bodhisattvas. Only when our ancestors attain freedom and peace will we be safe, auspicious and peaceful.
So how do we “chant and repent” to eliminate karmic debts and obstacles transmitted to us by our ancestors?

Welcome everyone to join me in this coming Saturday’s “Chanting for parents and ancestors” session. May all be free from suffering and gain liberation soon!

Online Global Group Practice Schedules:
1. Taipei/ Beijing/ Malaysia/ Singapore: Sep 2, 2017, at 9:00hrs
2. Korea: Sep 2, 2017, at 10:00hrs
3. North America (Eastern Zone): Sep 1, 2017 at 21:00hrs　
4. North America (Pacific Zone): Sep 2, 2017 at 18:00hrs　
5. Melbourne (Australia): Sep 2, 2017, at 11:00hrs
6. Jakarta (Indonesia): Sep 2, 2017, at 8:00hrs
7. Romania: Sep 2, 2017, at 4:00hrs
8. London (United Kingdom): Sep 2, 2017, at 2:00hrs
9. Sydney (Australia): Sep 2, 2017, at 11:00hrs
10. Yangon (Myanmar): Sep 2, 2017, at 07:30hrs

(Group practice generally starts at 9.00 a.m. in all Bodhi Meditation Centers. It is advisable to call your local center for confirmation.)

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為父母祖宗念佛，利於子孫（２０１７年９月２日）
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問:「祖先應該要保祐後代子孫，家宅興旺、順利平安？但為何有些人卻總是家運不好，進而生病．破財．家庭失和呢．．．？」
我說個故事給大家參考，也許會對許多人有幫助。
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有一天，一位母親帶她的孩子來見我。
母親說:「我的孩子生下來，全身都是一條一條像刀劃過的斑紋，我帶孩子看遍了所有中、西醫，都沒有辦法處理，也找不出原因？孩子還經常做惡夢，夢到自己全身鮮血淋漓、甚至更夢到自己全身就剩一堆白骨。求師父救救我的孩子吧！」我瞭解了一下才明白，原來女士的父親、爺爺祖輩們全都是廚師，祖傳最擅長的菜餚，就是烹活魚，在活魚身上劃出一道一道口子來烹飪，這就好像她孩子身上的痕跡。
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我告訴這位母親說：「妳去佛前用真誠的心，為自己的父母、祖先懺悔、念佛，並且需要勤力去作一些善行，好比說「放生、供燈、發心建道場」吧，不然我也沒別的法子了。」她聽完回去做了這一系列事情的一個月後，她兒子身上的斑痕明顯地淡了一半。
所以，做功德、懺悔的作用力太大了！因為我們的祖先、父母過去所做過的一切錯事都會遺傳下來，使子孫後代不安，造成種種的疾病和人生障礙。
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「真心誦念一句佛號，勝過萬兩黃金。」我們通過為父母祖先念佛、供燈，祈請佛菩薩加持。當我們的祖宗能安寧、祥和、自在了，我們才會平安、吉祥、自在。
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那麼要如何通過「懺悔、念佛」來消除祖宗所遺傳給我們的業力呢？
歡迎大家在這週六與我一起《為父母祖宗念佛》共吧。祝福朋友們早日離苦得樂！
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【全球各地網路共修時間】
1. 臺北/北京/馬來西亞/新加坡 時間：２０１７年９月２日，上午９：００開始　
２.韓國時間：２０１７年９月２日，上午１０：００開始　
３.北美東部時間：２０１７年９月１日，晚上９：００開始　
４.北美太平洋時間：２０１７年９月２日，晚上６：００開始
５.澳洲墨爾本時間：２０１７年９月２日，中午１１：００開始　
６.印尼雅加達時間：２０１７年９月２日，上午８：００開始
７.羅馬尼亞時間：２０１７年９月２日，淩晨４：００開始
８.英國倫敦時間：２０１７年９月２日，淩晨２：００開始　
９.澳洲(悉尼)時間：２０１７年９月２日，早上１１：００開始　
１０.緬甸（仰光）時間：２０１７年９月２日，早上７：３０開始　
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備註：各地禪堂一般共修時間為星期六上午９：００開始，欲前往各地禪堂參與共修者，請事先諮詢各地禪堂，以當地時間為主。.
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Chanting for parents and ancestors

【Online Global Group Practice】 Chanting for parents and ancestors (Septemper 2, 2017)
Once upon a time, there was a businessman who wanted to dig a well in the vicinity of his home. He hired an expert to help him with it, but for unknown reason, it was never successful. Time and again, they dug into locations which should have water underneath, but all of them turned out to be dry wells. The businessman went to a temple one day to seek the Buddha’s help. The abbot of the temple took a look at him and exclaimed, "It will be very difficult! I can see one of your ancestors, probably your grandfather, cut off other people's water supply in order to irrigate his own land! There is no way you can get water easily now because of that!"

Actually, this is an action. An action will lead to an effect. Such is the universal law of nature. We need to understand every action will lead to a reaction. Such forces may pass on to us by our ancestors, thus affecting our lives.

Therefore, in order for us and our descendants to have a better life, we must do more charitable acts, offer light before the Buddha and chant with a repentant heart. The all-compassionate Buddha has great blessing power and can help us resolve many of our past wrongdoings committed due to our ignorance into auspiciousness.

In this Saturday’s group practice, let us discuss how we can transform our destiny through chanting for our parents and ancestors. I welcome you to share your thoughts and experiences here. You may even share articles which may be of some help to others.
May all enjoy health and happiness!


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【周六网络共修】为父母祖先念佛（２０１７年９月２日）
从前有一位商人，要在屋子周围打井。他很富裕，也请了有经验的人来，可是连着几次，看着该有水的地方，打下去，却就是没有水。有一天，他去庙里求佛，想尽快能够在家周围有井可以打？住持看到他，就说：「不容易呢！我看到你的祖先，可能是爷爷吧，为了浇灌自己的田地，把别人的水源全给截断了！你怎么能很容易的有水喝呢？」
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其实，这就是一种作用力，有因必有果，所谓的自然规律。要明白我们一切的行为都会产生作用力，而这股作用力，也会从祖先那里遗传，影响给我们。
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所以，为了让自己活的更好，甚至让子孙也能活得好，我们要多做善事、在佛前点灯，并用忏悔之心来念佛。大慈大悲的佛陀，是具有大能量的人，能帮我们化解许多曾经，我们因为不懂事而犯下的错误行为，所产生的种种仇恨，转为吉祥光明。
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本周共修我们就来谈谈，如何为祖先念佛，以及改变命运的方法，大家可以留言分享你的感想和经验，或分享这篇文章，给其他需要帮助的有缘人。祝福大家都能得到健康和快乐。
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#因果、#佛前点灯、#改变命运的方法、#为父母祖先念佛、#周六网络共修

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Secrets of beauty

Beauty Secrets – Q & A

Q : How does meditation enhance beauty?
(Actual case: There was a class participant who was more than 60 years old. On the last day of her course, her daughter came to fetch her for dinner. At the entrance of the center, the daughter expressed in surprise upon seeing her mother, “Is that really you, mother? Why have you become so youthful, and beautiful?” 
The elated mother replied, “ It’s me - your mother! I’m aware that I’ve “become” younger.”)

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In meditation, it is foremost that we learn to relax. When our body, brain, inner organs, and muscles are relaxed, the energy and blood circulations will be smooth. The meridians and blood vessels that were previously constricted would be restored naturally. With robust circulatory systems, our appearance – becomes beautiful; our brain – develops wisdom; our heart – gains a robust life-force. At the same time, with good physical circulations, we naturally experience health, happiness and beauty.
Thus, meditation can bring calm as well as benefits to our body, mind and spirit.

The most important reason for the beauty benefits of meditation lies in the development of compassion. As one practices, one gains compassion, and do not easily become angry and frustrated. With a gentler personality and stable temperament, one’s words and deeds naturally manifest kindness and serenity emanating from within - an innate sense of confidence and gracefulness - qualities that are beyond the benefits from cosmetic surgery.
Thus, meditation can enhance appearance, offering beauty.
Dear friends, if you wish to become beautiful, please come and learn meditation.

The beauty benefits of meditation are legendary. If you’d like to be beautiful, we welcome you to come and realize your dream.


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美麗秘笈__問與答

問：禪修為什麼能美容？
(真實案例:有個六十多歲的學員結業那天，她的女兒來接她去聚餐。女兒在禪堂門口一見到媽媽說:你是我媽媽嗎?怎麼這麼年輕、美了?
媽媽高興的說:我就是你媽，我知道自己變年輕了。)

答：
禪修首先要學習的是---放鬆，當我們的身體、大腦、內臟、肌肉放鬆了，氣血就會順暢，原來堵塞住的經絡、血管、自然就暢通了。臉部通暢了就會變---美麗；腦部通暢了就變---智慧；當心通暢了就成為---生命的能量；同樣的，當身體都暢通了呢，自然就會擁有---健康、快樂與美麗。

因此，「禪修」能使我們身心自在。
禪修能美容，還有一個最重要的原理，就是修「慈悲心」，當你有了慈悲心，就不容易生氣、煩惱，心就會柔軟、當情緒穩定了，言行舉止自然就會變得溫和而從容，由內而外散發出來的自信與美麗，是整容無法完成的。

「所以禪修，能夠幫助美容，變得更美麗。」
朋友們如果想變美一些，請來學習禪修吧。

「禪修」變美麗就是個傳說，歡迎想變美麗的你(妳)一起來實現這個傳說。


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The Inconceivable Benefits of Chanting

【 Guanyin Bodhisattva: Inspirational Story】 The Inconceivable Benefits of Chanting


Chanting can bring inconceivable benefits, do you know that?
Let me share two stories with you :

There was a disciple who was of good character and also very kind. His father had passed away for more than three years. Since then, he had continued his chanting practice. Yet he experienced bodily aches in several places, including blockage at the heart and difficulty in breathing, causing him much torment!

As I recall, he chanted most fervently at one of the Medicine Buddha events. His thoughts were: He had chanted for over three years but why hadn't his father been liberated? He cried as he chanted and even after the event, instead of leaving, he continued to chant.

Later, our practitioners asked me to take a look. I did so and saw him crying in despair. Coincidentally, the Buddha and Bodhisattvas allowed me to witness the sight of his father climbing out from his place of suffering and over the wall to a white and illuminating realm.

The gods had come to fetch the father, who then turned into a ray of white light and left with them. I described the appearance of his father. He said "Yes", that's his father! Suddenly, the disciple burst into tears and said, "Master, I feel unobstructed and comfortable! I've never been this blissful and happy, after having been miserable for years".


There is another story:
Three years after her father passed away, she had repeated dreams about her father being punished in hell. Demons would use fire to burn his whole body, causing ruptures and bleeding. They continued until he was charred before throwing him into water. She came to asked me, "Master, can you tell me what is this dream of my father about?"

After listening to her, I said, "The issue with this 'fire' is due to past karma committed by your father; and the issue with the 'water' is due to water flooding his grave now."

This disciple called her brother to check on the father's tomb and found the tomb had collapsed and sunk. A gaping hole at the coffin’s corner had let water flood the tomb. Her father was really soaked in the water. They hurriedly called someone to repair the tomb.

A few days later, she dreamt her father was not soaked in water anymore, but the demons were still burning her father. She asked again, "Master, what can be done?"

I offered her this piece of advice, "..Recite and chant to Avalokitesvara for your father everyday.." She knelt and chanted for three days to Avalokitesvara for her father, three hours each day.

Three days later, she happily ran to me and said, "Master, I dreamt of my father again. The demons was still burning him. Then from the sky, water suddenly fell like crystalline beads of a waterfall pouring onto my father's body. The wounds on his body automatically healed. I also saw my father's face, and he had reverted to his healthy and happy 40-year-old appearance. I also saw the Bodhisattva waving her hand, and with it, my father drifted up and was fetched by a boy. Thereafter, I no longer dreamed about my father suffering in hell."

Having listened to these two stories, why do you think different people need different time spans to achieve the results? One chanted for 3 years and 8 months while the other for three days in order to liberate their fathers from hell? This relates to the issue of negative karma that I had mentioned before; some karma are light, some are heavy. Karma is not visible to the naked eye, yet it exists and influences your spiritual, health, life, work, marriage, and family aspects. It is not the least bit absent or lacking.

If you take quantitative as a metaphor to measure merits from chanting against negative karma, it's like the see-saw principle: the amount of karma has to be matched by similar amount of chanting to achieve a balance. Often, practitioners would compare why another's disease has recovered, whereas it's not the case for oneself - is it that Buddha takes better care of him/ her?

We have come to learn, to study the underlying essence on the nature of things. Once we understand the concept, we would not be misled by the appearance our eyes see. Having understood the truth, we also need to learn to accept, face up to it, and break free to transcend.


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【觀音靈感故事】唸佛號的不可思議事


唸佛號會產生什麼不可思議的事，大家知道嗎？
我來講二個故事給大家聽聽：

有一個弟子人挺好的，也很善良。
他父親往生三年多了，這三年來，他一直持續唸佛，但他全身不是這裡痛、就是那裡痛、心臟堵住呼吸不順暢，被痛苦折磨著！

我印象中記得，在一場藥師佛法會，他拼了命的誦念，他心裡想，他已經念了三年多了，他的父親為何還是不得解脫，他一邊哭一邊念佛，法會結束了，他也不走，一直繼續誦念著。

後來，就有同修讓我去看，一看，哇，他哭得好傷心。很巧的，佛菩薩讓我看到那個景象，我看到他的父親從受苦的地方爬呀爬的，翻牆到了白色的晶亮世界。

天神來接走他，他的父親就化成一道白光，跟著神走了。我告訴他，他父親長什麼樣子。他說對，那正是他父親！突然間，這個弟子就大哭了起來，還說：「師父，我全身好通暢、好舒服啊！我從來沒有這麼幸福快樂過，這麼多年來我太痛苦了。」


還有另一個故事：
她父親往生三年以來，她一直夢到父親在地獄遭受刑罰，惡鬼用火焰將他全身燒得裂開又流血，再繼續燒成焦炭，然後把他扔到水裡，一直重複這樣的過程。她來問我：「師父啊，父親這夢是怎麼回事？」

我聽了後跟她說：「這個燒火的問題，是你父親他過去做的業力造成的；這個泡水的問題，是他現在的墳漏水了。」

這個弟子，打電話讓她弟弟去父親墳上一看，她父親的墓地，已經坍塌往下沉陷了，墓角有個大洞讓雨水把墓給灌滿了，她父親果然泡在水中，他們趕緊叫人來把墓給修好。

隔幾天，她又夢到父親不泡水了，可是惡鬼還是用火燒她父親。她又問我：「師父，這可怎麼辦啊？」

我就拋給她這樣一句話，我說：「每天給父親誦念觀世音菩薩聖號吧。」她連續給她父親跪著誦念了三天觀世音菩薩聖號，每天三個小時。

三天後，她高興的跑來跟我說：「師父啊，我又夢見父親了，夢中獄卒又是拿火燒他，突然天上掉下來像水晶珠子一樣的瀑布水，沖到父親的身上，他身上的傷口就自動癒合了。我看見父親的臉，回復到他健康快樂四十歲那時的樣貌。我還看到菩薩一招手，父親就飄了上去，一個童子將父親接走。後來，我再也沒夢到父親在地獄受苦了。」

聽了這兩個故事，為什麼一個要唸三年零八個月，一個唸了三天，父親就脫離地獄了？
這就是我說的業力問題，業力有的人輕、有的人重，業力用肉眼看不到，卻真實存在著，影響你的精神、身體健康、生活、工作、婚姻、家庭。一點不虛，一點也不少。
如果用物質量化來比喻念佛力與業力，那就像蹺蹺板原理一樣：有多少的業力，就必須有多少的念佛力，才能達成平衡。常常一起來修行的同修們會比較，為什麼她身體疾病好了，我沒有，是佛比較照顧她嗎？

我們來學習，就是要探究了解事物背後的本質，了解了，就不會迷失在眼中所看到的相。瞭解道理後，還要學會去接受、面對、超脫。


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Chanting to Sakyamuni Buddha 南无本师释迦牟尼佛圣号

Chanting to Sakyamuni Buddha

In order to free all sentient beings from pain and suffering, and live in joy and happiness, Sakyamuni Buddha taught us the most precious way of practice: to view and treat the world with great compassion; one compassionate thought can eliminate the calamities of hundreds of lives.

Chanting to Sakyamuni Buddha can free us from adversities and help us obtain health and auspiciousness. With reverence, I recorded the Chanting to Sakyamuni Buddha. May we chant and praise the Buddha together.

Don't forget to share this auspiciousness with your friends too!

—— Meditation Master JinBodhi

南无本师释迦牟尼佛圣号

释迦牟尼佛为了让众生离苦得乐，传授给我们最宝贵的方法：用大慈大悲的心去看待世界；一份慈悲心，能消百世劫。

诵唱本师释迦牟尼佛圣号，能使我们消灾灭难，健康吉祥。

我用最恭敬的心诵唱录制了本师释迦牟尼佛圣号，希望我们一起歌颂佛陀。

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—— 金菩提禅师

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