Sep 11, 2019
Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Deep Belief in Cause and Effect
深信因果
Buddhism is not a philosophy or a theory, but a teaching for all people to practice. A genuine Buddhist practitioner must put Buddhist teachings into practice, and use it as a mirror to reflect upon his thinking, speech, and behavior in his daily life.
Otherwise it is impossible for him to recognize how deep his inferiority, lack of effort, and offenses are.
Moreover, if he doesn’t accept the concept of “karmic retribution due to cause and effect”, he will not adopt the Buddhist teachings as the method of being liberated from reincarnation in the cycle of birth-and-death, and elevating him from an ordinary being to a sacred being. Otherwise, he only sees the Buddhist teachings as a kind of philosophical theology.
(to be continued tomorrow)
佛法不只是哲學、理論,而是要讓人去實踐的法。一個真正想修行的人,必定是將佛法當作實踐之學,並援引於生活當中對照自己的起心動念、言語行為,否則就不可能真正了解自己的卑劣、渺小、罪惡之深。
再看,如果沒有「因果業報」的觀念,即使是學佛,也不會把佛法當作解脫生死輪迴,甚至超凡入聖的重要方法,只是將佛法看作一種哲學思想而已。
Namo Amituofo!
