Mar 15, 2020
Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Practicing Various Virtues
眾善奉行
The most practical method to accumulate virtuous merits is to deduct a fixed amount from our account and donate money to a charitable organization. In this way, we won’t miss a chance or forget almsgiving. In the long run, this practice will eradicate our karmic offenses, and bring us good fortune. If we are confronted by disastrous incidents we are protected, in often very subtle ways, by good people, deities, ghosts, and even buddhas and bodhisattvas.
So, to really protect ourselves our focus should not be on accumulating wealth; but, on accumulating merits through virtuous practices. Apart from reciting Amitabha’s Name, we should give away all of our belongings to others. These kinds of virtues can really be passed to our children and grand-children, generation after generation.
累積善事功德最具體的辦法:就是從自己的帳戶中設定每個月固定扣款給慈善機構,這樣一來可以避免自己忘記或是沒有機會佈施而空過了。長期以往,就可以消除我們的業障,就是災難來的話,也可以逢凶化吉,不知不覺有鬼神、佛菩薩來護佑,或是有貴人來協助。
所以,真正保護自己的不是積累財富,而是行善積德。除此之外,我們念佛之餘,也儘量把身外之物佈施出去,這種德、善才能真正留給子孫。
Namo Amituofo!
