A Composition Urging the Generation of the Bodhi Mind
Appendix: Merits Gained by Generating the Bodhi Mind
The Ten Articles Of Faith Of Ch'an Master Ch'eh Wuh
To Understand Buddhism
Chapter One: A Virtuous and Perfect Education
Chapter Two: The Goal of the Buddha's Teaching
Chapter Three: Symbolism and the Arts
Chapter Four: The Five Guidelines of Practice
Chapter Five: The Pure Land School
List of Illustrations
Foreword by Karma Chagme Rinpoche VII
Preface
Acknowledgements
1. The Causes
Karma
2. The Motivation
Compassion & Bodhichitta
3. The Release
Releasing Life
4. The Debate
Vegetarianism
5. The Method
How to release
Appendix 1: The Twelve Links of Dependent Arising
Appendix 2: Training in Bodhichitta
Appendix 3: The Six Perfections
Appendix 4: The Four Seals of Buddhism
Supplement by Kyabje Chatral Rinpoche
Part One
Amitabha Sutra Recitation
Order of Practice Session
Purity Verse
Praise of the Lotus Pool Assembly
Buddha Speaks the Amitabha Sutra
Praise to Amitabha Buddha
Wish for Rebirth into the Pure Land
Repentance Verse
Four Great Vows
Dedication of Merit
Three Refuges
Part Two
Pure Land Principles and Practice
Pure Land Buddhism
Chanting
Cultivation
Symbolism and Use
Forms of Practice
Sitting
Walking
Prostrating
Dedication of Merits
Nianju
Audio Aids
Ten-recitation Method
The Five Guidelines
The Three Conditions
The Six Harmonies
The Threefold Learning
The Six Paramitas
The Ten Great Vows
Care of Dharma Materials
Visiting a Buddhist Center
Part Three: Death and Dying
Guidelines For Spiritual Advisors
Supportive Buddha-name Chanting
After The Patient Dies
Living Will
Closing Thoughts
Preface
About Dr. Zhong Maosen (Venerable Ding Hong)
A Tribute to a Contemporary Mentor — Master Chin Kung
Chapter 1: Historical Records of Reincarnation
●A Compassionate Order
●Cases of Reincarnation Recorded
●Throughout History
●The Grievance Between Science and Religion
Chapter 2: Modern Scientific Studies on Reincarnation
●Over Forty Years of Effort to Confirm 3,000 Cases
●The Galileo of the Twentieth Century — Prof. Ian Stevenson
Chapter 3: Five Areas of Reincarnation Studies
Area 1: Study of the Existence of the Soul
Near-Death Experience Studies
Experiments of the Souls' Existence and Astral Projection
True Stories That Indicate the Soul's Existence
Quantum Physics Proves the Existence of the Soul
Area 2: Study of People Who Remember Their Former Lives
A Fascinating Case Designated by Gandhi
A Living Soul in a Dead Body
A Thai Monk Reincarnated from His Own Uncle
The Former Life of Confucian Master Wang Yangming
Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect
A Parrot Recalls His Prior Life as His Owner’s Husband
Area 3: Reincarnation Studies Using Hypnosis
Hydrophobia Due to Drowning in a Previous Life
The Protagonist of Many Lives, Many Masters
Alan Lee, an Egyptian Pharaoh in a Former Life
Sylvester Stallone Recalls Five Past Lives
The Dolphin Who Became a Human
Area 4: Studies of Life in Different Dimensions
Talking with Spirits by Radio - proof via sound
A Ghastly Surprise in a Graveyard - proof via image
Area 5: The Study of Supernatural Power
The Cases of Miracle Worker Cayce
Chapter 4: Revealing the Origins of Reincarnation — avarice, resentment, attachment, and more
Depression from a Life During World War II
A Fear of Birds: A Tragic Retribution for Rape
Revenge of the Unfilial Hippies and Its Solution
Gruesome Response and Retribution of a Mother and Child
Remembering Being Speared to Death by One’s Great Uncle
Reincarnated as Husband and Sister’s Daughter
Chapter 5: How to Transcend Reincarnation
Natural and Spiritual, in One Meaningful Unity — Einstein
Manifested by the Heart
Manifested in a “Ksana”
The Return of Self-Nature
Transcend Reincarnation with The Pure Land Method
Additional Remarks — The Law of Causality
Afternote — The Method of Reciting Amitabha
第一章:戒淫训文及格言
第一节:戒淫训文
第二章:戒淫的方法
第六章:发誓持戒
第九章:现代人的交往朋友及结婚须知
进入念佛堂,有时感到欢喜舒适,有时感到浑身不自在,请问原因为何?
请问何以《观无量寿佛经》说,下品下生要在莲花中十二大劫后,才能花开见佛?
许多念佛人没有学习经教,不了解阿弥陀佛,极乐世界,为什么能往生呢?
若以往曾向某人借钱,而此人已往生,请问这种状况应该如何处置?
若遇有同修做七,请问是否需要上供回向?或者老实念佛,一句佛号念到底?
世间人用杀生来祭祀神明,请问到底由杀生的人来负责?还是由神明来负责?
现代很多人得老人痴呆症及植物人,若其临终时,为其助念,请问能否往生?
《要解》云:“利根一日不乱,钝根七日才不乱,中根二、三、四、五 、六日不定”。请问这是什么意思?
《无量寿经》上,“不淫欲”是自行,“夫妇眷属、当相敬爱”是化他
《无量寿经》第三十四品“心得开明”,请问“实当念佛”是否为因?“截断狐疑”等等是否为果?
为了不扫兴,而陪朋友去赌博,请问是否犯戒?希望中六合彩为佛教事业捐款,是否如法?
“东西佛诚实语,南北佛诚实语,上下佛诚实语,为我护念见此佛”
“过去心不可得,现在心不可得,未来心不可得,问君买饼点何心”?请问此首偈如何解释?
《地藏经》云:“阎浮提众生,起心动念,无不是罪”。请问为何如此说?
有时我们不清楚病人是否愿意接受佛法、愿意接受极乐世界,请问怎么办?
我们是凡夫,又不晓得自己过去生曾经种过什么因,请问要如何修心?
有时觉得自己已经把毛病改掉了,可是还有一些现象,请问还要再改吗?
有时明明晓得不要生气,却又忍不住,事后就很懊恼。请问是不是遗传?
身为都市人免不了要与朋友应酬,还有许多人事上的周旋,请问要如何才能兼顾修行,又与自己的朋友相处?
信基督教及别的宗教以后,有机会了解佛法,请问如此会不会违背耶稣基督?
往生到极乐世界,请问是否可以马上回来度众生?还是要等到“花开见佛悟无生”?
若自己诚心精进念佛,请问是否当前对家亲眷属就有实际帮助,无需待往后?
“佛氏门中,有求必应”,请问佛弟子应如何修行,才能令妻子、眷属皈依三宝,不再谤佛?以彼名义做功德,有效吗?
亡者神识脱离身体后,才为他念佛回向,或教他念佛,请问这样还有机会往生西方吗?
现前社会如此之乱,请问要如何才能使之有秩序、安定、祥和?应从何处做起?
《阿弥陀经》中描述的西方极乐世界及《地藏经》描述的地狱状况,请问是否真实不虚,或是唯心所造?
《阿弥陀经》云:“不可以少善根福德因缘,得生彼国”。请问此句经文真正的意义为何?
《四十二章经》中“施饭转胜章”云:“饭千亿三世诸佛不如饭一无念无住无修无证之者”。请问何谓“无念无住无修无证之者”?
我学佛前曾经填过一张表格,问及是否愿在临终时捐出自己器官,我填了愿意。但现在知道临终八小时内不适宜搬动身体。请问我该怎么办?
为何魔王波旬不怕果报,叫他的魔子魔孙来破坏佛法?是否另有用意?
请问如何帮助一个一阐提、怨恚心、谤三宝、控制心极强,又不信因果轮回的家人?
若以平常心参加早晚课诵,其他时间均以拜佛、念佛为主,如此行持是否往生有望?
末学年事已高,对佛理很难理解,听经时昏沈,修持进步慢,请问可否全日诵经、念佛?
西方哲学家说“我思故我在”,这与《金刚经》中的念起相生而有我相,相当吻合。请问是否如此?
请问如何有效的延长慧功?得此功夫之后,无处无无处尚有我执存在吗?
佛教的最高理想是要达到什么目标?是否比儒家“礼运大同篇”讲得更完善?
供奉佛像的位置在水泥梁下,而且可看到屋内两个门,佛像对面有瓦斯炉台,请问如是供奉是否可以?
弟子一家四口参加“三昧水忏”,之后全家失魂落魄,闹离婚,神不附体
结婚请客,三宝弟子想办素菜,可是年轻人要荤菜,请问如何是好?
孩子崇尚自由、物质,请问要如何教育孩子的人格、道德,以菩萨心利益众人?
弟子经营一个行业,是希望帮助众生健康,并藉此接引众生进入佛门。请问可以继续发展下去吗?
成佛之后,山河大地、虚空法界一切众生也跟着成佛了,请问此意思为何?
净宗道场除了清明、中元、冬至办理超度祖先外,其余佛七期间没有举行消灾与超度,请问是否如法?
《无量寿经》云:“假使供养恒沙圣,不如坚勇求正觉”,请问应如何理解?
妹妹最近呼吸困难,走路都有问题,请问是否因果病?如何消除此病障?
《了凡四训》说到祈天立命,向天神祈求长寿富贵之道,都要从无思、无虑处感格,请问如何理解?
遇到父母或家人生病时,请问我该去拜忏、参加念佛共修,帮助他们消业障,还是待在他们身边照顾?
想要快速成佛,就发愿求生西方极乐世界,请问这个看法有没有错误?
念佛会打瞌睡,精神提不起来,身体支持不下去,请问要如何克服?
只要时时一心执持“南无阿弥陀佛”佛号,就能往生净土,请问为何要受戒和修十善?
《法照大师略传》中,文殊菩萨为法照大师摩顶授记,请问是否也是为我们念佛人授记?
若每天念一千句地藏名号,供念一千天,就可以得到鬼神拥护。请问修净土法门可以念吗?
读了一段时间的经文后,就变得很骄傲,笑话同学,讥讽老师,这是否是教育的失败?
鼓励举办读经比赛活动,是好还是不好?有相反的呼声,应该怎样才好?
老子曰:“和大怨,必有余怨,安可以为善”。以佛教的立场,要如何理解?请老和尚慈悲指导
“其有众生,遇斯光者,三垢消灭,身意柔软,欢喜踊跃,善心生焉”的意思
居士往生二十四小时后,身体还是热的,请问是否加长助念的时间?
在香港,死在医院或家里,马上要搬动,否则要剖腹验尸,请问若遇此事应如何做?