Buddhist Bonus Festival

20 14 Bonner Festival (Thanksgiving Day for Buddhists)

First, the origin of the Lanpen Dharma Association

On the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, there are bonsai parties in temples all over the country, including four monks and Shu Ren, and there are good men and women. In order to repay their parents' kindness, they provided furnishings and support to the ten monks, and relied on the strength of the ten monks to help their parents get rid of suffering and get happiness.

Eupatorium adenophorum is Sanskrit. Save the upside down? . The pain of the three evils can't be described, and it can only be compared with upside down. (upside down: hanging upside down. A basin is a clean container for food. All bowls and bowls are called basins. Eyeworm basin is to use all kinds of clean bowls and bowls to hold all kinds of clean food and support ten monks, which can save tired parents like upside down. The upside down is saved, the basin is saved, and it can be combined. It's called the euglena basin, isn't it? Save the basin? The meaning of.

Time: Lunar July 12? July18 (August 7? August 13)

This is derived from the story of saving the mother in the classic of Yulan Basin.

One day, Big Eyes just got six great powers, eager to save their parents in exchange for breastfeeding. He immediately observed the three realms with his eyes and looked for the birthplace of his parents.

He saw that his mother was born on the road of hungry ghosts, unable to get food, hungry for many years, and skinny.

When the dutiful son saw that his mother was hungry and miserable, he immediately filled the bowl with rice and gave it to his mother in the hungry ghost road.

As soon as Mom Manglietia got the bowl of rice, she immediately covered the bowl with her left hand and grabbed the rice into a ball with her right hand. Before the rice was imported, it turned into hot charcoal and could not be eaten in her mouth.

The venerable man sees that his mother's business is too heavy, and the food turns to charcoal before it is eaten. Although he can shake the world and turn the sun and the moon, he can't save his mother with all his divine power. So he cried out in sorrow and hurried back to explain the above situation in detail to the Buddha.

Buddha said: Your mother's sin is deeply rooted, and you can't get rid of it alone. Although you are filial to your mother and shake the world, you don't have enough strength to save your mother. Other gods, land gods, demons, heretics, and the gods of the four heavenly kings are powerless. Now you must rely on the strength of ten monks to pull out your mother's bad luck.

The Buddha added: Now I will tell you how to rely on the divine power of monks to relieve suffering and get rid of all suffering:

On the auspicious day of July 15th, when the monks indulge themselves, the monks in the ten places should mobilize the strength of the monks to support the filial piety of the seventh parents and the parents who are now in danger.

Materials include nourishing food, fragrant incense, oil for hands and feet, bedding for rest, etc. The supporting environment is the boundless monk of ten realms.

In the days when monks indulge themselves, some of all saints are absorbed in meditation on the mountain; Some get one to four fruits, which are extraordinary and sacred; Some people adjust themselves under the tree; Some people get six supernatural powers to feel at ease and educate people to feel the sound and smell; There is also the Great Bodhisattva, from the first place to the tenth place, who skillfully and conveniently shows his body and hides it in the public. In short, the ten saints and ten monks are United, accept support, and abstain from purity. Sages' abstinence and wisdom are seamless, and their merits are vast, just like the sea of Wang Yang, which is unpredictable.

If someone supports these self-indulgent monks, their parents, the families of their six relatives and so on. When fasting, they will get rid of the bitterness of evil interests, eliminate karma, increase happiness, get natural food and clothing, and get happiness in life. If monks are provided for living parents, parents can be happy for a hundred years; If you become a monk for the seventh generation of parents, you can live in heaven, change yourself freely and enter the sky.

The ten monks must first pray for the donor family and wish the seventh parents happiness and freedom from suffering. When praying, you need to collect scattered things, concentrate on praying, and then eat food. Moreover, when you start eating food, you first need to present it to the Buddha, such as the Buddha statue in the pagoda or temple. After the monks make their vows, they will eat and drink.

After the Buddha taught the Dharma in this way, Mu Lian, all the monks and all the great bodhisattvas were happy, and Mu Lian's sorrow was immediately eliminated.

On the same day, the venerable mother escaped from the suffering of robbing hungry ghosts, confirming the Buddha's theory? Parents and six relatives should be freed in time? It's absolutely true

Disciples of the venerable Buddha regard pushing themselves and people's hearts as future generations, and ask the Buddha: Disciples' biological mothers should be freed from suffering, and worship the merits of the three treasures and the divine power of the ten monks. If there is an afterlife, all Buddhist disciples should also offer sacrifices? Save the basin? Tired parents who have been saved?

The Buddha highly praised Manglietia's question. Dashan! Ask quickly! You're asking exactly what I want to say? .

The Buddha taught that all people should first launch a special victory to save the world and the parents of VII. On special occasions (that is, July 15th every year, the auspicious day for the monks who are happy by the Buddha to live safely and happily), in special fields (that is, the monks who live freely in ten places), they try their best to eat and drink various flavors and put them in pots for special support.

And I should make such a wish: I hope my parents in this world will be disease-free for a hundred years and worry about everything; May my seventh parents stay away from the suffering of hungry ghosts, be born in heaven and enjoy endless happiness.

The Buddha also inculcated that all my disciples who practice filial piety should always remember their parents, even the parents of the seventh generation. Every July 15, they remember their parents' kindness with filial piety and do their best to make a basin for the Buddha and monks to repay their parents' kindness. All Buddhist disciples should follow this filial piety.

At this time, the Buddha's statement was readily followed by Mulian monks and four disciples who became monks.

Second, the promotion of bonsai law society.

As early as the Buddha's time, there was an activity to establish the Kasahara Society in India. It is recorded in the Pure Land Sutra of Osaka that the Vedanta King, Elder Sutra and Lady Jasmine in India all built 500 golden pots to support the Buddha and other monks in accordance with the Sutra of Magnolia Pot, in order to eliminate the evil deeds of the VII parents.

In China, since Zhu Fahu, a master of Sanzang in the Western Jin Dynasty, translated this sutra, the filial piety thought of offering ten monks in return for their gratitude coincides with the traditional filial piety concept of China, so it was advocated by Emperor China and became the most popular Buddhist tradition among the people.

On July 15, Liang Wudi set up jars in major Buddhist temples. Since then, it has become a common practice. Emperors and subjects of all dynasties have followed the Buddhist system and set up orchid clubs to repay the kindness of their parents and ancestors. For example, Tang Daizong also changed the ceremony of offering pots in temples to offering pots in the palace Dojo, and offered seven ancestral tablets under the emperor's high ancestor, writing the emperor's name on giant banners, welcoming him to enter the palace Dojo from the ancestral temple.

Under the solemn advocacy of emperors in past dynasties, the worship of bonsai was widely introduced to the people of China, and it became a Buddhist activity that has spread for thousands of years.

Third, the purpose of the bonsai law conference

Although Buddhism has infinite precepts, they all take filial piety as their religion; Although there are infinite lines, it is headed by filial piety. Therefore, since the robbery of Sakyamuni Buddha, I have often returned to the mountain to repay my kindness; The venerable master is a monk and wants to repay his parents' kindness.

The most extensive theory of bodhi Taoism says: if you abandon the great kindness your parents have given you, don't pay attention to them. How can you follow the Mahayana Buddhism I have learned? Therefore, all practitioners should shoulder the burden of repaying their parents' kindness.

Moreover, after becoming a monk, he not only missed his parents, but also practiced the holy road in a way of repaying gratitude. For example, when the Tibetan Bodhisattva was a Brahmin, she showed great compassion for saving her mother. The world of all living beings is not empty, and I swear not to become a Buddha first? . This is probably the reason why buddhas and bodhisattvas have bodhicitta.

The Buddha said in the Great Convenience Thanksgiving Sutra: It is often difficult for Tathagata to benefit all parents, and it is difficult to give up; The leader's brain, city, wife, and even clothes, food, bedding, and medicines were all given; Practice diligently, observe precepts, give alms, listen more, meditate, be wise, and even have all-round actions, never stop and never get tired. Tathagata can achieve today's Buddhism and Taoism because he is filial to his adoptive parents and thanks them for their kindness.

He also said in "Six Degrees": I have always been a filial piety of all Buddhas, and my merits are lofty, so I have become the heaven in the sky and the peerless rank of the three realms.

? Filial piety, Buddha, tired robbery? The Buddha himself has often practiced filial piety for many generations. Buddha's practice and achievements are all to repay his parents' kindness, which has also achieved his lofty merits. Therefore, the Buddha is most fortunate that his disciples can practice filial piety. Buddha said: I not only admire filial piety now, but also praise it often in Infinite Robbery (Zabao Jing).

Lan Jing, like Bodhisattva Benyuan Jing, is a filial piety book with filial piety as the center.

In this sutra, in order to save her after becoming a monk, the mother offered pots and pans to ten monks and lifted her hungry mother to the sky. This is the great filial piety of Buddhism. Therefore, to inherit the tradition of opening bonsai in Buddhism, the most important thing is to follow the teachings of the Buddha, initiate the kindness of filial piety to parents, and offer filial piety to ten monks and nuns, so that parents in past dynasties can get rid of pain and get happiness.

In this sutra, the Buddha is explained by the parents of VII. When we are studying the Great Multiplication, we should broaden our minds, not only to save VII's parents, but also to add the parents who have made a vow to save the dust and sand. This is the supreme filial piety.

Liu Tong's arhat crime, which can't be eradicated up to now, is deeply rooted, so that monks can get out of their misery in one day. It can be seen that the power of monks is incredible. Therefore, we should follow the teachings of the Buddha, and set up a vase for offering sacrifices to Buddhists and monks on July 15th every year, so as to repay the kindness raised by parents for a long time, and make this day a festival of gratitude for all Buddhists, offering sacrifices to the Three Treasures, reciting Buddhist scriptures and other merits, surpassing parents and clansmen of past generations, living in kindness, dying in pure land and increasing lotus products; And return to the current parents and teachers, healthy, long-term life in the world, complete and auspicious. This is a rare opportunity to accumulate the wealth of Bodhi and fully benefit myself.

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