Master Sheng Yan's Buddhist Classic Quotations

Master Sheng Yan, a master of Buddhism, an educator, a master of Buddhism, and a doctor of Japanese University of Attention, is also the 5th descendant of Zen Cao Dongzong, the 57th descendant of Linjizong, and the founder of dharma drum mountain in Taiwan Province. The idea promoted by the mage is to improve people's quality, build a pure land on earth, complete the task of caring through education, and achieve the purpose of education through care. He has published nearly 1 books in Asian, American and European continents in Chinese, Japanese and English. Among his works, the most widely circulated one is Buddhism in Faith, which has exceeded 3 million copies, and the most translated one is Inscription of Faith, which has 1 kinds, and the most series of albums are Autobiography of Journey to the World and Guide to Meditation, which are well received by readers. At 4 pm on February 3, 29, Master Sheng Yan passed away at the age of 8.

a complete collection of Buddhist classics and quotations by Master Sheng Yan

Improving personal character

1 Try your best to be the first, and you and I won't dispute how much.

2 Not much is needed, but too much is wanted.

3 compassion has no enemies, and wisdom can't afford to worry.

4 Busy people have the most time, and hard work and health are the best.

5 you can only lift it if you can put it down. He is a free man.

6 Always relax physically and mentally, and smile at everyone; Relaxation can make us healthy physically and mentally, and it is easy to enhance our friendship with laughter.

7 think about what you say to your mouth, and take a half beat before you speak. Not to say nothing, but to be cautious.

8 ? Yes, very good; No, it doesn't matter, okay

9 "four safety": peace of mind, comfort, home and work.

1 Four Essentials: need, want, ability and necessity.

11 Four senses: gratitude, gratitude, influence and emotion.

12 four things: face it, accept it, deal with it and let it go.

13 Four blessings: knowing blessings, cherishing blessings, cultivating blessings and planting blessings.

14 thank those who give us opportunities. In good times and bad times, they are all benefactors.

15 Only when you have experienced a difficult situation will you have the heart to strive hard.

enjoy the work

1? Busy? It doesn't matter, does it? Annoyed? It's good.

2 I'm happy when I'm busy, and I'm glad when I'm tired.

3 don't talk about success or failure by being rich and poor, as long as you can do your best from the profit-making people.

4 be happy with the situation, and contribute with the fate.

5 The successful trilogy is: following karma, grasping karma and creating karma.

6 handle things with wisdom and care for people with compassion.

7 the mind turns with the environment to be an ordinary person, and the environment turns with the heart to be a sage.

8 giving convenience to others equals giving convenience to yourself.

9 He who is willing to suffer a clear loss is kind; It is foolish to be humiliated and suffer a dark loss.

1 Stress usually comes from paying too much attention to external affairs and at the same time paying too much attention to other people's judgments.

11 Be grateful at any time and place, and make all contributions with financial resources, physical strength, wisdom and heart.

a safe life

don't worry about the past, don't worry about the future.

2 wisdom is not knowledge, experience or thinking, but an attitude beyond self-centeredness.

3 the upper class is at ease with Tao, the middle class is at ease with things, and the lower class is at ease with fame and wealth.

4 worry is unnecessary torture; Intention is the driving force of safety.

5 wealth is like running water, and giving is like digging a well. The deeper the well, the more water; The more you give, the greater your wealth will be.

6 facing life, what should you have? Best preparation, worst preparation? .

7 As long as there is a breath, there is infinite hope, which is the greatest wealth.

8 beyond the three principles of being old and suffering from illness: live happily, get sick healthily and get old hopefully.

9 beyond the three principles of death: don't seek death, don't be afraid of death, and don't wait for death.

1 Every child is a little bodhisattva who helps his parents grow up.

11 If you love your children, you'd better bless them instead of worrying about them!

12 The relationship between husband and wife is ethical, isn't it? Reasoning? The relationship.

13 it's a merit to be able to pick up garbage at any time without littering.

14 Uneasy heart is real suffering, and physical illness is not necessarily suffering.

Happy Life

1 Everyone speaks one more good word and does one more good deed every day, and all the little good deeds will become a great good.

2 I'll do what I need to do urgently and what I'm about to do!

3 having more is not necessarily satisfying; Having less doesn't necessarily make people poor.

4 future income.

5 if you want to get along well with others, you should enlarge your mind, accept more people and tolerate more people.

6 the big ones should tolerate the small ones, and the small ones should forgive the big ones.

7 To be a bottomless trash can, learn a dust-free mirror.

8 when we tolerate others, our problems will be solved.

9 Look at yourself with shame and the world with gratitude.

bodhi on earth

◎ For the benefit of all beings, to realize Buddhism, to make efforts, and to be happy, is it called' dharma happiness? .

◎ If giving is not really happy, it will not only have no merit, but also increase trouble.

◎ When we study or start a business, we must first have a motivation, that is, to serve others, sacrifice for others and never turn back? Vows, this is called' Do not forget your initiative mind? .

◎ Sometimes we often blame others for not listening to ourselves. In fact, we don't listen to ourselves. The person who doesn't listen to ourselves the most is ourselves.

◎ As an ancient saying goes, not blaming others for their mistakes, not criticizing others for their private affairs, and not thinking about people's old evils can cultivate morality and do far harm!

◎ A wise man has a heavy heart for gains and losses, but a wise man can give up. You can get, get unlimited happiness.

◎ Mind has great power, so it is necessary to use mind to recite Buddha and put our mind in the highest energy, the most joyful, pure and compassionate state.

◎ Although the six desires for heaven enjoy happiness without pain or worry, they all have a problem, that is, death. A good dream always wakes up, which is why we don't choose the heavens as our refuge.

If you learn Buddhism, you can deeply understand the fundamental interest of learning Buddhism, and then you feel that you have to learn Buddhism. Only with this strong belief can you really move towards the road of learning Buddhism, instead of stopping at the edge of Buddhism or going astray.

◎ Do your duty well, accept everything you face with joy, and in a minute, you will be relieved of a disaster.

◎ A quiet natural person can live a happy life if he is quiet.

◎ On the dullest days, the mind is the most stable, the tranquility is the most beautiful, and the stability is the happiest.

◎ courage is indispensable, confidence is indispensable, and there is no such thing as' can't'? With' incompetence? I'm afraid I won't.

with' his * heart? Love all sentient beings in the world, with the wisdom of' Bodhisattva? Educate children.

◎ To cultivate a pure and uncontaminated love, don't have feelings of gain and loss, and don't want to get something in return, there will be no troubles.

◎ Love should be light and appropriate, just like green tea is light and fragrant. If it is too strong, it will be too bitter to drink.

◎ If you want to talk about love, you must talk about long-lasting love-the feeling of awakening; To say love, we must say great love-liberated love.

◎ Love is universal, love is thorough, and love is clean and neat, that is,' No mercy, no compassion? .

◎ If parents love their children too much, it will be reflected as their children's troubles. Only by being assured of their children can they grow up steadily.

◎ Life is safe and smooth not because there is no rebellion, but because you have the ability to transform it.

◎ one must be able to' endure' first? Endure disappointment, pity, contempt, respect, love, and loss, and then you can freely pursue your ideals.

◎ There are many things that you have to' accept and get' first. And then we can find out the meaning.

◎ We should bear it with a calm mind, and repent and do good deeds with a more pious heart to make up for the karma we have created.

◎ Cautious and alert, and a mentor of mental navigation; Bright and soft, they are inner lovers.

◎ No matter how merciful the Buddha and Bodhisattva are and how the karma is resolved, people will have to go one day after all. What is important is what we have learned from life. Because of consciousness, we have a chance to be born again, a chance to repent, and a chance to be inspired again in this life.

◎' with? Not to follow, but to let nature take its course, without resentment, rashness, excessiveness and importunity; With? Not casually, but seize the opportunity, not pessimistic, not rigid, not flustered, not carried away.

◎ When we get older and feel the value of money more and more, we may use money to measure everything, even love. I'm afraid there was love long before there was money in this world. When we didn't make money, we earned love long ago. We came into the world because of love, and one day we left, but we couldn't take money with us, only full of love.

◎ The Internet connects the information of the whole world, but it can't receive people's true feelings.

◎ If you want to be able to say positive words, kind words and meaningful words, the first thing to do is to purify your mind. If you have a purified mind, you will have purified thoughts, and only if you have purified thoughts can you say good and beautiful words.

◎ How do you feel the beauty of the pure land without being illuminated by the sunrise, walking side by side with the moonlight, and listening to the ensemble of trees and wind?

◎ A person can improve his own shortcomings and strengthen his own advantages, which is an important task of personal success; If a boss can tolerate the lack of employees and even appreciate the advantages of employees, this is the key to the success of the enterprise.

◎ the heart of perfection can be used to blame yourself, but not to make friends; A contented mind can be used in a situation, but it can't be used for seeking knowledge.

◎ True compassion comes from seeing the pain of others. You have a sense of responsibility and hope to give others a little help.

◎ As Buddhism is, it doesn't matter whether it is deep or not. If it is deep or not, it is difficult for all beings themselves.

◎ There is no accident in fate. When a person encounters prosperity and adversity, it is entirely created by himself.

◎ I pray and don't ask Buddha and Bodhisattva to bless me; I pray that when I am proud, I will not expand myself. When I am frustrated, my heart will not be depressed, and I will be stable and generous.

◎ Anger is the root of losing Buddhism, the cause of falling into evil ways, the enemy of law and music, the thief of kindness, and the viscera of all kinds of evil mouths.

◎ A wise man always seeks for himself, while a fool seeks for others everywhere.

◎ People's confusion is private, and private division is clear; People's illness is due to laziness, and laziness is brave.

◎ Everyone wants to be in a superb, beautiful and clean place. But this kind of place is not easy to find. Because, if our heart does not change, the environment cannot change.

◎ Volunteers have set an example for greedy and selfish behavior; Volunteers, who spread enlightenment for the people vying for fame and profit; Volunteers add light and heat to the indifferent and mechanical society; Volunteers have injected friendship into the trend of thin human feelings.

◎ Compassion is a gentle and beautiful world, respect is the recipe for peace and joy, gratitude is the source of happiness, and admiration is the magic weapon to benefit others.

◎ When we are misunderstood by others, let's try to give up the mask worn on the mind first!

◎ People's falsehood is perceived, but not in appearance; The loss of eating people is not touched by the mouth.

◎ Buddhists want others to be good everywhere. Although they want themselves to be good, they want others to be better than me. This is the intention of Buddhists.

◎ Practice is not to follow your thoughts, to concentrate on your study at work without thinking, and to learn to think for others, not yourself.

◎ As long as you are willing to write' history' for the public? Chapter, others naturally willing to leave' history for you? The trajectory of.

◎ Respect a person and spread his good deeds; Affirm a person and continue his wish.

◎ From' cerebellar motor nerve is seriously damaged, resulting in severe cerebral palsy? Sun Jialiang proved that cerebral palsy can be conquered,' mental paralysis? It is the terminal illness of the group of doctors.

◎' Nothing to live in? See only see, hear only hear, never produce likes and dislikes. Without delusion, there is no worry.

Only when the sky is darkest can we see the stars in the sky.

◎ For those who are above fate, confidence is the master of fate.

◎ Enthusiasm makes us shine, and ideals make us willing to wait.

◎ Serving the truth is the most valuable, and serving all beings is the most honorable.

◎ The hardships of life can be spent from indifference; The anxiety of personnel can be improved from hard work and humility.

◎ Treat affection with understanding; Treat friendship with an attached heart.

◎ If you don't forget to plow in spring every year, you can naturally harvest in autumn; Always help others, and naturally you can get help from others.

◎ Keep your eyes in your heart and observe yourself; Keep your mouth on your heart and comment on yourself.

◎ There may be' disappointment' in life? , but must not' despair? , always full of' expectations? And never give up' hope? .

◎ patience is the first way to be a man; Politeness is the first way to do things; Modesty is the first law to preserve our health; Tolerance is the first method of heart.

◎ patience can lead to harmony; Repentance is the only way to raise courage.

◎ If people's mind and artistic conception can be kept cheerful and clear from time to time, the surrounding environment will be beautiful and good.

◎ Our surest guarantor is our own universal wisdom.