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Lesson From the Abbot: By Cherishing, We Repay Our Karmic Debts
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Respect Others and You Will Garner the Power of Blessings
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When the Mind Is Scattered, the Soul Is Incomplete; When the Mind Is Focused, Wisdom Is Complete
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Is It Considered the Workings of Karma if Our Customers Make Things Difficult for Us
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Guideline on Transferring of Merits: How Much Is Appropriate? One Should Never Transfer All of One’s Merits to Another Person
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Is Being Bullied a Karma From Past Life?
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It Is in Quietude That the Mind and Wisdom Are Nourished
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The Meaning of “Meditative Concentration”
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Meditative Concentration
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Calmness Gives Rise to Wisdom
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Prevention Is Better Than Cure
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The Three Methods to Practise Forbearance
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Lesson From a Young Monk: Helping Your Enemy Is Always Far More Powerful Than Destroying Them
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Put Yourself in Others’ Shoes; Remember the Good of Others
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How Do We Grasp at Good Discretion This Concept: ‘Get the Short End of the Stick’?
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How to Act in Accordance With Karmic Conditions?
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Those Who Exude Positivity Will Receive the Love and Respect of Others
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Respect Others and You Shall Gain Wisdom and Support
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Lesson From Rockefeller: See the Good of Others to Bring the Best Out of Them
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An Environment Where Positive Affinity Is Aplenty Is Beneficial for One’s Physical and Mental Wellbeing
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How Do We Effectively Quell Hatred in Our Heart?
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Don’t Wait for a Scam to Happen to Make Vows — Help Others Regularly
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Embracing Inner Calm and Seeing Beyond Illusions
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The Power of a Dignified Dharma Appearance
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The Right View Will Steer You Clear From Minefields
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The Three Steps to Wise Action: Observe, Reflect, and Act
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Life Liberation Should Be Done Personally; To Blindly Trust the Fish Vendor May Bring Karmic Obstacles Upon Yourself
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The Type of People We Should Be Wary Of
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How to Cultivate Renunciation; Greed Is the Cause for One to Be Deceived
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Who Is in Control of Our Destiny?
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It Is a Violation of the Precept to Cause a Married Individual of the Opposite Gender to Develop Attraction to Oneself
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Potty Mouth Faces Disdain From Others
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Why Are “The Eight Worldly Dharmas” Also Known as “The Eight Winds”?
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Upholding the Precepts
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Those Who Cause Divisions, Create Obstacles for Themselves
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Having Excessive Material Desires Will Waste One’s Blessings; One Should Focus On Developing Their Thinking Instead
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Are We Able to Connect to Bodhisattva’s Energy Field Wearing a Hat When Performing Recitation?
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What Is the End-Of-Year Assessment in Buddhism Context?
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Will Wearing Dresses at Night Cause Leakages of One’s ‘Qi’ (Energy)?
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Why Aren’t Prayers Answered Immediately?
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A Caller Dreams About Writing a Composition on the Origins of Master Lu
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Why Hasn’t Karma Caught up With Those Who Commit Harsh Speech?
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Can We Perform Recitation in a Skirt?
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Cultivate the World-Transcending Teachings
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The Reason Behind Guan Di Becoming a Bodhisattva
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What Is the Public Opinion of Guan Yin Bodhisattva?
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The Internet Is the Best Platform Bestowed by Bodhisattva for Us to Perform the Giving of Dharma
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Guard Your Speech – Words of Caution From the Buddha
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Emulate the Spirit of the Lord Buddha to Live for Sentient Beings
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Having Dedicated His Life for Sentient Beings, the Buddha Remains Fondly Remembered Till This Day
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Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door Is Truly Efficacious; The Bodhisattva Saves My Mother From the Brink of Life and Death!
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Overcoming Illness Through Faith and Practice
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When Faced With Career-Related Obstacles, One Should Abstain From Lust
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How to Accumulate Worldly Blessings and Transform Them Into Merit
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Knowing Your Priorities Is Key
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The Power of Self-Confidence and Diligence in Overcoming Life’s Challenges
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The Right Perspective When Switching Jobs
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Brief Solitude Helps Clear One’s Mind and Gain Mental Strength
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Incorporate Buddhism Into Your Life
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Factors That Determine Your Career Choices
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Talking About Others Behind Their Back Is an Act of Sowing Discord; Repent by Reciting the Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance
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Overcoming Terminal Cancer Through Unwavering Faith in Buddhism
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Diligent Buddhist Practice Helps a Buddhist Practitioner Get Out of His Financial Plight and Grant Him a Dream Job
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Cultivating the Mind and Refining Conduct — Memories of Serving Beside Master Lu
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What Makes a Person Susceptible to Jealousy?
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The Karmic Effects of Jealousy
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An Extremely Jealous Individual Will Never Achieve Satisfactory Success
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The Consequences of Jealousy
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The Reluctance to Compliment Others Is a Sign of Arrogance
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Distance Yourself From Jealousy, Be Free From Contention
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Stop Comparing Yourself to Others
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Jealousy Breeds Your Inner Demons
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The Root Cause of Jealousy
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To Be Jealous Is Foolish
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The Difference Between Being Competitive and Having a Strong Sense of Pride
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A Good Attitude That Admires the Good of Others Can Be a Catalyst for One’s Progress, but a Negative One Can Turn Admiration Into Hate
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One Will Not Achieve Any Spiritual Attainment by Merely Performing Virtuous Deeds Without Elevating One’s State-Of-Mind
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Under What Circumstances Will One Dream of the Deceased Whom They Helped To Ascend to a Higher Spiritual Realm?
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Prayer Request To Conserve One’s Merits So That They Do Not Get Converted Into Worldly Blessings
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An Excessive Use of Self-Cultivation Record Form Mantras/Sutras To Pray for Worldly Blessings Can Be Efficacious but It Will Deplete One’s Meritorious Blessings
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Those Who Transfer Merits For The Benefit Of Sentient Beings Will Get Rewarded With Merits In Return; Merits Used For Self-interest Will Be Expended
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Abstain From Smoking for Those Who Have Vowed to Become a Vegetarian
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When Introducing Buddhism to Others, Sincerity Is the Key
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The Cause for One To Have Talent but No Opportunity
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How Do You Practise Diligence? Avoid Degeneration
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All-Rounded Diligence
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Beware of Those Who Undermine Your Diligence
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Cundi Dharani Helps My Brother Secure a Job
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Run Before Your Karmic Obstacles Catch-up With You
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Correcting Ourselves Is Key to Our Quest To Help Sentient Beings
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Are We ‘Seeking Worldly Blessings’ if We Pray for a Life Free From Suffering and for Improvement in All Aspects of Our Life?
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A Penitent Heart Helps To Eliminate One’s Karmic Obstacles
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How I Overcome Depression and Suicidal Thoughts After Learning Buddhism?
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Resolving Depression and Suicidal Tendencies
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Walk Out of Mental Trauma With Buddhism
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How To Pray For Better Infusion Of Energy Into Little House During Dotting?
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Ways To Enhance the Affinity Between Bodhisattva and Sentient Beings
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To Walk the Path of the Bodhisattva in the Human Realm Is To Help Yourself as Well as Others
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Ways To Encourage Seriously-ill New Buddhist Practitioners To Recite Buddhist Scriptures And Practise Buddhism
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When Encountering Difficulties in Cultivation, One Should Stay Close To Diligent Fellow Buddhist Practitioners
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Lessons From a Train Station Encounter: The Infinite Power of Role Models
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Ethical Discipline Begins With Enduring
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The Precepts Lay the Foundation for Your Buddhist Practice
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A Story on the Coughing Parrot – The Power of Role Models Is Infinite
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How Should a Disciple Be a Good Dharma Protector of Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door?
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Wisdom Is Found Through Discipline
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Unfaithful Husband Comes Back Home!
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Samantabhadra Bodhisattva’s Advice on the Practice of Vegetarianism
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The Significance Of The Four Scriptures Contained In The Little House
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Why Is It Necessary To Repeat Our Prayer Request?
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Those With Symptoms of Depression Must Perform Recitation and Learn To Relax
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Overcoming Depression With Buddhism
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By Offering 69 Little Houses, Great Calamities Can Be Dispelled
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Why Is It That Studying Buddhism In Plain Terms Can Help Reduce The Number Of Little Houses That One Needs To Recite?
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The Three Telltale Signs of Depression
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The Difference Between The Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance (LIFO) And Little House In Eliminating Negative Karma
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Embrace the Heart of Repaying Parental Kindness When Making Offerings to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
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Educating Children Well Is Also Sowing Seeds of Goodness
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Filial Piety Towards Parents Is a Way To Accumulate Merits
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Heartfelt Words From Master Lu on Father’s Day
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The Four Types of Wisdom
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When You Help Others, You Help Yourself
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Wisdom of Perfection Should Be Your Goal
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Wisdom Arises When One Is Selfless
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To Be Freed From Worries, Perform All Good and Stop All Evil
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The Essence of Wisdom
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Liberate Yourself From Worldly Worries in Order to Attain ‘A Heart of Renunciation’
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Wisdom Is Found Through Calmness
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Recite Little House With Sincerity And An Endeavour To Uphold The Dharma
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Consuming a Balanced Vegetarian Diet During Pregnancy Is Extremely Beneficial for Babies
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Factors That Can Affect The Quality Of Little Houses
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Beware of the Meat That You Eat
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Compassion Over Competition
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Take Lecithin for Better Memory; Spirulina Is Rich in Nutrients Essential for Human Body
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Severe Karma of Killing by Ancestors Results in Mental Illness and Cancer of Descendants
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Sharing by Survivor of Myanmar’s 7.9-Magnitude Earthquake: At the Moment of Crisis, It was Guan Yin Bodhisattva who Saved Us
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Abiding Nowhere Gives Rise to the Mind
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Infertility Due to the Karma of Killing
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Ways To Avoid Major Marital Conflicts
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Recite the Mantra To Untie Karmic Knots When Quarrel Breaks Out
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Heaven Is Out of Reach for Those Who Are Unfilial
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How Should Buddhist Practitioners Manage Relationships With the Elders?
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The Mantra To Untie Karmic Knots Can Help Resolve Bad Relationships
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Abortion Could Be the Reason for Unexplainable Arguments Between Couples
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The Conception of Love and Hate
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Great Compassion Arises in the Absence of the Notion of ‘Self’
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Create Your Own Opportunities
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Cultivate and Nurture Existing Kindness
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Is It Possible for Volunteers to Eliminate Their Karmic Obstacles if They Are on Duty on Special Days and Unable to Recite the Repentance Mantra (LIFO)?
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Choosing Between Volunteering and Performing Recitation
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Be Patient When Answering Questions From Buddhist Friends; The Task Assigned to Each Volunteer Must Be Based on Their Unique Character
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Always Be Tolerant Towards Minor Mistakes Made by Volunteers
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With the Spirit of Conformity You Align With the Needs of Sentient Beings
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Unity Should Be at the Top of Every Buddhist Practitioner’s Mind
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How To Deal With Various People at Guan Yin Hall?
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It’s A Blessing To Serve
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Volunteering Is About Spreading Positivity
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Volunteering Is More Than Just A Job, It Is A Virtuous Act
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The Definition of Tolerance for Words, People and Matters
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Being a Vegetarian Is Not About Showing Off; Be True to Your Practice
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Compassion Is Not a Type of Affection, but a Kind of Wisdom
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It Is Important To Repent; Repentance Helps To Mitigate Negative Karma and Elevate Our State of Mind
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If You Want To Know Your Past, Look Into Your Present Condition
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All Relationships Have Links Back to One’s Past Lives
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How Do We Nurture a Compassionate Heart and Root Out Our Deep-Seated Bad Habits?
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Academic Performance Improved After Sending My Aborted Child to a Higher Spiritual Realm
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Prayer for Career Success, Etc. Through the Recitation of the Cundi Dharani Will Expend One’s Meritorious Blessings
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Compassion Is the Foundation of Buddhist Practice
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Learning Disorder Could Be Due To Foreign Spirits
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How Can Students Accumulate More Good Fortune And Wisdom?
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Misfortune Befalls Those Who Take What Is Not Given
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Positive Thoughts Can Engender Merits
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Compassion Is the Golden Key That Unlocks All ‘Doors’
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Awarded 10 Times More Annual Bonus After Resolving Conflict With Superior
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Cultivating a Heart of Forbearance
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Sales Jump Nine-Fold After Practising Guan Yin Citta
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Would It Help For Job Seekers To Recite More Little Houses?
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Compassion Is the Condition for All Peace and Happiness in This World
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Redefining My Destiny and Overcoming Leukemia Through Unwavering Faith in Buddhism
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Despite Miniscule Chance of Success, Diligent Buddhist Practice Helps this Buddhist Friend Recover a Large Sum of Funds Lost in a Scam
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Turning the Tide Of Adversity with Diligent Practice and Faith
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Overconsumption of Alcohol Is Detrimental to Health and Easily Leads To Reckless Behaviour
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The Mantra to Untie Karmic Knots and Heart Sutra Help Me Walk Out of Emotional Trauma
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Recite the Cundi Dharani for Your Business To Prosper
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Vegetarians Should Also Abstain From Alcoholic Drinks
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‘Amassing Illicit Gain in the Name of Buddhism’ Is Committed When You Accept Money for Books Meant for Free Distribution
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Intoxicants Rob the Clarity of One’s Mind
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The Importance of Cultivating Forbearance
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The Giving of Dharma in Non-Buddhism Chat Groups Should Be Done in Moderation and With Consideration
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Taking Without Telling Is Stealing
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Samantabhadra Bodhisattva’s Seventh Great Vow: To Beseech Buddhas to Remain in the World
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Acquire the Wisdom of the Buddha
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Debunk the Myth of Diligence: It Is Not About the Time Spent!
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Nothing More Than Three Chances
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Be Cautious When Sharing Posts Online, One Will Bear Karmic Consequences for Misleading Others
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Reason We Fail To Be Diligent: You Are Lazy!
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How Much Can You Forbear?
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Do Not Get Carried Away by Compliments
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Overcome Greed Through the Giving of Dharma
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Refrain From Leading a Life of Extreme Leisure and Comfort
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Refrain From Overexerting Yourself
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Refrain From Walking Too Fast
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Refrain From Living in an Excessively Large House
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Refrain From Overeating
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Refrain Going Overboard When Dressing Warm in Cold Weather
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Refrain From Excessive Pursuance of Personal Gains
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Refrain From Being Covetous of Fame
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Refrain From Excessive Anger
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Afflictions Abounds for Those Who Lack Equanimity
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It Is Your Conditions, Not Your Ability, That Determine Your Success
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Regard Every Situation as a Normal Phenomenon
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Suffering Ceases When We Let Go of Our Attachments
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Pain Stems From Our Unwillingness To Face Reality
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On Equanimity
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Understanding the Relationship Between Buddhist Practice and Working Life
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Negative Karma Is Created if One Cheats in Examination
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One Will Gain Wisdom Through the Giving of Dharma
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Is It Appropriate To Use Our Parents’ Money To Perform Meritorious Act Without Their Consent?
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Debunk the Myth of Diligence: It Is Not About Trying Hard
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The Number of People You Help Awaken Spiritually Corresponds With the Content Views
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Prayer Request for Making a Vow To Recite 100,000 Times of the Mantra To Untie Karmic Knots To Eliminate the Risk of Developing Dementia
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Violation of the Precepts Will Incur Retributive Effects
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Five Methods to Cultivate Forbearance: Compassionate Forbearance
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Five Methods to Cultivate Forbearance: Reflective Forbearance
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Five Methods to Cultivate Forbearance: Causal Forbearance
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Merits Will Be Derived From Printing Of Dharma Books Even If The Distribution Is Done By Others
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The Precepts Are the Foundation of Unsurpassed Enlightenment
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Five Methods to Cultivate Forbearance: Strength Forbearance
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The Meaning of Common Forbearance
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Testimony Sharing: Eye Bags Disappear After Sharing Teachings on the Precept Against Sexual Misconduct and Pray To Eliminate the Karmic Obstacles Related to This Behaviour
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Be Compassionate, Do Not Create the Karma of Killing
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Following up With Buddhist Practitioners by Sharing the Buddha’s Teachings With Them Is Also an Act of ‘Helping Others To Awaken Spiritually’
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The Sin of Killing Is Incredibly Severe
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Obstructions Are Stepping Stones and Paths to Buddhahood
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What Should We Do When the Mind Over Thinks in Troubled Times
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When Challenged by an Impending Karmic Pass, One Should Step Up on Recitation and Sleep Less
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In The Face Of An Imminent Significant Karmic Calamity, Should We Focus On Repaying Our Karmic Debts Through Reciting Little Houses Or Accruing More Merits From Dharma Propagation?
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To Resolve The ‘3, 6, 9 Predestined Calamities’, One Should Go All Out To Perform Meritorious Deeds Apart From Reciting Little Houses
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The Number of Soft-Shelled Turtles Released for the Purpose of Eradicating Potential Karmic Calamities Should Increase According to One’s Age
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Reveal Your Buddha-Nature
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Karma Makes No Mistakes
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The Power of Right Thought
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The Shore of Enlightenment
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With the Buddha in Mind
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The Wholehearted Path
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Seeds and Fruits
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Transforming Troubles to Bodhi
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True Cultivation Shines Through
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Path to Wisdom
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Warmth in Sight
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Letting Go of Clinging
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Advertising Contents Related To Dharma Propagation Is An Act Of The Three Types Of Giving
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Nurture a Heart of Compassion by Adopting a Vegetarian Diet
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The Meaning of “Liberating 10,000 Lives Helps Avoid the Eight Difficulties; Liberating 50,000 Lives Helps Avoid Falling Into the Lower Realms of Existence”
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Success Comes to Those Who Endure Hardships
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Follow-up Effort on New Buddhist Friends Should Only Be Done by Buddhist Practitioners of the Same Gender
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Lessons From Two Business Minds: Turning Weaknesses Into Strengths
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When Introducing Buddhism to Others, Sincerity Is Key
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When You Love Sentient Beings as Guan Yin Bodhisattva Would, It Will Never Go Unnoticed
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Where Weeds Are Overgrown, No Fruit Grows
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Myriads of Illnesses Stem From a Mind That Is Defiled
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Emulate the Great Wisdom and Compassion as Well as the Great Vow and Strength of Guan Yin Bodhisattva
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Exercise Discretion When Sharing the Dharma at Night
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There Is No Need To Observe Time-Gap Between Postings of Dharma Teachings Online
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Mindful Use of Visuals in Dharma Giving
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Is It Appropriate to Piece Together Master’s Teachings From Different Parts of a Discourse?
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It Is Best To Cite the Source When Sharing Master’s Discourses
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What Is Considered a ‘Testimony Sharing’?
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Avoid Developing Negative Karmic Affinities With Animals by Adopting a Vegetarian Diet
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Patience Endurance: A Prerequisite To Attain a Higher Spiritual State
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Patience in Spiritual Cultivation
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Enduring Weather Changes Is Also a Type of Forbearance
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Successful Sharing of the Buddha’s Teachings Is Equivalent To Having Liberated a Huge Amount of Fish
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Intent Must Be Pure To Share Messages Received From Bodhisattvas or Master Lu
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A Tip From a Senior Monk on Practising Self-Restraint
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Patience Under Humiliation: Being Impatient Will Only Undermine Your Wisdom
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The Golden Practice To Avoid Negative Ties
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Diligence Stems From a Compassionate Heart
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Transition From External to Internal Forbearance
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Patience Under Humiliation: Do Not Take in Those Words
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How Do We Stay Rooted to Our Original Aspiration in Our Buddhist Practice?
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Reciting the Heart Sutra Can Help in Dispelling Thoughts of Gossips or Controversies
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Compassion Is the Golden Key That Unlocks All ‘Doors’
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The Difference Between “Tolerance” and “Cowardice”
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ANALYSIS OF THE CHINESE CHARACTER 忍 (FORBEARANCE)
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Learn To Guard Your Mind, Energy Field and Behaviour
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How Does the Power of Vows of a Bodhisattva Arise?
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The Power of Vows Is the Key To Learning the Dharma
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The Railway Switch-Tender Story: Discipline Is Key
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The Importance of Observing Morality
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How Can We Prevent The Outflow Of Wisdom And Blessings?
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Offering Little Houses And Performing Meritorious Deeds To Eliminate The Karma Of Killing
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Shouldering Of Others’ Karmic Obstacles – When Is It Considered Meritorious And When It Is Not
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Are There Merits To Be Gained From Postings Of Dharma Teachings That Go Unnoticed?
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The Meaning of Repentance
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Let the Precepts Be Your Foundation
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The Practice of Morality
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Pray To Bodhisattva To Categorise Our Merits Into Two Purposes – For Keeping In Reserve And For The Elimination Of Karmic Obstacles
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Negligent Dharma Sharing Could Have the Effect of Severing the Spirituality of Another Person
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A Mother Will Surely Hear When Her Child Cries
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The Practice of Giving – Accord With Conditions
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Should We Give to Those Bogus Beggars?
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Give, Even if No One Knows
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Play to Your Strengths When Propagating Buddhism to Others
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To Make Dharma Propagation More Persuasive, Learn From Master’s Approach of Using Examples
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With a Calm Mind, Everything Will Naturally Go Smoothly
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Giving Without Perception
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Seven Types of Giving in Buddhism That Don’t Cost Money
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What You Give Is What You Get
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Wealth Is Derived From the Giving of Wealth
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Safeguard Your Blessings by Embracing a Heart of Gratitude
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It Is Not Advisable To Use Graphics That Evoke Fantasies
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Use the Right Mental Attitude When Reciting the Amitabha Pure Land Rebirth Mantra (Wang Sheng Zhou)
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The Immense Willpower and Great Filial Piety of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva
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Giving Is the Key to Wealth
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The Practice of Giving: The Three Types of Giving
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With Strong Willpower, Comes Great Efforts
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How To Differentiate Physical, Karmic, and Foreign Spirits-Related Illnesses?
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What Is the Other Shore?
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Even Vows That Have Not Been Fulfilled Have Karmic Rewards
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The Power of Vows Is the Engine That Sets Our Inherent Nature Into Motion
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It Is Most Effective To Offer 78 Little Houses to the Deceased on the Birthday of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in One Sitting
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The Six Paramitas – The Six Codes of Conduct
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Allocation of Little Houses for the Deceased on the Birthday of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva
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Consistent Daily Recitation of Short Buddhist Scriptures Is a Must
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The Six Paramitas – Six Methods To Become a Bodhisattva
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Images of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas Used for Online Dharma Sharing Should Have a Solemn Appearance
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Refrain From Killing, Live a Smooth Life
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The Six Paramitas
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Master Lu’s Discourse on the Cundi Dharani
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Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva: When Love Turns Into Hatred, Karmic Causes to the Three Lower Realms Are Sown
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The Great Wisdom of Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva
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Immersing Our Hearts in the Scriptures During Recitations
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To Propagate the Dharma Well, Study Buddhism in Plain Terms Diligently
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Embrace the Flow of Life
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Reclusive Retreats Helps Clear One’s Mind and Gain Mental Strength
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Avoid Constant Crying While Performing Recitation
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How Do Merits And Virtues Eliminate Negative Karma?
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The Magnitude Of Merits Lies In The Intention
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Only a Truly Genuine Person Is Able To Touch Others Deeply
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Should One Decide To Continue Recitation After Offering the First Incense on Buddhas’ Birthdays, Continuous Offering of Incense Is Necessary To Avoid Attracting Foreign Spirits
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Things to Take Note of When Performing Recitations
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The Functions of Buddhist Scriptures
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Negative Karma Will Be Eliminated When the Mind and Buddha Connect During Recitation
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Be Tolerant to People Who Are Overzealous in Their Dharma Giving
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Dire Consequences Await Those Who Slander a Dharma Door That Is Capable of Enlightening Sentient Beings
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A Great Person Is One Who Has a Big Heart
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Three Ways To Avoid Being Angry
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Always Leave Room for Manoeuvre in Our Interaction With People
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The Ideal Number of Little Houses To Be Offered for a Toddler on Usual and Special Days
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Is It Advisable for Critically-Ill Patients To Recite Additional Lifo on Special Days?
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Offering of the First and Subsequent Incense on a Mini Buddhist Altar on Buddhas’ Birthdays
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It Is Essential To Verify The Authenticity Of The Discourse Before Sharing It Online
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The Ideal Number Of Little Houses To Be Offered For Children With Mental Illnesses On Buddhas’ Birthdays
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What to Do When Family Members Commit Negative Karma of Speech When Buddhism Is Introduced to Them?
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When Karmic Conditions Arise, We Will Experience the Results of Our Own Deeds
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The Conception of Love and Hate
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The Arrogant Monkey
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How Do We Break the Cycle of Anger?
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The Mind Is the Root of All Internal Disorders
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Greed Brings Out the Worst in a Person
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One Stands To Gain Greater Spiritual Energy If He Keeps Helping Others And Performing Merits
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It Is Only Through Calmness That You See the Truth
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‘The Invisible Wound’ – The Aftermath of Conflicts and Disputes
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Our Physical Body Brings Us the Greatest Suffering
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Negative Causes Can Only Have Negative Impacts on Your Future and Career
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Wei Tuo Bodhisattva’s Words of Advice for Volunteers at Dharma Conventions and Other Related Questions
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Master Lu’s Words of Advice on Wei Tuo Bodhisattva’s Birthday
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When You Share Master Lu’s Words of Wisdom, You Will Reap Immense Merits
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Karma of Speech: The Four Types of Speech We Should Abstain From
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How Big Can the Heart of a Man Be?
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How Should We Maintain Proper Distance With Buddhist Friends Whom We Introduce Buddhism To?
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Greed: The Root of Unhappiness
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The Path From an Ordinary Being to a Sage
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Reciting More Heart Sutra Can Enhance Benefactor Luck
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Compassion Can Shield One From Harm
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Speak at a Measured Pace
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We Need To Plug All Leakages Caused by Our Shortcomings
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The Karma of False Speech
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Ways To Prevent the Eruption of Karmic Obstacles
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Be Inclined to Kindness
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How Can We Touch Others’ Heart in Our Dharma Propagation Quest?
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The Characteristics of a Person With Less Than 20% of Karmic Obstacles
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Transforming Negative Affinity With a Kind Heart
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The Importance of Repentance
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The Relationship Between Serious Illness and a Person’s Percentage of Karma
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The Power of Vows Stems From a Heart of Compassion
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Staying Steadfast Is a Must Even After You Have Benefited From Your Buddhist Practice
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How Do We Determine Our Level of Karmic Obstacles?
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Karmic Obstacles Are Like Explosives
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The Best Response to Slander Is To Keep Silent
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The Percentage of Karmic Obstacles Will Determine the Realm That One Ends up in Upon Death
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The Concept of ‘Double-Karma’; ‘The Best Form of Gain Is To Suffer Loss’
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How Retribution for Minor Karmic Obstacles Are Effectuated?
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Why Is Embezzlement the Ticket to Hell? Does Preventing Others From Making Illicit Gain Generate Merits?
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Sudden Death and Descending Into Hell: Retribution of Using Dharma Propagation as a Pretext To Defraud Fellow Practitioners’ Money Meant for Life Liberation
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Practise Verbal Tolerance
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The Buddha’s Words of Advice on Charity and Fundraising Initiatives
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Do Not Inject Any Fundraising Agenda in Your Dharma Propagation Activities
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What Are the Things That We Should Let Go? All the Boring and Old Gossips
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Monetary Donation Should Be Voluntary and Accord With Conditions; Solicitation of Fund Is Prohibited
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What Is a Great Vow? What Is Considered Helping Others To Be Spiritually Awakened?
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Only Sincere and Thorough Repentance Can Prevent One From Repeating His Mistakes
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What Kind of Speech Karma Would Result in Fallen Lotus in Heaven?
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Is Forwarding Alert On Deceptive Schemes Considered An Action That Intervenes With The Workings Of Karma?
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Even Bodhisattvas Do Not Intervene With the Law of Cause and Effect
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Let Go of Worldly Phenomena and Live in Ease
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The Relationship Between Buddhist Practice and the Law of Karma
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How Positive Energy Derived From One’s Effort in Spiritual Cultivation and Recitation Comes About?
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The Beginner’s Mind Is About Being Grateful Towards Sentient Beings for Being Present in Our Lives
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Karma for Sowing Discord – A Lonely Life
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Myth or Truth?: The More You Do, the More Mistakes You Make; The Less You Do, the Less You Err?
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Does Ceasing of Thoughts Lead To Ceasing of Karma?
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How Do Dharma Protectors Record Our Daily Good and Evil Deeds?
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Why Should I Let Go? Attachment Can Only Do You Harm
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How Do We Enhance Our Positive Affinity With Guan Yin Bodhisattva?
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Stay True to Your Initial Aspiration
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The Severity of Negative Karma of Speech Determines the Part of the Body That Suffers From Its Retributive Effect
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Is It Possible To Eliminate Karmic Obstacles From the Eighth Consciousness?
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To Utilise Merits To Eliminate Karmic Obstacles, One Needs To Make The Prayer Request To Bodhisattva
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You Will Not Make It in Your Buddhist Practice if You Still Harbour Hatred
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Who Has the Final Say Over Your Destiny
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Only Merits And Virtues Have The Power To Offset Karmic Obstacles
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A Virtuous Cycle Is Set in Motion When One Is Filled With Energy and Vitality
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Stay Diligent in Your Buddhist Practice To Keep Ignorance and Bewilderment at Bay
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How Does Negative Karma of Speech Affect One’s Body?
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Constant Performance of Good Deeds and the Recitation of the Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance (LIFO) Will Extend the Time It Takes for Negative Karma to Come to Fruition
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One Lamp Dispels the Darkness of a Thousand Years
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Effective Methods for Sustaining Initial Aspiration
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Willingness To Be at a Disadvantage and Enduring Hardships Are Ways To Eliminate Karmic Obstacles
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Bodhisattvas Fear Causes, While Sentient Beings Fear Effects
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Letting Go Is About Transforming Worldly Affection Into the Loving-Kindness of the Buddha
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People Who Are Suffering From Retribution Are Prone To Creating New Negative Karma
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The Foundation for Offering Effective Prayers to Bodhisattva Is Comprised of Three Factors
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Always Keep Your Initial Aspiration Close to Your Heart
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Avoid Committing Negative Karma of Speech in Dharma Propagation Through Contemplating on Causes and Conditions
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Prayer for Non-Disciples Prior to Reciting the Code of Conduct for Disciples
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Recite At Least One Little House Daily
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Do Not Take Others’ Money When Performing Merits
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Master Lu Condemns The Act Of Raising Funds To Perform Merits
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Do Not Get Involved in Money When Performing Meritorious Deeds as a Group
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Do Not Post Messages Related To Fundraising in Group Chats
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Is Being Enthusiastic About Charitable Causes a Way To Accumulate Provisions Needed on the Path of Spiritual Cultivation?
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Only Gratitude and Compassion Can Eliminate All Karmic Obstacles
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Mentality in Beseeching Bodhisattva
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The Original Aspiration Is About Being Grateful Towards Sentient Beings for Their Presence in Our Lives
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Those Who Perform Recitation Should Be Careful in Their Speech To Prevent ‘Outflows’
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We Become Who We Surround Ourselves With
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Be Aware of the Karma You Are Creating
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See Clearly the Six Realms of Existence
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Prayer Is Not Answered Because the Karmic Conditions Have Not Matured
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Initial Aspiration Is the State of Perfect and Supreme Enlightenment
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What Leads Us To Do Bad Deeds?
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The Continuation of Ancestral Karma
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The Buddha Will Lead Us Forward, With Our Hands in His
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The Significance of the Practice of Alms Round
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The Law of Cause and Effect Is Immutable, Wisdom Cannot Be Bestowed, the True Dharma Is Inexplicable, and Spiritually Awakening Will Never Come to Those Who Lack Affinity With Buddhism
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Let Go of Fame and Fortune of the Material World, Renounce the World at Heart by Purifying the Mind of Impurities, and Emulate the Buddha’s Universal Love for Sentient Beings
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Humanity Is the Fundamental Basis for the Buddha’s Path of Salvation
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Out of His Universal Love for Sentient Beings, the Buddha Renounces the World To Find the Path to Liberation
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The Initial Inspiration Is the Catalyst for Diligence in Buddhist Practice
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What Is Double-Tongued Speech?
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The Giving of Dharma Is a Heavenly Mission
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A Righteous, Loud and Clear Voice Can Change Your Destiny
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Spreading Positive Words or Encouraging Others To Practise Kindness Is Considered Helping Others To Be Awakened Spiritually
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One Who Always Prays for Sentient Beings Will Have His Prayer Fulfilled
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Embrace the Beginner’s Mind When Propagating the Dharma
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Staying True to Your Resolutions
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What Is Considered a Negative Karma of Speech? False Speech
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Talking Behind Others’ Backs Is a Serious Karma of Speech
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Dealing With Office Gossips
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Cultivate Altruism To Overcome Greed
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Tactful Speech Leads to Less Creation of Karma
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The Giving of Dharma by the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas
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Listen Twice as Much as You Speak
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Words Are Powerful – They Can Make or Break a Person
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The Significance of the Lantern Festival From the Metaphysical Perspective
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Extraordinary Scenes of Heaven on the Lantern Festival
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Stay Steadfast in Your Buddhist Practice
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The Saying About “Do Not Have Hair Cut in the First Lunar Month”
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Is It Fine To Wash Hair on the 1st and 15th Days of the Lunar Month?
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Questions Regarding the Recitation of the Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance on the Eve and First Day of Chinese New Year (Wenda20140126B 22:41)
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Things To Know About the Jade Emperor’s Birthday Which Falls on the Ninth Day of the First Lunar Month
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The Eight Worldly Dharmas
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Which Period of a Month Should Little Houses To Resolve Conflicts With Tai Sui Bodhisattva Be Offered?
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In the Year When Your Zodiac Conflicts With Tai Sui Bodhisattva, the Weekly Offering of Little Houses To Pray for Safety Should Continue as per Normal
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Repent Earnestly for Prayers to Be Efficacious
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The Recitation of Little Houses for Karmic Creditor and To Resolve Conflict With Tai Sui Bodhisattva Should Be Performed Alternately
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Chinese New Year: Things You Should Know About Red Packets
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In the Absence of a Buddhist Altar, One Should Not Recite Buddhist Scriptures Until Wee Hours of the First Day of Lunar New Year
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Avoid Doing Laundry on the First Day of Lunar New Year
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Things To Note When Paying Respect to the Deceased During Lunar New Year
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Guan Yin Bodhisattva’s Tips on Efficacious Prayer
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You May Vow To Recite 10,000 Times of Xiao Zai Ji Xiang Shen Zhou in Times of Conflicts With Tai Sui Bodhisattva
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Vegetarianism Is Beneficial to One’s Career and Fortune
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There Is No End To Fights and Conflicts
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Recite More Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance During Year End as It Helps Eliminate Substantial Karmic Obstacles
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If You Have Faith, You Will Receive What You Pray For
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Scattered Foreign Spirits Will Demand for Their Karmic Dues During the Year End Period
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Samantabhadra Bodhisattva’s Tenth Great Vow: To Transfer Merits to All Sentient Beings
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Vegetarians Have a Lower Risk of Getting Cardiovascular Diseases and Cancer
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Validate the Dharma Through Your Own Experience
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Dedicating Vegetarian Merits for Healing: A Buddhist Friend Dreams of Guan Yin Bodhisattva Curing Her Cancer
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State-Of-Mind Is Key to an Effective Prayer
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Reciting the Heart Sutra Before Your Prayer Request Will Make Prayer More Efficacious
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Why Do Many People Not Get Their Prayers Answered Even After Making Vows?
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Transforming the World With Wisdom and Compassion
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Amitabha Buddha’s Words of Advice To Buddhist Practitioners of Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door
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Master Jun Hong Lu’s Discourse on Amitabha Buddha’s Birthday
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Excessive Prayer Requests Could Backfire On You
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What Is the Truth Taught by the Buddha?
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The Spirit of the Buddha Will Long Endure in This World
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Let Us Honour the Lord Buddha for His Teachings on the Law of the Universe That Guides Us Towards Liberation
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For 49 Years, the Buddha Used Expedient Means To Spread the Dharma, Teaching the ‘Blinded’ Masses To Observe the Truth of the Universe
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It Is Our Relentless Effort That Makes Cultivation, Enlightenment and Perfection in Spiritual Practice Possible
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Seize Your Life – Good or Bad Deed Is a Matter of Choice
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Constant Compliance With the Needs of Sentient Beings Is an Expedient Way To Enlighten Them
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Samantabhadra Bodhisattva’s Ninth Great Vow: Constantly Acceding to the Needs of All Sentient Beings
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Things To Note During the Winter Solstice Period
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Why Is One’s Prayer for a Job Inefficacious, Unlike Other Requests?
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It Is Best To Use Date of Offering on the Self-Cultivation Record Form of the Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance (LIFO)
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Prayer Request When Offering the Self-Cultivation Record Form of the Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance (Lifo)
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Is Winter Solstice Celebrated as a New Year in the Underworld?
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Should One Celebrate His Birthday if It Falls on Winter Solstice?
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Why Do We Eat Dumplings and Glutinous Rice Balls During Winter Solstice?
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Is There a Difference Between Little Houses Offered During Winter Solstice and Those Offered on Regular Days?
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It Is Best To Start Offering Little Houses a Week Before Winter Solstice to the Actual Day
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It Is Best To Offer More Than 49 Little Houses to Your Karmic Creditors During the Winter Solstice Period
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21 Is the Base Number of Little Houses To Be Offered to the Deceased in General
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Lodging the Application for Change of Name on the Day of Winter Solstice
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It Is Best To Move House After the Winter Solstice
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Criteria To Perform All-Night Recitation After Offering First Incense on Winter Solstice
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Daily Recitation of the Amitabha Pure Land Rebirth Mantra During the Winter Solstice Period Can Be Regarded as Part of the Vow of 10,000 Repetitions One Makes
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Pregnant Women May Offer No More Than 49 Little Houses to Each Deceased Person, as well as Karmic Creditors on Winter Solstice
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Women Who Have Yet To Reach the First Trimester of Their Pregnancy Can Recite Three Batches of 108 Repetitions of the Amitabha Pure Land Rebirth Mantra Each Daily During the Winter Solstice Period
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The Additional Amitabha Pure Land Rebirth Mantra Recited During Menstruation Can Be Regarded as Part of the Add-on Recitation Performed During the Winter Solstice Period
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Can We Recite More Amitabha Pure Land Rebirth Mantra for Babies From Winter Solstice to the Third Day of Lunar New Year?
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Children Must Be at Least 12 To Recite the Three Batches of the Amitabha Pure Land Rebirth Mantra Daily From Winter Solstice to the Third Day of Lunar New Year
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Questions Regarding the Self-Cultivation Record Form of the Amitabha Pure Land Rebirth Mantra
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The Recitation of the Amitabha Pure Land Rebirth Mantra From Winter Solstice to the Third Day of Lunar New Year (Wenda20181209A 00:47)
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The Significance of Solar Terms From a Metaphysical Perspective
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In Times of Emergency, Partially Completed Self-Cultivation Record Forms Can Still Be Offered
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Be Prepared in Advance for Winter Solstice
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How Do We Balance the Need To Implore the Blessings of Bodhisattva?
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Are You Sowing Discord Through “Non-Verbal” Communication?
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Awakening Comes to Those Who Sincerely Repent and Mend Their Ways
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Letting Go: Worldly vs Spiritual Pursuits
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Master Lu’s Most Touching and Unforgettable Moments
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Is It Alright To Tell a Well-Meaning Lie?
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How To Practise Rejoicing in the Kind Deeds and Merits of Others From the Bottom of Our Hearts?
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Do Not Hold Grudges, Letting Go Is the Only Way
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To Have Your Wish Granted, It Is Important to State a Concise and Appropriate Prayer
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How Do We State Our Prayers When Offering Little Houses in Times of Good Health and Karmic Creditors Are Clearly Absent?
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When You Repent and Feel Remorseful, Wisdom Will Arise
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Repentance Is Fundamental To Buddhist Practitioners
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Let Go of the Past and the Entanglements
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Merits Will Not Be Expended For Upright And Positive Prayers
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Mighty Oaks From Little Acorns Grow
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When You Help Others, You Gain Infinite Wisdom
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Is Being Non-Competitive an Attitude of a Non-Achiever?
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Once You Tell a Lie, You Need Ten More Lies To Cover the Lie
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Having No Means To Help but Rejoicing in Others’ Good Deeds Is the Cultivation of Sympathetic Joy
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Samantabhadra Bodhisattva’s Sixth Great Vow: To Request the Buddha To Set in Motion the Wheel of Dharma
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Samantabhadra Bodhisattva’s Fifth Great Vow: The Merits of Responding With Joy
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Samantabhadra Bodhisattva’s Fourth Great Vow: Repent One’s Wrongdoings
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Samantabhadra Bodhisattva’s Third Great Vow: To Make Abundant Offerings
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Samantabhadra Bodhisattva’s Second Great Vow: Praise the Tathagatas (Thus Come One)
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Samantabhadra Bodhisattva’s Second Great Vow: Praise the Tathagata
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It Is the Heart That Makes the Buddha, the Heart Is the Buddha
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When You Respect Others, You Dignify Yourself
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The Meaning of ‘Karmic Force Is an Impetus That Spurs One To Progress Spiritually’
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The Karmic Consequences of Verbal Karma
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Respect Everyone Around Us
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The Importance of Revering the Bodhisattvas
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Samantabhadra Bodhisattva’s First Great Vow: Pay Homage to All Buddhas
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Cultivate All Goodness Without Attachment to Any Perception
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Seeking the Buddha’s Way Above and Transforming Living Beings Below
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Suspicion Causes a Family Breakup
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Samantabhadra Bodhisattva’s Ten Great Vows
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Repentance Without Form
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How To Eliminate the Unhealthy Mentality of Being Sad When Seeing Others Succeed?
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Master Jun Hong Lu’s Discourse on Guan Yin Bodhisattva’s Renunciation Day
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What Is Repentance With Form?
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How To Balance Worldly Pursuits With Detachment in Buddhism?
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Buddhas and Bodhisattvas Are Eternally Compassionate Towards All Sentient Beings
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Do Not Judge Others With Evil Knowledge and Thoughts
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Your Ability To Eliminate Your Karmic Obstacles Reduces if You Keep Repeating the Same Mistake
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Sincerely Repent To Awaken Your True Self
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The Difference Between Repentance With Form and Repentance Without Form
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What Does “Letting Go” Mean to a Lay Buddhist Practitioner?
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Helping Non-Buddhist Family Members
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Do Not Move House by up to a Month After Chong Yang Festival
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The Significance of “Height Ascending” During the Chong Yang Festival
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Vows That One Can Make During the Chong Yang Festival
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It Is Not Advisable To Have Renovation on Chong Yang Festival
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Is It Alright To Recite the Combination of Mantras Meant for Chong Yang Festival on Normal Days?
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Question Pertaining to the Recitation of the Ru Yi Bao Lun Wang Tuo Luo Ni and the Great Compassion Mantra on Chong Yang Festival
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Why Are We Allowed To Recite 63 Times of the Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance on Chong Yang Festival?
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The Meaning of Chong Yang Festival
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The Significance of Chong Yang Festival
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Do Not Take Your Wrongdoings Lightly!
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How Do We Effectively Quell Hatred From Our Heart?
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Forgiving Others Is the Beginning of Developing Compassion
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We Must Have the Impetus To Mend Our Ways
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The Elimination of Negative Karma After One Gains Wisdom Differs From That When One Remains in an Unenlightened State
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Repenting of the Karmic Obstacles Shouldered for Others
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Perseverance Is the Key to Our Spiritual Practice
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Listen Less, See Less, Think Less
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As the Mind Creates, So Can It Exterminate
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The Early Signs That Spell the Ripening of One’s Karmic Obstacles
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Studying Buddhism in Plain Terms Has Repentance Effects, but How Does It Differ From the Recitation of the Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance?
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Greed, Hatred and Ignorance Are the Main Causes for One To Be Trapped in the Three Evil Realms
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Merits From Setting Up Buddhist Altars For Others Can Be Utilised To Pray For The Elimination Of Karmic Obstacles Or A Specific Matter
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Finding a Balance Between Repenting of One’s Misdeeds and Not Grasping to Them
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Repent Sincerely and Cultivate Truly To Lead a Life Free From Regrets
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The Significance of Mid-Autumn Festival
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Words of Advice for Buddhist Practitioners in the Upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival
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Let Go of the Affection of the Illusory World of the Mortals and Be Awakened to That of the Buddha
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Is It Appropriate To Hang Decorative Lanterns During Mid-Autumn Festival Event?
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A Scene From the Guan Yin Citta Pure Land: The Buddha Was Rotating the Mani Pearl of a Lotus Flower
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It Is Best To Refrain From Any Evil Thoughts or Deeds on the 15th Day of the 8th Lunar Month
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Bodhisattvas Will Visit the Human Realm on Mid-Autumn Festival – A Solar Term Recognised by Heaven and Earth
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Signs of the Ripening of Karmic Obstacles
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Karmic Obstacles Stem From Your Memory
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Karmic Obstacles Come From Accumulation of the Evil Deeds
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Karma Is Generated the Moment Hatred Arises, Laying the Groundwork for the Formation of Negative Affinity
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Stress Is the Consequence of Negative Karma
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What to Do When We Feel Stressed Out in Performing Recitation?
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We Should Not Live Our Lives Blaming Others
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What Is Karmic Obstacles?
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The Four Types of Miraculous Power in the Heart Sutra
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Resentment Comes From Making Comparisons
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To Overcome Bad Habits, One Must Recite the Heart Sutra to Seek Blessings From the Bodhisattva
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Wisdom Is When You See Through the Emptiness of the Universe
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Time and Tide Wait for No Man; You Can Only Depend on Yourself
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Why Should We Be Single-Minded and Diligent in Our Method of Spiritual Cultivation?
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Reasons for One To Drop Out of the Spiritual Path; Diligence Is the Key to Success
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The Story of Confucius and His Most-Trusted Disciple Yan Hui
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Where Does Hatred Come From? Negative Affinities Give Rise To Hatred
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Before Reciting the Heart Sutra, One Can Pray to Guan Yin Bodhisattva to Shower Blessings on One’s Spiritual Root
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Buddha-Dharma Is To Liberate Suffering in the Human Realm
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Avoid Buying Shoes During the 7th Lunar Month
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When Paying Respect to the Deceased on Special Occasions, Is It Alright To Burn Little Houses for Them Without Displaying Their Photos?
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Stay Upbeat During the Ullambana Festival; Spirits Are Easily Attracted to Those Who Are Sad or Worried
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Avoid Having a Haircut During Periods of Mourning
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Paying Respect to the Deceased During the Ullambana, Ching Ming, and Winter Solstice Festivals
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How Should We Deal With Fruit Offerings to the Deceased?
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It Is Not Advisable To Set up a Buddhist Altar During the Ullambana Festival; Exercise Greater Care When Performing Life Liberation During This Period
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Avoid Home Renovation on the 15th Day of the 7th Lunar Month
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It Is Best To Offer More Little Houses to the Karmic Creditors of the House When Moving House in the 7th Lunar Month
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How Does the 15th Day of the 7th Lunar Month Differ From the 15th of the Other Lunar Months?
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It Is Best To Set a Targeted Number of Little Houses To Be Offered to a Specific Ancestor During the Ullambana Festival
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Do Not Hold Weddings on the Dragon Boat, Ching Ming, Ullambana and the Winter Solstice Festivals
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Start Offering 49 Little Houses a Month Prior to the Ullambana Festival
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Do Not Change Beds During the 7th Lunar Month; Exercise Caution When Calling One’s Soul Back
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Ways To Handle the Portrait of a Deceased After Third Death Anniversary
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Recite More Little Houses and the Great Compassion Mantra During the Ullambana Festival
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It Is Not Advisable To Lodge an Application for Change of Name on the 15th Day of the 7th Lunar Month
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Tooth Extraction During the Ullambana Festival
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Offer Little Houses to the Deceased on the 15th Day of the 7th Lunar Month
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How Many Little Houses Are Needed To Ensure Our Safety During the Ullambana Festival?
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Performing Virtuous Deeds on Behalf of the Deceased and the Related Prayer Request for the Transfer of Merits
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Things To Be Aware of During the Ullambana Festival
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Master Lu’s Guidance on the Ullambana Festival
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Would the Burning of Joss Papers by Others Affect the Little Houses Offered to the Deceased?
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The Issue of Catching a Cold or Fever Before the Ullambana Festival
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Adjustment to the Recitation of Buddhist Scriptures During the Ullambana Festival
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Giving Is Wisdom and Receiving Is the Result of Karma
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The Strength of One’s Mindset
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The Four Boundless States
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The Ingenious Application of the Heart Sutra
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Desire Is the Root of All Suffering
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Cancer Patients Should Recite More of the Heart Sutra
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The Road to Liberation
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What Is Right Livelihood?
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Free From Greed Is When One Is Not Covetous of Small Gains
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The Heart Sutra Is a Condensed Version of the Diamond Sutra
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The Power of Concentration
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Criteria To Ascertain a Proper Dharma Door
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How Do We Differentiate Between True Belief and Delusional Belief?
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Be Disciplined in Order To Gain Wisdom and the Power of Concentration
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If You Do Not Advance, You Go Backwards
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The Meaning of “Impermanence Is the Only Constant in Life”, “Riches Don’t Last”, “Parting Comes After Every Congregation”, “Death Does Not Discriminate Even for the Strong and Healthy”
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The Recitation of the Heart Sutra and the Great Compassion Mantra Will Help Balance the Yin and Yang Energies
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The Elimination of Karmic Obstacles Is the Prerequisite To Return to Buddha Land
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A Righteous Person Will Always Be Blessed With Wisdom and Merits
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Reign Over the Two Demons in Our Lives
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The Four Boundless States
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Perseverance Is Key To Exterminate the Three Poisons
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A Grateful Heart Lies Within a Magnanimous Heart and It Will Help Eliminate Karmic Obstacles
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Practise Right Mindfulness So That Devil Will Not Be Able To Enter Your Seven Apertures
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The Objective of Buddhist Practice and Cultivation
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A Mind Full of Deluded Thoughts Is a Devil’s Playground
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The Right Concentration
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Ways To Avoid Being Chained Down by Greed and Not Becoming a Victim of Circumstances
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Why Practise Buddhism?
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Contentment Is the Way, Gratitude Is Virtue
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Endurance Is Not the Highest State of Mind; Strive To Resolve the Karmic Conflicts Instead
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When Reciting the Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance (LIFO) on Behalf of Our Family Members, Should We Visualise Ourselves as Them or as a Third Party?
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Praying for Good Health Is Not Greed
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Will One Shoulder Karmic Obstacles Of Others For Transferring Merits To Them?
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In the Face of a Negative Affinity, Do We Endure or Avoid It?
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An Alternative to Standing up at the End of the Recitation of the Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance
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Internal Forbearance and External Forbearance
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Taking Advantage of Others Through Speech Is a Manifestation of Greed
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Be Thankful for the Opportunity To Help Sentient Beings
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What Is the Cause of Talent Being Unrecognised?
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The Right Effort
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The Right Livelihood
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Karmic Obstacles Stem From Your Memory
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The Accumulation of Bad Seeds Sown
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It Is Not Appropriate To Wish Others ‘Happiness’ During the Dragon Boat or Ching Ming Festivals
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It Is More Efficacious To Perform Recitation During the 24 Solar Terms and the First and Fifteenth of Each Lunar Month
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Avoid Major Undertakings in the Fifth Lunar Month
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Is It Appropriate To Celebrate Traditional Festivals Within One Year of Family Members’ Passing?
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Recite 10,000 Times of the Mantra To Untie Karmic Knots Before Undergoing Surgery in the Fifth Lunar Month
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It Is a Good Practice To Prostrate and Recite More Heart Sutra Before and After the Dragon Boat Festival and Other Solar Terms
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How the Human Body Regulates Itself During the Fifth Lunar Month – The “Month of Poison”
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A Confident Person Will Allow Nature To Take Its Course
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The Right Action
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How Do We Eliminate Unruly Thoughts and Remain Unmoved?
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The Right Mindfulness
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Do Not Succumb To Lust; Committing Animal-Like Acts Leads One To Be Reborn as an Animal
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Gratitude Grows for Those Who View the World With an Equanimous Mind
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Karma of Speech Is the Easiest Way for One to Shoulder the Karmic Obstacles of Others
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The Noble Eightfold Path
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The Four Noble Truths
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Obsession With Petty Gains Is Also Considered Greed
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Being Unperturbed Is To Let Nature Take Its Course
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Understanding Others Is Key To Developing a Sense of Gratitude
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Ways To Control Distracting Thoughts
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Those Who Are Quick-Minded and Always Think Deeply Should Apply Right Thoughts To Appreciate the High Spirituality of the Dharma
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The Meaning of “To Listen, Contemplate and Practise”
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The Absence of Right Thoughts Is Due to the Evil in One’s Heart
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Cravings Can Cause One To Suffer More
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The Most Miraculous Quote in the World
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Practise True Cultivation – A Mind That Is Unperturbed
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Ways To Correct Habitual Thinking and Transform It Into the Right Thought
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Knowing When Not To Act, You Can Live Your True Self
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Right Thought and Wrong Thought
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The Reason For Feeling Unwell After Offering Little Houses To Resolve Karmic Conflicts
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Being Calculative Over The Amount Of Merits Generated When Performing Virtuous Deeds Will Not Taint Or Wipe Out Meritorious Blessings Accrued
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The Purpose of the Buddha’s Teachings Is To Transform All Wrong Thoughts Into Right Thoughts
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Do Not Let Your Surroundings Flutter Your State of Mind
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The Notion of Self
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Should I Tell Someone if I Dream of Them in a Life-Threatening Situation?
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Would Rejoicing After Performing Meritorious Deeds Taint Our Merits?
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Right Thought – To See All Problems in a Positive Light
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Effective Methods To Overcome Our Shortcomings
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Understanding The “Perfection Of Merits And Virtues”
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One Should Neither Hold to the Wrong View nor Be Obsessed to the Idea of Holding to the Right View
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The Signs When One Shoulders Karmic Obstacles of Others
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Prayer Request When Paying Respect to Ancestors
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Do Not Leave the Memorial Tablets of the Deceased on the Offering Table for a Prolonged Period
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It Is Not Advisable To Set up the Buddhist Altar on Ching Ming Festival
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Apply Buddhism in Daily Life
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Avoid Setting up the Buddhist Altar on Ching Ming Festival, Winter Solstice or Zhong Yuan Festival
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Should We Offer Little Houses in Front of the Deceased’s Tablets or the Buddhist Altar on the Day of Ching Ming Festival?
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What Should We Do if We Have To Leave Our Home Empty Due to Business Trips During Ching Ming or Zhong Yuan Festivals?
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It Is Not Advisable To Perform the Calling of One’s Soul During the Period Before and After Ching Ming Festival
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Can We Offer Flowers and Alcoholic Drinks When Paying Respect to the Deceased?
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It Is Advisable To Wear Plain Clothes to the Cemetery To Perform Tomb Sweeping During Ching Ming Festival
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Do Not Bring Home Any of the Offerings to the Deceased; How Should We State Our Prayer When Offering Little Houses to the Deceased in Front of Their Graves?
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How Many Days Before Ching Ming Festival Is It Most Appropriate To Perform Tomb Sweeping?
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Reasons for Not Being Able To Perform Recitation, and Why Illness Makes a Comeback During Ching Ming Festival, Zhong Yuan Festival or Winter Solstice
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Eradicate the Three Poisons With the Right View
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Break Through Ignorance and Delusion With Prajna Wisdom
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Achieve Perfect Merits And Prevent The Depletion Of Merits By Embodying The Mind Of A Bodhisattva
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Should We Say Separate Prayers to Nanjing Bodhisattva, Tai Sui Bodhisattva and Guan Di Bodhisattva?
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The Right View
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How Do We Observe Causes and Conditions?
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The Threefold Training of Morality, Concentration and Wisdom Is the Key to Non-Outflows
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Offering Self-Cultivation Record Forms in the Absence of a Formal Buddhist Altar
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Transform Bad Habits To Accomplish the Buddha’s Path
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What Constitutes Diligence? All-Encompassing Diligence
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How Do We Determine if We Can Make the Vow To Succeed in Our Cultivation Within This Lifetime?
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Contemplate Feelings as Suffering
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Every Single Thought Is Geared Towards Spiritual Cultivation
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Create Our Own Opportunities
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Those Who Are Truly Wise Will Devote Their Lives To Helping Others
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The Ratio of Negative Karma That Will Trigger Ripening
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The Three Dharma Seals – Understanding the Nature of Emptiness
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Diligence: The Key To Changing One’s Destiny
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Diligence Is When You Transform Your Thoughts
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Are We Allowed To Offer Little Houses After Sunset On Special Days?
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Do Not Send Inappropriate Emojis
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Performing Recitation on the Lantern Festival
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The Efficacy of Little Houses Offered on the Lantern Festival Differs From Those Offered on Normal Days
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Contemplate the Dharma as Devoid of Self
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Which Buddhist Scriptures Should We Step up Our Recitation on the Lantern Festival?
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Memorising the Translated Version of Buddhism in Plain Terms Will Garner the Same Amount of Blessings as That for the Chinese Version
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Chinese New Year Decorations Can Be Taken Down After the 15th Day of Lunar New Year
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Break Your Phone Addiction
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It Is Best To Adopt a Vegetarian Diet on the Fifth Day of the Lunar New Year, the Day When the Bodhisattva of Wealth Brings Good Fortune
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To Achieve Enlightenment, One Must Be Constantly Racing Against Time, Remain Diligent, Steadfast and Never Slack Off
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Increase the Recitation of the Xiao Zai Ji Xiang Shen Zhou During the First Lunar Month
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All Buddhas and Bodhisattvas Gather at the Southern Heavenly Gate on the First Day of Lunar New Year
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Important Prayer When Offering the First Incense on the Night of Chinese New Year’s Eve
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Chinese New Year Dos and Don’ts
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Outings on the First Day of Lunar New Year
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Questions Regarding the Recitation of the Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance on the Eve and First Day of Chinese New Year (Wenda20140131 39:37)
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Why Playing Card Games and Mahjong Are Inadvisable
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We Can Put Forth a Prayer Request Targeting at Our Ill Health When Reciting the Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance on the Eve and First Day of Lunar New Year
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The Custom of Not Sweeping the Floor on the First Day of Lunar New Year
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No Particular Auspicious Dates To Observe for the Commencement of Business or Work During Chinese New Year
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Which Aspect of Our Karmic Obstacles Should We Seek Repentance on When Reciting the Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance on the First Day of Lunar New Year?
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On the First Day of Lunar New Year, Do Not Focus on Reciting a Specific Buddhist Scripture; It Is Beneficial To Recite All of Them
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It Is Best To Perform More Recitation for Oneself on the First Day of Lunar New Year as the Energy Derived From Your Recitation Is Three Times More Powerful
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Pre-Chinese New Year Etiquettes
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The Chinese Character 福 (Fu) Should Not Be Pasted Upside Down
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Recite More Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance (LIFO) and Other Scriptures Before the Year Ends as It Is Able to Eliminate Substantial Karmic Obstacles; Things to Observe on the First Day of Lunar New Year
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Tidying and Cleaning up Should Be Performed Before the Eve of Lunar New Year; This Also Applies To Having a Haircut
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The Ability To Manage One’s Time Is a Form of Wealth and Wisdom
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You Are Still Who You Are. It Was Only Your Perturbed Mind
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Contemplate Death
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How To Pray to Guan Yin Bodhisattva To Eliminate Thoughts Relating to Sexual Misconduct
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Observe the Ten Kind Deeds To Transcend Worldliness
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Making Great Vows Will Help Eliminate Karmic Obstacles and Significantly Reduce the Severity of Retribution
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Know the World Through Understanding One’s Inherent Nature
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Contemplate the Body as Impure
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Nipping Our Bad Habits in the Bud
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The Heart Sutra Is the Most Effective in Resolving One’s Inner Conflicts
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Ways To Eliminate Lustful Thoughts or Sexual Misconduct
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Taking Things From the Guan Yin Hall Without Permission Constitutes Theft
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An Overview of the Six Paramitas
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Can the Heart Sutra Be Recited as a Substitute for Little Houses?
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Various Forms of Theft
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Functions of Water
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Daily Repetition Of Vows To Bodhisattva Will Increase Merits
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Recite the Amitabha Pure Land Rebirth Mantra (Wang Sheng Zhou) and the Xiao Zai Ji Xiang Shen Zhou During the Year End
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Greed Traps Us in the Web of Endless Suffering
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Starting off With the Right Intentions Will Ultimately Lead to the Success in Cultivation
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The Difference Between Karmic Force and Shortcomings
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Sexual Misconduct Will Result in Poor Memory
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Excessive Consumption of Egg-Related Products May Stimulate Sexual Desires
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Boundless Meritorious Blessings Come From the Bodhi Mind
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It Is Best to Offer Incense Prior to Performing Recitation in the Morning, if Conditions Allow
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Learn To Visualise and Take Control of Your Thoughts
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It Is Important To Eradicate the Sin of Sexual Misconduct While in This Human Realm
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Practise Contemplation of Impurity and Generosity to Quell Greed
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Abiding Nowhere, the Awakened Mind Arises
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To Tread the Buddha’s Path Every Day of Your Life
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Hold Buddha and Bodhisattva Close to Your Heart
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Do Not Seek Thrills
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What Is the Worst Kind of Suffering?
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The Three Fields of Blessings
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Passing on the Opportunity To Perform Meritorious Deeds to Others Is a Sign of Slacking in Cultivation
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Our Master Is Nowhere To Be Found in This World
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Practise Filial Piety by Loving Our Master as Well as Parents
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Reciting Self-Reserved Little Houses For Master
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Would Daughters Receive Direct Karmic Retributions Owing to Sexual Misconduct Committed by Their Mothers?
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The Aspiration To Perform Meritorious Deeds Is Of Utmost Importance
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Reading Buddhism in Plain Terms Prior To Performing Recitation Helps Control Wandering Thoughts
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One Will Gain More Merits For Creating Opportunities For Others To Perform Meritorious Deeds
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Do Not Be a Slave of Your Desires
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Do Not Let Greed Control You
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Contemplate the Thoughts as Impermanent; Contemplate the Body as Impure
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Quit Grasping; Be Free From Desires
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The Observation of One’s Thought Happens at Which Level of Consciousness?
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Signs Of Having Accumulated Great Meritorious Blessings
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It Is Best Not To Expend Our Merits In Order To Send Foreign Spirits Away
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A True Story of the Infallible Working of the Law of Karma – The Cow She Brutally Killed in Her Past Life Reincarnates as Her Husband, Who Ruthlessly Tortures Her in This Life
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The True Practice of Compassion
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Pray to Repent Present-Life’s Karmic Obstacles When Reciting the Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance (LIFO)
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It Is Best To Offer Little Houses In Odd Numbers
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Stay Rooted to the Realities of This World
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To Contemplate Is To Illuminate the Wisdom Within
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To Ensure Adequate Energy, Sufficient Little Houses Must Be Set Aside For One’s Karmic Creditors When Helping Others Recite
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The Meaning of the Last Sentence of the Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance (i.e. Na Mo Da Xing Pu Xian Pu Sa)
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The Recitation Quality Of The Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance Will Affect The Quality Of Little House
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Buddhism Practice Is an Education on ‘The Way of Life’
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View Our Worries and Troubles as Bodhi
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Those With Heart Issues Should Always Take Care of Their Health and Be Diligent in Performing Recitation
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The Significance of Reciting the Heart Sutra After Offering Little Houses to the Deceased
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Can We Perform Recitation While Disposing Trash?
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Affliction Is Equivalent to Bodhi
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Practise Forbearance and Eliminate Resentment
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Can We Perform Recitation During Mealtime?
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Never Hold on to Only One Perspective
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Accruing Merits From Recitations
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Master Lu’s Portrait on the Buddhist Altar
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Cease Our Worldly Line of Thought
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The Meaning of “Tapping Into Our Innate Buddha Power To End the Cycle of Rebirth”
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Feeling Gloomy Because Of Foreign Spirits In The Home
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The Four Methods for Effective Recitations
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How Does One Cultivate the Mind?
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Equanimity
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The Effectiveness of Recitation With and Without Incense Offering
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Spiritual Enlightenment Is the Key To Earning Merits
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Consuming the Five Pungent Spices Can Affect the Effectiveness of One’s Recitation
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For Full Vegetarians, Can They Consume Stinking Beans?
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Practise Buddhism To Rid Mortal Traits
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When Recitation Becomes Habitual and Lacks Emotion, Is It a Natural Condition?
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How Do We Gauge the Effectiveness of Our Recitation?
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What Kind of Physical Exercise Is Suitable for Buddhist Practitioners?
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Buddhist Practitioners Need To Be Altruistic
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The Importance of a Strong Foundation in Spiritual Practice
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Vow To Recite Buddhist Scripture Over 10,000 Times
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The Sequence of Reciting the Eighty-Eight Buddhas Great Repentance and Offering Little House
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What To Do if You Are Suffering From ‘Qi’ Deficiency (Lack of Energy)?
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Inborn Conditions and Illnesses
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Physical Exercises That Can Be Done While Performing Recitation
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What Is the Karma That Results in Someone Suffering From Severe Scoliosis?
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Possible Reasons for the Lack of Positive Outcome From the Recitation of Little Houses
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Discourse on Buddhas’ or Bodhisattvas’ Birthdays
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Discourse on Mid-Autumn Festival
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Attitude Towards Filial Piety
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Is It Considered a Great Vow To Abstain From Watching Movies, Drama Series and Entertainment News?
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Right Mindfulness Is the Fortress Against an Intrusion of Evil Thoughts
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Even a Person With High Level of Intellect Could Not Change His Bad Habit
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Will the Efficacy of One’s Recitation Be Affected When Reciting Outside Without the Presence of Bodhisattva? When One Recites the Buddhist Scriptures, It Penetrates Right Into His Eighth Consciousness To Get Stored
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The Demon of Addiction
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Understanding the Meaning of “Filial Piety Is the Most Important Virtue”
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Guan Yin Citta’s ‘Five Golden Buddhist Practices’
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A Turtle and the Drifting Yoke
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The Right Mental Attitude Towards the Eight Sufferings of Life
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Is It More Meritorious To Release Captive Lives for Master Lu or Oneself?
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Unity of Knowledge and Practice
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Accept Master’s Criticisms With Gratitude
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What Is Filial Piety?
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Liberation From Sufferings Is the Objective of Buddhism Practice
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The Eight Sufferings
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Overcoming the Notions of Right and Wrong With Our Innate Nature
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How Do We Determine if We Have Deviated From the Right Spiritual Path?
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Only Buddhist Fraternity Is Enduring; Be of Greater Help to Others
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Regard the Master as a Buddha
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Ways to Avoid Shouldering the Karmic Obstacles for Non-Buddhists Parents When Providing Financial Support to Them
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“Impermanence” Explained
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Wisdom Is the Key to Liberation From Suffering
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Can We Only Offer Little Houses To The Deceased Without Paying Respect To Them At The Cemetery?
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The Importance of the Unity of Knowledge and Practice
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One Who Died by Suicide Can, at Best, Be Reincarnated Into the Human Realm
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How Can We Escape the Four Sufferings and Be Truly Happy?
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What Is the Characteristic of Happiness?
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Overcoming Suspicion With Pure Faith
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Regarding “Not To Pursue Material Desires Will Result in Ascension of Spirituality”
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Those Who Can’t Think Things Through Lack Wisdom | Those Who Hurt Others Are in Fact Hurting Themselves
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The Karmic Retribution for Killing
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Foot Bathing With Rice Wine: The Ratio of Wine To Water
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Thought That Is Eliminated Within 5 Seconds Will Not Generate Karmic Obstacles
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Where Does Happiness Come From?
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Eliminate All Traces of Ignorance Through Respecting the Master and Revering His Teachings (Part 2)
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Eliminate All Traces of Ignorance Through Respecting the Master and Revering His Teachings (Part 1)
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What Kind of Happiness Does Bodhisattva Want Us To Have?
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Be Worthy of Your Spiritual and Physical Lives
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Success Requires Not Only One’s Diligence but Also Opportune Timing and Karmic Affinity; Cherish the True Dharma in the Age of Dharma Decline and Strive To Break From the Cycle of Rebirth
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Spiritual Cultivation Is About Achieving a Tranquil State of Mind
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How Does the Heart Sutra Help One Gain Wisdom?
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Cultivate With Our Utmost Sincerity
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What Does It Mean by “Having a Dharma Protector With Us”?
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Perseverance Is Key To Observing Precepts
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When Being Scolded or Bullied, One Repays His Karmic Debts
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Repent Immediately When Negative Thoughts Arise
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Reasons for Recurring Dream Tests Related to Sexual Misconduct and Method To Exercise Self-Restraint
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Those Who Vow To Observe the Five Buddhist Precepts but Still Maintain an Intimate Relationship With Their Spouses Are Unable To Transcend the Six Realms of Existence Due to Their Low Level of Spirituality
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Only When Your Mind Is Purified, You Can Change Your Fate and Destiny
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How Do We Tap Into Our Innate Energy to Quell Our Illnesses?
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Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way
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Practising Moderation in the Nine Aspects of Life
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Recite the Heart Sutra to Clear Our Mind
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Strict Adherence to Precepts; Safeguard One’s Mind and Body
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Are There Karmic Ramifications if We Regift Alcohol or Cigarettes?
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It Is Best Not To Give Alcohol or Cigarettes as New Year Gifts
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Is It Appropriate for Buddhist Practitioners to Consume Enzymes?