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甘露法雨潤眾生 - 第220集
The raining down of sweet Dharma dews moistens sentient beings
“They rain down sweet Dharma dews” -- this ‘rain’ is like the dew falling from the sky, which connotes helping sentient beings. What does the current society need? They need the teachings of saints and sages. First, they need to believe in the teachings, and proceed to love and implement the teachings. In this way, culture will not be interrupted and the merits gained are inconceivably great.
When sentient beings in one region benefit from the teachings, it will definitely influence the whole world and all sentient beings will benefit. How great the merits are! I would like to remind everyone here not to pursue worldly fortune. What is the reason? Because such fortune is limited. Instead, we want to pursue supramundane fortune. What supramundane fortune do we seek? We seek to be reborn in the Pure Land to be close to Amitabha Buddha. Then our merits will be complete.
That’s why the Buddha taught us here to enlighten sentient beings with the Dharma Sounds and sweet dews (sweet dew is a metaphor for the Buddha’s teachings). “Sweet dews enable people to rise from the dead, while the Buddha’s teachings enable sentient beings to end reincarnation forever by attaining great nirvana.” The above phrases are important, true and not a word is deceptive. The Buddha’s teachings can let sentient beings end reincarnation forever by attaining great nirvana.
Now that we have encountered Buddhism, can we not learn and cultivate conscientiously? The most serious problem today is no one is giving the Dharma lectures because it is very difficult for ordinary people to comprehend the sutra teachings. Another serious problem is people have the misconception that Buddhism is a religion, and religion is superstition. As a result, even though they have encountered Buddhism, they cannot accept and practise it. This is no different from not encountering it.
How many people can resist the wealth, lust, fame and profits of this world, which are indeed great temptations? How many people will not be tempted? Even our own practitioners who have been listening to my Dharma lectures for over ten, twenty and thirty years are still being tempted. What does this mean? It means that they are heavily burdened with afflictions and habituated tendencies, which are not accumulated in this lifetime but had been accumulated over many lives and kalpas, with every life being more seriously defiled.
That’s why they still commit wrongdoings every day despite that the saints’ teachings are in front of them, and they have even been reciting the sutras and prostrating to Amitabha Buddha’s image every day. This is the current situation. How terrible it is! What is the consequence? It causes those who do not believe in the Buddha’s teachings, have a deep misunderstanding of Buddhism when they see what these Buddhists preach and do are totally different.
When people who have studied Buddhism for many years see this, they would also give up Buddhism as they perceive it as deceiving. At this time, there is no way for us to explain even though we have sound reasoning. There are many people in this group. Not many practitioners really make transcending transmigration and rebirth in the Pure Land a top priority. What is the reason?
Because they have not suffered enough. That’s why they are easily tempted by great fame and substantial profits, not knowing that they are bound to enter the Three Evil Realms soon. If people can think of this, they will be afraid. So, what education is most important now? It is the education of causality. If you believe that doing good will bring good results, and doing evil will beget bad consequences, you will not dare to pursue fame and profits. Only then can it help you stay away from temptations.