[Reprint] How to deal with work, life and practice? -Teacher Tong answers questions and learns Buddha.

Do you give priority to meditation and wisdom? Or focus on learning the top ten good jobs? Because learning ten good deeds is the foundation, on this basis, you can practice meditation more easily. Quitting is easy to grow. If the foundation of ten good deeds is not enough. It's hard to improve your kung fu, and even if you do, it's easy to quit. Just like building a building. If you don't lay a good foundation, the higher your building is built, and in the end, it may collapse. So this foundation is quite important. We study Buddhism. How to do this work well? We should make preparations in advance. When something happens in our life and work, we must remember it. Here, in what way? We should do ten good things. Here, I want to check where my ten good deeds are lacking, and I want to change them quickly. When we have time, no work or go to a quiet place and have nothing to worry about, we should read a sutra or a mantra at this time and then meditate, that is, practice meditation.

Many of our fellow initiates said so. How can I put it? Oh, I'm busy at work now! Alas, I'm too busy to improve from morning till night. Or my life is very busy. When I am not busy, I will go to practice again. I'm telling you, this is all wet! Why? You have delayed a lot of study time! Your work, your life, will be in vain! Live in vain! You didn't practice your top ten good things in these work and life! When you have time to study, you silently recite the Buddha and the scriptures. At this time, you find that your top ten acts of kindness are insufficient! It is even said that some people don't know where their top ten acts of kindness are, because they can't detect them when they are resting. In life, at work, in the event, there is no way to fix it. Only in these events can we find out where the ten good things in our hearts are. So, this is a great loss! How not to suffer? We must remember. In life, at work. Be sure to remember that I am here to practice ten virtues! Don't wait here until I have time to practice meditation. That's practice! Ten good deeds are also practice!

So we have to master one principle, which one? In other words, when we are working and living, we should perfect ten good deeds and do them well, and don't miss the opportunity. At this time, don't think that I want to recite scriptures or Buddha. When you are free, you should recite the scriptures and Buddha. Remember this principle. Remember this principle, no matter which subject you study, you study every day. Only in this way can you achieve the goal of being a Dojo all the time and being a Dojo everywhere. If we study in this way, we will be easy and effective! Our basic skills of ten virtues are also relatively easy to accomplish, as are our efforts to recite Buddhist scriptures and practice meditation wisdom. Therefore, our real practice is not that we will be all right after taking morning classes and evening classes. Our real learning is on this day, every day, every moment, and it should be learning. In other words, we should integrate our bodhi mind and our heart of learning Buddhism into our lives, all the time and everywhere. Accomplishments are always Dojo, everywhere. Only by studying in this way can our kung fu be easily improved.

Other, what method does he use? Here comes the thing. How? Is to recite Buddha. Therefore, in our daily life, we will observe that many fellow practitioners have done a good job in chanting Buddha, but they are not good enough. Why? How did he lose the opportunity to study the top ten good jobs? Because something happened, he recited Buddhism and practiced the precepts, but as a result, the precepts were not practiced and the ten virtues were not satisfactory, so it was delayed. Therefore, when we are studying, we must seize this opportunity to study. Everything we encounter in life, what are we suitable for? It's better to cultivate law and discipline or ten virtues. This is very important.

Audio excerpts from Teacher Tong's speech and two sets of questions and answers about learning Buddhism, complete mp3 download.

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