Master Hai Tao - True Love Begins from Home 1/5, Love your Family before you Love Others 真愛人生由家開始

(English subtitles) Buddhist Master Hai Tao (海濤法師, born in 1958) talks dharma.
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Now let us return to the leading role tonight. Master Hai Tao. The topic tonight is True Love Begins at Home. Please give him a warm welcome with applause. May everyone put your hands together and repeat after me. Namo Sakyamuni Buddha, the original teacher.
Namo Great Compassionate Avalokitesvara
(Guanshiyin) Bodhisattva. Namo Great Vow Ksitigarbha (earth treasure) Bodhisattva. Take refuge in Buddha. I wish to bring forth the resolve for bodhicitta.
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Eliminate selfishness and greed. Take refuge in Dharma. Wish to achieve the wisdom of prajna and emptiness. Eliminate ignorance and attachments. Take refuge in Sangha. Wish to practice purity and compassion. Eliminate anger and retaliation.
Good, please put your hands down. Masters, laypersons, everyone with great virtue, Amitabha. Thanks to Villa Group for the invitation this time, we have the opportunity to get acquainted with Dharma here.
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To be sure, people are in business to make money. To make money, you need good fortune. Then, what is good fortune? Good fortunes result from promoting dharma, helping the poor and sick, releasing animals, advocating vegetarianism. So, as the Buddha said: First lead with desire. Buddha wants us to be healthy, long-lived, wealthy, all kinds of good fortune. After having good fortune, we can seek for spiritual realms. Solve the problems of living first, 2nd, talk about the problems of life. Then, talk about birth and death, step by step. Therefore, the fact that we can be reborn as humans in this life is a good fortune from our previous lives. As humans, which path should we take? What is the basic mission? Many people ask me: What's the purpose to be a human? I told them: It's not about continuing the family line.
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To be human is to eliminate suffering. For yourself, you need to take responsibility for your own life. Eliminate suffering. If you want to take responsibility for the beings outside, you have to devote yourself to helping eliminate the suffering of others as well. Where do the reasons for other people’s suffering come from? Suffering is not given to us by others. Suffering is because we don't know the truth. We don't know the truth about everything that exists. What is truth? The flowers in the front are beautiful. But it will wither in a few days, and it will be thrown into the trash. This is the truth. Now we're healthy. In 30 years, half the people here will be in hospitals, and some in columbaria. If you are thoroughly familiar with these principles, you will think it is basically normal.
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Including that some are 190 cm, and you are 140 cm. You should understand why I'm short and others are tall. Why others are white, and I'm black. Why others are pretty, and I'm ugly. Why others sing well, but I don’t sing well. All of this comes from the karma created by mouth, speech, and action. The fact is that karma controls everyone's life. This is not God, nor is it Feng Shui. Karma is the accumulated power of his thoughts, words and actions from life to life. Karma is invisible. It's like you take a seed and cut it open. Can you find flowers or fruits inside? No. But it has the power inside, just like a battery. You can't tell if the battery is charged with naked eyes.
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But there is electricity in this battery. So everyone has their own karma, which makes us happy or miserable. Karma makes sentient beings happy is good karma. Helping others, benefiting living beings, saying good words, being filial to parents, picking up trash are all good karma. It will result in personal blessing and good fortune. What is bad karma? What's bad karma? Endangering sentient beings, fraud, littering, abuse, stamping cockroaches are bad karma. Therefore, it cause different karma for everybody. Suppose there are 2000 people here, there are 2000 different destiny with 2000 different faces and mindsets. If you are seeking for a good life, you have to understand life first.
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After understanding life, you can further come up with the determination to change it. So, we call changing life as practice. I just want to get better. I wish to live a happy life and have a good mindset. After your life has been rebuilt, move forward to seek a life of liberation. When our life is liberated, we should help other sentient beings to be liberated. Today's topic is true love of life. Some reporters asked me today, many also asked me yesterday in Singapore. Everyone asked the same question. Master Hai Tao, can I ask you a question in private? It is said that you have been married before? I said no need to be in private, this is a public matter. It's said you have a child. Everybody is interested in this matter. Why? It's not everybody has interest.