Master Jianyin - Worshiping Buddha Cure Arrogance, and Raise Belief & Virtue 拜佛治貢高我慢

(English subtitles) Master Jianyin, 鑑因法師 (1937-2024) , Talks Dharma.
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Worshiping Buddha is prostrating yourself in front of the Buddha. In the note of Avatamsaka Sūtra (Flower Adornment Sūtra), it says when worshiping Buddha, you need to touch the five parts of your body on the ground. The so-called 5 parts, including two hands, two legs, and the head. You pay respect to the Buddha by touching the ground with these five parts. That can cure your hindrance of arrogance.
Our greed, anger, delusion, arrogance, doubt are called five dull facilitators, or five affiliations. We have delusion of views and delusion of thoughts. Arrogance is one of the delusion of thoughts.
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Everyone knows that greed, anger, delusion are bad, but rare people know arrogance and pride are bad too. Greed, anger, delusion, arrogance, doubt, these 5 are our basic vexations. How do we heal our arrogance? You need to worship Buddha. Worshiping Buddha really can cure you of arrogance.
Many came to our Lotus Society. Told them to worship to Buddha. He couldn't bow down. He is greater than the Buddha. Some came with their hands on their hips, as if they wanted to fight with the Buddha. Many are like this, very arrogant and pride.
In particular, some are possessed by ghosts.
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You ask them to worship Buddha. They will never give in.
I once converted someone to Buddhism. Just said: Convert to Buddhism. Humph. Convert to dharma. Humph. Convert to sangha. Humph. That was really arrogant and pride. Humph 3 times. Hum... Just told him to convert. He humph. Not to mention worshiping.
That's true, arrogance and pride are one of our vexation. How do we overcome this? You have to worship Buddha. By worshiping, you may get rid of arrogance and pride. What else do you get besides this? You will be noble. When we worship Buddha, some people may wonder why this person is not noble. Why is this person worshiping Buddha or people?
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Let me tell you, just worship Buddha at your best, and you will be noble. The more you are arrogant and pride, the lower you are. The more you are respectful, the more noble you are.
Before I left home for practicing, I definitely would prostrate myself when meeting monks. Even if someone is a novice monk or nun, I would be prostrated too. I have developed this good habit. When I was at home, I always prostrate myself on seeing monks. Wherever I was, I would kneel and bow to him. But in hindsight, I know it's a good thing. Very few people know that they should prostrate themselves when they see monks. If you worship the Buddha, dharma, and sangha, you will have immeasurable merit.
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Those who have learned precepts from Master Chan Yun are all polite and well-mannered.
In the past, when I went to Taipei to practice with them in Taiwan University. Doctor Yang, Jing Huai greeted me at the train station platform, where there were many people. On seeing we got off the train, he immediately prostrated himself and bowed to us, not caring about the strange looks from so many people, and acted very naturally and piously. So this kind of people have great fortune. He often traveled abroad and published many papers,
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and has many inspiring stories, but now I don't have time to talk about it. He is so pious that he becomes noble. When paying homage to Buddhas, you will get noble and raise respect, belief, and virtue. If respecting the 3 Jewels, you'll raise belief and goodness. That is, when respecting the 3 Jewels, your belief will arise, and your root of virtue will arise. These is called respect, belief, virtue. Because Buddha is the blessing field for sentient beings.
It is said that there are three kinds of fields that are very fertile. If you crop those attentively, you will harvest very well. The first is blessing filed, which is Buddha, dharma, sangha.
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It is easy to cultivate blessings within the 3 Jewels. If you value the Buddhism, you will reap blessings.
The 2nd is respect field. Teachers, elders, and parents are our respect field, and we should respect them.
Another is virtue field. We don't look down to the poor, and give alms to him. If you crop all these 3 fields, you will reap riches and nobility in the future. So Buddha is the blessing field for beings. Reaping blessing can increase wisdom. Because worshiping can eliminate our karmic hindrance. If karmic hindrance is cut off, wisdom can be unfolded.
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Because Buddha has immeasurable merits, worshiping him not only can you eliminate the arrogance, but also receive nobility, respect, belief, virtue. How do you achieve success in this dharma?
Samantabhadra Bodhisattva told us: To achieve success, first, you have to pay homage to Buddhas. So, worshiping Buddha really has immeasurable merits. Besides, worshiping Buddha makes you healthy.
I told you, You can earn 100 NT$ for one worshiping. Not only that, you could be making a lot more, maybe 1,000. I tell you the fact.