Q: What this classmate asked is that the Tibetan Scripture talks about karma. Now everyone who does not do evil will go to hell. There should be fewer people. Why are there more and more people?
A: Don't worry about this problem. Really, there will be fewer and fewer people in the future. It was many years ago that I saw the prophecy of the French prophet Nostradamus. It is called Century, a Chinese translation. It says there is a serious disaster in this world, and his prediction is that this disaster will be in 1999 and 2000, at this time. The severity of the disaster means that everyone on this earth is dying, and the number of people left is seven. Some people say that the seventh year should be 700 million. We know that the world population is about 7 billion now. In other words, there is only one person left out of ten. Some people say that this big seven is not 700 million, but 70 million. If it is 70 million, there will be only one person left in 100 people. So the people who left at that time, the living will envy the dead, so miserable!
But 1999 passed, and so did 2000, when I was in Singapore. There is a dean of a Catholic seminary in Singapore. He felt very strange. He said that there have been many disasters in the past two years. How could it not be? Ask such a question. I was puzzled. I said there was a real disaster in the past two years. Why not? Because people all over the world have read this prophecy and know that there is a disaster at this time, all religious believers all over the world (if nothing else) sincerely pray at this time, which is powerful! This kind of prayer can solve this disaster, or at least delay it. I believe he can be satisfied with my answer. But these two years have passed, and now people's hearts are getting worse: that prediction is false and unreliable! Bad karma is getting worse, and there will be another disaster, which may be more cruel and terrible than that prediction. Maybe, not impossible.
So now, the whole world is looking for ways to resolve conflicts and promote stability and peace. As long as there is such an opportunity, I will never miss it. I always want to do my part. How to resolve contradictions? I have also participated in some symposiums of scholars and experts, as well as these peace conferences of the United Nations. After I participate, listen to what these people say. Can they solve the problem? Can't solve the problem! This kind of problem can never be solved by a few people discussing and studying in the room. World peace will come and conflicts will disappear. I gave them advice. The real implementation of this problem still depends on education. What education? In the early years of the Republic of China, almost a century ago, the old mage Yin Guang saw it. We have to admire the wisdom and vision of his ancestors, who saw clearly. You see, he is the founder of Pure Land Sect, a generation of eminent monks. What he said and preached all his life was not Buddhist scriptures. Of course, the Buddhist scriptures also say that they are not wholeheartedly. What is he doing wholeheartedly? Engaged in Four Laws, Induction of the Emperor's Father and An Shi Quan Shu.
1977 I went to Hong Kong to give a lecture for the first time, and lived in the China Buddhist Library in Kowloon Street. When I came, the old monk had passed away, and the library was in the charge of Master Changhuai. That's when we met and became good friends. Changhuai is a good mage. I have seen many books published by Honghua Society in this library, because Yin Zu has a very close relationship with us. My teacher is a student of Yin Zu. We call him the founder and generally call him the teacher. There is such a close relationship, which is directly passed down, so I pay great attention to these classic books handed down by his old man's house.
His printing is good, the edition is good, and there are few typos, which is a rare book in modern circulation. I read the copyright page. He has printed dozens of these three books, each with at least 50,000 copies and more than 100,000 copies. Let me make a rough statistic. At that time, the printing volume of his three books exceeded 3 million, and I was shocked. He printed at most 10,000 copies of all Buddhist books, Buddhist scriptures and Confucian classics, and his books printed more than 3 million copies. What does this mean? The four disciplines of Fanfan are not Buddhist scriptures, but Confucian things. To sum up, there were Shu, Emperor Wen and Taoist in the first half of my life. That's why I said that the old monk has been multicultural and is no longer a religion. He combined it with Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. I thought for a long time, and it suddenly occurred to me that the disaster in this world is very serious, and it is too late for Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism to save this world. Why? Confucianism and Buddhism should be reasonable, so that you can change your mind and turn over a new leaf. However, this is a science. Without ten or twenty years of hard work, there will be no results. The best way is causality, so these three books are called causality education.
The old mage advocated causal education to save the world in the later period of France, correct! If a person wants to know what karma is, he will restrain his thoughts and he will not dare to do bad things. So he strongly advocated these three things, and we understood what he meant. But now the world doesn't believe in cause and effect, technology is developed, and people now believe in science. Christianity and Catholicism are very popular in China, but they are not popular abroad. China people believe it, but foreigners don't. Foreigners even claim that God is dead. Science comes first. You can go to the moon and other planets. If you don't believe in God, this matter will be in big trouble. If we really go in this direction, the world will eventually be the end of the world, which means the destruction of the whole world from scratch. Nostradamus' prophecy came true, so it was terrible.
We must save it. In what way? Or the old mage's printing method. But now we don't want to print books. There are 7 billion people in the world. Can you print 7 billion books for everyone? He may not read this book. Although these three books are very simple classical Chinese, it is difficult for people to understand them now. Therefore, over the years, I have always advocated that it is best to make it into a TV series and broadcast it from TV stations to teach the family this method. Someone responded like this. The earliest response was Malaysia, which made Fan Fan's Four Disciplines into a two-part TV series. Time is too short, only two hours, two films, I have seen them, and they are very good and impressive. For the second time, Beijing artist Chen made six films, which slightly expanded the teaching materials. But the TV station wants to broadcast it. It is said that there should be at least 20 episodes, and more than 20 episodes are welcome by TV stations. At least no less than 16 episodes, and TV stations with less than 16 episodes will not accept it.
In that case, what shall I do in Beijing this time? Is to do this thing. I found Benchang You Benchang You who plays Jigong. I know him. He visited me in Singapore before, and I once helped him. The second time I helped him write Ji Gong's Travels, we had such a friendship. So I said, this time I told him my thoughts and opinions, and you gave me a 20-episode TV series. What he used to do was about 300 thousand in one episode and 6 million in 20 episodes. I said $6 million is fine, but I asked him that our products should reach the international level, but your domestic level is not good enough. It should be international, international, and everyone can see and like it. There is no problem with the increase in cost. I said I could increase the cost and find the best actors. We estimate it will be around 10 million. You can make this thing for me.
He wrote an outline of the play twice, but I was not satisfied. I said no, I returned it. What did I teach him in the end? Yuan Lefan must be a true story. So I told him that you were going to Jiashan. That Mr. Fan is from Jiashan, and his descendants are still there, Yuan Bingkun. I am over 80 years old this year. I have called and written to him, but I have never seen him. I said that if you look for him, he will definitely provide you with the deeds of his ancestors for reference. He went to visit Mr. Fan's grave. I said to hit his grave in the credits in the future. This is a true story. How do you think his life was decided by Mr. Kong? How to meet Zen master Yungu (Zen master Zhongfeng) and change his destiny? Good results are good. He did it for us. He went, and now he is confident. After coming back from Jiashan, I will go to Baodi, because there must be some information in the county annals of the county where Mr. Fan is Baodi. Make all this clear before writing the script. This group of people are very enthusiastic about this matter now. I said yes, I said I fully supported you financially.
After this thing was done, I said I would do the second part, the induction of the sun. It is easier to do than this, because it has many stories. Thirty episodes of induction, thirty episodes of Anshi Quanshu, a total of 80 episodes. This is a lot of financial resources. I support all of you. You do it well, it meets international standards. When it is finished, we will stage China costume drama. Now, just like we watch foreign movies now, there will be Chinese subtitles in them. We play foreign languages with English subtitles, Spanish subtitles and Arabic subtitles, and broadcast them to the whole world through TV. Master Yin Guang's wish! I hope that causal education can be taught all over the world, and the world will be saved. This matter is urgent! Very anxious! Do it quickly, if it's too late, or in five years, I'm afraid the world will be gone. Do it quickly. I'll do it in Beijing. We had three meetings with Benchang You Lyman to encourage him and teach him how to do it. If you don't do it, people today are really like you said, like the Tibetan scriptures, "Jambu-Di^pa all beings are guilty and have no karma", which is really depraved. (Master Kong Jing asked a fellow practitioner in Hong Kong to learn Buddhism on July 23, 2004)
A: This is a question raised by Master Hongji. The question you asked is not a trivial matter, but a big one. Not only in China, but also in foreign Dojo, these disadvantages exist. Needless to say, we know it ourselves. Therefore, to learn Buddhism, you must follow the teachings of the great teacher. Yesterday, Hua Yan's words can be used as the answer to your question. In particular, Yin Zu taught us that in this era, this era is a turbulent era. In the future, historians will write the history of the world in troubled times, rather than managing the world and troubled times. In troubled times, all individuals or groups are disorderly and abnormal. Normal order is what our ancient sages in China called ethics. Secular law has five ethics and ten meanings, and secular law cannot be separated from ethics. Respecting teachers and valuing morality is ethics, and now this society has gone. Therefore, the causal education advocated by Master Yin Guang is very reasonable. We can really understand cause and effect, and we know that when we realize it, there will be consequences. I realized that I would naturally converge and dare not do anything.
Recently, Taichung Jiang, a layman and a student of the old bureau, has the friendship of classmates with us. I asked him to draw a "disguised map of hell". This photo is ready. A few days ago, our classmates made a heart shape and gave a simple explanation to this picture. If you don't explain, you can't understand. It's really rare to paint this picture in one year. This painting is 26 centimeters high, 26 centimeters high, about this high and 60 meters long, and it is also a giant in the history of painting. This picture gives us great enlightenment. He painted this picture according to the jade calendar treasure, which is Taoist and tells the story of the ten halls and sixteen hell, and each king of hell is responsible for sixteen hell. It also refers to the Wishing Sutra of the Earth Treasure King and Bodhisattva. After the success of this painting, he dreamed of Tibetan Bodhisattva three times. So he painted the Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha he saw in his dream, and he saw the Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha smiling in his dream. On the ninth floor next to our ancestral temple, there is a statue made by Mr. Jiang, and the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva he saw in his dream was based on that statue, so it changed a lot.
This picture gives us great enlightenment, which makes us feel that Sakyamuni Buddha should have a detailed explanation of hell, and there is more than one "Sakyamuni". Therefore, we have several students in Australia who are interested in studying classics and Sanzang. Twenty-five books were found in the Tripitaka, all of which talked about the situation of hell, which was much more detailed than the Notes on Jade Treasure. We were very happy to read it, and it was terrible to read it. Therefore, the hell mentioned by the Buddha is more detailed than this painting, and the result is more terrible; This picture doesn't look so terrible. The Buddhist scriptures say it's terrible. Every idea will pay off, let alone be artificial. Let's give the simplest example. This is the easiest thing for us ordinary people to commit. We like to criticize people and swear, which is very easy to commit. What the Buddha tells us in the scriptures is that after you go to hell, countless people will scold you. You will curse, and everyone will scold you. It will take tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of years for your sin to disappear and leave. So every bit of it has incredible pain, which is not in this "Notes on Yulibao".
So now we collect these 25 kinds of scriptures about hell and print them together. This book is already in print, and when it comes out in the future, we will circulate it in large quantities, so that everyone can see the disguised map of hell mentioned by the Buddha in the classics. We also hope that there will be another big picture in the future, which will provide the general public with the hell situation described by the Buddha in the classics, so that they can really see, read and be alert to themselves. If we can really understand the truth of cause and effect, our hearts and words will surely succeed. Why? Why start a business when you know that what goes around comes around is incredible and what goes around comes around is terrible? Therefore, it is reasonable and meaningful for Yin Zuyi to advocate causal education. To save the world, it's too late for Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism, and we have to use cause and effect, which we have to know.
Understand this truth, today is not only our Buddhism, many things we see are very sad, not as good as Buddhism. What should I do? If you realize yourself, you will start from scratch. They do theirs, we do ours, do not interfere with each other, and each goes his own way. That's good. We followed the teachings of Master Yin Guang and built a small Dojo. As I mentioned yesterday, we also put this sign of Yin Zu outside. As you can see, it's right outside this door. Yin Zu taught us that the number of people trained in the small Dojo should not exceed 20. This Dojo does not ask for alms, does not do Buddhist scriptures, and does not practice. In the end, it is just a Buddhist name. That's how I taught people. Later, someone told me that I couldn't finish reading this Buddhist name. After watching it for a while, he became impatient. What is the reason? The first one is that the mountain root and Ford are very thin and not deep; The second one, who doesn't understand the doctrine, will be upset. So I added a classic to help you resolve your doubts.
So what we are advocating now is that the Dojo should spend at least two to four hours every day, and listen to the scriptures and recite Buddha at other times. Many students have responded that this way is very good and very happy. So now we put forward this practice method in Yin Zuli, only listening to the scriptures. When listening to classics, you must listen to the classics of Pure Land, and it is best to listen to a classic. Don't listen to classics A classic is too monotonous. What's the point of listening repeatedly? Then you are wrong. You won't listen. We'll talk about Hua Yan Jing later. How to listen? Listening to the classics will be calm and suddenly enlightened. You have to listen. In the next few days, it may be said that it is in the product of Hua Yan Jing. So, the question is whether you will! Will the most important thing in it be that the master of printing light talks about the secret of learning, "sincere respect"; You have sincerity, you have respect, and you can get benefits. What we are talking about now is that our sincerity and respect are not enough, so you have studied Buddhism for so many years, and you can't get the benefits of Buddhism. That's the reason. (Question and Answer on Master Kong Jing's Buddhist Learning: The Second Fellow Practitioners in Hong Kong on July 30, 2004)