What is dwelling almsgiving? The Eight Types of Charity

Almsgiving is one of the six realms and is about the practice of bodhisattvas. When a bodhisattva is practicing charity, he should be able to "give alms without dwelling in the Dharma", which includes "not stopping in the color of giving". To live is to take the meaning of reluctance.

When sentient beings become conscious in the realm of the six dusts, they will have delusions, thinking that color is real color, sound is real sound, etc., and always think that this is indeed the case. Because if you take the Six Dust Realm (the Six Dust Realm includes color), you will be turned away by the realm and will not be at ease. When a bodhisattva is practicing almsgiving, if he wants to truly benefit sentient beings, he must do "not dwelling in the Dharma", including not dwelling in color.

In other words, we should be far away from our own nature with regard to the giver and the recipient, what is given, where and when we give, and the purpose and result of giving.

Only in this way can we truly benefit all sentient beings. Otherwise, I think that I am able to give, that he is giving, how is the giving, how is the reward, how is the blessing, and even the tribute is slow, all because of dwelling in the Dharma phase, "dwelling in color", **like a bodhisattva? That's why the Buddha said:

Bodhisattvas in the Dharma, should not dwell in the practice of almsgiving, the so-called do not stop the color of giving, do not stop the sound, fragrance, taste, touch, Dharma giving.

Dishes, Buddhist. It is said that when a bodhisattva is practicing, he should dwell in the rational body of the reality of the Dharma realm, without giving birth to distinctions or hues, and with equal and universal compassion, he should give generously.

Can you do this?

Do these seven kinds of charity.

Good fortune will follow for a lifetime.

Clause. 1. Yan Shi: You can get along with others with a smile to change;

Clause. 2. Words and giving: Say more words of encouragement, comfort, praise, humility, and gentleness to others;

Clause. 3. Heart giving: open your heart and treat others sincerely;

Clause. Fourth, eye giving: to look at others with good intentions;

Fifth, self-giving: to help others with action;

Clause. 6. Seat Aid: When taking a boat or car, give up your seat to others;

The first noisy friend rushed. 7. Housing alms: Provide your own vacant house to others to rest. ”

From "The Buddha Says Everywhere Sutra".

The white Buddha words of the bhikkhus. All the people of the world. All should be blessed by the Buddha.

Now the Buddha is gone. The people of the world. When the revenge is from whoever is blessed.

Buddha words bhikkhus. Though I have passed away. The scriptures should be there.

There are four causes and conditions. Blessings can be obtained. One animal has nothing to eat.

The order of feeding is fatal. The two see that people get sick and have no vision. When offerings are given, peace is attained.

The three are poor, and the hands are lonely and take care of them. The four people are alone, practicing meditation and chanting the Tao, and they should be treated as having no food or clothing. It is to give for the four things with kindness.

After defeat, his blessing is no different from that of the Buddha.

In the vernacular, it is:

First, give food to animals that are dying of hunger so that they can live.

Second, the sick and lonely helpless, with no relatives and friends around them, can go to serve close and peaceful.

Third, for the poor and lonely, they can often visit and care for themselves.

Fourth, for monks who practice alone, they can make offerings for visits.

For the above four things, being able to make generous offerings with kindness is no different from making offerings to the Buddha.

According to the preface of the Bodhisattva's good vows, the Bodhisattva at home performs wealth and dharma; The monk bodhisattva performs the four charities of writing, ink, sutra, and saying; The bodhisattvas who have attained lifeless forbearance have three kinds of charity: full charity, great charity, and supreme charity. The eighteenth volume of the Kusha treatise lists eight types of giving, namely: giving at will, giving with fear, giving with kindness, asking for retribution, giving first, giving with hope, giving with a name, and giving with a solemn heart.

Book 18 of the same book also lists seven types of almsgiving, namely, almsgiving, doers, patients, the sick, gardens, food, and almsgiving. The old translation of the Huayan Sutra 12 'Ten Endless Collections' includes the Ten Practices of Practice, the Last Difficult Practice, the Inner Practice, the Outer Practice, the Inner and Outer Practices, the All Practices, the Past Practices, the Future Practices, the Present Gifts, and the Ultimate Practices. The above is a variety of classifications according to the content, attitude, purpose, etc. of the conduct.

In addition, the giver, the recipient, and the giver are essentially empty and do not have any attachment, which is called the three-wheeled body emptiness and the three-wheel purity. [Thirty Futian Sutras in the middle of the Ahan, and one Ahama Sutra in addition.]

IV. Volume. IX. Volume.

Two. 10. The Great Prajnaparamita Sutra.

Four. Six. IX. Volume 5.

Six. 9. The bodhisattva holds the scriptures.

Fourth, the volume of generosity and the volume of great wisdom.

Ten. IV. Volume II.

Ten. 9. The Yogi's Treatise on the Land of the Guru, Volume 39] (cf. 'Da Xuan' 5677) <>

1. Financial charity: Distinguish between external and internal wealth. Clothes, property, gold, silver, jewelry, movable property, immovable property, wives and children are all foreign wealth.

Internal wealth is our body. There are three kinds of charity: (1) Serving others with our labor, which is giving with physical strength.

2) Use our wisdom to plan for others. (3) The head of the brain, if others are in need, the bodhisattva can also give alms. Both internal and external wealth, the Bodhisattva never spares in and is very generous in his charity.

2. Dharma almsgiving: Dharma is the method, including the worldly law and the worldly law. Dharma is teaching – teaching with zeal.

The scope of Dharma is very broad. For example, if I don't know the Dizang Sutra, ask the Dharma Master to teach me the Dizang Sutra, which is Dharma almsgiving.

I can cook, you can't, I teach you to cook, also called Fa Bu Shi. Whatever we know ourselves, and others want to learn, we should be zealous to help him, to teach him, and not to be stingy; Don't be afraid that others will be better than you after you learn it, and you will be finished, but in fact, otherwise, the merits of the retribution are incredible. 3. Fearless generosity

'Fear' is terror, physical and mental restlessness, fear and fear. The kind of charity that can help others to get rid of all horrors and make them physically and mentally stable is called fearless charity.

Dharma giving is the cultivation of wisdom, wisdom, and talent, and it encompasses a very wide range. It is usually divided into all the worldly and worldly dharmas, that is, the Dharma and the worldly dharma. Whatever others want to know and want to learn, as long as I can, I will enthusiastically teach him, this is the Dharma almsgiving.

Philanthropy: Helping others. Physical charity also includes: giving to the marrow and brain of the leader, flesh and hand, and not sparing his life. In the past, those who made offerings with burning fingers or arms belonged to body charity. There is also a method of giving to the body in Tibetan Buddhism, which also belongs to the body giving.