Cause and effect in Buddhism are questioned. Doubts about Buddhism

When the study of cause and effect is understood, there will be no doubts.

1.The Buddha has appeared, and Shakyamuni is the embodiment of the Buddha.

God also appeared, and Jesus was the incarnation of God.

2.Buddhism believes that God exists. But instead of being called "God", using the term of the Buddhist scriptures, it is called "Heavenly King".

Many Buddhist scriptures talk about the "Heavenly King". For example, the Jizo Sutra talks about it several times.

3.On the surface, it seems that what the Buddha said contradicts what Jesus said.

In fact, there is no contradiction. This is because:

Jesus saves people from the lower roots, and he saves people from heaven.

The Buddha is the one who has attained the root and the one who has attained Bodhi Nirvana, which has transcended the heavens.

Jesus said, "He who is not sick does not need a doctor, but he who is sick does." (see Luke 5:31).

Jesus saves "the sick." In Buddhism, it is called: "Shimogen people".

It's like: the knowledge of elementary school and the knowledge of university seem to be completely different.

In fact, this is because the foundation of students is different.

If you let elementary school students study university courses, it is equivalent to not studying.

It would be a waste of time to ask college students to study the primary school curriculum.

Don't get it wrong: college is necessarily more important than elementary school. In fact, just as important.

If there is no primary school in the whole country, then the whole country is illiterate.

If there are no universities in the country, then where will there be cutting-edge technology?

Elementary school students say: The content in the university is completely different from ours, and that must be wrong.

College students said: The content in primary school is completely different from ours, but it is all correct.

Buddhism never believes that other religions are wrong. On the contrary, Buddhism has a treatise called "The Stages of the Lamrim." Among them argues:

The path of the corporal is to heaven, and other religions can also have it.

The path of the sergeant is the attainment of nirvana, and Hinayana Buddhism can also have it.

The path of the sergeant is the attainment of Amiao Bodhi, which only Mahayana Buddhism possesses.

There is such a phenomenon on the Internet:

Laymen always think that the Dharma is wrong.

Theravada in Buddhism always thinks that Mahayana is wrong.

The sutras in Mahayana always think that Mahayana Esoteric Buddhism is wrong.

In conclusion, elementary school thinks junior high school is wrong, junior high school thinks high school is wrong, and high school thinks college is wrong.

And the university does not think: elementary, junior high and high school, there is anything wrong.

First, the benevolent one, the Buddha has never claimed to give everything to sentient beings, as some gods do. The Buddha is the ultimate enlightened being, who has insight into the truth and truth of the Dharma realm, and tells us these things, hoping that we can enter into this Dharma, follow the guidance of the Dharma, and be able to conform to these laws, and even surpass them. If the Buddha gives us everything, then this Buddha must be referring to our ultimate Buddha-nature.

All sentient beings have this nature, but they are confused and upside down and cannot become enlightened.

Second, if we look at it from the perspective of our world, not only is the Buddha real, but God is also real. However, the Dharma taught by God is the Dharma that enables sentient beings to do good and eliminate evil and be reborn in heaven (the Heavenly Path), not the Dharma that is practiced on the path to liberation. Their Dharma is also very good, and it can help sentient beings to turn away from evil causes!

Third, the truth of the Dharma realm seems to exist, and these are laws, and it is not that there is such a law if you know it, and if you don't know it, you don't have this law. It's just that sentient beings have the mystery of the separation, so it is difficult to know the past and the future, so they are trapped in the phenomenon of retribution in the present, thinking that what they can't see and can't understand is nothing. This is not the case.

To give a simple truth: for an ant, if it does not know the earth, the earth does not exist? For a grasshopper, it has not experienced winter at the moment, and it cannot believe that there is winter, so winter really does not exist?

The benevolent person himself has wisdom, and he can think about it with his heart!

Brother, I suggest you take a look at "What the Diamond Sutra Says" written by Mr. Nan Huaijin, what is a Buddha? It's you! You seem to have something to do, you seem to have nothing to do!

The heart of the past is unattainable, the heart of the present is unattainable, the heart of the future is unattainable, and the mind arises without dwelling, and the Dharma is not born! Nothing! What a life is so fast!

But ah! Attention! Buddhism doesn't make you unhappy and happy!

Although it is a world, you can still struggle and work hard! Just don't cling! You still have to be patriotic!

Just don't be angry because of the past, don't cling to this, then you will be far from the Buddha! Don't think you're smart! That's even more.

Having said so much, you have to see it yourself, Buddha and Tao are just a noun, you have to understand it yourself!

AmitabhaThere are several reasons why I have doubts about the Dharma and lack of confidence, such as karma.

At present, there is also a lack of good roots and merits, and more importantly, if you don't have a teacher to preach the scriptures, you will have confidence if you really keep the precepts, and if you recite the scriptures and recite the Buddha by yourself.

Old Venerable--- if you have doubts about the Pure Sect and don't have firm faith, you can read and listen to the scriptures. What is the purpose of listening to and reading the Bible? This is the purpose of helping you to break doubt and belief.

Old Master--- I believe that if you really want to learn and practice like the Fa, then you will really benefit. If you don't believe it, your willingness to learn can't be out, and you can talk about it in BuddhismBodhicittaI can't send it out. Therefore, if you can't have a thorough and correct understanding of the teachings of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, how can you practice the Fa?

Your studies are all wrong, and no matter how hard you try, no matter how hard you try, you will not get results, and you will eventually lose faith in the Dharma. If you lose faith, if you have doubts, and then slander the Dharma, then the karma you create will be even heavier, so it is better not to learn.

The truth is unfathomable, and people who don't study it deeply will doubt it.

This is because I haven't met a good teacher, I don't understand, and I don't know how to apply it to life and work, so I naturally have doubts!

Learning Buddhism is actually a process of "believing, understanding, acting, and proven", these four major processes have not been completed, it is nothing more than some theories in empty talk, arguing about theory and logic, but without practice to support, everything has lost its meaning, just like a swimming coach who has become a talent with books alone, and is invincible in the world in terms of eloquence and theory, and will drown immediately as soon as he gets out of the water. We who study Buddhism, first of all, fall on the word "faith" on the way, do not understand what faith is, what is the ultimate care for life, just because of curiosity and learning Buddhism, because of ** and learning Buddhism, because of utilitarian and learning Buddhism, the heart is not right, how to produce true faith? With human eyes, the feces are indefatigable, filthy and unbearable; Looking at feces with dog eyes and dog hearts, sweet and delicious, do you say that the person is wrong, or the dog is wrong?

The second is "solution", in the current era of the end of the Dharma, evil teachers are like the sand of the Ganges, if there is no righteous Dharma teacher to explain the teachings of Buddhism for us, even the foundation is wrong, and naturally every step is wrong.

But the first two are rare, and the third step is the most difficult, because "doing" means that you have to do and practice according to the instructions of the Master, and this step is a watershed for many people to learn Buddhism. And how to "prove"? That is to say, it proves that the truth of the Buddha taught by the Master is true!

That's because you don't really understand the Dharma, for two reasons, one is that you haven't studied it seriously, and the other is that you have been misled by people who don't understand the Dharma, and there are many people who don't understand the Dharma, including monks, who may not really understand it, don't care about others, just focus on yourself, the real Dharma, in your own heart, all the Dharma, is in your own heart, and the enlightenment that everyone has is called Buddha nature, or awareness, and sometimes it can be directly called Buddha, and this is what Buddha means in the heart. Take refuge in oneself, do not rely on anyone, do not blindly trust everyone, only trust oneself, and any truth must be confirmed by one's own thinking. In this way, we can truly find ourselves, understand the world, understand life, and all the truths that others say are meaningless without being confirmed by our own thinking.

Trust yourself, what's wrong? What are the doubts? To think about everything is to think about everything, and to think about it yourself is to practice.

Among them, the Buddhas, Dharma and Sangha who have taken refuge are all in their hearts.

Because there are many times when you need the Buddha's help, you will feel disappointed, for example, it is useless to hold the Buddha's feet during the exam.

It's not explained like this:

Buddhism will only talk about one's own past, present and future lives, and will not talk about the virtue of one's ancestors!

Ancestral Yin De is our Chinese Taoist saying: the so-called ancestor protection!! But Buddhism tells you that your ancestors in this life may or may not be related to your past life, and your ancestors in your past life may or may not be related to this life!

The only certainty is yourself: your past life will inevitably affect your present life, and this present life will also continue to your future life! That is to say:

Zhu Yuanzhang's status as an emperor may --- come from his own accumulation of virtue in his previous life, or it may be from his ancestors in his previous life (which may have nothing to do with his parents in this life), or it may be that he and his ancestors have accumulated it together!!

Khenpo Tsengpo Lodrup: Cause and effect.

An analogy is that when it snows, if ink is poured into the snow, the snow becomes the color of the ink, and after the snow melts, the color can still be seen on the ground. In the same way, if you create karma with a disturbing affliction, when that affliction disappears, the karma will remain in the alayya.

Karma (or cause) is a special ability, like a seed of rice, and although we can't see it with the naked eye that it can produce rice sprouts, it does contain such an ability. In the same way, when the "seed" of karma is sown on the alayya, after a period of time, after the karma has matured, it will produce the "effect", which is also called retribution. So, the nature of the cause (or karma) is the special ability of the alayas to be recognized.

When a person's act of killing and stealing is complete, the seed of this act is left in his alayya. When this seed germinates is uncertain. The parable of grain is often used in the scriptures to illustrate the morning and evening of retribution.

There are many varieties of grain and vegetables, and they ripen differently in the morning. Some take only one or two months to mature, while others take five or six months or more, depending on the seed itself, as well as factors such as geography and climate. In the same way, there are four kinds of ripening of causes in the scriptures:

One is retribution in this life. For example, when you are young, you will have a karma, and when you are middle-aged, you will get retribution, sometimes even faster, and you can see the results at the moment.

These people usually do all kinds of evil, but he is not sick or sick, he lives well, and even spends his life prosperous and rich until the end of his life. Then some people said, "If cause and effect exist, and they have done so many bad things, why is there no retribution?"

This kind of doubt is unreasonable, because everyone knows that there is a period of time between sowing and harvesting, and now there is no grain because he did not plant the land properly last year and did not get a bumper harvest, so after sowing the seeds, there will be no surplus grain to eat, which is not directly related to his hard work this year.

At the beginning, cause and effect can be understood in the line of Marxist philosophy. It is important to understand that cause and effect can be transformed into each other under certain conditions.

Lao Tzu said, "All things are born from being, and some are born from nothing." If you believe in Lao Tzu, it can be said that there is a "causeless", but as long as there is something, there must be a "cause".

We live in the world of "being", and we don't know the world of "nothing", and it is impossible to answer how your first cause came from (our cognition of things and communication are based on "being"). The causal cycle is one in which a cause creates an effect, and that effect becomes a cause to create another effect, and so on and so forth, never stopping. 1.

Both a thought and an unintentional action have a cause, related to your culture, conscious memory, surroundings, physical state, and so on. 2.Cause and effect are the relationship between things, which are relative, for example, B is the effect of A, and C is the cause of C, and since "everything" belongs to "being", it must be both effect and cause.

Sow melons and get melons, beans that grow beans. The seed is the cause and the effect.

Otherwise, karma will follow, and it will never stop, and the cycle of cause and effect depends on our own sins, and the sins are interlocked.

For beginners, Buddhism is actually very simple – accumulate virtue and do good, be filial to relatives and respect teachers, strictly observe the precepts, and do no evil, and you will definitely be auspicious and lucky.

As you sow, so shall you reap. Don't be obsessed with those names.