Are chanting Buddha, participating in meditation, and visualizing the same in essence?

Yes. The goal is the same, but the way to start is different.

Reciting the Buddha, with a six-character name "Nan no Amitabha Buddha" stops at one place, and the pure thoughts are one after another.

Participate in Zen, participate in a certain question, control the heart unswervingly, participate in the water, and suddenly come to an enlightenment.

Visualization is also a method of stopping the mind.

Buddhism says that everything is created by the mind. Therefore, reciting the Buddha, participating in meditation, and visualizing all start from the heart, and the mind is one, so that we can see the true nature thoroughly.

I think that the essence of chanting Buddha and meditation is the same, their hearts are all good, they are longing for goodness, and their hearts are thinking about the good side.

Is it essentially the same as taking a car, a train, a ship, an airplane, and so on? Chanting the Buddha and meditating is a variety of different ways of practice, like different tools to reach the destination.

Visiting the Buddha and meditating, thinking that they are of course the same in essence, they are all observing their own hearts and seeking the hope of the Dharma from their own hearts.

Are chanting Buddha, participating in meditation, and visualizing the same in essence? Yes, it's all the same, it's all about finding that one thought, the eternal tranquility. So the purpose is the same, but my method is different.

Reciting the Buddha, is it the same in the book This is essentially the same thing, and it is all about faith and respect for Buddhism.

The essence is the same, and they are all cultivating our minds on different levels.

It's the same, it's a way to get rid of distractions.

It's completely different.

For the increase of learning, for the loss of the Tao.

In the evening, I went to a Buddhist class, and for the first time I sat in the classroom and listened to the lectures.

When I first met the master, he said that I had Buddha nature, because I deliberately wore a cloth shirt and linen pants and a beaded bracelet. As soon as the class started, the transfer students obviously couldn't keep up, and they listened a lot, but most of them were still ignorant, and they only heard the master talk about the characteristics and karma of the ten dharma realms of the universe and the six realms of reincarnation! Suddenly in awe, I dare not slack off!

The Buddha said: The eight sufferings of life: birth, old age, sickness, death, love and separation, resentment for a long time, can't ask for it, can't let go.

The Buddha also said: Life is created by oneself, and each other is born from the heart. A flower is a world, a grass is a paradise, a leaf is the same, a smile is a dust.

A thought of foolishness is like a god, and a thought of wisdom is like a life. The sentence is beautiful, and the artistic conception is more beautiful!

In the red dust, we have desires and desires, greed, hatred and ignorance throughout our lives, and we will not rest until we die. Ordinary people believe in Buddhism, only believe in praying to God and worship Buddha, worship because of asking, and ask for nothing more than peace, health, promotion and wealth, happy marriage, and developed children and grandchildren! It is as if you can get and have it by burning incense and worshiping the Buddha, and you can feel at ease with this, because believing in it is also pious and persistent.

Yes, most people are like that, and I was one of them.

However, there are still so many regrets and incompleteness in people and things in reality. From croaking to growing up, people's desires increase year by year, expand year by year, and they are entangled and struggling in the eight hardships of life, but they never understand the karma and karma created by themselves! The heart that wants to get is always bigger than the stupid heart that wants to give!

I heard a story a few years ago, so I bought the book "The Four Disciplines of Lifan" to see that after Yuan Lifan was calculated by Mr. Kong, all the encounters were not calculated by Mr. Kong. I lost my hope for life, so I didn't have any delusions and lived in peace. It wasn't until Qixia Mountain met Yungu Zen Master that Mr. Fan's fate began to change.

Through the inspiration of Zen Master Yungu, I understand that all blessings are not far from the square inch, and if you want to be happy, you must start with good karma, and if you want to get rid of suffering, you must avoid evil causes. Only by doing good and judging evil can we recreate our destiny!

After reading this book, I was full of emotion, I was confused about life before, and suddenly opened up, and found a road to life, which is so clear and bright, that I was very moved and confident.

Yes, instead of worrying all day long and praying to God and Buddha, we should wholeheartedly be kind, do good deeds, and seek from the outside as well as from the inside, only altruism can benefit ourselves! Combined with my current MELA career, doesn't it provide the best opportunity, which strengthens my belief in helping others achieve their goals and create a better future!

Thanksgiving: meet all the positive energy of righteous knowledge, mindfulness and thought!

Chanting Buddha Zen is a Zen method formed by the fusion of Zen Buddhism with the Pure Land Buddhism. Chanting the Dharma was originally advocated by the Pure Land sect, and Zen Buddhism absorbed it, and practiced the Dharma as a Zen monk, which is called Chanting the Buddha. The Yongming Longevity Extension of the Dharma Eye Sect, the Yunmen Sect's Rongjin Qisong (1007 1072), and the Rinzai Sect's Tianru Weize all emphasize the unity of Zen and purity.

Chanting is very popular because of its simplicity and ease of practice. After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the Pure Land Buddhism became the mainstream, and Zen Buddhism was already dying, and the remaining Zen method was the only one that chanted Buddha Zen.

In fact, Zen meditation is particularly useful for delusions, and our minds are always surrounded by this in our daily life and work.

There is also an interesting question, people who have been chanting Buddha for a long time, can be delusional at the same time, while chanting Buddha, both are correct, many people have been chanting for a long time, they have become fritters, and what they are reading is no longer Buddha, but delusional, so it is difficult to progress to the level of far away from language thinking and seeing the light of the mind, which is also the reason why many people have recited Buddha for a lifetime, and in the end they can't go, and they have to fall...

In fact, chanting Buddha is not so simple, and it is the most difficult method to practice at this level, because it starts from delusion, and in the end, if you don't pay attention to the method, it will always be delusion, and Zen meditation is first of all to break delusion...

Of course, people who can recite the Buddha without each other are similar to those who participate in meditation. . .

Speaking of which, everyone knows that Zen meditation is actually participating in one's own original bright mind...

The difference between meditation and chanting Buddha is that one starts from delusion, and the other starts from delusion...

Of course, your homework every day is not absolute, sometimes chanting the Buddha is powerful, just chanting the Buddha, if you are able to participate in Zen, it is best to participate in Zen, chanting Buddha is to make some preparations for Zen...

As for the statement that a thought is born, that thought is not a delusion in the sense of ordinary people...

Zen meditation is to attain meditation and finally realize emptiness, which is the method of Zen Buddhism. Reciting the Buddha is a convenient method, hoping to obtain the blessings of the Buddha, and the practice will be gained, and after death, you can be reborn in the Pure Land and continue to practice, which is the method of the Pure Land sect;

Zen Buddhism and Pure Land Buddhism have different requirements for the foundation of practitioners, Zen Buddhism requires a sharp root, and Pure Land Buddhism applies to all practitioners.

In the current situation, there are fewer and fewer people who have attained Zen Buddhism, and it is becoming more and more difficult, and it is very likely that they will only practice verbal meditation, which does not correspond to the Dharma, and has not had any effect on the liberation of life and death, and has wasted precious human lives.

To cultivate the Pure Land Sect's recitation of Buddhism, it is also necessary to master the method, to purify the mind, to reach the corresponding point of the heart and mouth, is the true thought, and will definitely be reborn in the Pure Land, and at the same time to master the fundamental scriptures of the Pure Land Sect.

In short, no matter which sect you cultivate, you must go deeper, have the spare strength, and then dabble in it extensively. Moreover, different sects are all designed to become Buddhas, and as long as one sect is cultivated, the other Dharma will also be naturally achieved.

May Taoist friends attain Bodhi as soon as possible!

Meditation is to be enlightened, to see the nature of the mind, and if you are enlightened, you will naturally be able to recite the Dharma. At this time, you can choose one of them, and you will live and die. Participate in Zen, read Zen classics such as "Diamond Sutra" and "Six Patriarchs Altar Sutra", read the public case, and listen to the "Flower Record" taught by the old man of Zen Buddhism.

If you can't become enlightened, then it's very good to practice the Dharma, and you can also get rid of birth and death and be reborn in the Western Paradise. Amitabha.

Everyone has different root natures, so if you are a root weapon, you can participate in meditation and chant the Buddha at the same time and you have deep benefits, why not. It's just that in the period of the end of the Dharma, most of the sentient beings have low roots, so it's best to practice deeply and for a long time to get the true benefits of Amitabha.

I think visualization was just one way at first, but then I gradually got used to it, for example, when I see people and recite mantras to remove karma, I don't just think about myself, but I think about sentient beings, shuman beings who have the same problems as me, and sentient beings who empathize with me.

1. The four realms of chanting Buddha:

There are four kinds of chanting Buddhas, the first is holding the name, the second is visualizing, the third is visualizing, the fourth is reciting the Buddha in reality, and 2. Explanation

Far away from birth and death, life and death are gone, there is nothing, there is no ability, there is no speech, there is no name, there is no heart. What is it? This is the detachment from all aspects mentioned in the Huayan Sutra. The Prajna Sutra also says that detachment from all appearances is all dharma.

That is, all the Dharma, concentrating on the Buddha with innocence in his own nature, his own nature is the Buddha, and the Buddha is his own nature. This is a great enlightenment, clear mind, this Zen Buddhism, the teaching is a great opening and a round solution, and the Pure Land Buddhism is a rational mind. However, with the fact that sentient beings have not yet come out of reincarnation, the mind of birth and destruction, and the thoughts are continuous.

3. Explanation of the Buddha of Reality:

The one who recites the Buddha in reality is the Dharma body of the Buddha, which is neither empty nor existent, and is the principle of reality in the middle way.

The recitation of the Buddha of Reality means the recitation of the Amitabha Dharma-like body, that is, the principle of reality, which is formless and formless, like emptiness; The mind and all living beings are originally equal, and the thought that is the one is the true thought. Thoughts and thoughts continue, and before samadhi appears, you will definitely be reborn in the Elysian World.

Reality (Sanskrit dharmata, bhuta-tathata). Reality is far from treatment, can be thought of by the Buddha of the mind, the Buddha of the mind is not separated from the mind of the mind, the mind of the mind is the Buddha of the mind, the mind of the mind is the Buddha of the mind, the Buddha of the mind, the Buddha of the Buddha of the Buddha of the Buddha of the Buddha

Emptiness: Sentient beings listen to the Buddha say emptiness, and they cling to emptiness, and the Buddha also says that emptiness cannot be attained, so it is said that it is neither emptiness nor existence, and emptiness is the dharma of the reality of the middle way. After listening to what the Buddha said, sentient beings cling to the Dharma of non-emptiness and non-existence, emptiness and the reality of the middle way, and the Buddha has compassion for sentient beings and says that the middle way cannot be attained.

If we continue to break the attachment of sentient beings to all the Dharmas, so that all sentient beings on the earth can attain the supreme Bodhi, then the name is empty after all.