Why did the Venerable Master Xuanhua say that one more monastery would give one more hell?

This refers to those temples that do not exist for spiritual practice, and sell a part of the commercial property of the Nyorai family for the sake of the world's profits. Not all monasteries. It should be understood in conjunction with the preamble and the afterword, and cannot be taken out of context.

People are greedy for coloring, sound, fragrance, and touching the realm of the five desires, that is, wealth, color, fame, food, and sleep; These are the five roots of hell, all of which ascend to hell and are trapped in hell. For example:

2) Lust: Beauty, envy, laughter, and lust are the cause of the reincarnation of sentient beings. Whether it is a man or a woman, when they meet occasionally, the first thought is to see if the other person is handsome or beautiful. It's all about using delusions, and this idea is not true, so there is reincarnation.

3) Greed for fame: People are often trapped by the shackles of fame and profit, so they love self-promotion, but on a small card, but printed with a lot of titles, oh! What kind of group is the leader, what is the managing director of the company, and what is the director of such and such a consortium, etc., this is not purely for the sake of a good name!

4) Gluttony: Some people are not good for money, lust, or fame, but they like to eat!

5) Snooze: Some people are not greedy for money, lust and food, but they sleep well! Sleep too much and feel dizzy.

In Hong Kong and Taiwan, it is common to hear about the occurrence of 'sleep death disease', because people are too greedy to sleep, and they feel happy when they die, thinking that this is a kind of death that does not have to suffer pain. In short, these five desires are the five roots of hell that cause sentient beings to sink into the abyss of the six realms of reincarnation. Therefore, learning Buddhism and cultivating the Tao can enable people to stop evil and do good, oppose evil and return to righteousness, get rid of life and death, and not be subject to reincarnation.

What is the reason why the path has not been corresponded to for a long time? Because the delusional mind is doing tricks. With delusional mind, the precepts are destroyed, the concentration is destroyed, and the wisdom is destroyed.

If you have delusional thoughts, you will not be strong in taking the vows, nor will you be strong in your cultivation, let alone in wisdom. Delusional for a lifetime, climbing heart followed. Therefore, it follows all things.

The color of the eyes, the sound of the ears, the smell of the nose, the taste of the tongue, the touch of the body, and the Dharma of the mind are all the realms of all things. If you dwell on all things and follow them around, you will give birth to greed.

Covetousness arises for what pleases you. Greedily together, just find a way to get it. After getting it, he is still not satisfied, and he is still greedy.

This kind of greed is a bottomless pit, which will never be filled, and the so-called "endless desire" is endless. Those who are greedy for money, after they have money, will be greedy for fame. After becoming famous, they have to covet houses, cars, airplanes, ships, and so on.

That's what you want. Sometimes, if you don't fulfill your wishes, you will be troubled.

After a lifetime of trouble, all kinds of delusions followed. If you think about it all your life, you will have sorrow. The body is also bitter, the mind is also bitter, and all kinds of sloppy behaviors appear, and impure thoughts also appear.

Because of this relationship, it does not correspond to the Tao, and it is impossible to get rid of life and death, and it is not necessary to come out when it turns around in the six realms of reincarnation. The farther away you are from your nature, you will fall into the sea of suffering, and you will not be able to pull out your legs.

The essence of one's own nature is the way of truth. What is the true way? There is no form, there is no concreteness, if you can understand it, you will get this way.

If you don't understand this principle, you will fall more and more day by day. If we can realize this truth, wisdom and light will always appear in front of it, and the truth and truth will also appear in front of it. At this time, it corresponds to the Tao.

If you go to the Western Elysium, there is no retreat, only forward refinement and then no retreat, and you can get these four non-retreats.

Four do not retreat, the first is not to retreat, the second is to prepare for the branches, the third is not to retreat, and the fourth is not to retreat.

"You will not retreat": when you are born in the Western Elysium, you will get this Buddha position. When you go there, the lotus blossom is reborn, and when the Huai Nahua opens, you will see the Buddha and hear the Dharma, and realize that there is no way to endure life, and you will not fall again. This is called not retreating.

"Do not retreat": The ordinary people who practice in this life are diligent in their cultivation, and in the next life, they are lazy and do not diligently, which is called cultivation without long-term mind. When you are born in Elysium, there is no suffering of the three evil realms in that place, and the Gyalinga Pinga and the Bird of Common Life are all there to say the Dharma, all of which are helping Amitabha Buddha to say the Dharma.

Therefore, when you are born in the Elysian World, you will no longer be lazy in your spiritual practice, and you will always move forward and be brave and diligent.

"Thinking of not retreating": It seems that we are practicing in the world of sampa, and today we want to move forward and improve, and give birth to this idea of being diligent. After working hard for a while, I felt that it was very hard to work hard, and I was not as comfortable as resting, so I didn't work hard and gave birth to this lazy thought.

This thought has retreated, although the line has not retreated, the thought has already retreated. In the course of these few decades, there are more depraved hearts than diligent hearts! It's not easy not to retreat.

When you are born in the Western Blissful World, where you speak the Dharma at six o'clock in the day and night, you don't have such a situation of retreating from bodhichitta.

In the end, I will not retreat": I will be born in the world of bliss, and I will not be reborn in the lotus flower, and I will not retreat again at any time I know that my friends will not retreat to ordinary people, nor will they retreat to the two vehicles, nor will they retreat to the bodhisattva.