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【一心】Wholeheartedness

昨天在油管，簡單地回覆一位觀眾的問題。

問：老师，我想请教您一个我很好奇的问题。那些不识字的人，看不懂佛书所以他们是不是比较没福报呢？如果是，那他们能如何学习佛法与传统文化？

答：生命您好，佛教禪宗六祖惠能不識字，但卻是開悟者。不識字雖是福報少，但與個人是否有佛緣和根器好壞是兩回事。

有佛緣，必會遇到善知識引導他她。根器好，必會容易開竅。家境貧苦、沒讀過書的六祖惠能當年聽到他人唸一句金剛經而已，就啟發了他想學佛的心。

有時學歷高的人，反而會自現障礙，不見得比一個只會一心唸「阿彌陀佛」的老婆婆還有福報。

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I briefly replied to a question on Youtube yesterday.

Q: Teacher, I wish to ask you a burning question on my mind. For the illiterate who are unable to read Buddhist books, does that mean they have less good fortune? If so, how are they going to learn the Dharma and traditional culture?

A: Hi Life, the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism, Huineng, is illiterate, but he attained enlightenment.

While being illiterate does mean less good fortune, it is an different issue from whether a person has affinity with Buddhism and the nature of his innate character + acceptance of the Dharma.

When one has Dharma affinity, he is bound to meet a virtuous knowledgeable person to guide him.

When one has good character and high acceptance of the Dharma, he gains understanding fast.

The Sixth Patriarch Huineng had no education and was left in poverty as a child when his father died. But he was awakened when he heard someone reciting a verse from the Diamond Sutra. He then sought to learn the Dharma.

Sometimes, erudite people become their own obstacles, because of their high education.

And thus, they may not have more good fortune than an old grandmother who recites "Amitabha" with a devoted heart.

越戰老兵回越南找尋他當年(1968)參訪的寺廟

Easter Sunday is a very significant day for me, but maybe not for the reasons you might think.

I was raised in “The Church”.

I attended Episcopal services at St. James in Kent, Washington regularly as a child AND served as an Altar Boy, and at an older age, was The Head Altar Boy in our parish. I used to carry the parish cross to lead the processions at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Seattle during the annual gatherings of Cathedral Day.

I was very serious about my faith. I was dedicated. I was a believer.

My faith began to fracture in 1957 after my near fatal experience with bi-lateral pneumonia. I had been hospitalized for the whole month of April of that year at Seattle’s Children’s Hospital. At one point, the hospital summoned my parents, who had gone home for a much needed rest, and said they should return immediately because “I might not make it through the night”.

Shortly after that, when the annual “Parish Pledge season” came around, my folks explained to Rev. Warren P. Frank, that they were very sorry but that they could not afford to pledge that year, due to excessive medical bills. Father Frank, in addition to being our parish priest, was also our next door neighbor. We shared a common fence. We used to share hellos and conversations that normal neighbors did in those days.

For their sins, they were ostracized. The priest turned a cold shoulder. He became distant. He shunned my parents for not being able to pledge to the church. He was no longer a friendly neighbor. This action hurt me so much. That was my first wake up.

In later years, I happened to spend a lot of time around “Born-Again” “Holier than Thou” Fundamentalist Christians and was exposed to the hypocrisy of faith: Living one way, professing another…..all the while denying the hypocrisy. I was even gaslighted into believing I needed to become “Born Again’ if I was to have any real worth as a human being.

I continued in the church until I was 18, but I remember, as I sat in the sanctuary while assisting the priest in the service of Holy Communion, the thought kept recurring to me that there is “something more”. Something deeper. I had reached point where the belief system was just too unrealistic and implausible for me.

I quit going to church on a regular basis, but continued to attend on major religious holidays like Christmas and Easter more out of habit than faith.

My interest and faith in Christianity wained, and by the time I turned 20, I no longer considered myself a member of the church.

On Easter Sunday, April 14, 1968, at the age of 21, while serving with the US Army in Vietnam, possibly out of habit or in an attempt to try to make sense of my current situation, I attended Easter services at The Chapel of Peace in Qui Nhon, Vietnam.

As I left the Easter church service at The Chapel of Peace that sunny, warm Sunday morning in Vietnam, I was immediately thrust back onto the streets of a war torn, poor country and the reality of chaos, suffering, uncertainty and fear surrounded me. The tranquility and solitude of the church had vanished in a flash. The all embracing, loving, but very judgmental, God seemed to as well.

But from that chaos emerged another kind of peace. A sense of peace that accepted the reality of that chaos and a philosophy of how to live within it. There was a sense of acceptance, resilience, tenacity and hope I had not seen before. And from the middle of that chaos were so many warm, smiling and happy faces. There WAS something more. Those were Buddhist faces looking back at me.

That day would end up being the last day I attended a Christian church as a believer.

For a few months prior I had been frequenting many Buddhist temples in Qui Nhon with my Korean Army Tiger Division Taekwondo martial arts teachers. Being that they were all Buddhists, they liked to visit the temples on their days off and invited me to go along. One temple in particular, Long Khanh Pagoda, was one that was almost surreal. Something about being there made me feel very familiar and comfortable with it all. It was like I had been there before. I became very attached to Long Khanh Pagoda.

I started visiting Long Khanh pagoda on a regular basis. I also began to read Alan Watts and D.T Suzuki and shortly after, converted to a Zen Buddhist.

Thus began my journey back to Buddhism, returning to a place I had existed in a former life.

Through all the tough times my life, the teachings and philosophy of The Buddha have carried me on a path of enlightenment and clarity, that was lacking in my experience with Christianity.

I have never doubted or regretted it.

I had been back to Qui Nhon two times since 1968. I had spent days looking for Long Khanh pagoda but was unable to find it. The combination of time, change and memory had failed to help me.

In 2015, at the very end of my second visit to Qui Nhon, after having spent two days looking unsuccessfully and preceded by a very strange series of circumstances, I found myself instantly back at Long Khanh Temple. It was totally unplanned, but it was clearly no accident. It was predestined.

Long Khanh Pagoda had grown and was much more beautiful than before. I met with some of the monks and explained my past relationship with this temple. I was warmly embraced by the community.

For me, it was a very emotional and uplifting experience, as if I had been guided there purposely by an invisible force. I was welcomed home. I was shown that my journey was validated. I was bathed in the spirit. It was one of the most amazing feelings of fulfillment and enlightenment I have ever experienced.

(English version below)

財，是有其魔力的。因此，很多很多人自甘被它，迷了心竅而多世，苦輪中求出無期。有位女客人，在還未認识吾時，就已是不折不扣的，財迷心竅之人。

但，那是還未認识吾之前。和她較熟落之後，吾就嘗試用吾那不靈光的英語，順序淺進的教於她，佛法，玄學，神明的供奉，以及諸多的正確價值觀，希望她不要因爲，這世俗間不淨的東西，而失去其人身，也留下了後患，殃及其家人。參修佛法之人皆知，拜神並非正道。因有像皆幻，無像則爲实。实則眞悟，幻則迷執。所以佛門襌宗，不立像是也。

近日有這福氣，受其邀請爲其寓所，公司等等服務，吾更確定這位查謀，胡亂拜神。比方說，吾請妳你來吾家做客，卻把妳你安頓在，逼迫的角落，又或者把妳你安頓在，面嚮厕所處，妳你會覺得賓至如帰嗎? 跟着吾递上半杯的茶水，及連小朋友都吃不飽的糕點，妳你會覺得吾是大方的嗎?

答案是心照不宣的呀！諸天的神明，好些還是有祂們的特喜供品。除此之外，供奉神明的神龕或神桌尺寸，應供奉何神明，供奉神明的器俱用品等等，都是學問啊! 馬虎不得，馬虎不得。吾，玳瑚師父，憐憫這女客人以外，也再次闡示於有緣眾生，不可胡亂拜神，以免造成多怪的命途，多怪的家庭事故，那就非常不好也不妙了。

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Wealth does has its magic. Thus many many people willingly lose themselves in it and are unable to break free from the endless sufferings of many lifetimes. There was a female client who, before knowing me, is without doubt a slave to money.

That was before she knew me. As I got more familiar with her, with my unaccomplished English, I tried to teach her in proper sequence, the Dharma, Chinese Metaphysics, the proper etiquette of making offerings to the Deities, as well as the right values, in hope that she will not lose her human form and implicate her family over her non-virtuous pursuit in this secular world. All practising Buddhists know that praying to the deities is not the proper path in Buddhism. Because all form is illusory. All form-less is the immutable truth. The latter is true enlightenment while the former will lead to attachment. That is the reason why Zen Buddhism is form-less.

Recently, I had the good fortune to be of service to this female client, performing Feng Shui audit for her residence and office etc, and it made me even more sure that this client does not have the right praying etiquette. For example, if I invite you to your home, but seat you in a tight corner, or facing the toilet, do you think you will feel welcomed? And if I go on to serve you half a cup of tea, and snacks that can barely feed a child, will you think that I am generous?

You and I both know the answer. The many deities still have their own likings and preferences when it comes to offerings. Beside that, factors like the dimensions of the altar, which deity to pray to, the different types of offerings and wares to use, etc, are deep knowledge! You cannot afford to be careless! You cannot opt to be sloppy!

Beside compassion for this female client, Master Dai Hu once again highlight this to all sentient beings: Do not pray carelessly, with no proper etiquette, so as not to invite peculiar happenings into your life and family. That would be greatly disastrous.

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