Q:
Venerable Master, I lost
my eyesight in a car crash, and often the vision of a lake of changing colors,
with a waterfall in it, appears before me. I feel like a scuba diver wearing
a bright lamp on my forehead. This experience occurs all the time, except
when I am asleep. What should I do?
A: When
you ask your question, don't make it an essay. Be brief and to the point.
Don't be so long-winded, for my memory isn't that good anymore. By the time
you finished asking your question, I already forgot most of it. What am
I supposed to do?
Q: Venerable
Master, my friend Su Jianming lost his eyesight in a car accident. He has
seen all the best doctors, but none have been able to help him. I sincerely
request the Venerable Master to advise him on a method to cure himself.
Thank you.
A:
You should recite Guanyin Bodhisattva's name. In the
"Chapter
on Guanyin Bodhisattva's Universal Door," there are four verses:
The
pure, undefiled radiance
Of wisdom's sun destroys all darkness;
It dispels the calamities of wind and fire
And lights up the entire world.
The
car accident you were in has to do with your past causes and their effects.
In a previous life you may have blinded some living beings, or hunted
birds, or put out the eyes of animals before you killed them, and so in
this life you have to undergo the retribution. That's all there is to
it.
Q: Venerable
Master, when my sister was a freshman in community college, she showed
suicidal tendencies. During her second year of living on campus, she behaved
abnormally and talked illogically. After her family transferred
merit to cross over her creditors from past lives, her condition improved.
However, she still has periodic lapses. Is there any way to cure her?
A: She
should just recite Guanyin Bodhisattva's name, and she will get well.
But she has to have true faith.
Q:
Venerable Master, someone said that my brother will be a threat to my
mother's life in 1994 and should not be allowed to live with her. Is there
a way to solve this problem? A:
I'm a left-home person,
not a snake-oil salesman, and I don't know how to answer such questions.
Q:
If we recite mantras on a daily basis, should we recite just one mantra
or many different mantras? Which is more beneficial?
A: Neither
is more beneficial. All Dharmas are equal, without one being better than
another. The one is just the many, and the many are just the one. Whether
you recite many mantras or one, you have to be single-minded for it to
be efficacious. If you say you want to recite more mantras or Sutras,
that's just your greed acting up.
Q:
Yang Shuhui bows in respect and asks: How should a beginner go about studying
Buddhism? How should he choose a Way-place and find a Good and Wise Advisor?
How can he recognize the Proper Dharma?
A: I
am not a Good and Wise Advisor, so I don't know. You have to choose for
yourself. There is no fixed method. You have to use the Dharma-Selecting
Eye. Don't mistake the true for the false and the false for the true,
that's all.
Q: National
Master Yu Lin refused to return to lay life and get married. I don't quite
agree with his decision. What is the Venerable Master's opinion?
A: Being
a left-home person, I don't get involved in such matters.
Don't ask me about matters of marriage and childbirth.
Q: Venerable
Master, how can I obtain the Dharma-Selecting Eye?
A: I
don't have the Dharma-Selecting Eye myself, so how can I tell you?
Q: Venerable
Master, how can we be vigorous and advance to a higher level?
A: Eat,
drink…and play mahjong.
Q: Wang
Manmei seeks instruction. Venerable Master, how can one leave the Triple
Realm and enter the door of liberation?
A:
If you are not in the Triple Realm, then you have left the Triple Realm!
Q: How
can I recognize my true life? I fully agree with what Venerable Master
just said.
A: Then
you've been cheated!
Q: Venerable
Master, how should one prepare for rebirth?
A: Why
do you want to be reborn? How can you go to rebirth when you are dragging
so much garbage around?
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