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Take a look into the candid conversations between Supreme Master Ching Hai and Her disciples, on subjects ranging from spirituality to daily life, as well as rare insights into other realms beyond Earth. We must open our hearts to all kinds of noble influence, all kinds of noble company; we must take advantage of this chance. If we still believe that to improve our purity, to improve our wisdom is the highest purpose of humanity, then we must make effort. ~ Supreme Master Ching Hai (Vegan) World-renowned Humanitarian, Artist, and Spiritual Master

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Buddhist Stories: The Merit of Becoming a Renunciate, Part 6 of 8, Aug. 8, 2015

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Buddhist Stories: The Merit of Becoming a Renunciate, Part 6 of 8, Aug. 8, 2015

So when you meditate, you should leave everything behind. Leave your body, leave your friends, leave everything. Not think of anything. Just think of greatness of the gods that I told you. And at least you’ll be born into at least one of these regions. And then the Master continues to help you. If you think of anything else, then God help you.And then the old monk w
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Buddhist Stories: The Merit of Becoming a Renunciate, Part 5 of 8, Aug. 8, 2015

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Teacher already knows. Even if I tell a lie, he would know, too. So it’s better l tell the truth. Because in this life, in this world, anyone who has some wisdom and their heart is pure, and they always tell the truth, and they are honest, even all the heavenly kings have to respect that person. But if you have wisdom but you are not honest and straight, then it’s bad. It’s better to be just a nor
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Buddhist Stories: The Merit of Becoming a Renunciate, Part 4 of 8, Aug. 8, 2015

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Buddhist Stories: The Merit of Becoming a Renunciate, Part 4 of 8, Aug. 8, 2015

Even though these great monks under Buddha, they already attained Arhat and wisdom, but they still had some ego left. Do you understand me? That is the problem. The ego is the one who makes you judge wrongly and think differently than you should. "The Buddha wanted to save his life. So, of course, the old man was feeling happy, happy, all the sorrow and trouble, gone, and then he followed Buddha b
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Buddhist Stories: The Merit of Becoming a Renunciate, Part 3 of 8, Aug. 8, 2015

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Buddhist Stories: The Merit of Becoming a Renunciate, Part 3 of 8, Aug. 8, 2015

To let someone become a nun or monk, or yourself become a renunciate, the merit is as great as the sky above, as deep and wide as the ocean underneath. The renunciate person uses Buddha’s teaching, sutra, as water to cleanse all his piling-up karma, residues of karma, from life after life. From then he will cut off all these rebirths, deaths, suffering, sickness, etc, etc. And from then on, he use
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Buddhist Stories: The Merit of Becoming a Renunciate, Part 2 of 8, Aug. 8, 2015

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Buddhist Stories: The Merit of Becoming a Renunciate, Part 2 of 8, Aug. 8, 2015

“Because this kind of lifestyle, the way of life, would help support and spread out the true teaching of the Buddha and nourish the moral way of life, helping people to realize all what good is, and then you earn more and more merit all the time by doing that and then finally you will become Buddha.” “So to let someone become a nun or monk, or yourself become a renunciate, the merit is as great as
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Buddhist Stories: The Merit of Becoming a Renunciate, Part 1 of 8, Aug. 8, 2015

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If you had seen Buddha and became His monks, then you have such and such merit. Even the Buddha is not there anymore, if you follow His teaching as written, keep the precepts as the monk does, and are very sincere in your heart, really want liberation, then you will also attain a high level. Because they realize already it is all illusion, it’s all ephemeral. This is the ideal that makes them a mo
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Buddhist Stories: Great-Wealth the Treasurer's Son, Part 3 of 3, Oct .2, 2015

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Buddhist Stories: Great-Wealth the Treasurer's Son, Part 3 of 3, Oct .2, 2015

Having led neither the holy life nor riches won while young, they lie around like worn-out bows singing about the past. Always had been, gone, finished, done, past. Nothing for now, nothing for the future. This is the fate of people who have fallen into the snare of worldly pleasure, and making themselves slaves to that habit, and then lost everything, not just their wealth, their health, the fami
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Buddhist Stories: Great-Wealth the Treasurer's Son, Part 2 of 3, Oct .2, 2015

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Buddhist Stories: Great-Wealth the Treasurer's Son, Part 2 of 3, Oct .2, 2015

Alcohol somehow brings the worst out of you. Inside, all the bad qualities within you, it makes them arise. It will blind your reason, numb your thinking and then anything else you do, you don’t even consider bad or good, just anything. People always argue and say, “Oh, we just take a little alcohol, it doesn’t matter. We stay at home; we don’t go out and make any trouble.” But it starts always li
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Buddhist Stories: Great-Wealth the Treasurer's Son, Part 1 of 3, Oct .2, 2015

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Same in our world nowadays. Many bad things were introduced to our young, innocent people, and that’s how they fell into the trap of bad life and they cannot get out. Or they get out with injury, to their mental or emotional, or physical life. This is to be pitied. So the parents must always take care, must watch over their children well and don’t let them be prey to this kind of company. Because
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Buddhist Stories:The Bad Karma of Being Unfair, Part 2 of 2, Aug. 8, 2015

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Buddhist Stories:The Bad Karma of Being Unfair, Part 2 of 2, Aug. 8, 2015

What for do you have a tongue, if you talk, you don’t talk the truth? What for do you have eyes, if you saw and you say you didn’t? What for do you have a mouth, when you don’t speak up for fairness, etc.? Because the karma saw that he didn’t need them, or he misused them. If you have a good wife, good husband, don’t take it for granted. Be nice to each other. Be gentle. Appreciate it. Show love,
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Buddhist Stories:The Bad Karma of Being Unfair, Part 1 of 2, Aug. 8, 2015

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The rich person said, “Oh, don’t, don’t be so sad. If you want to liberate yourself from the woman’s birth, from being a woman, and in the next life become a man, then come with me to pay homage to the Buddha.” So, the girl went together with the rich man. And then after prostrating to the Buddha and pay homage to Him, the rich man said, “Praised be the World Honored One, Mandalay, what kind of me
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Buddhist Stories: The Bondswoman Punna, Part 2 of 2, Sept. 15, 2015

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Buddhist Stories: The Bondswoman Punna, Part 2 of 2, Sept. 15, 2015

This is a story of when the Buddha was alive with reference to Punna, a bondswoman of the treasurer of Rajagariha. The story goes that one day, she pounded rice away untill late at night. Punna saw the monks making their way along the mountain. She thought to herself, “How come the monks couldn’t sleep? It must be that some monk who resides there is sick, or else is suffering from the bite of some
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Buddhist Stories: The Bondswoman Punna, Part 1 of 2, Sept. 15, 2015

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There was a joke, the disciple asked the Zen Master, “Master, I ask for nothing, I just ask you please bring me to the land of eternal peace.” And the Master said, “Yeah, even if I can, it won’t be peace anymore.” Looks like he knows. The Master knows everything. And there was a film called “Lost Horizon” also. And they found a place called Shangri-La, the lost people. They found a place called Sh
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Buddhist Stories: The Girl Born with a White Silk Cloth, Part 3 of 3 Aug. 28, 2015

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Because one person, even if the Buddha sows affinity with one person only, if that person becomes liberated in the far, far, far future, when the Buddha becomes Buddha, then many of five, six, seven, nine generations will also be liberated. And then it affects his friends, whoever is around him, also affect other people around. How come many people make offering to the Buddha, for example, or pai
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Buddhist Stories: The Girl Born with a White Silk Cloth, Part 2 of 3 Aug. 28, 2015

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Buddhist Stories: The Girl Born with a White Silk Cloth, Part 2 of 3 Aug. 28, 2015

At one time, the Buddha was in the Sravasti country. There was a noble rich man who had one daughter. And you can rank her top one or two in the country from all aspects. The moment she was born, she had a piece of white silk wrapped her around her body. The two parents and the girl went to pay obeisance to the Buddha. And then she said, “Obeisance to the World Honored One. The human body is diffi
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Buddhist Stories: The Girl Born with a White Silk Cloth, Part 1 of 3 Aug. 28, 2015

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If you always think of somebody else’s comfort, benefit, before yourself, then you are saints; very simple like that. Selflessness is saintliness. So being poor doesn’t mean unhappy. The fewer things I have，the happier I feel. I feel freer. I just make it more popular, more easy, simple. So that the people who hear those names of the Buddha, may be saved from hell. The ones that I cannot reach. Sa
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Buddhist Stories: “The Lotus Root” (Part 6 of 6) Oct. 10, 2015

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The Bodhisattva continued to talk to the Śakra god: “When friendships …” First, he talked about the king, who went from one hell after another even, not just one hell, but one after another for the bad karma that he caused while being a king, powerful. So now the Bodhisattva continued to talk, “When friendships are suddenly broken, when wrong roads and unclean paths are traveled for the sake of ex
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Buddhist Stories: “The Lotus Root” (Part 5 of 6) Oct. 10, 2015

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Now, three creatures of the forest had also come near to hear the sermon: a yaksha, one of the demons, an elephant, and a monkey. Because when the Bodhisattva or any saintly person preaches, many creatures also come and listen, sometimes the angels and the devas from Heaven as well; it depends on how powerful that Bodhisattva or that saint is. The yaksha is a demon, also came and protested. He wor
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Buddhist Stories: “The Lotus Root” (Part 4 of 6) Oct. 10, 2015

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All right, so even though they went into the forest, to hide away from the world, and to detach themselves from all the worldly concerns, but they were renowned now. They became renowned now, famous. So not only he was renowned in the world, but now the lord of the gods, the Śakra, the one, the lord of the thirty-three gods, also heard of this holy family. Oh, now we are going to have trouble. So,
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Buddhist Stories: “The Lotus Root” (Part 3 of 6) Oct. 10, 2015

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Now every fifth day they would go to the Bodhisattva to listen to some discourse, on the path to tranquility, and the subduing of the mind. Often, the Bodhisattva, the big brother, would speak of the benefits of meditation and the destructive effect of desire. Or, he would explain the satisfaction resulting from detachment, warning against hypocrisy, idle talk, laziness, and the like. So the serva
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