One should not despise small evils and think that there is no reward. The water bottle can fill up with drop by drop of water. Just like the wicked, accumulating small evils and filling them with evil.
One should not despise small virtue and think that there is no reward. Although the water droplets are small, they can make the bottle full. Kind person accumulate virtue and filling them with virtue.
- “Dhammapada” from "Khuddaka Nikāya" (Thai Tripitaka)
If there are no sores on the hands, the hand can handle the poison and won’t be invaded. If there are no sores, the poison cannot invade the hand. Those who do not do evil, won’t be invaded by evil. -- “Dhammapada” from "Khuddaka Nikāya" (Thai Tripitaka)
People should think about whether they have accumulated goodness today. If you have havenot do a good thing, you should feel ashamed and sad. As a human being, one day is missing in his life, but he fails to show the brightness of his soul. Can he not be ashamed? Can hehe not be sad? Then, look at whether you have bad morals today. If you lose your morals, you will lose your destiny. You should be more fearful and anxious, and you should quickly correct it.
A person must recall his faults every day. The first is to find out what is wrong. Then analyze the reason for each fault. Finally, keep in mind these faults and the reasons for the fault. Persevere in this way, people will not make the same mistakes again, and people will become more perfect.
Bhikkhu should understand that all sentient beings are afraid of being tortured, and all sentient beings are afraid of death, so he should not kill personally or teach others to kill.
Bhikkhu should understand that all sentient beings are afraid of being tortured, and all sentient beings cherish their own lives, so he should not kill personally or teach others to kill.
- “Dhammapada” from "Khuddaka Nikāya" (Thai Tripitaka)
A wise person accomplishes good deeds bit by bit. At the same time, slowly but continuously remove the worries in the mind. -"Dhammapada”
No fire is comparable to greed, no stubbornness is comparable to anger, no binding is comparable to stupidity, and no river is comparable to lust. -"Dhammapada"
Unkind behaviors and behaviors that are not good for one's morality are easy to do; kind behaviors and things that are helpful to one's morality are very difficult to do.
If you love yourself, you should protect yourself and make yourself do more good deeds. A wise person should divide the night time into three parts, and use one part of the time for himself to improve his moral level.
-"Dhammapada”
It is easy to see the faults of others, but it is very difficult to see your own faults.
Oneself is one's own dependence, what can others be depended on? If you can adjust and control your own mind, you don't have to pursue dependence.
-"Dhammapada”
The "Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment" explains equality: treating people who resent oneself is like treating one's beloved parents without distinction. There is no difference between me and sentient beings, love and hate. Regardless of the prosperity and adversity, the mind has not changed, knowing that there is no difference between the body and the mind, and I am the same body with all beings without any difference.
Should do good deeds, do not do evil deeds, those who do good deeds will have peace in this life and the next. -“Dhammapada”
If a person who once indulged his thoughts and behaviors before, can correct his mistakes and indulge no more, is just like the moon appears from the clouds, and the light shines all over the sky.-Dhammapada
Even if it rains with gold in the sky, it cannot satisfy the heart of desire. A heart full of desires is less happy and has a lot of pain. The sage can understand himself in this way, so the sage does not take pleasure in desire, even though there is the joy of desire like heaven, he does not take it for pleasure.-Dhammapada
Worry is born of desire, fear is born of desire , but worry can not born of people who are free from desire and fear can not born of people who are free from desire.-Dhammapada
Whenever you have worries you must think carefully about what causes them. Probably all the worries can be attributed to the desire in the heart, such as fear of loss and fear of damage. These worries are all because I hope that things that are good for me will always be maintained. In this analysis, all worries stem from desire, love for things, love for others, love for oneself, or love for the world. These things that are loved are all displayed because of karma, and they are not long-lasting. If you can understand this impermanence, desires in your heart will be eliminated, and your worries will naturally be relieved.
If people are not attached to material and spiritual things, there will be no worries and trouble.- “Dhammapada” from "Khuddaka Nikāya" (Thai Tripitaka)
Because my father loves to fish and kills too much, I vowed that I will never fish, and I also educate my own children and future generations to never fish. I pray for Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva of Great Compassion and Great Compassion to keep all the fish cruising near anglers away from fishing tackle, never being hooked, so that all fish can be spared. I pray that Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva of Great Compassion and Great Compassion will change everyone who likes fishing and let them no longer like fishing. I hope that all my merits will be given to the fish who are unfortunate enough to be caught, and hope that they will no longer come back to this world to suffer. Amitabha.
If a person is able to speak honestly, not be angry, and is willing to give to others even though he has only a few possessions, then this person can be reborn in heaven because of these three virtues.-Dhammapada
One day, two monks came to stay overnight, one on a bed and the other on a straw mat. The next day the two monks hurriedly left. For some unknown reason, the bedding they had used for sleeping had bed bugs. These bugs are very powerful and destructive. Not only did they gnaw the straw mats, they also bite the other quilt sheets in the monk's room. Later, when the Buddha personally visited the monk’s room, he discovered this problem. The Buddha personally cleaned the house. He slowly picked up the bedding and pillows, and shook the bedding in the room so that the bugs could disperse. The Buddha was gentle, without hatred, and treated everyone with compassion and equality.-from “The Ten Recitation Vinaya”
All sentient creatures, no matter how tiny things, even flying insects, and other squirming insects, the Buddha will help him out of the world.
When we kill insects by mistake, in order to make up for the unintentional mistakes caused by our unintentional actions, we can use the extraordinary methods of the Pure Land Method to recite more Buddha's names, such as Nanmu Amitabha, "Rebirth Mantra", etc., to direct the merits to the weak. I hope they can rebirth to better world and avoid being killed.
Among the living beings, ghosts and gods are difficult to realize because of the suffering of wall-in, birds and beasts are difficult to realize because of the suffering of survival, asuras are difficult to realize because of the suffering of hatred, and the heavens are difficult to realize because of excessive enjoyment. Only with human beings, with half light half darkness, appropriateness of suffering and happiness, and the replacement of life and death, can correct the heart through thinking, so as to realize Bodhi and become Buddha. Therefore, all Buddhas come from human beings.
If you seek the faults of others, your worries will increase day by day. If you can't forgive others for their faults, then you will get farther and farther away from the way to eliminate worries.-Dhammapada
It is not the right way to rush to distinguish between right and wrong. The correct way is to distinguish between right and wrong according to the truth without rushing or rash.
Master Zong Mi said: "Everything is a reflection of one's own heart, and our daily enlightenment should be reflected in more abandonment every day. The world law is to get more, the more the better, while the Buddha law is to abandon as much as possible, to abandon miscellaneous thoughts and delusions. Lao Tzu said: "For the sake of learning you should get more and more, for the sake of Taoism, you should abandon more everyday ." Lao Tzu just mean the same as Master Zong Mi.