The significance of the Buddha platform

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You live in such a big house, but you can’t even find such a small place for the Bodhisattva’s altar! Does this mean that you are cultivating your mind well? Of course, your chanting is not effective! … If you have a Buddhist altar at home, the Bodhisattva will say “the lights of thousands of houses” and come to your home, but you can’t make room for the Bodhisattva. The Bodhisattva comes to bless you! … The Bodhisattva has helped us so much! Offering to the Bodhisattva is good for you!

 

【Only if you have a Buddhist altar at home can the Bodhisattva come to your home and it will be easier to receive the Bodhisattva’s blessing. 】

 

What are the benefits of setting up a Buddhist altar ?

 

Chanting sutras and making wishes are more effective

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Without a Buddhist altar, the effect will not work! Even if the altar is simple, you can visualize only when the Bodhisattva is there. Can you visualize without the Bodhisattva? Your mind is full of distracting thoughts! Your mind is full of greed, anger, and ignorance! Can you put the Bodhisattva into your heart? If you have a Buddhist altar and look at the Bodhisattva, your mind will calm down a little.

 

 

Kowtow is also different

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Is it the same to kowtow if you have Buddha in your heart or not? Of course, it is better to kowtow if you have Buddha in your heart. Of course, it is different to kowtow if you have a Buddha altar at home or not, because you don’t even know where to kowtow.

 

 

[You can burn the first incense and chant sutras all night long on important days]

 

Without a Buddhist altar, I cannot burn the first incense and chant sutras all night long.

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Audience : A fellow practitioner asked, on the night before the first day of the Lunar New Year the first incense is burned. If they do not have a Buddhist altar at home, can they burn the first incense with their hearts and recite sutras all night?

 

Master : No. It is better for him to go to a fellow practitioner’s home and kowtow, and then go back home to recite the sutras.

 

 

It is better to burn true incense than to burn heart incense

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Since there is no burning incense in the offering of incense, of course the effect is not as good as burning incense in front of the Buddha altar and making a wish to the Bodhisattva.

 

 

The effects of burning self-study scriptures and small houses are very different.

 

Question : Why do we need to set up a Buddhist altar?

 

A : If conditions permit, you must set up a Buddhist altar at home and worship Guanyin Bodhisattva. Setting up a Buddhist altar is like inviting the Bodhisattva to your home. If there is no Buddhist altar, the effects of cultivating the mind and burning the “Scripture Combination” will be very different.

 

 

Setting up a Buddhist altar at home and helping others to set up a Buddhist altar are both very meritorious.

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Setting up a Buddhist altar is equivalent to inviting the Bodhisattva to your home. This is a great merit, so helping others set up a Buddhist altar will bring you even greater merit. … If someone doesn’t have a Buddhist altar at home, you can help them buy things, set it up, buy a water cup, etc. This is a great merit, and it will make a sound in heaven. That is to say, the sound in heaven is very loud. When setting up a Buddhist altar, put a water cup, and the sound of your words on it will be so loud that it will shake heaven.

 

 

The significance of the Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door Buddhist altar

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Male audience : Besides the Bodhisattvas from Dongfangtai, what are the other Bodhisattvas that fellow practitioners of Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door mainly responsible for? How can we pray? For example, Nanjing Bodhisattva, Guandi Bodhisattva, Tai Sui Bodhisattva…

 

Master Lu : All Bodhisattvas are in charge of everything, but there are some divisions of labor. For example, Guanyin Bodhisattva is in charge of our entire planet. She hears the cries of suffering and responds to every request. She saves people from suffering and distress, and is extremely compassionate. Nanjing Bodhisattva mainly assists Bodhisattvas and Great Bodhisattvas in doing anything that can save all sentient beings. And one of his greatest functions is that many people have different religious beliefs in their families. Many people have problems with other religious beliefs, and they can all be solved by asking him. Many fathers believe in Christianity, mothers believe in Buddhism, and many people believe in various sects. What should we do then? You ask Nanjing Bodhisattva to help you adjust. It is guaranteed that he will cultivate well and you will cultivate well too. (Is it possible to ask these Bodhisattvas for other things, some things in life?) Yes, because Nanjing Bodhisattva is very spiritual. Tai Sui Bodhisattva is in charge of leap years and months. Every year, Tai Sui Bodhisattva is the Bodhisattva on duty. If you ask him, he knows that you have been cultivating your mind. Sometimes when he sees you do something wrong, he will not treat you as an ordinary spirit. He will immediately record it and know whether you did it intentionally or unintentionally, but he is upright and will give you different punishments. There are also Guandi Bodhisattva, Zhouchang Bodhisattva, and Guanping Bodhisattva, all of whom are great Dharma protectors. Guandi Bodhisattva, if you do something wrong, he will not respond to you when you ask him for help. He is too upright, just like Judge Bao. Because Dharma protectors are more powerful, they are law enforcement officers, and there is a difference between them and Bodhisattvas. Bodhisattvas are compassionate to sentient beings, and sometimes they will pity you and speak for you. Therefore, the Buddhist altar of the Guan Yin Method is very meaningful.

 

Bodhisattvas provide many conveniences for lay Buddhists

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Female listener : It would be very cold when we chant sutras in the Buddhist temple at night in winter. Can we chant while sitting on the bed?

 

Master Lu : It is absolutely possible. Even if you are with your husband, as long as it is clean, you chant yours and he chants his, there is no problem. Bodhisattvas are very compassionate! Because we lay Buddhists are mortals, we will be exposed to many worldly things, so Bodhisattvas have always been very forgiving of us lay Buddhists. As long as you have the intention to cultivate your mind, Bodhisattvas will always support us and give us many conveniences. Bodhisattvas say that you are very busy, so busy every day that you don’t even have time to go to the temple, so don’t they put the Buddha altar in your home and invite the temple to your home for you to worship? If you don’t know how to worship at home, then what is the point of learning Buddhism? (Yes, thank you Master, thank you Bodhisattva)