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Master Tells Jokes and Buddhist Stories: The Five Precepts and Five Best Ways of Charity (Part 2 of 3) August 30, 2015

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Master Tells Jokes and Buddhist Stories: The Five Precepts and Five Best Ways of Charity (Part 2 of 3) August 30, 2015

At that time, the Buddha was preaching about the benefit of the Five Precepts for the whole great assembly. So, he said, about the Five Precepts, and the benefit of keeping them, “Number one: do not kill, do not harm other people or not harm other beings. If you keep it, then you will have the benefit of having a long life, and a healthy life. And number two: do not steal, do not take things that

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Master Tells Jokes and Buddhist Stories: A Monk Called Celestial Jewels (Part 1 of 2) August 29, 2015

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Master Tells Jokes and Buddhist Stories: A Monk Called Celestial Jewels (Part 1 of 2) August 29, 2015

It’s about a wedding. A little girl attended a wedding for the first time in her life. The little girl whispered to the mother and said, “Mom, how come the bride is dressed in white?” So the mother said, “Yes, because white is the color of happiness. And today is the happiest day of her life.” Ha! You bet. That’s the only happiest day of her life. I think, I think, I think. I think. After that it’

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Buddhist Stories: The Merit of Becoming a Renunciate, Part 1 of 8, Aug. 8, 2015

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Buddhist Stories: The Merit of Becoming a Renunciate, Part 1 of 8, Aug. 8, 2015

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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Master Tells Jokes and Buddhist Stories: The Five Precepts and Five Best Ways of Charity (Part 1 of 3) August 30, 2015

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Master Tells Jokes and Buddhist Stories: The Five Precepts and Five Best Ways of Charity (Part 1 of 3) August 30, 2015

I like this talk very much, there is one here. This is from Golda Meir, Golda Meya. Meir or Meya, I don't know. Meir, I guess. The Prime Minister of Israel a long time ago, 1898 and 1978. The older, elderly Israeli woman, prime minister, she said like this: "Don't be so humble; you are not that great." I like it very much. Everybody tries to be humble; what for, anyway? Who are you, who are you to

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Buddhist Stories: The Past Lives of the First Five Disciples (Part 1 of 4) August 14, 2015

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Buddhist Stories: The Past Lives of the First Five Disciples (Part 1 of 4) August 14, 2015

“‘Praised be the World Honored One, the five persons under Kaundinya, the five persons with him, what did they do in a former life in order to have thus merit that they became your first and foremost disciples? Please tell us.’ So the Buddha said, ‘Ananda, you should know. These five people in their former life, they ate my flesh first. And then they became healthier. Because of that, in this life

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Buddhist Stories: “The Story of Lakngaisaiya,” (Part 2 of 3) Sept. 3, 2015

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Buddhist Stories: “The Story of Lakngaisaiya,” (Part 2 of 3) Sept. 3, 2015

Only persons (who are) noble, like Buddha. Or the Masters they come, they know it’s a very bad time for them. They know they will suffer, but they come. They sacrifice, they come. They sacrifice Nirvana to come to hell. This world is almost like hell. The Buddha, an enlightened Master, like Buddha, or Jesus, they knew all this, but still came down, because they love us. It’s very difficult to love

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Buddhist Stories: “The Starving Tigress” (Part 1 of 3) Aug. 23, 2015

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Buddhist Stories: “The Starving Tigress” (Part 1 of 3) Aug. 23, 2015

The thing is, it’s just like when we’re dying. When you meditate, it means you’re dying, and means you are dead. So all the things are coming back. So that when you go, either you remember it all, so that you’re reborn again, or because you remember, but you’re connected with the Master power, so Master cleans it all. Cleans it. So that when you go, you don’t have trouble, no obstruction. But in t

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Buddhist Stories: “A Certain Brahmin” & “There Is No Fire Like Lust” (Part 1 of 4) Sept. 23, 2015

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Buddhist Stories: “A Certain Brahmin” & “There Is No Fire Like Lust” (Part 1 of 4) Sept. 23, 2015

At night, the more you’re awake, the better. You will hear things, you’ll see things better. But you pass it all. You have it. You have it all, you let it all pass by. Because you’re not awake, especially late at night time. Many things, you should know, you should see, but you pass it all. And then you tell me, “Master, I don’t see anything.” How can you see when your eyes are closed? Physical an

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Master Tells Jokes and Buddhist Stories: A Monk Called Celestial Jewels (Part 2 of 2) August 29, 2015

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Master Tells Jokes and Buddhist Stories: A Monk Called Celestial Jewels (Part 2 of 2) August 29, 2015

One day, when it was a little bit more relaxing, and not too much work, I, Ananda, “I” means Ananda, would like to know this background of the Celestial Jewels. So I came in front of the Buddha, prostrated to him and said, “Obeisance to the World Honored One. Please tell us what kind of good deed that Celestial Jewels Bhiksu sowed in the former life so that now, when he was first born, he already

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Buddhist Stories: The Past Lives of the First Five Disciples (Part 3 of 4) August 14, 2015

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Buddhist Stories: The Past Lives of the First Five Disciples (Part 3 of 4) August 14, 2015

"‘Oh, sorry, yesterday my father went out for alms and then in the evening, it was so dark in the night coming back home, I worried about the tiger and the wolf, so I pushed him to go faster. Unfortunately, my father tripped and died. I was so scared, I ran home alone.’ So the Buddha said, ‘OK, OK, I know you don't have this wicked heart. In the former life, it was the same because in the former l

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

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

“He remembered how to practice again, and then he continued to observe the mountain of bones, which was his past life. And then he became enlightened, understood the impermanent nature of life. He could detach himself from that. At that moment of detachment, he became Arhat.“ Take care of your action, speech and thought. (Yes.) Take care of your mind, your talk. (Yes.) Anything fun in this world i

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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

The time of death is very important. Whatever you think at that time, you will attract suitable position or places to be born in. That’s why when you’re alive, you must practice dying. Practice. 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

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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 7 of 8, Aug. 8, 2015

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Buddhist Stories: The Merit of Becoming a Renunciate, Part 7 of 8, Aug. 8, 2015

If anyone keeps the Ten Precepts, and then uses that merit to wish to be born in Heaven, being a god, a high god in Heaven, or if any person keep the precepts very, very diligently, correctly and then always does the charity work, and then he keeps all these good precepts, and then when he dies he will feel peaceful. I’m glad that you know it’s good for you, I’m glad that you are intelligent, know

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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 Brahmin with a Single Robe” (Part 1 of 2) Sept. 18, 2015

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Buddhist Stories: “The Brahmin with a Single Robe” (Part 1 of 2) Sept. 18, 2015

“This is a story about a Brahmin with a single robe. Single robe, one pair of clothes. One robe. ‘Make haste towards the good.’ This is the instruction given by the Buddha while he was in residence at Jetavana Park.” “For Culla Ekasataka possessed only a single undergarment. And his wife possessed only a single undergarment, and both of them together possessed only a single upper garment.” “One da

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Buddhist Stories: “The Lotus Root” (Part 1 of 6) Oct. 10, 2015

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Buddhist Stories: “The Lotus Root” (Part 1 of 6) Oct. 10, 2015

We should treasure virtues above all. And we should try to adhere to spiritual practice more than anything on earth, because that is the lasting treasure, the lasting thing we could keep. Nothing else in this world we will be able to keep, nothing. Not even this body, we call “my body”. Not even the brain, the mind, nothing. Nothing is ours. Nothing we can keep.

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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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Master Tells Jokes and Buddhist Stories: The Five Precepts and Five Best Ways of Charity (Part 3 of 3) August 30, 2015

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Master Tells Jokes and Buddhist Stories: The Five Precepts and Five Best Ways of Charity (Part 3 of 3) August 30, 2015

In this world, to do charity is not that easy. I gave what I had, according to the time. Maybe too little, I don’t know. But little 200,000 can help a lot of people. (Yes.) (A lot of people.) In a refugee camp, in some third country, they can live for, maybe at least some weeks, no? (Yes.) (Some years probably.) What? (Some years probably.) Some years? Refugee camp. (Yeah.) It cannot be useless, a

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Buddhist Stories: “A Certain Brahmin” & “There Is No Fire Like Lust” (Part 3 of 4) Sept. 23, 2015

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Buddhist Stories: “A Certain Brahmin” & “There Is No Fire Like Lust” (Part 3 of 4) Sept. 23, 2015

So now they were unable to listen to this Dharma which Buddha was teaching. “In the round of existence without conceivable beginning, these living beings have been accustomed to listen to the speech of animals in its countless forms. Therefore, they spend their time in places where men drink and amuse themselves and therefore sing and dance. It is impossible for them to listen to the Dharma.” Anan

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