(Today's article was shared by Senior Brother Qingqing).
Ladies and gentlemen, senior brothers:
Hello everyone! After reading the sharing of the senior brothers in the group, I also shared with you my insights and benefits from following the teacher's practice for more than two years.
I didn't systematically learn the fo method before, I just like to listen to fo songs, and occasionally read and recite the Diamond Sutra and the Dizang Sutra on my mobile phone.
One day in August 2021, I took the insect millet to the park to feed the birds, and on the way I met Brother Qinqin and Brother Nuan Yang, who were feeding the birds. I had nothing to do in retirement, so I thought that one was to make friends, and the other was to exercise. After that, I bought some corn grits and steamed buns every day, and went to various parks with Brother Qinqin to give food to birds and aquariums.
One day, Brother Qinqin opened the teacher's photo album to me, when I saw the teacher's compassionate and powerful face, a powerful warm current poured into my heart, when I heard the ** of the great compassion Guanyin pusa that accompanied the album, at that moment, I could no longer control my emotions, sat on the ground and cried bitterly, my excited mood for a long time to calm down ......At the time, I didn't understand why I had such an abnormal phenomenon, but later through my studies, I realized that it was the joy of the beings who were destined for me to finally see the long-awaited great pusa and their long-awaited opportunity to be liberated!
On that day, Brother Qinqin also gave me a teacher's chaodu audio machine, and sent me the teacher's practice sharing "Honest, Obedient, and Really Hard". As soon as I had time, I was hungry for the contents, and every time I read it, I was deeply moved by the teacher's great love for compassion. I secretly decided that I must learn from my teachers, change my previous wrong thoughts, sayings and practices, and practice the Pusa ......
For many years, my mother-in-law and I have had a very poor relationship, and during the confinement period, because she ignored me and touched the cold water, I fell into a lot of diseases. Whenever my husband asked me to see her, I would get very angry and would argue with him every time. Later, after learning the cause and effect examples in the group, I learned that if cause is effect, the reason why we have a grievance is because I have hurt her in the same way in my past life. So, I slowly let go of my resentment towards my mother-in-law, and often asked my husband to buy various daily necessities to visit her, care for her, and take care of her. My husband saw the change in me and stopped getting angry and arguing with me. At first, he was very opposed to my food almsgiving, saying that it was a waste of food, but now, not only did he not object, but he also took the initiative to help me go to the grain depot to buy grain and bring it back, and supported me to give food!
Two years ago, when the epidemic was at its worst, my husband and my old mother were infected, because my brothers and sisters were far away, I had to take care of my mother while coming back to buy vegetables and cook for my husband, despite this, I still insisted on going out to give food every day, and my family was afraid that I would be infected, so they beat me many times a day. Incredibly, not only did I not get infected, I didn't even have symptoms of sneezing! I was filled with emotion, and the teacher's compassionate words echoed in my ears again: loving and caring for students is to release life, making great wishes and putting them into action, compassion can dissolve all toxins, and compassion can immunize physical and mental well-being!
At the beginning of 2023, when Brother Qinqin told me that my teacher had re-established the 'Care for Small Animals' and asked me if I would like to join the group to learn the good news, I was very excited and finally able to study with my brothers! I was deeply moved by the spirit of the senior brothers in the group, and I felt both cordial and ashamed to see the teacher's feeding in the group, and I did too little for sentient beings compared to the teacher......
In the past, I never cared about stray dogs and cats, I would neither hurt them nor care about them. Since I became a teacher, my teacher's 20 years of caring for and saving those little animals that no one cares for have been deeply infecting me. At first, I just fed the birds. With the increase in the amount of food given to stray cats and dogs, I have a deeper understanding of the suffering of sentient beings, those stray dogs, stray cats living in a very poor environment, they hide all day long, not only to avoid the capture and injury of humans, but also to avoid the bite and killing of the same kind ......On the way to give food, I often see stray dogs, stray cats, birds and all kinds of small insects that have been frozen to death, starved to death, and I also learn from the teacher to put them into the ground. Incredibly, since then I often dream of flocks of birds, dogs, and all kinds of small insects, jumping and ......singing happily around to eatSometimes they turn into a lot of men and women getting together, like attending a big banquet .......
I have never had this kind of dream before, and I understand that this is the manifestation of the sentient beings pusa to me, so that I should not have a discriminating mind, because their fo nature is the same as ours, and to care for them is to care for ourselves!
So far, I am infinitely grateful to the compassionate teacher Yanxue, infinitely grateful for the compassion of all sentient beings, and infinitely grateful to all the senior brothers who have selflessly helped me all the time! In the future, I will continue to follow in the footsteps of my teacher, practice diligently, honestly, obediently, and work hard, and practice the ...... of Pusa