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Know Bodhi Heart

In September 2003, Master Ji Qun gave a series of lectures on "Understanding Bodhi Heart" to the students at the Jiechuang Buddhist Research Institute.

In the week-long lecture, the Dharma Master started from "the common people's heart" and went deep into each layer, elaborating on the importance of the Bodhi heart, the victory of the Bodhi heart, the origin of the Bodhi heart, and the practice principle of the Bodhi heart. The Dharma Master, based on Huayan's insight, combined with the thought of only knowing and middle view, and the enlightenment of Tibetan great virtue on the Bodhi mind teaching method, and referring to his own learning experience, made a comprehensive summary and interpretation of the Bodhi mind teaching method, which has always been regarded as a slogan by people, from theory to practice.

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About the author

  • Master Ji Qun graduated from China Buddhist Academy in 1984, and then went to Fujian Buddhist Academy and Minnan Buddhist Academy to study and teach. For many years, he has been the tenth generation successor of Weiyang Sect, teaching and educating people, paying equal attention to learning and learning. At present, he is the director of the Jiechuang Buddhist Research Institute, the postgraduate tutor of Minnan Buddhist College, and employed as a part-time professor of the School of Politics and Public Management of Suzhou University, a senior consultant and guest professor of the Religious Research Institute of Xiamen University, and a specially invited researcher of the Buddhist Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He has been engaged in the research and teaching of idealism and discipline for a long time.

    In addition to teaching, he is actively committed to the promotion of Buddhism, and is often invited to give lectures in colleges and universities and believers' groups, with footprints all over the country, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Europe, Australia and other places. In addition, he has published more than two million words of various works and papers, such as Truth and Fallacy, Bodhi Mind and Tao Order, and Life Buddhism Series. Inherit the life Buddhism thought of Master Taixu, put forward the idea that Buddhism is the wisdom of life, and hope that people can get rid of the misunderstanding of Buddhism and make Buddhism come into life. In recent years, the focus of Dhamma promotion has shifted to the order of Tao, Bodhicitta and conversion, focusing on the basic construction of Buddhism, and leading Buddha disciples to make steady progress on Bodhicitta.

  • 1、 Ordinary people's heart
  • "Faxin" must be familiar to everyone. We often hear that some elders ask us to be sincere, and many peers encourage each other by being sincere. But on closer inspection, how many people can really realize the meaning of heartedness? How many people can send the "hair heart" in place, accurately and horizontally? In fact, there are very few. Therefore, in many cases, it seems to have become an empty slogan.
  • 2、 Mistaken Ideas of Buddhists
  • Ordinary people start from the ordinary heart, so they have achieved the ordinary heart. So is it right for Buddhists to focus their minds? In fact, it is not always the case. Many Buddhists do not break away from their original habit of doing things, nor do they belong to the correct attitude.
  • 3、 How to Develop Heart Correctly
  • The Three Tripitaka and Twelve Scriptures of Buddhism all revolve around our mind and help us to interpret it. If we do not understand our own mind, and do not understand the various misunderstandings of the mind, we are bound to be unable to develop our heart correctly.
  • 4、 The victory of Bodhicitta
  • We have learned that the correct way to learn Buddhism is to develop Bodhicitta. However, in the Buddhist world, many people only use "Faxin" as a slogan, but never put it into action. Why? I think it is a lack of awareness of the importance of Bodhicitta.
  • 5、 Types of Bodhicitta
  • Bodhicitta is the heart of achieving Buddhism and benefiting all living beings. The supreme Bodhi of Buddha fruit is the perfect achievement of Bodhi mind. There are different views on the different types of bodhicitta in Mahayana Sutra. Briefly speaking, it can be divided into two categories: willing bodhicitta and walking bodhicitta.
  • 6、 Cause of initiation of bodhicitta
  • How can we initiate Bodhi Heart? The root of Bodhicitta is altruism. But this "he" is not a specific "he" in our mind, nor is it our favorite relatives and friends, but all sentient beings.
  • 7、 The Characteristics and Practice of Bodhicitta
  • In the mind world of ordinary people, each kind of mind has its own characteristics: greed has the characteristics of greed, hatred has the characteristics of hatred, and slow mind has the characteristics of slow mind.
  • 8、 The Practice Model of Bodhicitta
  • When it comes to the practice model of bodhicitta, the first is all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. When we read Mahayana classics such as the Sutra of Wishing Merit and Virtue of the Medicine Guru and the Tathagata, the Sutra of Limitless Longevity, and the Sutra of Wishing Merit and Virtue of the Earth Store Bodhisattva, we should not only focus on what Buddhas and Bodhisattvas can do for us, but also see how Buddhas and Bodhisattvas achieve.
  • 9、 Conclusion
  • So much for Bodhicitta. This is just a brief introduction to the heartfelt program as a whole. In fact, each Mahayana classic can be used as a teaching material for Bodhicitta, which can be interpreted based on Bodhicitta.
  • 10、 Q&A
  • Those who practice Bodhicitta should often read Huayan. The Bodhisattva realm described in the Sutra is magnificent, and its spirit, willingness and practice are all shocking. It is a very positive way to practice according to Bodhicitta, because it requires us to actively shape the quality corresponding to Buddha and Bodhisattva.