Monk Mengshen: If you have this thought, it will enable you to survive all disasters!

A fellow Taoist asked me and said that I had said, "If the hot iron wheel spins on your top, you will not suffer from it and lose your bodhichitta in the end." ”

What does that mean? It's that I've been in prison for decades, and he said, "What do you use to subdue your heart?"

According to the "Lengyan Sutra", it is said that a Buddha has taken three refuges and taken refuge in the Buddha, and he has encountered some disasters, but does he still believe in the Buddha? Like what?

It's like a hot iron wheel spinning over our heads, and this kind of suffering is unbearable. We can't give up our bodhichitta because of this suffering, and that's called bodhichitta.

Because you have such a thought, it will help you through all the calamities. When you think about suffering, it's suffering, but when you think of "I'm a Buddha", the Buddha doesn't lose his pure heart because of the suffering in the world, and he doesn't deny his faith in the face of power and money, and that's what it means.

He asked me what I remembered when I was in that environment.

What is the cause for this? When suffering comes, when you take refuge in the Three Jewels, for example, I advise you to recite the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha, and when your suffering comes, you remember, "The Buddha wants to bless me, I take refuge in the Buddha, I take refuge in the Dharma, and take refuge in the Sangha." "Because there is such a seed in your heart, and when you encounter that kind of opportunity, it appears.

For example, if you're hungry and want to eat, right? It's very simple, you're hungry and want to eat.

When you're suffering, you call out to your mother, and a lot of people say, "Oh, my mother!"

Anyone who is in a hurry when he is in trouble, he will think of his mother, and he can't think of anything else, because he is a loving mother—so when we dedicate ourselves every day, we have to repay our mother's kindness.

I've talked to a lot of Taoist friends, and if you complain about his mother, or if it's not good, I say, "You're very wrong, if you're a Taoist friend who believes in Buddhism, the Buddha won't recognize you as a Buddha."

Why? When your mother gave birth to you, you couldn't understand the pain that your mother was suffering in your mother's womb, you didn't know it.

The first of the "four graces" is the kindness of parents.

Everyone learns the "Jizo Sutra", and the Jizo King Bodhisattva is to repay his mother's kindness. There are two paragraphs, the first and even the fourth, all of which are to repay the mother's kindness.

So, if you ask me why I think about it, it's the seed of your past, and when you are suffering, you will naturally think about it, what the Buddha taught me and what I should do.