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Life in TianTai, Aiming for the world Intro. of Master Zhidu
For feeling, confessing, shaming, or predestining with Mountain Tiantai? Master took a vow of his whole life to Tiantai Mountain. Even though, before rumor has it that master will spend the whole life in Tianshan Mountain. If you approach to master, you will do understand master’s spirit deeply- ordinary but qualities, love but ruthless.

Master Zhidu’s family name is Zhang. He graduated from Wuhan University of Hydraulic and Electrical Engineering, and the major was Water Resources Planning and Development, and worked in Hydrochina Huadong Engineering Corporation. He did the administrative management, design, and technical work. Master got the high reputation by his good innovation and motivation. In autumn 1989, master was touched by the Brahma's voice when he visited Temple Xuedou with his colleagues. Then master went to met Master Guangren of Temple Xiyun, and learned Buddhism. And master recognized the mission of Buddha matched his life target:” Serve the people with heart. On May, 1990, master was converted to Master CiGong who got the highly respect from master Guangren. At one night, 1990, master awakened and became a monk. Master is always close to the eminent monks, and learns from the inheritance. He focuses on self repair, and practices different sects including esoteric and exoteric sects. Master has been the buddhist abbot since year 2003, and has propagated buddism warmly since year 2005, master was invited to back to the society and propagated different sects like Repentance Dharma, Mahavairocana Dharma, Guanyin Dharma, Maitreya Dharma, Manjusri Dharma, Ksitigarbha Dharma, Bodhisattva Mantra Dharma, Akashagarbha Dharma by the backgrounds of the disciples.

Master is deeply concerned about the public welfare including releasing, poverty Alleviation, renaissance, Critical Care. Master often proposes to donate the Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and personally did it.

Since 1993, Master has done with many schemes of temples in Zhejiang, Huann, Shandong including Temple Shenshou meditation, Temple Jinshan, Temple Tongchuan, Temple Cien, Temple Yuantong meditation, Temple Guangyan, Temple Puti, Temple Xingguo. Among of these, Temple Cien of Mountain Tiantai which has 691 acres with cave Buddhist and Temple Xingguo in Shangdong which has 160 acres have special styles. Tower Anbang, Hexi, Xingguo of Temple Xingguo is the crown of Qilu area. For cave buddhist of Temple Cien, clif buddhist is made up of “Biggest cave buddhist in the world”. Cave of Tiantai mountain make master has the root of life. And cave buddhist is the important project of “Twelfth Five Years Plan”of Tiantai Culuture Office.

Since many caves are covered by rock ballast, the exact number of caves can not get. It is estimated that there are about 35,700 square meters of main caves, and 100,000 square meters of cliffs, which will be the best place of the sculpture culture. All the rich contents, which based on the Tripitaka of Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana Buddhism, represents both buddism and international arts together. The cava buddism will be passed down as the Exotic of China in 20 century.

Such huge works can not be achieved in one place within over decades. This huge works get the attention from different sides including the arts, buddism, and different countries including Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Ceylon, Thailand, Italy, UK, US, Canada, Hongkong, Taiwan, and Macao.

Now hundreds of Buddha, the biggest sitting Buddha, sleeping Buddha have been carved. And, some magical thing happened, like the jade Guanyin extended the arms to the Buddhists. Actually, the magical things often happened each year since March of 2006. Above all magical things have been described in "Mendacity declaration of Tiantai Cave".

The amount of cliff and carved buddhas of Tianta will be 210,000, which exceeds the amount of fortune ten ancients cave buddhas. Tiantai caves will make up for the gap of china buddhism's and world’s arts. As Master Zhidu said" It is the great honor to build up Tiantai cave. It is the shame if we don’t know this project. It will be our loss, if we can not put ourselves into this under we know this.”

In order to plant the seeds of bliss and wisdom, in order to help more people get the chance to improve the present and future life, master rushed around. Especially after year 2008, master promoted to organize the donation for the disaster areas including Sichuan, Qinghai, Gansu, Yunnan provinces. And master went to visit the Yunan and Burma personally. Master especially proposed to donate the Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Master promotes the Buddhists to be the charitable volunteers and set up the charitable service station in Ruili. Master burdens the honorary executive of jade Guanyin charitable trust of Chinese welfare foundation, and set up the charitable organization “Cave culture research center in Hangzhou”. This center burdens to protect and bequeath sculpture culture.

To Grasp the Destiny
1.	What is Destiny?

Some people say: "Heart determines mind, mind determines life, life determines destiny, destiny determines luck, luck determines complexion, complexion determines look, look determines appearance.” Thus, we have the saying “Appearance comes from heart". Amidst all of these, what do people care most about?

Destiny? Luck? Yes, it’s destiny. People care most about destiny. Have you grasped your destiny? Do you want to grasp it? So, let’s explore more about this topic: How to grasp the destiny. 2. The Phenomenon of Destiny

Some people always find others live in a good life, but they live in a bitter life. How good a good destiny is? Can anyone tell what a good destiny is?

(Good health), (no illness), (high social status), (powerful), (wealthy), (own a large house), (having a lot of children and grandchildren)...

So this is the good destiny in most people’s mind. It seems the requirements are not very strict, it’s all about healthy body, beautiful house, luxury car, good position, pretty wife, son, and of course money. These are all external things. In fact, destiny reflects in three main areas: Happiness, Wealth and Longevity. (“Fu”, “Lu”, “Shou”), known as "the three gods of Fu, Lu,Shou” in traditional Chinese culture.

Let’s talk about longevity first.

What kind of people lve a longer life? Someone has summarized the below four categories: First, people don’t bear things in mind. Second, people forget about troubles quickly. Third, people who are calm and peaceful; Fourth, people who have consciousness.

What does damage to life? Disease! We often get from newspapers or radio that" xxx is died of xxx disease”, disease takes people’s life away.

So, where does disease come from?

Some people worry about things all day, they are worried, anxious, looking forward to a lot of things... having all kind of moods, such people have the characteristics of a "patient"(The Chinese character of “patient” is “患”, upper part means string, lower part means heart): worry about child, husband and thieves; get angry and have quarrel with others ... which definitely make him become a patient.

Therefore, a peaceful heart brings longevity.

Then we’ll talk about Wealth

What determines one’s salary and social status? People with good knowledge do not necessarily have high position. This is the reality. Not all the people with talent can be the boss. A lot of you will say: “Look at him, he is not capable, how can he be a boss?" It seems you haven’t found how calm he is in the face of money.

Someone is calm when he takes a high position. But can you be that calm as well? If you are upset when work as a team leader or department head, then your capacity can only give you this position.

Remember, your mind determines your world. Broad mind brings you a big world. . You do not have to be adverse to others, eg. Complain the incompetency of a leader.

Does he need to be talented? He is in harvest, reaping the benefits of his achievements in his past or past lives. He harvests what he planted. There’s a saying that “Everyone has his gift.” You should use your gift to harvest your own achievements. Have nothing to harvest? It is because of your ignorance in the past and didn’t plant good things that are needed today. Nevertheless, there’s no regret for past ignorance, don’t repeat the same mistake now. To calm down, you should have a peaceful heart first, then your opportunities and achievements will show up. So God likes calm and peace, it also likes kindness and selfless heart. Among the three gods of “Happiness, Wealth and Longevity”, Wealth has closest relation with selfless. Wealth is originated from the merits in the past, which are things in favor of public, nation’s development or people’s life, even they are done by force, including paying tax, enlisting in military or fulfilling other obligations of the nation. The more you accumulated, the more wealth you will get, as long as you are still human being after reincarnation.

The third thing I’ll talk about is "Happiness". Wealth comes from obligations, How about Happiness? Happiness comes from donation. Various donations bring you various kind of happiness. So, there exist Hundreds of Happiness, Thousands of Happiness. The Chinese character of Happiness(“福”) can be written in more than thirty thousand ways of calligraphy, not to mention all kinds of good karma in real life such as food, clothing, living, transportation, which are all embodiment of good karma. What I mentioned earlier about healthy body, beautiful house, luxury car, good position, pretty wife, son, money are the manifestations of good karma in various forms. In conclusion, as long as one with blessing from the three gods of “Happiness, Wealth and Longevity”, he has a good destiny.

2.	How to get blessing from " Happiness, Wealth and Longevity" A person with knowledge is smart, but being smart is not enough to get blessings. Only those with wisdom can do. What is wisdom? In Chinese, wisdom is a word of two characters(“智慧”). If we look at the second character(“慧”), the upper part means cleaning, the lower part means heart.

It tells us people with wisdom can clean up their minds, then have blessings from the three gods. But who can clean up their own minds? People in this life are always looking for the faults of others, very few people look for their own problems. Just like cleaning the glass, people tend to find each other's problems – look, you are so dirty! Please turn to look at themselves, you will find you are dirty as well! But there’re too few people who would reflect on themselves! Therefore, wisdom is rare. People with even a little bit of wisdom are wise. But no matter how much cleverness one has, he is only smart. Some people are clever in their entire life, but finally they achieve nothing. There’re too many examples like this! Some people are good at nothing, but they have their good fortune!

First, disease comes from heart, life is from heart as well. All religions, Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Catholicism, Islam… no matter what religion it is, they all talk about life comes from ones own heart. Disease is also from heart, as long as we can clean up the garbage in our soul, disease and destiny can be reversed. Buddha comes to the world for a big matter, that is, to enable us to change the destiny from pains to happiness.

Otherwise, it’s impossible for all religions to exist and develop till today. If religion cannot change people’s destiny, why develop it? In fact, all diseases manifested from one’s body are telling him the shortcomings, mistakes, or at least the mistakes he made before, otherwise one will not have disease.

“Body is the bodhi tree, heart is like a mirror table.” This tells people: "Body is the place of our consciousness, the soul reflects the mind just like a mirror." Few people can recognize this. The mirror should be wiped from time to time and avoid being covered with dust. If the mirror is blinded by dust, it’s not clear to see through oneself. So, everyone should see whether there’s dust on your mirror, and when to wipe it.

So much spiritual garbage has been accumulated in one’s past and present life. It’s time to clean them up. How to clean up?

Let me tell you a method, one word - "Guan"(means view in English), the character in Chinese(“观”) is composed of the left part“又” (means again) and right part “见”(means see), what does that mean? It tells you to look back again into your past history and heart, which means to reflect on yourself and see through your heart.

"Is my body humid?" When you feel your body is humid, you start to worry? Why do you have that feeling? It’s caused by your mood. "Guan" means you should realize and get consciousness through your own feelings. Then you’ll be able to see your past history and heart. As many people said “If I had gone back to my childhood and try again, I wouldn’t have done it in the same way." He admitted his mistake and realized. Look back to past aims at living better in the future, right?

Therefore, one’s view is very important. Holding a correct view helps one to see things clearly and make judgment: “black “or “white”, “beautiful” or “ugly”, “right” or “wrong”. Only by changing the view can one change the nature of his mind! Change the views and ideas, clean up the spirit. Clean out the wrong views in the past, and develop the right view. Diseases will not be eliminated if one doesn’t clean up his spiritual garbage. If view of life doesn’t change, it’s impossible to get consciousness and change the destiny. We must change the nature of our mind! Once the heart is changed, everything in the world will change.

Therefore, the fundamental of everything lies in the heart and nature of mind. If we look at the character of nature (“性”), its left part means heart and right part means life. Nature comes from heart.

However, people are confused and don’t know the principle that "All things on earth come from heart". Heart can give birth to everything, heart can also destroy everything. Where the matter originates from is the place it’s destroyed. This is called

“Meditation” in Buddhism.

Buddhism meditation, also called study and realize. The word of meditation in Chinese is “参禅”, the stroke of the first character is composed of heart and knife, means correcting one’s heart. Same as the character “”能” (means capable).

What does it mean? If we have the courage to use daggers or knives to dissect our selfishness, this is the true capability. We should talk about selfishness here, which includes all the moods (emotions).

We have to remember a concept, to us as ordinary people, all the mood we have can be called as selfishness. Because no selfishness, no emotions. What is “emotion”? It’s constrains spirit, without spirit constrain to others and the external world, one can be “unintentional” – has no false mind, which is close to the concept of “empty” described in Buddhism. Now you understand why people don’t bear things in mind can live a longer life.

People forget about things quickly have a good destiny. The more one cares, the poorer fortune he will have. In this world, life itself is like a drama, we should live in a confused life and forget about persistence, then we can be happy. Many people care about lots of things and regard it as being serious – being serious to children, children don’t listen to you and hurt you; being serious to work, work hurt you; being serious to love, love hurt you or even hurt your life ; Whatever you are serious about and insist on, it hurts you ...

We need to give up persistence and look at everything in a “light” way. The character of light (“淡”) is composed of water（“水”） in the left and（“炎”）(inflammation) in the right. Only by giving up can we diminish the inflammation of life. Some people talk all the time, if you ask him to be silent, he would get sick. Therefore, the word "talk" can also cure or prevent from diseases. To eliminate the disease, you need to speak it out. How? There’s an important word called "confession". The character of confession in Chinese(“忏悔”) tells us to clear our spiritual garbage and make self-reflection everyday. The ancients said those who can reflect on himself for one day will be saints for one day; those who can reflect on himself for ten days will be saints for ten days; those who can reflect on himself for one year will be saints for one year. Saint is blessed with good fortune just like the Buddha.

"Happiness, Wealth and Longevity" will be around him! If we can always wipe off the dust in our life, we will certainly be able to reach the other shore of wisdom and light.

Confession and talk eliminate disease and obstacles, wisdom shows up. The life is blessed by “Happiness, Wealth and Longevity”

4. Change the Destiny

Life is about a living soul! Destiny is led by soul, soul is embodied by mood. Modern people don’t pay much attention to review their mind and regard normal body as good health. This is a big mistake. Since life is about a living soul and mood, why not let our mood being pleasant and tranquil?

1. Understand Your Mood Do you understand your mood? (Yes? Or it seems no!) Very few people will try to know their true mood. You don’t know your true mood, no wonder you don’t know your soul; not knowing your soul, of course you don’t know yourself because soul is your heart. When one doesn’t know himself, that’s called “Ignorance” and he cannot grasp his destiny let alone grasp the world.

To understand ourselves, we should start front understanding our mood. Mood can be controlled, even if not for the time being, as long as you follow the mentor and the right direction, you can find a proper way.

A few features of mood: 1. Mood is not restricted by time. 2. Mood is superluminal. 3. Mood has no mass. 4. Mood is intentional, it goes everywhere you think. 5. Mood is residual, to a certain extent, it will transform from qualitative change to quantitative change. 6. Mood is impermanent, mutable, and non-constant. 7. Mood leads and supports us. 8. Mood can be corrected, the lost mood can be retrieved. 9. Mood transforms matter. Bad mood might transform into a disaster, good mood will eliminate cancer; Mood can nourish health, heart disease causes body disease.

Through the window of mood you could understand your soul and yourself, from which you will find things surprise you.

2. Looking for the Law of Destiny

Everything has its internal laws, so is our destiny. As long as we find the corresponding law and figure out our problems and correct them one by one, the destiny will change accordingly.

It’s always easier to say than to do, but “Nothing is impossible to a willing heart” and “Practice is the only criteria to test truth." As long as you can find the law of yourself, you will be able to change your destiny.

Believe in yourself, you can do it! Because “Everyone is endowed with Buddha-nature”. It listens to you! Fundamentally, what is Buddhism? It’s not a statue, whether large or small, it’s ubiquitous.

What is the law? The scientific community calls it the truth. It doesn’t have size or shape. Buddhist devotees call it Tathagata,or the Buddha; Taoist devotees call it Taoism; Christians call it God. Although the depth of understanding and realm are different, in general they are only different terms with same meaning.

We don’t have to go into details of the differences, the key point is how we understand our own laws. Let’s look at several features of law:

First, law can be developed which requires the inspiration of wisdom. Whoever realizes it is virtuous, whoever has a natural heart is calm, whoever can discover it will be benefited first. Life is like a drama, so don’t put yourself into it too much. Look back to a decade ago, what’s the use for completing with others? Three decades ago, what’s the use of betting a high position? Looking back makes us understand and realize, this is also called “Repent and salvation is at hand”. We can not review ourselves today, how great it would be if we could reflect on ourselves today? (Can’t review at the moment? Then reflect on your life from the perspective of a man of 80-year-old.)

Second, law is unique, which takes a dominant position of truth. Third, law is equal. It’s fair and just to any individual or group of people, and the whole world as well. Fourth, law cannot be violated. Whoever goes against it will be punished. Fifth, law is friendly, especially to kind people, it turns bad luck into good luck. Sixth, law of life is with growth. As time goes by, it has amplification effect. All the barriers and difficulties will be more and more serious with the passage of time. The more you want to evade, the more disasters you will encounter. Many people hope that fortune-telling can help to relief disasters, but they do not know the reality is the other way around, disasters will be amplified. Seven, law can test things and provide hints. There’s always something unhappy or a bad mood before disaster comes. For example, after a quarrel, disaster occurs. This is a test for you, if you don’t realize and get alerted, big disaster will come. If you can overcome it, disaster will be avoided. If you don’t reflect on your disasters, they will come again. On the other hand, self reflection helps to resolve disasters

Once hinted, you should quickly find your own problem. This is to remind you to stop competing, or illness and setbacks will continue to punish you. Actually, there’s no difference between disease and disaster, it’s disease to your body and disaster to your destiny. So this method can not only treat disease, but also change the destiny. When we encounter hints from the "law", we must conduct self-reflection. In fact, law gives hints to us all the time, but we are ignorant and unaware of it. Eight, law is grim. Law doesn’t recognize the difference between young and old or you and I. Your state of mind decides your blessings or punishment.

3.	Understand the nature of mind and destiny: Nature of mind decides attitude. If you don’t understand your state of mind, you don’t know who you are. We must understand who we are, what mistakes we’ve made that lead to the retribution. Every thing has its cause and effect, all the causes originate in heart. Heart is internal fact. Hospital uses external treatment therapy, here we use internal treatment therapy that address the root cause. As long as you have the determination and method, everything can be resolved. Character and destiny change with your state of mind.

Most people think it’s good to love the one you love with heart, but actually you bring more troubles to him. The saints care for people with compassion rather than narrow mind. Put away all the selfishness and narrow mind, being neutral is the only way to move on steadily. This is same for resolving disaster in career and destiny. Why do people lie to me? Because I like to lie; why someone beat me and scold me? Because I’ve scolded others; why my lover has affairs? Because I resent others’ way of life ... Whatever you are embattled with will be incurred. Why your child doesn’t listen to you? Because you were not obedient when you were a child, or because you don’t like disobedient child and laugh at others. So the situation happens to you.

The development of modern science brings us computer, our body is also a "computer" - human computer. Our mind is program. If you think: “My fate is to work and take care of the old and children.” Then it becomes true, you will “always work for and serve the old and children”. If you believe the disease is incurable, it comes true! Why many cancer patients can not be cured? Because they’ve accepted such a program – it’s over, it can’t be cured, I'm going to die!

Mankind is the soul of everything, your heart is the most useful thing! People do not know there is such a big spirituality and blindly complain about life, then the life can’t be good! Some people say: "I don’t have a good destiny” Then what they said become true. If you say: "this certainly won’t work”, then it will not work indeed. Some women say:” There’s no good man in the world”. You’ve made this conclusion and it’s your wish, how will there be good people around you?

Every day you enter the information and the program gets longer. Your Alaya is your program library. If your library is full of bad information, you are not only full of trouble in the present life, but also in next life. Why do many people confess every day but with very little change? Because they were ignorant in the past like what you are today, then incurred disasters. It’s a lesson to learn from! Some people also mistakenly think worry is well-intentioned, but don’t know worry is almost equal to scold and curse. We need to be cautious when drawing any conclusions. We should enter positive programs: “People around me are good," “It’s a blessing to be at disadvantage ”“The person treats me bad helps me to change my destiny”, “Getting sick helps me to be detoxification "...... Therefore, we should enter good programs: "Losing money? Wealth is on the way", "Catch a cold? It’s good for health” Others beat you? If you can accept it with gratitude, it will bury seeds for you to have a good destiny in the future...

To train children’s breadth of mind, we need to train ourselves, we should be open and embrace the future. The body program can be applied to many areas. We should respect our own will as well as enter positive program information. We need to be calm and shouldn’t be worried. It’s because whatever you’re long for will not come, rather whatever you’re worried about will come. Why? The correspondent character of “long for” in Chinese is “盼”，which consists the left part “目”（means see）and right part “分”（means separate）. The more you long for, the more likely you’ll see the separation with your own eyes. Our ancestors are great, each word and character tells philosophy to us. The more hope you have in your child, the more disappointment you will have. The more love you give to your child, the less healthy he will be. Ancients knew children with less care would have a more smooth life, while children with more care would face more obstacles. “Loving your child is like killing him”. However, many people get it wrong.

If you really want to help your children and parents, it is necessary to calm down your heart and have equanimity. Love is about worry and concern. The character of concern in Chinese “牵” is composed of the upper part “大” (means big) and the lower part “牢”（means jail）. The more you love to someone, the more upsetting he will be. This shows us love is not a positive effect. Many parents behaves as if they don’t love their children and sometimes ignore their children, but the children become very promising (there’re lots of examples). So whoever you love will become unlucky, deep love can ever kill him. Your love will bring him setbacks, illness and misfortune.

Many parents like spoiling children, they think: “I’ve suffered so much pain all my life, I can’t let my children suffer again”. So they do everything to let children enjoy life, but they do not know to actually what children enjoying are the blessing of the future. The ancients said that “Children and grandchildren have their own luck”. If you let him enjoy the blessings in advance, the blessings of his whole life will be used up within a few years, then frustrations and sufferings will wait for him in the future. Do you know why ancients let newborn baby taste coptis? To let him feel the future life is sweet. If he has tasted all the nice food and satisfied with everything, he will not know the feeling of enjoying delicious food in the future life, this equals to hurting or depriving children’s opportunity to enjoy future blessings.

If you let your child become a leader in the class by using your relationship, it will consume his blessings to hold a government position in the future. This is also true in many other aspects.

Changing the program is to reverse the disaster, and retrieve the blessings lost in the past. You may try it. When you're going to ask for help from others, you should think that: “He is a good man, the incarnation of Buddha ... then you would feel his kindness when talking to him. When you emanate your goodness and kindness, you can inspire the goodness and kindness of the others and the people around you, they will reward you with kindness as well. Do not stimulate the opposite message, such as “this man will certainly be against me and hurt me ..." If you send such message, you should simply don’t go out so as to avoid troubles! Your tolerance decides your blessings. Before your blessings appear, there might be incarnation – test such as disaster. We can say that disaster is the incarnation of blessings and merit, one side is disaster and the other side is blessings. They are from the same root like twins of karma. Before you enjoy the blessings, you have to experience a test of your heart and mind, your consciousness and tolerance. Otherwise, you spoil your blessings if you could not stand with it. In the face of such tests, some people complain. The more they complain, the more disasters occur. However, blessings are also the incarnation of disaster. Some people enjoyed too much when he was young, they ate good food and then never eat well later; those who had high position lose job later; those who were excited when moving into a new house get ill later, some old people never get up...

Some parents celebrate birthday of their child, this is not necessary at all, especially before a child is sensible. Someone once asked an old man: “Is the eightieth birthday worth celebrating?” The old man replied: “A birthday consumes eight to ten years of life, I don’t feel like celebrating birthday, but they insisted, I was reluctant but had no choice.” You should keep calm at this moment. (Birthday is the day that mother suffers, how can it be celebrated? Before the age of 60, we are not qualified to celebrate birthday). Celebrating birthday does not add longevity, but will affect the life, health and the situation of the future life.

Remember “Being prepared for danger when you are safe" When enjoying blessings, people usually feel complacent and forget the sadness behind that. This will bury seed for disasters in the future, which shows extreme joy begets sorrow, situation improves after getting into abyss.

Some people are really good to others but encounter lots of setback just because they always get angry. In fact: "You do good things and will receive good result in the future; you experience lots of setbacks because you did too many bad things in the past; reward and retribution all come from your past behavior."

Some people like to boast of their own good deeds, after that the reward is immediately written off, what can you expect? Some people regret after doing good deeds, then blessings and merits are gone as well. Heart and mind decide everything. All the things are decided by people.

Law of life is only in favor of those who respect it. If you respect, you will always meet good things. We should let nature take its course, and often enter positive life program for ourselves. There are many disasters in our life, are you willing to take them early or later? I choose to encounter them early. We should undertake more disaster when we are young. It’s good to go through more disasters when we’re young than getting old. Moreover, disaster that comes early is test, but is disaster if comes late. Blessing comes late is the real good fortune, which is called “late bloomer". If you are wealthy when you’re young, people would say your ancestors accumulates good fortune for you, or your blessings of past life are great; If you have good fortune when you’re old, that shows your own merit. When there is a disaster， we should have the following attitudes:

1. Being delighted to do good things and being gratitude. 2. It is necessary to analyze the cause and effect and see if you can find a balance. 3. Keep calm, but being alerted at the same time. Observe the change and be prepared for a response. 4. Let nature take its course, face with the current reality. Whoever is stronger to tame disasters will have more blessings. Dark will turn into dawn, after going out from a disaster, destiny can be transformed.

Why fortune-telling is not good? Because we feel happy after hearing good things, having joy consumes blessings; we feel upset and concerned after hearing bad news, which leads to more disasters. Fortune-teller reveals secret and will have troubles; If he is exaggerating, the blessings are even destroyed. In particular, those who make money with fortune-telling usually don’t have a good destiny.

We should be calm when facing life and death. Laozi, the founder of Taoism, says “Risk one's life to go through fire and water”. People born into the dead road, coming from this door and will soon go out from that door. Older people understand this - life is so short, several decades pass over quickly.

Why thick-skinned children become successful after they grow up? The teacher doesn’t understand why - he has a big heart! He is calm when teacher criticizes him, even being wronged. Broad-minded people are more likely to become successful. Some students cry after the teacher criticizes them, this kind of people has a narrow heart. Why there’re more male leaders in the society than female? Because men have broader mind than women. Women live a harder life due to vanity. Of course, in recent years, more and more women are masculine.

We should have man’s heart and mind when treating others: First, we must treat others like treating the Buddha. If you are faced with the most difficult people to tolerate, but you can find his goodness and treat him well, then your have your nature of Buddha. The Buddha became Buddha with the help of demon (of course, the premise is: you are able to hold it). Second, take others as your mirror, when you find others’ shortcomings, you should be able to reflect on yourself. When others have a bad faith, reflect whether you are credible or not.

Someone asked: "What is happiness?" How to write happiness(“福”) in Chinese character? It’s just a piece of clothing（left part）and a land(right part). That’s to tell you having enough to eat and wear and being content with your life is the true happiness. Happiness is a feeling, a state of mind, not the substance. Substance is just a tool for producing feelings.

To embrace happiness all the time, you must have a peaceful heart, you should smile when facing your present situation. In this way, you will be a person with eternal happiness.

Some people have the whole world but will not be happy. There’re such examples that millionaire or billionaire committed suicide. That tells us rich does not mean satisfy or happiness. Why? Because of emptiness in heart!

Only you know whether the shoes are fit or not. Some parents break up child and his loved person, and insist to find a son-in-law or daughter-in-law according to their own wills. Finally they find the person who finally becomes their opponent. You should understand your child and let him make the decision, rather than becoming his stumbling block. Therefore, put down your excessive, self-sentimental love and care!

Apart from the karma caused by the way you do and think, there’s also karma caused by the way you talk. We can not talk nonsense. Ancient people said: “Deep stream is slow, respected people talk slowly.” Generally, respected people speak slowly, and do not give their opinion easily.

Snitch will be framed. People like to speak ill of others’ privacy will encounter the same thing in their family. People like to say others are stupid will have a even more stupid child. People like to be exaggerated will hardly get real compliment, they’ll not get good reward and will easily be wronged. People like to lie will not be success in their life. People speak dirty language usually have a lot of phlegm. People speak aggressively usually have toothache and oral ulcers. People speak in an extreme way will ruin their own opportunities, their life usually face ups and downs and have many disasters. People like to talk big often don’t have real ability. People speak ruthless words will easily incur misfortunes. People easily make commitments but do not live up to them will easily be cheated, People like complaining will incur more bad things to be complained. People like boasting their own goodness will not get good result. People like arguing and gossip about others usually cannot get others’ recognition and being looked down on. People with achievement don’t argue with others, but just make their point, let alone have quarrels. People like finding faults with others or laughing at others ultimately are worse than others. People like to boast their own family will encounter disgrace situation. People like to prove themselves on language are easily misunderstood by others. People always lie will not be trusted and relied on by others, and will get bad breath and memory…

6. March forward to the path of auspicious life

The outside world is big. Before duty and responsibility come to you, it’s unnecessary to worry about them, just let things be. Don’t worry too much about your child, your lover, your nation, or even other country’s affairs. You just need to manage your heart and let your heart settle down. Try your best to do what you can, fulfill your responsibility and farewell to spiritual garbage, then you can farewell to misfortunes in the past and walk on the path to auspicious life. Why ancients can get consciousness? First, they get close to mentor. Second, they abide by teachings. Third, they have heart of gratitude, which can develop the function of relieving yourself and others. I hereby share the “Auspicious Sutra” of Southern Buddhism with you all. Hope you would read and recite it everyday. Good luck! Auspicious Sutra

Do not make friends with ignorant people, be close to wise and smart people, respect for good virtuous people, are the most auspicious things.

Reside in suitable place, do your best with kindness, being healthy both physically and mentally, are the most auspicious things. Learn extensively to obtain expertise, being self-discipline and abide by rules, being kind and pleasant in your words, are the most auspicious things.

Support your parents and take care of your wife and son, take the career that is harmless to the society, are the most auspicious things. Being generous with integrity, care for friends and relatives, doing no harm to the public, are the most auspicious things. Abandon wicked thoughts, stay away from alcohol and drugs, being flawless in your words and deeds, are the most auspicious things. Being modest and respectful, contentment and gratitude are necessary, listen to teachings from time to time, are the most auspicious things.

Being tolerant and kind, follow closely with Buddhism, clear up doubts in timely manner, are the most auspicious things. Abandon all the evil practices, to comprehend the Eight Mindfulness, relief by real evidence, are the most auspicious things. Unswervingly follow your conviction, stay with inner piece, are the most auspicious things. Follow these teachings and move on, being delighted, are the most auspicious things.