Any object in the temple is an offering from the ten directions, and the offerings of the ten well-wishers, even some monks can't afford it, how much blessing we have, how much blessing we have, eat in vain, live in the temple for the monks, and be supported by the ten directions, and can't be the Tao in this life, and the monks are still like this in the fur and horns, not to mention the monks in the family
Of course, it is a good thing that we come to the temple to volunteer and repay!
But you can't think that I'm here to help the temple do things, I came here to do things and I didn't ask for a salary, why do I have to pay money when I leave?
Don't think like this, you come to volunteer to bless yourself, but your food and shelter are ten ways to support!
Anything in the temple is not taken, not even a stitch and a thread, and then it will be returned a thousand times more. Most of the monks who follow the Dharma are still in the process of practicing the path of cultivation, and they will only do their best to give and will not ask you for anything, let alone say anything, but they should be clear about these things themselves.
Master can give alms to you as much as you want, but try to put enough money in the merit box when you eat, live and stay in the monastery.
What kind of people can enjoy the wealth of faith?
The Buddha said in the sutras: first, the precepts are pure, and second, the daily meditation and practice without stopping.
The Buddha said in the sutra that although the precepts are pure, if you do not listen to the meditation and practice and enjoy the faith, you will have to repay it with your own flesh and blood in the future.
The goods that the devotees bring to the Three Jewels are called faith wealth, and the goods that sentient beings give to the deceased in excess are called death wealth. It's not up to you to decide whether you can accept the offerings or not.
If you want to receive offerings, you don't necessarily have the ability, you don't necessarily have the right, and the Buddha didn't give you that right.
If you accept it, you will feel the retribution in the future.
You say that you can't make offerings, but that's not necessarily, to see if your precepts are pure, and if you keep meditating on that basis.
If your precepts are pure, you have the ability to hear, think, and practice, then you are the blessed field that the Buddha said in the sutras, and even if you enjoy the wealth of the Three Realms, you will not be guilty.
If the precepts are not pure, if you enjoy the wealth of faith or the wealth of death, you will go to hell, especially in Infernal Hell, and feel suffering.
Some monks and laypeople do not understand cause and effect, and they enjoy the faith and wealth casually, and when they can take advantage of some advantage or advantage, they quickly take advantage of it.
If people take pity on you and give you alms, it is not called faith, but charity.
Giving to you in faith is not the same as giving to you with compassion or compassion.
One is the upper offering and the other is the lower offering: the upper offering is carried out with respect and faith, and the lower offering is carried out with compassion and charity. Motivations and motivations are different, and so are behaviors and results.
Everyone should be more attentive, and it is best to make offerings, or at least to give alms. Whether it is charity or not depends on your intentions.
If it is compassionate, even if it is given to children and parents, it is generosity, and if it is not compassion, even if it is given to the poor and the disabled, it is not generosity.
We can help and give to others with compassion or compassion. When people give you alms, don't be arrogant, thinking that you are great, whether you already have merit.
There is a problem between people, especially among fellow practitioners, who can help if they have difficulties, but this is charity, and offerings are not allowed.
Can you enjoy the three treasures as you like?
"The Buddha Says the Cause and Circumstance Sangha Sutra" says: "There are nine kinds of people who are often in the Great Hell of Abi: one eats the things of the monks. The two Buddha objects ......"
In the Sutra of Reciting the Dharma, it is said: "If a person takes the Buddha's property and eats it for himself, he does not repay it, and he does not believe in his karma and takes it again, and asks him to take it again...... He thinks that it is the cause of bad karma, and his body is bad, and he eventually falls into a bad place, and suffers great suffering in the place where he is born in a black belly in hell......"
The things of the temple (including offerings to the Buddha) come from the charity of the ten directions of faith Tanyue, and the laity cannot take it for free!
It is not allowed to be my thing, and it is not for others to eat. It is also forbidden to use the monks' goods to accumulate and prosper, and all kinds of sales, which are profitable and attract the ridicule of the world. and they must not be expensive and cheap, and compete with the world for profit. and must not cause sentient beings to fall into the three evil realms for the sake of food and drink and the causes of the Sangha......"
In the case of permission
For the three treasures, if they give and receive them out of selfishness, both parties are guilty.
If the monks of the monastery see that the victim is about to die, they show great compassion and take food to live, and the rescued refugees are not greedy, but accept that life is important, then neither party should be guilty.
In the future, the recipient should also repay the favor with springs, protect the Three Jewels, and increase the karma. Therefore, it is not possible to generalize.
Extraordinary current affairs, to deal with extraordinary matters, is understandable, but it cannot be normalized and understood. If people today have difficulties and have their own government assistance, if they have to be involved with the monasteries or monks' belongings, then it is purely self-inflicted.
Cause and effect must be clear, the things of the monastery and the belongings of the monks, I don't want to give them to me, I don't want them, and I don't want them for nothing, and I can't ask for them if I don't take them. This is also a principle that believers should not be confused about when dealing with their relationship with monasteries and monks.
Under normal circumstances, it is not permissible to give favors to monasteries and monks in personal relationships.
However, in some special historical periods, it is not possible to relieve the people of Li without Buddhism, and it must not be done, not at all, nor is it Buddhism,—— Buddha has no fixed law.
For example, when there is a famine, or when the warlords are in a scuffle, and the people are in trouble, the monks and monasteries send porridge to receive alms, and the monks give alms with Buddha food, and there is no need to cut the meat to feed the people, and the Buddha's heart is nothing more than great compassion, who says that this move is contrary to the Buddha's heart? During the Anti-Japanese War, when the national disaster was at the head, Master Xuyun had shown great power to help the refugees.
That is, the karma is empty, and the debt must still be repaid
Where does sin come from, sin is born from the heart, and the three poisons of greed, hatred, and ignorance in the heart are sins, and all kinds of sins will be created. Sin is not imposed on you by others, it is based on the three poisons of the mind.
Taking advantage of the monastery and giving away the Three Treasures for free (e.g., the monks of the monastery, the purifiers, the volunteers, etc., give the Three Treasures to the laity for personal friendship or personal affection), take the Three Treasures for free (the laity arbitrarily ask for or accept the Three Jewels from the monastery or from the monks without corresponding compensation), and eat the things of the monastery for nothing, regardless of whether they do not take them or not, it is a crime.
"The donor has a grain of rice, as big as Mount Meru, and he can't do it in this life, and he wears fur and horns", Bai takes advantage of the three treasures, and it is greedy for small and cheap to suffer big losses!