Transform Your Reality: Master Chin Kung on How Mind Creates Pure Land | Buddhist Teachings
Amitabha Buddha Teaching
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'end': '38.866', 'text': "Now let's consider our Earth today"}, {'start': '38.866', 'end': '41.233', 'text': "It's exactly the opposite"}, {'start': '42.133', 'end': '46.633', 'text': 'Our Earth is where the most evil people gather'}, {'start': '48.666', 'end': '52.100', 'text': 'Every thought is about harming others for self-benefit'}, {'start': '52.100', 'end': '53.566', 'text': 'How can this be sustainable?'}, {'start': '59.666', 'end': '61.900', 'text': 'Sacred teachings have been abandoned'}, {'start': '61.900', 'end': '63.000', 'text': 'Called superstition'}, {'start': '65.166', 'end': '67.700', 'text': 'The teachings of sages are dismissed'}, {'start': '67.700', 'end': '69.166', 'text': 'As outdated'}, {'start': '69.533', 'end': '71.866', 'text': 'Unscientific and therefore rejected'}, {'start': '75.666', 'end': '77.500', 'text': 'Without any restraint'}, {'start': '78.966', 'end': '81.066', 'text': 'People freely commit wrongdoings'}, {'start': '84.333', 'end': '86.566', 'text': 'Ethics can no longer regulate behavior'}, {'start': '87.966', 'end': '90.200', 'text': 'Even laws cannot regulate you'}, {'start': '91.666', 'end': '93.900', 'text': "Governments can't control you"}, {'start': '96.133', 'end': '98.966', 'text': 'Even emperors would be helpless against you'}, {'start': '99.366', 'end': '100.800', 'text': 'So what happens in the end?'}, {'start': '100.800', 'end': '101.833', 'text': 'In the end'}, {'start': '101.933', 'end': '106.166', 'text': 'The mountains, rivers and earth become angry and seek revenge'}, {'start': '108.000', 'end': '109.266', 'text': 'What can you do about it?'}, {'start': '113.300', 'end': '114.766', 'text': 'Therefore when we'}, {'start': '116.100', 'end': '119.500', 'text': 'Carefully study these Mahayana teachings'}, {'start': '119.600', 'end': '123.266', 'text': 'Understanding all the causes and effects clearly'}, {'start': '123.266', 'end': '124.500', 'text': 'Everything becomes clear'}, {'start': '128.000', 'end': '131.466', 'text': "For sentient beings' collective karma, there's no solution"}, {'start': '131.700', 'end': '133.466', 'text': "Even if we explain, they won't listen"}, {'start': '135.466', 'end': '138.166', 'text': 'But we still teach every day'}, {'start': '138.333', 'end': '140.433', 'text': 'The Buddha saves those with affinity'}, {'start': '142.066', 'end': '143.900', 'text': 'We use television'}, {'start': '144.100', 'end': '145.100', 'text': 'Use the internet'}, {'start': '146.100', 'end': '147.400', 'text': 'And at this moment'}, {'start': '147.400', 'end': '149.933', 'text': 'Those who tune into this channel'}, {'start': '149.933', 'end': '151.033', 'text': 'Are those with affinity'}, {'start': '154.333', 'end': '155.900', 'text': 'Once they truly understand'}, {'start': '156.766', 'end': '158.433', 'text': 'They turn their hearts toward goodness'}, {'start': '160.333', 'end': '163.000', 'text': 'And no longer dare to do evil'}, {'start': '164.500', 'end': '167.800', 'text': "If others treat me badly, I won't mind"}, {'start': '167.966', 'end': '169.700', 'text': "I'll forgive them"}, {'start': '169.700', 'end': '171.066', 'text': "I shouldn't oppose them"}, {'start': '171.066', 'end': '172.166', 'text': 'If I oppose them'}, {'start': '172.166', 'end': '174.200', 'text': 'It creates a cycle of grievances'}, {'start': '174.600', 'end': '177.166', 'text': 'Never-ending retaliation is not good'}, {'start': '177.166', 'end': '179.700', 'text': 'Better to let it all go'}, {'start': '181.000', 'end': '182.966', 'text': 'How liberating this is'}, {'start': '184.400', 'end': '186.000', 'text': 'Those who slander me'}, {'start': '186.000', 'end': '187.266', 'text': 'Those who insult me'}, {'start': '187.266', 'end': '189.200', 'text': 'Those who harm me'}, {'start': '189.200', 'end': '190.700', 'text': 'I let go of all of it'}, {'start': '192.733', 'end': '194.500', 'text': 'They are all Buddhas'}, {'start': '194.933', 'end': '197.066', 'text': 'They are all my 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It elevates my spiritual state"}, {'start': '213.700', 'end': '215.500', 'text': 'In favorable circumstances'}, {'start': '215.900', 'end': '216.866', 'text': 'With good conditions'}, {'start': '217.900', 'end': '219.633', 'text': 'Not giving rise to greed'}, {'start': '220.400', 'end': '222.533', 'text': 'In adversity and bad conditions'}, {'start': '222.766', 'end': '224.300', 'text': 'Not harboring resentment'}, {'start': '224.466', 'end': '227.966', 'text': 'Always maintaining purity, equality, and awareness'}, {'start': '227.966', 'end': '230.000', 'text': 'This is spiritual elevation'}, {'start': '230.133', 'end': '232.100', 'text': 'This is continuous progress'}, {'start': '232.200', 'end': '233.866', 'text': 'Continuously rising'}, {'start': '237.900', 'end': '239.366', 'text': 'Therefore they are bodhisattvas'}, {'start': '240.500', 'end': '243.066', 'text': 'Manifesting these situations to help me improve'}, {'start': '243.300', 'end': '246.200', 'text': 'If you cannot handle favorable circumstances'}, {'start': '246.200', 'end': '248.733', 'text': 'You will develop greed'}, {'start': '248.733', 'end': '252.000', 'text': 'And in difficult situations, you harbor anger'}, {'start': '252.233', 'end': '254.500', 'text': 'Then those people become demons to you'}, {'start': '254.500', 'end': '255.766', 'text': 'Why is that?'}, {'start': '255.766', 'end': '257.666', 'text': 'They send you to hell'}, {'start': '260.533', 'end': '263.100', 'text': 'Are there really Buddhas and demons out there?'}, {'start': '263.366', 'end': '265.300', 'text': "No! It's our one thought"}, {'start': '266.566', 'end': '268.500', 'text': 'With the right attitude'}, {'start': '268.500', 'end': '269.600', 'text': 'They are all Buddhas'}, {'start': '270.200', 'end': '272.000', 'text': 'But with a negative attitude'}, {'start': '272.000', 'end': '273.433', 'text': 'Resenting them'}, {'start': '273.466', 'end': '274.700', 'text': 'They all become demons'}, {'start': '275.333', 'end': '278.700', 'text': 'So in reality, there are neither Buddhas nor demons'}, {'start': '278.866', 'end': '281.866', 'text': "It's all our own good and evil thoughts"}, {'start': '282.733', 'end': '285.166', 'text': 'When our good thoughts arise, all are Buddhas'}, {'start': '285.466', 'end': '287.200', 'text': 'When evil thoughts arise, all are demons'}, {'start': '289.200', 'end': '290.466', 'text': 'Demons are not outside'}, {'start': '290.466', 'end': '292.400', 'text': 'They are in your mind!'}, {'start': '294.766', 'end': '297.266', 'text': 'When we approach the Dharma daily'}, {'start': '298.166', 'end': '300.633', 'text': 'When we study the Dharma daily'}, {'start': '301.000', 'end': '304.133', 'text': 'The entire universe is full of Buddhas'}, {'start': '304.133', 'end': '305.666', 'text': 'Not a single demon is seen'}, {'start': '307.566', 'end': '309.666', 'text': 'If you depart from the Dharma'}, {'start': '309.800', 'end': '312.133', 'text': 'And learn from this society'}, {'start': '312.133', 'end': '313.666', 'text': "In today's television"}, {'start': '313.666', 'end': '315.366', 'text': 'With killing and violence'}, {'start': '315.700', 'end': '318.133', 'text': 'Violence and sensuality - if you learn from them'}, {'start': '318.233', 'end': '320.633', 'text': 'Then everything you experience becomes demonic'}, {'start': '322.666', 'end': '324.833', 'text': 'You must understand this principle'}, {'start': '328.266', 'end': '330.800', 'text': 'After truly understanding this'}, {'start': '332.133', 'end': '334.500', 'text': 'Our mindset returns to normal'}, {'start': '340.166', 'end': '342.266', 'text': 'Mountains, rivers, earth, all beings'}, {'start': '343.266', 'end': '347.800', 'text': 'Are nothing but Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and arhats'}, {'start': '351.133', 'end': '352.266', 'text': 'Where is the Pure Land?'}, {'start': '352.266', 'end': '353.866', 'text': 'Right here!'}, {'start': '363.933', 'end': '365.400', 'text': 'When we'}, {'start': '367.200', 'end': '369.600', 'text': 'Our practice is not yet sufficient'}, {'start': '370.666', 'end': '373.000', 'text': 'Without such deep concentration'}, {'start': '373.166', 'end': '375.366', 'text': 'Without such good wisdom'}, {'start': '375.400', 'end': '377.433', 'text': 'To transform our circumstances'}, {'start': '377.700', 'end': '379.000', 'text': 'What should we do?'}, {'start': '379.333', 'end': '380.533', 'text': 'Have less contact'}, {'start': '380.533', 'end': '382.600', 'text': 'Less contact with negative things'}, {'start': '383.366', 'end': '384.966', 'text': 'More contact with positive things'}, {'start': '385.700', 'end': '388.100', 'text': 'Love all beings, be close to the virtuous'}, {'start': '388.500', 'end': '391.000', 'text': 'Buddhas and bodhisattvas are compassionate'}, {'start': '392.366', 'end': '395.100', 'text': 'Sacred figures in religions are compassionate'}, {'start': '396.166', 'end': '398.666', 'text': 'Those religious workers are compassionate'}, {'start': '398.666', 'end': '400.066', 'text': 'Are compassionate'}, {'start': '400.166', 'end': '402.433', 'text': 'Stay close to them'}, {'start': '403.466', 'end': '405.100', 'text': 'Learn from them'}, {'start': '405.133', 'end': '406.366', 'text': 'That would be good'}, {'start': '411.933', 'end': '414.300', 'text': 'In this present world'}, {'start': '414.533', 'end': '416.600', 'text': 'We can still live'}, {'start': '416.700', 'end': '420.366', 'text': 'A very happy and fulfilling life'}, {'start': '422.566', 'end': '426.266', 'text': 'This is what Buddhism often speaks of'}, {'start': '426.266', 'end': '429.433', 'text': 'Within collective karma, there is individual karma'}, {'start': '435.066', 'end': '438.333', 'text': 'Within individual karma, there is collective karma'}, {'start': '441.766', 'end': '443.866', 'text': 'How to resolve calamities?'}, {'start': '443.866', 'end': '447.833', 'text': 'For yourself - no thought, no discrimination, no attachment'}, {'start': '448.033', 'end': '450.233', 'text': 'No discrimination, no attachment'}, {'start': '455.333', 'end': '459.100', 'text': "For yourself, sincerely recite Buddha's name"}, {'start': '459.100', 'end': '462.666', 'text': 'Use name-recitation, mysteriously aligning with the Way'}, {'start': '465.700', 'end': '467.866', 'text': 'For society and the general public'}, {'start': '468.066', 'end': '470.633', 'text': 'You must practice the Six Harmonies and Respect'}, {'start': '475.166', 'end': '476.500', 'text': 'Learn to be humble yourself'}, {'start': '476.766', 'end': '478.466', 'text': 'Learn to respect others'}]