What if Buddhist practitioners are considered withdrawn and laughed at?

Q: I am a 33-year-old Buddhist in Taipei, Taiwan Province Province. Excuse me, is it lonely to be eccentric? I want to live with this world where thieves make mistakes. I feel bored, too painful and too karmic. I am a vegetarian, I listen to your lectures every day, and I pray for my life. I am a marginal person. It is not easy to have faith, and no one praises it but is laughed at. Please show me.

Master Da 'an replied: First of all, what is the purpose of your chanting? Buddhist chanting is a big undertaking, and it is necessary to solve the unresolved major events since looting. After all, there are only a few people on earth who have this ultimate pursuit. So don't ask others to admire you. What others admire is how much money you earn and how big an official you are. It is true that most people will not admire you when you go to read Buddha, but heaven and man will respect you, Buddha and Bodhisattva will care for you, and God will admire you when you protect the law. We don't ask others to appreciate our practice. Confucius said, "Isn't it a gentleman who doesn't know and doesn't smell? People can't understand me or even laugh at me, but don't be angry, because your gentleman is learning for himself, that is, hoping for sages.

This kind of person, this kind of spiritual pursuit, maybe Yan Hui is worthy of Confucius' attention. Perhaps the world thinks that Yan Hui is a very unsuccessful person, a very marginalized person, "living in a mean alley with nothing but eating and drinking, you will feel sad if you can't bear it, and you won't change your happiness when you return". Living in such a shabby place, everyone has food and clothing problems. But Yan Hui is comfortable and happy, Yan Hui has a high happiness index, and Yan Hui can achieve "March is not inhumane". Therefore, people who study Buddhism must have a spirit in this world and are not afraid of loneliness. What is loneliness? Lions in the wilderness are lonely, and those small animals have to flock together. The loneliness of sages has been inevitable since ancient times.

But you can't be indifferent, because what you pursue is completely different from what most people in the world pursue, but you should have the same fate. Centrifugation is not loneliness. Centrifugation comes from the wisdom of Prajna without me, and there is bodhicitta in my heart-I know it is painful to be reincarnated here, but my family and all beings destined to be here are struggling. I want to achieve my career, and I want to help these people. You have to start such a heart. At this time, you will have the energy of compassion and the strength of the same body. You will never be lonely in this world. You will be with the Ten Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, the God of Protecting the Dharma, and you will be with all the sentient beings. We should have the same feelings as avalokitesvara, like all the buddhas in the world, and like the six sentient beings in the world. You should show this kind of empathy, so that you are practicing Mahayana Bodhisattva. You are not only practicing for yourself, you are practicing for all beings.

Every word of your Buddha's name is for all sentient beings, and every merit of yours must be returned to all sentient beings. So your mind is sunny, positive and compassionate. Definitely not negative: I feel bored, miserable and withdrawn, so ... it's not like this. Buddhists are happy, Buddhists are full of light and Buddhists are deeply compassionate. Eventually your wisdom will come out through the energy of chanting Buddha. Not only will you not be marginalized, all sentient beings will come to you. Because he has a lot of pain, anxiety and problems, because you are a wise and compassionate Buddhist, you can help him solve the problems. There are many patients in front of a good doctor, and you will eventually become a good doctor.

So you learn Buddhism in this world, the dignity of your life, the value of your life and the meaning of your life. Because we are destined to go to Amitabha, the biggest energy field and the most compassionate force in dharma, which has improved my life. What a wonderful thing it is. But even before you get on the right track, you are a vegetarian and others will not interfere with you. In fact, you keep the precepts, although he laughs at you verbally. Oh, why are you a vegetarian? Look at your malnutrition. You are a vegetarian, and there is no happiness in your life. What's the point of living without drinking if you don't drink?

Although he said so verbally, I tell you that he will respect such a teacher in his heart, because he thinks he can't do it, and this person has actually done it. It's not like he has no money to buy meat. He can have the blessing of eating meat, but he can consciously give up eating meat. Such people must be respected. Therefore, everyone should have faith. When others don't believe, you should light the lamp of faith in others' hearts and make them full of light. Everyone's heart is full of light, and our world can be full of light.