Can I invite the portrait or bronze statue of the Tibetan Bodhisattva to my home?

Borrow a passage from the Tibetan scriptures.

Buddha. I look at the future and the present. In his residence, in a clean place in the south, he used mud, stone, bamboo and wood as his niche room. It is Zhongneng's plastic paintings, even gold, silver, copper and iron, that have made the image of Tibet. Burn incense to support, pay tribute and praise. If you live in a house, you will get ten benefits. What a good 10 score. First, the land is fertile. Both, home Yong' an. Third, the first king was born in heaven. Fourth, the existing longevity. Five, what do you want? Sixth, there is no fire and water. Seven, eliminate waste. Eight, put an end to nightmares. Nine, contact with the gods. Ten, many encounter sacred reasons.

This is the firm report of the Buddha, "I now look at the future and all beings." Including us now. "Where to live" means how to support the Tibetan Bodhisattva. What merits and benefits can support? I think all beings in the future will live in their own place, our home, Dojo, serial number, and your place will do.

"Pure Land in the South", of course, should use a compass to arrange the direction, east, west, north and south. South is south. But our home, first of all, is an apartment, unlike the big houses built before, which are all oriented. For example, buying an apartment, sitting west and east, sitting east and west, sitting north and sitting south, does not necessarily matter. Therefore, in an apartment building, there is no way to satisfy everyone in finding a suitable place to support the Tibetan King and Bodhisattva in the south. Generally speaking, like our Dojo, find a seat next door. The Buddha must be in the middle. You can see it as soon as you enter the hall. This is the best position.

The best place is to offer the Buddha first, and the Buddha represents the teacher before offering it to the Bodhisattva. Bodhisattva, you need to find an ideal place. If we can find the south, this position is of course the most ideal. If the south is inconvenient, you can find a more obvious and convenient place. This is about positioning. The south has other meanings. Generally speaking, in the five elements, the south represents fire. Nanding fire. Oriental Jia mu Fire represents light, and fire represents wisdom. With wisdom, the future is bright. The Fifty-three Chapters of Fuwa in Hua Yan Jing all go south. This is the meaning of notation.

It's not that the rich kids went all the way south, but that they didn't go to other things, north and south. That's not what I meant. South means walking in the bright direction. As long as there is Buddhism, all living beings can accept it, and that place is all Nanming. So we don't want to be dull. Go south if you say south, and don't go in other directions. This will become a Buddha's delusion. In the past, Mr. Li said that "reading will become a nerd, learning Buddhism, and not knowing the true meaning of Buddhism will become a nerd." We need to understand the real meaning, and the south represents orientation and light.

You can swing in this direction. Good. You swing in the south, we swing in the south. Because the apartment was bought and built, you have no choice. If you can't be in the south, you should find a better place. Come on, of course, it is best to settle in the south. Like we cultivate pure land in the west, Amitabha had better settle in the west, with a classic orientation. But if you buy an apartment, it doesn't necessarily mean that the Buddha's desk can put you in the west. We can put it in a suitable place, and that's all. It is important to know the meaning of its notation, which is the most important thing.

If you want to make it yourself, you can choose it yourself, so of course you choose this orientation, which is in line with the classics. The south should be clean, clean. The Buddha table in the Buddhist temple should be cleaned up, not dirty, and everything is in a mess, which makes us sad to see, let alone the Buddha and Bodhisattva. That's disrespectful. So, when we went to someone's house, we found that his Buddha table was dirty and covered with dust. Their house will not prosper, it must be everything and unsafe. Many years ago, a fellow initiate seemed to live in triple heaven or somewhere. It's been a long time, but I don't remember.

It was not safe at home, so he showed me his Buddha watch. As soon as I went to his house, the dust on the Buddha's table was thick and the incense burner was full of incense. When I say you don't clean up, it's disrespectful to buddhas, bodhisattvas and ancestors. No, the fortune teller said it can only be cleared once a year. It is said that the gift can only be cleared once on the 24th. You can't even touch it at ordinary times. If you touch it, it will be terrible. I said: if you invite me here today, you should listen to me, not the fortune teller. I said: you dare not move, I will help you move. I went to his house to help him clean up the Buddha table. Take out all the incense in the incense burner and tidy it up.

After that, I asked him: Would it be more comfortable to look like this? Look at how complicated the incense burner is. That one must have gone down. If so, evil spirits will come to you. All the evil spirits have come. You don't respect the Buddha statue. Master Yin Guang told us that a point of respect is worth a point of interest, and great respect is worth it. If you have no respect at all, the Buddha's platform is very dirty, and it is only cleaned once a year. You still want to ask Buddha and Bodhisattva to bless you. It's too late for the protector to blame you. You still want to be blessed. That's possible.

Therefore, we should see clearly in the classics that the pure land in the south, no matter which side or direction, should be clean. Tidy up every day. So I told the residents of our Dojo that the tables in the Buddhist temple should be cleaned and the mats should be cleaned every day. If the floor mat is not wiped, there will be a layer of dust in a few days, so cleaning is very important. Clean and tidy. "Take earth, stone, bamboo and wood as niches." If you install an icon of Bodhisattva, burn it with earth, or use porcelain, or use stone carving, or this applies to bamboo or wood carving, make a niche room.

In the niche room, you can put the icon of Tibetan bodhisattva, plastic painting, painting is painting, painting is good, or gold, silver, copper and iron. Like a Buddhist shop, there is a Buddha statue of the earth treasure king. We can hire one. It's solemn and doesn't need a lot of money. Put him in a niche, a clean place in the south. Burn incense to support, pay tribute and praise. Reward is to lecture, quote and recite scriptures, which is to reward. In this way, where you live, you can get ten benefits. What ten kinds? First, the land is fertile. For example, if you are a farmer and grow vegetables, your land will harvest and your crops will harvest. This land is fertile.

Second; Home is Yong 'an. Your house is always safe. This is what everyone wants. Third, die first and give birth to heaven. Dead ancestors can ascend to heaven. Those who were originally on the evil path can go beyond life and enter heaven. Fourth, the existing longevity. Those who are alive now will benefit and live longer. Will live long. Five, what do you want? All you want is to realize your wish. Sixth, there is no fire and water. There will be no floods or fires. Seven, eliminate waste. "Empty" is empty. "Consumption" is loss. In some families, we say that bad luck is a waste, and everything is unsafe, which can be avoided and eliminated.

Eight, put an end to nightmares. Don't have nightmares at night. Ninth, close to the gods. When you travel abroad or come back, you are protected by your protector. Ten, many encounter sacred reasons. It is karma that often meets sages, good knowledge, buddhas and bodhisattvas. You have this karma, you can often listen to scriptures and smell Buddhism. This is a sacred cause. Often encountered. There are ten benefits above. Ten kinds of benefits, you must be pure land, burn incense to support, and pay tribute. If you don't do this, you won't get ten benefits.

About turning on the light

So many fellow initiates invited the Buddha home, and many people asked me if I wanted to open the Buddha. I heard that it's invalid without turning on the light. What light should I turn on? You fellow initiates should know that you should never be superstitious. Is it necessary for Buddha to shine? Yes, what do you mean by turning on the light? It is the Buddha's light that opens our nature, not our light. If we want to open it, the light will be reversed. So there are some Buddha statues, but now people have fallen. It is a lie to find a monk to show the Buddha. How could this happen! If the mage turns on the light, then why do you worship the Buddha statue? Give it to me. I am better than him. It won't work until I light it. What do you want? How can you be so stupid! Therefore, we should learn Buddhism with wisdom and decide not to be fooled or cheated. So opening the light means that we don't know the meaning of the Buddha statue. Please ask a mage, a great virtue, to explain to us the significance of supporting Buddha statues, and we will really benefit a lot. It's called lighting. In other words, just as we sculpt a statue, we start a ceremony to explain this image, which is called the opening of Buddha. Now everyone has made a mistake and distorted the meaning. This is the meaning of supporting buddhas and bodhisattvas.