What are the benefits of chanting?

It's no use chanting! It takes a lot of time and energy to read this classic. It's like reciting the Diamond Sutra in front of the Buddha. What do you think is good? You read it from beginning to end, ah! It takes a lot of effort, a lot of spirit, a lot of time, no income, not good. Dear lay people! Don't be so silly! All the benefits you can see are not real! "Everything is false." Everything that can be seen and seen is not good, and it is not true, so I say that chanting Buddha is not good. You can't see the benefits. What is it like? Every time you read the scriptures, you will scrub yourself. For example, once you read the Diamond Sutra, you will understand its meaning. Read it twice for better understanding; Read it three times and you will understand more. Therefore, this chanting is in your self, and your wisdom will increase. But how much has this wisdom increased? You can't see it, but it's only this feeling, so the benefits of chanting Buddha can't be said.

And recite the classics one more time, and you will have less troubles. Don't worry about chanting. Don't say, "You didn't pronounce it right!" "You read too fast, I can't keep up!" Or "You read too slowly and want me to wait for you!" Or "Your voice is not good, I can't hear it!" Don't work hard on it. Besides, everyone is a beginner, and maybe no one can understand it. But whether you can read or not, everyone must read. Reading together is called joint fumigation, not together. You find fault with me, and I find fault with you. But if there is a problem, we still have to find it, and we have to find it. If you don't find faults, there will be too many faults, and practice will not be corresponding. So this kind of chanting is helpful to self-nature. Help what? Help open wisdom. Reading the Diamond Sutra is also wisdom, and reading the Heart Sutra is even more wisdom. Therefore, although chanting is not good, in fact, this benefit is the biggest, you can't see it. What you can't see is the real benefit; What you can see is completely superficial.