..续本文上一页skillful hand of Buddha cannot help sentient beings that really don”t have any karmic link with Buddhism. This phenomenon is already reasonably well explained and so this is not the fault of Buddhism.
Question: If people meet a lama and make some offerings, then later hear that the lama spent the money to build a hotel and other buildings, should they continue to make offerings to the lama if they see him again
Answer: I am not sure whether lamas who build hotels and other buildings use the profits from the business for charity or not. However, if they don”t, then is it necessary for those people to throw good money after bad
This is your own business. You should think twice and observe for yourself.
(7) Question: I am a student of Beijing International Studies University. I would like to ask you a question. At present, the people living in the big Han cities place great emphasis on love and romantic relationships. Many young people experience great suffering due to love and relationships. If we share the meaning of emptiness with them, although emptiness itself can remedy the attachment to love and relationships, it is still very difficult for them to accept it. What method should we use to help this kind of person
Answer: Indeed, excessive attachment to love is a very serious problem in the Chinese Han region. I”ve been to a number of European countries, and my indirect understanding is that there aren”t many suicide cases caused by love or relationships. In Tibet, perhaps due to faith, it is almost unheard of.
Actually, it is not only emptiness that can subdue the attachment to love, but also awareness of the law of impermanence in Buddhism, or the concept of “what has been gathered will be dispersed.” Also, the concept that “everything depends on causes and effects” can convince and help them. However, for those who have no karmic link with Buddhism, I am afraid that we won”t be able to help.
In the Han region, it may be due to the education from parents and the guidance from television and the media which has caused people to be so attached to love and relationships from an early age. As a result, there are now quite a lot of people who commit suicide due to attachment to love and relationships. As for deciding what specific method can be used to resolve this, it is indeed a problem.
(8) Question: You have talked about the “The Tibetan Culture of Nurturing the Mind and Prolonging Life.” Are there any specific methods about the topic regarding the use of the breath and also visualizing a letter and so forth
Are there any works from previous masters relating to this to which you could direct us
Answer: Part of it is available in Finding Comfort and Ease in the Nature of Mind. If you have received an empowerment before, the generation stage in Web of Magical Illusion, and The Innermost Heart Drop of the Guru (Lama Yangtik) and Fundamental Mind: The Nyingma View of the Great Completeness also have some excellent instructions on it.
(9) Question: I work as an investor for a company. Often, my colleagues ask: “Buddhists believe in the six realms of cyclic existence, but how can you prove that hell really exists
” I don”t know how to answer this, so may I request that you shed light on this.
Answer: Regarding the existence of hell, the first method to prove it is that many great masters have personally seen it. Some people visited hell and wrote books, like Exploring the Realms of Hell. Some can remember experiences in hell from their past lives. The second way is by relying on the words of Lord Buddha. If Buddhist scriptures contain unreasonable facts, then we can refute the existence of hell, but so far, whether scientist or sage, none can refute this. The mention of the suffering of animals in the scriptures has no faults, nor does the sufferings and happiness of humans mentioned there. This is all very precise and true. Since Buddha taught correctly on matters that we can see, we can infer that, for those things that Buddha taught that we cannot see, such as hell, he should also be correct.
People often say, “If hell really exists, then please show me where it is.” Actually, the scriptures never say that hell can be seen with our ordinary eyes, but if you engender heavy negative karma, then it is certain that you will fall into hell and experience immense sufferings. For example, if someone has never been to a place that has been discovered and proven to exist by exploration and research by scientists, that person may temporarily disbelieve its existence, but eventually, when technology has advanced further and is able to reveal it to human eyes, he or she will see it directly. What Lord Buddha revealed to us about the existence of hell is the same as above.
Host”s concluding speech:
Thank you everyone. Khenpo So Dargye is an erudite master. Today we came with a simple topic—the Tibetan Culture of Nurturing the Mind and Prolonging Life—and Khenpo has used layman”s language to explain difficult points, giving us a brilliant speech.
We look forward to listening to more in-depth teachings from Khenpo in the future. Finally, let us thank Khenpo again, and, at the same time, give thanks to all our friends who have visited Tsinghua Science Park, with a warm round of applause.
This concludes today”s seminar. Thanks once again to everyone.
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