Chapter 19 do something for now

One day, I was walking on Dunhua South Road, when someone caught up with me suddenly, panting, she said, "Excuse me, are you Lin Qingxuan?" I said, "Yes." She said happily: "I was just about to call the publishing house to find you, but unexpectedly I met you on the road." "What's the matter with you?" I said. "I..." She hesitated to speak, and then summoned up the courage to say, "I feel that I was very happy before I learned Buddhism, but now I live in great pain. I wonder if there is something wrong with me?" Then, we walked along the Dunhua South Road, which is full of rosin trees, with the voices of people and the traffic rushing around. Sometimes I feel like watching a silent movie when I watch the traffic coming from nowhere and going to nowhere. The paragraphs of the movie are so hurried and so silent.

The middle-aged lady next to me confided to me the conflicts, struggles, and pains in life and studying Buddhism: "I have to do morning and evening homework every day, and I chant sutras for an hour each time. In order to do morning and evening homework, I can't take my children to and from school. My husband is very dissatisfied and thinks that I spend too much time on these meaningless things." "My children like popular music very much, but we only have one stereo at home. If I play it for morning and evening classes, they can't listen to it." Music often leads to disputes, and children do not believe in Buddhism because of this, and they are very rude to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas when they speak, which makes me feel even more painful." "My parents-in-law, husband, and sister-in-law all believe in folk beliefs, and they have to kill chickens during the New Year and festivals." Bye bye, I can't do that, it will violate my belief, if I don't do it, I will quarrel and make the chickens and dogs restless." "I really want to save them, but they reject me and the Buddha, so we can't get along with each other. Communication, Mr. Lin, what do you think I should do?" After she said it, she probably touched a sad place, and her eyes turned red.

"Why do you want to learn Buddhism?" I said.She said: "This life is a sea of ​​suffering. I hope to be reborn in the Western Paradise after death." "Then why do you do your morning and evening homework every day?" I asked again. "Because I feel that my karma is very heavy, I must do my homework to repent of my past karma." She said very piously. "Have you ever wondered what to do with the present besides the past and plan for the future?" She was immediately stunned, tongue-tied and speechless, because it was true that in the process of her studying Buddhism, she had never thought about the question of "now".

I told her: treat your husband well, this is good homework!Caring for children every day, taking them to and from school, this is also good homework!It is also good homework to try not to argue with others and to follow others!It's even good practice to listen to popular music with your kids so they feel a mother's love and therefore safe and secure!The Bodhisattva's "giving", "love words", "beneficial actions" and "colleagues" are all about these!If we experience that "every family has a scripture that is difficult to recite", and if we have read through and mastered the scripture in our home, it will be very simple to experience the real Buddhadharma.

"Because this sutra at home is as profound and inconceivable as the sutra on the wall of the Buddhist hall!"