Venerable Master Miao Lien – Books https://books.lymtcanada.com LYMT Canada Wed, 25 Jan 2023 23:35:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://books.lymtcanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Venerable Master Miao Lien – Books https://books.lymtcanada.com 32 32 Complex Questions Simple Answers – Family, Relationships, and Other Questions of Life https://books.lymtcanada.com/product/complex-questions-simple-answers-family-relationships-and-other-questions-of-life/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:11:19 +0000 https://books.lymtcanada.com/?post_type=product&p=81 This book is a translated compilation of answers provided at public events by the Venerable Master in his native Mandarin Language.

You will notice that the Venerable Master’s answers in this book are simple. Based on his in-depth study of Buddhism, he could have given us highly complicated and philosophical answers to the questions of life; he had all the intellectual knowledge to do this. Instead, he spared us the trouble and told us in a few sentences what we should do to live meaningful lives starting today and to prepare ourselves for the hereafter.

]]> Dispelling Doubt in the Sea of Dharma https://books.lymtcanada.com/product/dispelling-doubt-in-the-sea-of-dharma/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:11:19 +0000 https://books.lymtcanada.com/?post_type=product&p=82 Through a question and answer series, Venerable Master Miao Lien describes the practices and methods necessary to create beneficial causal conditions that eventually lead to superior conditions for existing within, up to and including emancipation from suffering and becoming a Buddha. They are disarmingly simple, requiring no special talent or ability beyond the simple intention to perform them earnestly. The hardest part is faith in the method, a stumbling block that impeded some of the greatest Dharma Masters of the past. Even though the ability of past Dharma Masters may have been far in excess of our own, being able to accept and practice the Pure Land teachings is no more difficult to grasp for ourselves than it was for them. It is the most egalitarian of all the Buddhist schools by being equally within reach for all people regardless of whether they are of high or low capacity. So, it is in the spirit of accessibility and inclusiveness that it is being presented to you here in this short book.

]]> Reconnecting with Inner Tranquility https://books.lymtcanada.com/product/reconnecting-with-inner-tranquility/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:11:19 +0000 https://books.lymtcanada.com/?post_type=product&p=83 This book is divided into four sections: Right Views, the Mundane Way, Practice, and Buddha Recitation. Each section provides valuable insight into our lives, as well as practical guidance on how we can address the root causes of suffering and reconnect with our inherent, inner state of tranquility and happiness.

]]> 20 Difficulties to Leading a Spiritual Life https://books.lymtcanada.com/product/20-difficulties-to-leading-a-spiritual-life/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:11:19 +0000 https://books.lymtcanada.com/?post_type=product&p=84 The Sutra in Forty-two Sections Spoken by the Buddha was the first sutra to be translated into Chinese and brought from India by the Venerable Elders Kashyapa-matanga and Gobharana around 67CE, during the reign of the Han dynasty emperor Han Ming Di.
This publication of Section 12 of the Sutra seeks to make Venerable Master Miao Lien’s guidance on the Buddha’s list of twenty difficulties more widely available. These twenty difficulties, while pertinent to all people, can be organized into two categories. Difficulties one to three describe the obstacles to secular cultivation while the rest explain the challenges of non-secular cultivation. Within the latter category, difficulties four to seventeen focus on the hindrances to self-cultivation, and the final three difficulties delve into the arduous task of delivering sentient beings.

]]> Pure Land for all 2 https://books.lymtcanada.com/product/pure-land-for-all-2/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:11:19 +0000 https://books.lymtcanada.com/?post_type=product&p=85 Pure Land for All contains Dharma lectures delivered by Venerable Master Miao Lien. How do we cultivate Buddhism? What causes and conditions that will allow us to reach the so-called Western Pure Land? What is Pure Land?

]]> One Minute Wisdom – Pure Words for the Pure Mind https://books.lymtcanada.com/product/one-minute-wisdom-pure-words-for-the-pure-mind/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:11:18 +0000 https://books.lymtcanada.com/?post_type=product&p=78 Ancient mariners had a problem. After leaving land for months at a time, sailors often became very ill and their teeth began to fall out. Many men died from this. As we know today, this problem is called scurvy and it is caused by not getting enough vitamin C in one’s diet. The first navy doctor to discover the cause and cure for this condition helped many people in his lifetime and wrote down this knowledge in a book for future generations. Despite this, with the passing of time after his death, the knowledge was lost since nobody bothered reading his book. It
sat in some library archive while sailors once again continued to suffer and die from this preventable affliction, until the knowledge was once again “discovered.”
The Dharma is the body of knowledge compassionately given to us by the Buddha. In his wisdom, the Buddha understood the causes and conditions of our afflictions which are the roots of suffering. Although some texts of the Buddha’s teachings have been lost or forgotten, many still remain. However, without an audience to receive this knowledge it will serve no benefit. Just as the cure for scurvy existing as information in a library archive didn’t prevent sailors from losing their teeth and dying, the Dharma will not prevent afflictions and suffering if people don’t know about it and apply it to their lives.
It is in that spirit that we present you with this catalog of excerpts from Master Miao Lien’s teachings. This book is not linear. It does not need to be read in order from front to back. You can open any page and read any paragraph you want. By presenting the information this way it requires very little commitment. There is value even if you read it for only one minute. All the teachings tie together yet are independent unto themselves. We hope this makes the book easy to read and the teachings more accessible to the reader.

]]> Complex Questions Simple Answers – Spiritual Life https://books.lymtcanada.com/product/complex-questions-simple-answers-spiritual-life/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:11:18 +0000 https://books.lymtcanada.com/?post_type=product&p=80 This book is a collection of excerpts from talks the Venerable Master gave to Mandarin-speaking audiences in his lively, colorful, colloquial style. He told stories, painted metaphorical pictures, and urged followers to act upon his counsel. He wanted his listeners to delve into Buddhist teachings so they may improve their lives on earth as well as aspire to Buddhahood for the hereafter.

]]> Pure Land for all https://books.lymtcanada.com/product/pure-land-for-all/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:11:18 +0000 https://books.lymtcanada.com/?post_type=product&p=69 This book is a compilation of some of the quintessential Dharma lectures of Venerable Master Miao Lien that he addressed to retreat participants. The Venerable Master often said, “To fully comprehend why one must seek rebirth in the Western Pure Land, one must read Pure Land for All!”
Such is the brilliant guidance of one of the greatest Pure Land Masters who attained his profound understanding through actual practice. Herein lie not only the elements of study and practice, but also aspects of both the phenom¬enal and noumenal worlds, as well as the vast, compas¬sionate vows of the Venerable Master. May all who read this book attain rebirth in the Western Pure Land.

]]> Immigration in Buddhism https://books.lymtcanada.com/product/immigration-in-buddhism/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:11:18 +0000 https://books.lymtcanada.com/?post_type=product&p=70 This book is a collection of Venerable Master Miao Lien’s Dharma lectures in 1997, in which the Venerable Master connected with thousands of Dharma-seeking attendees, planting the cause of their future rebirth in the Western Pure Land. In his Dharma lectures, the Venerable Master painted a picture of the ultimate, most tranquil and peaceful land, urging everyone to immigrate to this truly peaceful home—the Western Pure Land. Through the publication of this book, we wish to share this Dharma joy with the public. May we all immigrate to the Western Pure Land in the future and attain Buddhahood soon.

]]> Cultivating Compassion with Guan Yin Bodhisattva 悲智雙運觀自在 https://books.lymtcanada.com/product/cultivating-compassion-with-guan-yin-bodhisattva-%e6%82%b2%e6%99%ba%e9%9b%99%e9%81%8b%e8%a7%80%e8%87%aa%e5%9c%a8/ Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:11:18 +0000 https://books.lymtcanada.com/?post_type=product&p=71 Guan Yin Bodhisattva is the Bodhisattva who “hears the cries of those suffering and rescues them” (Universal Door Chapter, The Lotus Sutra). The Bodhisattva is widely revered in the East, where many Buddhists pray to and invoke Guan Yin Bodhisattva’s name. In this booklet, Lingyen Mountain Temple seeks to introduce Guan Yin Bodhisattva to both English and Chinese-speaking audiences.

We look to Guan Yin Bodhisattva–not simply to solve our everyday woes; rather we must constantly recite the Bodhisattva’s name with sincerity and respect, as the Sutra teaches. That will reduce our greed, anger, and ignorance and nurture our pure Bodhi minds. Then we will find a deep accord with Guan Yin Bodhisattva and, like the Bodhisattva, reach out with empathy and compassion toward all sentient beings. 　　Cultivating Compassion with Guan Yin Bodhisattva indicates which sutras to study to learn more about Guan Yin Bodhisattva and clarifies frequently asked questions about the Bodhisattva’s form, merits, and virtues, and aspirations for the liberation of sentient beings.

Relying on Guan Yin Bodhisattva’s meritorious virtues and sincerely reciting the Bodhisattva’s name, or the Great Compassion Mantra, can also lead to rebirth in the Pure Lands of Ten Directions, including Amitabha Buddha’s Western Pure Land. Focus on both Amitabha Buddha and Guan Yin Bodhisattva and you can be assured a future life of Ultimate Bliss.

Lingyen Mountain Temple invites readers to open their hearts to the compassion of the Bodhisattva. May we learn to hear the cries of the world like Guan Yin Bodhisattva and deliver all sentient beings to the Ultimate Bliss of Buddhahood.

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