Giving food to the senses: why did she dream of lotus flowers, dogs and snakes?施食感应：她为何梦见荷花、狗、蛇？

Giving food, as prescribed by Buddha Shakyamuni himself, is open to anyone. Be persistent and ask for what you want!

----- Zhuge Changqing

   Giving food is a great Buddhist way of changing one's destiny.

Giving food is a way to change one's destiny taught by the great Buddha Shakyamuni Buddha himself. If you do it carefully, your destiny can be changed quickly.

What is food giving?

According to Zhuge Changqing, giving food is the process of chanting mantras through rituals, using the power of Buddhist Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and with the blessing of the good gods of heaven and earth, turning a cup of "millet + water" into food that pervades the universe, so that the hungry beings of the universe can be rescued and become Buddhas, celestial gods or reincarnated as human beings.

By giving food, we save the hungry beings in the universe and at the same time accumulate incredible virtues and blessings for ourselves.

    Thus, the merits of giving food are immense, touching heaven and earth and unbelievable.

    Giving food is said by the great Buddha Shakyamuni Buddha himself.

    Buddha Shakyamuni Buddha himself said that all people, men and women, monks and families, can give food.

    Giving food can transcend time and space, dissolve the karmic obstacles of repeated lifetimes, redeem the debtors of repeated lifetimes, and clear the obstacles on the path of cultivation. Therefore, as long as one is persistent in giving food, one's heart will be fulfilled and one's wishes will be answered.

    Zhuge Changqing advises that the food should be given in accordance with the rituals, and the induction is very rapid in accordance with the rituals.

     For those who are lucky enough to be able to do so, please refer to the Zhuge Changqing Food Giving Ritual.

    Zhuge Changqing's Food Giving Ritual: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_49e5f6df0100pzeg.html

    Many people have followed Zhuge Changqing's food giving rituals and done the "five in one" (confession, food giving, life releasing, chanting and vegetarianism) carefully, and have received many inspirations.

    Today, Zhuge Changqing invited "Pu Xian Bodhisattva" (one of the four bodhisattvas of Buddhism), who is sitting on an elephant and holding a ruyi, to bless us all with good deeds and accumulate good fortune. I would also like to ask "Puxian Bodhisattva" to bless all those who do good deeds with wealth and good fortune, and to answer all your requests. The photo in this blog is of "Pu Xian Bodhisattva" (whose earthly abode is on Mount Emei).

    Recently, a kindred spirit, "Lotus Heart", left a comment on Mr. Zhuge Changqing's Sina blog about her inspiration for giving food. In her message, she said.

    Hello, Mr. Zhuge Changqing.

    I am grateful to the Buddha and Bodhisattvas for allowing me to read your blog, especially the series of food-giving articles.

    As both my parents and husband have not been feeling well recently, I quickly made up my mind to give food. I copied your latest rituals carefully and followed them, but after doing so, I realised that I had forgotten to do the handseals for the manna water rituals, so I wonder if that has any effect?

    After lunch I was very sleepy and wanted to go to bed, but I was still a bit scared, so I asked my husband to stay with me.

    Before I went to bed I was still thinking: I'm not going to have any dreams, am I? I've been reading the sutras for a while and I've also let go of my life, but I don't seem to have had any sensations! But I prayed in my heart: "Gentlemen, if you want to give me a dream, then just hint at me, I am timid, don't scare me. I don't want to be scared.

   One, I dreamt of travelling in a boat.

   Then I dreamt that I was sitting with my husband in a small boat sailing slowly downstream from the upper reaches of a small stream, surrounded by the quiet beauty of a late autumn scene in the north, with red leaves all over the ground.

   Secondly, I dreamed that my bicycle was speeding up.

   Then somehow my husband said that it was not exciting to travel like this and he took me to a place on his bike. I disagreed but had no choice but to get on the bike and his bike went out of order and the whole thing lost control like a madman.

   Thirdly, I dreamed of a market place.

   We had to follow this car to a place that resembled a bazaar, and if we take the size of an ordinary bazaar, the size of this bazaar was limitless. It was very big and there were so many little markets side by side in it. The colour of the vegetables they were selling was bizarre, they were all purple ah. I asked my husband: this big market, selling food to who to eat ah, he pointed to the nearby school said: look there are junior high school and secondary school or something.

   Fourth, I dreamed about the maintenance of the dirt road.

   I thought to myself, "This is obviously a city road, why is there yellow sand and dirt everywhere? But the car always managed to weave through the gaps, and I really admired it.

    V. Dreaming of the Lotus Pond.

   Later, as we were walking, a lotus pond appeared in front of us, with layers of lotus leaves, and a few lotus flowers could be seen among them, in red and green, which was very beautiful. My husband said: look, here is not also such a beautiful scenery, hello old blame me!

   Sixth, I dreamt of two big dogs.

   It turned out that between talking, our car fell into the lotus pond, the pond is strange and no water, but there are two big dogs, is the Labrador like, I also have a dog, did not feel the dog fierce ah, but these two big dogs, lying in the lotus pond, eyes gleaming, but also showed the silver shining fangs. I was scared, but the car got out of the pool again just in time. I don't know if the dogs didn't want to hurt us or if we escaped in time, but in any case, we were unharmed.

    Seven, dreams of snakes and kind-eyed women.

   Then it was time to finally see people. We walked to a village in front of one of the alleys, and my husband insisted on crossing there, saying he could take a shortcut. But he noticed a red snake coiled up at the entrance of the alleyway, a creepy-looking snake with only its head and tail, its middle body missing and a metal chain being its body.

   I struggled to pull my husband back, who was also very frightened and asked a kind-hearted middle-aged woman he met: This snake, is it very powerful? The woman said, "Don't run too fast and it won't chase you.

   After hearing this, my husband said to me, "Don't you have some steamed buns left?

   I agreed and when I fed it the buns, it bit down hard on my waist and never lost it. It was like the feeling of an injection. Then I woke up in pain.

                                                 The karmic person: Lian Zi Xin

     Teacher Zhuge Changqing answered as follows.

    Hello Amitabha Buddha:

   Your dream is a very good one. It is an omen that your food giving is very effective and that you will have great blessings.

    1. You have a sincere heart, perseverance and filial piety, which augurs well for you. As long as you continue to do the "five in one" practices of Mr Zhuge Changqing, such as repentance, food giving, life release, chanting and vegetarianism, your parents' and husband's health will become better. Your career, family and health will all get better and better.

    2. You may not do handprints at first, but after you become familiar with them, you should learn to do them slowly. When you first start to do almsgiving, you can print out or copy the almsgiving rituals of Mr. Zhuge Changqing and just recite them accordingly. Later, when you are familiar with them, you have to start doing handprints. You may not do the eight Buddha handprints, but you should do all the others. Because handprints are also very important.

    3, just dreamed of sitting with my husband in a small boat slowly sailing downstream from the upper reaches of a small stream, surrounded by the scene of late autumn in the north, red leaves all over the ground, very quiet and beautiful. ------ Zhuge Changqing, Amitabha Buddha: a very good omen. Teacher Zhuge Changqing tells you that this dream of yours is an omen that you are on the boat of wisdom of the Buddha and Bodhisattva and are beginning to move towards a blessed future.

    4、Somehow later, my husband said it was very unexciting to travel like this, he took me to a place on his bike, I disagreed, but had no choice but to get in the car, his car was out of order as he walked, the whole car lost control like crazy. ------ Zhuge Changqing, Amitabha Buddha: A very good dream, an omen that you will make rapid progress in studying Buddhism and doing good deeds actively. But it also augurs well for you to have wrongdoers to collect your debts, just call back to the wrongdoers in the dream.

    5. When you come to the place of the bazaar, if you take the size of an ordinary bazaar, the size of this bazaar is limitless. It was very large and there were so many small markets side by side inside. The colour of the vegetables they sell is bizarre, they're all purple ah. ----- Zhuge Changqing, Amitabha Buddha: very good, an omen that your food giving was successful and rescued many sentient beings, which is what gives you confidence. Very good. The boundless and limitless market, an omen that your alms giving is boundless and limitless, and the purple dish, an omen that the food you gave was blessed by the good gods of heaven and earth, the Buddha and Bodhisattvas and mantras, and turned into energy food that living beings can eat, purple is also a Buddhist colour.

    6. Walking on the dirt road of maintenance ----- Zhuge Changqing, Amitabha Buddha: an omen that you need to further cultivate your practice and further perform good deeds and eliminate karmic obstacles. Do not be proud, but be modest and cautious, refrain from arrogance and perseverance.

    7. I dreamed that a lotus pond appeared in front of me, with layers of lotus leaves, in which a few lotus flowers could be seen, red and green, which was very beautiful. The husband said: look, here is not also such a beautiful scenery, hello old blame me! ---- Zhuge Changqing, a

What are the acts of abstaining from killing and releasing

 戒杀与放生的行为包括哪些

 1. Do not kill a living being with your own hands.

　　2. Do not abet others to kill.

　　3. Do not help others to kill.

　　4. Abstain from eating meat.

　　5. Do not engage in trades related to killing.

　　6、Whenever there is worship, regardless of what is being worshipped, use vegetarian dishes, flowers and fruit, not animal gifts.

　　7. If you see someone killing a human being, you should discourage them or buy the animal to be slaughtered with money and release it. If this does not work, or if the person does not sell the animal, then you should have compassion for the slaughtered animal, and even better if you can recite the Buddha's name or mantra for it.

　　8. Do not abuse the animal.

　　9、Other actions that are contrary to killing.

　　10. Abstain from killing and releasing animals yourself, and advise others to do the same. 

   1、不亲手杀生。

　　2、不教唆别人杀生。

　　3、不帮助别人杀生。

　　4、戒除肉食。

　　5、不从事与杀生有关的行业。

　　6、凡有祭拜，不管拜的是什么，一律用素菜、鲜花、水果，不用牲礼。

　　7、见人杀生，应加劝阻，或用钱将临宰之动物买而放之。若劝阻无效，或他不卖，则应对被杀之动物起同情心，若能为它念佛号或往生咒更好。

　　8、不虐待动物。

　　9、其他与杀生行为相反之行为。

　　10、自己戒杀放生，也劝别人戒杀放生。 

(This article is an original article by Zhuge Changqing, and the pictures are selected from the Internet. Welcome to forward it, and please indicate the source for forwarding)

Introduction to Zhuge Changqing: Zhuge Changqing, the inheritor and promoter of traditional Chinese culture, is willing to "learn from sages, promote virtue, revitalize China and benefit the world" together with people with the same ideals in the world.

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