Zhongfeng Thrice Yearning Ceremony, Teachings by Teacher Practitioner Xia Lianju, Third Session
Recorded by 釋海願法師
Date recorded 10 July 2026
Record of Interviews with Deceased Modern Chinese Celebrities (Preface)
Daily Discourse: Each Originally Like an Eminent Monk, Wandering Through Many Lives Stained by Emotion
Daily Discourse: Diligent practice reveals the innate selflessness; through no-self, the Buddha's path is attained
Interview with Wuyunqimuge (Vice Chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Chairperson of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Government)
A Century of Wandering: The Spirit of Toowoomba
Teachings by the Teacher. Recorded and transcribed by ’s disciple, Venerable HaiZe
July 10, 2026
Teachings by Teacher Practitioner Xia Lianju:
Children, do not get hurt anymore.
This body is meant for diligent practice and to rediscover your true self,
not for enduring physical sensations and suffering.
If you allow the countless beings within your cells and your to awaken,
and engage in the repayment of karmic debts through retribution and grievances, it will be another round of suffering greatly.
People in this world do not know that the value of this body lies in using the false to engage in True Cultivation,
thus they take the false body as real and suffer all the miseries of reincarnation.
Children, you are practising at the Hsiang Kuang Buddhist Centre,
constantly hearing Amitabha Buddha's discourse, the Teacher’s Teachings, and the reminders from Practitioner Su,
you know the value of this body lies in using the false to engage in True Cultivation,
yet you still take the false as real, inviting the manifestation of . Why make yourself suffer so?
People take pleasure in satisfying the needs of .
In reality, even if these needs are met, is it truly a happy thing?
Is it truly what the body needs?
No. Those needs are actually the needs of your karmic creditors,
or even the needs of attached spirits and demon crowds.
They control the body, causing it to generate various needs and suffer greatly.
People live their lives satisfying the various needs of the body,
and in doing so, they plant various negative causes, suffering from the threats and fears of birth, aging, sickness, death, and impermanence,
remaining in a state of powerlessness. Consequently, the body sustains heavy injuries, leaving layers of scars.
After a wound heals, it encounters secondary injury, creating a cycle of wounding and healing.
How many times does the process of wounding and healing occur in a person's life?
All of these cause the heart to fluctuate, consuming the positive energy within the body,
and planting continuous conscious thoughts in the , thus giving rise to the and the causes and effects,
leading to endless reincarnation.
Children, you should clearly see that you are in a world of arising and ceasing Causal Conditions.
Everything gathers due to the manifestation of spiritual connections and disperses when those conditions cease.
Between gathering and dispersing, the karmic conditions and the causes and effects continue to operate,
and , anger, sorrow, happiness, grief, joy, separation, and reunion manifest within it.
In reality, these changes are all illusory appearances; they vanish once they pass, and you can neither grasp nor retrieve them.
If people take these Causal Conditions, joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, grief, joy, separation, and reunion as real,
these processes enter the Alaya one by one, with , , and actions.
Later, when conditions mature, the fruit manifests—either good fruit or evil consequences;
good fruit brings happiness, while evil consequences bring suffering greatly.
This cycle has already occurred countless times in the life of the spirit that never dies.
Children, if you wish to attain rebirth in the Western Pure Land in this lifetime, and treat this as your final lifetime,
please do not get hurt anymore.
Chant one Buddha's name to the end; in that moment, there is only the Buddha-name and "I am the Buddha." This is the wonderful method for self-salvation.
If these two can be applied practically without interruption, you will surely gain great benefits.
The scars have long been smoothed over, and past mistakes have become history.
Do not get hurt anymore; let the heart reveal its original radiance.
Namo Amituofo
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