Before my friend becomes a monk, I want you to know the true meaning of becoming a monk. If you really want to bear the burden of Tathagata's family business, I share your happiness and respect, and my merits are boundless! If you become a monk to escape from reality, think twice before you act! ! ! Being a monk is a Buddhist term. Becoming a monk means shaving your beard and hair, becoming a nun, escaping into an empty door, practicing the Eight Righteousnesses, and being a Buddhist communicator! What's more important is to leave the troubled home, the home of life and death, the home of desire, the home of greed, the home of Jaken who knows evil, the home of selfishness, the home of confusion and all the conscious people, and all those who see and see, improve their personality, realize life, manage the public and benefit all sentient beings. The real becoming a monk is the six divisions in the cycle of cause and effect, which is the truth of becoming a monk. In the secular world, many people often say that I want to become a monk or that I want to become a monk when encountering any setbacks or blows. In fact, most people simply don't understand the true meaning of becoming a monk. Many people mistakenly regard the temple as a refuge and become a monk as a liberation, thinking that they can be clean and liberated when they enter the temple. In fact, the heart is clean everywhere, and peace of mind is safe everywhere! If you know what is wrong, how can you be clean? How can you be safe without virtue? If you don't know Buddhism in your heart, even if you become a monk, your heart can't be clean and you can't become a monk. It's just that you became a monk, but you didn't. You can't muddle along, busy with six things. If you don't understand Buddhism, you will miss all beings and get what you want. Becoming a monk is a noble belief from the heart, and it is to inherit the family business of Tathagata and renew the wisdom of Buddha. Becoming a monk is to help all beings get rid of superstition, get rid of suffering, understand the eternal truth of Buddha, and move from the darkness of the soul to the light, not to avoid setbacks and troubles and covet personal enjoyment. Becoming a monk is a kind of filial piety and a supreme move. It's not what people in the world think. Being a monk is as cold as ice and cruel to people. Some people will misunderstand monks and nuns, and break off the relationship with their six relatives and their families when they leave home, which is a sign of disloyalty to their parents. In fact, this is a misunderstanding and a serious mistake. Buddhism is not divorced from secular law, but awakens in the world and lives with an enlightened heart. If the learned Buddhism is divorced from life, it is a Buddhist delusion. Buddhist precepts are inseparable from human feelings, and the Buddha says "break". I told you not to persist in emotional delusion, not to break the care of your parents, not to break everything, but to sublimate your affair into compassion. Everyone should know and understand the true meaning of Buddha! If everything is cut off, that is the way to cut off, there is no way at all. Then what family can learn Buddhism? It's no use practicing. What's the point of practicing this again? Repairing this is heartless, and repairing this is as meaningless as rotten wood. Buddha taught us to respect all sentient beings, be grateful to all sentient beings, be kind to all sentient beings, and never forget to be grateful to our parents. After the Buddha became a Buddha, he went back to honor his father and aunt. When his father was ill, he taught him Buddhism. After his father died, he went to help him himself. Look at the Buddha's practice, can you say unfilial? Let's look at the old monk Xu Yun. In order to repay his parents' kindness, he once walked from Putuo Mountain in Zhejiang Province to Xiangwutai Mountain for three years, rain or shine, and returned all his merits to his late parents. Can you tell me that his family is unfilial? Only people who don't know Buddhism will misunderstand that Buddhism doesn't value filial piety. In fact, Buddhism attaches the most importance to filial piety. How to attach importance to filial piety? How can people who are unfilial to their parents practice Buddhism if they can't even do well in human nature? The Buddha wants to become a monk, and he is compassionate. The Bodhisattva is kind-hearted, self-interested and beneficial to all beings. He repays four kinds of kindness and helps three kinds of suffering, and even bugs and ants care. You think your parents don't care? So monks and nuns are filial to their parents. Becoming a monk is for more sentient beings, but also for greater achievements. It is not what the world calls becoming a monk, leaving home and not taking care of parents. It's not because you covet your own enjoyment, eat ten offerings, read scriptures freely, take notes and meditate that you think you have practice. You should really serve all beings with your wisdom, so that all beings can really benefit from it, and move from superstition to the light of enlightenment. Wearing monk's clothes doesn't prove that you have practice. On the surface, you practice in the mountains, but inside, you are afraid of death, gluttony and lethargy, not an ascetic. Your parents raised you so big and sent you to become a monk. As a result, you didn't even have any feelings. How is this like the law? Being a basic person also knows how to be filial to parents. Sheep have the grace to kneel and milk, not to mention being an indomitable monk! When you become a monk, you should take care of your parents and be filial to them as usual. How can you take care of them? It is to take care of Buddhism, practice and contribute, and return the merits of "giving, keeping precepts, enduring humiliation, striving, prajna and meditation" to parents and all sentient beings. As the saying goes, "one person learns Buddhism and the whole family benefits." This is the real filial piety! Every monk and nun becomes a monk for different reasons, pursues different things and gets different results. Some of them became monks to avoid debts, some to make a living, some to gain fame and fortune, some to be unfilial to their adoptive parents, some to cheat money, some to pursue supernatural powers and so on. How can all beings benefit from such a desire to become monks? A real monk needs the consent of his family. Before shaving his disciples' hair, Master had to get the consent of his family for a home visit. In addition, when Buddhism requires him to be ordained as a monk, the tutor will ask your parents if they are taken care of. If you are an only child and your parents are left unattended, you can't become a monk. What if parents are left unattended? In other words, your parents are taken care of, and your family is not in debt, so you meet the requirements of becoming a monk and are allowed to become a monk. This is clearly recorded in the precepts of becoming a monk. Therefore, becoming a monk is to benefit all sentient beings and achieve Buddhism and Taoism, which is the real becoming a monk. Not to escape from reality and avoid disaster, not to run away from home and abandon parents. Being a monk is affectionate, not ruthless, and Tao is ruthless!