What are the "Fourfold Gratitude" and "Threefold Suffering"?

Quadruple beneficence:

I. The beneficence of living beings

1. Since the beginning of time, the cycle of reincarnation has been continuous, and all living beings and I are each other's six relatives and dependents, and all of them are beneficent and should be repaid by reason.

2. Everything in this world is the result of the combined efforts of all people. There are farmers who have food to eat, workers who have goods to eat, and armies who guarantee a safe environment.

These are all the kindness of the masses, and they should be repaid.

Second, parents' kindness: Parents work hard to bring up their children, and we should know how to repay them for their kindness.

Third, the country's favor. The land on which we live is selfless, mountains and rivers, water and soil, food, minerals, tradition are all the land of the people's dedication.

To make the land solemn is our duty to repay the kindness, but also our duty for future generations.

Fourth, the grace of the Three Jewels: For Buddhism, the Three Jewels, Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, enable people to achieve wisdom, attain Bodhi, and attain liberation, and are people's gurus. The grace of the Three Jewels cannot be forgotten.

The Three Paths of Suffering:

I. The Suffering of the Animal Path: Buddhist term. One of the "six paths". Buddhist reincarnation, that people do evil, after death, when turned into beasts, animals, etc., very hard.

Second, the hungry ghost suffering: the hungry ghost's pain is slightly less than the hell, but greater than the animal path. If you compare them in terms of intelligence, the hungry ghosts are more intelligent than the animals.

Third, the suffering of the hell path: Buddhism, Brahmanism and other religious terms. The hellish path is one of the six paths of rebirth, and the suffering in the hellish path is the greatest.

Expanded Information

Buddhism eight difficulties

One, in the hell of difficulties, said the South Alimony under the continent, over five hundred by ten, there are eight cold, eight hot and other prisons, all named hell.

Second, in the animal difficult, said the animal type is not the same, but also with the cause of the reward; or for people to raise, or living in the mountains and the sea and other places.

Three, in the hungry ghosts, there are three kinds of hungry ghosts: one of the heaviest of their karma, the name of water is not heard of for a long time; two of their karma is second heaviest, they only wait on earth to cleanse the pus and blood of feces and filth; and the lightest of their karma, they are full from time to time, but they are driven by the sword and cane, and they are forced to fill up the rivers and seas with immeasurable sufferings, and they are prevented from seeing the Buddha, and from hearing the Dharma, and so are called the hungry ghosts.

Fourth, in the long-life days difficult, that is to say, this day to five hundred kalpas for life, that is, the color world in the fourth meditation in the thoughtless sky also.

Fifth, in the north of the Yudanjiang difficult, Sanskrit Yudanjiang, Chinese language victory. It is said that this place is better than the east, west and south continents. He lived a thousand years, and his life did not end in death. For the sake of pleasure, not to teach, so the saints do not come out of it, not to see the Buddha, hear the law, so the name of the North Yudanetsu difficult. (The three continents of the east, west, and south are: the eastern Ph?yükü, the western G?yüni, and the southern Yanfuti.)

Sixth, blind, deaf, mute and difficult to say that these people, although born in China, but the karmic obstacles, blind, deaf, mute, all the roots do not have, the value of the Buddha's emergence, but can not see, although the Buddha said that can not be heard, so the name of blind, deaf, mute and difficult to say.

Seven, the world's wisdom is difficult to argue, said the world of people, the evil wisdom of the clever, only to study the book of external scriptures, do not believe in the world of righteousness, so the world's wisdom is difficult to argue.

Eight, born in front of the Buddha after the Buddha difficult, said the Buddha appeared in the world, for the great teacher, so that all beings, away from the suffering of life and death, nirvana music. The Buddha is a great teacher, making all beings free from the suffering of birth and death, and attaining the joy of Nirvana. If you are born before the Buddha or after the Buddha, you will not see the Buddha nor hear the Dharma because of your heavy karma, so it is difficult to be born before the Buddha or after the Buddha.