At the half of the seventh month, it is important that we can do more Buddhist deeds and increase the merits of good karma in accordance with right knowledge and righteousness.

As the saying goes, "On the half of the seventh month, ghosts run amok", scary?

When the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar comes, the favorite saying of the rural elderly is "the ghosts of the half of the seventh month run amok, nothing, don't stand by the river."

I remember when I was a child in the countryside, basically talk about "ghosts" color, do not dare to go out alone at night, the village is always far away from someone who passed away, especially on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, before dark, we all went home one after another, ready to prepare food offerings to their loved ones who have passed away, just like a festival, as if the food we sacrifice to them really can taste the same; they can taste the same. The first thing I've noticed is that I'm not sure how much I'm going to get out of this, but I'm sure I'm going to get out of this, and I'm sure I'm going to get out of this.

Later, when the karma was ripe, I came into contact with the Buddha's teachings, and read the "True Meaning of the Heart Sutra", which says: "Because ghosts are very painful, uncontrollable hunger, see everything to eat, and go close to the right after the change, there is no more, obviously see the fragrant white rice, beware of grabbing up the iron sand, biting it all. I can't even bite it, so I'm hungry all day long and panicky and in pain."

At the same time, in the South, the originator of the Buddha's proclaimed voice, "Pure heart can only be exchanged for the real Dharma, because the Dharma is not cheated," "to completely understand the Buddha's statement" in the "Ghost Road beings," all of the situation of ghosts to do the corresponding reference, since then I personally have a clearer understanding of "ghosts": ghosts belong to the six paths of beings, they are the three evil beings, because of their own personal problems. The ghosts belong to the three evil paths of the six paths, they are drawn by karma to fall into this path, and suffer a lot, there is no lack of our former parents, relatives ...... just with the waves of karma, we gradually forget each other; and most of the ghosts are controlled, and are not in the free country of what to come and go. Therefore, ghost beings do not "wander" around for no reason. From this we can see that "ghosts" are not scary, but rather very pitiful. What's scary is that if we don't cherish this hundred million kalpas to encounter the Dharma, good practice to seek liberation, then we intentionally or unintentionally committed karmic obstacles, will take us to the same as them, so has been in the cycle of reincarnation, this is the most terrible.

The Buddha's words, "The Holy Liberation Mahamudra", have the following words: "I have a perfect person, and I am in the Buddha's rightful place, but only in this life, except for this life, I can never learn the true Buddha's teachings again", and the Buddha's words are true. Now that we have the fullness of life, coinciding with the residence of the Buddha, not to study and practice to seek liberation, when will we wait? And the face of all living beings we should be based on "what is called practice" to one by one control, so the real repair, can be beneficial to others and themselves.

So for the half of July, the important thing is that we can follow the correct knowledge and view, do more Buddhist things, increase the merit of good karma, such as reading the "holy liberation of the Mahamudra", "What is the meaning of the practice of the", listening to the sound of the South ancestor of the Buddha's "July 15 is the day of the Buddha's happiness and the birthday," at the same time, these good thoughts and good deeds of the merit of the back to them, wishing them an early departure from the suffering of the Buddha's practice of the early achievement of the realization of the liberation.

Written by: A drop in the ocean

Edited by: Mundane Dustmarks