Metaphysics Q&A 095 – Whether we need to continuously recite Little Houses
Q095: Hi Master Lu, I am a beginner. Once we start reciting Little Houses (Hsiao Fang Tzu), do we need to continuously recite from now on? Could you please advise us? Thank you!
A095:
The recitation of the Little House is one of the Dharma Gems given to us by the Great Merciful and Great Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva. In the Age of Dharma Decline, the recitation of Little Houses is the grand Dharma Gem for us to transfer merits to spirits and to eliminate our negative karmas.
As we are in the six realms of rebirth, we have countless karmic obstacles due to negative karmas, and they follow us everywhere like our shadow follows us. Even after many cycles of deaths and rebirths, and even though we have changed many different roles and have been reborn into many different bodies, we always carry all of our negative karmas from our previous lives. We are reborn into the human realm in this life to receive our karmic retributions. This is also the reason why our fate can be read accurately by some fortune tellers. The karmic debts that we owe from our previous lives need to be repaid in this life. We must repay our karmic debts when our Karmic Passes, or the predetermined period of time comes. According to our fate, when the calamities or illnesses are destined to occur, our legitimate Karmic Creditors can collect karmic debts from us.
As you start to perform recitations and cultivate your mind, you may often dream about your Karmic Creditors, and you are likely to foresee your personal disasters in your dreams. This is in fact reminding you to repay your karmic debts in time. In addition, only legitimate Karmic Creditors are allowed to collect karmic debts from you, as they have permissions from the underworld.
Generally, random spirits would not come and collect karmic debts from you for no reason, as your Karmic Creditors would all have strong karmic ties with you from your previous lives. The recitation of Little Houses is one of the most effective methods to repay your karmic debts. In the underworld, Little Houses are considered to be large currencies. When spirits receive the Little Houses, they can use the energy to proceed to a higher realm. Usually when you dream about your Karmic Creditors, it is best to recite 7 Little Houses for each of them and address the Little Houses to the “Karmic Creditor of <your full name>”.
The number of Karmic Creditors that you have depends on your own karmic conditions, and each individual has a different situation. If you have a tremendous amount of negative karmas and hence have a large amount of karmic debts, then you would need to recite a large number of Little Houses. Generally, if you experience major illness, it tends to be due to serious negative karmas. You should recite a relatively large number of Little Houses within a short period of time. If you have a small amount of negative karmas, and you owe limited amount of karmic debts, then you would not need to recite as many Little Houses within a short period of time. However, in the course of your lifetime, you do need to continuously repay your karmic debts.
Reciting Little Houses is not only about saving yourself and crossing yourself over, you are also changing your own life. In addition, you can transfer merits to your deceased family members and help them to be reborn into a higher realm. When you help others by performing recitations for them, your recitations supports them to resolve problems and helps them to prevent and avoid disasters. When you do this, you are indeed accumulating virtues. Negative karmas can be eliminated if you continue to perform virtuous deeds. People with immense virtues are protected from harm and kept safe during the Age of Dharma Decline when natural and man-made disasters continuously occur.
The Great Merciful and Great Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva has given us this wonderful Dharma Gem to allow us the opportunity to change our own lives. We are now able to transform and resolve disasters through repaying our karmic debts. It is up to us to decide whether to use this Dharma Gem to save ourselves. We all have to repay our karmic debts, and this is an unalterable principle. How we repay our karmic debts is our own choice. We can choose to transform and resolve our calamities and disasters by reciting Little Houses and performing the transferring of merits to our Karmic Creditors and repay our karmic debts. Otherwise, we can choose to not repay our karmic debts by the recitation of Little Houses. We can accept our karmic retributions and experience the destined events in our lives as a result.
Learning Buddhism, performing recitations, cultivating your mind, and practising Buddhism is a life-long mission, and should not be considered as short-term activities. If you are cultivating your mind and performing recitations only to resolve your temporary hardships, then once you have resolved your current issues, you would still be lost when the next one occurs, and you would end up blindly following your fate without having any control of your own life. In addition, if you are only seeking help from Buddhas and Bodhisattvas during the last minute, it would be difficult for you to receive protection and blessings from Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the long term.
Q095: Hi Master Lu, I am a beginner. Once we start reciting Little Houses (Hsiao Fang Tzu), do we need to continuously recite from now on? Could you please advise us? Thank you!
A095:
The recitation of the Little House is one of the Dharma Gems given to us by the Great Merciful and Great Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva. In the Age of Dharma Decline, the recitation of Little Houses is the grand Dharma Gem for us to transfer merits to spirits and to eliminate our negative karmas.
As we are in the six realms of rebirth, we have countless karmic obstacles due to negative karmas, and they follow us everywhere like our shadow follows us. Even after many cycles of deaths and rebirths, and even though we have changed many different roles and have been reborn into many different bodies, we always carry all of our negative karmas from our previous lives. We are reborn into the human realm in this life to receive our karmic retributions. This is also the reason why our fate can be read accurately by some fortune tellers. The karmic debts that we owe from our previous lives need to be repaid in this life. We must repay our karmic debts when our Karmic Passes, or the predetermined period of time comes. According to our fate, when the calamities or illnesses are destined to occur, our legitimate Karmic Creditors can collect karmic debts from us.
As you start to perform recitations and cultivate your mind, you may often dream about your Karmic Creditors, and you are likely to foresee your personal disasters in your dreams. This is in fact reminding you to repay your karmic debts in time. In addition, only legitimate Karmic Creditors are allowed to collect karmic debts from you, as they have permissions from the underworld.
Generally, random spirits would not come and collect karmic debts from you for no reason, as your Karmic Creditors would all have strong karmic ties with you from your previous lives. The recitation of Little Houses is one of the most effective methods to repay your karmic debts. In the underworld, Little Houses are considered to be large currencies. When spirits receive the Little Houses, they can use the energy to proceed to a higher realm. Usually when you dream about your Karmic Creditors, it is best to recite 7 Little Houses for each of them and address the Little Houses to the “Karmic Creditor of <your full name>”.
The number of Karmic Creditors that you have depends on your own karmic conditions, and each individual has a different situation. If you have a tremendous amount of negative karmas and hence have a large amount of karmic debts, then you would need to recite a large number of Little Houses. Generally, if you experience major illness, it tends to be due to serious negative karmas. You should recite a relatively large number of Little Houses within a short period of time. If you have a small amount of negative karmas, and you owe limited amount of karmic debts, then you would not need to recite as many Little Houses within a short period of time. However, in the course of your lifetime, you do need to continuously repay your karmic debts.
Reciting Little Houses is not only about saving yourself and crossing yourself over, you are also changing your own life. In addition, you can transfer merits to your deceased family members and help them to be reborn into a higher realm. When you help others by performing recitations for them, your recitations supports them to resolve problems and helps them to prevent and avoid disasters. When you do this, you are indeed accumulating virtues. Negative karmas can be eliminated if you continue to perform virtuous deeds. People with immense virtues are protected from harm and kept safe during the Age of Dharma Decline when natural and man-made disasters continuously occur.
The Great Merciful and Great Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva has given us this wonderful Dharma Gem to allow us the opportunity to change our own lives. We are now able to transform and resolve disasters through repaying our karmic debts. It is up to us to decide whether to use this Dharma Gem to save ourselves. We all have to repay our karmic debts, and this is an unalterable principle. How we repay our karmic debts is our own choice. We can choose to transform and resolve our calamities and disasters by reciting Little Houses and performing the transferring of merits to our Karmic Creditors and repay our karmic debts. Otherwise, we can choose to not repay our karmic debts by the recitation of Little Houses. We can accept our karmic retributions and experience the destined events in our lives as a result.
Learning Buddhism, performing recitations, cultivating your mind, and practising Buddhism is a life-long mission, and should not be considered as short-term activities. If you are cultivating your mind and performing recitations only to resolve your temporary hardships, then once you have resolved your current issues, you would still be lost when the next one occurs, and you would end up blindly following your fate without having any control of your own life. In addition, if you are only seeking help from Buddhas and Bodhisattvas during the last minute, it would be difficult for you to receive protection and blessings from Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the long term.
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