Metaphysics Q&A 023 – The purpose of reciting the Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance
Q023: Master Lu, my friend and I are following your Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door and we are performing recitations. After reciting the Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance (Li Fo Ta Chan Hui Wen), my friend dreamt of people asking for sutras and Little Houses (Hsiao Fang Tzu). My friend is too scared to continue performing recitations. Could you please explain the purpose of reciting the Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance?
A023:
When a person steals something, kills a dog or a person, or commits any wrongdoings, a cloud or a patch of black energy is generated in this person’s souls and spirits, which then will occupy this person’s body. These black clouds of energies are karmic obstacles due to negative karma. When Master Lu says someone has a lot of heavy black energies on the Totem, it means that this person has committed many wrongdoings, both in the past lives and in the present life. The more black energies accumulated within the body, the more likely it is that this person will suffer from health, career and relationship problems.
Suppose explosives represent karmic obstacles due to negative karma. When a person has a lot of negative karma stored in the body, it is similar to having a lot of explosives stored in the body. When this person has committed numerous wrongdoings and the storage of explosives reaches its full capacity, then as soon as a spirit becomes activated, the time will come and this person’s causality will take effect. All the stored explosives would explode, and this person would be “blown into pieces”. This may be the time that a person is diagnosed with a terminal illness such as cancer, or is involved in a fatal automobile accident.
It is very rare for Master Lu to see a Totem that is very clean and bright. Everyone carries a lot of karmic obstacles due to negative karma. The main reason is that humans often have too many unwholesome thoughts and the desire to take advantage of others, are reluctant to give, and do not know how to treat others well. Therefore, the body, speech, and mind are not pure. As a result, negative karma continuously accumulate from past lives and the present life.
It is very important to carry less negative karma and to stay pure. The best way to eliminate karmic obstacles due to negative karma is to recite the Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance and eliminate the black energies accumulated here and there. It is like reducing the amount of explosives on the body. The more that the explosives are reduced, the less likely you are to be seriously injured when an “explosion” occurs during old age, even if you still have some explosives left at that time.
These days, the listeners of the radio program are very clever. They ask Master Lu about the amount of negative karma that they carry and the specific locations on the body. This will help to eliminate karmic obstacles on one part of the body at a time.
Before you recite the Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance, you can say, “May the Great Merciful and Great Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva protect and bless me, <your full name>, help me to repent and eliminate karmic obstacles due to negative karmas in <the part of the body that has karmic obstacles>”. Generally, for each part of the body, you can recite the Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance 3 times per day for 2 months, or 7 times per day for 1 month.
Certain parts of the body may have more karmic obstacles and require a longer period of time. If you only say, “eliminate karmic obstacles due to negative karma on my body”, it is very difficult to eliminate all of the karmic obstacles, because there are too many of them all over the body.
Many illnesses may have a spiritual cause, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, brain thrombosis, coronary heart disease, skin disease, epilepsy, Ménière’s disease, and psychosis, etc.
Back to your question, sometimes when you recite the Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance, you may dream of someone asking you for sutras, or the part of the body from which you wish to eliminate karmic obstacles starts to ache – that means your karmic obstacles have been activated and transformed into foreign spirits. You should recite 4 to 7 Little Houses as soon as possible. Then if you are still not feeling well, you should continue to recite more Little Houses until you fully recover. The karmic obstacles on this particular part of the body will then be basically eliminated, and later on in your old age it is less likely that you will suffer from an illness on that part of the body. However, if you leave it until you reach old age, then when the negative karma ripen, you may not be able to completely recover even if you recite several dozens or over a hundred Little Houses.
Early activation of karmic obstacles due to negative karma is a good thing. The spiritual power of these foreign spirits would be less and the number of Little Houses that you need to recite would be fewer, compared to if you activate the negative karma later or wait until they ripen by themselves. It is like getting treatment at an early stage of an illness.
In the Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance where it says, “for all the sins I have committed in the past (Wo Hsi So Tsao Chu O Yeh)… I now repent them all (Yi Chieh Wo Chin Chieh Chan Hui)”, it is best for you to make a full prostration after reciting this line. For the rest of the sutra where it indicates that you should make full prostrations, you can visualize that you are performing the prostrations in your mind, or just nod your head instead. The last line which says, “Namo Great Conduct Samantabhadra Bodhisattva (Na Mo Da Heng Pu Hsien Pu Sa)” – you must recite in the name of the Samantabhadra Bodhisattva (Pu Hsien Pu Sa) 3 times and then stand up. If you are reciting whilst kneeling down, you should also recite this line 3 times and then stand up.
It is alright to perform recitations at a fast speed, provided that you do not miss any words.
Q023: Master Lu, my friend and I are following your Guan Yin Citta Dharma Door and we are performing recitations. After reciting the Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance (Li Fo Ta Chan Hui Wen), my friend dreamt of people asking for sutras and Little Houses (Hsiao Fang Tzu). My friend is too scared to continue performing recitations. Could you please explain the purpose of reciting the Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance?
A023:
When a person steals something, kills a dog or a person, or commits any wrongdoings, a cloud or a patch of black energy is generated in this person’s souls and spirits, which then will occupy this person’s body. These black clouds of energies are karmic obstacles due to negative karma. When Master Lu says someone has a lot of heavy black energies on the Totem, it means that this person has committed many wrongdoings, both in the past lives and in the present life. The more black energies accumulated within the body, the more likely it is that this person will suffer from health, career and relationship problems.
Suppose explosives represent karmic obstacles due to negative karma. When a person has a lot of negative karma stored in the body, it is similar to having a lot of explosives stored in the body. When this person has committed numerous wrongdoings and the storage of explosives reaches its full capacity, then as soon as a spirit becomes activated, the time will come and this person’s causality will take effect. All the stored explosives would explode, and this person would be “blown into pieces”. This may be the time that a person is diagnosed with a terminal illness such as cancer, or is involved in a fatal automobile accident.
It is very rare for Master Lu to see a Totem that is very clean and bright. Everyone carries a lot of karmic obstacles due to negative karma. The main reason is that humans often have too many unwholesome thoughts and the desire to take advantage of others, are reluctant to give, and do not know how to treat others well. Therefore, the body, speech, and mind are not pure. As a result, negative karma continuously accumulate from past lives and the present life.
It is very important to carry less negative karma and to stay pure. The best way to eliminate karmic obstacles due to negative karma is to recite the Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance and eliminate the black energies accumulated here and there. It is like reducing the amount of explosives on the body. The more that the explosives are reduced, the less likely you are to be seriously injured when an “explosion” occurs during old age, even if you still have some explosives left at that time.
These days, the listeners of the radio program are very clever. They ask Master Lu about the amount of negative karma that they carry and the specific locations on the body. This will help to eliminate karmic obstacles on one part of the body at a time.
Before you recite the Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance, you can say, “May the Great Merciful and Great Compassionate Guan Yin Bodhisattva protect and bless me, <your full name>, help me to repent and eliminate karmic obstacles due to negative karmas in <the part of the body that has karmic obstacles>”. Generally, for each part of the body, you can recite the Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance 3 times per day for 2 months, or 7 times per day for 1 month.
Certain parts of the body may have more karmic obstacles and require a longer period of time. If you only say, “eliminate karmic obstacles due to negative karma on my body”, it is very difficult to eliminate all of the karmic obstacles, because there are too many of them all over the body.
Many illnesses may have a spiritual cause, such as heart disease, high blood pressure, brain thrombosis, coronary heart disease, skin disease, epilepsy, Ménière’s disease, and psychosis, etc.
Back to your question, sometimes when you recite the Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance, you may dream of someone asking you for sutras, or the part of the body from which you wish to eliminate karmic obstacles starts to ache – that means your karmic obstacles have been activated and transformed into foreign spirits. You should recite 4 to 7 Little Houses as soon as possible. Then if you are still not feeling well, you should continue to recite more Little Houses until you fully recover. The karmic obstacles on this particular part of the body will then be basically eliminated, and later on in your old age it is less likely that you will suffer from an illness on that part of the body. However, if you leave it until you reach old age, then when the negative karma ripen, you may not be able to completely recover even if you recite several dozens or over a hundred Little Houses.
Early activation of karmic obstacles due to negative karma is a good thing. The spiritual power of these foreign spirits would be less and the number of Little Houses that you need to recite would be fewer, compared to if you activate the negative karma later or wait until they ripen by themselves. It is like getting treatment at an early stage of an illness.
In the Eighty-eight Buddhas Great Repentance where it says, “for all the sins I have committed in the past (Wo Hsi So Tsao Chu O Yeh)… I now repent them all (Yi Chieh Wo Chin Chieh Chan Hui)”, it is best for you to make a full prostration after reciting this line. For the rest of the sutra where it indicates that you should make full prostrations, you can visualize that you are performing the prostrations in your mind, or just nod your head instead. The last line which says, “Namo Great Conduct Samantabhadra Bodhisattva (Na Mo Da Heng Pu Hsien Pu Sa)” – you must recite in the name of the Samantabhadra Bodhisattva (Pu Hsien Pu Sa) 3 times and then stand up. If you are reciting whilst kneeling down, you should also recite this line 3 times and then stand up.
It is alright to perform recitations at a fast speed, provided that you do not miss any words.
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