Part Two - Karma and Life after Death (Cont'd II)
What are the differences between human beings and ghosts?
If people descend to hell or become ghosts due to their past evil deeds, are they doomed forever?
How does Humanity Vehicle Buddhism (Jen Chen Buddhism) relate to the vows of Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha (地藏Dì Zàng)?
Does Buddhism guide the living or the dead to salvation?
When a person dies, why do we chant “Amitabha Buddha”?
Is it true that a Buddhist cannot be reborn in the Buddha Pure Land if he was not cremated?
After a person dies, is there nothing left of him?
Should animals be killed to hasten their rebirth to another realm?
What is the difference between Nirvana and death?

This book, Awakening the Sleeping Mind, contains extracts of Venerable Master Shen-Kai’s answers to questions that people raised during his talks in various countries around the world. This book contains 2 parts: 'Cultivating Your Wisdom and Happiness' and 'Karma and Life after Death'

Venerable Master Shen-Kai is the teacher of the Buddhahood Lineage World Humanity Vehicle Buddhism (Jen Chen Buddhism).

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Part Two - Karma and Life after Death (Cont'd I)
How should people practise so that they will have a good ending in life and face no obstructions in rebirth?
After a person dies, approximately how many days does it take for him to be reborn?
During this 49-day period, how can we help the deceased to be reborn in a virtuous realm?
Why does the soul of the deceased still cause disturbances? Which realm is that from?
After my father died, he did not bless me with peace. What can I do about it?
What causes people to become ghosts when they die?

This book, Awakening the Sleeping Mind, contains extracts of Venerable Master Shen-Kai’s answers to questions that people raised during his talks in various countries around the world. This book contains 2 parts: 'Cultivating Your Wisdom and Happiness' and 'Karma and Life after Death'

Venerable Master Shen-Kai is the teacher of the Buddhahood Lineage World Humanity Vehicle Buddhism (Jen Chen Buddhism).

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Part Two - Karma and Life after Death
What is karma?
Will we become ghosts when we die? How does karma affect our rebirth?
How do karmic hindrances come about?
How does our negative karma arise?
How do we cleanse ourselves of negative karma?
What is ‘Mara’ ? How does it cause hindrances?
What is the difference between karmic hindrances and Mara-hindrances?
How can we eliminate our negative karma?
Can rebirth take place regardless of the type of karma we have?

This book, Awakening the Sleeping Mind, contains extracts of Venerable Master Shen-Kai’s answers to questions that people raised during his talks in various countries around the world. Venerable Master Shen-Kai is the teacher of the Buddhahood Lineage World Humanity Vehicle Buddhism (Jen Chen Buddhism).

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Part One - Cultivating Your Wisdom and Happiness (Cont'd II)
What is the method of ultimate cultivation?
How can a Buddhist practise such that he fulfils supporting and protecting the Dharma as well as
cultivating himself?
We often hear people say, “If we do not commit bad deeds but instead often help others, then what need is there to learn Buddhism?” How should we elucidate such a perception?
What are merits and blessings? Is being a vegetarian considered meritorious? How does one practise in accord with the Dharma?
How should we overcome the many thoughts that arise in our mind? Is the cause of all these thoughts the karma that we take with us through lifetime after lifetime?
Why learn and practise Buddhism?
The basic requirement of practising Buddhism is to have a mind of equality, great loving kindness and compassion. However, I feel that I am still unable to treat all sentient beings the way Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and my teacher do - with such great equality, loving kindness and compassion. Hence I am deeply remorseful. Please enlighten me.
‘All things arise by the aggregation of causes and conditions; all things cease by the dispersion of causes and conditions.’ How do we apply this Law of Causality?

This book, Awakening the Sleeping Mind, contains extracts of Venerable Master Shen-Kai’s answers to questions that people raised during his talks in various countries around the world.

Venerable Master Shen-Kai is the teacher of the Buddhahood Lineage World Humanity Vehicle Buddhism (Jen Chen Buddhism).

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Part One - Cultivating Your Wisdom and Happiness (cont'd)
A pure mind, hence a Buddha Pure Land. How do we make our mind pure?
What are the teachings of Humanity Vehicle Buddhism (Jen Chen Buddhism)?
What are the differences between the Buddhadharma and the ways of the world?
What is the ultimate Buddhadharma?
What is the difference between society educated by Buddhism, and Buddhism secularised by society?
How should a Buddhist apply supramundane spirit whilst performing his work in the world?
How do we practise the method of ‘viewing matters with positive perspective and right understanding’?
We learn and practise Buddhism to liberate ourselves from suffering, worries and afflictions; but how should we practise so that we do not become even more troubled as we learn?
Is there any difference between emulating the Buddha and studying Buddhism?
What is the importance of ‘practice’ to a Buddhist?

This is the second episode of the book, Awakening the Sleeping Mind, which contains extracts of Venerable Master Shen-Kai’s answers to questions that people raised
during his talks in various countries around the world.
Venerable Master Shen-Kai is the teacher of the Buddhahood Lineage World Humanity Vehicle Buddhism (Jen Chen Buddhism).

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Part One - Cultivating Your Wisdom and Happiness
Why is there no happiness in life?
Why learn from Buddha?
What are the benefits of learning and practising Buddhism?
What is the wisdom of Buddha? How can we unfold our Buddha-wisdom?
How should a lay Buddhist cultivate?

This book (Awakening the Sleeping Mind) contains extracts of Venerable Master Shen-Kai’s answers to questions that people raised during his talks in various countries around the world. Venerable Master Shen-Kai is the teacher of the Buddhahood Lineage World Humanity Vehicle Buddhism (Jen Chen Buddhism).
Venerable Master Shen-Kai guided people to understand that the culture of Buddhism is a culture of bliss, and taught us how to create true happiness and live blissful lives. In his talks, the Venerable Master always had a way of expounding the profound Buddhadharma in simple terms and with clarity. Rather than delivering his talks from prepared notes, Master usually adopted a question-and-answer approach. In this way, he ensured that his teachings would suit the audiences’ needs, prevailing conditions and levels of understanding.
Master’s enlightening words of wisdom flow freely. Like a sprinkle of Dharma dew, they gently touch upon us, awakening our minds with wisdom like the blossoming of a flower.
The contents of this book do not present exhaustive analyses of the subjects discussed, but offer the Dharma according to the causalities of the audiences at that particular time. This book provides translations Venerable Master Shen-Kai of the answers as they were given by the Venerable Master. Inevitably, similar answers will be found in different parts of the book as care has been taken to retain them to ensure that the explanations are complete.
May the wisdom of this book inspire your Bodhi mind and enhance your inner brightness and clarity. May you be with Buddha.

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Chapter 4: Impermanence

TEACUP IS NOT A TEACUP book

Some excerpts of the podcast:
"In our world, how could things be forever unchanging? Moment to moment, time passes by; everything changes continuously and ceaselessly. All things and events arise by aggregations of causes and conditions, and cease again by dispersals of causes and conditions. All living beings go through ‘birth, aging, sickness and death’. Every event and
thing in our world goes through ‘arising, abiding, changing and extinction’. A new and beautiful object or a luxurious building is constantly in the midst of change. After a few years or a few decades, you will see that it has aged and deteriorated. Even the world in which we live also goes through ‘formation, existence, destruction and void’. It never ceases to change. Finally, it will be destroyed."

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CHAPTER 3: There is no fixed law in causes and conditions

Q: Is the Law of Cause and Condition fixed? Will it change?

A: The Law of Cause and Condition is neither fixed nor not fixed. It is the term ‘Cause and Condition’ that is fixed, but their events and circumstances are not. Because the Law of Cause and Condition involves three periods (past, present and future), it is thus also known as the Law of Cause and Effect....

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What is the Law of Cause and Condition?

The sutra states that, “Form does not differ from emptiness, emptiness does not differ from form, form is emptiness, emptiness is form”.
What does this mean? Are there any contradictions?

Hear the answers to these questions by Venerable Master Shen-Kai. The founder of World Humanity Vehicle Buddhism (World Jen Chen Buddhism).

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Illusion of name and form
This is a Dharma talk given by Venerable Master Shen-Kai in West Covina, California, USA

Some excerpts from the podcast:
"Buddhadharma is actually very simple. It is the simplest thing to learn, unlike things in this secular world that can be quite troublesome to learn. I mentioned just now that we
could expound the Buddhadharma based on a teacup. But how? Well, we could say, “This teacup is not a teacup. It is called a teacup”. To explain the teacup, we say that it isn’t a teacup and only thus is a teacup. This may sound very contradictory indeed. A teacup and yet not a teacup!? What on earth does this mean? This is a formula of
Buddhadharma: This teacup, not a teacup, is called a teacup. This teacup-thing isn’t a teacup. We named it ‘teacup’. We need to realise that ‘teacup’ is its given name, and this roundshaped glass vessel, its form. Everything, no matter what it is, has a name and a form.

Right now, we are human beings. We have human names and human forms. For example, if your mother had named you Paul at birth, then you would be Paul. If named Kitty, you’d be Kitty. However, in ancient China, children were formally given another name when they began their schooling. So, names are just labels. They are false."
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