Leaving Home ⁽²⁾

Today, walking beneath the Buddha pagoda at Cishou Temple, I suddenly, for no clear reason, felt as though I were seeing my own past life. If there is a past life, I must have been a monk who strictly kept the precepts and whose every…

Chinese Buddhists often use 'the world' (shi jian) and 'leaving the world' (chu shi jian) to describe the worldly realm and the realm beyond it. 'The world' actually means society and family; so-called 'leaving the world' or leaving the mortal dust means keeping a certain…