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In ‘The 100,000 Whys in Buddhism’ Online Dharma
Talk organised by YBAM Perlis SLC and hosted by Perlis
Buddhist Society and Kaki Bukit Buddhist Association,
Venerable Lee Jing was invited to deliver a three-day
sharing on three major topics of Buddhism, namely
‘Doubts about Life and Death’, ‘Divine Power’, and
‘Contradictions that One Encounters When Studying
Buddhism’. Venerable made good use of the functions
in the Zoom video conferencing software to interact
with the participants frequently, making the sessions
more interactive and engaging.

In the first session, Venerable explained the concept
of rebirth and the Buddhist views of life and death.
Attachment, ignorance, and karma are the causes of
rebirth.

In the second session, Venerable mentioned that
divine power is not the inevitable outcome of practice
and that we should focus on our regular practice and
make good changes. The Buddha did not encourage
His disciples to use divine power to entice others to
learn the Dharma, as this would cause most people to
wrongly focus on the pursuit of divine power, wanting
a quick shortcut to liberation and the resolution of
their troubles, instead of following the Dharma and
practising for liberation. At the same time, Venerable 法师透过问答题和出席者互动。
also emphasised that divine power cannot overcome Venerable interacted with the participants through quizzes.
karma.
practice transcending the world or within the world?
In the third session, Venerable presented several
contradictions that we often encounter in our After the talk, Venerable also answered questions
practice. He led the participants to observe and from the participants, during which his views on
compare the sources of contradictions from virtual currency and the metaverse were shared from
multiple perspectives. For example, is compassion the Buddhist’s perspective. From the explanation, it
more important than wisdom when practising? Is it can be seen that Venerable’s mindset is avant-garde
more important to be contented or to have desires and novel, enabling participants to understand the
(progressive)? Is comprehending the Dharma more relationship between technology and Buddhism from
important than practising the Dharma? Is Buddhist different perspectives.

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