Q: Master, could you please tell us something special? Master Da'an replied: The fourth-generation patriarch, Master Fazhao, had a five-association practice of chanting Buddha's name, but it has not been passed down. We don’t know exactly what the tone of the Five Meetings of Chanting Buddha sounds like. It is said that the Five Sessions of Chanting Buddha are still preserved in Japan and other places. Some people also say that it is the Five Sessions of Chanting Buddha's name, but in the past, it didn't sound like that. According to Master Fazhao's book, this Buddha's name is said to be the five sessions of chanting Buddha's name taught by Master Fazhao in the Samadhi of Buddha Amitabha. The audio melody of these five sessions of reciting the Buddha's name can directly lead to the world of bliss. It is said that it has great functions of breaking away worries, opening up wisdom, and realizing Buddha nature; it is also said that this Buddha's name has been circulated in this world for five hundred years. There are these records. But there are different opinions on whether this book and Master Fa Zhao's manuscript is true or false, but we don't need to investigate so much. Anyway, we can't hear the Five Sessions of Chanting Buddha in the world. But reciting the Buddha's name is indeed performing Buddhist rituals with sound, and we have to pay attention to this sound. The name of Donglin Buddha is mainly based on eight characters from the "Infinite Life Sutra". The Infinite Life Sutra depicts the Land of Ultimate Bliss as the city of sounds. The beauty of its sound is that of otherworldly beings. All music cannot compare to one of the hundreds of trillions of sounds in the Western Paradise. So these, no matter the sound of water, the sound of wind blowing leaves, the sound of forest flowers, the sound of musical instruments in the void, etc., as well as the sound of hundreds of birds singing together, they can all make people have the intention to "recite the Buddha, recite the Dharma, and recite the Sangha." ". So why do these sounds have such great dharma-natured appeal? They have eight characteristics: a cappella, loud and clear, subtle, and elegant. We once had some special interpretations of these eight words, and even introduced them in our summer camp manual. The name Donglin Buddha was discovered by ourselves. Looking back in 1999, I led a group of people to perform a century-old Buddha Seven at the Jiuhua Mountain Prayer Temple. The Buddha Seven lasted 24 hours a day and night. They are a group of students from the China Buddhist Academy and a fellow student from Mount Jiuhua. There are 18 people in one group, including 12 monks and 6 lay Buddhists. At first we also chanted it in a very fast voice, but after two days we found that it didn't work anymore. It's just that my whole voice is no longer functioning, and it's all hoarse. Only then did I realize that if you recite the Buddha's name like this for one or two hours or two or three hours, you won't feel anything; once you recite it twenty-four hours a day, you won't be able to continue reciting it. At this late night when the entire army was almost annihilated and the voice was hoarse and unable to make a sound, a slow voice emerged, perhaps because of the blessings of the Buddha and Bodhisattvas. Once the frequency of this slow sound is reduced, even though the throat is damaged, the airflow passes through the seven parts of the pronunciation, and it can also recite the frequency of Amitabha, and the single thought is very penetrating. There were several lay people who came to protect us at that time. He found that while we were chanting inside, he went to the market to buy rice and vegetables. This Buddha's name could follow him even in far away places. That is to say, this Buddha's name is very penetrating. Only later did I think about why people like Tibet, Inner Mongolia and Mongolia, who sang on the grasslands, sang at a lower level. Because it will spread far, you can't sing too high. So for the Buddha Seven, we basically established a pattern: first, slow down; second, take four steps with one Buddha's name. After I became a monk in 2001, I continued to practice this Buddhist name in Zhiti Mountain where I lived, and then slowly summarized it into the current pattern of the Donglin Buddha Name.