The first step is to start the mind, planted a good cause with good roots, karma opens itself. When the time comes, naturally or stumbling around or returning to the Dharma with conviction. At this time, looking back, some of the things you have done before as if they are as if they are all for this moment in the pavement. The first thing each person does is different depending on karma, I think most are prostrations. Some are ordered by things, some are ordered by people. As for what articles to read it's also karma. There are thousands of sutras, things you meet, or the type you favor. By the time you really collapse to read the sutra, I think you have to wait until you are convinced of the Buddha's teachings, at the moment, you first selective search to see what you are interested in the relevant content, the video on the Dharma masters to talk about the sutra of a lot of. Here to emphasize is that, not that suffer from pain ah full of evil ah lust can not extricate themselves from the deep desire and so on can not practice Buddhism, on the contrary, these are exactly the people who need to practice (of course, still have to have the fate). The original heart is pure and clear, but also to practice what, and will not come to the world, to the world also do not touch the dust. On the other hand, if you ask an accomplished monk, why do you practice Buddhism, you tell me about Buddhism, perhaps it is the same as what the Diamond Sutra says: there is nothing in the world. I did nothing
Because of the merits of chanting the sutra, because the wheel of rebirth is not clear, cause and effect do not understand, troubles and what is wrong with starting to cultivate Buddhism? Just don't cultivate and cultivate and cultivate for all of that, wouldn't that be no growth. Chanting the sutras naturally has merit real and true, even if it's one word and one sentence. It's just that our limited enlightenment doesn't respond that quickly. Since it is a spiritual practice it is not something that can be done overnight, and the same is true for the change in oneself, slowly one will change until one is transformed. Please give yourself more opportunities and time. This is not for everyone; some people copy the sutras with immediate results. Is doing merit for the sake of doing merit worse than not doing merit for the sake of not doing merit Doing merit may be your self nature just short of purification Go for it