#platform/youtube #channel/Master-YongHua #playlist/dharma-seeds  So when you recite, it's actually better that you don't understand the meaning. Why is that? Why is that it's better when you recite that you don't understand? Because the [[Recitation Dharma Door]] doesn't require you to understand. That's the whole point. You just recite. What is recitation? Recitation is simply thinking of one sound, one character after another, after another, after another. There's no need to understand **at all**. It's better you don't understand because when you understand—that understanding thought there—is not helpful. You don't need to understand anything. You simply follow one sound after another, after another—one after another. That's all you do. That's the [[Dharma of Recitation]]. You don't need to understand at all.