Lecture on the Amitabha Sutra 08 (summary )
Bodhicitta is so great, and the bodhicitta is so great. It wants to save all sentient beings, all sentient beings in all spaces, including the vastness and boundlessness.I want to save these sentient beings in the past, I want to save the present, and I want to save the future.Including time, the vastness and long-term, there is no boundary.With such a heart, you can feel the vast and endless Pure Land of Retribution.The country has a dependent retribution, and it is a long-term and immeasurable life span.The Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss is an extremely vast and endless Pure Land, infinite life, infinite life.Not only Buddha has infinite life, but anyone who is reborn in the Pure Land is infinite life, and there is no way to do this except bodhicitta.The importance of raising the Bodhicitta is that they will eventually become Buddhas, but they will first receive the retribution and be reborn in the Pure Land.The heart is vast and long-term, without any margins, because the fruit they get is also without margins.
Second, it’s natural to make a decision.Believe in and understand all dharmas like illusions and dreams."Diamond Sutra" All conditioned phenomena are like dreams, illusions, bubbles and shadows.Neither there is nor non-existence, neither there is nor non-existence, all four sentences are separated.It should be said that it is a sentence, not a sentence, neither having nor not having is a sentence, and there is and there is not a sentence.It is not just a sentence, neither having nor having anything, nor having nothing, it means being free from words and things. Without words and words, words and words cannot be said.Can't say it.Just like a little light spreading on TV, a point is scanned and added to the effect of light, so put it together and become an image.It seems like this, it becomes language.It’s just a point, and the image cannot be seen by one point. It must be synchronized before the image can be displayed.The same is true for words, and they cannot be expressed well by words.What is transmitted is only a point of the entire image, which is very one-sided.To be honest means incredible.To discuss, you can’t say it, you can’t say it.You will be wrong when you speak, and you will be wrong when you say it.Ancient Zen masters scolded him when they entered the door, and when they didn’t wait for you to speak, the stick would be knocked down.Worry is conceivable, incredible, indescribable, inconceivable, and unexpected.Why don’t you let everyone offer their own hearts? All you can think of is things in consciousness, things in the discriminating consciousness, and only this consciousness is eliminated.What is the situation of an enlightened person? It is because the delusion is interrupted. Everyone thinks that I have read many sutras, understood many sutras, and could also preach many sutras. That's how Buddhism is.That's far from that.These sutras are all road signs that guide the road. The road signs tell you to see the moon. Where is the moon? If you don’t see it, look at the map! Ah, this is Paris, this is Paris.This is Fayuan Temple in Beijing.You can say that this is Paris on the map. It is all about it. In thinking, your mind is constantly delusional, and you can think in your consciousness.You look at the map and the street signs, but you still have to look at it carefully. Otherwise, you have no way to recognize the way.
Those who practice the Perfect Teaching practice are twice as effective as ordinary people.People with the Perfect Teaching have the insights of the Perfect Teaching, and one day of practice is equivalent to one kalpa of ordinary people.To improve efficiency, this is the most effective way to improve efficiency.This is true.This can be proven by facts.Below is a quote from the great masters of Japan and North Korea, and they have made the Bodhicitta a good idea.The "Avatamsaka Sutra" is the Pure Land method. It talks about rebirth and practices the three blessings. We will not quote it extensively, but only the third paragraph to develop the Bodhicitta, deeply believe in cause and effect, read and recite the Mahayana, and encourage those who practice it.It is also said that if there are sentient beings who wish to be born in that country and develop three kinds of minds, even if they are reborn, what are the three? One is sincere, the two is deep, and the three are dedicated to making vows.Those who have three hearts will be born in that country.This is the words of the "Amitabha Sutra".Putting these three minds together is Bodhicitta.Sincerity is profound! Take all good deeds, dedicate and make vows, and save all sentient beings. This is from the "Avatamsaka Sutra".Similarly, in the "Amitabha Sutra", all three generations of rebirth must develop the Bodhicitta. In the "Amitabha Sutra", it also says that you must practice and develop the Bodhicitta.If you refer to Tantric Buddhism again, many people are thinking about learning Tantric Buddhism, but they are actually wrong.Tantra has very strange appearances, and some very strange magical instruments, and I think they must have secrets. If I want to obtain secrets and secret methods, I will achieve success very quickly. These are all evil views.The reason why Tantric Buddhism is extraordinary and that it can become a Buddha in this life is that Tantric Buddhism attaches great importance to the development of Bodhicitta.The following paragraphs are Tantra.Tantric Buddhism has achieved extraordinary results. It talks about becoming a Buddha in this body. Zen Buddhism says that being confused is sentient beings, enlightenment is Buddha, and referring to the mind is Buddha.This is the words of Monk Budai. It is the heart and the Buddha. If you realize the heart, you are the Buddha.It is not said that this body is Buddha.The body is also a Buddha. Tantra says that becoming a Buddha in this body is the body of the body, and its special point.Why? Just say it has a strange appearance, of course not.He said that Bodhicitta is very profound, and the key point is that the Bodhi mind is the foundation of becoming a Buddha.What is the fundamental reason for becoming a Buddha? It is the heart of Bodhi.This is the cause and condition of major events.The appearance of Buddha in the world is a great cause and condition, and there is nothing greater than this.
Pay attention to Bodhicitta, but do not pay attention to it, but you must truly develop it! "Bodhicitta Theory" This Bodhicitta can contain all the merits and dharmas of all Buddhas.This bodhicitta contains all the merits and dharmas of Buddhas, and they are all here.This importance shows that if you practice and appear, your practice will be achieved with certain enlightenment. If it is not the final Anuttara Samyaksambodhi, it will still have certain enlightenment, and the first fruit you achieve is also achieved.Zen enlightenment, breaking the original meditation is also enlightenment, breaking the important barrier... Some of them have achieved samadhi and attained a certain samadhi, which is also samadhi, which is also samadhi. This does not mean the final and thorough faith, understanding, practice and the final samadhi.When you appear between your cultivation and verification, if you can appear Bodhicitta, you will be all teachers.You are the mentor of all humans and heavenly beings, not those other things.Many people don’t understand that my little advantage and small benefits are so small, and I don’t know that this is so important.Returning to the original is the secret land. After the Bodhicitta is developed, it belongs to its origin and its origin. The origin is the secret land.The Land of Miyan is the Land of Tantric Buddhism, the Land of Vairocana Buddha, which can also be said to be the Pure Land.If you don’t get up from a seat, you can accomplish all Buddhist rituals.If you sit and practice the Dharma, you will have bodhicitta. Don’t get up, you have completed all the Buddhist rituals.There are two words here. The Bodhi theory is very high. When bodhi has been raised to this level, Bodhicitta appears as the teacher of everything.The mentor of human and heaven, and even the mentor of the nine realms of Dharma.Everything is a teacher to the Pratyekabuddha, to the Shravakas, and to the Bodhisattvas.Returning to the original state is a strict land, and it is also the Huazang Dharma Realm and the One True Dharma Realm.If you don’t get up from your seat, you will accomplish all Buddhist rituals.There are no more than three great kalpas, and all Buddhist rituals have been accomplished.Bodhicitta is such a special and important.He also praised Bodhicitta and said: If a person seeks Buddha's wisdom and understands Bodhicitta, he will quickly attain the great enlightenment of the body born to his parents.Seeking the wisdom of the Buddha and understanding the Bodhicitta, this is a little lower than that.To be able to understand the flesh and blood body born by parents, and quickly achieve great enlightenment in this life.Bodhicitta is so extraordinary.
We have also made great wishes, wisdom, compassion, and vows. Is it considered that we have also developed the Bodhicitta? For example, if the apricot tree core is buried, the apricot kernel will sprout.In the first step, there is a little green in the almonds, and then a green bud grows to come out of the almonds.The second step is to drill out of the soft skin.Step 3: Drill out of the hard skin.The fourth step is to grow out of the soil and grow to a seedling that is so tall that it is without the soil.We have to ask people, what is this? If you don’t know each other, what will grow? This is an apricot tree.If he is so tall, he calls him Xingshu.Just say that this is Bodhicitta, and one will attain enlightenment when one first develops the mind.What does it mean? It’s called Buddha.Before this, it was irrelevant if we didn't post.If it is really a little bit unfamiliar, it is like in the past, it is still in the core, in the soft skin, in the apricot kernel, but it is a little green inside the core, in short, it has changed.This is not an empty talk or a question of understanding, but a real act of inspiration from the heart and the Bodhicitta is generated.The word "Feng" that sprouts on a tree, and the word "Feng" that sprouts on a seed.So I mentioned the hair of the apricot kernel. This hair is the same as the hair of the Bodhicitta, and it does have a new look.
There is also the "Avatamsaka Sutra", which in turn means that forgetting the bodhicitta and practicing all good deeds is called demonic karma.This sentence is very profound. If you have forgotten the Bodhicitta and practiced many good deeds, you are doing things that are devils.From this sentence, many Buddhists do things that are demons, forgetting whether they are bodhicitta or demons.You have never sent any of them. You have built bridges and roads to repair the number of sentient beings, built temples, and shaped imagery. This is a famous devil.It’s not what I said, it’s what the Avatamsaka Sutra says.The "Avatamsaka Sutra" relies on the meaning of the meaning of the truth, not on the meaning of the truth.The "Avatamsaka Sutra" has nothing to say, it is the highest.This is the important thing. Most people just focus on small places and do some minor things, but they often cannot grasp the fundamentals and do not know what is essential.No matter what you cultivate, it is the root of the Bodhicitta.Zen and Tantric Buddhism, I just mentioned Tantric Buddhism, and this is even more so in Zen Buddhism, and everything is like this.
Let me explain it below.There were two different sayings in ancient times. One said to develop the Bodhicitta, and the others were auxiliary; the other said to recite the Buddha's name as the main saying, and the others were auxiliary.Master Yuanxiao and others regard the development of Bodhicitta as the correct cause and the reciting of Buddha's name as the help.The Shandao, Ganoderma lucidum and the Pure Land School in my country regard chanting the name as the right practice, and the aspiration as the help of practice.The two are inconsistent.Master Lianchi joined forces in "Shuchao" and took the meaning of the two families to join forces.Now, I have always focused on chanting the Bodhicitta as the sect of this sutra, and I have taken care of both sides.Always concentrate on one direction, always in one direction, always keep doing this, this is called always.Always focus on chanting Amitabha Buddha, and rely on chanting the Buddha's name with sincerity, and follow the method of chanting Buddha's name with sincerity.When practicing there, I always concentrate on my thoughts.According to the eighteen vows, ten recitations will surely give birth to this great vow. It is recommended that ten recitations can be regenerated. We do not have to wait until we are dead and recite ten recitations.Since we have understood this method, understood this importance, and understood the salvation of sentient beings, we must recite only this extraordinary and great righteousness! Based on this great vow that will be born in the ten thoughts, we must recite it. After we are old, we can only be guided by the Buddha when we die, and we will be blessed with compassion, and you will have the last ten thoughts.If you develop the Bodhicitta, you always recite the eight words in a row. If you achieve the Bodhicitta, you will be reborn in the Pure Land and will be completely enlightened and will not retreat.
In the sutra, the upper, middle and lower generations all develop the Bodhicitta and always concentrate on reciting it. Why? It is the cause of the fruit awakening, because this is chanting the Buddha's name. This name is the name of fruit awakening, and the name of fruit awakening is full of all merits.I am in the causal realm, and I chant the Buddha's name in the causal realm, and this Buddha's name becomes my heart.There is nothing else in my heart, only this Buddha's name, the Buddha's enlightenment becomes my original mind in the causal realm, which is very straightforward and ultimately convenient.Amitabha’s One Vehicle of Vow Sea is fully revealed here.The six-character magnificent name is incredible and powerful.How long does it take to concentrate on? It means that you will be able to recite ten times of your life, and at most you will always recite for the rest of your life.There are many such people. A few years ago, an old lady in Fujian, who was in her eighties, passed away by chanting Buddha's name and chanting tens of thousands a day.There are photos after her death, and "Pure Land Resources" published her photos.I always recite this all my life. One day she told her granddaughter-in-law, "Don't cook for me anymore." When I see the Buddha, I will be reborn."She stopped eating and chanted. Later, she saw the Buddha and came again. She still stood up and sat halfway, put on her clothes, and looked like she was reborn like this.If you have enough life to recite ten sentences in your life, you can recite ten sentences in this life.What does this constant concentration refer to? It means that you are focused on the concentration from the beginning to the last period of time.If it doesn’t work, you can be reborn by just ten recitings.In the "Avatamsaka Sutra", it is said that when he hears the teachings of a good teacher at the time of death, he repents and recites the Buddha's name and is reborn.The ten recitations will surely be reborn include these two types, including the ten recitations at the end of death and practicing the ten recitations in normal times. This is the most convenient way, and you can also recite the whole life of your life.There are two more. If you practice the ten-recitation method on your daily basis, you will have the opportunity to recite the ten-recitation at the end of your life. The key is that when you are about to die, you will start chanting one sentence and chanting ten sentences when you hear others' advice.Some people read for a long time but didn’t get any results.Seeing that people who practice qigong have this ability and that ability, they will do something else and feel different.In the past, if you recite too much, you wouldn’t always concentrate on chanting, and in the end you stopped chanting.There are also people who are in the end and are nostalgic for their sons and children. They can’t recite them anymore. This is not called always focusing on them.As long as you develop the Bodhicitta, you will always concentrate on reciting.
Everyone will doubt why chanting Buddha's name has such merit, because they can recite and recite.We are chanting the Buddha's name, and what we chant is the truth.The one I can recite is the reality, and the Buddha I recite is the reality, and the merits of this reality are boundless.According to the "Amitabha Essays" Immortal Light and Immortal Life.Amitabha Buddha is also called infinite light, and also called infinite life.Infinite light radiates across the ten directions, and there is no place in the void that cannot shine everywhere.Infinite life, the three periods of poverty are endless. The past, present, and future are the three periods of poverty that have never ended.The past is inexhaustible, and the future is inexhaustible.The infinite life is all run through, and it is intertwined horizontally and vertically.The horizontal and vertical intersect and perfect are the body of the Dharma Realm.The essence of the Dharma Realm is space and time.This body is used as the body of Amitabha, and the whole body of the Dharma Realm is used to form the body of Amitabha Buddha, and to form the Pure Land of Amitabha Buddha, that is, this body of Dharma Realm is used as the name of Amitabha Buddha.What is the name of Amitabha Buddha? It is the original rationality of sentient beings and the whole of the Dharma Realm.Names are the whole of the Dharma Realm.What is the nature of the Dharma Realm? The nature of the Dharma Realm is the rationality of the original awareness of sentient beings.The name of Amitabha Buddha is the original rationality of our sentient beings.Now chanting the name, this sentence Amitabha is our original rationality.We want to chant Amitabha Buddha. It is my original enlightenment. One thought is the beginning of enlightenment, which is called the beginning of enlightenment.What am I chanting? I chant Amitabha.Amitabha Buddha is our original rationality.My initial awareness is in line with the original awareness. The initial awareness and the ultimate enlightenment are both the same. The initial awareness is not two different things.In the non-dual Dharma, the initial enlightenment is Amitabha Buddha, and the original enlightenment is also Amitabha Buddha, so it is non-dual.Being born and Buddha is also neither two. When I chant the Buddha's name, my original nature is Amitabha Buddha, and my initial awakening is also Amitabha Buddha. Everything is not two.All beings are neither different from Buddha. Therefore, one thought corresponds to one thought, and one thought corresponds to one thought is Buddha. It is very straightforward and the Pure Land Sect also becomes a Buddha at the moment. If you don’t recite it, it will be no longer possible.If you are very distracted and suspicious, the worst is suspicion.Tantra says that those who doubt mantras will not be effective.All mantras are said to be extremely meritorious, and the people who recite now are not that effective.The sutra has long said that if you have doubts about mantras, do you have such great merits? That's it, and there will be no such great merits.When you recite the Buddha's name every time, you will be able to recite the Buddha's name in this way.
From the above we know that the name of Amitabha is the body of the Dharma Realm, and the merits of the name are incredible.In the entire Dharma Realm, the name is the original enlightenment of us sentient beings. When chanting Buddha’s name with one mind is the beginning enlightenment, and the Buddha you recite is our original enlightenment.When you first awaken, you will be in line with the original awakening. When you recite the Buddha's name every time, you will know that the merits of chanting the name are incredible.This is the merit of chanting Buddha's name in "The Essay on Amitabha".Let’s follow the words of Tantric Buddhism. In the Tantric Buddhism, the Japanese master of the East Miyagi Buddhism was born from the word Amitabha, and all mantras were born from the word Amitabha.A Dharani is born of all Buddhas, and A is born of all Buddhas.The word A is the word A mantra, the Buddha's heart of the ten directions, and the Dharma bodies of all Buddhas are blessed by the same, and the Dharma bodies of all Buddhas are blessed by the word A.It is also said that Vairocana is named as the secret treasure by the word A, and it is also said that the secret of Tantric Buddhism is the secret treasure by the word A.The word A is well-known to everyone. When I go to Japan, I chant Amitabha Buddha. Even though I don’t know that the word A is so special, I don’t understand it.He also talks about the three bodies, the Dharma body, reward body, and incarnation of the Buddha. He only talks about the word "A" and has said many Dharmas, and then he talks about the word "A" and "A".The word A represents the meaning of non-birth. The first meaning is that non-birth has infinite meaning. The sutras widely praise the merits of this method, and the Tantric scriptures all praise the merits of this word A method, which is well-known.After hearing the name A, the voice of the word A, the sins disappeared, and many sins were eliminated.When singing, you can see the word, and recite it as singing. When you see the word, you can see the word. If you are proficient, you can see this word.At the beginning of liberation, I was in the method of chanting Buddha's name. When I was chanting Buddha's name for seven days, I saw the word "A" from the third day. All virtues gathered. I can only believe in it. As long as I am willing to believe in it and go to the Pure Land.If you deeply cultivate perfect wisdom, you can also deeply cultivate perfect wisdom. Now you will become a Buddha. This is all the merits of the word A. Tantra.So Master Xingjiao said this.Reciting Buddha's name is very special because there is the word A in the Buddha's name.Amitabha Buddha, the merits of the word A are like this, and Amitabha and Buddha are also added. Of course, you can know the merits.This Buddhist name is easy to start. No matter who you are smart or stupid, busy or idle, you can do it.If a name summons all virtues, the name contains all virtues.If you pronounce this name, all virtues will gather in your heart.The wonderful feeling is rare, and this kind of inspiration is incredible.
From the thoughts that have skill and skill to the thoughts, you originally thought, but after thinking about them, you will be free from all delusions in your mind. If you have thoughts and achieve no thoughts, the ordinary mind will suddenly show the virtue of the fruit, and the extraordinary virtue of the fruit will suddenly appear from your ordinary mind.I wrote these two sentences. Later, I read two sentences in "The Interpretation of Amitabha". I put them together and said to me.Taking "Essential Explanation" as your teacher, the statements are similar.And the "Essentials" just match it, and it is engaged in perseverance and rationalization.In fact, chanting Amitabha Buddha and mantras is the same.When chanting mantras to achieve rational rituals, you cannot do it at once. Start by practicing, you will become a Buddha's mind from the ordinary mind. Just your ordinary mind will become a Buddha's mind.From the thoughts of me to the thoughts of no thoughts, the virtues of the ordinary mind suddenly appear. This is the master of Master Chengyi, and it is passed down from generation to generation.What is the merit of reciting the Buddha's name in Master Lianchi's "Amitabha Sutra"? It is the same as the saints, and it is the same as the words of the three and the thoughts.All the great saints, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, Mahasthamaprapta Bodhisattva, Manjushri Bodhisattva, and Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, were equal to them.A few words are just a name, which is equal to these great Bodhisattvas, and they are in line with each other, and they are suddenly in the Dharma.Many people say that we can only practice Hinayana and the first fruit first, come little by little, and then go back to the small and towards the big.We need to compare with this, from here to here, one likes to walk like this, and the other likes to walk like that, this method goes directly, crossing three thoughts into one thought, and crossing three great kalpas in one thought.So it is a sudden method.The "Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana" is small, beginning, end, sudden and round.The "Awakening of Faith in the Mahayana" is the final teaching, and it still adheres to the three great kalpas of Asankhya, and it is not the case when it reaches the perfect teaching.You can become a Buddha in one thought and instantly.Extremely round, extremely sudden, simple and easy.The Circular and Dun Sect are extremely round and extreme.In simple terms, it is simple and simple.Is there anything simpler than this? I think there are more six characters, so I can recite the four characters and Amitabha Buddha.The development of Bodhicitta has always been dedicated to chanting, which is not only the outline of this sutra, but also the reference to a great Tibetan Buddhism.This is an introduction to the sect and the sect of the sect.The same is true for us to study other classics.
What is the interest? The four lands are born in the four lands, and the realization of the unretreatment is the land of common people and saints, the land of convenience and surplus, the land of real reward and majestic adornment, and the land of everlasting light.The land of common people and sages living together, we are also the land of common people and sages living together, and the Pure Land is also the land of common people and sages living together.We are the filthy land where ordinary people live together, and the Pure Land is the Pure Land where ordinary people live together.Our common people and saints live together, and the common people and saints live together in the Pure Land. For example, we are also a common people and saints live together. Where are our saints? Manjushri is still picking up and dropping off in Mount Wutai, but you don’t know him.He is in Mount Wutai, and there are many Arhats, both in Tianmu Mountain and Yandang Mountain, all on our earth, in China! Living together.But living together is different. The "Essence of Interpretation" says that the first, second and third fruits of Hinayana continue to wait in this world until the Arhats are finally attained, and there are also Bodhisattvas who are entitled to show themselves to this place, such as Manjushri Bodhisattva, who are shown in this place, which we can sometimes encounter.Then wait until the real saint (Refers to the first fruit of Hinayana, the second fruit, and the third fruit )When he has passed away, he will be no longer in the world. The saint has become the fate of saving sentient beings, so we will not be able to meet Manjushri in Mount Wutai.This cohabitation is different from cohabitation of such nature, with a huge difference in suffering and happiness. Moreover, the saints rise, sentient beings fall, and the suffering and happiness are also huge differences, which is very different, so it is temporarily the same, not ultimate! We live with the saints on this land, and it is temporarily unimportant.There are few people who see and hear from the world. It is said that the five hundred arhats of Yandang are there, but few people meet. So many people go to Mount Wutai, and very few people meet Manjushri Bodhisattva.A monk from Fujian met Manjushri before, and he really saw him. He was very sincere. Do you all know about this? It is true. Two people told me that one was Master Yuanche who could write poetry. He went to the south, and the other was Master Tongyuan, a nun. She lived in Mount Wutai at that time and knew about this.The monk took three steps and knocked to the near middle platform. He saw a small door with the Vajra Cave written on it.This name is a Buddhist place, so I ran in and saw that it was very big inside, with a hall, something... There were two kinds of people, one was a monk and the other was a lama.The lama was working hard, and he looked at the hall again. When he saw that the hall was very special, there was only one Buddha pedestal without a Buddha statue. Without a Buddha statue, there was no worship. He circled around the Buddha pedestal three times.Just as he was about to come out, a little monk called him: Oh, what kind of mage, don't leave.He thought why did anyone know my name here?I still recognize me and call my name.He said, "My master asked you to go in, so he followed him. When he saw an old man with long beards sitting on his head, he saluted him, saying it was not easy for you to come from the south, so he gave him a seat, let him sit next to him, greet him for tea, and talk.He said it was good and I wanted to place an order here.The old man shook his head, you still have to leave.He asked again, why are there no Buddha statues in the hall? The old man said, I don’t need it.These are all Zen meanings, so Manjushri does not have the Buddha's view.I don’t need it, I don’t have the Buddha’s view.Later, he talked about something else and he came out. He didn't think it was special, so he continued to worship.I prayed for you all the time, and I couldn’t worship you any more.There was a Tibetan man living there, like a traveler, who had a very familiar face, so he greeted him and said, "Live here and have a meal here."The two started talking.The monks from Fujian asked, how many monks are there in Mount Wutai? Together, all under Mount Wutai.He said, Oh, all the lamas and monks were added together, and there were two or three hundred people, and they would gather all of them together. It was very difficult for us to fight a thousand monks’ vegetarian food, and we couldn’t get all together.The Fujian monk said that was wrong. When I arrived at the Vajra Cave, there were hundreds of monks and monks in that one. Why did you say so little? The man living in Mount Wutai said: Where is this place? I have never heard of it before.I've been in.You said, look at our tour guide picture, Wutai Mountain tour guide, there is no one on this.I saw that there was no such place.The man said: You, you may have encountered Manjushri Bodhisattva.He cried as soon as he heard this and stopped eating. He said I would bow again.I bowed again and then went to that place, and waited for that door, but I couldn't find it.After he returned the next day, he passed by Master Yuanche's temple and told a fellow villager that his fellow villager told Master Yuanche to chase him quickly, and he had already gone down the mountain.The other person who entertained him was the one who kept him at home for dinner, and he told Master Tongyuan.When ordinary people live together, the saints are still there. Either there is no saint or they are hard to meet.
Last time I talked about the sect and interests of the "Amitabha Sutra", and I have introduced it.Last time I started talking about interest, and interest is born in the four lands, and it is a return to interest.What about the four lands, let’s first introduce these four lands.The land of common people and saints living together, and the original text mentioned in "The Essays" was introduced last time, adding an example, now it has been ten years. ***Before, a few years ago, there were all names and names in Fujian.He walked into the Vajra Cave in three steps and saw hundreds of lamas and monks sitting around there. He didn't know at the time, but later he met a Tibetan living there and said that there was no place. After waking him up, he realized it was Manjushri.He was moved and stopped eating at that time, and cried bitterly, and changed to bowing step by step. He walked to the place where he found the Vajra Cave and searched repeatedly, but couldn't find it.Manjushri's ten years ***The situation foreshadowed him.There is no lamp in front of the Buddha, and there is no monk in the temple.ten years ***Isn't that the case? Yes?This is a clear proof.
We are ordinary people living together, and the saints live together on our earth.Below we summarize the tips based on the "Essential Explanation" that our world is also living together with ordinary people and saints, and the Pure Land is also living together with ordinary people and saints. They all have ordinary people and saints. Where are the different places? They are all called cohabitation land, but they are very different.There are four points. First, the cohabitation in our world is temporary cohabitation. There are many Arhats and saints with the third fruit. When they attain Arhat, they will attain Nirvana and Nirvana, and then they will not belong to our world. Many Bodhisattvas who show great power are like fish Lan Guanyin, turning into a fish-selling woman in the basket. There is also a fish in the basket, and they become an ordinary woman. After everyone memorizes the scriptures, they will show that they are gone and die.There are many such things in Guanyin’s manifestation of Mahayana Bodhisattva, and this manifestation is proven.Later I met a monk and said, "You guys are stupid, that's Guanyin."If you don’t believe it, you will open the coffin and see it. The coffin is empty. I believe that Ma Lang’s bride is the incarnation of Guanyin.These are all manifestations of power. Once the manifestation is revealed, there will be no more. Temporary cohabitation is not the same for a long time.The cohabitation in Pure Land is accompanied by the best and great bodhisattvas, and they will be together in one place until they become Buddhas.It's different from the perspective of presentation, not temporary.Cohabitation in this world is temporary, and after time, you will no longer live in this world.
The second point is rare.Many people went to Mount Wutai. He met Manjushri from Fujian. So many people went to Mount Wutai. Very few people met.I wandered around the geese and the eyes of the sky, but I didn’t meet an Arhat.Therefore, it is very difficult to meet. Even if a saint lives in this land, it is not easy for you to see and hear or get close to it. However, in the Pure Land, it is true and as there is, it is different.Although they are all on this earth, you can't meet them.One is the same for the time being, and it cannot be encountered either.Manjushri is still going to pick up and drop off people from Mount Wutai, but you don’t know you even when you meet it, which is rare.
The third is rare.In our world, saints are as precious as a treasure, very few are, and they are not easy to encounter.There are many places for supplementary places in the Pure Land, and there are very many, which cannot be understood by arithmetic.These Ah-Bada-Zhi, the Bodhisattvas who replenish the Buddha's position in their lifetime are Bodhisattvas who replenish the Buddha's position. Once they appear, they will appear, and they will become Buddhas by giving up the Tushita, descend to the palace, giving up their family, and showing the eight aspects. This is called the replenishment of the Buddha in their lifetime.There are so many supplements in your life, and you can’t even calculate them. I don’t know how many billions and billions of billions and billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of billions of dollars.One hundred million can be known by arithmetic, but it can be known by non-arithmetic, but it can only be described as infinite and boundless kalpas.Not as few as here.
Fourth, what you do is different.Everything we do in our world is the things in the six realms, sinking into the six realms.It is troubles, greed, anger, ignorance, and entanglement.All the saints travel to the holy realm, and ordinary people revolve on the six realms and ascend to the end of the world. Although they are on the same earth and on this earth, their achievements are completely different.This is not the case in the Pure Land.What you do is the same, and they are all breaking ignorance.Forty-two levels, ignorance is broken little by little, and they all reach the wonderful enlightenment. They must achieve the right enlightenment, and they must also achieve the wonderful enlightenment and break the last part of ignorance.It is not the same for the time being, it is not easy, and it is extremely numerous, and what everyone does is to break ignorance and achieve enlightenment.
Although cohabitation is the difference between these four, the ordinary people in this land include the three evil paths.As for this, there is no name in the Pure Land, and there is no name in the evil path, let alone the real one.Those who have passed away will no longer enter the three evil realms, unlike the sentient beings here who are sinking into the six realms.Donkey, womb, horse, go around the evil realm, and the suffering realm is always there, and it will go around the evil realm, and it will take a long time to enter the evil realm.
Those who have made more progress should further study what is said in "The Essay on Amitabha", that we should know the causes and conditions of our great affairs and living together, and it is the most difficult to escape.The great cause and condition of our human beings is to eliminate the root of life and death and achieve enlightenment, but the level of cohabitation is the most difficult to understand.From here, we can get liberation, because the ordinary people in the cohabitation land must be eliminated without any left. Only when they have eliminated all their views, thoughts and confusions can they achieve the enlightenment of complete defilements.The six supernatural powers, the most valuable ones are the first five powers, demons and ghosts. They also have demons, they can also achieve flight, predict all kinds of things, have heavenly eyes, other hearts, and know fate, but they cannot obtain the power of exhaustion, they see and think.Now everyone is engaged in qigong. The first thing is to cultivate qi and cultivate oneself. This is the body view, and body view is the confusion of seeing.The beginning is the confusion.The first of our delusions is the view of the body, and what they do is the first view of the body.In the whole body, how can he eliminate the confusion of views and thoughts? The extremely meticulous greed, anger, ignorance and arrogance are gone. Only by eliminating the two confusions of views and thoughts can he obtain the complete enlightenment of all defilements, and only by truly being born and die.He truly has no self to this time and has realized that there is no self to others, an Arhat.