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Buddhist story: Talking about the Buddha's Zen enlightenment of life: Deformed greed

Deformed greed

People often say that without desire, one will be strong. Once a person has greed, he will fall into a terrible state.Zen Buddhism is like a mirror that allows everyone to see their own hearts and abandon their own bad thoughts.

There is a ancestor named Jinbifeng who has achieved the right result and has reached the state of selflessness.One day, the emperor knew his magic and hired him as his national teacher and specially gave him an exquisite and luxurious golden bowl made of gold.When you see this golden bowl, you can't help but feel the same as an ordinary person when you see this golden bowl, and sometimes you can't help but think of this golden bowl even in meditation.

When Zen Master Jinbifeng's life is about to end, the two ghosts of black and white impermanence are coming to capture him, but every time they come to capture him, Jinbifeng is immersed in meditation. At this time, his body and mind are gone, so every time the two ghosts return without success.Later, the two ghosts heard that Jin Bifeng was greedy for the golden bowl, and often thought of this golden bowl when they were meditating.At that time, if he had this idea, his body would appear.So, the two ghosts of Hei and White came to Zen Master Jinbifeng’s residence and waited for the opportunity to capture him and brought him to justice.

On this day, Jinbifeng entered meditation again, and the two ghosts of black and white still had nowhere to start, so they had to wait aside.Jin Bifeng, who was in meditation, suddenly remembered the golden bowl again, and his figure appeared for a moment. The two ghosts immediately stepped forward to capture it. Jin Bifeng immediately stopped his heart as soon as he was alert, and there was no trace again.

With the lesson of almost losing his life this time, Zen Master Jinbifeng completely destroyed the golden bowl given by the emperor.From then on, Zen Master Jinbifeng truly reached the state of no worries, and the two ghosts of black and white were helpless to him.

If you have no desires, you will be strong!Our shortcomings are caused by ourselves. If we can remind ourselves all the time, we can constantly improve ourselves and will not leave any excuses for others.

A believer said to Zen Master Moxian: My wife is greedy and stingy. Can you teach my wife to let her do some good deeds?

Moxian agreed very compassionately.

When Moxian arrived at the believer's home, the believer's wife came out to greet her.But I can't bear to bring a cup of tea to offer it.So the Zen master clenched a fist and said: Madam, look at my hand, it’s like this every day, what do you think?

If your hands look like this every day, it is a problem and deformity!The lady replied.

This is a deformity!Zen Master Moxian stretched his hand into one palm and asked, What if it was like this every day?

This is also a deformity!The lady replied.

lady!Yes, these are all deformities!Zen Master Moxian immediately replied that money only knows how to get greedy and don’t know how to give, which is a deformity.Only knowing how to spend money, not savings, is also a deformity.Money must be circulated, it must be able to enter and exit, and it must be within one's means of living within one's means.

Finally, this lady understood the way of being a person and doing things and using money!

Money is an external object, so why should we value money so much?Our short life is often wasted on these money that is not very useful.

A person who sells tofu sends tofu to the temple every day and becomes a regular customer of the temple.One day, he brought tofu as usual and saw that the masters in the temple were meditating with concentration.The tofu seller thought to himself: I'm busy selling tofu all day, and I really envy them for having time to sit down and meditate.It was still early today, so I learned to learn from them and sat here for a while.

When he made a request for meditation, Zen Master Rujing happily agreed: OK, come and meditate with us!

The tofu seller entered the meditation hall with joy. He had no distractions and meditated wholeheartedly.After a while, he cheered as if he had a treasure: I really didn’t expect that meditation has such magical effects!

The Zen master asked: What did you think of, you are so happy!

The tofu seller said: I finally remembered that my neighbor Zhang San owed me half a pound of tofu money five years ago!

Now you know the effect of meditation, right?You don’t have to burn incense, worship, recite the Buddha’s name, practice repentance, or read the sutras, just meditate.Zen Master Jing said that meditation is not meditation, nor is it stupidity, sit quietly on your own Dharma seat, and you can see your inner world.

Zen Master Rujing continued: As long as we are willing to work hard and wait until our hearts are calm, a bright moon will naturally emerge. The chaotic thoughts will subside, and the spirituality of the clear mind will naturally appear.The ultimate goal of meditation is to achieve the loss of body and mind, and to remove all our false minds from all kinds of false minds.People who sit in meditation focus their lives in meditation, with the purpose of hoping to eliminate the turbulent body and mind and false world, and flow the pure heart into infinite time and space in eternal and infinite meditation, so as to achieve the state of no confusion or complete liberation.

Wood eats herbs and wears herbs like the moon,

There is no thought in life and no end;

If people at that time ask where they live,

Green waters and green mountains are my home.

Zen Master Tang Longya

2024-02-05 18:02
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