Chapter 10 Can You Recite Prajna?

Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra

Many people know this scripture, and it is really popular all over the world. The number of words is not much, it is catchy, and all the practitioners can recite it, but they just don't understand what this sutra is talking about, and they can't understand it thoroughly. So today, I will talk about it concisely and concisely.

The Heart Sutra condenses the heart of the 600 volumes of the Great Prajna Sutra, the core of the Tripitaka Sutra, the root of the Dharma, the heart of all the Buddhas of the Ten Directions and the Three Worlds, and the profound principles of the two hundred and six crosses, telling you all the Dharma. If you talk about it in detail, the 21-day Buddha Seven will not be able to finish talking about this sutra alone.

This is the method of getting started with the contemplation of self-reliance, and the bodhisattva of contemplation of self-reflection is the bodhisattva of Avalokiteshvara, and what is the contemplation of self-contemplation? What is the contemplation of the mind, the reflection of vipassana, what is seen? The five aggregates are empty, the colors are empty, the receiving, thinking, acting, and knowing are all empty, and the dharmas are also empty, so the six roots and six dusts, the twelve karmas, the four noble truths, and the eighteen worlds are all empty. With wisdom, look back and look at it clearly, get rid of delusions, nirvana, and attain the bodhisattva realm.

The main hall is silent, the monks and laymen sit in the hall and listen to the master's teachings, this is the spring Buddha seven of Qingfeng Temple. In March, the monks and the monks who had traveled here sowed early rice, and after finishing the work of planting rice and sowing seeds in the fields and vegetable gardens, they began to prepare in a hurry for the Spring Festival.

Since the old abbot in the temple and a line of monks passed away, Buwu took over the mantle of a line, and did a line of old monks before his death designated the new abbot, he is the most proud disciple of the line, still in the swaddling clothes were abandoned outside the mountain gate of Qingfeng Temple, a line of personal raising, 3-year-old enlightenment, literacy, hard work, 7 years old, a line asked him if he would like to go down the mountain, someone in the Xu clan begged to adopt an adopted son, was rejected by Buwu, he said to be like the master, aiming to promote the Dharma and give birth, but also to repay the master for the grace of regenerating parents. So a group of old monks shaved the ferry and officially preached the Fa. When he was 20 years old, he was recommended by his teacher to study at the Southern Provincial Buddhist College, and after graduation, he traveled to the major jungles to read the scriptures and Tibetan scriptures. At that time, several senior brothers who did not realize were still worried that they did not realize that they had deep roots in wisdom and had entered the study of Buddhism, and they went to the major jungles to visit the good knowledge and opened their eyes outside, and they would never return to this small Qingfeng Temple, where the mountain is neither high nor deep. Unexpectedly, Buwu not only came back, but also brought the new trend of thought back to the temple, he took his brothers to build a reservoir on the mountain, divert water for irrigation, cultivate paddy fields, and be self-reliant, breaking the previous situation that the temple basically relied on a few Tanyue in the town under the mountain for support. At first, his flexibility was questioned, but as the water conservancy project was harvested with the first crop of rice, the brothers tasted the rice they had planted with their own hands, and they forgot the hard work, experienced the practice of labor, and were even more convinced of the unenlightenment. Later, more pilgrims came, and even from other provinces and foreign laymen, and the Qingfeng Temple, which was almost withered, began to burn incense again. Therefore, the generosity of the lay people are used to strengthen the wall, repair the Buddha statue, expand the dormitory, and help print the scriptures according to the wishes of the laymen. When the old monks were in the world, the temple had a total of 7 resident monks, and Zhibu became the abbot of Qingfeng Temple, and the temple had 17 long-term resident monks. Although the monks in the monastery had to plough, build civil works, prepare pujas, receive visitors, and practice on their own, not only did they have a lot of hard work, but none of them took leave to go down the mountain or go to another place. Presumably, it is also the cause of this great wish to promote the Dharma and to be born, and after getting good results, there are volunteers who go up the mountain to help all year round, and the lay people who have come here will bring their relatives and friends to come again, and relatives and friends will bring their relatives and friends to come again. Under the reform and innovation led by the unenlightened, the Qingfeng Temple has become a place of incense that is both immortal and spiritual, although the town under the mountain is scarce, and the unenlightened remember the entrustment of the line, and help the pious old Tanyue Chaodu in the town until the last one. But Qingfeng Temple is not sparse, and it is not completely decayed like the Three Pure Temple.

When it came time for the lay people to ask the Dharma Master to give a lecture, the lay person would copy all kinds of unsolvable questions on a slip of paper and hand them to the Master to teach. Buwu opened the note that passed him, and he read out the content of the note that needed to be explained: They all say that my Buddha is compassionate and cannot kill, and when planting rice and vegetables, will he commit the precept of killing?

Answer: Don't break the precepts, planting rice and vegetables is not for the sake of killing karma, the purpose of planting vegetables is to work and practice and be self-sufficient. To believe in Buddhism and learn Buddhism, you must not only recite sutras and mantras, but also practice, and work is also a kind of practice. Just as lay people need to work hard, self-sufficiency also requires creating value for society, and practice requires not only theory but also practice.

Buwu opened another note and read: Master, after the divorce, I found out that I was pregnant and I was unable to raise it, can I have surgery to get rid of it?

Answer: Killing karma is not allowed. When people come to the world of sava, there must be a cause. If you commit a murderous world, you will create a karma that you cannot afford.

The third note, the content: Master, please teach, how to forget someone who deceived you?

Answer: Is it love that covers your eyes? Or is deception covering your eyes? Let it go, and leave it to time first.

The fourth note, content: I lent a friend 100,000 yuan, my friend defaulted on the debt, and there was no IOU, what should I do?

Answer: Be yourself and keep your heart. Convinced of cause and effect, if you go to see if he is doing well in a few years, you can see that cause and effect are true.