Vimala asked Maitreya, "Do you use your past life, your future life, or your present life to receive Buddha receiving?"

If you say a past life, the past life has already passed; If it is a future life, the future life has not yet come; If you are born now, you will not be able to grasp it now.

Because, as the Buddha said to some bhikshus, there are several stages of life: birth, old age, and death. Disease is not counted here, disease is a process of aging, people will age once they have a cold, they will age once they have a stomachache, they will age once they laugh or cry, they will also age once, these are all diseases.

The four great virtues of life are actually all diseases, and this disease is counted in the elderly.

Joy, anger, sorrow, and joy are all diseases, and they are heart diseases.

Physical pain is a physical illness that will cause you to grow old and eventually die.

Where are birth, old age, sickness and death? Note! At this moment, the "Zhuangzi" talks about "life and death".

When I was born at the moment when I began to die, I have died when I was born, I am not the one who grew up, I am not the one I was yesterday, I am not the one I was last year, I have changed a long time ago.

Modern medicine says that the cells in a person's body are constantly dying of old age and giving birth to new ones, and metabolism is a cycle every twelve years, and the cells of the whole body are replaced.

What we ourselves feel as if we were alive is actually like death. Everything is like a dream.

Master Seng Zhao's "Theory of the Non-Migration of Things" said: "Hui also sees the new, and the arm is not the same", which is a quote from the truth that Confucius told Yan Hui in the "Zhuangzi".

The two of them passed each other, and in just a moment, both of them changed, you are no longer the you just now, and I am not the me just now, everything is in the process of life and death.

Therefore, there is only one time to live and grow old, and the Buddhist scriptures do not remember the time, only for a while, there is no past, there is no future.

The past has passed, the future has not yet come, and it is impossible to get it; The current is said to be in the past, and it is not available.

As the Buddha said, bhikkhus! Thou shalt be born and old and perish. If you receive a reporter with no birth, then you are in the right position, and in the right position, you will not be remembered, and you will not be able to attain the three bodhisattvas.

The Buddha once said to the bhikkhus, "Your birth, old age, and death are all in this thought, this moment, and there is no past, present, or future."

If you understand this, if you understand this, you will be called enlightenment.

Therefore, Zen Buddhism is not to understand the truth, but to achieve that realm, to have no way to endure life, to be born without being born, to perish without extinguishing, now is, where can I find it? What is it now? Now it's a thought that turns into emptiness, and you don't want to empty it, but you create an emptiness, which is the sixth consciousness realm.

It's it that comes to empty you, you can't stay if you want to, you can't stay in the past, the future hasn't come yet, once you change the present, you can't stay in the present.

So the emptiness, don't let you empty it, the original empty yours.

If you understand this, you can get the method of non-life, and only when you understand the method of non-life can you really get the instructions of the Buddha and Bodhisattva.

The non-life method is the right position to truly study the Buddha, and if you don't have the lifeless method, all your practice will not be in the right position.

Therefore, when a bodhisattva is in the right position, he does not care about being remembered, nor does he care what kind of enlightenment he has attained.

In the morning, I talked about the method of hiding secrets, and I pressed all the Buddha statues underneath, what is the reason?

It is the expression of the law, which breaks people's attachment to the law, not only has no self-attachment, but also has no attachment; There is a Buddha, there is a Dharma, and you are not truly liberated.

If you have truly attained the three bodhisattvas of the Anuttara and attained the supreme enlightenment of great enlightenment, you do not feel that you are enlightened.

I feel that I have been enlightened, and he already has the appearance of me, people, sentient beings, and longevity. Because without self, there is nothing to gain.

After speaking of this, the Vimala monk then asked Maitreya: "You are said to have received the inscription of Shakyamuni Buddha, what do you use to receive the inscription?"

This is a really nitpicky question! It's inexplicable, it's so simple! The Buddha clearly told him that he would be in the next life, but he wanted to ask what he remembered in his life? It seems easy for everyone to read the text, but do you think about it, it is easy to understand? Not easy! Let's not talk about the things of the past life and the next life, it's too troublesome.