"Happiness meditation is not chaotic, happiness is clear and wisdom is free from dirt, and happiness is wide bodhicitta It is necessary to be diligent and gather good roots before you can truly attain meditation.

Some scriptures circle these two sentences into upper and lower sentences, which is equal to one positive and one negative.

So why can't we reach the state of meditation when we meditate?

Because the roots of goodness are not deep.

If the foundation is not deep, you can't grow, so sometimes you meditate and do good work, sometimes bad, and take three steps back.

Sometimes it takes a few days to get a treasure, and the poor get the treasure and "shake" up, but the poor shake up and go to a mental hospital, because the roots of goodness are not deep!

Only after diligently gathering good roots can we truly attain the joy of meditation and never scatter.

What is meditation in fact?

To do good is to meditate.

When meditation is reached, it is necessary to think about doing good.

So it depends on whether you really have the concentration, just look at whether you have done good deeds, not how long you can cross your legs.

But cross-legged is also required, this is the basic kung fu of practice and practice.

It's really decided, cross-legged, leg-free, walking, sleeping, all of them are in the center, which can only be done if the roots are good.

With meditation, "happiness and wisdom from dirt" can initiate wisdom.

What is wisdom? It is to be free from all mental pollution, and the contamination of the mind is gone, and the heart is clear.

This clarity is not a theory, it is a kung fu, and the inside and outside are bright and pure.

At this time, the true wisdom was launched without thinking about it, without reluctance.

What do you do when you have wisdom? Enlightenment and attainment of bodhi, so "happiness and bodhicitta are wide".

Bodhi is the translated name, which means enlightenment, that is, Anuttara Sam Wai Sambodhi, and in Chinese it means supreme enlightenment, great enlightenment.

Why add the word "wide" here? It means that it is not our ordinary realm of small wisdom and cleverness.

Therefore, what I am talking about this time is to study the Theory of Enlightenment, which is to develop and broaden people's wisdom.

When we really understand bodhichitta we know that its body is the dependent arising of sexual emptiness and is used by great compassion.

If you really have bodhichitta, you must have great compassion.

"Joy to subdue the demons, joy to stop all troubles." What is Demon? It's not that you see a ghost at night, but your troubles are demons, and all sentient beings have troubles in their hearts.

I often say that Buddhism is superior to all learning, for example, the two words "trouble" used in Buddhism, or translated as trouble, there is no time every day when everyone is not troubled, annoyance is annoying.

Afflictions are not pain, but suffering is severe.

There is no one who is not troubled, the Vimala Sutra says that "the troubles are Bodhi", see if you can turn the troubles around, and when the troubles are turned, you will be pure, you will be enlightened, and you will be clear and wise.

Afflictions are dirt and dirt, and all the mentalities that arise from the mind are polluted minds.

There are many kinds of demons, and there are many kinds of afflictions, so the Buddha said, "There are 84,000 afflictions in one thought."

You can realize that when you are writing with a pen, you observe (and this requires concentration), our thoughts come quickly, the pen can't keep up, the thoughts are fast, and we slip through when we can't grasp them.

There's no way you want to keep track of how many thoughts you have in a moment, especially for quick-thinking people.

You may not know that when I write, I have to put three pens there, and I can't find a pen again when I write fast, and I don't bother to move after it's over.

You will find that if you don't write quickly, your best ideas will slip away, and you can't get the past.

What does this tell you? Don't listen to the excitement, it's a thought that tells you to check yourself.

You walk down from here, and it won't take long to get there, but how much have you thought about in the process of descending?

You see people sitting there watching, you think they're watching the scenery, but they're actually having troubles, they're thinking about something else, and their minds are all scattered, and they can't meditate.

A lot of young people can't read books at all, and you've all had that experience.

If you read every word and sentence of each book, and there are no other thoughts in between, then it is called reading.

If you can be single-minded in this way, you can also be single-minded in your practice.

But you can't do it, it's just looking at one side, and your thoughts are beating there, and that's called trouble.

So you can't do meditation, you can't do wisdom.

You must experience it in this place, otherwise you are meditating in a drowsy, what is Hai Mu Ding? Hai is a pig, pay attention!

"The Land of the Pure Buddha." When the afflictions are pure, the troubles will not arise in a single thought, which is called the absence of life and forbearance, and the mind is clear and pure from the polluted mind, and this mind is the pure land, and the pure land is the land of the Buddha.

The Vimala Sutra says that "when the heart is pure, the Buddha land is pure", and once the heart is pure, the realm of the Buddha land will be pure.

Taoist Zhang Ziyang said:

Do not move a step to the west and sit in the west in the present

There is light behind the top, and it is still a phantom cloud, and the feet are not immortals

You don't need to die, you have already been born, don't go, you are born naturally, you don't live, you go naturally.

The West is in your heart.

Even if you meditate until your whole body glows, you are still in the realm of illusions.

It is not unusual for your body to float up and stand on a white cloud, or in the realm of demons, it is still born from delusional minds.

In other words, your heart is not yet pure, it is still in your mind.

If you don't have any troubles, you will turn to Bodhi, and you will reach the land of the Pure Buddha.

"Happiness accomplishes good things, and cultivates merits." This is the path of cultivating the Mahayana path and learning Buddhism, why should we cultivate all merits and all merits?

If we take Hinayana vows or bhikshu bhikshuni vows, we are taking negative practices and not positive ones.

Mahayana bodhisattvas take the vows not only to be negative but also to actively cultivate merits.

Therefore, the cultivation of merit is very positive, and the cultivation of all merits is the only way to achieve all the Dharma.