"The Buddha speaks in one tone, and all beings can understand according to their own kind", the big problem here comes, according to the common understanding, the meaning of this verse is that the Buddha only uses one voice to speak, and all sentient beings, whether Indians, Chinese, even cows, horses, cats, dogs, etc., all understand, and they all think that the Buddha speaks his own language, which is the Buddha's magical powers. According to this understanding, the Buddha was preaching in India at that time, and China should have heard it, so why did he still translate the Buddhist scriptures? When the Buddha was alive, there were many local dialects in India, so don't you need to translate the Buddha's teachings? According to the Hinayana scriptures, many people decided to become a monk on the spot when they saw the Buddha. Isn't that suffering from hair loss? Self-falling means that those people have shaved their own hair and should not take a literal and rigid understanding of Buddhist scriptures.

In the same teacher's class, there are a thousand different understandings among the following thousand students. If the same sentence is spoken, some people will misunderstand. For example, the Buddha said: "If you look at life as a hundred years old, you don't understand the law of birth and destruction, it is better to be born for one day and get rid of it." Later, it was recited by some disciples as "Look at life at a hundred years old, and if you don't see the water and the old crane, it is better to be born for a day, and you can see it." This is the principle that "the Buddha speaks in one tone, and all living beings can understand according to their kinds." Also, although Shakyamuni Buddha has passed away, according to Buddhism, there are Buddhas in the three worlds of the Ten Directions, so there should also be Buddhas speaking the Dharma now, where is it? When a monk asked the Zen master, "The Buddha is saying the Dharma, all the mountains and rivers and the earth, all the ruthless, is he talking about the Dharma?" "Sentient beings are sentient beings, and ruthless beings are stones, trees, mountains, water, etc., because they have no intellectual feelings. Of course, there are also people who study biology who think that plants have feelings, but in fact reaction and feeling are two different things. The Zen master replied, "Of course ruthlessly," who heard? "Affectionate hearing." Historically, some Zen patriarchs have realized the Tao because of the wind and grass or the tiles touching the bamboo, which is ruthless. Why can't sentient beings hear? It's blocked by your own karma.

"It is said that the world-honored ones are the same, and the divine power is not the same law", which means that sentient beings, according to their own understanding, think that what the teacher said is what I mean, and this is the Buddha's divine power does not share the law.

"The Buddha speaks the Dharma in one tone, all living beings interpret according to their own interpretation, and the universal benefit is obtained, and the divine power is not the same law", there is only one voice in the Dharma of Buddhism, and the twelve parts of the Three Tibets have spoken so much, all of them are empty words, only one sentence, you understand the enlightenment, pay special attention to listening! Did you hear that? If you pay too much attention, you won't be able to hear it, and there is only this Fa, and when you understand this Fa, all the Fa will be understood. At that moment before you paid attention, the Buddha had already spoken. Therefore, the Buddha only speaks in one tone, and sentient beings interpret the Dharma according to their own level. Regardless of whether their explanation is right or wrong, there will be some benefit, and they will all get the benefits of the Dharma, which is the Buddha's divine power not the same Dharma.

"The Buddha speaks the Dharma in one tone, or there is fear or joy, or disgust or doubt, and the divine power is not the same as the Dharma", the Dharma has only one voice to say the Dharma, some people hear fear, and some people hear incomparable joy. When some people hear this, they get sick of centrifugation and hate everything in the world. If a person who is a beginner to Buddhism does not develop aversion to renunciation, he will not be able to learn Buddhism and will not be able to jump out of the Three Realms. There are also people who hear the Dharma and stop their doubts and give birth to true faith. This is the wisdom of the Buddha and the divine power of the Buddha.

This exclamation is repeated three times when it is mentioned that the Buddha spoke in one tone, and all sentient beings received so great benefits. From this, we understand that the Chinese Shu Bodhisattva in the Lengyan Sutra praised the Guanyin method and said, "This square is true and pure, and the pure is in the sound", and the real system of education in this world is the pure function of listening to the sound, that is, the ear root circle method. The method of listening to sounds with your ears is the easiest way to become enlightened. Why? For example, the eyes can only look ahead, and if something blocks the view, they can't see, so they use the root of the eye to cultivate, which is not complete. Counting the breath with the nose is not perfect. Among the five roots, only the ears are not restricted, and they can feel the sounds of the ten directions at the same time, and it is easy to complete the cultivation.

Guanyin Bodhisattva preached that we should "smell and smell our own nature, and become the supreme way", when cultivating this method, the ears do not listen outward, but turn back to listen to their own hearts and become Taoists, what do you listen to? Listen to your own thoughts, which are unspoken words, and speak which are thoughts that come out of sound. Of course, if someone meditates and hears someone else talking to him, that's the realm of demons. Sound is a phenomenon, and you have to listen to your pure mind before you don't speak, before your thoughts come. For example, if you chant the Buddha in your heart, you can also recite the Amitabha Buddha in the south, one word at a time, don't listen to the outside with your ears, turn around to listen to your own voice chanting the Buddha, and keep it away from each other, and listen to yourself to chant it yourself. The previous word has passed, and the next word has not yet come, so it is empty. If there are distracting thoughts, you will recite a sentence, and if there are no distracting thoughts, you will not recite them. This kind of reflection on hearing and hearing one's own nature is what Guanyin Bodhisattva said, "At the beginning of the hearing, enter the place of exile", slowly turn back to listen to one's own heart and recite the Buddha, slowly, slowly enter the flow of one's own Dharma, and the self-nature is pure. When he dies, he empties the voice and distracting thoughts of chanting the Buddha, and the purity appears before him, and he dies in his thoughts. This is the first step. "Silence is the second step, the voice of your thought is slowly becoming emptier, and silence is silence.

Don't think that there is any secret method of Buddhism, do you have to find a teacher to kowtow and initiate? The true empowerment is the empowerment of wisdom, and when you get wisdom and understand in your heart that it is a true empowerment, all the Buddhas of the Ten Directions and all sentient beings can be initiated. You hurry up and study this passage of the Lengyan Sutra. The Vimala Sutra says that the Buddha spoke in one tone, how can you hear it? That is, according to the pure mind of Guanyin Bodhisattva, you will reach that state, "the first in the hearing, into the place of exile", and then you will be truly pure. This is the Dharma, do you need to kowtow to pass it on to you?