Chapter 829: Thirty-Seven Grades
All of you are listening to the Bible right now, do you know that the heart you are listening to the Bible now is yesterday, tomorrow, or now? Or is it the past, is it the future? Think about it.
Everyone here has a lot of experience, and your experience is the one that your mother brought with you when she gave birth to you? Or did you add many later? From the time you have memorized so much knowledge to now, and you have learned to be a vegetarian, worship Buddha, recite mantras, and make mudras, now you have the mind of these skills, and the mind when you first became sensible, is it one or two? Let's talk about it.
The Buddha also discerned that the Buddha asked how old the King of Persian was in the "Lengyan Sutra".
The king said, "Sixty-two." ”
The Buddha asked: ! How old were you to see the water of the Ganges? “
Wang said, "I remember when I was two years old, my mother took me to worship. ”
The Buddha said, "You are now sixty-two years old, from a child to a prime of life, and then to an old age, although your appearance has changed so much, and you don't care about your eyes, but when you look at the water of the Ganges, is it the same as when you were two years old?" ”
"Of course there is one," said the king. ”
The Buddha said, "There is no difference in the nature of seeing according to age, and the nature of seeing is always there." ”
So, now you can think and remember the mind, this thought, it has no time, no space! We must grasp this truth.
The same thing, different statements, Vimala asked Maitreya Bodhisattva, have you been remembered all your life? In other words, will you be remembered for the next life?
Is there really a past, a present, and a future?
The past, the present, the future, yesterday, today and tomorrow are divided by man because of the difference between day and night in the physical world.
You knew yesterday that you were hungry to eat, and today you know it, and tomorrow you know it.
Everyone now feels that they are alive, but in fact they are fake, and they are fake!
If there is a temporary existence by chance, even if you live to be 100 years old, these 100 years will pass with a snap of your fingers from the perspective of the universe.
We who have lived for dozens of years, and when we think back to our youth, it seems like it was yesterday.
We walk to a distant place, look forward and feel that there is still a long way to go, and when we walk past, we look back, it's very short, right?
Life is this truth, after decades, looking back, very fast, so young people look ahead, feel that the future is boundless, while the elderly look back and feel very short!
So we live, whether we look forward or backward, everything is empty, it is an accidental and temporary existence.
When Vimal speaks of "being alive" and "being destroyed", we should pay special attention to the fact that we live as if we were alive, where is the true self? If you never grasp it, then this life is all fake, not yours.
So is dead really dead? Nor is it so, because it is destroyed. If it is born, it is also like extinction, and if it goes, it is also like coming, so it is called such as coming, that is, self-nature.
This translation is wonderful, and it can also be said that it is like coming, and there is nowhere to come and nowhere to go.
Shakyamuni Buddha doesn't seem to be in this world now, is he gone? No, nowhere to go, everywhere is called Rulai.
Another clever translation is true, and there is no truth as true, as if it is true, and there is no falsehood.