This passage that the Buddha said in the Vimala Sutra seems to have obvious meaning, but it is actually Esoteric Buddhism, and the secret is in it, and I will recite it again: "The Buddha's words: treasures, sentient beings, etc., are the land of the Bodhisattva Buddha." Therefore, the study of Buddhism is inseparable from sentient beings, and no sentient being can be abandoned.

"So what? Bodhisattvas take the land of Buddha according to the beings they incarnate. "Don't say that sentient beings don't incarnate as you do, it's that you can't even form the causes of enlightenment, because you're isolated from sentient beings. The karma of separation, even the karma of hatred. Evil words pierce sentient beings, and evil words hurt sentient beings, especially the four kinds of oral karma: evil mouth, double tongue, false speech, and gossip. There is also greed and infatuation in the heart, you say, how to get married? Of course, it will not bear fruit. Therefore, all bodhisattvas "subdue sentient beings and take the Buddha's land as they please", and the sentient beings in their hearts should be subdued even more, and the sentient beings are the thoughts in their hearts.

"Take the Buddha land according to the country where all sentient beings should enter the Buddha's wisdom, and take the Buddha land according to the country where all sentient beings should enter the Buddha and take the Bodhisattva root." This layer of truth is Mahayana Buddhism, which is not to talk about emptiness, but to say that there is, and it is "to take the land of the Buddha". Therefore, if you make a vow, you have to cling to your vows, and if you want to be not attached, it is to enlighten the Buddha's knowledge, to show that you can first be able to "delusional emptiness", and then get up and cultivate the side of "victory and righteousness", after all, there is, not empty. But this existence is wonderful, not the persistence of ordinary people. Without the power of true will, one cannot attain the true Buddha land. For example, if a person does learning, he must be really motivated, and work hard day and night to achieve success. Even if you don't practice calligraphy, if you don't practice calligraphy for decades, you will never become a calligrapher. Therefore, if you want to become a Buddha, you must make a vow, and it is a wish for altruism, otherwise it will not be fulfilled, so remember it.

"So what? Bodhisattvas are taken from the pure realm, all for the benefit of all sentient beings. For example, if someone wants to build a palace in an open space, he will not be hindered at will, but if he is in the void, he will not be able to do it. Bodhisattvas are like this, in order to achieve sentient beings, those who wish to take the Buddha country, and those who wish to take the Buddha country are not empty. This is the essence of Mahayana Buddhism. All Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are born for the sake of a major event, that is, for the benefit of all sentient beings, manifesting their freedom from their own life and death, which is the spirit of the Dharma. We study Buddhism for the sake of others, not for ourselves. Without this understanding, one is not a Buddha. Standard ordinary people are all planning for themselves and demanding for themselves, and they don't have the breath of a bodhisattva at all. For example, if a man wants to build a palace in an open field, it is possible. If there is no land, it is impossible to build a palace in the air. The first secret here is that if you don't have the root of your merits in your heart, you don't need to talk about the Dharma. I don't have any capital, I don't have a foundation, isn't it a big delusion to want to become a Buddha? Bai Juyi's poem:

How can the empty flower have to seek the fruit and the yang flame to find more fish

Perturbation is Zen, Zen is moving, not Zen, not moving, that is, as it is

That's it. So we need to examine ourselves, what is the foundation!

All the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas make a vow to achieve the pure realm of the Buddha land, not just talking about emptiness. Emptiness is just the convenience of moving forward! But if you can't first attain self-emptiness, you can't talk about spiritual practice. Therefore, it is necessary to first cultivate to the level of emptiness, and then to cultivate the subtlety of dependent origination. For example, there is a piece of land with a quadrillion-old house built on it, and there are poisonous snakes and beasts in the house, and there is feces, and all kinds of dirt. You have to clean it up first, or even tear it all down, and build a new house, that is, you have to empty it before you can achieve life. But to talk only about emptiness is to see on the side, stubbornly empty. Speaking of practical truths, we ordinary beings are initially empty thoughts, delusions of empty sixth consciousness, and karmic habits. Slowly influenced, only then did the seventh consciousness of self-grasping be emptied, and the person was empty and I was empty. Finally, since beginninglessness, the habits of the eighth arya consciousness have also been emptiness and purification, and emptiness and purity are two sides of the same coin.

Although the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas have attained emptiness and have cultivated into the land of existence, their minds are still unattainable, and they are still empty. So the Buddhist scriptures also call emptiness as ruru, which is wonderful, you say it's empty, it's not empty, you say it has, it doesn't exist. According to the minds of sentient beings, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas should know the amount and establish the realm of other Buddha lands, and that's it. Here the Buddha told us the highest points of Dharma practice.

"Treasure Stack! Be aware! The straight heart is the Bodhisattva's Pure Land, and when the Bodhisattva becomes a Buddha, he does not deceive sentient beings to be born in his country. "All bodhisattvas have a straight mind, but what is a straight mind? Is it straightforward? No, a straight heart is a heart without deceit. To study Buddhism, we must study the psychology of sentient beings, and the "Treatise on the Hundred Laws and Enlightened Doors" must be studied. All sentient beings have a distorted mind, and flattery means flattery. For example, we have a distorted heart when we wear clothes every day, we are afraid of being ugly, we shoot people's ass, and makeup is also to make others feel good-looking. You say that you don't wear makeup and don't wash your face, but you are still distorting yourself, and you will be yourself. Therefore, we have a distorted mind everywhere, and unless we have enlightened the Tao and have a clear mind, we will have a straight heart.

Straight heart is like the three words of the Kun hexagram in the Book of Changes, straight, square and big. The full name of the "Huayan Sutra" is "Dafang Guanghuayan Sutra", and the three words of Dafang Guang are straight heart, big heart, broad-minded, tolerant of all sentient beings, achievement of all sentient beings, not for themselves. The Buddha said that the straight heart is the Bodhisattva's Pure Land, and when the heart is truly pure, the purpose of cultivating precepts, meditation, and wisdom is to achieve the Pure Land of the Bodhisattva. Because a bodhisattva has achieved the pure land of mental consciousness by cultivating a straight mind in the ground, when every bodhisattva becomes a Buddha, he will not lie or misrepresent sentient beings to be born in his country. The Pure Land sect says that Amitabha Buddha wants all beings to return like a parent remembers his children, but ah! Children tend to go away from their parents and do not miss their parents. Parents miss their children unlimitedly, and the Buddhist scriptures teach us to recite the Buddha with the heart of parents remembering their children, so that there is no one who will not die.

"The deep heart is the Bodhisattva's Pure Land, and when the Bodhisattva becomes a Buddha, sentient beings with sufficient merit will be reborn in his country." The deep heart is the opposite of the shallow heart. If a poor man picks up thirty pieces of money on the road, he will be so happy that he will not be able to sleep that night. Rich people who have made dozens of dollars in a business may only smile and say that it is okay, which is a matter of heart. People who study Buddhism are very happy when they meditate with a little bit of realm, and they want to become a Buddha soon, and tomorrow they are afraid that the realm will fly away, which is a shallow heart. To do morning and evening homework, you should recite Ananda in the "Lengyan Sutra":

Deeply dedicate this to the dust

Yes, it is called repaying the grace of the Buddha

What is deep heart? The deep heart is the Bodhisattva's Pure Land, all merits, all good and solemn, there is nothing that is not cultivated, "do not do all evil, all good is pursued". Today I asked you to do a small thing, and immediately I thought why I was looking for me, why not someone else? How can merit be achieved in this way? What is "full merit"? It is the solemnity of all goodness. Everyone likes to talk about Zen, what frog dives into the water and plops, the lotus blossoms, it's really crazy. What is Zen? The patriarchs of Zen Buddhism said: "The actual reason is not a dust, and there is no way to give up a law in the ten thousand lines." "Can you fix it?