Chapter 834: Forty-two Grades
"Shun is Bodhi, and Shun is the same." Go along the way, and go in naturally, and everything is the same everywhere and all the time. As I just said, where can't you meditate and settle down? If you don't move, everything will be like that.
"Dwelling is Bodhi, dwelling in the Dharma." The present moment is to live, to let go of it, to cut off the thought, is Bodhi, the nature of emptiness, you don't want to empty it, it comes to empty you.
"To Bodhi, to the practical." "To" is to arrive, "actual" is the ontology, and Buddhism is called actual. Where is the ontology? As soon as I thought of it, is there another individual in the ontology? Right here for you, the moment is the reality.
"The second is Bodhi, and the reason for departing from the law." We generally think of the Dharma as the Dharma of birth, which is different from the Dharma of the world, but it is actually the same.
Two is one. You think that only by cultivating the Tao will there be the Tao, and if you don't cultivate, there will be no Tao, that's two. Since the Tao is immortal and imperishable, you can cultivate it, and if you don't cultivate, there will be differences, and whether you cultivate or not will be the difference in your consciousness and thoughts. So you can leave the law of consciousness, which is the only way, and there is the Tao everywhere.
"Wait for Bodhi, wait for the void." You can understand that everything is equal, and that your own nature is equal to the void, and it is not that you cultivate to the void, and the void is fixed and empty, so it is equal.
"Doing nothing is Bodhi, and there is no birth, dwelling and dying." All the Dharma is originally non-action, and there is no birth, no dwelling, and no extinction, so you don't have to look for a concept of "birth, dwelling, and destruction."
"Knowing is Bodhi, and all sentient beings are doing their deeds." Now that I am speaking, you have heard and understood, and this knowledge is the Tao and Bodhi. The so-called knowing, as soon as you know, you know the hearts and minds of sentient beings. Our psychological behavior, right and wrong, good and evil, are all known or not.
Lao Tzu also said, "Those who know others are wise, and those who know themselves are clear." Being able to know people and understand others is a bit of wisdom, but it is not an understanding person, and being able to know oneself is really a person who understands.
The world understands that people are hard to find, and they don't know it, but they see others very clearly. The most pitiful thing is that everyone is miserable and always feels great.
"It won't be Bodhi, and all will not be so." If you really don't know anything, you're almost Bodhi, and the world is too good at it. It will be close, all into it is six, all into it will not close, like the eyes to see the outside world, see but not see is not, the ears listen to the sound, listen to the sound is not, that is the departure.
"Disagreement is Bodhi, and it is away from troubles." "Together" is different from "will", and disagreement is not sticky. For example, if we see a person and get angry, then you will meet again. When you see people like dreams and don't cooperate, you have a sense of detachment and liberation. Not sticking to all dharmas is bodhi, free from all disturbing habits.
If you don't have a mind for the object, you won't be able to do it, but how can you practice to the point of having no mind for the object?
Afflictions are not only pain, but when you see something happy, this happiness is trouble, and it is also a kind of trouble when you feel comfortable.
What disturbs you is called annoyance, and what perplexes you is called annoyance.
Everything in the world is trouble, and there is nothing that is not disturbed or confused, and sentient beings like to find troubles.
Some of us don't look for troubles, and we go home to read the Bible after work, right? Or ask for trouble! Like me, what books do you read, what scriptures do you read? Isn't it originally pure? You say I don't want all this, just study Buddhism, or worry!
Before you became a Buddha, you were all troubled and died, so you got rid of all your troubles and habits, and completely left, just like Bodhi.