Manjushri asked, "If there is fear of life and death, what should a bodhisattva rely on?" ”

This is a big problem.

Life is in fear, today is afraid of tomorrow, young are afraid of old, old are afraid of death.

The biggest question is the fear of death, where do you die?

Where does life come from?

Just now I said a Sichuan vernacular: "Persuading people to pay money is like cutting meat with a blunt knife."

Sichuan people have a lot of funny words, and they also have a local saying: "There is no big deal except death, and begging for food is home." ”

There is no major event in life except death, and when you are so poor that you go to beg for food, you are so poor that you are home, and there is no one who is poor anymore.

If you can't get food, that's the first sentence, it's death.

This sentence is bigger than the emperor's grandeur, is there anything else in life besides this?

Life and death are big issues, and all beings are terrible in life and death.

Especially when it comes to dying of breath, almost no one is willing to die.

It's true, I've seen too much.

Once an old friend called me from the hospital and asked me to go because he was about to leave.

I went, and he said, "In the past few years, I have been influenced by you, and I have a light view of life and death, but there are still hundreds of thousands of dollars left, and I want to help him decide whether to bury or cremate." ”

I was furious when I heard this, but I endured it and told him, you have studied Buddhism for decades, and you have written many books and articles, as if you have enlightened the Tao, why are you still so incomprehensible at this time?

The Buddha said that one fire can burn three lifetimes, and if you die, you have to put a coffin and transport it back to your hometown for burial, why don't you use this money to do something good? Cremation, of course!

He nodded reluctantly, but later offered to be buried and used up all the money he had left.

Alas! I have seen a lot of this kind of thing, and the Chinese have an old saying: "A good death is better than an evil life", and the happiest death is not willing to do it.

I often go to see my dying friends, when people are about to die, the smell is terrible, there is a corpse smell, every time I go, I am prepared to get sick.

Here Manjushri asks how life and death are going, and where the student of Buddhism will go after death.

This question should be discussed in detail for at least several hours.

When a person who has truly attained the Tao has an empty mind, it is easy for him to see his mind when he dies, and the bardo body is the easiest to attain enlightenment.

People who study Buddhism often like to say that if they fix it, they will not use it.

I asked, "Where are you going?" Have you ever gone to Western Elysium? Whether you can go or not is still a question. If you can recite the Buddha until your mind is not disturbed, then there is still hope, otherwise it will be difficult to speak. ”

For those who don't recite the Buddha, if you don't come when you die, where did you go? Therefore, I asked you to cultivate the view of white bones, to contemplate emptiness, and when you have attained it, as soon as you leave your body, you will immediately recognize it as soon as you are ethereal, and you will freeze it.

If you don't come here for thousands or hundreds of years, it's very comfortable to stay here, that's okay.

It wouldn't work without that.

However, Mahayana bodhisattvas do not live in such an ethereal realm.

Now the fundamental topic comes.

Vimala said: Bodhisattvas in fear of life and death should rely on the power of merit.

This is Tantra.

Judging from the superficial text, it means that the bodhisattva is in life and death, relying on the meritorious power of the Buddha to lead.

Of course, the Buddha will guide you, but if you don't usually burn incense, it's useless to rely on the Buddha's feet temporarily.

In case Rulai happens to catch a cold and can't pick you up, where are you going?

What is Nyorai? That's where the annotation comes in.

Those of you who have recited the Diamond Sutra represent the self-nature of all sentient beings and all Buddhas, "where nothing comes from and where nothing goes, hence the name."

If it does not come or go, it does not increase or decrease, it does not live or die, if it does not move, it is now, it is the realm of coming and coming.

If you don't have merit, you can't do it, if you don't move, you can't be empty.

Therefore, life and death should come according to one's own nature, not by Shakyamuni Buddha and Amitabha Buddha.

On the one hand, this Buddha represents the name of the Buddha, and all people who become Buddhas are Buddhas, and on the other hand, they represent their own nature.