Chapter 796: Thirteen Grades (Part 3)
You may ask, don't some Zen masters teach people to be careless? The reason why you don't have to be mindful here is that you don't have to be delusional, you don't want to give up your mindfulness.
He said the first half of the sentence: You have to participate in the second half of the sentence! If you don't need any mind, then it's better to learn to die, so why bother to learn Zen?
Otherwise, learn to sleep! Therefore, true meditation requires that the mind is not disturbed, that the mind is collected, and that all delusional thoughts must be withdrawn.
Some people say, then I just take my mind back, and my body doesn't care, but that's completely wrong.
The four major thoughts of the body and mind, the body and mind together are one mind, the mind is not chaotic, the body is not chaotic, there is no need to talk about the qi veins, and the qi veins are naturally harmonized.
I often want you to pay attention to the fact that the Buddha statues before the Sui and Tang dynasties were right, and the sitting statues of the people who had to be determined were like this, with a thin waist and no stomach, especially the stomach did not protrude, let alone hunched over.
Really control the mind in one place, or chant the Buddha's one thought, at this time, the body is naturally single-minded, this is called the mind is not chaotic, and the preliminary determination.
The cause of this meditation is the Bodhisattva's Pure Land, which is preliminary. Then you can ask, can you become a Buddha without taking your mind?
Of course, don't take the heart, becoming a Buddha is a useless thing after the path, don't use your heart to keep the mind from being chaotic and naturally not chaotic, or be single-minded.
Therefore, meditation is the foundation of all Mahayana Buddhism, and it is said here that meditation is the Bodhisattva's Pure Land, and this is the truth, so that these sentient beings with concentration can be reborn in the Buddha kingdom in the future.
"Wisdom is the Bodhisattva's Pure Land, and when the Bodhisattva becomes a Buddha, he is determining all sentient beings to be born in their kingdom." Wisdom is Prajna, and the wisdom of Prajna is not wisdom, and people in the world are learned, and their minds are clever and thoughtful, not necessarily wisdom, but scattered.
True wisdom must be the correct concentration of all samadhi, starting from the undisturbed mind, to the point where there is no need to be disturbed, there is no indefiniteness, there is no time to be uncertain, there is bodhichitta in concentration, there is enlightenment, this is correct concentration, so wisdom is the pure land of bodhisattvas, because when all bodhisattvas become Buddhas, they rely on the concentration of wisdom and other holdings to be able to be reborn in the Buddha realm.
Cultivating wisdom is cultivating the Pure Land Method, and when a bodhisattva who cultivates this method becomes a Buddha himself, he will be reborn in his Buddha kingdom because of the power of wisdom.
The next life of the Buddha refers not only to the rebirth of sentient beings in the Buddha state, but also to the bodhisattva's own rebirth of the Buddha state, which is especially explained here.
"The four immeasurables are the Bodhisattva's Pure Land, and when the Bodhisattva becomes a Buddha, he achieves compassion and joy and gives up sentient beings to be born in his kingdom." The first step for those who study Buddhism is to talk about the four immeasurable minds, especially young students, who should pay special attention to cultivating this kind of mind, which is compassion and joy.
Those who are beginning to study Buddhism can't do everything, so they come one by one and cultivate compassion or compassion first. What's the difference between these two?
Compassion is a mixture of Chinese and Western cultures, which means love, love for all people, sentient beings, and all things. Compassion is masculine, like a father's love for his children.
Compassion is feminine and maternal, which is equal to the expansion of a mother's love for her children. Those who study Buddhism talk about compassion and true compassion are rare, and they are all self-centered.
When talking about this ideal with a few people who are all students of Buddhism, everyone agrees that only Catholic nuns are the most suitable.
People are doing more than us Buddhists in terms of kung fu, they have the spirit of service, and their organizational skills are better than ours, but those who study Buddhism only seek to be pure, and the spirit of altruism is not enough.