Chapter 859: Sixty-Eight Grades
We all claim to be Buddhist students here, do we have the idea of benefiting sentient beings? Theoretically.
I'm also human, and I know that people do good deeds and think, ah! Today I walked the Bodhisattva path and helped people.
Let me tell you, the more you read the Dharma, the more you listen to the Dharma, and the more you understand the Dharma, the more you will be concerned, and you will not be able to clean it up.
It is the same at home and abroad, the more knowledgeable a person is, the worse is worse than a foolish man and a foolish woman, because with knowledge, he is also more calculating, and it is easy to quarrel with each other, thinking that only mine is right.
Without the help of knowledge, people's distinction between right and wrong, good and evil is very dull.
Therefore, sometimes without the wisdom and vision of a bodhisattva, the more knowledge and learning, the faster you degenerate. This is the difficulty of talking about happiness and benefiting sentient beings, and it is also a precept.
"Respect the teacher, be happy to do charity." It's hard to be willing to respectfully support your teacher.
The Tao of Confucius and Mencius in China emphasizes respecting teachers, but society does not do enough to respect teachers and respect the way.
Now there are still some scholars in the Central Plains who want to preserve the culture of the past and ask others to respect their teachers, which is really a joke. Why? The education system has become a school system, not from the individual to learn from the teacher, but like the business behavior of going to the bazaar, the teacher is selling knowledge in class, and the student is buying knowledge.
There are two points to note: First, the true spirit of respecting teachers and respecting the way lies in respecting knowledge and learning itself.
Therefore, in Buddhism, the teacher who teaches the Dharma is regarded as the Dharmakaya parent, giving people a life span of wisdom and wisdom. The life span of the physical body given by the physical parents is only a few decades, but the wisdom life is eternal and immortal.
For example, Manjushri is the teacher of the Seven Buddhas, and even Shakyamuni Buddha is his student, and he has already become a Buddha.
Because students want to come to this world to become Buddhas, they should come to help, and they should become bodhisattvas in front of Shakyamuni Buddha, which is the principle of Dharmakaya parents.
Therefore, the Joy of Cultivating Teachers respects the Dharma and also respects knowledge.
The second point is that, in my research, Buddhism is the most serious of all religions, and the most serious of Buddhism is Tantra. Esoteric Buddhism has the "Fifty Verses of the Master" written by Ma Ming Bodhisattva, which talks about how to respect the teacher.
According to that rule, none of us who are ordinary disciples are qualified.
The rule was so serious, almost worse than blind superstition.
Things are white, and if the teacher says it's black, follow the teacher as if it's black, and we ordinary people can't do it.
Turning back and saying, "Be happy to respect the teacher, be happy to give to all sentient beings", in the upper sense, we should be happy to respect the teacher, and in the lower sense, we should be happy to give to all sentient beings.
Here we should pay special attention to this broad character, which we ordinary people can't do, and we occasionally have a little kindness, all of which are like the saying goes: robbers have kindness. Everyone is like robbers and bandits, and it is great to have a little kindness by chance.
Why do you have to catch a musical word in this article? It is for the demon realm, which is different from the pleasure and enjoyment pursued by the world.
People who study Buddhism are also pursuing enjoyment, pursuing happiness, but there is a different side from the world, and this is Buddhism.
"Be happy to stick to the precepts, be happy to endure humiliation and be gentle." The first thing to learn Buddhism is to keep the precepts, and the precepts are not remarkable, how to say it? It is a norm of life, an art of living.
In particular, the bhikshu and bhikshuni ordination is the norm, morality, and art of the life of the Buddhist Sangha, and it is the self-discipline of a democratic society.
Because there are many disciples of the Buddha, both men and women, if there is no common norm to follow, how can this group lead? In addition to the fundamental precepts, which are norms of a moral nature, many of the precepts are necessary to live together.
A person who can keep the precepts is great, but it is difficult.
Each of us has a precept in our hearts, but that precept is not prescribed by the Sect Master, you know? For example, children or husbands and wives, it is not okay to violate your requirements, and that is your commandment.
For example, if you have a habit of putting things in this way, you will not be happy if others do not put them in the right way, which is also your precept.
So you don't like others because they have violated your precepts.
It's a small precept, not a real precept.
The great precept is the act of the group, and the moral precept basically involves killing, stealing, and fornication, which is not just a sin that one person considers, but that all sentient beings are afraid of this act, which is the root precept. The other precepts of life are for the safety of the community.
I don't understand the art of life, I feel that I am special, and I often come to me with special requirements, I think you are worthless and ignorant.