Many people come to me and ask me, which method is better for him to learn?

I told them that Avalokiteshvara incarnated in Tantra has 21 Tara and 32 manifest bodies. "So it's all convenient because sentient beings have different habits and different karma. The merits of a Buddha are equal for all beings, but in order to educate all sentient beings, they have to be taught in different ways.

Some fellow Taoists asked me, why are the Buddha statues in Tantra so terrifying?

I asked him, "Have you seen what a Buddha looks like?" You've only seen the Buddha statues in the Xianjiao Temple, with fat and stupid faces, and you can't open your eyes. But you have to know that the Buddha is to educate sentient beings in various postures, the so-called impurity and impurity, and there are all kinds of Buddha lands.

"Ananda, you see that there are some lands in the Buddhas, but there are not a few in the void. If you see that the Buddha's body has a number of ears, it does not hinder the wisdom of a number. "Every Buddha has its own Buddha land, and they are all different. For example, there is Amitabha Buddha in the West, Medicine Buddha in the East, and as mentioned in this sutra, the Buddha land is incense, and everyone may not have experienced this.

I personally have an experience (of course, not the land of Buddha), when I went up to Emei Mountain, I walked to a temple on the mountain that I had never been to, and as soon as I walked to the door, I felt that I had been here before, and it turned out to be in a dream when I was young.

In order to verify, he went in to see the abbot of the house and asked him if there was a road to the mountain next to the temple. He said yes, but the entrance to the road had been sealed for thirty years.

He asked me how I knew, and I only told him that he was speculating and taking it for granted.

Then I asked to try this path, and he agreed.

As a result, the road is smooth and comfortable, like stepping on a mat, and there is a fragrance coming out of the road. Since then, I have often walked this road alone, and when I have gone far away, I will take off my clothes and bask in the sun.

This road has not been visited for many years, the fallen pine branches, pine leaves, pine nuts are piled up, so it is soft and fragrant, if there is an animal dead on the road, let the leaves cover, and then be illuminated by the sun, there will be a smell out, and even become a miasma, people will get sick when they smell it, and even die, this situation is particularly many in Guizhou, so people have to smoke there to overcome the miasma.

The Buddha told Ananda that you see all the different realms of the Buddhas, for example, the environment of the Elysian World is different from ours and other worlds, but the void is the same.

The difference in circumstances means that each of us has different karma, and the state of our practice is also different.

If attachment must be entered through one method is the Dharma, and the others are not the Dharma, then it is wrong. Therefore, some students I advised him to study tantra because it suited his karmic qualifications; Some of his classmates advised him to study the Pure Land, but I didn't have a law.

Some people can meditate, but I won't tell him Zen. Therefore, the Buddha land is different, and this requires us to understand the truth of all idealistic creations, and the emptiness is only one, and its use is different.

"Ananda, all Buddhas' bodies, powers, castes, precepts, concentration, wisdom, liberation, liberation knowledge, strength, fearlessness, and non-common dharmas, great compassion, great compassion, majesty, and their longevity are all the same."

Now explain what the true Dharma is. The so-called Buddhas of the Ten Directions and the Three Worlds, the Ten Directions represent space, and the Three Worlds represent time.

There are many Buddhas in space and time, not just one. Some people use the term of the new concept to say that Buddhism is pluralism and polytheism; Conversely, there are other religions that criticize Buddhism as atheistic. To say that Buddhism is atheistic is an absolute misunderstanding, and a very serious misunderstanding.