Now, let's talk about how to look at your body.

"All the benevolent! It is impermanent, powerless, and strong, and the law of rapid decay is not credible. What did Vimalus say? We can imagine him lying on his hospital bed and saying to the people who came to visit him, "Ladies and gentlemen, the flesh of our parents will not last forever, and it will not be strong, it will be fragile, and it will soon deteriorate, so don't trust this body."

From this sentence, let's reflect on it, everyone who meditates and cultivates the Tao to engage in qi and seek health and longevity is trusting this body. I thought I was cultivating the Tao, but I was already wrong, and I was not right. "The law of rapid decay is not credible", look at the photo of yourself when you were young, that you, you three years ago, and you last year were already dead. We feel alive, the real one you pass day by day. This physical self is not the true self.

"Troubled by suffering, all diseases are gathered." This body is the root of suffering, and this body is the root of afflictions. All our physical and mental sufferings come from this physical body. The Buddhist scriptures say that there are 444 kinds of pain that we may suffer from in our lifetime, because there are 101 kinds of pain for each of the four major pains of earth, water, fire, and wind. The same meaning, Lao Tzu's expression is: "I have a big patient, for me to have a body." And if I have no body, what will happen to me? ”

"All the benevolent! In this way, the wise will not be discouraged. He said, "Ladies and gentlemen, those who are truly wise will not have mercy on this body. The loss of the father is called Wuxuan, and the loss of the mother is called Wuxuan. It's not about masochizing your body, it's about not tolerating it. The less we tolerate our body, the healthier it is, which may sound strange, but it is.

The next passage is about this body, and the writing is very good, and it would be a pity if you look at it as a literary realm. Each of these words is a method, a meditation on tantra! Observation is the "wisdom" mentioned above, observing oneself clearly.

"The body is like a gathering of foam, and it cannot be touched. The body is like a bubble, and it cannot stand for a long time. "Our body is equivalent to a pile of foam floating on the surface of the water, our cells, blood, and blood cells are piled together, and the outer layer is covered with a layer of skin, and it becomes a human being. This layer of skin is peeled off, and the foam is gone. Therefore, it is true to talk about polyfoam, not a literary description. "Thou shalt not rub it" is something that cannot be pinched or grasped. The body is like a bubble, the blisters do not last, they dissipate all at once, just like the literature says "a hundred years in a moment". The good writings of Chinese literati are mostly due to their knowledge of Buddhism. You can realize the realm of Buddhism, even if you write in the vernacular, you can still write beautifully.

Speaking of a moment, Cao Cao's son Cao Zhi is a talented man. At that time he wrote a poem

The west wind in the small courtyard is sunny and sunny, and the grievances are not clear

Go back to the south to cover the lonely moon and go east to the wind to move the nine cities

The colt gap stays to fight for a moment, and the sound of the stinger blows the dream of three watches

The mountain spring surrounds the house, knows the depth and shallowness, and the slight thoughts are uneven

"The foal gap stays for a moment, and the sound of the stinger blows the dream of three watches", which is a satire on the father not to want to be the emperor, don't fight, time is like a white horse passing by the gap, life is fleeting, don't dream anymore, the night has reached the third watch. It's really a good poem, it doesn't look like Buddhism on the outside, but there is Buddhism in the real heart, which is equivalent to quoting the Vimala Sutra "The body is like a bubble, and it can't stand for a long time."