Chapter 936: Why Study Buddhism (3)
"Therefore, we should know that all troubles are such as the seeds." So if you don't have any troubles, what else can you fix? Cultivation is precisely because you have delusional troubles, and if you don't have delusional troubles, what kind of practice can you practice? Therefore, all afflictions are the seeds of spiritual practice.
For example, if you don't go down to the great sea, you can't get priceless orbs. If you don't enter the sea of troubles, you won't be able to get all the wisdom treasures.
If sentient beings do not enter the sea of afflictions, they will not be able to attain all the supreme treasures. When sentient beings learn Mahayana Buddhism, they must not be afraid to enter the world, and only when they can enter the world can they attain the right path, and only then can they become great practitioners.
It's not about hiding in the mountains and forests, but practicing in a quiet retreat alone, at best, at the top, you are already a great arhat.
Of course, it will be 84,000 eons, which is very comfortable, but after 84,000 eons, you have to get out of this vacancy.
After making a decision, one must return to Mahayana and complete all merits, so that one can truly attain the attainment of the three bodhisattvas.
Therefore, Mahayana Buddhism requires sentient beings to practice, and this line of action is behavior, what kind of behavior? It is an act of joining the WTO, and it must be done in the midst of troubles.
For example, it hurts to give money to others and cut one's flesh to others, but it is sacrificing oneself to achieve others.
Although you are in pain, when you see others sick, you forget your own pain and solve the problem for others first, which is the bodhisattva path.
It is necessary to start in the midst of troubles in order to achieve all merits. If you have earned merit, you don't want it yourself, but return it to sentient beings, so that you can attain great wisdom and attain all the supreme treasures.
Therefore, Mahayana Buddhism is entered into the world, but it is still entered in order to be born.
The deeper you enter the WTO, the faster you will become enlightened.
When you shoot the ball, the harder you hit it, the higher the ball bounces.
Someone asked the Buddha if the bodhisattvas who were less than eight places (immovable land) would still fall?
The Buddha said, of course. Again, what should I do if the Bodhisattva falls? Answer: Bodhisattvas are not afraid of fall. For example, the deeper you fall, the faster it pops up.
The dialogue between Vimala and Manjushri came to this point, which elicited the testimonials of another Hinayana disciple, the Mahakaya Arhat.
The Mahākāṇa sighed: Wonderful! Wonderful! Manjushri, say this quickly, as it is said, dusty labor, for the sake of the future.
He praised Manjushri and said that he was very right, that the true Dharma is in the world.
"The dusty labor is for the sake of the future", this famous sentence is from the Vimala Sutra, which is often quoted in later literature.
I mean companion, kind, which is the vernacular meaning "these".
Dust represents the world, the world is dust, you climb the mountains to see down, the city is shrouded in a dust fog, the more civilized the material, the more polluted the air.
Labor is to describe the hard work of all beings in the world, the so-called "car is like flowing water, horses are like dragons, flowers and moons are spring breeze".
Therefore, in the Buddhist scriptures, there is also a translation of our life as "labor and life", why we work hard all our lives, and we can't find the answer ourselves.
But even though it's dust, you don't want to get rid of it, because it's in it to practice all the merits and wisdom.
"We are waiting for the present day, and we are no longer worthy of the three bodhichittas, and even the five infertile sins, but we can still be born in the Dharma. Now we will never be able to send it. "Mahakāya said, we Hinayana people are very pitiful, we live in the middle of the meditation and refuse to enter the world, we will never be able to attain the Buddhahood of Mahayana, and we will not be able to attain the eternal hell of eternal beings, if they repent and renew their hearts to cultivate, they can still become Buddhas. But we think that emptiness is the end, and we will never be able to have a big heart.
For example, a person who is defeated by the root cannot compound interest in the five desires. If you hear that all the knots are broken, you will not be able to recover from the Dharma and will never volunteer.
For example, if the five roots (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body) are broken, they will not be able to see or hear any sound or light. If we who practice Hinayana emptiness cut off all these knots of ignorance and afflictions, we will no longer be able to benefit from the Dharma, so we will indulge in the void and refuse to move, and we will not enter the world.
I sometimes advise modern young people not to study Buddhism, because if they learn the Buddha's words, they will not be able to do the Bodhisattva Path, and they will not do anything if they are lazy.
The courage is also small, and I don't dare to do anything. In the name of meditating and chanting the Buddha, he does nothing. Also, I have also learned small instruments, and I see that others are not right, they are not Dharma, only I am right.
Therefore, I hope that young people will start to learn from being a human being, learning Buddhism is to help the world and save people, and when helping the world and saving people, sometimes it is inevitable that you have to kill people, do you dare to bear this burden? There is also a saying in Buddhism that "put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha on the spot", you don't even dare to take the knife, what else can you put down! You don't have this seed!
Of course, young people should still learn Buddhism, but they must first learn to practice, and doing one good deed every day is the minimum. Doing good deeds will sometimes be scolded by others, which is equivalent to a lotus flower planted in the mud, if you are not afraid of being scolded, just ask this heart. To do good deeds is also to be wise.