Chapter 926: The Problem of Enlightenment

Sariputta asks the heavens: If you are worthy of the three bodhisattvas?

Sariputta asked the Celestial Maiden again, how long will it take for you to truly become a Buddha?

Heaven said, "If Sariputta is still an ordinary man, I will be regarded as an anuttara sambodhi."

The Celestial Maiden said, "For example, if you have attained the fruit of an arhat, if one day you abdicate and become an ordinary man, I will become a Buddha."

Because those who have attained enlightenment will not retreat to ordinary people, in other words, the Celestial Maiden has already become enlightened, and there is no need to become enlightened again.

Because everyone is a Buddha.

Sariputta said: I am an ordinary man, and I am useless.

Sariputta replied: I can't retire as a mortal.

Heaven said, "I have attained the three bodhisattvas of Anuttara, and I am useless."

So what? Bodhi has no dwelling, so there is no gainer.

The Heavenly Maiden said, "I have never been lost, so why should I seek enlightenment again?"

What is the reason?

Bodhi has no place to live, and it would be wrong for you to find a place to live. Therefore, to attain the Tao is to attain one.

The enlightenment of the Bodhi is not the Bodhi seed that you buy.

Sariputta said: Now all the Buddhas have attained the three bodhisattvas of the Anuttara and the three bodhisattvas, and they have already attained it, like the sand of the Ganges River, what do they mean?

Sariputta asked again: If Buddhahood is nothing, then what are the countless Buddhas in the past, present, and future?

How can this be said?

Heaven said: They are all counted in secular words, saying that there are three worlds, not that Bodhi has come and gone.

The Heavenly Maiden said: This is said for the sake of ordinary people, and it is convenient to say the law. There is no such thing as yesterday, today, or tomorrow in the universe, and there is no coming and going, three worlds, and no ten directions.

There is no past, present, or future for those who have attained the Tao.

Heaven said: Sariputta, you are an arhat and a doya?

The Celestial Maiden asked Sariputta again: Have you attained the path of an arhat?

Said: If you don't get anything, you get it.

Sariputta replied: Because I have arrived.

There was nothing left, nothing to gain, so the Buddha sealed that I had attained enlightenment.

This is unattainable, and if there is a realm of kung fu, it is no longer so.

Heaven said: All Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are the same, and they get nothing because they don't get it.

The Celestial Maiden said, "Therefore, all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas have attained the same enlightenment as you answered, and they have attained a "cannot be attained."

However, those of us who meditate and study Buddhism are all seeking results with the intention of gaining something, so we go against the grain and are busy in vain.

At that time, Vimala Sariputta: It is the Celestial Maiden who has made offerings to 9.2 billion Buddhas, who has been able to play the Bodhisattva's supernatural powers, who have fulfilled all her wishes, who have no life to endure, who do not retreat, who can manifest at will and educate sentient beings with her own wishes.

At this time, the master of Vimala came out to speak, and he told Sariputta not to make trouble, the Celestial Maiden is a great bodhisattva, who has made offerings to 9.2 billion Buddhas in her past life, and her qualifications are much older than you, and she can change into a woman and a man at any time, and the realm of supernatural powers can come and go freely.

Moreover, he has fulfilled his wishes, and has cultivated to the bodhisattva realm of more than eight places, and he has no way to endure life, and he will not retreat.

Because of his will, he sympathizes with women, and can appear as women at any time to educate sentient beings.

All dharmas are forms, and forms are not bodies. There is no difference between male and female in the ontology of self-nature, as long as the thought is put down, you will forget that this body is male or female, and there is no male or female body.

Both men and women are artificial.