Chapter 917: The Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers and Sticky Arhats (2)
Luohan is much more restrained. The Vimala Sutra talks about the only way, and the true Dharma does not separate from birth to the world.
However, the religious circles have made a very separate distinction between ordination and laymanship, and they are not accessible to the extreme, which is the seventh way in addition to the six links, and it is called incomprehensible.
Also, most of the commentaries on Buddhist scriptures were written by lay people, such as Elder Li, Fu Dashi, and the modern Ouyang is not there, and if they are still alive today, I am afraid that they will also be criticized by their families.
The Bodhisattva does not stick to smallpox, because the Bodhisattva breaks the delusion of separation.
For example, when people are afraid, it is not convenient for people to get it. For example, if people are afraid, they are easily susceptible to demons. Therefore, if a person is righteous and has no fear, even the ghost cannot help him.
A few days ago, a fellow monk in our monastery went back to the countryside and followed a bhikshuni master in the mountains, and she wrote to me about this master, who had lived in a cave for decades, had no high education, was a true practitioner, and even the ghosts were scared away by her.
If people are afraid of ghosts, there must be ghosts, and if you give this kind of non-human a gap, it will come.
As soon as your righteousness comes, it's gone.
I can't see ghosts all my life, and I'm sorry.
Back then, I had a Taoist friend who said that there were fox spirits in the place where he lived, and he even carried people out with beds at night, and he spoke vividly.
The other was sick with lung disease, so he volunteered to live in his room, anyway, he was sick, and the fox fairy came with him.
But nothing happens, you're not afraid of it, it's not going to take advantage of it, that's all.
If the disciple is afraid of life and death, the color, sound, and fragrance can be touched. If you are afraid of life and death, what is the matter with life and death?
You have to see what looks good, you have to listen to what sounds good, you have to eat what is delicious, you can't even live, how can you die?
When you encounter a realm outside, you will move your thoughts, and your greed and hatred will arise, and you will be disturbed by the six dusts and six roots, what is the matter with life and death?
Those who have left fear are powerless in all the five desires. If there is no fear, all realms cannot shake him.
The five desires are the big devils, the color, sound, fragrance, and touch, the big five desires are also, and the other small five desires are the smiles and eyes.
Those who have left fear, righteousness and heroism, even if you roll in the five desires, it doesn't matter, you can't be demonized.
The end of the habit is not over, and the flowers are full of clothes. Those who have exhausted their habits will not be able to do it.
The word "knot" first appeared in the Vima Sutras and has been used frequently in Chinese ever since.
When you cultivate to the realm of an arhat, although you can not stop thinking about it, but the root is not broken, it is suppressed, and that is called the end of the habit.
Like a male arhat encountering a woman, he wants to see it but does not dare to look at it, the more so, the more his heart has already moved.
However, even if the bodhisattva realm stares, it is fine, because he sees it but does not see it.
The practice is not finished, so the smallpox is sticky, and the great bodhisattva has finished the practice, so the flower is not sticky.
There is a poem in "The Travels of the Old Remnant" that is very good, one of which is:
I haven't removed the appearance of people,
The ceiling is covered with talisman clouds.
Sometimes I get upset and lose my temper, and I think of this poem, and I am smallpox, and I laugh.
In this period of heavenly girl scattered flowers, the most important thing is that "the habit is not finished".
The knot is the eighty-eight knots of the "Treatise on Kusha", and if the roots are not cut off, the knots will not be broken.
The Vimala Sutra represents the liberation method at the center of Buddhism, and the purpose of studying Buddhism is how to seek liberation, how to liberate oneself from birth and death, to free oneself from troubles, to leave the Three Realms, and to find the origin of one's own life.
This sutra says a lot about the method of liberation, but the most important secret of this sutra has several important points: Buddhahood does not lie in being a monk or at home, there is no difference between entering and exiting, and those who can be liberated can be liberated in the world, and they can be liberated when they are out of the world.