When you learn the law and learn the end, you will prove the law of inaction. What is the law of inaction? is empty. The highest level of Buddhism is to emptiness and non-action, which is nirvana.

Eastern Mahayana Buddhism likes to talk about the method of non-action, and as soon as it comes up, it talks about emptiness, but you can't be empty! A fellow Taoist came to ask, saying that as soon as he sat down recently, he felt that his body was gone, and he was very calm. I said it was a recitation.

He said he didn't have a mind. I said, you have a state of mindfulness, emptiness, purity, or thought, all of which are Dharma, not true emptiness.

The real emptiness is to be done to the extreme, it is inaction, and to the extreme is to be empty.

To the extreme, it is endless.

But you also don't want to keep an empty state, keep a pure realm, and once you keep it, you will turn to the Dharma, endlessly, and then you will return to the end.

You see, this Buddha said the wonderful thing!

Therefore, all the great arhats, all the shravakas, and even the bodhisattvas, before they attain Bodhi and become Buddhas, all their practices are promising.

I often say that all Zen tantras, all practices, are processing, all preliminaries, and all aids.

The Diamond Sutra says that the true Tao is "there is no way to attain it", that is, the Buddha Tao.

When it comes to doing things and doing nothing, I suddenly remembered that there was a great Zen master in the Ming Dynasty called Master Yutang, and he had a poem:

Leaning on the cane in front of the Qianzhang Rock, there is a need to do nothing.

That is to say, you must cultivate to the extreme before you can be empty.

"Those who are like bodhisattvas do not do anything, do not stop doing nothing. What does it mean to be inadequate? It is said that there is no great mercy and great compassion. Deeply develop all wisdom and never forget. Educate sentient beings, and never get tired of it. In the four shooting methods, always read the proclamation. ”

"Defend the Fa-rectification and spare no risk. Plant all good roots, and there will be no weariness."

The work of the monks is to plant the Buddha of Shaolong, which is to pass on the seeds of the Dharma. The task of the disciples of the Buddha at home is to uphold the Dharma, that is, to protect the Dharma, so it is customary in the temple to call the lay monks the protectors of the Dharma.

The work of upholding the Dharma is very difficult, like the common Wei Dao Bodhisattva in the temple, who is the great protector of the Dharma in China, of course, it is not necessarily only the family that has the responsibility of protecting the Dharma, and many monks are also responsible for provoking the Dharma protector. As long as you can promote the Dharma and preach the right path, you are upholding the Dharma.

In order to protect the Fa-rectification, you don't even care about your own life, and when you encounter a disaster, you would rather die for the Fa.

When I was alive, I was doing good deeds and planting good roots anytime and anywhere. Doing good deeds does not necessarily get a good reward, many people only do a little good deed, and immediately think about the good reward, that is impossible.

Great, good retribution is planted in the root of alayya, and it is a blessing for the future.

So karma is a big problem, and sometimes you see that there are people in society who are very bad, but they are very blessed.

It seems that most of the bad guys are blessed better than the good guys. Of course, a lot of good people are actually stupid people, and the more stupid people are, the better. A person who is smart is bad, and the wise and the bad are like two brothers. Smart but not bad, have the ability to do bad things but not do it, that is a good person.

Some fellow practitioners think that they have not done anything bad, probably because you do not have the ability to do it.

If you want to talk about "putting down the butcher's knife and becoming a Buddha on the spot", then you can't become a Buddha, because you haven't taken the butcher's knife before.

I'll give you a butcher's knife, and you may tremble with your hands, and you don't need to put it down, it's all shaken off.

Putting down the butcher's knife is to let go of the knife that kills people like numbness, and to let go of this power and ability to kill, so that you can become a Buddha on the ground.

So the average person can't say whether it's good or bad. Han Xin looked down on the group of people who fought the world with Liu Bang at the same time, and said to them, "The public capital is busy, and things are made because of people." ”

It means that you people don't mention it, it's not up to us to fight the world to have a bowl of rice to eat.

Ordinary people don't know themselves clearly, and they don't know others clearly, and they think that they are good people, so they can't rely on retribution.