Chapter 835: Forty-three Grades
Bodhi does not have a place, unlike the outer way that says in the navel, this trick and that trick. The Bodhi Path is omnipresent and has no form.
The kana is Bodhi, and the Chinese dialect is also a kana, and the name is empty, so don't be confused by it.
Now when we listen to the Vimala Sutra, we ourselves are the listeners, and we ourselves are appreciating this sutra, and we will finish it in a paragraph. Everything is like a dream, all in flux, and none of them are real. When you understand it, you will be enlightened.
We often seek to be pure, do you think that if we meditate, we will be pure? In fact, you are so chaotic, you want to count your breaths, you want to make mudras, and you miss Amitabha, you see how chaotic! If it's really quiet, there's nothing, it's empty, and it's messy. Not scattering is Bodhi, always in purity.
"Good silence is Bodhi, and sex is pure." Good at silence, silence is further than purity, originally silence is Bodhi, self-nature is pure!
"Nothing is Bodhi, and it is because of climbing." Taking is persistence, there is nothing we don't want to grasp in our lives, we all want to get, we all want to belong to me. Even if your friends don't talk to you, you will suffer, because you can't take it. When your things are gone, it hurts, because you can't get them. Taking is one of the twelve causes, and taking is the most troublesome.
Su Dongpo thought he was enlightened, everything was useless, in "Red Cliff Fu", he still wanted to take the breeze on the river and the bright moon in the mountains, he thought he didn't want anything, you see that he had already taken it, and he was attracted by the realm in front of him.
The twelve karmas are all climbing, life is climbing, and there is nothing to gain from climbing, which is Bodhi.
"It's nothing less than Bodhi, the Dharma, and so on." "Different" is a change, we all have a mutation in psychology, thinking that there is only a Buddha in the Buddhist hall, there is no downtown, there is a way in the mountains and forests, and there is no way in the toilet.
This is all the mutation of the mind, and once the mind is pure, it is omnipotent. Therefore, not changing is the Bodhi Avenue, and all the Dharma is equal.
"It is incomparably Bodhi, and there is no reason for it." There is no analogy with all the Dharma, and the realm of comparison is not, as long as it is now, it is bare quantity.
"Subtlety is Bodhi, and the Dharma is difficult to know." In the end, all in all, the Tao is incredibly subtle, and it is in the moment.
Only when you attain Bodhi can you understand everything thoroughly, otherwise you will never be able to seek knowledge with the world's mind.
If you look at this large paragraph, it is no wonder that the Vimal monks are called arguments, and they grasp a topic and talk about it, and this is not finished! He was polite, and if the Buddha said it, he would have to say it.
The Buddha kept talking on the Huayan Sutra, and you were dizzy, and Vimala only mentioned one point.
Although Vimala has said so much, we can summarize it in two sentences: "Wuzhi is not Bodhi, and nowhere is not Bodhi", Bodhi Avenue is now, yes and no, and no. Where are you going to find this Bodhi?
"World-honored! When Vimala said that it was the Dharma, the Son of Heaven had no way to endure it, so I didn't let him ask for help. "Maitreya reported here and told the Buddha that when Vimala said this, there were 200 celestial beings who had attained enlightenment on the spot, so I am not qualified to visit you on your behalf.
Maitreya Bodhisattva, why does he talk so much about Bodhi?
Because Maitreya Bodhisattva was originally a classmate, the Buddha became a Buddha first because he was more advanced than Maitreya Bodhisattva.
The Buddha gave Maitreya Bodhisattva the inscription that in the next life he should attain the attainment of the three bodhisattvas of Anuttara and the three bodhisattvas.
Isn't Maitreya enlightened? Of course he understood.
But he can't take off his tail at the last point, where is it?
It's just that you haven't attained Bodhi and become a Buddha now.
What is Bodhi? Now let me tell you, where is not Bodhi?
Everything is Bodhi, and there is nothing in the world that is not Bodhi, as long as you can realize it at the moment.
So the Vimala Sutra can be studied or not. People who study but don't practice well tend to become mad and think that if they understand the truth, they will be right, and I will tell you again, it is useless to only understand the truth.