Chapter 789: Ten Grades (II)
The sensory state is not mental consciousness, for example, when a person reaches an absolute coma or has just died, if you touch him, he will still react, this is a feeling. Another example is to cut off an earthworm, both of which will move, its state of consciousness is scattered, and the remaining force of movement is sensory instinct. Yin is the driving force of life, the instinct of life, and it is always moving. It is only when the yin is still that it can be called. For example, when we meditate, we can occasionally get a temporary tranquility of our mind, or we can temporarily forget about our physiological feelings, but your blood is still circulating and flowing, and your breathing is still non-stop. Therefore, those who have attained the fruits of the Bodhi path have no mental awareness, no receiving, and no action.
"And all the outer ways are destroyed", so that all the outer ways can be destroyed. Seeking the Dharma outside the heart is called the outer way, and the Tao is in your own heart, not in God, not in the Buddha, not in the realm of qi, and not in the qigong mantra.
For so many years, the Buddha has said that there are only three turns, that is, the Hinayana path talks about the four noble truths of suffering, concentration, extinction, and the path, the Middle Theravada path talks about the 12 causes and conditions, and the Mahayana path talks about the six degrees and ten thousand actions. All the heavens and people in the world have attained enlightenment because of the Dharma, which can be proved to be proven. The Three Jewels of Buddha, Dharma and Sangha are thus presented in the world.
"The Buddha uses the wonderful law to save all sentient beings, truly enlightened, only receives the fruits of this life, and never retreats, and is always in the purity of Nirvana, and is the great doctor king who has escaped old age, sickness and death. Therefore, I am amazed at the vastness and depth of the Dharma, which is as vast as the sea.
When the Buddha was alive, there were 96 kinds of outer paths, and you should not despise them, because they were very particular about doing kung fu, they were all really vegetarians, and they all abstained from drinking, and their practice may be even more thorough than what you call to be a disciple of the Buddha. True Buddhism is enlightened and never lost. When the Mahayana Bodhisattva reaches the fruition position above the eighth ground, he can be said to be unable to retreat.
"Reputation is not moved like Sumeru, kindness is not good or good, equality in heart and deeds is like emptiness, and people are not respectful when they hear about human treasures", they are not moved by the slander or praise of the world, and they are as unshakable as Mount Meru. For both good and evil, Buddhists and laymen, they can be treated with compassion equally. Psychology and behavior, heart and motivation, are equal like the void, all inclusive, is the treasure of people, who does not respect!
"Today, this micro cover of the world, in the middle of my three thousand realms, the palace where the heavenly dragon gods live, the Gandharva and so on and the Yaksha", this treasure cover can cover the three thousand worlds, but what is it? If you speak directly according to the Buddhist scriptures, it is the change of supernatural powers. If you believe in the Dharma, it's not a myth, it's a fact. We need to study it from an empirical standpoint, the world is a treasure cover, and our body is also a cover, but it is a bad cover, but it can also be turned into a treasure cover. We are now within the Buddha's cover, but we are also covered by our own karma. You sit here, and your mind can go to outer space, but your body can't move, it's covered. To transform this karmic cover, one has to have real cultivation.
Even if you are a student of Buddhism, you have a thought on the purification of the mind, and you seek another effect, a Dharma, either increase or decrease. The thought you want to empty is subtraction; If you want to see the Buddha and see the light, that is to increase the Dharma. Pure mind is not increased or decreased, impurity is not impurity, and there is no birth or destruction. If you can't purify your mind, it doesn't correspond to the Buddha realm. Whether it is increasing or decreasing, whether it is dirt or purity, whether it is born or destroyed, it is all seeking the Dharma outside the heart, and it is not right. So there is only one true Dharma, which is the Pure Heart, which is the Pure Land. Further, there is no longer even this name, there is a heart, there is a pure land, there is a pure realm, there is no such thing. Only when you understand this place can you understand Mahayana Buddhism.