Chapter 1038: The Bodhisattva of All Incense Asks the Dharma (4)
This is something that people who study Buddhism, especially those who are good at knowledge, should pay special attention to it, and when they enter the world, they will be looked down upon and looked down upon, and they will not be sad or happy in their hearts, but they will just be pure.
For people who have not learned or studied the Dharma, we should not despise them, but we should respect everyone as we do for Buddhas.
What we are talking about in this article is not only the behavior of the Buddhists, but also the precepts of the Buddhists. It's all precepts here, not just in Vinaya.
"Those who have fallen into trouble, let them have righteous thoughts." That's another idea. For those who study Buddhism, they should help the person who is suffering from troubles and pains, so that he can initiate righteous thoughts.
"Don't think it's expensive to stay away from pleasure."
Ordinary people who study Buddhism have embarked on the path of Hinayana and become world-weary, happy and quiet, and want to go to the mountains and forests to live in thatched tents. The imaginary green lanterns are like beans, the white clouds are ethereal, and the realm is so beautiful.
But when I really went to live in the mountains, I lit a green oil lamp, and the shadow shining on the wall looked like a ghost; The white clouds are beautiful, you live in the deep mountains, the clouds will drift into the house from the window, the humidity is very heavy, I would rather not be a fairy in the white clouds.
Ordinary people want to escape the pain of the world, and they want to leave the world, and take pleasure in staying away; But the Mahayana Bodhisattva path prefers to go to the red dust, and there is no shortage of you in the green mountains and green waters.
"Don't enjoy yourself, celebrate your own pleasure".
Don't delay your own happiness and happiness, but be glad that others can get happiness and happiness. How do we do that?
Only a great bodhisattva can really do it, but we who study Buddhism should be determined to go down this path.
"Meditation is like hell."
Meditation is like hell. Okay, you meditate and your legs hurt, now there is an excuse, meditating on you is really like hell, why should you go to hell? Why meditate?
Where is this reasoning? The bodhisattva path is not the pursuit of self-interest, meditation is the first step in practice, but you often enter the meditation is a violation of the bodhisattva vows, and you are guilty of the vow of "delaying meditation"; But in Hinayana meditation is merit.
Let me tell you, the happiest and most comfortable thing in the world is to enter into concentration, which is certainly not the painful "concentration" that you sit up and down. The body and mind are completely liberated and clear, and the pleasure of meditation is not something that ordinary people can imagine.
You ask an arhat who has entered the meditation to go out to save the world and save people, but he can't do it. It's like a man who is eight points drunk, and you take his glass and ask him to go to work with you, but he doesn't have any strength at all.
The Arhat's dedication to meditation is like an ordinary man being enchanted by wine, it is too comfortable. You say I'm in great pain, yes, he knows, but there's no pain in him.
The Bodhisattva Tao is mainly to enter the WTO to save people, and joining the WTO does not have to be practiced at home, but must be done by monks and family members.
Some lay people only practice purity on their own, which is the Hinayana path at home. I often scold my fellow Taoists for not studying Buddhism, as soon as you study Buddhism, you will be lazy, if you don't understand my words, you will inevitably be lazy when you study Buddhism. Even if you say that you have to be motivated, most of you are embarking on the Hinayana path, and you just don't care about yourself and others.
"In life and death, contemplate the garden".
The person of the Bodhisattva path does not want to jump into life and death, and he is like going to a garden to play in life and death.
People who have a lot of life experience will feel that life is very boring and there is nothing to be nostalgic about.
You may be able to write this kind of article, but I can boldly say that you don't have this kind of experience, and those who have this kind of experience will naturally have a garden of visualization about this world.
When you say this, you should be able to think of a famous sentence from literature:
The man who is the master of heaven and earth, the reverse journey of all things.
Those who have passed through time have passed by for hundreds of generations.
And floating like a dream, for joy?