Chapter 780: Four Grades (I)
Explanation: Let's talk about heretical views, broken views, and sexual voidness.
Buddhism talks about dependent arising, and everything is dependent arising. Hinayana focuses on the dependent causes of the 12 causes and conditions, and summarizes the cause and effect of the three lifetimes with the 12 causes and conditions, all of which arise from ignorance. In terms of the realm, ignorance is the motivation of the mind, that is, the ignorance of life and death, and sleep is also ignorance. Theoretically speaking, how the universe began, how the first man was born, and so on, I don't know the answer, and I don't know the answer, and I am also ignorant.
In short, both in the realm and in the realm, these two kinds of ignorance arise because there is no practice, there is no enlightenment. Ignorance in the realm must be broken with concentration, and those who are really determined will be bright day and night, and will be in their own light and concentration anytime and anywhere. But even in such a situation, there is still no relief. Liberation depends on wisdom, but true wisdom still has to be born from concentration, and the wisdom that is not fixed is mad wisdom, or dry wisdom.
Hinayana talks about karma and karma all arise from the ignorance of the 12 karmas, but how does ignorance arise? In the "Lengyan Sutra", Fu Lou asked the Buddha this question for us, because since the Buddha said that everything is empty, he asked if all self-nature was originally empty, why did the mountains and rivers and the earth suddenly arise?
That is, to ask: How did this world come about? How did the first thought come about? How did ignorance come about? This question is the most basic problem of Mahayana Buddhism. All the deal with this problem is to hang a "No Visit" sign, because I can't ask any questions here, just teach you to just believe. But Fu Lou had to ask how the first thought of ignorance came about, and the Buddha replied that his ignorance came from the light, "Enlightenment is to blame." This answer does not seem to be answered, no wonder many descendants think that the "Lengyan Sutra" is a foreign way or a pseudo-scripture. In fact, the Buddha is not wrong when he said that ignorance is born because of enlightenment, and when you think of gnosticism, your consciousness is always clear, and after a long time, ignorance is reborn. The Buddha didn't explain again, and Fu Lou didn't ask anymore.
You must know that the Buddha answered in the realm of cultivating kung fu. Of course, there are fewer people who can cultivate wisdom and kung fu now, if you really cultivate wisdom and enter the light concentration to stay, you will go astray and cannot be liberated, so pay attention! If you don't want to cultivate light and concentration, then you are definitely an ordinary man. If we have attained the light and determination of our own nature, why can't we be liberated? This is the deviation of view, it is seeing and seeing, and the practice has reached a certain state of attachment, and I don't know how to go to another level of liberation, so it is seeing and seeing.
Hinayana is prone to fall into these problems, so how does Mahayana talk about dependent origination? It is said that "dependent arising voidness, sexual emptiness dependent origination", we all know that this is the Madhyamaka correct view of Buddhism, but in fact, there is no cultivation and practice at all, so we can never get rid of the pain of birth, old age, sickness and death. Why? Because his writings, speeches, and statements have made more wrong causes and effects, he has broken the wisdom of others; To think that all dharma is dependent on voidness, and emptiness is nothingness. If emptiness is nothing, we don't need to study Buddhism.
The center of Buddhism is cultivation, but the whole world regards it as a kind of ideological study, almost indistinguishable from materialism, and seriously distorts the dependent arising voidness, believing that emptiness is nothing. No, it's not empty! There is no judgment! The Buddha said that all dharmas arise from causes, which is of course not wrong, but it should be noted that the things that arise from causes and conditions are the use of physical appearances, and the things in the phenomenal realm and the things that are applied are all dependent originations and arise from causes. But self-sexual function is not a relational one, and this must be noted! However, when people say that self-nature function is in words, it is not necessary to cling to a self-nature and a function, because it is not right to be attached to anything.