Chapter 849: Fifty-Seven Grades

The four shots are dojos, and they take the lives of all living beings.

The four methods are generosity, love language, benevolence, and colleagues. The only way to learn the Mahayana Bodhisattva path is to sacrifice oneself and give out without asking for anything in return.

The first thing is to care for others, to talk to others, not to not speak.

The second is to make what is said understandable to others.

Doing good is what you do is good for others, not for me.

It's more difficult for colleagues, in order to educate others, even if they don't want to do things, they have to do it, and slowly coax him on the road, so with his colleagues, you accompany him to do what he likes to do.

The Four Senses are the bodhisattva's dojo, so that they can be inclusive of all sentient beings.

Hearing more is a dojo, such as hearing deeds.

To study more, to listen more, to study more is to hear more. Some people listen to the scriptures and go in and out of the ears, and they feel that they have understood, but they can't do what they hear, and the truth they hear can't become their own inner mental behavior.

Fuxin is a dojo, and you are looking at all the laws.

All practice is to subdue our delusional madness, which is the first paragraph of the Diamond Sutra, and Subodha asks the Buddha how to subdue his mind, that is, to subdue delusional thoughts and afflictions.

To be able to subdue their hearts is the dojo. When the mind of discriminating delusion is truly subdued, wisdom is developed, and if all the Dharma is viewed correctly, there will be no wrong views.

The thirty-seven products are the dojo, and they are sacrificed for the sake of the law.

The focus of Buddhism is the 37 Bodhi paths, which are the basis of the Mahayana and the Yamanayana paths, and we must make it clear that at the beginning we must at least remember the names and numbers: the four thoughts, the four righteous diligences, the four wishful feet, the five roots, the five forces, the seven jue branches, and the eightfold path. I've said it many times, and it's serious that I can't remember the number.

The 37 Bodhi Dao products are basically based on the four thoughts, which is the first step of cultivation, and all meditation comes from here, as we have already talked about.

These 37 Bodhi Taoist products still belong to the Dharma of Being, but the Dharma is about non-action, talking about emptiness, the Buddha said in the "Diamond Sutra": "All sages and saints are different from the Dharma of non-action", how can you be empty, how to achieve non-action?

I remember a poem: "To do something must be extremely to do nothing". It means that if you have cultivated the Dharma of doing things at home, you will naturally reach the state of emptiness of the Dharma of non-action.

Therefore, don't think that you are practicing Mahayana, cultivating emptiness, and not doing anything for small or small things, then you are wrong.

The Four Noble Truths are the dojos, and they do not bother with the world.

The Four Noble Truths are the first step in learning Buddhism.

All suffering in the world is the truth of suffering; All sentient beings take suffering as pleasure and grasp pain as happiness, which is the collection of truths; To solve suffering, to eliminate suffering, to gather and attain the Tao, is the true truth of extinction and the true of the path.

Human beings, and even all living beings, have a common purpose of being free from suffering and being happy, and they all want to enjoy and be happy, but in fact all beings in the Three Realms take suffering as pleasure and regard slight suffering as the highest enjoyment, which is the so-called reversal of sentient beings.

For example, if you go for a massage, it is very comfortable, but in fact, the massage is to hit you gently, and if you hit it hard, you will be in pain. Therefore, it is said that everything in the world is suffering, there is no mistake, there is no lying, and only by understanding this can we truly be liberated and attained enlightenment, and we can get rid of all suffering and attain ultimate happiness, which is the true meaning of Buddhism.

The origin is the dojo, and there is no end to ignorance and even old age and death.

If you take out the sentence of the Vimala Sutra for the exam, you will have to suffer.

Everyone reads the Heart Sutra, right? Among them is "there is no ignorance, there is no end to ignorance, and there is no old age and death, and there is no old age and death."

As with this sentence, it includes the twelve causes.

Do you remember the 12 causes clearly? If you can't even memorize the order of these basic nouns, and you still feel that your academic thinking is very high, then it is inexplicable.

I'm afraid that some lay people don't understand the twelve causes, so I'll tell you about it again:

Ignorance of fate, line fate, knowledge, fame, fame and color, six into the fate, six into the fate, touch, love, love, take the fate, have the fate, have the fate, live by the fate, and die of old age.

These are the 12 causes. The twelve karma govern the three lives, the previous life, the present, and the next life. Who remembers where your mother was before she gave birth to you? I can't remember.

Now cut the past, a person comes to reincarnation in a thought, I don't know where I came from in life, where I will go when I die, is there any certainty? I don't know, it's all ignorance, it's inexplicable, it's nonsense.

Don't say where life and death come and go, what will be your first thought when you wake up tomorrow morning, are you sure?

Absolutely not sure! I don't know how that thought comes and goes, so it's called ignorance, which is the ignorance of the truth, not knowing anything, no light, no wisdom, a mass of darkness.

How do all sentient beings come to be reincarnated? It's action, action is movement, and the idea comes as soon as it moves.

In front of this motivation is ignorance, inexplicable, and I don't know how to move.

If you understand it, it's not the 12 causes, it's Bodhi.

Greed, ignorance, and suspicion, all big troubles, small troubles, and random troubles are all ignorance.

There is a thought, and the thought of life does not know where it comes from, and it is ignorance.

The Buddhist scriptures say: "When a thought arises, 80,000 obstacles open." ”

When a person loses his temper and becomes discouraged, he becomes an obstacle.

He also said, "It is a fire in the heart, which can burn the meritorious forest." "Complaining, cynical, dissatisfied with anyone, dissatisfied with the environment, all kinds of complaints are all thoughts.

There are many people who study Buddhism, they read Buddhist scriptures very well, they talk about Buddhism very well, they write very well about articles, they know everything, but when things come, they don't work, and the result is that they deceive themselves there.

Among the greedy and ignorant beings, ignorance is the greatest ignorance.