Chapter 823 Thirty-one Grade
Yu Boli was the first precept among the disciples of the Buddha, and the background of the disciples of the Buddha at that time was complicated, including nobles, wealthy people, and commoners.
Upali was born as a pariah, and in the society at that time, when he saw nobles who had to kneel and hide aside, the Buddha assigned him to carry out the precepts of the Sangha, which in addition to Upali's own good practice, it can also be seen that the Buddha's teaching methods are extraordinary.
The Buddha asked Yubo to leave to visit Vimala, but Yuba did not leave him.
Upali recalled that there had been two bhikshus who had broken the precepts and felt so ashamed that they didn't dare to ask the Buddha about it, so they came to Uboli in the hope that Upali would enlighten and explain the precepts to them.
The vows are mental actions that all sentient beings inherently consider to be sinful and negative karma. Some of the vows are obscuring vows that vary from time to time and from place to place. For the veiling, it is sometimes convenient. According to other scriptures, these two bhikshus committed the first vow. So the two of them were deeply ashamed. And he spoke for them according to the precepts and made them repent.
At that time, Vimal came and said to Upali, "Don't you aggravate the sins of the two of them, and if you break the precepts, you have to use your mind to eliminate the sinful karma, and now you explain the precepts to them, but it disturbs their minds and increases their psychological suffering."
Here Vimala says that the sinful nature is like the mind, not within, not without, not in the middle. In other words, it is also inside, outside, and in the middle, omnipresent. Where exactly? If the mind is so, the mind is here, and the present moment is that the nature is empty, so the sinful nature is also empty.
If you want to repent like this, if you have the heart to ask for repentance, then it will take the three great monks to slowly wash away your sins.
If you can but go straight to the point, the moment is.
Therefore, if you have a dirty heart, you will be guilty of cultivating the Dharma and the Dharma when you have a heart.
Your heart is pure, but you might as well go to cultivate the outer path of magic. The heart, the sins, and the Dharma are all present at the moment. For example, the "Diamond Sutra" says most clearly, because there is nothing to come from and nowhere to go, it is the name of the Buddha.
The Buddha often said that if you don't move, you should study it. If you think that there is something in your heart that does not move, you have already moved, and you have moved that one that does not move.
You feel that the immovable state is created by the sixth consciousness. If it doesn't move, it seems to be a calm flowing water, and when you look at it not moving, it's actually flowing; If it doesn't flow, it will become stagnant water, and if the water stops for a hundred days, maggots will grow, and it will become the dirtiest and most sinful place.
This heart is to be alive and vibrant, born of no dwelling. This mind is a pure thought, a thought that does not think of good, does not think of evil, and does not even think about it. If you have a thought that does not think of good or evil, you already have dust in your heart.
When you meditate, you either can't go away or you get drowsy, and you have always wasted your energy, like a giant ship stranded on a shoal, and you can't push it.
Enlightenment, you don't need to push it, it's as light as a hair, it's the middle of the day.
Don't despise it, don't have a view of the door; , explain off. The Diamond Sutra says; All sages and sages are differentiated by non-action, which is the mind that only a Buddha has, regardless of which sect he is, all those who have gained are among the sages.
Vimal asked Yuboli if there was still dirt in his heart when he was truly enlightened and liberated.
Yuba replied, no.
Vimala lay people said that all sentient beings are not sinful, undefiled, and empty! The first thought is there, and the second thought is empty; The first thought is empty, and the second thought is there.
There is no thought in the air, so it is not dirty and dirty.
The first thought of the World-Honored One is the Buddha realm, and the next thought is the Demon realm; The Buddha realm does not live, and neither does the demon realm.
I don't live in it, I don't use reason to cultivate.
If you have a cultivated appearance and ask for emptiness, you are troubled by the dust of the guest. That's how to repent.
Only! Yuboli! Delusion is dirt, and delusion without delusion is pure; Upside down is dirt, no upside down is clean; Take me as dirt, and do not take me as pure.
Delusions, flying thoughts, are dirt; Without delusion, the present is a pure person; Upside-down thoughts mean that there is no upside-down is the pure land; Taking my appearance is dirt, and not taking my appearance is pure land.
All the Dharmas include the mind, all the Dharmas of the universe, and all the Dharmas, which are born and extinguished, like illusions and electricity, and the past is over.
In terms of the ontology of the mind, there is no relative, one thought cannot be stopped, and one thought cannot be stopped; Therefore, all the Dharma is delusional, like a dream like a flame, like the moon in the water, like an image in a mirror, and all the good Dharma, the evil Dharma, and the Dharma that are not remembered are born from delusions, and they exist from the delusions of separation.
Only when you understand this can you be qualified to say that you keep the vows. When you understand this, you can truly understand the vows.
At this time, the two bhikshus who had broken the vows, after listening to the words of Vimala, immediately confessed their sins, and praised them as supreme wisdom, true Dharma precepts, and unmatched by Upa. Upali said that there is no shya, or bodhisattva, other than the Buddha, who can compare with the wisdom and eloquence of the Vimal monks. "Enlightened" means to be clear and accessible. The two bhikshus immediately swept away their doubts about the Dharma and immediately developed Mahayana bodhichitta and made a vow that all sentient beings would attain great wisdom. So Upori also said that he could not visit Vimal's illness.
In this chapter of discipleship, the Buddha sent his disciples to Vimalaya to inquire about the disease, that is, to visit the sick on behalf of the Buddha, but these disciples did not dare to go. We know that the ten most famous monks of the Buddha mentioned here all have their own strengths, and Sariputta is the first in wisdom, and the first in wisdom is the one who has attained enlightenment, but he has been refuted by Vimala monks that wisdom is not the first; The Venerable Mulian has the first supernatural power, and after the admonition of the Vimal monks, the first supernatural power is gone; The Mahakāya represents the head of the monks, the ascetics; Subodhi talks about emptiness first, and when they see emptiness, they can't do it; Then Mahakaljan, the first discussion, the first study of the sutras of thought, the first of the Analu Heavenly Eyes, the first of the precepts, and the first of the precepts, now they have all become the second, and there is not even the second, which is very serious.
Now there are still two firsts left, one is the Buddha's son Rahula, who is the first in tantric practice and the first in secret practice, how can it be secret? No one has said it, and the Buddha has not said it, but before the Buddha Shakyamuni Nirvana, he ordered four great disciples to stay in the world, and those who should still be alive are his son Rahula, one is the Venerable Dakya, the first generation of Zen Buddhism, one is the Venerable Bintou Lu, and the other is the great arhat of Jun Tu Bo.
Rahula was the son of the Buddha, and it is strange that his mother was six years pregnant after the Buddha became a monk. China's Lao Tzu, according to legend, was conceived in his mother's womb for eighty-one years, and when he was born, his beard and eyebrows were white, and he was old in his mother's womb, so he was called Lao Tzu, and he didn't know what his surname was, and his mother gave birth to him under the Li tree, so he was surnamed Li. According to legend, there is a reason for the incident, and there is no evidence. These are all secrets that can never be explained in the world, so there are many questions about what Rahula's secret is.