Chapter 785: Eight Grades

After Shi Ru finished saying the seven products, he paused for a moment, and must have given a cup of Zen tea, he took two sips, cleared his throat, and then turned to a certain question, as if asking: "Pure karma ......"

He must have followed his example: "What is the ...... of pure karma?" ”

Shi Ru laughed and said, "The accumulation of pure karma for a long time is immeasurable", and the practice accumulated in many lifetimes will reach the realm of immeasurable achievement and become a Buddha. Pure karma is not good karma, and good and evil are like one yin and one yang, which are relative. Pure karma is the absence of both good and evil, without attachment, non-existence and non-emptiness, and even emptiness and emptiness. The realm of the Buddha is pure karma, and all the Buddhas of the Ten Directions and the Third World are pure lands, because the heart is pure, the land is pure.

As a teacher, he leads all sentient beings to enter the nirvana of silence, so he prostrates to the Buddha. Silence or nirvana is not death, it is beyond purity and serenity, it is pure nature in incomparably turbidity and incomparably turmoil. It's like when you go to the top of a peak, when there is no wind and no sound, you are close to the realm of silence. But when you get there, or enter this state in meditation, you may feel terrible.

"Seeing that the great sage has changed with his gods, he has manifested the immeasurable land of the ten directions", and he has seen that all the supernatural powers displayed by the Buddha are universally presented in the immeasurable and boundless land of the ten directions, and they are omnipresent. When it comes to supernatural powers, everyone thinks of strange things. Divine power is the understanding of human beings and gods, and when a person cultivates to the point where his spirit transcends matter, and his spirit is connected with the concept of heaven, earth, and the universe and the Dharma realm, all kinds of changes will naturally occur. Therefore, we should not use the consciousness delusion of the ordinary realm to casually seek supernatural powers. If the Buddha's supernatural powers are omnipresent, why can't we see them? For example, if the sun is always at the zenith and we cannot see it at night, it is not because the sun does not shine on the earth, but because our place is turned away from the sun. So we can't see the supernatural powers of the Buddha, we can't see our own nature, because our delusions, our afflictions, our karma are hindering.

I have found that some people listen to the scriptures but do not read them, and they think they remember them, so they never open the words. Literal intelligence must have come from reading the Bible, and it is impossible to open up textual intelligence just by playing with it, thinking that the ears will understand it after listening to it. Shi Ru looked at Zhang Cambodia, who seemed to be asleep, closed his eyes and recuperated, shook his head, and was about to continue talking, how did he know that Zhang Cambodia's heart was very sober, "Where is the scriptures?" The old man wants to see it for himself! ”

Shi Ru suddenly heard Zhang Cambodia say this, knowing that he had met a master, he even said, "Good, forgive the poor monk for his words." ”

After Shi Ru apologized, he continued: "Among them, the Buddhas speak the Dharma, so everything is seen and heard", in the immeasurable land of the ten directions, all the Buddhas are saying the Dharma at any time, and all living beings can only see and hear when their eyes are pure and their hearts are pure, which returns to the first two sentences of the previous two sentences, "The eyes are pure and the cultivation is as wide as the green lotus, and the heart is pure and has been through all meditations", and it is natural to see and hear the Buddhas of the Ten Directions in the Dharma.

Zen Buddhism, the center of Mahayana Buddhism in China, is based on the Vimala Sutra as the most important basis, and the following is a very important center:

"The Dharma King is superior in mana, and he often uses the Dharma wealth to do everything", the Dharma King is another name for the Buddha, and the Buddha is the king of all the worldly Dharma, this Dharma should not be regarded as making mudras, reciting mantras, knocking on wooden fish, or making some strange visualizations in the heart; The true voidness of the Dharma's dependent origination, which is not visible at the present, is the Great Secret Dharma. The power of the Buddha surpasses all sentient beings, not what sentient beings can imagine, and all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of good knowledge often give alms with Dharma and wealth, pay attention to the word "constant".