The Buddha said that all the Dharma, whether it is Mahayana, Hinayana or Sutra, Esoteric Buddhism, or the Three Tibetan Twelve Divisions, is not attached to existence or emptiness. In this case, why use non-existence and non-existence? No, no, no, doesn't tell you it's absolutely empty; No, no, not nothing, without telling you that there is absolutely yes. The Buddha said that all the Dharma, all the phenomena in the world, and even the thoughts of our ordinary people, are all the Dharma of cause and effect. The method of causal arising is the dependent voidness mentioned in the Chinese Mahayana, also known as dependent arising emptiness. The word karma used here is not the cause of the 12 karma, and it is very difficult to understand. In Chinese characters, karma is the motive cause, and the fate is the climbing. "Margin" is a continuous relationship with the movement of the cause. For example, when we speak, the meaning of the previous sentence is the cause, and the meaning of the next sentence is the cause.

Cause and effect are like a circle, with no beginning and no end, and it is always continuous. For example, the ashtray in the hand, which is made of chemicals and glass as raw materials, plus heat energy and artificiality, is pressed out in a mold, which is born of karma, and has no material nature, and when the causes and conditions are gathered, it constitutes this thing; If it is broken, the karma is scattered, and it will not be this thing. If it wasn't called an ashtray at the beginning, it would be called something else now, and the noun has no self-nature. It's the same when we're here. Therefore, the two principles of cause and effect are dependent arising and emptiness; Everything is born of karma; Nothing has a self-nature, no possibility or nature of its own automatic existence. In other words, the action of all things is the powerful cause; The continuous effect that develops from it is the cause.

Later generations analyzed the law of cause and effect, and it became the law of cognition, which has four conditions. Cause itself is a factor, for example, in this lecture, I want to talk about the cause, and you come to listen to it, but this cause itself is called kinship. The second factor is the increase in the upper edge, as the soil is to the plant seeds. For example, the physical and mental genetic traits of parents, and the family and social environment are all the increasing conditions of the seed. If this seed is good, all the outer edges, whether good or evil, will nurture him to go on the path of goodness; If this seed is felt by bad karma, all the encounters are bad karma.

To use the analogy of the lecture just now, I will move with one thought: Let's talk about the Vimala Sutra! This is "kinship." There is such a powerful idea, a notice, and everyone is destined to get together, and here it is.

Because some people have listened to the scriptures, they have a clear understanding of their hearts and understand the Tao, and this environment is their ascending edge. He realized that the Tao was not given to him by the Buddha, nor was it given to him by the teacher, but it was the explosion of his own nature and caste, and when he encountered good knowledge, he encountered Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and such an increase in the cause caused him to have a clear mind.

The leading edge becomes the posterior, and the latter becomes the antecedent, and the chain of the dependent is continuous, which is the "dependent edge". From this relationship, there are three lifetimes of cause and effect, which are like turning in a circle forever and continuously, and if there is good root and wisdom in the previous life, this life will become better when it encounters the increase of the upper edge, so that the fate of the continuous relationship will go to promote the Dharma and give merit. This dependent relationship, through the union of the three conditions, brings to the growth of the good roots of his life in the next life, which is "equal and infernal", and equal is the rotation of equality, and inferno is the cause and effect without gaps.

Ordinary beings have accumulated a lot of good and evil karma, and after becoming a Buddha, this karma will not be broken, and even the enemies of the family and family that they have formed in the past have become the dependents of the good karma in this life. There is a saying: "Before you become a Buddha, you must first become popular." If you have attained the Tao and want to save sentient beings, if you don't have enough merit and dharma, you still can't save people. It's the same with those who want to study Buddhism, if we don't have enough Dharma and merit, we won't be able to touch good knowledge. Even if you do, you will naturally leave, or there will be obstacles. So you have to cultivate your own karma.

He explained the principle of cause and effect, and understood that all dharma arises from cause and effect, that there is no master, and that there is no god or destiny to govern. There are many superstitious people who often say that because you don't worship a certain bodhisattva, you are condemned, and this is not the Dharma, because the bodhisattva is your master. Bodhisattvas have to live no matter whether they are destined or not, and they have to educate bad people, how can they punish you for not worshipping him? What is this a bodhisattva? Don't say that it is the master of superman, even an old person, or a person with moral cultivation, will tolerate others, can't a bodhisattva even compare with such a mind? There is no master of all the laws, so does it come naturally? If it comes naturally, it becomes materialism. Therefore, all dharmas have no master, they are not natural, they are born of karma. The principle of karma is the foundation of all Buddhism.

"There is no self, no creation and no recipient", all dharma causes are born empty, so there is no self in all dharmas, everything in the universe is born of causes, there is no creator, and there is no recipient. Selflessness, non-creation, and non-receiving are the three most important points of Buddhism's emphasis on emptiness. Let's use our own lives to investigate, now that we are sitting here, if we talk about selflessness, we are probably just talking, obviously thinking that there is me sitting here, how can we say that there is no self? With all the various kinds of kung fu that you have learned, can you do it without self when you meditate? The better I work, the stronger I am become, and I think "I" is the greatest.