Chapter 886: Ninety-five Grades
"Stop all afflictions, all obstacles, all bad dharmas, and all good karma." Each of these is a precept.
Why become a monk? Why study Buddhism? Can you stop all your troubles? In my experience, many people don't have much trouble if they don't study Buddhism, but after they really become monks and study Buddhism, they don't stop all their troubles, as if they are cut off by all their troubles, as if they have cut off their good roots.
It is very sad that the troubles of learning the Buddha are even greater.
The Chinese translation of the Buddhist scriptures is very good, the word "trouble" is very good, trouble is not pain, pain sometimes has, sometimes there is not; Troubles are inseparable at any time.
Today you have no temper at all, there is no joy or sorrow at all, what is depressed in your heart is trouble, and today you are very happy and troubled.
Annoying, there is confusion, it is to confuse you.
Annoyance is to disturb your mind and make your mind unclear.
Because we don't understand the terms of these translations, it is wrong to interpret affliction as suffering in the dictionary of the self.
In Buddhism, suffering is the suffering of the way of suffering, and it is easy to relieve suffering, but it is not easy to relieve troubles.
Joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, all emotional changes belong to troubles.
For example, when we meditate, the first obstacle is that our legs do not listen to the command, and after sitting for a long time, we get numb and our buttocks can't sit still.
Is it a psychological or physical obstacle that you can't sit still? This is to be studied.
Why do my legs go numb? Because after sitting for a long time, the qi and blood do not circulate.
Why not circulation? Because it's been pressed for too long.
Further, this body is the result of the karma of the seed of the alayya, which is the karmic obstacle.
So we have to get rid of all obstacles, even all the bad dharma, and generate all good karma. These are all Dharma almsgiving and Dharma offerings.
"In order to obtain all wisdom, all good dharma, all the Dharma to help the Buddha." This is the final conclusion.
All of our studies are in pursuit of all wisdom, such as the four vows of doing homework in the morning and evening: "The Dharma is immeasurably vowed to learn", which methods do you understand?
Don't think that you are here to learn Zen Buddhism with me, I don't admit it, I haven't taught Zen Buddhism, because no one here is qualified to learn it, you can only be regarded as learning Zen, but you haven't even learned Zen well.
I don't blush when I recite the "Dharma Immeasurable Vow to Learn" every day, I think your concentration is too high.
When I mentioned this kind of sentence, my heart trembled, shivered, and I was very sad.
"Endless troubles vow to break", can it be broken?
As for the "boundless vows of all beings", don't brag about it.
I'll help you add a comment to each sentence:
"The Dharma is immeasurably vowed to learn" – too lazy;
"Endless troubles, vows to break" - thought to the heart;
"Boundless vows of all beings" - bragging;
"The supreme vow of the Buddha path is fulfilled" – take your time.
Attention! Even if you get all the wisdom and cultivate all the good Dharma, it is just from all the "Helping Buddha Method", it is just a helping product for learning Buddha, and it is just a method of helping, which is equivalent to processing raw materials, you are not a Buddha yet, and you are still far from it.
Don't be arrogant, don't be arrogant if you know a little bit of Buddhism, this is the most obstacle path.
Vimal is a lay Buddha, he is the incarnation of Jinsu Nyorai, that is, the Buddha of Miaoxi, who has been a Buddha for a long time.
This sutra is his precept to the Bodhisattva of Good Virtue at that time, and now I will summarize it:
"Yes, good man! It is for the Dharma. If the bodhisattva dwells in the Dharma Society, he is the great benefactor and the blessed land of all the worlds. "Here he is telling the Bodhisattva of Good Virtue that what I just said is the real Dharma giving and Dharma offerings.
A person who learns the Mahayana Bodhisattva path can do such a Dharma giving at any time to be a great benefactor.
Note! It's not that you give two dollars, or even donate hundreds or thousands of gold bars, it's just a financial charity, and you are the benefactor of the world's law.
The real great benefactor is the Buddha, who gives wisdom.
If we really do the Dharma and give alms, it is the blessed field of all the worlds.
"World-honored! When Vimala said the Dharma, there were 200 Brahmins in the crowd, and all of them developed the three bodhichittas. "The Bodhisattva said, "After the Vimala monk taught me this, 200 of the Brahmins on the spot, the highest caste in India, were influenced by him and had the heart of supreme enlightenment and seeking the Buddha's path.