From now on, Vimala will talk about how to learn Buddhism in our world.

It's easy to read, and everyone understands it, but it's hard to do.

The truth here has a lot to do with the moral system of the Oriental world.

Vimala said: This land bodhisattva is strong in compassion for all sentient beings, as he said.

Here Vimala first makes the point that the great bodhisattvas who practice in this world have great compassion for all sentient beings, and this is true.

He affirmed the Bodhisattva of the Buddha Country of Xiangji and his admiration for the Bodhisattva of our world. The four words "as it is said" later became an idiom, which is from the Vimala Sutra.

He only used great compassion, not great compassion.

There is also a difference between the meaning of compassion and compassion, compassion is paternal love, and compassion is maternal love.

All people can be called bodhisattvas, because the bodhisattvas on earth have the qualifications to be bodhisattvas.

If we aspire to learn Buddhism, we are naturally bodhisattvas, and we should have great compassion for all sentient beings, and it is a very strong great compassion, and we should not push great compassion on the bodhisattvas.

In Western culture, love is similar to great compassion, and it is similar to the Confucian word benevolence.

Lao Tzu doesn't use the word "benevolence", he criticizes benevolence very much, he uses compassion, so compassion, compassion, benevolence, and love are all the same truth.

According to the Vimala Sutra here, we recall that all the religions in the world, all the philosophers, all the educators, the first step is to develop compassion and love.

"However, one life will benefit all sentient beings, more than a hundred thousand calamities in other countries." But the bodhisattvas of this world who sacrifice themselves for others (no matter what route you take, you don't have to follow the religious, social, or educational route) are more meritorious than those who practice in other pure lands.

"So what? There are ten good things in this world of sava, and there is nothing in the rest of the Pure Land. "What reason? There are ten good karmic paths, ten good dharmas, which are the basis of Buddhism and are not found in other Pure Lands.

There is no such thing in the Western Elysium, or in the Eastern Medicine Master Liuliguang Pure Land, because there is no need for it.

The 12 Great Vows of Medicine Guru Nyorai are similar to the Ten Good Karmic Paths, but they are not identical.

Saying that there are no other pure lands, this is only half of what has been said, is it necessary to cultivate the lower grades? This is a question that needs to be pondered.

"What are the ten virtues? Suppressing poverty with generosity, destroying the forbidden with pure precepts, relieving anger with forbearance, relieving slackness with diligence, reminding chaos with meditation, and regulating foolishness with wisdom, saying that those who overcome the eight difficulties with the method of eliminating difficulties, those who enjoy the Hinayana with the Mahayana method, those who have no virtue with the roots of all goodness, and always achieve sentient beings with the four receptacles, are the ten virtues. ”

He began to talk about the ten kinds of good karma. First there are six degrees, and then there are four more. We have fellow practitioners who are about to write an essay on the Ten Virtuous Karmic Paths, isn't it a good topic?

If you figure out how they relate to Eastern culture, it's already a very big topic.

Speaking of the East and the West, there is a very interesting phenomenon in world culture, where the leaders of the five major religions are all from the East.

The whereabouts of Jesus were mysterious, and some modern scholars have presented evidence that he went to India to study Buddhism in those years.

It is even said that there is a scripture in the palace of the Dalai Lama in Tibet, which mentions that a Taoist returned to preach, but because others objected, he was crucified.

Are you saying that this information is fake? I don't think so! Do you think this is true? It can only be said that there is a reason for it.

Take the first sentence as an example, "Treating poverty with generosity" is not only something that is being done in the East, but also by everyone, because it was said above that "the bodhisattvas of this land are united and strong in all sentient beings." It's not just Buddhism that is doing it, just take Confucianism and Taoism in Dongtu as an example, they all teach people like this.

The idea of sacrificing oneself for others, caring for the elderly and the poor, and helping the people was not just started when Buddhism entered the Central Plains, but was found in the Four Books and Five Classics. If you understand this, you will understand that there is no Buddha in the land!