Those who study Buddhism should not have the view that life is eternal, and it is not very certain. The life and death that most people think of is called segmented life and death in Buddhism, so the six reincarnations of ordinary people are segmented, no matter how long they live, they are only a segment of the whole life.

People who have obtained the arhat fruit can predict life and death, and can even decide to live for hundreds of years or thousands of years, so they think that they have no birth and death, but in fact they are still in life and death, and in Buddhism they are changing life and death.

To be able to leave the segmented life and death, remove the change of life and death, and return to the fundamental Dao body of one's own life, so that it is immortal and imperishable, and it can barely be called life and death.

Our being, the root of immortality and immortality, has a name, and those who have attained enlightenment have attained this called Dharmakaya.

The Dharmakaya was originally extinguished and pure, and it was not cultivated by us. Cultivating it will also extinguish purity, and if you don't cultivate it, you will also extinguish purity, and the so-called nature is the same. For example, if there are many high-rise buildings built in our city, it does not hinder this void, and if the city returns to desolation in the future, this void will still be the same.

The Dharmakaya is like a void, unborn and imperishable. Why can't we know that we are in the Dharmakaya, just this physical body? Because of our habit, we regard the small as the big, and grasping the small as the foundation of life.

Zen Buddhism explains the mind-seeingness, and it is the mind that sees, not the mind, not the mind. The clearest explanation of this truth is in the Lengyan Sutra, where the Buddha told Ananda that our life is omnipresent in the void and the Dharma realm, but ordinary beings are perverted and do not recognize this life, but only the body. It's like not recognizing the sea, but only recognizing a small blister on the sea as itself.

The "Yuanjue Sutra" also says that sentient beings vainly believe that the four major physical aspects are their own appearance (the physical body of the four false combinations is their own), and they vainly believe that the shadow of the six dusts is their own mental aspect (thinking that their thoughts are the mind, but in fact the thoughts are only the second and third reflections of the body).

The Bodhisattva said that ordinary people look at the physical body very closely, and when the physical body is broken, they think it is two things.

Zhuangzi also told an analogy, there was a young lady in Lirong Li Ji was very beautiful, the country was destroyed, she was dedicated to Jin Xiangong, she was so afraid that she cried and cried at that time. In ancient times, once you entered the palace, you could only rely on your ancestors to accumulate virtue, and one day you could be selected as a concubine by the emperor, otherwise you might die in the palace for the rest of your life, and you won't even be able to go home.

Later, this young lady was really selected as a concubine and enjoyed the grace, thinking about the fear at that time, I thought it was funny. Zhuangzi said that everyone in the world is afraid of death, but if it is better after death than before death, they will feel that they are very unreasonable to be afraid when they die.

In fact, life and death are not only experienced when the body is broken, we ordinary people experience life and death every day, and sleeping every night is a life and death.

Further, the cells in our body are born and die at any time because of their metabolism, so the body is constantly changing, and it is in life and death at any time.

Therefore, there is nothing terrible about life and death, it is like changing houses to live in, and the cultivation is successful, just like a rich person changing to a new house, and has no attachment to the old house. The one who didn't get rich and was kicked out by others, I don't know how reluctant I am to my old house!

To truly understand that our life is not this physical body, which is to realize the Dharmakaya, to see emptiness, to see self-nature, to see reality.

If you don't have enlightenment, then all your merits in studying Buddhism are in the preliminaries, and you can only cultivate the Tao after seeing the Tao.

What is the appearance of reality? Originally, it was pure, it was phaseless, it was empty. Therefore, purity is the Dharmakaya, and perfection is the retribution. The existing body of our ordinary people is the karmic body. It is good karma, and this life is blessed; If bad karma comes, the good fortune will not be good.

To become a Buddha and attain the Tao is to have a complete rebirth, thirty-two phases and eighty kinds of goodness, and all merits are complete. Only when we see the pure Dharma body of emptiness can we start cultivating and complete the body. After the completion of the reincarnation, of course, there will be hundreds of billions of incarnations.