Chapter 1027: Being Able to Do Buddha Deeds (4)
Shakyamuni Buddha said the Dharma for 49 years in his life, and introduced a lot of Buddha land, which is really admirable in this regard, and the Buddha did not say that he was great.
The first precept of the Mahayana Bodhisattva is not to praise and slander him, and if he violates this vow, he is not qualified to study Buddhism.
Some people don't praise and slander him, but they will do it indirectly, for example, when asked how someone is, they answer, he, I have no opinion! It seems that he is very Taoist and does not speak ill of others, but this attitude is worse than scolding.
The Buddha's land is different, and according to the different teachings and achievements of each Buddha, the realm of the Buddha's land is different. With this principle in place, there is no need to elaborate on the Buddha's land mentioned in the scriptures.
Or there is a pure Buddha land, lonely without words, without saying or showing, without knowledge and without doing Buddha deeds.
Some Buddha lands are pure, lonely and speechless, in case you reach that realm, can you stand it? It's hard, I'm afraid.
The older we get, the more we want to find someone to talk to, to find an audience. There is no one to talk about, but I am still talking in my heart, and I can't stop thinking about it.
Studying Buddhism is really absolutely pure, but you will be afraid, you must be able to enjoy purity, enjoy loneliness, and then you can learn Buddhism.
I have a friend who is very old, very knowledgeable, and has been studying Buddhism for decades, and he is very knowledgeable and well-known outside, and he came to see me last year, and said that he went to someone's ashram abroad, and there was only one person there, and they wanted him to stay, but he refused.
I asked why? He said that he only stayed for one night, and when he got up in the morning, he saw the master kneeling alone in the room and chanting Buddha, the scene was so sad and lonely, he couldn't stand it, so he refused to stay. When I heard that, I said, "That's a great man."
Putting aside whether the practice can achieve a pure Buddha land for the time being, it is not easy to be lonely and speechless.
How can we be lonely and speechless? Master Cangxue has a poem that says: "It's not about resting on the mind and getting rid of delusions, it's just because there's nothing to think about.
There is no trouble, there is no matter, there is no good or evil, there is no bitterness and happiness, this is loneliness and speechlessness. It's not that there is no speech in the mouth, but there is no voice in the heart.
"Nothing is said, nothing is said", nothing is expressed. "Ignorance" has no conscious effect, which is the consciousness of the sixth consciousness. "No action", no intention, is the intention of five times.
No matter if you practice the Pure Land, Zen Buddhism, or Tantra, if you can do this, it is the Buddha realm. If you do Buddha things without doing anything, the pure Dharma body of the Buddha will appear, which is also the enlightened state of Zen Buddhism, that is, the true pure land, the pure land of the heart.
This passage of the Buddha is a point question, today's young people do not understand the question, in the past, people took the test of famous articles, read the topic, and the first sentence written by the pen was to point the question, that is, to be able to grasp the topic, and the topic was broken, which is also called breaking the question.
If so, Ananda, the Buddhas' majesty and deeds are nothing but Buddha's deeds.
Prestige is attitude, the behavior of life, summed up in the four majesty of walking, living, sitting and lying.
There are many people who don't even look like they are walking, or they are cowering, how can they still be majestic?
Advance and stop is to advance and retreat, the traditional education of Central Plains culture, at the age of six, enter primary school to learn to sweep, respond, advance and retreat, that is, to learn to be a person and do things. In the past building, when you enter someone's living room, you can clearly distinguish which is the main seat and which is the guest seat.
Today's home furnishings are different, and many families don't even know which is the main seat and which is the guest seat even by the host himself. Those who really study Buddhism must understand the majesty of the precedents, and this is all a Buddhist thing.
Giving is the act of doing, here giving is not giving, it is expressed, and acting is acting.
Doing nothing is not a Buddha thing. There are 500 Arhat halls in some temples in the Central Plains, and the statues of those Arhats are well molded, and no two Arhats have the same face, and each posture is different. This means that each posture can be settled, and it is not necessary to meditate.
If it can only be determined in one posture, and it cannot be determined by changing postures, then it is not called fixed. It must be everywhere, so everything you do is nothing more than a Buddha thing.