Chapter 947: All Buddhas are born of wisdom
All teachers are all Buddhas, teachers of all beings in heaven and in the world. All Buddhas are born of wisdom and convenience. At the beginning of this article, the focus of Mahayana Buddhism tells us that blind worship and superstition alone are not the ultimate Dharma, but only the preliminaries for ordinary people to move towards the right path, and the path to wisdom and merit and skillful convenience through slow practice. It means that we waited for the elevator to go upstairs and pressed the button, but the elevator has not yet come.
What is the family of a student of Buddhism? This doesn't have to be a secular family. Dharma happiness is husband and wife, and if you have a spouse, you may not be happy.
What is Fahi? The bodhisattva touches the wonderful happiness in the heart, and obtains the great concentration, not the small concentration, and the state of joy inside and outside the body and mind.
Compassion is her true daughter.
Kindness and honesty are his true sons.
If you have a good heart, you must be honest with people and everything, and cultivation is to cultivate this. Not only can you meditate, you will be able to pulsate, you will be able to emit light, you will be able to burn incense and worship the Buddha, these are just the skilful and convenient preliminary preliminaries of the method.
The scriptures are easy to understand, but understanding the texts is not the purpose of our study of the Vimala Sutra, but to use the scriptures to compare our daily thoughts and behaviors. When we turn our selfish love for our husbands and wives and children in our worldly families, we are filled with joy, compassion, and kindness, and this is the true family dependents.
But where is this home? This home is "empty and lonely after all". I am always in the realm of emptiness in my nature, and this is the real home. The Zen patriarch said that this is called "returning home and sitting firmly".
A few years ago, a fellow practitioner came to me and said that he had understood the principles of emptiness.
I said, you don't talk nonsense, what's the use of understanding theories?
To truly understand that things must come, and to live in the realm of sexual emptiness is to be uncertain, uncertain, and uncertain.
That's when the Dharma is full of joy, and the compassion is complete, after all, it's empty. This is our home, our wives and children.
The second question that the Bodhisattva asked Vimala was, where did your servant's property go?
This is his answer, and Dustloin is his servant. Dust is dust and trouble, and the Central Plains literature describes this world as red dust, which is the Central Plains culture, because the Central Plains is the red clay plateau, where the wind and sand are together, and the air is full of red dust.
Dust refers to this world, and labor refers to the labor of all beings in this world. Beings in the midst of dust have countless troubles every day.
The Buddha said that sentient beings have 84,000 afflictions in a single thought.
What is a thought?
A breath in and out is called a thought.
You say that you don't have so many troubles, I'm sorry, it's just that you can't check it out, and that's not enough to talk about studying Buddhism. Although you are studying Buddhism, you also go everywhere to listen to the scriptures, and you have a part in any activities, but you are just a Buddha oil, an old fritter in Buddhism, which is useless at all, and you don't know yourself clearly. If you can check it out if you have your own thoughts, you can be considered to have started studying Buddhism.
Vimala said that dustiness is my disciple, and I use dustiness to promote the growth of my Taoism, how can I say that I have no servants? I have servants everywhere!
The imam of Islam is called an imam, which is the palindromic title. It's also very interesting to study, and all the big things in the mantra are A-word, it's the opening sound, like the Christian prayer ending with Amen, Hum A-Huh, Amitabha, Imam.
There is a Muslim story about a king who shot a deer while hunting, and the deer fled with an arrow to a cave, where an old imam was practicing and the imam covered the deer with his own clothes. One of the king's entourage, a general, chased him and asked the imam if he had seen the wounded deer. After asking him many times, the imam ignored him. The general said, "If you don't open your mouth again, I'll kill you." The imam opened his eyes and asked, "Are you a subordinate of someone (whom calls the king by his name)?" The general was furious, saying that the imam was disrespectful to the king. The imam said, "The king is just a slave to my slaves, so why can't he be called by his name?" When the general was about to kill the imam, the king arrived, and the general reported the incident and said that the imam had deceived the king. The king asked the imam why he had said this. The imam said, "All people are slaves to their desires, and the desire of people to be kings is to rule the world and make the country strong, don't you think so?" And I, the cultivator, no longer have to listen to desires, it has to listen to me now. You, the king, listen to desires, so it is not wrong that you are a slave of my slaves. The king listened, and agreed. Then the imam said, "The deer has run away, and stop hunting it down, and stop being a slave to your desires." The king was so impressed that he worshipped the imam as his teacher. This story of Islam can be used to illustrate the "work of the disciples".