Chapter 939: Why Study Buddhism (6)
The great bodhisattvas will also be reborn in the animal path, which is to facilitate the cultivation of animal beings, not the result of ignorance and slowness, but compassion, which is called walking in the non-path. So someone asked me what religion I believed, and I said that I believed in sleep. I'm not qualified to be a Buddhist, because I'm not a good person, and I'm not too bad, but I'm definitely not a good person.
It is very difficult for a good person who is really good enough to follow the right path, and it is even more difficult to go against the path from the right path, and only a bodhisattva is qualified to go against the path.
Although he spends all living beings in the animal realm, there is no ignorance, there is no end to ignorance, there is no ignorance, there is no ignorance, and of course there is no compromise, but absolute compassion.
Because of great compassion, he dared to enter the animal path to save sentient beings.
The drinking water in our world looks very pure, but in the eyes of heaven and man, it is extremely turbid. Therefore, the Chinese Taoist book says that there is a kind of stone slurry in the ground, like milk flowing from stones, which is drunk by celestial beings, and if we can drink a sip, our bodies will become like jade, and we will never eat and we will live forever.
"Do no evil, but do all good." The Boy Scout's slogan: "One good deed a day" is good, and we must do something good every day, no matter how big or small. Can you do what a Boy Scout can do every day?
He also said that he was cultivating, how ashamed! Because the bodhisattva has accumulated immeasurable merits, he dares to transform sentient beings in the path of hungry ghosts, which is the path of the bodhisattva.
Those who are practicing the Dharma are talking about the kung fu of precepts, concentration, and wisdom, and that they should stop their desires, rise up, and transcend the realm of desires.
Regardless of whether it is a Hinayana practice, if you do not reach the realm of meditation, it is a vain practice. What is the state of meditation? It is to stop all delusions and afflictions, to stop greed, hatred, ignorance and slowness, and to cultivate to the realm of the three meditation heavens before ascending to another realm.
This has been talked about a lot in the course of learning only knowledge, and I hope you will pay special attention to it.
Although becoming a Buddha is "jumping out of the Three Realms and not in the Five Elements", there is no Fourth Realm, where did he go? It is the Three Realms and the Six Realms that are arbitrary and free, and they are the Great Freedom. But don't think you're winning, don't be self-righteous. If you think you have attained enlightenment, then you will fall into demons. The mind of a person who has truly attained the Tao is very ordinary.
People who practice the bodhisattva path sometimes behave more than ordinary people's greedy desires, and this desire is in a broad sense, not just the desires of men and women. Among the fifty-three ginseng that is equal to the good wealth boy, there is a great bodhisattva called the King of Insatiable Feet, who is greedy for everything and has no time to be satisfied.
In fact, when we study Buddhism, we learn the route of insatiable contentment, such as the four vows that we recite in the morning and evening, take one of them: "The Dharma is immeasurable vow to learn", may I ask how many methods have you learned? If you don't want to learn this, it's too difficult to learn like that, and you don't have time. Those who really want to learn the Dharma must learn "insatiable contentment", and there is no time for complacency when learning in and out of the world is omniscient.
You think you're going to listen to everything, but you're not stained. That's learning the way of animals, and not remembering it is stupidity, which is very serious.
If you don't dye it, you will gain wisdom, and then throw it away.
If you don't have wisdom, you can't talk about being unstained, it's ignorance. Therefore, the bodhisattva path shows greed, but it is not stained, you may meet these people on the occasion of singing and dancing, you should not despise any sentient being! The praise of the "Huayan Sutra" has a cloud: "The three virtues have been clear and greedy, and the restaurant flower cave is drunk with immortals", the Dharma body, liberation, and prajna are the three virtues, with these three virtues, understand the edge of greed, and be qualified to go to these places in the restaurant. The bodhisattva has attained bodhi, and even in greed he is still not defiled.