Chapter 795: Thirteen Grades (Part 2)

"Forbearance and humiliation is the Bodhisattva's Pure Land, and when the Bodhisattva becomes a Buddha, the thirty-two solemn beings will come to give birth to their country." When people see forbearance and humiliation, they think that they are being beaten and scolded, but that is just a superficial text and has nothing to do with it.

The real forbearance is eight words: "If it is difficult, it can be done, and if it is unbearable, it can be endured." "Our world is translated as the world of sampa, which means to be able to endure and endure.

People in this world have a particularly strong ability to endure all the sufferings of the material environment, because the world is not perfect.

It's so hot in the summer, like I'm practicing forbearance and humiliation now, and my throat is dry when I open my mouth to lecture and eat the cool air, and my back is sweating, and it's not comfortable.

There is only one will, that is, to tell others what you know and see, and whether you listen or not is your business, which is one of the acts of forbearance.

There are so many things day and night, and if you don't do it for yourself, you are also humiliating. Bodhisattvas in the world are all practicing forbearance, humiliation, and asceticism.

The "Diamond Sutra" says that the Buddha used to cut off the body of King Gori, and he was slowly cut by a knife, but he was still able to endure it, so it was achieved.

It's not that you are cut like a Buddha, we are all slowly being cut off in this world, and the bodhisattvas who start their hearts are sacrificing themselves.

To endure humiliation is to bear everything, and to bear what cannot be borne is to bear; If you can't do it, you're still doing it. When we go to the Buddha hall to recite the Buddha, we have to find a good place to sit down, and we have to strive for this kind of mentality, and this kind of mind becomes a problem.

Forbearance is the pure land of all bodhisattvas, and there are 32 phases of Buddha, 80 kinds of goodness, how did the solemnity of goodness come about?

It is achieved by forbearance and humiliation, not as some people say, offering flowers to the Buddha, and then you will grow beautiful in the next life, and then it will become a business.

"Diligence is the Bodhisattva's Pure Land, and when a Bodhisattva becomes a Buddha, he diligently cultivates all meritorious beings to be born in his country." What is True Diligence?

In a word, it means to diligently cultivate all merits. So all the scriptures are precepts. When we look at the Vimala Sutra, the precepts are all in it, each one is a precept, which one do we do?

How many minutes or hours do we spend studying Buddhism in 24 hours a day practicing all the merits? In addition to being greedy for comfort and raising himself with dozens of catties of meat, he did not diligently cultivate all merits.

How is this the practice of the Dharma? These verses are very clear and easy to understand, so why should I be so serious?

I want you not to think that it is easy to understand, but in fact, you don't understand it. That's not chanting sutras, it's creating karma, creating unremembered karma, what kind of retribution will you get?

Idiot! Reap the rewards of foolishness. If you don't meditate, the retribution is very serious. That's why I remind you everywhere that every sentence and word must be learned and pondered.

The Pure Land mentioned in the Vimala Sutra includes all the Pure Lands of all the Buddhas of the Ten Directions and the Third World, unlike the Amitabha Sutra, which specifically refers to the Pure Land of the Western Blissful World, the only difference is this, but the principles and principles are the same.

"Meditation is the Bodhisattva's Pure Land, and when the Bodhisattva becomes a Buddha, he will not disturb severing beings in his kingdom." This tells us very clearly that the principle of meditation is

The four words "the mind is not chaotic" means that the heart is controlled in one place, and the distracting thoughts and delusions are controlled in one place. For example, cultivating the Pure Land and reciting Nan Wu Amitabha Buddha is not disturbed, that is, the mind is in one place, and the heart is in the sentence Nan Wu Amitabha.

For example, if you cultivate the concept of white bones, this thought stops at the white bones. Meditation is a principle of meditation, and when we meditate, we covet a pure, comfortable, and serene mind, which seems to be fixed, but in fact, we are not single-minded, and it is not really meditation.

True cultivation is initially with a mind, not without a mind. Ordinary people are so ambitious, they want to be empty when they come up, they don't care about anything, they sit very comfortably, and they think that this is cultivation.

This is drowsy, not fixed! The more you cultivate, the more blank your mind becomes, and the more you cultivate, the worse your body becomes.