At that time, the Bodhisattva of the world of incense came, and the white Buddha said: At that time, the Bodhisattva from the world of incense asked the Buddha with his palms.

"World-honored, when we first saw this land, we had bad thoughts. Now I repent and give up my heart. So what? The convenience of the Buddhas is incredible. For the sake of sentient beings, the Buddha is different according to its needs. ”

The text is concise, but there are a couple of twists.

These bodhisattvas said, "World-honored one! I'm sorry! We came down from the world above, and our first impression of this place was very poor, and we looked down on it. Now I feel regretful, and I also blame myself for looking down on others. This mentality is no longer there, because we now understand that all the convenient methods of Buddhahood are not something that we can imagine, and that in order to educate a certain type of being, the environment in which the Buddha kingdom appears will be different.

These bodhisattvas are actually practicing the precepts, what precepts? Repentance. To reveal is to confess the mistake in front of everyone. Repentance is not to make the same mistakes again.

"Only". Reading that only to make a circle, this is Shakyamuni Buddha's answer, well! Good! The Buddha allowed the Bodhisattvas of the incense world to repent.

"World-honored, may the Shaofa be given, and return it to the other land, and remember it." The bodhisattvas also said, "World-honored One, please also pass on a little bit of the Dharma to us, so that we can bring it back to the world above us, and we can also recite the teachings of the Buddha."

These bodhisattvas also rarely come down once, so they make this request.

This "when the reading is like coming" four words are used well, we often engage in text work to read here, two circles are not enough, this is a sentence and three passes.

If it is one of the titles of the Buddha, there is also a meaning that seems to have come, and it is the heart and mind that there is a Buddha, and the words can be explained no matter how they are explained, this is the translation!

Where is it like today's translation article, I don't understand it, so I asked the translator, and he actually said, let me think about it, his brother himself didn't understand it!

Good! Now the Buddha is going to speak to the bodhisattvas who come from outside, that is, to us.

All the way to the Vimala Sutra, Vimala lay people have performed so many incredible realms, which is a divine change, and it is the result of sufficient merits in practice. Now the Buddha is going to tell you how to practice.

Next, the Buddha said how to practice.

The Buddha told the Bodhisattvas: There are endless ways to liberate, and you should learn."

As mentioned earlier, the order of Theravada practice is to be determined by keeping the precepts, from being fixed to attaining wisdom, and only after attaining wisdom can we be liberated, and after liberation, we can be liberated from what we know and see. Therefore, to study Buddhism is to learn liberation. If the more you learn, the more difficult it is to get along with others, and the more problems and troubles you have, then it is not learning to be liberated, but learning to be out of touch.

Studying Buddhism is the study of wisdom, and even the most complex environment can be transformed into peace, and the troubles in the heart can be liberated. Don't learn the Buddha as soon as you want to become greater, and you want to seek Bodhi, and you want to get rid of illness and prolong your life, and you want the Buddha to add merits, and you want to bless you to be promoted and rich. Some fellow Taoists even asked me why he meditated so hard and worshiped the Buddha so hard and caught a cold. I have to say, "Well, maybe the Dharma doesn't work." Is this liberating? Really!

The Buddha told these bodhisattvas, "There are endless ways to liberate," but what is it that comes to an end and never ends?

The Buddha said, "You should learn this method of liberation." Next, the Buddha talks about what "endless" is.

"What is exhaustion? It is said that there is a way to do it. What is Endless? It is said that there is no way to do anything".

This is the first definition. Buddhism is summarized into the Dharma of Doing and the Dharma of Non-doing. We worship the Buddha, chant mantras, participate in meditation, and so on, and even practice qigong, all of which are promising methods, and there is a method to practice.

All sentient beings seek supernatural powers, seek enlightenment, as long as you think about it in your heart, it is already a Fa.

For example, all worldly laws, religion, philosophy, science, and so on are all promising laws. If you don't come to this world and go up to the mountain to cultivate alone, is it a way to do nothing? Not yet. Before enlightenment, there is a dharma, and "exhaustion" is the dharma.