Life and death must depend on one's own nature, one's own life and death.

Merit is not to give money and charity, but to have a clear view of one's own mind, and when the practice is reached, merit and wisdom will be achieved, and only then can life and death be achieved.

Therefore, you can understand that the true realization of life and death is not to be fully understood. In the Western Elysium, I went to study abroad, because there were several masters there: Amitabha, Avalokiteshvara, and Dashi Zhi, and they were teaching day and night, and whether they went to practice with them, or did you wait until your merits arrived, and you saw your own nature, then it was considered a achievement.

Manjushri then asked, "Where should a bodhisattva dwell if he wants to rely on the power of merit that comes from this?" ”

Manjushri Bodhisattva is really powerful, and he asked step by step.

If you want to live and die, you must see your own nature, and since you want to see your own nature, where you should live, you must live in it.

Mahayana does not talk about determination, but it means to stay.

Although you are not enlightened, can you answer the question of where you should live?

No one answered?

It is too humble, and I will help you answer: "You should have no place to live and give birth to your heart." ”

However, Vimala's reply did not use the Diamond Sutra.

He replied, "Bodhisattvas who want to make merit according to the same can live and get rid of all sentient beings." ”

He said, "Where should you live?"

It is to dwell in the realm of all sentient beings.

How is this different from the Diamond Sutra?

The Diamond Sutra says, "If oviparous, viviparous, wet...... I'm going to let it go into nirvana and extinguish it", right?

The Sixth Patriarch also tells you in the "Altar Sutra" that sentient beings should "self-control", their own thoughts, and even the cells and bacteria in their own bodies are all sentient beings, all of which make them in the same realm of emptiness and see emptiness.

He also asked, "What should I do if I want to save all living beings?" ”

Manjushri asked again, what should be removed to save all the beings in the heart?

"I want to save all living beings, and get rid of their troubles."

Every day, you recite "the boundless vow of all beings in your heart, and the endless vow of your own troubles", you can only save yourself, and no Buddha or Bodhisattva can help you.

Then he asked, "What should you do if you want to get rid of your troubles?" ”

Manjushri then asked, "What method should I practice to stop my afflictions?" ”

He replied, "Do mindfulness." ”

Then he asked, "How can the clouds be in mindfulness?" ”

He replied, "Deeds are immortal." ”

It's right now, don't you understand?

We have a Zhang Jushi here, and he wrote an article called "The Heart of the Buddha", which I particularly admire, which no one else has written.

He also asked, "What law does not give birth to, and what law does not perish?" ”

Manjushri asked again, "What is the meaning of not being born?" How do you call immortality? ”

He replied: "If you are not good, you will not be born, and if you are not good, you will not die." ”

The Vimo monk slowly walked to the side, so he had to make it easier for all sentient beings.

Thoughts that are not good are evil thoughts and do not give birth.

Good thoughts are righteous thoughts, which are not extinguished.

This is the method of non-recitation mentioned in the "Altar Sutra" of the Six Patriarchs.

We have said again and again that thoughtlessness is not the absence of thoughts, and that non-thinking is non-delusional, which is what is said here that "no goodness does not give birth".

The reciting is the true one, that is, "the good law is immortal."

He also asked, "Which is the best or the worst?" ”

Manjushri then asked, "Who is the master of the source of the idea of good and evil, and where is the root?" ”

He replied, "Body-oriented." ”

Good and bad thoughts come from the body of your existing life.

He asked, "What is the body?" "What is the foundation of the body?

He replied, "Greed is the foundation." ”

The body is born from the thoughts of men and women, and this way is from asking about life and death, talking about the source of life.

Then he asked, "What is greed?" ”

This world is the realm of desire, and all things in it, whether humans, insects, plants, or minerals, are all from the desires of both yang and yin.

So he asks, what is the root of greed?

Answer: Falsehood is the basis of separation." It is still from ideological concepts, and ideological concepts cannot be empty and can never be empty.

He also asked, "What is the basis of falsehood?" ”

If you want to ask a question, you have to ask it like this, step by step.

He replied, "Thinking upside down." ”

Reversing delusions is the root of the distinction between falsehood and delusion.

He asked, "What is the best way to think about it upside down?" ”

He replied, "There is no dwelling." ”

The phrase "the mind should be born without dwelling" just mentioned means that our thoughts do not stay and have no place to live.

So when you meditate, you try to stop your thoughts, and it's really full of food and nothing to do.

Does the mind want you to stop it?

It's coming to stop you, you know?

We have lived a lifetime, which thought can be retained?

If you hold a table and a banquet and take a hook to hook it, you can't keep your thoughts!

Every thought, like I speak, has not been spoken.

What are you afraid of sitting there, thinking about it?

It's not going to stay there at all, it's going to have nowhere to live, so why do you want to empty it?

Self-emptiness, it's not that you empty it, it's it that empties you, emptiness! If you want to be empty, you are not empty, and if you have this thought, it is a delusion of reversal.

You don't ask for emptiness, you don't ask for emptiness, the mind is originally empty of yours, it won't stay in your home, so you can be very peaceful, right now! This is the reason for this.

He also asked, "What is the best thing to live in?" ”

He replied: "If you don't live, you don't have a foundation." Manjushri never lived in the roots, and established all the Dharma. ”

After all, Vimala lay people were polite to Manjushri, and if it was Ananda or Sariputta, they might have to scold, "Duh! "That's it.

"If there is no dwelling, there is no root", telling you that there is no dwelling, emptiness.

Is there still a book in the air? He then told him that all dharmas had no dwelling.

So you said that you have recited the "Jizo Sutra" a thousand times, where do you put it?

You said that you recite 10,000 Buddhas every day, do you put them in a safe deposit box or do you keep them in the bank?

There was no place to live! Such merit is everywhere, and there is no merit to be obtained, it is a true merit.

In this paragraph, I can realize that learning Zen, Tantra, and everything has arrived at home, and it is the most central place of Buddhism.