The previous product was the Buddha's ordained disciples of the five hundred arhats, and this product was the turn of the Buddha's Mahayana disciples, the great bodhisattvas.

So the Buddha told Maitreya Bodhisattva: Thou hast done Vimala to ask questions.

Maitreya White Buddha said: World-honored! I can't afford to ask questions, so what? Remembering my past, for the sake of King Tushi and his dependents, I said that I would not retreat to the earth.

The first Maitreya Bodhisattva in the family is to inherit the Buddha position of Shakyamuni Buddha, and the next time he becomes a Buddha in this world, he is called Maitreya Buddha.

There is a sutra called "Maitreya Sutra", and China's foreign ways such as *** and so on, all pretend to use this scripture to claim that Maitreya Buddha is about to come.

In fact, Maitreya was born very early! Maitreya Buddha is not a big belly! That is his incarnation, and after he nirvana, everyone knew that he was the incarnation of Maitreya, so the image of Maitreya Buddha later made in China was actually the image of the Budai monk.

The image of Maitreya Bodhisattva, like Guanyin Bodhisattva, is very solemn.

Where is he now? In Tushitian, the king of heaven, enjoy happiness there. There is a Maitreya inner courtyard there, which is a meditation hall, which is a place for pure cultivation.

Shakyamuni Buddha was the same at that time, every Buddha made up for it in his life, and in the life before he came to this world to become a Buddha, he was a god in the six heavens of desire.

Men and women eat and drink like us, and enjoyment is very serious, but being able to transcend oneself in the middle of this is the state of a bodhisattva.

Maitreya Buddha said the Dharma in Tushitian, and the Bodhisattva entered meditation at night, went to listen to the Dharma to make a record, and set up the record in the morning, which became the "Yogi Land Treatise". There are many monks and lay people who have made a vow not to be reborn in the Western Elysium, but to be reborn in the inner courtyard of Maitreya according to the Maitreya Sutra, to be reborn in the world with Maitreya Buddha, and to enlighten on the spot under him. For example, the disciples led by Master Taixu in modern times are all vows to be reborn in Tushitian, but both sides must be undisturbed, which is also a prerequisite.

Now the Buddha asked Maitreya Bodhisattva to go to visit the illness of Vimala for him, and Maitreya Bodhisattva did not dare to go, he said, because Maitreya Bodhisattva was in the center of heaven in the center of the heavens in his previous life, for the heavenly king and his dependents, that is, the heavenly soldiers and generals, for them to say that the eighth bodhisattva realm, that is, the immovable earth, and the non-retreating is the Amitabha Sutra mentioned in the Amida Sutra.

Cultivation will not retreat when it reaches the eighth immovable ground or above, and the bodhisattvas before the seventh ground will still regress, that is, they will fall.

When the Bodhisattva arrives in the eighth place, he is still a little sure that he will live in the womb and be out of the womb, and if he reaches the Bodhisattva in more than ten places, he will not be confused when he lives in the womb and comes out of the womb. Otherwise, even if it is a great arhat, there is a mystery of isolation from the womb.

Shi Vima came to say to me: Maitreya! The World-Honored One Confers the Record of the Benevolent One, who deserves to attain the three bodhisattvas of the three bodhisattvas in his life, for what purpose is he to be remembered in his life? In the past? What is the future? Now yes? If the past life is born, the past life is destroyed; If the future is born, the future is not yet born; If you are born now, you will not live now.

When Maitreya was speaking the Dharma in Tushitian, Vimala came.

Said to Maitreya Bodhisattva, Maitreya, it is said that Shakyamuni Buddha gave you a record at that time, and you were enlightened and enlightened in this life, I ask you, in which life did you get Shakyamuni Buddha's memory?

It is the Buddha's rule to kneel and touch the top of your head by the Buddha and declare what era, what region, and what family environment you will be born in in the next life.

The Buddha gave Maitreya a record, his three great monks and monks of the practice, now this life is a bodhisattva, the next life to come to this world again, inherit the mantle of Shakyamuni Buddha, ascend to the Buddha's throne, at that time the world is peaceful, human life expectancy is 84,000 years old.

Therefore, when Maitreya Buddha came, it was the happiest time in the world, and when Shakyamuni Buddha came, it was the most painful time in the world.

That's why I also say that the two of them are fellow practitioners, but Maitreya Buddha is a little lazy in doing merit and good deeds than Shakyamuni Buddha, so he is one step slower than him.

The Buddha is difficult to do, and I will eat the hardships that I can't endure, and I will be more diligent, so he first became a Buddha, and there is such a story.