Xie Baoshu wanted to sleep, but he couldn't help him.

He looked at the two quarreling bigwigs, and said helplessly: "You are fighting for you, what are you looking for me for?"

The two of them said at the same time: "You have a relationship with the Great Dao. ”

The Book of the Later Han Dynasty records that there are clouds in the book on Xiangkai: "I also heard that the palace is neutral in the temple of Huang Lao Futu", "or that Lao Tzu entered Yidi as a floating tu." Due to the controversy between Buddhism and Taoism, this "for the floating tu" is becoming more and more mysterious. Unveiling the mysterious veil of religion, Fang Xiao Laozi's real meaning of "for the floating slaughter".

Futu, also known as Buddha, is a transliteration of the Sanskrit word that means "enlightened one".

"Enlightenment" has three meanings in Buddhism: self-realization, awareness of others, and awareness of action. It is said that mortals do not have these three items, the last two items are lacking in Yuanjue, and the last one is lacking in the Bodhisattva, and only the Buddha can complete all three and become a Buddha. It is said that "Maitreya intended to precede me for forty-two eons, and I followed him with his intention." ”

And "ten things to achieve the most enlightenment". Although Maitreya "sent the intention" 42 eons earlier than him, but did not "send the Tao", love to eat and wear, good to travel, so he can only be a Bodhisattva, and then "make the Tao" in the future can become a Buddha, so the Buddhists call Maitreya "the future Buddha".

It's just that "willingness" can't become a Buddha, you must "make a Taoist intention" to become a Buddha, such a "Buddha" is tantamount to the "sage" mentioned by Lao Tzu. Therefore, the Buddha is also called Sakyamuni, that is, the saint of the Sakyamuni clan. Perhaps the original meaning of "Buddha" comes from the Taoist "sage". In any case, Buddhism is a combination of Buddha and saint.

In the eyes of Buddhism, Lao Tzu is tantamount to the Buddha who is self-conscious, aware of him, and the perfection of his actions, so the missionary monks who came to the Central Plains from the west of the quicksand preached to the people the hometown of morality, it was preached as "Lao Tzu entered Yidi as a floating slaughter". In fact, it is said that after Lao Tzu entered Yidi, he made a great cause of sacredness and was recognized as a great sage.

A Buddha is a saint, and a saint is a Buddha. This is confirmed in the teachings of Buddhism.

Buddhism is mainly in the "teachings" of the Buddha. For example, it is simple to understand, and it is mostly expressed in mythological stories. He is worthy of being called a mythological artist. The ancient Indian philosophy of reincarnation and the study of real life gave him a wealth of inspiration, which led to the creation of many myths with great charm.

For example, Shakyamuni said, "There are 10 trillion Buddha lands to the west from here, and there is a world called 'Bliss' and there is a Buddha called Amitabha. He's saying it now. Why is that world called 'Bliss'?

The beings there live in a peaceful and peaceful environment...... They are classmates and friends of each other. The natural environment is beautiful...... The earth is full of treasures, the woods are lush, and all kinds of fruits are rare treasures......"

This can be compared with Tang Xuanzang's "Tang Dynasty Western Regions" in Hotan's travelogues: "In the past, I had been here (Niujiao Mountain) to explain the law for the heavens and people, and to remember that this place should be built as a land, respect the legacy, and follow the Mahayana." "When the land is built", it is natural to build the "Pure Land of the Buddha", the "legacy" that should be "respected", and the law of "Taoism" and "virtue", the core of which is that there is no master and servant, no noble and low, all are equal, all

He is a Taoist disciple, just like "they are classmates and Dharma friends of each other".

Xuanzang also recorded that here "the order of qi is harmonious", "human nature is gentle, studious and artistic, Boda skills, everyone is rich, and the household is safe", as he said, "all beings live in a quiet and peaceful environment".

Isn't this the prototype of Elysium?" There is no more appropriate prototype of "Amitabha Buddha" who is now saying the Dharma than Lao Tzu, who is engaged in the hometown of morality in Hotan and is a friend of Rulai.

Amitabha Buddha is also known as the Buddha of the Sun and Moonlight. There is a "story of the king moonlight" in the Buddhist scriptures, which says: "In the north of the snow-capped mountains, there is a country called Liangshi Country", "the people of this country have a very high longevity", "they don't like to fight", and most of them are "immortals", and "the king's name is moonlight".

He was so generous that he gave away even the king's canopy and crown." A brahmin scoundrel came here and asked the king to give him his head. In order to "give in exchange for the pain of all living beings out of samsara", Moonlight really cut off his own head and gave alms. This is probably the origin of the "Super Sun and Moon Light Buddha".

"Good stone", beautiful jade also. The prototype of the "Snow Mountain Northern Liangshi Country" is Hetian, which produces beautiful jade on the northern slope of Kunlun Mountain. Even the canopy, the crown, and even the head of the king moonlight who are willing to give alms, its prototype is not called the king, no canopy, no crown, advocate "success is the name of the Buddha, all things return to the Buddha as the master", advocate "love to serve the world, if you can expand the world" Hotan moral hometown of the mentor Lao Tzu.

What is Tao, Tao is not feudal superstition, Tao is a cosmology, is some laws of the universe. This cosmic law is called the Way. Just like the four seasons of the year, spring, summer, autumn and winter, people work at sunrise and rest at sunset every day. By learning the Word and obeying the Word, there will be fewer disasters and fewer sicknesses. Of course, there are many other things in the Tao, so let's not talk about it here.

The theory of cause and effect was first developed from the Buddhist theory of dependent origination, which refers to the production of certain consequences through actions or thoughts, such as planting melons to get melons, planting beans to get beans, and planting melons will not produce beans.

Buddhism holds that all the blessings and misfortunes of this life are the result of the seeds of this life or previous life or previous life. The Tao believed that man's blessings and misfortunes were caused by not obeying the laws of nature in this world.

The Tao thinks that when the weather is cold, you have to add clothes and quilts, and if you do the opposite, you will catch a cold and get sick, which is not about the past life and the previous life, of course, the Tao also admits the past life, focusing on the problem, don't grasp the words.

Both the Buddha and the Tao pay attention to the accumulation of blessings, and both believe in cause and effect, because cause and effect are also part of the laws of the universe. When the Buddha encounters disasters, he focuses more on merit, believing that it is the work of unjust relatives and creditors, which is a good thing, and it is a karma elimination. In terms of behavior, he advocates accumulating more blessings and dedication to unjust creditors to resolve disasters.

The Tao also talks about accumulating blessings, but it focuses more on examining one's own words and deeds, which violates the universal law of "Tao", which is the biggest difference between Buddha and Tao.

However, the Buddha and the Tao have the same side, the Buddha ultimately talks about nirvana and silence, immortality and immortality, and the Tao ultimately talks about the unity of heaven and man, the universe is me, and I am the universe.

As can be seen from the above, Dao Bao

It contains cause and effect, and cause and effect does not contain the Tao. For example, sowing seeds in the spring and harvesting in the autumn are cause and effect. The sun comes out in the morning and sets in the evening, this is the rule.

Personally, I believe that the highest law of the universe is the theory of yin and yang, that is, the theory of birth and death. There is yin and there is naturally yang, and there is life and destruction. It's just that the manifestations of birth and death are different, entering Nirvana and being born are also a kind of birth and death, you can't die like a scoundrel and say that there is no birth and death, and academic discussions have developed into asking others to go to hell, which is the behavior of the mentally disabled and mentally retarded, so please respect yourself!

You say that life is impermanent, this is true, but it is also true to say that life is permanent, and the Buddha said that all birth and death are causes. However, the Buddha did not say how to let the student of Buddhism grasp this theory of cause and effect, and finally summed it up as the word impermanence.

The Tao says that as long as it is a law, there must be traces to be found, and the question is whether you have mastered this law. For example, from a Buddhist point of view, the formation of a house is the union of the causes and conditions of bricks, wood, cement, etc., and it becomes a house, but eventually one day the house will decompose, and the dust will return to dust, and the earth will return to the earth, or the house will exist in another form, and when the causes and conditions are combined, they will be combined again.

However, there is a fact in the feng shui world that some feng shui masters secretly hid under the beams of the house when they built the house, and the assertion that "this house was demolished by someone in a certain year and month", which was later fulfilled.

For example, fortune telling, fortune telling is actually a means of calculating the laws of life, although it is difficult to calculate very small things, but the ten years of promotion in life, the ten years of wealth, the ten years of defeat, as long as there is a certain basis for fortune telling, people should be able to deduce.

Everything has yin and yang, and the dynasty is no exception, a dynasty from birth to prosperity to fall to extinction, this is a process of yin and yang transformation of life and death, which is a kind of law, it is inevitable, but it is not immutable, what is immutable is the law, and what is changeable is the form.

From this point of view, the impermanence that Buddhism talks about is actually impermanence, and impermanence is said by people who do not understand the laws of the universe, and the theory of impermanence is not valid in the eyes of those who grasp the laws of the universe.

We want life and death, and the immeasurable eons of eons are in this thought, and the Dying Life Elysium is also in this mindful thought. After the Dharma Master went into retreat, he advised people not to despise the beings who create evil, and that they can attain the Buddha's path by returning to the light with a single thought.

It's all in one thought, and that thought is called Prajna Mindfulness, Wisdom Mindfulness. Strong mindfulness, right knowledge, right view, right thought, life and death are all in this thought. Therefore, when we study the Buddhist path in our daily life, we are always correcting our wrong ideas and tending to mindfulness.

With mindfulness, when you are dying, you follow this mindfulness to leave the Three Realms. To put it simply, the more persistent the person, the stronger the separation, the more painful the death will be. Now that this mindfulness is raised, we usually learn to let go, let go, and let go of repeated training, and when the dying soul comes out, it will not be so painful. Usually you have to listen to the scriptures and listen to the Dharma and train slowly, so this strong mindfulness is very important.

For those who survive in the Pure Land, the following story is very, very important. If you don't die, if you can't see the Buddha, just look at this story. We're going to tell the story of the "Asanga,"

The asanga teacher of the Enlightenment-only sect, he is determined by cultivating the mind-only mind.

He has always wanted to see Maitreya Bodhisattva, he worships Maitreya Bodhisattva every day, Nan Wu Great Compassion Maitreya Bodhisattva, Nan Wu Great Compassion Maitreya Bodhisattva, every day he kowtows over there and worships, he has always wanted to see Maitreya Bodhisattva, even if he gives him an auspicious dream in his sleep, it doesn't matter, but he can't see Maitreya Bodhisattva.

He recites every day the Nam no Maitreya Bodhisattva, the Nam no Great Mercy Maitreya Bodhisattva, the Nam no Great Mercy Maitreya Bodhisattva, the Nam no Maitreya Buddha, the Nam no Maitreya Buddha every day, just like us who cultivate the Pure Land, recite the Nam no Amitabha Buddha every day, but never see the Amitabha Buddha, every day recite the Nam no Amitabha Buddha, the Nam no Amitabha Buddha .......

This Asanga-based teacher is to recite the Maitreya Buddha every day, worship the Maitreya Buddha every day, practice for a year without news, two years without news, three years have passed, and there is still no news at all. He thought to himself, "Maitreya is so compassionate, I don't believe he didn't come to show me."

He sat in that place, disappointed and sat in that place.

At this time, a dog came to him, and the dog was very dirty, and had a skin disease, called scabies, and it was very itchy, and from time to time it ran to the stone and grinded it, and it had no hair on it, and it was ugly, old, and smelly. Wherever the dog went, people threw stones at him.

The dog came, next to the stones, next to the trees, and kept grinding, grinding, and there was no way, the dog was in pain. The asanga took the dog with his hand, picked it with his finger, scratched it, and saw where the dog itched.

But as soon as I scratched it, the dog was very painful, and I kept barking and barking, and I couldn't stop the itch when I scratched it with my hands, and I still couldn't stop the itching. Okay, I'll fight with you today, my fingers are too hard, no, I'll use my tongue, I'm not afraid of pus, take out the spirit of great compassion, and use this tongue.

When his great compassion appeared and he licked it with his tongue, Maitreya suddenly appeared in the void and saw Maitreya's inner courtyard. At this time, he suddenly realized that the Buddha was in a single thought.

Why can't we see the Buddha when we recite the Buddha now? You recite the Buddha and ask the Buddha for your blessing, but you don't have great compassion, which is not corresponding. Amitabha Buddha is so compassionate that he wants to save us, we will hand over all the responsibilities to him, it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, it doesn't matter if you are merciful or not, anyway, I miss you, you just want to bless me.

This is completely incompatible with Amitabha, not at all. When he saw this dog with skin disease, he was very compassionate and licked it with his tongue, and this thought of compassion corresponded to the compassion of Maitreya Bodhisattva, and he buckled it up, and buttoned it up all at once, and Maitreya Bodhisattva appeared in front of him.

He has been doing it for a long time, and no matter how he gets it, he can't see Maitreya Bodhisattva, and this thought of compassion appeared before he immediately responded.

Ladies and gentlemen, do you understand what this means? To correspond to the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, there is no way, you just have to be compassionate and treat all sentient beings equally, you just have to be unsinitable and not even a dog can despise it.

This dog turned out to be the great good knowledge of Asanga Bodhisattva

If you think about it, this dog with a skin disease turned out to be his knowledge of great goodness, which made him compassionate. Ladies and gentlemen, how many years have you been reciting the Buddha?

People from other provinces say: "I haven't seen anything!" blindly asking the Buddha to bless, I go to hate people and envy others, anyway, you just want to bless me, I miss you, you have no conditions to bless me, how can this correspond?

We don't correspond to the frequency of the Buddha, no matter how we read it, we just can't sense it, one is the Buddha who is so compassionate and compassionate, and we are so persistent, selfish, that is, only for our own good.

Therefore, in practice, we must listen to the sutras and listen to the Dharma, break that attachment with the wisdom of Prajna, do not harm all sentient beings, and have great compassion for all sentient beings. Sentient beings are not for you to hate, sentient beings are for you to sympathize, sentient beings are for you to pity, sentient beings are for you to save.

Nowadays, many people say that Buddhism and Taoism are the same as Buddhism and Taoism, there is no distinction between high and low, and there should be no sectarian views. This article is devoted to the similarities and differences between the specific practices of Buddhism and Taoism, as well as the trade-offs.

There is a great "overlap" between the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism in their specific practice, and the "realization of emptiness" is the overlap of the two schools, and their core cultivation and their highest achievements are the same, and it is also possible to become enlightened by cultivating Buddha, Buddha is the Tao, and the Tao is the Buddha, referring to the same ontology that is difficult to know.

This is also the reason why some of the patriarchs of the past generations preached the unity of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. However, when it comes to the details of specific cultivation, especially the understanding of all things, there are differences between the two, and there is even a completely contradictory trend in many places, such as the typical Buddhism that everything is empty and dependent arising is empty.

Taoism believes that the ontology is real, there are things into Kuncheng, Buddhism is to die, seek emptiness and liberation, and even move towards the separation of form and spirit, and walk out of the law, and the immortal Tao is noble life, longevity and long-term vision, life is one, and the camp is one. This is the basic status quo of the two companies.

First of all, the fundamental reason why there is a great overlap between Buddhism and Taoism is that their "objective reality" is to imitate the non-action of the Tao, and attention is an objective reality, which has nothing to do with the definition of human beings.

From Zhuangzi's point of view, he believes that the Tao is extremely empty, "only the Tao gathers emptiness", as well as transcendence, agnosticism, etc., and the Tao itself is completely inactive and will not actively interfere with all things in the world, and at the same time, the law of the Tao is pervasive to everything in the world, since this law pervades all things, including people, then if you take a practice that is contrary to the Tao, it is "wrong" So one of his understandings of cultivation is to work hard from the void, as well as chaotic thoughts, idleness, purity, and wandering in the void.

In "Zhuangzi Heaven and Earth", he gave an example that only Xianggang can find the pearl of the Xuan Netherworld, which is what he meant. In "Zhuangzi Zhibei Tour", he said: "Knowing without thinking and worrying, knowing from nowhere and without obedience, and attaining the Tao without way." ”

All of these can be seen as "proving emptiness," which is the best form of non-action, and the inability to be the law. That is to say, some people say that the practice is to live, sit and lie down. Inclusion in the set

It also looks a lot like "emptiness".

In fact, the four meditations and eight determinations are the path that all those who have attained the Tao must take, no matter which sect it is, it has nothing to do with the name of the sect, and the path of cultivation is an objective fact. Because it is impossible for you to truly change your color body and truly achieve the ultimate without being born with a single Qi.

But why is it that their understanding of all things is different in many places, and even shows a completely contradictory tendency? This should start from the origin of Buddhism, in ancient India, there was a discussion on the relationship between Brahman and self, and it was clearly stated that there is a thought of ontology, but at that time, in order to oppose Brahmanism, the primitive Buddhism put forward the opposite idea of emptiness, the impermanence of all actions, the omission of all laws, and the emptiness of the five aggregates.

In other words, it is likely that it is simply to oppose Brahmanism, that is, to use it as an ideological weapon, because in ancient Indian Brahmanism, in fact, the Tao Te Ching, including Christ, clearly stated that the ontology is real, and the Tao cannot be defined in any way, neither as an entity, nor as a rule and law, and any definition is distorted.

We only know that there is indeed and there is only one "real existence", but we "don't know" what this "real existence" is, saying that it is a regular law, and only fate gathers and disperses, which is inevitably distorted, and this is a basic foothold for seeking the Tao.

Then, in fact, the founder of Buddhism, Shakyamuni, did not leave any words himself, and only after a thousand years did his disciples record some of his remarks, and then some subsequent Indian practitioners realized emptiness under certain causes and found that "the effect of my cultivation is very consistent with emptiness", so they developed the idea of emptiness in primitive Buddhism, and gradually established a school based on dependent arising voidness.

Because of this basic point with emptiness as the core, and the subsequent empirical evidence is very "in line" with emptiness, then their further development and direction is guided by the pursuit of emptiness and empirical emptiness, and their ideological system also revolves around emptiness.

What will it develop in the end? It is not like the Taoist way of thinking backwards, but most people blindly seek emptiness and tranquility for liberation, and the fundamental spiritual orientation is to pursue death, to degenerate the physical body, to regard it as a stinky skin, and to separate the physical and mental body of the person from the outside world.

Ignoring the objective effect of the objective environment on people's body and mind. It is easy to look at the body and mind separately, as well as the solitary yin and yang, etc., the emptiness mentioned in the Heart Sutra and the Diamond Sutra can actually be understood as a concept of self-contained yin and yang, a transcendent concept, but this can only be truly understood by those who have realized this thing.

Only after truly realizing emptiness can we realize the core of Buddhism and not be disturbed by the rest of the dross thoughts, but even if we enter meditation and adopt the innate qi, we still cannot absolutize meditation and detach ourselves from the role of the objective environment on practice.

Yin and Yang, health preservation, Feng Shui, etc., all have an impact on the body and mind, and you can't completely ignore these until you attain enlightenment. You might as well try it, late

Eat a full meal before going to bed, then stay up late, rack your brains to think about problems, sleep lazy in the morning, don't eat breakfast, try to see how it feels, while meditating, and persist in the long run, to see to what extent this meditation can offset these "sinful karma"?

Taoist health things, is there no reason?

In addition, even in terms of meditation itself, it is very easy to be yin, if you meditate in a state of concentration, then this is a transcendent state, it is beyond yin and yang, and you don't need to think about yin and yang, which is why some people sit for an hour or two, full of vitality, the soles of their feet are windy, and even a little bit of a feeling of bouncing up from their seats.

And if you sit there, it is easy to feel drowsy, fall asleep, sit for a long time and even have dizzy heads, eyes with gold stars, and lack of qi and blood. Because your meditation itself has a negative factor, if you don't meditate, you will be yin. But how many people dare to say that once you sit down, you are settled? So if you don't pay attention to the balance of yin and yang, regulation, and the combination of movement and static, how can you do it?

Bao Puzi listed all kinds of situations in which even if the medicine can be collected, it cannot be attained, such as sitting on a double plate, accumulating yin and making it difficult to return, and the mountain spirit is poisonous.

Mind cultivation is also very important, but it is still not possible to talk about cultivation completely out of the general environment, why are there so many people who have entered meditation, but very few people have attained the Tao? It is impossible that there is no reason, just because the Tao is difficult to understand?

A true practitioner should attach importance to this objective fact and then reflect on the theory. Of course, some people will say that giving up the physical body does not necessarily mean that there is no enlightenment, and that the Buddha himself died of poisoning, and that most of his disciples, Buddhist practitioners in later generations, will make a round for this event, for example, this is the Buddha's intention to show sentient beings, life and death are impermanent.

Don't cling to the flesh. It's not easy to discuss too much about this level, because after all, you haven't been there yet, but you see that many of the Taoists have risen after they are 100 years old, or even have stayed in the world for more than 100 years, and then they are still like children, crane-haired children, and they have attained the Tao when they are physically and mentally healthy.

It is difficult for a practitioner with insufficient levels to have a clear mind in a culture that is extremely chaotic, pessimistic and deadly, and the mind and matter are separated. Most of the people I have communicated with who practice Buddhism cannot escape chaotic thinking, such as the typical "I don't need to prove emptiness," "Don't have Dharma attachment, don't engage in any kind of cultivation," and one-sidedly exaggerate the role of the mind, which is fundamentally seeking emptiness and tranquility and seeking liberation, which is determined by its basic characteristics.

Moreover, Buddhism is now extremely chaotic, full of personality cults and superstitions. Just like the typical mantras of Buddhism, "Only the Dharma is the right path, and everything else is the outer path", "The end of the Dharma period", "There are endless sins of slandering the Buddha", etc., all belong to the cult of personality and the absolutization of the Dharma. As for what it was like in that primitive Buddhist period, and whether Shakya himself had it or not, we basically don't know.

In addition, the current Buddhist thought is only reborn and liberated, and there is almost no Taoist way to enter the world, which can easily cause the waste of people's ability to enter the world.

On the contrary, Taoism has "all-encompassing" sages, and almost every dynasty has

Yes, such as Jiang Ziya, Guiguzi, Zhang Liang, Fan Li, Zhuge Liang, Wang Yangming, Sima Yi, are there any Buddhists?

What I said may have an impact on Buddhist practitioners, but what I say is all facts, and there is a basis, and those who are truly responsible for the truth should attach importance to objective facts and reflect on theories from facts, rather than wishful thinking.

Of course, under the creation of karma, there are monks who have successfully cultivated, and it is also normal for Buddhism to have Da Luo Jinxian, because emptiness does account for a large part, the so-called avenue to simplicity, to simplicity of the method, well mastered, other conditions are quite good, for example, some people are born with a regular schedule and rest, for emptiness is not biased, probably can be mastered, he directly relies on meditation and cultivation of the mind to become a Taoist. But there are a few, and most of them can't escape this trap of the idea of emptiness.

The basic idea of Taoism is that the Tao gives birth to one, one life, two to two, three to all things, such a one-to-many model. Of course, we can say that the entire universe, all things in heaven and earth, and the small universe of people, inside and outside, and in size, are all in line with this model, so it is actually a transcendental law, that is, transcendental logic, and the meaning of this transcendentality, which I don't know if everyone is clear.

Buddhism, on the other hand, is more of an empirical fact, that is, the Buddha said that seeing is like this, like emptiness, seeing like emptiness.

But in fact, at least it is very likely, it is not really empty, and we often ignore the extremely important point, that is, what we see may be an illusion, and what we see is the true nature behind it, we don't know, even if it is cultivation, what you feel is the right path or the evil path, you only rely on your feelings, without a priori logic to rely on, you can't be sure.

Why is it that the Taoist theory of cultivation further established after the empirical realization of emptiness is a reverse process of three returns, two returns, and one return, unlike the Buddhist practice of emptiness?

It is because of this transcendental logic that he believes that the physical and mental changes caused by cultivation should also conform to this law, and that is truly the way of cultivation, and if in some cases, this effect cannot be achieved by meditation and mind cultivation alone, then it should be achieved through other health preservation methods, instead of blindly seeking emptiness and tranquility like the Buddhists, and the mind is liberated. This is the biggest difference from Buddhism. Their fundamental foothold is different.

Under the basic model of one and many, Taoism developed the theory of yin and yang, and established a strict and detailed all-pervasive system, which in cultivation is to follow the middle way, step by step, pay attention to the dual cultivation of life, and the body and mind are one, and basically will not deviate.

And there is also a complete set of the law of entering the world, which echoes the law of the world, and a person who has truly learned the Tao is born and enters the world in all aspects, and is a completely free person. It's not like the Buddhists who cultivate to be supported by others.

It is undeniable that the overlap of Buddhism and Tao in realizing emptiness is undeniable, but there are problems with the Buddhist worldview, cosmology, outlook on life and other ideological systems, such as the original

The Western Elysium mentioned by the First Buddha is under the four-dimensional space-time in reality, not the high-level space, which is all a hard injury.

In fact, strictly speaking, its scriptures do not possess complete correct knowledge and correct views. Even if you can't enter the Tao, at least you won't go to stubbornness, and at least it will enhance your ability to enter the world. However, when emptiness has been emptied, and on the basis of a certain degree of Taoism, the practice of Buddhism and Taoism is beneficial to the body and mind.

Buddhism is very clear about the path of liberation, Buddha nature is the ideological basis for the treatment of the body and mind by doing nothing, and Taoism can make up for the shortcomings of other Buddhism, such as the theoretical basis for the transition from a state of emptiness equilibrium to a higher level of emptiness equilibrium.

Many people can't tell the difference and connection between Buddhism and Taoism. In particular, it is difficult to understand the profound connotation of the two religions' outlook on life without going deep into it.

One thing is certain, man's concern for life is the first cause of religion. The same is true of Buddhism and Taoism.

Since human beings have self-consciousness, their nature is to be born and hate death, and because of the fear of death, various religions and worship have arisen, and the death anxiety in the heart of human beings is the maternal womb produced by religion.

The predecessor of Buddhism is the ancient yoga of India, and it can be seen from the ancient yoga classic "Upanishads" that Buddhism's concept of reincarnation, the six great harmony theories, the four cicadas and the eight determinations are all directly inherited from the ideas of the "Upanishads". The theory of dependent origination is the core and foundation of Buddhist philosophy, and the four truths, the twelve causes and conditions, and the theory of consciousness that are expounded from this reveal the nature and course of life.

The same is true of the emergence of Taoism, which was produced earlier than Buddhism, and Taoism formed an academic represented by Lao Zhuang as early as before the pre-Qin period. The Taoist practice began to take shape in the pre-Qin Xiandao and the Huanglao Dao produced in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The Taoist classic "Tao Te Ching" expounds the Taoist ontology, which is both the ontology of the universe and the ontology of life. Lao Tzu believed that the Tao is the root and essence of all things in the universe, and that life can both start from the Tao and return to the Tao.

The so-called enlightenment is to return to the roots, from individual life to the source of life. It is the eternal destination of life. In order to achieve immortality, Taoism and various previous practices have taken the ascension of immortals as the purpose of practice.

For this reason, in the legends of Taoism, there are fairyland of ten continents and three islands, as well as the ancient immortals of thirty-six caves and seventy-two blessed lands, all of which are different from the earthly holy land of cultivating immortals. Since ancient times, there have been many real people who have attained enlightenment through practical cultivation, such as Wang Ziqiao, Chi Songzi, Wang Xuanfu, Sanmao Zhenjun, Eight Immortals, Northern Seven Truths, Southern Five Ancestors, etc. The record of Xu Fu, a scholar at the time of Qin Shi Huang, crossing the East China Sea to seek the elixir of longevity, was produced in this cultural context of the pursuit of transcending life.

It can be seen that without the persistent pursuit of life cultivation, there would be no origin of Taoism and Buddhism.

Buddhist Consciousness explores the layers of life in depth. It divides life into eight consciousnesses, namely, eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, consciousness, unnas, and alayya. Knowing is feeling. The first six consciousnesses are the manifest consciousness of the person, which is only the external form of the person.

Mana consciousness is equivalent to human submersion

Consciousness can only be felt in dreams and deep human stillness, and Kelai Na consciousness is the last consciousness of human beings, and only this consciousness is innate, and this is the basis for human existence.

Buddhism starts from the naïve dialectic of dependent origination, and holds that life is an endless process of circulation of non-conclusiveness, that is, birth and death, and continuous cause and effect. First of all, all the elements of life are the union of causes and conditions, and they all arise and die according to them.

This kind of dependence Buddhism calls it self-emptiness, which means that there is no permanent self-nature, the existence of life is like a dream, and any attachment to life is wrong. Secondly, life is continuous, and it is always a process of birth and death, cause and effect.

According to the theory of dependent origination, everything has a causal relationship. Since a person has a present life, he must have a past life as a cause and a future life as an effect. People do not come into this world for no reason, nor do they end up in ashes without results.

This dialectic of life in Buddhism is quite thorough. To say that it is void and it is continuous, and to say that it is continuous is just a process of circulation, and there is no permanent entity. On the one hand, Buddhism opposes the mechanical materialist view that man dies and dies, and on the other hand, it rejects the view of life that the physical body can last forever. Buddhism has always adhered to the viewpoint of dependent origination, and adhered to the dialectical view of non-judgment and non-ordinary, that is, birth and death.

First of all, starting from the Taoist body theory, the life of Taoism is regarded as the externalization of the Tao, so the Tao Te Ching believes: "The Tao gives birth to one, one life to two, two to three, and three to all things." The Book of Changes points out: "The main road changes, and each is life." “

"The Essence of Life" says: "The Great Dao gives birth to heaven and earth, and heaven and earth give birth to human beings." Heaven and earth figures, hermaphroditic. The sky has yin and yang, the earth has rigidity and softness, things have peons, and people have men and women. In this sense, the Tao and life are originally the same thing, and the reason why human life exists and life and death is originally the externalization and popularity of the Tao. The Tao is constantly externalized and popularized, and life is inevitably externalized and popular.

It is the theory of the four gods, namely the god of knowledge, the primordial god, the holy spirit, and the jade god. Knowing God is equivalent to the first six consciousnesses of Buddhism. The primordial gods are further divided into yin gods and yang gods. The Yin God is equivalent to the Mana Consciousness, the Yang God is equivalent to the Alayya Consciousness, and the Holy Spirit and the Jade God are the higher levels of life, and they are existences that can only be attained by cultivating to an extremely high level.

In answering the question of whether life can be eternal, Taoism proceeds from the theory of Taoism, believing that if you follow the externalization of the Tao and prolong it, you will die, and if you return to the externalization of the Tao, you will be born. It is on this basis that Taoism established the theory of cultivating the truth, and all the methods of the outer and inner dan are the specific ways of cultivating the truth. The purpose of cultivating truth is to live forever and ultimately realize the eternity of life.

Buddhism says liberation and Taoism say that the ascension is to solve the deep anxiety of death in the human heart, transcend life and death, in order to achieve the longevity of physical life and the eternity of spiritual life. However, due to the relationship between cultural roots, there are obvious differences in the Buddhist and Taoist outlook on life, which can be summarized into three aspects:

First, the perspective of understanding life is different. The Buddhist outlook on life starts from the theory of dependent origination, emphasizing the causal connection of life and the dependence of life

He emphasizes the emptiness of self-nature, and it is to release life through inner experience.

For example, the eight senses of eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, mind, mana, and alayas are based on human feelings, which are the analysis of life made by the Buddhist sages in deep meditation. The Taoist concept of life is about treatment, and it is to interpret life from the unity of the opposition of nature and life.

Huang Yuanji's "Le Yutang Quotations" said: "If there is no sex, there is no life to be born, and if there is no life, there is no sex to stand." It is said that sex can be fate, and it is necessary to know that life is possible. “

The way beyond life is different.

Since the starting point of the Buddhist view of life is different, the way for them to transcend life is also different.

"The Essence of Life" says: "The teaching of Zen Buddhism teaches people to live illusory life with greater enlightenment, and its righteousness is high; "Because Buddhism focuses on the causal connection of life and the inner experience of life, it does not pay attention to the external form. In terms of practice methods, we should pay attention to sexual skills, and in meditation, we should see our minds and seek wisdom. Because Taoism pays attention to the unity of opposites and life, it pays attention to the dual cultivation of life. The various practice methods of Taoism, especially Nei Dan Gong, regard the dual cultivation of life as a fundamental principle.

The attitude towards life is different. Born in Buddhism, it is said to be bitter, and in Taoism, it is said to be happy. Since Buddhism is an illusory life with super-great enlightenment, it must not pay attention to the present life of people, such as Buddhism has the theory of eight sufferings in life. The eight sufferings are the suffering of birth, the suffering of old age, the suffering of illness, the suffering of death, the suffering of resentment, the suffering of love and parting, the suffering of not asking for it, and the suffering of five extracts. Buddhism even treats the human body as a stinking skin that can be discarded.

Taoism is the opposite. "The noble of the lady is born, the noble of the life is the way, the person has the way, and the fish has water."

Xie Baoshu asked on the side: "Buddha and Tao, what does it have to do with me?"

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