The thirteenth patriarch broke the secret of lighting the lamp, and he really reached the three principles

It is said that after Guan Xiangtian and Lei Yufeng knocked on the chime to wake up the senior brothers who had entered the Dingding, all the senior brothers were elated and cheering, and they were not in a hurry to go to the restaurant to eat, they were all asking each other about the scene in Dingzhong, or asking the doubts in the ancestor's heart. A heart is full of gratitude, come to the patriarch to ask what is going on with the blue and red light pillar, the patriarch told him, this is just corresponding to the realm of the three Zen and four Zen, you still can't be the master, if you refer to the moon as a metaphor, the three Zen means, the four Zen is the month. If we take the flower as a metaphor, the three Zen are the flower fingers, and the four Zen are the flowers on the other side. The shackles in the mind must be liberated by the three meditations and the four meditations to settle down, so that we can fully understand the ultimate reality of one great cause.

Long Boyang's four initiates are from Shandong, Sichuan, Guanzhong and Zhejiang, and they all took annual leave to come to the mountain to collect evidence. Liao Fei and Bai Xiaoxiao are dual cultivators of Buddhism and Taoism, and they are not confined to Buddhism and Taoism, as long as they can get the method of liberation and get rid of life and death, they will be satisfied. Because they didn't have much time on the mountain, they were about to go down the mountain in the near future, so they asked the patriarch how to enter the second meditation after the first meditation? How can they light the heart lamp? The patriarch told them that there is no time distance between the first meditation and the second meditation, and they don't need a 100-day foundation like the first meditation, as long as they open their hearts, they can light the heart lamp and enter the second meditation. It's getting late today, so I'll tell you the secret of lighting the lamp tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow you can go down the mountain and go back to practice slowly. The four initiates of Long Boyang were very happy to hear this, and after thanking the patriarch, they went down to eat and rest.

Yiming and his group of two senior brothers have been on the mountain for more than a year, because the foundation is thin before going up the mountain, and the understanding is slightly poor, but the heart is quite big, and they can also hold the precepts and work hard, so the progress is also very stable, in addition to meditating weekdays, they also learned a lot of knowledge of the five elements of Yin and Yang from the ancestor, and they can ask the ancestor for guidance at any time if they don't understand the Diamond Sutra, the Heart Sutra, the Lengyan Sutra, etc. Therefore, the two of them are relatively proficient in Buddhist and Taoist theories on the mountain. In terms of practice, I have entered the first meditation half a year ago, but I always can't open my heart and shine because I can't find that trace of mystery. This time, the light and sound beads condensed by the Zen Seven Patriarch and Yizhen were ignited, and only then could they be regarded as opening the door of the heart and developing wisdom and wisdom. Therefore, the two of them are the happiest this time. They know that the road behind them needs to be protected, and they hope that they can get rid of the flail as soon as possible, so that they can go down the mountain and follow the fate of the ancestors.

Early the next morning, except for the chef Lao Wang and the volunteer Lao Sun, everyone else came to the meditation hall, sat down on the futon, and waited to listen to the patriarch's instructions on how to light the lamp.

After a while, the patriarch walked in from the door of the meditation hall, and when he saw that the light in the meditation hall was dark, he asked everyone to open the curtains of the meditation hall and open the windows to let in the air. The window on the east side of the meditation hall is facing the rising sun in the east, and I can see that above the sea of clouds, the light of the sunrise is shining on the whole world. Suddenly, the meditation hall was filled with sunlight, and the amiable face of the patriarch was clearly engraved in everyone's eyes.

The patriarch cleared his throat and said to everyone, "We study Buddhism in order to liberate ourselves from birth and death, to break our troubles, and to open up wisdom." To study the Dharma, we should focus on opening our minds, lighting the lamp of our hearts, and enlightening the Dharma realm. In the past, Shakyamuni used black hair to spread the ground to light the lamp Buddha in the mud, so that he could burn the lamp and give a memory, and he will definitely be a Buddha in the future. If we can understand the secret of the black hair paving, we can also light the lamp of our hearts and enlighten our hearts.

Then the patriarch talked about the history of the Buddha in the scriptures, "At the beginning, when Shakyamuni was a good and wise boy, he saw a royal woman holding many blue lotuses, so he spent 500 yuan to buy five branches and dedicated them to the Buddha of the lamp. It is also said that in the past immeasurable eons, one day, the good and wise boy was walking on the road, and happened to meet the Buddha who was also walking on the road. The boy found a puddle of sewage on the ground, and thought to himself that the Buddha was walking barefoot, and the sewage must have soiled the Buddha's feet. He was so excited that he threw himself on the ground, and spread his hair on top of the sewage, waiting for the Buddha to walk through his hair. At that time, the Buddha who lit the lamp saw the scene of the kind-hearted boy covering the mud with his hair, so he wrote: "Good man, in the next life, you should be a Buddha, called Shakyamuni." ”

For thousands of years, the parables left by the Buddhist scriptures have been passed down as true, and no one can debunk or dare to debunk these misunderstandings. Shakyamuni Buddha's black hair spreads on the ground, and the mystery of his birth under the ribs has not yet been solved, if someone is well-versed in the past and the present, and his wisdom is like the sea, and he solves this mystery, then it is no longer difficult for all sentient beings to learn Buddhism?

The black hair has to be lit on the ground, this is a fact in practice, and it is not a guess out of thin air.

"Black hair" refers to the black Dharma dust, which represents the flow of Dharma water of karmic dirt and distracting thoughts. The darkness or the black hair that you first see in the meditation is the black flow of karma. Letting the black dust fall to the ground is the secret of lighting the lamp.

The inflow method is to lay the foundation for the lamp burning method, and the cutting is continuous, and the rationalization is chaotic. The flow of law dust is like combing black hair, and if black law dust is not mentioned, it is black hair paving the ground. The black hair is spread into the bodhisattva's dirty ground, just like a monk who has cut off his black hair and left a bald head to see emptiness and escape into the empty door for the first time. When the lamp is lit, enter the Bodhisattva's shining ground. Wisdom rushes to the sky into the Bodhisattva's flame and wisdom land, and Dinghui and others hold into the Bodhisattva's invincible land.

How can we see that the aggregates are all empty? When the lamp is lit, the aggregates are naturally empty. The so-called light breaks through the thousand-year-old darkness, and there is no room for the Dharma Realm. The basic material of all spells is black hair, and if you comb the black hair, many spells are not learned. The black hair represents water, water gives birth to wood, and wood makes fire, so Shunsheng water is the ancestor of fire. Native gold is born, and gold is born of water, so the reverse birth of water is the mother of gold, and it is the material of the Dharma body.

There is still a level before the black hair is paved, which is the mystery of the five blue lotus.

At the beginning, when Shakyamuni was a good and wise boy, he saw a royal woman holding many blue lotus flowers, so he spent 500 yuan to buy five branches and dedicate them to the Buddha of the lamp.

What do the five blue lotus flowers represent?

What is Five Hundred Money?

You have to go through them one by one to find out.

At present, the bright point (millet beads or Muni beads) is five hundred coins after the white light, which can also be called five coins, and the color is red and called seven coins, because red represents fire, and the number of fires is seven.

White is hundred, five represents when the mind is active, and the number of earth is five. When the mind can influence it, it is called five. Therefore, E represents the knowledge of God, and he represents the Yuan God. The number is ten. Fifteen is the number of returning to the Yuan and self.

When the mind is connected, it is also called true intention or true heart.

Give out 500 coins, and you can get five green lotuses.

Cyan represents the wood, the representative light is found, the Tao Te Ching is called Guan Miao, and the five green lotus represents the fireworks of five colors in the five directions of the current circle.

After passing this level, it is possible to successfully complete the merit of black hair paving.

Otherwise, there will be phantoms (pre-dust shadows) to interfere.

Why are the five colors of fireworks called the five green lotus? Because these five colors of fireworks are all discovered by the wood nature in the heart of the nature, that is, a process of self-nature light, the wood nature of the five elements belongs to the blue color, so it is called the five branches of the green lotus. The green, yellow, red, white and purple fireworks were launched one after another, and they were completed within half an hour. It can be seen that the scriptures and history of Buddhism were translated or compiled under the strong melting of the Chinese yin and yang and five elements culture.

Therefore, we should not think that Chinese Buddhist scriptures are necessarily Indian, in fact, the roots are in China. It's just that in order to remove the distinction and completely emancipate the minds of future generations, the saint deliberately scattered the precious things into the five major religions. Therefore, we should not ignore the Chinese culture of yin and yang and the five elements, and do not lose the deep-rooted ideological essence of our ancestors.

How do you identify whether you have wisdom or not?

You have just seen and experienced thousands of wonderful realms, and if you don't live in the five-colored ball of light, you won't be counted as entering the Pure Land of the Brahmanic Realm. If you don't live in the vajra glazed red ball of light, you are not considered to have invented wisdom, Yiming, Yixing, and Yizhen have experienced the process of enlightening the mind, and the invention of the light of mind is the realm of the Bodhisattva Luminous Land of the Three Lands, and you are already very clear. The door of the heart is not opened, everything is just a projection, you can't see the reality, you can only imagine the reality. After the door of the heart is opened, all the people and beings within you will be destroyed, unless you are intent and artificial, or the heavenly demons test your concentration with the confusion of the body.

When I really heard the Heavenly Demon, I was a little confused in my heart, there was indeed no one in my inner scene, but I would still fly in my dream, and yesterday's dragon would not say, what happened to these two phoenixes?

When the patriarch talked about this, he saw the meal, so he asked everyone to go to the meal first, rest for a while, and wait for 3 o'clock to tell you about Heluo knowledge.

Yizhen hurriedly ran to the ancestor and asked about the flying and the two phoenixes in his dream.

The patriarch told him that when he wants to define, different levels of meditation realms will have a projection in the realm of wanting to define, so if he wants to define, there are only 36 heavenly realms.

According to the stages of meditation, the realm of desire is divided into only six days, the first meditation to the fourth meditation is divided into 18 days for the color realm, and the colorless realm is divided into four empty heavens, a total of 28 days.

The saying of the 33 days is that the three meditations are centered on the Buddha Heaven of the Three Meditations, and there are eight countries on each side, and there are 33 countries in the center country, so the Buddha Heaven is also called the 33 days. In fact, thirty-three days is just a saying, the name of each day is just a number, the real core is to express the three three three one before and after, Taoism has "Tiangen Moon Cave idle to go, thirty-six palaces are spring" saying, in fact, this is the core of the statement. The third is the Qiangong, and the sixth refers to the Kun Palace. The first three and the last three add up to six, so the last three are also called six, Kun six broken, Kun Palace. The Qiangong Kun Palace is called the Thirty-six Palaces together, but in order to express the three Qings of Qihua, the three seals of the Samadhi are just a line.

Therefore, the four meditations and eight concentrations are just a step, which can be regarded as a threshold, and all the tests of the mind are actually to be defined and completed. That is, after liberation, after the realization of non-existence, we have to transform sentient beings, and we have to enter the world, and we have to be neutralized in the definition of desire.

When Confucianism heard this, he understood the essence of Buddhism and Taoism, and hurriedly bowed to the patriarch and thanked him.

After lunch, all the senior brothers came to the meditation hall early, exchanged their experiences in listening to the patriarch's teachings in the morning, and asked each other for advice and understanding when they had doubts. Yizhen is proficient in Confucianism, so everyone is satisfied with the answers he gives to his fellow practitioners. In the afternoon, the patriarch taught everyone what kind of Heluo knowledge, wanted to know what happened next, and listened to the next decomposition.