There have been three catastrophes in the history of India to destroy Buddhas, and there are fewer and fewer monks in the Buddhist Sangha who abide by the law. At that time, a bhikshuni named the Light Vow thought to himself, "The Dharma has suffered such a great calamity, and I, as a woman, have nothing to do to protect the Dharma, so I might as well have a child to protect the Dharma." She also married twice, the first time she gave birth to Master Asanga, and the second time she gave birth to Master Shiqin.

He studied under Master Dushang (Master Vinaya) in Kashmir and later became a master of Vinaya. And his eldest brother Master Asanga, who went to Jizu Mountain to practice the method of Maitreya Bodhisattva, practiced for six years, and did not even appear once in an auspicious dream. So he was a little discouraged and went down the mountain to go home. On the way back, he saw an old woman with an iron rod in her hand, wiping it with a soft cotton cloth. He asked the old woman, "What are you doing grinding this iron rod?" The old woman replied, "We can't buy a needle here, so I'm going to sharpen this iron rod into a needle." Master Asanga: "It is very foolish for people in the world to be willing to put in so much effort for the sake of a needle, even though they are so old; But they have such perseverance for the sake of the Dharma in the world, so I have only worked hard for six years to get out of the Dharma in the world, which is really not enough. So Master Asanga, he went back to the mountain and continued to cultivate for another three years. But in the ninth year, he still didn't feel anything, and he thought, "There's really no way to do it now, just go home!" On the way home, he saw an old man wiping a towering mountain in front of his house like a kite with his wet vulture feathers. So he asked curiously, "What are you doing, husband?" The old man replied, "Every morning the sun rises in the east, and the sunlight is blocked by this mountain, and I will grind slowly so that the mountain can be lowered, so that the sun can reach my house soon." Master Asanga: "How can there be a chance to lower the mountain by rubbing the mountain with a feather?" Besides, how old are you? The old man said, "It's okay." Even if I can't finish it, my children and grandchildren will do it, and one day the mountain will shrink. Master Asanga: "People in the world are willing to pay so much for this kind of thing, so my efforts are still not enough, and I will continue to go back and repair it." After another three years, a total of twelve years, and still without any auspicious signs, he felt disheartened and thought, "From now on, no matter what happens again, I will never come back." He really packed his bags and set out on his way home.

On the way home, he was approaching a city, and suddenly a dog barked wildly and tried to bite his foot. When he saw it, it was a female dog with a maggot on the lower half of her body. He thought, "Why is this dog so pathetic?" The lower half of the body has rotted like this, and the hatred of the upper body is still so strong! He had a strong compassion for the dog, and wanted to help him remove the maggots from his body, and he thought that the maggots would die wherever they were removed, so he took a knife and cut off the flesh of his thigh, cut it in half, and put it on the ground, trying to put the maggots on it. However, the big maggots are okay to grasp with their hands, and the small ones are afraid that they will hurt them by scratching them with their hands, so he thinks it will be better to lick them with his tongue. The rotten and purulent stinks so much that he covers his nose with his hands, closes his eyes, slowly bends down, lowers his head and sticks out his tongue to lick it down. Strangely, his tongue never touched the dog's body, and when he licked it again, he realized that it was touching the land. As soon as he opened his eyes, the golden Maitreya was sitting in front of him, but the dog was gone.

As soon as Master Asanga, when he saw Maitreya, he said, "Your compassion is so small! I've been cultivating for twelve years, and you're only showing up now! Maitreya said, "How can my compassion be small? I've always been there for you! I was around you when you were in retreat, but you saw birds; The first time you went out and down the mountain, you saw me become an old woman; The second time I went down the mountain, I saw that I was a fool; Later, because your karma is relatively pure, you see that I am a female dog; Now because of your compassion, all the karma is purified, so it is me who sees me. ”

Master Asanga, who doesn't believe it. Maitreya said to him, "Then if you carry me on your shoulders and take me around the city, you will believe." So Master Asanga, carrying Maitreya Bodhisattva into the city on his back, wandered around, and when he met people, he asked, "Has anyone seen Maitreya on my shoulder?" "A lot of people just saw him with nothing on his shoulders and said he had something wrong with his head. There was only one old woman, who heard someone shouting, opened the door, looked, and said, "Young man, what are you doing with a with a rotten lower body?" Put it down! This also means that the old woman's karma is almost cleared, so you can see the female dog incarnated by Maitreya. At this time, Master Asanga, at last, believed Maitreya's words.

Later, Maitreya Bodhisattva brought Master Asanga to Tushitian and taught the Treatise on the Solemnity of Present Views, the Treatise on the Solemn Sutras, the Treatise on Treasure Nature, the Treatise on the Dialectical Nature, and the Treatise on the Dialectic in the Debate. Maitreya Bodhisattva is the future Buddha, and these treatises are really sutras, but in order to let everyone know that this is the era of Shakyamuni Buddha and to respect Shakyamuni Buddha, it is renamed "treatise". After returning to the world, Master Asanga, he propagated these teachings and became the patriarch of the Enlightenment Sect.

The Buddha often used metaphors for the intensity of compassion, like a mother without arms who sees her child fall into the water and is anxious to save the child from the shore, which is unimaginable to ordinary people. However, any practice has to be accumulated bit by bit. It's like learning to walk, you have to get up after you fall, and when you fall again, you get up again, you fall in one step, you fall in two steps, and you have to work hard again and again to learn to walk. On the path of learning Buddhism, there is no such thing as falling, but due to the maturity of different karma, we will face some very big challenges. For example, in the midst of adversity, we choose to study the Dharma, believing that the Dharma can bring us good times, and because of the initial devotion of the heart, the blessings of the Dharma do bring a lot of good times. However, in the process of continuing to practice, when faced with some illnesses, disasters, and troubles in the world, my devotion to the Buddha was reduced. Some people think that because they practice the Dharma, chant Buddha names and mantras, the Buddha will help them eliminate all karma and calamities, so that they can live a long life, be disease-free, have their wishes come true, and have everything they want. Actually, this is a biased idea.

When karma is purified, these worldly desires don't need to be specifically sought, they will naturally ripen. However, if the purpose of the practice is only for the sake of the worldly dharma and not to purify one's mind, the practice will become a bargain with the Buddha, which is in contradiction with piety. To study Buddhism sincerely is to follow the Buddha to learn to analyze one's own mind, so that the source of inner suffering, troubles, illnesses, and disasters disappears, so that many karma will naturally be purified, and this is the real way.

If you start studying Buddhism and think that you are a Buddhist, you will take incense to worship and pray to the Buddha everywhere, and your devotion to the Buddha has not been sincerely expressed, and there are already a lot of things that you ask the Buddha to help you do. Rather, we want a servant to serve, rather than a pious place of refuge. In Tibet, this situation is often likened to "inviting the king to sweep the floor." Originally, worshipping the Buddha was to make some merits in the hope of increasing one's own good fortune, but every time I begged the Buddha, I was overly attached to the world, and my practice became like asking the Buddha to sweep the floor with my own piety. Practicing in this way of seeking the Dharma often leads to the cultivation of demonic nature before cultivating the Buddha, which is inferior to the Dharma. Therefore, it is important for those who study Buddhism to understand that our purpose is to liberate us from the suffering of samsara.

In order to attain enlightenment in samsara, one needs to "uproot all suffering with pure compassion and great compassion" as described in the Buddhist scriptures, so that all beings can attain peace and happiness, develop pure wisdom, and get rid of afflictions. The ego can also be "a person who is good at understanding emptiness, and the mind is not dependent on all the profit, decay, destruction, reputation, praise, ridicule, suffering, and happiness of the world; There is no disgust in all afflictions, and no love is born in all pleasures."