Let's say that the sixth ancestor Huineng master set up an altar on the top of a hill behind Liantang Village, and it rained heavily for a day and a night, and saw that the dry lotus pond was full of water, and the lotus flowers in the lotus pond withered due to lack of water were miraculously resurrected overnight, and a picture of "the lotus flowers are different red"!

Faced with this scene, the past and old things came to mind, and the Sixth Ancestor Master Huineng fell into a lingering thought again......

During the incomparably precious teenage years when he was with Ellie Lee, he often compared her to the lotus Elaine Lee.

He looked at a pool of pond water as calm as a mirror, and then looked at the little sister Alan in front of him, and in his contemplation, he suddenly triggered an inspiration: she was more like a lotus leaf floating on the water in the pool, and he was sleeping in the bud wrapped in a green gauze curtain......

On the night of early summer, in the long-lost thunder, it was Li Xiaolan who worried him the most. Thinking about her delicate body, how could she withstand the test of this heart-pounding thunderstorm......

"Hey, that person seems to be Ah Neng's little brother!" In the midst of the shouting of people, a familiar voice came, waking up the Sixth Ancestor Master Huineng from his contemplation.

Master Huineng of the Sixth Ancestor opened his eyes and saw a large group of people standing in front. Among them, several felt a bit kind.

"Little Brother Aneng, don't you recognize me? I'm the Heavenly Ping Dragon......"

As soon as he heard Tiantianping, Master Huineng of the Sixth Ancestor remembered the Lord of Longzhai. "Sure enough, it's you, Lord of the Dragon Village!"

"Ah Neng ......" As soon as the main words of Longzhai came out, I felt that it was inappropriate: the little brother of Ah Neng back then is now the master of the six ancestors of Zen Buddhism...... So, he swallowed back the words of the "little brother" he just wanted to say, and changed his words, "Sixth Ancestor Master Huineng, thank you very much for relieving the drought for us again. ”

"Thank you very much to Master Huineng of the Sixth Ancestor for asking for rain and relieving disasters for the local Li people, and benefiting the people!" A familiar voice rang in his ears.

"Ah, you...... Isn't it Heaven Du Si Wu Botao, Lord Wu? "The Sixth Ancestor Master Huineng finally recognized it.

It turned out that the sixth ancestor Huineng Master built an altar on the top of Liantang Mountain to ask for rain, and walked away, and after hearing the news, heaven, the head of the river, the entrance of the cave, etc., immediately led the crowd to come to thank him.

After a few shouts, several major capitals wanted to listen to the Sixth Ancestor Master Huineng say in person, but they were embarrassed to say it, so they could only look at each other......

Among them, Zhang Zhongchang, the head of the cave, has a lot of friendship with the sixth ancestor Huineng, so he relied on the familiar and sold the familiar, and on behalf of several other capitals, he said: "The sixth ancestor Huineng, I am glad to hear that the ancestor has returned to his hometown, and recently said the Dharma for the local monks in Longshan Guoen Temple, and I want to take the time to visit and listen. ”

After hearing this, Master Huineng of the Sixth Ancestor was also deeply moved, looked back at the scene with a pair of eyes full of expectation, nodded and said: "Good, good, good, Lao Na will use Liantang as a podium today to explain the words for the villagers." ”

When the villagers heard that the Sixth Ancestor Huineng had agreed, they immediately cheered and sang in unison: "Nan Wu Sixth Ancestor Master Huineng!" ”

In a cheer, the sixth ancestor Huineng master slowly walked on the lotus pond on the hill that is like "Guanyin sitting lotus", just sit down, suddenly, the scene is shocked by a big spectacle: a rainbow after the rain in the ethereal sky like a soaring fall, falling on the "Guanyin sitting lotus" hill where the sixth ancestor Huineng master is sitting, showing a colorful halo, the entire Buddha shadow of the sixth ancestor Huineng master is reflected in it, and a realistic "big Buddha" is presented in front of everyone. Then, I saw the pond in full bloom and Tilian, red and green, and the pond was full of fragrance.

In this situation, everyone at the scene knelt down together, "Pay homage to the Living Buddha - Master Huineng of the Sixth Patriarch!" ”

"You don't have to be so polite, please hurry up and listen to Lao Ne." Master Huineng of the Sixth Ancestor stood up, and after making a gesture with both hands to please sit down, he began to explain to the public in the most remote inner cave lotus pond in Xinzhou-

Ladies and gentlemen: Today, Lao Ne would like to talk to you about the sutra that has the greatest relationship with Buddhism in whole and especially the culture of China, which has the deepest influence and the longest history, called the Vimala Sutra.

The spirit represented by the Vimala Sutra is the method of liberation and Buddhahood of the Dharma in the world, without departing from the worldly position, and it also points out how the Buddhas of the Ten Directions and the Three Worlds attained the Tao, how to attain liberation, and how to attain the path of Bodhi.

Most people think that Chinese Zen Buddhism was spread after the arrival of the Bodhidharma Patriarch, but they don't know that before the Bodhidharma Patriarch, the Vimala Sutra and the Lotus Sutra were the most influential.

The weight of this sutra is so heavy, but because the text is easy to understand and fluent and beautiful, people can easily read it and think that they have understood it, but in fact it is very difficult to understand. This time, Lao Ne connected the Vimala Sutra and the Medicine Teacher Sutra because they are a system.

Why is it a system?

We generally know that the Buddha introduced Amitabha Buddha to us in the Western Elysium for the convenience of our sentient beings who do not have enough wisdom and merit in the last days to practice the method of rebirth. However, the true immediate achievement of Buddhism, the great cause and path of Buddhahood, is represented in the two Buddha countries in the Eastern world represented by the Medicine Sutra and the Vimala Sutra. One is the kingdom of the Buddha, which is the incarnation of the Vimal monks into the Oriental Wonderful Joy Immovable World attached to the Buddha at home.

This eastern Buddha country is connected with another eastern Buddha country, the Medicine Buddha Glazed Light Buddha Land. The Eastern World and the Western Amitabha Buddha's Elysium are reflected in each other, like day and night in a solar system.

When the sun goes down in the west, it reaches the Western Elysium; When the sun came out to give birth to life, it went to the land of the Buddha in the East and the land of the Buddha in the Glass Light in the East. This is one of the great secrets of the Dharma, the true Tantra.

So when you really understand the Dharma, you know that what is clearly told to you in all the sutras of the teachings, if you don't understand it, you become a great tantra.

On the contrary, all the methods of tantric practice are very teachable, because if you can study the tantric meaning in depth, you will understand it, and you will be able to understand it.

The teachings tell you the true mysteries of the Dharma, and you can't understand it unless you have attained merit and great wisdom.

Therefore, the cause of this lecture is to tell you the great secret of the true instant birth and the Dharma, so that you can practice and study well, and don't think that meditation is to learn Buddhism and Zen.

Ajin Buddha is the Buddha of the Oriental Miaoxi Rulai Immovable Land, that is, one of the sixteen Buddhas of the Chase Zhisheng Buddha introduced to the Lotus Sutra when Lao Na wanted to preach the "Medicine Teacher Sutra", and even Amitabha Buddha is also the son of the Datong Zhisheng Buddha.

Further down in the Vimala Sutra, it is mentioned that if we want to become a Buddha in life and death beyond the Three Realms, we must deeply witness the method of immortality taught by the Medicine King Nyorai, which is neither born nor destroyed.

For thousands of years, no one has regarded the Medicine Sutra, the Vimala Sutra, and the Lotus Sutra in Buddhism as secret methods, and only recited them as sutras for teaching.

The most important point in the Vimala Sutra is to tell us that the Dharma is in this world, and we are at ease in our body and mind. If you ask other worlds to depend on others, think about life and death, and think about becoming a Buddha, it is impossible.

This is because external forces are only convenient methods, not ultimate methods. Therefore, the Dharma must be self-controlled.

Here, let's talk about another episode, for example, the Wenshu Monastery in Sichuan has a very good pair:

When I saw it, I did it, and I let it go, so I couldn't do it

Wisdom is born in consciousness, and consciousness is born in freedom, and life is born without life

Like these Buddhist literatures, the spirit of Zen, the sources of spiritual wisdom, are closely related to the Vimala Sutra.

The writing of this sutra is so good that people today cannot help but admire Kumarosh's talent.