"Lao Tzu has a famous saying called Da Yin Xisheng. The Great Bodhisattva said, why can't ordinary people hear it? This is what "Lao Tzu" calls the sound of the big sound. The six ancestors of Zen Buddhism said this, with examples:

Some people work so hard that they hear sounds and hear people talking when they meditate or sleep, and sometimes they answer questions you have.

Attention, everyone! Don't look at it.

There are also people who cling to the sound of the incantation, which is also wrong.

The Buddha said that all sounds are dharanis, mantras. But all sounds are impermanent, and if you cling to the mantra or the sound of chanting the Buddha's name, thinking that you can cultivate the Dharma and become enlightened, you will not achieve anything after all.

Because all sounds are impermanent, ignore the sounds you hear in your concentration or sleep.

But ignoring it is only on the right side, and ignoring it will be in vain.

Why is it easy for someone to hear a sound when they use their work? Because the visual and auditory nerves of the human being are connected in the back of the brain, when the work is slightly improved, the brain nerves change and the sound comes. That's all for this question, otherwise it's too far off topic.

As we mentioned above, there are many sounds in space that are too loud for us to hear, because they are so loud that we can't hear them.

Some insects make sounds like ants, and the frequency is so high that human ears can't hear them, but those who settle down hear them like thunder.

A person who has the concentration to practice hears all the sounds, understands that all the sounds are dharani, and knows what the different mantras are of special use.

"There is no measure, there is excess", this is the next way to say how loud the Bodhisattva's Dharma is. Zhuangzi described it as "big without outside, small without inside". Is the Void big? When it comes to emptiness, there is already a margin in concept, and since there is a marginal thing, it is not big; It's so big that it's not outside, it's big when there's no margin, what is that big? The largest is the smallest.

What does it mean to be small? Small to the end is empty, so small and inward. Small, big, big. This is the principle of logic, that is, the truth of the Dharma. Those who have witnessed Dinghui Kung Fu can understand the truth of "there is no measure, it is excessive".

The Bodhisattva has a thorough understanding of all the methods and is able to lead sentient beings across the treacherous sea, as if a navigator were navigating.

Those who are good teachers should pay attention to the fact that you must be able to "gather the Dharma Weapons", learn the immeasurable method, understand the differences between the cause and effect of all sentient beings in their previous lives and the root organs, understand the psychology of sentient beings, and know all the motivations of sentient beings. With such a bodhisattva realm, one can be "like a sea teacher". Every word here in the Vimala Sutra is like a whip on us!

"Near-unequaled Buddhas are at ease and wise", these bodhisattvas are close to Buddhas, equivalent to the Buddha's unequal, but in the end they are not Buddhas, and they have not passed through the ten places and have not surpassed the two enlightenments of the Buddha and attained Buddhahood, so they are the great freedom and wisdom of the Buddhas who are near-unequal.

The Buddha's free wisdom has ten powers, four fearlessness, and eighteen non-common laws, and I will not explain these terms one by one here, but after explaining them in detail, the Dharma will be all included in it.

Because the bodhisattva is close to the Buddha's free wisdom, ten powers, four fearlessness, and eighteen non-common laws, the great bodhisattva who is close to the Buddha can enter and exit the five realms at will for the sake of all sentient beings.

"For the great doctor king, he is good at curing all diseases, responding to diseases and medicines, and making them obey", Lao Ne said earlier, "Vimala Sutra" has a close relationship with "Lotus Sutra", "Medicine Teacher Sutra" and "Jizo Sutra". However, the Vimala Sutra is like spring and snow, and some people don't want to read it.

Some of you who are studying Buddhism ask yourself if you really believe in the cause and effect of the three lifetimes? Don't be fooled, sometimes don't believe much!

Do you really believe in hell? The foundation of Buddhism, regardless of Mahayana and Mahayana, is based on the cause and effect of the three lifetimes, and ordinary people reluctantly believe it, but it is difficult to verify it, unless it is above the three meditations, and it is only in the concentration that you can see it clearly, then you will almost really believe it.

The Vimala Sutra says here that only the true great bodhisattva is the great physician, who is good at treating all the diseases of sentient beings, giving whatever medicine is given, and having material and spiritual medicines, so that sentient beings can take medicine according to the prescription and obtain liberation.

"Immeasurable merits are all accomplished, and immeasurable Buddha land is pure", here is the sound of thunder, like thunder, but sentient beings cannot hear it. If you want to learn Buddhism and preach the Tao, you must grasp these two sentences! If you don't have the resources to cultivate merit, don't dream of attainment.

How do you get started? Do not do any evil, but do all good. That is, don't take the good as small and do nothing, and don't take the evil as small.

If there is no meritorious achievement, there will be obstacles everywhere, the body and mind will be demonic obstacles, and the internal and external environment will be obstacles.

The achievement of immeasurable merit is the cultivation of good fortune, and the immeasurable Buddha land is the achievement of cultivating wisdom. How can the immeasurable Buddha land be pure? The heart is pure, the land is pure, and the mind must be pure. One breath and one breath is one thought, and there are 84,000 afflictions between sentient beings in one thought, so only by thinking about it is pure can we realize that the immeasurable Buddha land is pure.

"All those who see and hear it will benefit. Whatever you do, you don't don't donate", and when you see and hear such a bodhisattva, there is no sentient being who will not benefit. All things are not done in vain, they are not done in vain.

"If all merits are sufficient," when you have cultivated to this point, you will have the merits of merit and wisdom attainment, and you will be fully possessed and sufficient. Speaking of which, it is all about admiring the merits of the bodhisattvas.

Here I would like to mention the concept of the Buddha land universe in Buddhism, which is the basic common sense of Buddhism. There are 3,000 worlds in the land of one Buddha, and 1 trillion four worlds. A solar system is a world, a thousand small worlds, a thousand small worlds are a middle world, and a thousand middle worlds are a big world. The Buddha had already put forward such a cosmology two or three thousand years ago.

Everyone, good knowledge, should pay attention to the beginning of Lao Ne's statement this time, not to come out, but to be there, that is, these five hundred elders.

The Buddha used his supernatural powers to close the five hundred treasure covers into one lid, and the lid rose into the air, covering the entire void and covering the three thousand worlds.

The concept of these 3,000 worlds has been explained before, and it is the land of a Buddha, which is within the reach of the Buddha's power.

No matter how vast the space of this world is, how long it is, it is not hindered, it is all covered.

It may seem like a myth, but if we stand on the ground and look up, the whole celestial body is a treasure cover. Standing in different parts of the world, seeing that the zenith on one's head is different, and the concept that the zenith of one's own position is different and becomes a universe, it is not a myth, or it means that the universe is in the shape of a dome.

And these three thousand worlds, the Sumeru Mountain, the Snow Mountain, the Muzhen Lintuo Mountain, the Mahamu Zhenlintuo Mountain, the Xiangshan, the Black Mountain, the Tiewei Mountain, the Great Tiewei Mountain, the sea and rivers, the rivers and springs, and the sun, the moon and the stars, the Heavenly Palace, the Dragon Palace, and the Divine Palace, all appear in the treasure cover. The Buddhas of the Ten Directions, the Buddhas' Sayings, also appear in the treasure cover.

According to Buddhist scriptures, the center of our world is Mount Meru, and at the edge of the world there are mountains of seven golds, which contain endless treasures that hold the edge of the world and keep it from cracking. This passage is a description of the mountains, seas, rivers, sun, moon and stars of our world under this treasure cover.

At the same time, it also manifested that all the Buddhas outside this world were preaching at the same time. Buddhism does not have the concept of one deity, and there is no absolute master of the universe. Even, Buddhism asserts that all sentient beings are inherently Buddhas, that all sentient beings are equal, and that all sentient beings have simply lost their true nature, which is different from other religions.

At that time, the people present saw the power of the Buddha and sighed that they had never seen such a scene.

"Sigh will not be", these four words are used so well, we use them very often today, but it is not easy to create at the beginning.

The crowd was amazed and saluted. Gassho is to show respect, to gather one's own scattered heart, just like the Chinese arch hand. The crowd stared at the Buddha with their eyes up, and their eyes did not leave for a moment, as if all their eyes were on the Buddha.

"The eyes are as clear and wide as a green lotus", describing the face of the Buddha, the eyes are large and long, black and white. As it is said in the book, when kung fu reaches a certain level, it will be "blue eyes and square pupils", not the blue eyes of Westerners, but the eyes are divine, and the whites of the eyes are clear and flawless.

"The mind is pure and has passed all meditations", the realm of the Buddha is that the heart has reached absolute cleanliness, beyond the realm of meditation, it does not matter whether it is fixed or uncertain, and it is no longer necessary to achieve the pure realm with the help of meditation. Please note that meditation is not the same as later Zen Buddhism, so don't confuse it.

Through the practice accumulated over many lifetimes, one reaches the state of immeasurable attainment and becomes a Buddha. Pure karma is not good karma, good and evil are both yin and yang, and they are relative.

Pure karma is the absence of both good and evil, without attachment, non-existence and non-emptiness, and even emptiness and emptiness. The realm of the Buddha is pure karma, and all the Buddhas of the Ten Directions and the Third World are pure lands, because the heart is pure, the land is pure.

The phrase "leading the people to take the lead in silence" is to the effect that, as a teacher, lead all sentient beings into nirvana, and therefore, prostrate to the Buddha.

Silence or nirvana is not death, it is beyond purity and serenity, it is pure nature in incomparably turbidity and incomparably turmoil. It's like when you go to the top of a peak, when there is no wind and no sound, you are close to the realm of silence.

But when you get there, or enter this state in meditation, you may feel terrible.

"Seeing that the great sage has changed with his gods, he has manifested the immeasurable land of the ten directions", and he has seen that all the supernatural powers displayed by the Buddha are universally presented in the immeasurable and boundless land of the ten directions, and they are omnipresent.

When it comes to supernatural powers, everyone thinks of strange things. Divine power is the understanding of human beings, and when a person cultivates to the point where the spirit transcends matter, his spirit is connected with the concept of the heavens, earth, and the universe and the Dharma realm, and naturally all kinds of changes occur.

Therefore, we should not use the consciousness delusion of the ordinary realm to casually seek supernatural powers. If the Buddha's supernatural powers are omnipresent, why can't we see them? For example, if the sun is always at the zenith and we cannot see it at night, it is not because the sun does not shine on the earth, but because our place is turned away from the sun.

So, we can't see the supernatural powers of the Buddha, we can't see our own nature, because our delusions, our afflictions, our karma are hindering.

In the immeasurable land of the ten directions, all Buddhas are saying the Dharma at any time, and all living beings can only see and hear when their eyes are pure and their hearts are pure, which responds to the sentence "The eyes are as wide as the green lotus, and the heart is pure and has been meditated", and it is natural to see and hear the saying of the Buddhas of the Ten Directions.

Zen Buddhism, the center of Mahayana Buddhism in China, is based on the Vimala Sutra as the most important basis.

"The Dharma King is superior in mana, and he often uses the Dharma wealth to do everything", the Dharma King is another name for the Buddha, and the Buddha is the king of all the worldly dharmas, this Dharma should not be regarded as making mudras, reciting mantras, knocking on wooden fish, or doing some strange visualizations in the heart; The true voidness of the Dharma's dependent origination, which is not visible at the present, is the Great Secret Dharma.

The power of the Buddha surpasses all sentient beings, it is not something that sentient beings can imagine, the Dharma is eternal and unchanging, regardless of whether the physical Buddha is alive or not, all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of good knowledge often use Dharma wealth as almsgiving.