Chapter 56: The Empty Demon.
The empty demon of "Lengyan Sutra: Fifty Yin Demons".
"Lengyan Sutra": If it is a holy interpretation, then there is an empty demon, which enters his heart, and he slanders the name of holding the precepts Hinayana and what is the offense of the Bodhisattva Wukong? Because of the magic power, his predecessors did not have suspicions. The ghost heart has been in for a long time, or eats feces, urine, wine and meat, etc., all of which are empty. Breaking the Buddha's discipline and entering the sin of people by mistake. If you lose what you are suffering, you should fall.
"If you do the holy interpretation, then there is an empty demon that enters its heart": Suppose you have the view of the holy fruit, then there is an empty demon that comes to you and enters your body. What did he say when he attached it to you? "It's blaspheming the name of the precepts Hinayana and saying that you don't want to take the vows, this vows are Hinayana teachings! Mahayana bodhisattvas don't have so many troublesome constraints, don't care about that! The so-called "elephants don't swim in the rabbit path", you look at the elephant, it doesn't follow the path that rabbits walk; "Dawu is not informal", you are enlightened, it doesn't matter what it is, it's all empty! "Wine and meat pass through the intestines", the wine and meat pass through the intestines, "the Buddha sits in the heart", that Buddha- All idealism, your heart is the Buddha, the Buddha is the heart!
He said so. So you don't take the vows, saying, "You take the vows, this Hinayana people take it, and the Mahayana people don't want this." 」
In fact, the precepts of Mahayana people are clearer, and Mahayana people should not break the precepts. He deceived these ignorant people, who had never studied the Dharma at all, and who didn't understand what the Buddha was saying, so they obeyed what he said, and they thought he was right, why did they think he was right? Because they had never heard of the Dharma, and they didn't know what the Dharma was.
"What is the transgression of the Bodhisattva Wukong": He said that the Mahayana Bodhisattva has realized all the emptiness of the Dharma, where is there another one who holds the vows? And another one who violates the vows? No. He did not hold it, nor did he commit it, he said.
"He often drinks and eats meat in his faith": The person who has this demon in his heart often drinks wine and eats meat in the Dharma protectors who believe in him. "Widespread sexual immorality": The most important thing is this sentence - widespread sexual immorality. Originally, Buddhism was supposed to be free from sexual immorality, but his lustful heart was so great that he specialized in sexual immorality and practiced such impure things. So, how could anyone believe him like this? Because he had a magical power. "Because of the power of magic, those who have come before him do not doubt him": so that those who believe in him do not doubt him, and believe in him very much.
"The ghost heart has been in for a long time, or eating feces, urine, wine, meat, etc., one kind of emptiness": because this ghost heart has been in his body for a long time, and there is a ghost in him, so he does not think that is unclean things, and urine can be used and drunk at will. Eating and drinking urine, he said it was not dirty and unclean. That's what the Heart Sutra says! So he misunderstands the meaning of the Sutra, and this is the behavior of the devil, and he doesn't care whether it's clean or not. You see, this one who eats meat and drinks wine, he also says that it is empty, and he also says that it is empty, and he eats and drinks urine. "One is empty," the other is everything, and he said, all these things are empty. "Breaking the Buddha's precepts and sins": He doesn't keep the Buddha's precepts and doesn't keep the precepts, so he leads people to sin, seduces and misleads people, and makes people all guilty.
"If you lose it, you should fall from it": if he doesn't have this kind of right concentration, this kind of person should also go to hell.
Question: There was a man named Zhennan who claimed to be an arhat from Ananda, and he said that he had attained emptiness, that he could kill, steal, and commit adultery, and that whatever he did was a bodhisattva.
Answer: The cloud of the Lengyan Sutra: After I have extinguished, all the bodhisattvas and arhats should be born in the Dharma of the other ends, and they should take various forms and live in all kinds of reincarnations. or to be a man in white clothes, a man and a king, a boy and a girl. If so, even yin female widow fu, jian stealing slaughter dealers. With his colleagues, he praised the Buddha and brought his body and mind into samadhi. In the end, I will not say to myself that I am a true Bodhisattva and a true Arhat, leak the secret cause of the Buddha, and speak lightly about the end of learning. Only in addition to the end of life, Yin has a legacy.
A person possessed by an empty demon thinks that everything he does is empty, so he thinks that he is empty when he kills, steals, and fornicates, and has a comparison with the good star bhikshu, who is proficient in the twelve scriptures of the Three Tibets, and he also often says that everything is empty, so why do you still hold the vows, the good star bhikshu slanders the Three Jewels, and when he sees people who drink alcohol and eat meat, they all praise this as an arhat, and often the evil opinion says that this person is empty, and the good star bhikshu pulls out no cause and effect, and says that everything is empty, so he thinks that killing and stealing and fornicating are empty In the end, the concentration of the four Zen realms disappeared, and he went to hell alive.
If there is a cause of artificiality, there is an acceptable emptiness, a dependent arising emptiness, and there is nothing in the first place, because the cause of the creation has not stopped, so it is subject to false retribution, and all the emptiness of the Dharma is called the Dharma, and the emptiness of the Dharma actually refers to the absence of the cause of artificiality in the mind It's not that Zhennan thinks that everything is empty, and he can kill and steal adultery, he thinks that he is an arhat, and he thinks that he can do the Bodhisattva path empty, and he will not be retributed, and you Zhennan can't do the Bodhisattva path empty, because you don't understand emptiness, and there is a cause for artificiality, so that there is an acceptable effect, and the cause of creation has not stopped, and you can't see the emptiness of the Dharma at all.
The truth is not discerning.
Jinnan gives you a chance to challenge me.
It doesn't mean that if you think that everything is empty, you can kill, steal, delusional, and adulterous, and then pull out no cause and effect, and we understand that everything is empty, and that is just knowing that there is emptiness, and that is just knowing that there is emptiness, but we don't have the solution to emptiness, the realization of emptiness, the realization of emptiness, and the realization of emptiness, but we don't have the solution to emptiness, the realization of emptiness, the realization of emptiness, Holding the precepts is not for us to fall into the evil path, just holding the precepts is still a blessing for people, while keeping the precepts, there is renunciation, that is, liberation, the bodhisattva is not ignorant of cause and effect, and understands cause and effect, and the mind has stopped and will not create bad karma, and even do upside down things, it is bodhichitta and not disgusting, such as Jigong does not really eat meat, many animals that have been killed, Jigong eats the dead animal into the stomach and blesses, he can resurrect the dead animal and spit it it out from his mouth, and then give the animal refuge in the Three Jewels to transform this animal。 And when we eat meat, it's simply creating karma and harming sentient beings, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and Arhats eat meat just to resurrect this dead animal, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and Arhats are life-saving, you are killing, and the Nirvana Sutra says, Bodhisattvas kill people It's not disgusting to kill, there is no disgust but compassion, the wicked person is killed by the Bodhisattva, the Bodhisattva leads him to repent, why was he killed, it turns out that the slander of the Three Jewels was killed by the king, the king is the manifestation of the Bodhisattva, and he knows that the retribution for slandering the Three Jewels is immeasurable, and he will also go to hell, so the king has mercy, kill the person who slanders the Three Jewels, let him fall into hell in advance, fall into hell, continue to guide him at this moment, repent that he should not slander the Three Jewels, and then after he repents, he immediately goes to the Pure Land of the Natar King.
Buddha and Bodhisattva Arhat killing people is to save this person from the evil path suffering, this man-made bad karma will fall into hell and suffer immeasurably, Buddha and Bodhisattva Arhat kill him in advance, and then guide him in hell, and then immediately save him, if no matter when this wicked person is blessed and falls into hell, it is difficult to save him, so we have to save in advance, we kill people because of hatred, Buddha and Bodhisattva Arhat killing people is great compassion, in order to save this person.
Bodhisattvas are transforming sentient beings when they turn things upside down, and when we do things upside down, they are creating karma.
It's not that the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and Arhats can do anything wrong when they are empty, but the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and Arhats are not ignorant of cause and effect, but they also understand cause and effect, so the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and Arhats, although they are doing upside down, are also manifesting this image in order to transform sentient beings, and if you do upside down things, you are creating karma.
Bodhisattvas do everything with bodhichitta and renunciation, without coloring dust and detachment, so they come and go freely and play with magical powers.