Monks are not idle at all

《There is a passage in the Sermon on Zen Forest: The monk guards the heart city and follows the precepts.Think about it day and night, and walk it day and night.Thinking does not go beyond one’s actions, and doing does not go beyond one’s thoughts, and it will come from the beginning to the end, just like the land.

A monk refers to a monk, a monk.It can be seen from the quotations of the ancestor that a monk seems to be very leisurely on the surface, but in fact he is not at all.He is protecting his heart every day to prevent the invasion of six thieves from the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind.Do it every day: guard the six like turtles, guard the will of the city, fight with the devil, and win without worries.

If you let the six thieves invade in one thought, you will fail.Therefore, he must always be alert to himself and grasp his mindfulness.In daily behavior, precepts should be used as the criterion.

Think about it day and night, and walk it day and night.What should I do day and night?It means to think about the right truth and keep in mindfulness.As he gradually deepened, when he understood the principles of Buddhism, from the law of cause and birth to ultimate emptiness, and even neither emptiness nor existence, and both emptiness and existence, he knew what life and death were caused.This is what the "Avatamsaka Sutra" says: you should observe the nature of the Dharma Realm, and everything is created by the mind.This heart is so amazing.

Not only the "Avatamsaka Sutra", but many other sutras and treatises talk about the incredible mind everywhere.If you use it as a Buddha, you can achieve Buddhahood;If you use it to commit evil karma, you will feel the bitter fruits of the three evil realms in the future.That is why the Buddha told us: A practitioner must take good care of his mind, think about the right principles, and then implement them in practice, and act according to the precepts.In other words, we are diligent in practicing precepts, concentration and wisdom every day, and persevering from beginning to end.

We often say that the beginning is half the success.From the day we become monks, we must make a vow to be a good monk in this life, to achieve success in our studies, to achieve enlightenment in our practice, and to start and end well.Then work hard to achieve your goals.Because of true practice, others can only make an external cause, and how to grasp success depends on yourself.

We live in a temple, and we should really look inward every day, think about the Buddha's teachings, examine our actions, and not only do we not speak the useless words, but we don't even think about it.In this way, everyone will become a practitioner, and they will live up to the expectations of the ancestors for us.