Master Miaolian: Lingyan Nectar Episode 2 Si, Right View of Wisdom

The second episode of Lingyan Nectar

生, correct view and wisdom

◎The mind possesses Buddha's abilities to cultivate goodness

Everyone has a heart, and every heart has Buddha nature.The mind is incredible, and the merits of the mind are incredible.The incredible mind is that there is no boundary; the merits of the mind are incredible, so you can practice all good deeds.Buddhism teaches people to practice good deeds so that they can gain pure and true happiness.The heretics and devils do not teach people to practice good things, and they are the best at teaching people to do bad things, so the devils are killed.

◎The hearts of man and Buddha are integrated

In terms of the physical body, when I close my eyes, everyone is in my heart, and I am in your heart.Now when we chant Amitabha Buddha, every word Amitabha Buddha is in our hearts, and every prayer is in our incarnation of Amitabha Buddha in the dust and dust; we bear the compassionate light of all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, so we are also in the hearts of all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.When humans and Buddhas are one, we are all integrated with each other; just like the thousand beads of Indra.com, each of them can accommodate the other nine hundred and ninety-nine beads, each of which will be captured by each other, without any obstacles.Therefore, it is said that the Buddha's heart and sentient beings have the same heart! If you can understand this way, you are understanding the truth of Buddhism. How can you not understand the Tao and become a Buddha by practicing based on such aspirations?

◎My nature produces good and evil according to fate

Buddhism does not say that nature is good, evil or unconscious; the true nature is just emptiness, and emptiness has endless uses for doing good and creating evil.In nature, you do good deeds when you encounter good deeds, and you do evil deeds when you encounter bad deeds.If you must talk about good nature, how can you do evil? If you must talk about evil nature, how can you do good? You must do good and do evil according to the causes and conditions of good and evil.As the saying goes, "Those who are close to red are red, and those who are close to ink are black", "You must be good friends when walking, and you must be good neighbors when living", so you must be close to good teachers, good friends, and good temples when practicing.Don’t run around, a mistake will lead to eternal regret!

◎The Dharma nature is profound and the Dharma realm is vast and the Dharma realm

The so-called "Dharma nature is clear and pervades the Dharma Realm": "Dharma nature" refers to the pure mind that sentient beings are inherently possessed. "Dharma nature" means that this mind is pure and solid, and is not changed by time and space. It is the basis of emptiness and seclusion. The Dharma can be transformed into all sentient beings and all sentient beings according to the cause and condition; these sentient beings and other dharmas are the great use of the Dharma nature."Around the Dharma Realm" refers to the mind that is neither born nor destroyed, and includes all spaces. The Dharma nature and Dharma Realm are different names, which means that we sentient beings have the same pure Buddha nature.Since our nature is so vast and boundless, why should we be obsessed with the right and wrong of sesame seeds and mung beans? Why not turn your mind around and return to the infinite Dharma nature and wander around the vast universe? How open and free it is! It would be a pity if we don’t try to realize the truth here! People! What are you fighting for? I will lose my Buddhist path, and it will be painful!

◎The reality of vacuum is the truth

The true meaning of Buddhism is "all appearances are false", but in the false Dharma, one should understand that the essence cannot be obtained, which is called emptiness, and emptiness is the true truth.Emptiness is not nothing, emptiness is the real wonderful existence; wonderful existence is not the existence of existence, space is not the emptiness of nothing; precisely because it is not empty, space has infinite Milky Way planets and earths.All dharmas are born from emptiness and exist because of emptiness. Empty contains all dharmas and nourishes all dharmas.All birth and death are running eternally in the air.

◎Observe the false and meet the true emptiness

Buddhism talks about the emptiness of the essence, but there are still phenomena in all things.It’s like space is empty, there is nothing, but mountains, rivers, earth, and planets are all in space.Space itself has nothing, but space embraces everything, and all the material worlds and sentient worlds are in space.All things are not constant, they are changing every thought and are constantly arising from birth to death; even the cells in our bodies are constantly arising from birth to death, and will be eliminated at a certain time. If you cannot find a real thing, it is called emptiness.Is there any other time left? There is a vacuum in the false appearance!

◎See false forms to cultivate Prajna wisdom

To practice Prajna wisdom, you must practice the false appearance and see the true emptiness of the false appearance; you can understand the emptiness of dependent origination in the false appearance, and this "emptiness" is the true appearance, just like the breath of the waves is the sea water.The Buddha told us in the Diamond Sutra: "If you see all appearances that are not appearances, you will see the Tathagata." The Tathagata is the true Dharma body; the ordinary mind is the true body of the true body.

◎Prajna emptiness and wisdom to understand the selflessness

The greatest prerequisite for Prajna wisdom is to understand "no self".Doesn’t the Diamond Sutra talk about Prajna’s emptiness and wisdom? “Prajna” is like “Vajra”. Vajra can destroy everything without being destroyed by everything! If you can achieve “cultivating all good deeds with the form of self, human, sentient beings, and lifelessness”, you can achieve the supreme enlightenment.If you have me and someone practices good deeds, at most you will only receive the consequences of human and heavenly beings.

◎Saha world opens its eyes and makes a false dream

When will we wake up when we practice hard and recite the Buddha's name, and then we will be reborn in the Western Paradise. At that time, when the dream truly wakes up, we will know that we are all doing false dreams in the Saha world.You treat it as suffering without suffering, and you treat it as happiness without happiness; you treat it as happiness, but you don’t know how many sins you have committed in happiness! When you truly wake up, you will know that all this is illusory.

◎Preach the Dharma and save the life and become a Buddha

Why did the Buddha preach to save sentient beings? It is to help you eliminate evil karma and increase blessings and wisdom. In the end, you will be as equal to the Buddha.This is the true meaning of Buddhism! Understanding Buddhism in this way is the correct knowledge and insight of Buddhism.Instead of burning incense or offering fruits, the Buddha will bless you to make money; the Buddha will also bless you to ask for it, but if you don’t ask for it, do you not bless you? Parents are not biased towards their children, but if you don’t listen to their parents, how do you tell them to love you? Of course, the Buddha also loves you, but how to get the love of the Buddha is completely in your own way of following the Dharma!

◎Superhuman etiquette must be followed

Many people misunderstood: "The Dharma is not humane!" The Great Sage Sakyamuni Buddha has perfect wisdom. Isn't his words smart? Every sentence is super humane, and you will always be liberated, so I don't say anything about humane.When will the words of human feelings bring you life and death? You must also know the compassion of the Buddha to come to the Saha world to be born, the so-called entry into the fetus, staying in the fetus, leaving the fetus, becoming a monk and studying the Tao, and achieving success in the Tao. After preaching for forty-nine years, and talking about the sutras for more than 300 lessons, how should we repay this kindness and virtue! Does the Buddha still want you to repay? As long as you follow the teachings, don’t be addicted to it again and again, you can get rid of suffering.

◎Achievement of a great self must be selfless

Buddhism talks about "no self", which means that you sacrifice your ego and achieve your great self; you do not care about personal gains and losses, and do not stick to your own opinions and despise others.Only in this way can you work together to do a good job in the big self and big things and benefit people in the world. Then how praised and respectful your blessings and wisdom are! If the ego cannot bear to ruin big things, it will be the most costly and detrimental to the good. Ordinary people with small minds should learn the way of sages! The above is about the lack of self in the world; if the true meaning of Buddhism is selfless, let’s talk about it when you practice virtues deeply and make contributions!

◎Self-awareness and correct thinking

Everyone should always think correctly and use wisdom to awaken! The so-called "constantly think about the sufferings of hell and develop the great Bodhicitta". I hope you can "constantly think about the sufferings of life and recite Amitabha more" and must recite the Buddha's name well to seek rebirth in the West.Just look at others wrong, why not reflect on yourself? Especially we Buddhists should reflect on it at any time. Being able to reflect on it is awakening, and Buddha is awakening, and awakening is light; if you don’t know how to reflect, it is coma, and coma is dark.Quickly open the window of your heart and see the Buddha's light shining!

◎Studying Buddhism and correct views to benefit sentient beings

Once everyone learns Buddhism, they only have the right view of Buddhism and the concept of Buddha.The Buddha's concept is to benefit all people and not harm all sentient beings; with the Buddha's concept, one can eliminate love, and one's own pursuit of life and death is the first priority, and one's ability to resolve life and death is the first priority, and giving up this is blind practice.Without the Buddha's knowledge and views, one will do things with selfishness, which will lead to unfairness; unfairness is the act of a villain, so how can one be a Buddhist disciple? Buddhist disciples are selfless and selfless.If you use such noble concepts to calm people's hearts, then will there be no peace in the world? Justice of knowledge and views will be peaceful at the moment!

◎Equality between men and women

You should know that men and women are just different, and their nature is equal.Never think that women are weak and incompetent. Don’t women have husbands? You must muster up the courage and follow a real man, so that you can still be able to become a Buddha.

◎A straight heart in the temple of the world

When practicing Buddhism, you cannot use ordinary emotions, you must use inconceivable hearts; inconceivable hearts are the true Buddhist teachings.True Buddhism is a straight mind, no self or person, no right or wrong, and a straight mind is the temple.Using ordinary emotions is contrary to the way! If we don’t use our skills well, it is because ordinary emotions are at work. Therefore, we must use a pure heart to recite the Buddha’s name sincerely and earnestly seek rebirth in the West.

◎Live together on Earth and a family

We live on the same earth, and we are really a family. There is no difference between yellow, black, or white. This is what Buddhism thinks.If you and me are separated, you will have a small mind.We must eliminate this narrow mind and learn from the great man's magnificent mind. This way, we will have great blessings; we will be very happy and we will be able to understand our blessings in our hearts. This way, no matter whether we study ourselves, we will be successful.If you have me or his hostility, you will just cause trouble!

◎Wisdom to practice the Bodhisattva Path

Why do people become inferior? Because their concepts are incorrect.If you have correct ideas, you will gain wisdom. How can you not practice the Bodhisattva Path? If you do not allow you to practice the Bodhisattva Path, you will also practice it.At that time, you will be a horse and a cow for sentient beings; not only will you be a horse and a cow for sentient beings, but you will also suffer all suffering on behalf of sentient beings! To adorn the fruit of Bodhi, you must cultivate from all practices.

◎Achieve Bodhicitta without worries

「Forgetting the Bodhicitta and practicing all good deeds is called demonic karma."Bodhicitta is very important, everyone should develop the Bodhicitta.What is Bodhicitta? "Bodhi" means enlightenment. Enlightenment means wisdom. With wisdom, you must choose good and perfect, and don't have any shortcomings. You must take the right and get rid of evil; you must take the big and don't have the small ones; you must be pure and don't have the dirty ones.Without bodhicitta, one will easily develop afflictions and retreat from the path of practice; with bodhicitta, no matter how great the troubles are, it will be gone.Therefore, afflictions are Bodhi, and Bodhi is afflictions, and the principle is one.There are two names for troubles and bodhi, namely one is in accordance with the Buddha nature and the other is inverted in ordinary emotions.

◎Sacrifice yourself to become a Buddha

To sacrifice oneself as others is to practice the Bodhisattva path, and to cause suffering is to be a non-theory.Are you really busy with others? If you are really busy with others, dedicating these merits to the path of Bodhi can also increase blessings and wisdom, and finally become a Buddha.Just open your heart and be busy with others!

◎Worshiping to become a Buddha on behalf of all sentient beings

We not only repent ourselves, but also repent on behalf of all sentient beings, wishing all sentient beings to become Buddhas together. Only in this way can we turn our care into great minds - to turn ordinary people into saints and benefit all people.Be careful that you cannot accomplish great things without great virtue. So what if you have great consequences?

◎It is hard to enjoy the karma without eliminating blessings

Everyone who lives on the mountain! How did you repent? Some people go out to work to seek blessings, but if your karma is not eliminated, you still cannot enjoy blessings.If you are focused on practicing the Bodhisattva Path and are really busy without time, you don’t have to go into the repentance altar.But don’t slack off or avoid when you have time; once things are done, you should quickly go to the repentance altar to pray.If you repent evil karma and purify your practice, you will be free from great freedom.

◎Good things must be distinguished from the world

To put it nicely, ordinary people do good deeds - for the country and the people, they actually take themselves as their starting point. This kind of cultivation of good deeds is like fishing bait, and they always want to get some rewards.Even if you have blessings, it is only a blessing from human and heavenly beings and a miscellaneous blessing, and you will disappear after enjoying it.If you practice goodness with a heart without self and without humanity, in accordance with the laws of Buddha nature and dependent origination, the blessings you gain will be equal to the source of Longquan, and will always be used and taken out inexhaustible.Worldly Dharma and Buddhism, with self and no self, we must really distinguish and grasp it well and obtain it appropriately. This is correct thinking, otherwise how can we truly be liberated without transcendental wisdom?

◎The goal is to go west

Since you believed in Buddhism, and even before you went to Lingyanshan Temple, you have never heard of Buddhism.

In the past, all good deeds should be devoted to the pursuit of rebirth in the West.This is the ultimate destination for learning Buddhism. Remember it well! Otherwise, even if you believe in Buddhism, even if you are blessed, then the blessing is still not ultimate. It is a blessing with defilements. We require pure and endless blessings.If you cannot live or die in this world, and you have not yet escaped great suffering, what is the blessing?

◎Self-study and altruism stages

The fundamental reason for our Buddhist study is to remember: the first point is to escape from life and death.The second point is to develop the Bodhicitta and practice the Bodhisattva path; after the great affairs of one's life and death are completed, you should develop the Bodhicitta and practice the Bodhisattva path and always cultivate blessings and wisdom.Now, we should be reborn in the West and end life and death as the first step; rebirth in the West, hear all the wonderful Dharmas of the Buddha, and then develop the great Bodhicitta, rely on the Buddha's merits to share our body to save sentient beings in the ten directions of the world.These are the two stages of self-cultivation and benefiting others in Buddhism, and the levels are not chaotic.

◎Buddha statues as works of art

Nowadays, many people place Buddha statues on their way to look at art. They don’t look at art with compassion and dignity, but they look at art. They are wrong! They treat it as art or antiques, and they will not get blessings or have the sin of being rude! Buddhists should have correct knowledge and views.

◎Make good use of the sentient beings in Chile

The so-called Buddhism is inseparable from worldly laws. When doing various administrative matters in the temple, worldly differentiation wisdom is still needed. For opportunities, it is necessary to follow the human affairs method.Of course, when practicing, worldly learning is a barrier to knowledge, and it is better to not know. The more you know, the more you delusions you have, the more complicated you think.After learning Buddhism, one can eliminate all knowledge and views in the world, and temporarily collect them. Only in this way can one achieve enlightenment in the Tao; only by achieving enlightenment in the Tao can one truly benefit sentient beings; the use of worldly laws at that time can one become the use of Buddhism, and the so-called universal laws of Dharma is the only way to save life without obstacles.

◎Wisdom and foolish words are different

「One word will prosper the country, one word will ruin the country." Someone wants to do good deeds but his heart is not determined. If you praise him, his good deeds will be accomplished; if you pour a basin of cold water, he will stop doing it, and then you will destroy other people's good deeds! If someone spends one million or ten million to do good deeds, you don't need to spend a single money, and a word can make good deeds come true.Therefore, a person should use wisdom. A wise person does not have to be rich in doing good deeds! A wise person also uses money to do stupid things! Wisdom is so important.

◎There are roads everywhere to Chang'an

The ancients said, "There are roads everywhere to Chang'an." Westerners said, "All roads lead to Rome." There are so many roads! If you don't have a certain road, you will just walk. That's stupid! When you reach a dead end, you have to turn around quickly. When you encounter a tree bent over, you have to bow your head! On the road of life, can you still call the bent over the tree to make your way? You must be aware of people and be well-behaved so that you can not suffer in stubbornness and arrogance! You must have precious time and spirit to study the Dharma carefully, get close to good teachers and friends everywhere, and have a pure temple. Why fight with others? It's not worth it!

◎All life is compassionate

If you suffer a little twists and turns, you think that Buddhas and Bodhisattvas do not bless you. In fact, that is the true bless you! The so-called "God is about to give a great responsibility to this person. You must first suffer his mind and mind, exhaust his muscles and bones, starve his body, and be empty and useless. Do what you do, so you can move your heart and endure your nature and increase what you cannot do."The methods that Buddha taught people are both forward and reverse, and are all a kind of tempering.You must understand the truth. When you encounter adversity, you will say that Buddhas and Bodhisattvas do not bless; in fact, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas always bless you, but you don’t know.Never retreat from adversity!

◎It is good to use kinetics and statics

When practicing, you must be able to be dynamic and still, and both movement and stillness must be good.If you only love quietness and fear movement, how can you do great Buddhahood in the movement to save all sentient beings? If you only have to move and fear quietness, how can you enter the Samadhi of Silence, be patient, great concentration and great wisdom to achieve great liberation, and abide by Nirvana?

◎The mind is still and the body is moving and the body is soft and flexible

There are two sentences in dealing with people: "Softness on the outside but firmness on the inside is the foundation of the world, and the mind is calm and the body is moving and the life is better."Being a person should be able to be both hard and soft, soft on the outside and hard on the inside. Don’t be just soft on the outside and have no rigidity on the inside.When doing things, you must be able to move and still. No matter how busy you are, your mind must be calm. As long as you are calm, no matter how busy you are, you will not be confused or hurt. Everything will be done with ease.It is not difficult to have many things, but if you are not calm, you will work hard and take care of yourself! If you are not harmonious or successful, you will not have enough blessings and wisdom.

◎It is difficult to save oneself and others without practicing

How can you understand the meaning of Buddhism without practicing according to Buddhism? Without practicing, just reading the scriptures, you just understand the words. How can you understand the meaning of the scriptures? If you don’t understand the meaning, how can you practice life and death? Without real learning, can you say that you can save sentient beings by understanding Buddhism? You are still in a demon cave and a big pit of life and death. That’s so much suffering! You are also useless to be a Buddhist disciple, empty and empty, trust and donate, and pay off your debts in the future. That’s really unfair! I am speaking conscience, and I feel ashamed of knowing that I am guilty of me! Being confused is suffering, and knowing but not doing it is especially sinners!

◎Knowledge and insight are not positive or negative cause and effect

If you are truly the most intelligent nature of Vimalakirti, then your practice at home and becoming a monk is the same; if you do not have this kind of nature and say that the practice at monk is the same as the practice at home, it seems that you are very clever, but in fact you are lying to yourself and make people feel unrighteous knowledge and insights. This kind of casual speaking will cause and effect.In fact, you have to think: "You have heavy karma and many obstacles, and you can't help becoming a monk."That's the truth! The truth has no human feelings. Talking about Buddhism means talking about the truth. We cannot follow human feelings and confuse right and wrong, and disrupt the truth of Buddhism.

◎Praise the Three Treasures of Monks to Live forever

If everyone can really become a monk, the world will be a Buddha's kingdom in the future. Everyone will be transformed into lotus and produce infinite light and life. Wouldn't it be better? It's a pity that everyone can become a monk, and it will be difficult for this world to become a Buddha's kingdom.So you don’t have to worry too much, fearing that everyone will become a monk and the world will be extinct.Because it is difficult to become a monk, it is easy to prevent people from becoming monks. If there are no more people becoming monks, how can the Three Jewels live in the world? Moreover, there is no Buddha living in the world, and the promotion of Buddhism depends entirely on the monk treasures to carry. How can we not praise the merits of becoming monks and hinder it? If you become a monk and become a Buddha, you can save countless sentient beings from birth and death. If you are hindering people and becoming monks, your sins will be so great!