Chapter 3 second lecture

content summary. Apocrypha debate. The secret cause of the Shurangama Sutra. Heart and fate. Seven signs of the heart. Eight still see. Fifty yin demons. shade. Everyone has to take notes, and I have to read them all, and after reading them, I have to correct and approve them.The first thing to do when taking notes is to motivate yourself. If you don’t want to write, you should write more. If you try it, you can change your habit.Those who don't want to write have committed a mistake, thinking that their own things are not worth writing, and they are too modest.The other is to disdain to write, and too arrogant.I advise everyone to write, especially the young ones, as this is the greatest training for self-cultivation.At the same time, it is stipulated to write a diary and experience report.It's best to take turns with two books, one for me to read, and one for you.

Please pay special attention. When we discuss the course of practicing Buddhism, every time we quote Buddhist scriptures and what I say, you must be able to experience it from the heart. Don’t let Buddhist scriptures be Buddhist scriptures; my words are still my own. If you are still yourself, then there is not much benefit.Another point, please pay attention, do not meditate while listening to the class. If you can do meditation at the same time, take notes at the same time, and be able to hear clearly, then you almost have a little foundation.But for ordinary people, the heart cannot be used for two purposes.People who have a little bit of tranquility, not to mention meditation, can use ten or even a hundred functions with one mind.That's what the Sixth Patriarch said: "When the self-nature is at its core, it is self-sufficient." This is not difficult, and the six sense organs can indeed be used together.However, if you don't have this kind of meditation skills, you should listen to the class honestly and attentively.

Last time I talked about the facts about the cultivation and realization method and the situation of the four preliminaries. Many students reported that after listening to it for the first time, they did not grasp the center, did not enter the stream, and did not have an outline.According to my original outline, it will take more than a month to actually go on the road.Today, I will change the order of the lectures and start with the Shurangama Sutra handouts. Now let me tell you the cultivation skills listed in the Shurangama Sutra, so that you can start to experience it immediately.Friends in the academic world, especially those who study Buddhism, must be aware that some people regard the Shurangama Sutra, the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment, the Theory of Awakening Faith in the Mahayana, and the Sutra of Forty-two Chapters as apocryphal sutras.This concept is derived from textual research, which has caused some people in the Buddhist circle to seem to dismiss these classics at all.But I dare to say that: the views of scholars are insignificant.

Now let me briefly explain the cause and effect of these phenomena.Chinese culture arrived in the Qing Dynasty, and Sinology emerged, which was divided into principles, rhetoric, textual research, and records.From the standpoint of Chinese culture, Western philosophy is included in giri; from the standpoint of Western culture, our giri is included in philosophy. Different people have different views and concepts.Tang poetry and Song Ci are the study of rhetoric, and the culture of each era has its representative.For example, Han articles, Wei and Jin calligraphy, Tang poetry, Song Ci, Yuan opera, Ming novels, Qing couplets, etc.

Leaving aside the study of rhetoric, Qing Confucians wanted to put forward the study of righteousness and reasoning in particular.This is because Neo-Confucianism arose in the Song Dynasty, and only talked about the study of mind, nature, and life.In the Qing Dynasty, the Confucian scholars were quite disgusted with these studies of life and life, so they turned to practical research.Called "Sinology".Nowadays, foreigners call all the knowledge in China as Sinology, which is fundamentally wrong, and we also call our own knowledge as Sinology, which is even more ridiculous. Textual research is just a formal science, and it is believed that these classics are apocryphal, which is derived from textual research, and the authority among them is Liang Qichao.However, Liang Qichao only knew a little about Buddhism, so he should be regarded as a layman. He thought that the writing style of these classics was too good to be Indian, so he thought it was forged by the Chinese.But I think from the content point of view, these classics are not apocrypha, so these textual researches are problematic.

Let's talk about the second question about the Shurangama Sutra: This sutra begins with "The Great Buddha tops the Tathagata's esoteric cause to practice the righteousness, and the Shurangama Sutra is the first of all Bodhisattvas' ten thousand lines", which contains the great secrets of practice and kung fu.Apart from this, there is no other secret cause for real practice.However, in the past few decades, I haven't met a person who has really studied this sutra and can really find out the method of practicing the Shurangama Sutra. In fact, in this sutra, everything from ordinary people to practicing and becoming a Buddha is mentioned.People who know words can understand it at a glance, but most people are deceived by the beautiful words of this sutra, and instead do not understand the content.

There is an important point in the Shurangama Sutra, and it is also a big secret, which is the method of cultivation.In fact, one cannot be separated from the three of view, practice, and wish.If you really have the insight, you will definitely be able to practice the certificate; if you have truly practiced the certificate, you will definitely be able to fulfill your vows.A little flaw is wrong. My words are like rain. They are not limited to one person, but everyone has a share. Whether you benefit or not is completely up to you.This classic book includes insight, practice, and fulfillment of vows, and I will help you pick them out slowly.

The Shurangama Sutra begins with "seven places to search for the heart, eight to discern the vision". In the dialogue between the Buddha and Ananda, he asked where the "heart" is? After discussing seven points back and forth, the mind is not inside, outside, and in the middle, and then the Buddha told Ananda, where is the mind. Shurangama Sutra Volume 1: "The Buddha told Ananda, all sentient beings, from beginningless, all kinds of upside-down, karma is natural, such as the accumulation of evil forks, all practitioners, can not achieve the supreme Bodhi, or even become the enlightenment of the sound-hearing, and become the gods of heretics. The devil king and the devil's retinue are all ignorant of the two fundamentals, and practice disorderly.

Just like boiling sand, if you want to make it into a delicacy, you will not be able to get it even after many kalpas of dust.There are two kinds of cloud, Ananda, one is the root of birth and death without beginning.Then you now, with all sentient beings, use the mind of attachment to become one of self-nature.The two have no beginning, Bodhi Nirvana, and the original pure body, so you now have the essence of consciousness, the original light, and can give birth to all conditions, and those left behind by the conditions.All sentient beings, leaving behind this original knowledge, although they practice it all day long without realizing it, are in vain entering various realms. "He said, why can't we see our own nature clearly?Because since time immemorial, there has been something working in our lives, which is the clinging mind, one thought after another.Because our thoughts cannot be stopped, even when we are sleeping, we are still thinking. This is called clinging mind.Most people mistakenly regard this climbing mind as a "mind", which is equivalent to what the Western philosopher Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am".I think so I am just the thoughts and concepts of ordinary people, but it is wrong, it is not the original "heart".What should I do?

"Beginnerless Bodhi Nirvana, the original pure body", the mind that the Buddha said is a phenomenon, and it is the function of the noumenon. The original mind and instinct of life are called bodhi, also known as the noumenon, and the phenomena it emits are segmented and beat like electric waves.You don't want to grasp this kind of phenomenon, but turn around to know the original body. "Then you today, who know the essence and original light, can produce all kinds of conditions, and those that are left behind by the conditions." "Knowledge essence Yuanming" includes consciousness-only consciousness. Essence is the true spirit. It turns out that the spirit is the thing that can perceive and feel the spirit.What is this thing? "Be able to generate various conditions", this thing works inside, when we think about it, when we feel it in our heart, it works outside.

What is fate?My speech is fate, and you can hear it when I speak out. When I say this one sentence after another, the concept you listen to follows, which is climbing. Now that everyone is sitting here, there are many people, and the body feels hot, which is the "knowledge of the essence and Yuanming" inside. It responds to the heat outside, and the heart feels very hot and stuffy. This is the feeling caused by the heat, " Can give birth to all kinds of conditions." "Those who are left behind by predestined relationship", as Zen said, "let go of all predestined relationships", the outer predestined relationship is thrown away, and the one that is left is something that cannot be thrown away.For example, if you sit here and feel uncomfortable in your legs and shoulders, this is a predestined relationship. What fate?Body edge, the reaction of the body, has nothing to do with "you".Those who know that the body is uncomfortable, the legs are uncomfortable, and that is neither in the legs nor in the arms, what is left after removing the predestined relationship, "the one left by the predestined relationship"--these four words, the original thing, the external relationship is discarded Later, the remaining thing. "All sentient beings, leaving this original knowledge behind, practice it all day long without consciously realizing it, and enter the various destinies in vain." Everything is created by that thing, so all living beings are upside down, blindly running along with myriad conditions, and reincarnated in the six realms. , Rolling in life and death.This is positive, but not its esoteric method, and the negative side has not been discussed here. I often remind everyone that when you sit down and cross your legs, isn't that a very good moment?But after sitting down, something is wrong, why?Because after I sat down, I felt that I was meditating, that my breath was wrong, and my body was wrong, but the moment I crossed my legs, it was a bit like letting go of Wanyuan and not caring about anything. When the legs are fully crossed, I think about everything, I want to become enlightened, I want to be dignified, I want to have delusions, and I have to get rid of the delusions when they come, and after I get rid of them, I think... Alas!Why bother to get rid of it, because after you get rid of it, you will be delusional again, anyway, you are just sitting there playing tricks. In fact, as long as all predestined relationships are naturally let go, the remaining one that has not been touched is the "one left behind by predestined relationship". The Buddha gave us such direct instructions. Because he confused this, he "entered all realms in vain". There is only rotation in the six realms. Let's discuss eighth again. What is "see"?Now we ordinary people meditate, what happens when we sit up?It is what is said in the Shurangama Sutra: "Miscellaneous and delusional thoughts, thinking of appearance as a body, gathering karma and swaying inwardly, running away from interests, disturbing appearance, thinking of the nature of mind". The Buddha said that all sentient beings cannot find this heart, why?Because of the "sexy delusion", the physiological reaction follows the psychological delusion, interacting with each other, and then "thinking about the body" inside.In fact, there is another body in our body, which is the self formed by our own thoughts.For example, a classmate said just now that the body that was originally bad got better after a run outside. This shows that the psychological effect is the same.This mind has a body formed by delusions, and your thought itself is the inner child of this body.That thought gathers some outer edges and becomes a body within your body. Therefore, "Joining Fate and Shaking Internally" is to gather all the thoughts, emotions, etc. of the outer edge. When you sit there in meditation, it is these four words, "Joining Fate and Shaking Internally", like a tube It was like cotton candy rolled out of it, and more and more rolled, and my heart was very chaotic, like a sports meeting. "Running outside the fun", the thoughts run around, and then the eyes are closed, "drowsy", dizzy, and sit for an hour, called "Meditation", and this state is "referred to as xinxing".Don't you know that this is not the sincerity, making such a big mistake, and still "being deluded by the mind, and determined to be deluded into the body".So the understanding is not clear, and I still think that I am cultivating the Tao, and I still think that the mind is in this body.If the mind is in the body, won't the mind be lost when you die? The Buddha made these words very clear. "I don't know the body, the mountains, the rivers, the void and the earth outside, salt is the thing in the heart of Miaoming."He said, Ananda, you don't know that it doesn't matter if you open or close your eyes when you meditate, don't guard your body.You don't know that, centered on the body, it expands to the entire void, and the entire space is in your "heart".So what is this body? It's just "thinking about each other as one's body"!This is insight. Now there are many old practitioners sitting here, and they have done a good job. When you meditate, do you keep your body turning?If not, has the view reached the state of "outside mountains, rivers, void and earth, salty is the object in the heart of Miaoming"? "It's like clarifying hundreds of thousands of seas and discarding them. Only one buoyant body can be recognized, which can be regarded as the whole tide and exhaust the waves." The Buddha said that the body of our sentient beings is like the sea, which is much larger than the Pacific Ocean. Your body is only there. It's a small spot, but instead we abandoned the big one and just kept on to that small spot, thinking that this body is my life.Everyone is grasping this point and working on it, "juyuan internal shaking", like shaking cotton candy, the more you shake it, the bigger it gets.Yunmen, the patriarch of Zen, said: "Among the universe and the universe, there is a treasure hidden in Xingshan." In fact, the wonderful true heart of this "outside void, mountains, rivers, and earth" is in you, but it is hidden by the body and other karma. Power--"sexy delusion" is blocked, you need to find it out.Now that the Shurangama Sutra has been taught, do you understand everything?Have you experienced it? "The outside is like the void", have you studied it?Got it?You have to do kung fu to prove it. Copy notes while listening to me, pay attention!How to practice until the six sense organs are used together, and the mind is pure, this is learning Zen.Zen Buddhism in the United States and Japan specializes in studying those koan and Huatou, wild ducks fly over, fly over, what does that have to do with Zen?That's just an occasional bit of wit in pedagogy.Another example is Huiming asking the Sixth Patriarch: Master, what secret did the Fifth Patriarch tell you?The Sixth Patriarch said: Where is the secret!Mi, not with me, but with you.This sentence is a big secret. In the Shurangama Sutra, the Buddha said that these seven places inside and outside are not the heart. The Buddha said that you take yourself as the original heart, expand outward, and expand to the entire void. They are all things in your heart.In other words, the seven places inside and outside are also the heart, understand? This is the secret cause of the Tathagata, and none of you have participated in it.But what kind of mind are the seven places inside and outside?It is the function of the mind, not the body of the mind.When it is in use, it is the function of his physical body, the retribution body; when it returns to the body, it is the purity of the dharmakaya. Yunmen said: "In the universe, in the universe, there is a treasure, which is hidden in Xingshan. Hold the lantern to the Buddhist hall, and put the mountain gate on the lantern. How can it be done?" Bringing the lantern outside to the main hall can be done. Take the mountain gate and put it on the lantern, can it be done?This is what the Zen master said, he was talking nonsense, this and that, that and that, like acting on TV, but after watching it, no one understood, so he had to say it himself, "Chasing things and meanings", and said " Cloud rises and Leixing ". Chinese culture is like writing when you talk about it, so monks should pay attention to improve their literary foundation.Cloud Gate means -- alas!It's a pity that when I say a word, your hearts run away.This is the meaning of "fun beyond interest" in the Shurangama Sutra.After Yunmen Patriarch said the above words, he looked at everyone, but no one understood, so he said: "Yun Qi Lei Xing." He saw that the students couldn't answer, so he had to answer for them. Quoting the words of Zen Master Xuedou: "I have a treasure, and it is inside. It can't be grasped, and it can't be separated." He wrote a poem: Take a look, who in the ancient bank holds the fishing rod.The clouds are running, the water is long, and the moon and Luhua Jun look at themselves. Look!Instead of looking outward, look inward at yourself.Someone is standing on the ancient shore, trying to get you ashore, but if you don't take the bait, there is nothing you can do.The realm of Zen is what happens when you let go of all predestined relationships and let go of your body and mind.Looking at the reed flowers under the bright moon, the reed flowers are white, and the moon is also white, white to white, what else?One piece is all white and empty, and you need to find it. Another example is Zen Master Linji's saying in the hall: "On the red meat ball, there is a real person without a person who often goes in and out of your face. If you don't have evidence, take a look." Those who don't understand, take it out and have a look.At this time, a monk stood up and said: "How can I be a real person without a position?" Zen Master Linji heard him, and grabbed him from his seat and said: "Tao! Dao!" That is to say: You say it!you say! "Suggested by his monk" -- when the monk wanted to say it, Zen Master Linji let go and sighed: "What is a real person without a position?" After finishing speaking, he went back to the abbot's room.This is called French in class.When watching Zen koan, you should put your whole body and mind into watching it like watching a TV series, and you should not read it dead-on. As for the "Eight Reconciliations of Discernment", it still talks about the view, and the way of practicing Kungfu is discussed later. The Buddha has revealed all the highest secrets.Therefore, we carry the Shurangama Sutra with us every day, but we don’t understand it, and we can’t practice on the road. It’s a pity that we have failed Buddha’s kindness. Now give an example of "Eight Rediscovering and Seeing", Shurangama Sutra Volume 2: "I now show you the nature of non-birth and death. Majesty, when did you see the water of the Ganges River. The king said: I was born three years old, and my loving mother took me to visit the god of Jiva. When I passed by this stream, I knew it was the water of the Ganges River. The Buddha said: Your Majesty, as you said, at the age of twenty, it declines at the age of ten, and even at sixty. Every day, every day, every thought changes. Then when you saw this river at the age of three, until the age of thirteen, its water. What is it like? Wang Yan: It's the same as when you were three years old.Even today, at the age of sixty-two, there is no difference. The Buddha said: You are now self-injured, white and wrinkled, and your face must be wrinkled in childhood.Then when you look at this Ganges River today, it is different from how you saw the river when you were a child in the past.Wang Yan: No, World Honored One. The Buddha said: Your Majesty, although your face is wrinkled, but this sees essence, and your nature is never wrinkled.What is wrinkled is change, and what is not wrinkled is not change. One day, King Pasenadi came out and asked the Buddha, "This is very easy, but I have doubts about the non-birth and death of the mind." Buddha said: "How old were you when you saw the Ganges?" The king said: "I saw it when I was a child and my mother passed by." Buddha asked: "How old were you then?" "Three years old", "How old are you now?" "Sixty-two years old", "Now your eyes are blurred, can you see when you pass the Ganges again?", "Of course you can see", the Buddha said: "Your age has aging, birth and death, and death, but your visible nature does not change with age and has not moved." When you fall asleep, although your eyes are closed , but the eye consciousness is still seeing, seeing inside, the nature of seeing has not changed.I wrote a poem about this verse: Don't hate deeply for life and death for no reason, the waves flow from past to present. Looking at the river in the white hair and mist is still the heart after childhood. People, life and death, life and death, life and death are the most terrifying things for human beings.We are born, die, and then reincarnated. Birth and death are divided into stages like flowing water, always following the waves, and disappearing together. There is no practice of samatha.The above poem quoted the allusion of King Pasenadi, "Looking at the river in the white-headed mist", I am getting older, and my eyes are blurred, but this visible sex is still the same, it is still the same as when I was a child-" It’s like the heart after childhood.” "Everything that can be returned will naturally be returned to you; whoever does not return to you will not be from you." The eyes are returned to the eye nerves, the light is returned to the sun, everything that can be returned is returned, and there is no one left that cannot be returned. Also, who is that if it’s not “you”? Of course, you can say: "Didn't the Buddha talk about no-self?" Yes, what the Buddha said about no-self means the absence of the four elements and no false self.My self-nature has not been thrown away.When a Zen master Tianmuli became enlightened, he wrote a poem: If you don't return it, who will it be? The residual red falls all over Diaoyuji. The sun is slanting and the wind is moving, and no one sweeps it, and the swallow will fly across the water. The fallen flowers fall to the ground and return to their original place.It's like when you meditate, delusions come as soon as they come, and they go away when you know it, so you don't have to worry about it. This is the state. "The remnant red falls all over Diaoyuji", he put the natural scene there naturally, which is very ready-made.Just like your state of mind, naturally, slowly calm down.When the sun goes down, the wind shakes the ground slightly, which means that there is still a little delusional thought. "No one sweeps", don't worry about it, if you can't sweep it, don't worry about it. "Swallow holds the water in its mouth", a slight delusion is irrelevant.Next, I will add two sentences myself: "Tsk! Tsk! It is the supreme curse, the curse of no waiting." Let me tell you, this is not a poem. Once you understand this poem, you will realize this point. Now that we have explained the eight-recognized perspective, we understand the aspect of seeing the nature clearly.The one that doesn’t drop is my opinion, right?But I want to ask a question. If Shakyamuni Buddha came, I must ask him: "Master! You have been talking for a long time, and the one who still doesn't fall is me, but I must exist in this physical body! Where does that thing go when my physical body dies?I still can't find it. "So if you use kung fu and still can't find this point of origin and destination, even if you prove the vacuum in your heart, it will be useless if you "sing" for 360 days, it still won't work, this is also a secret. Now those of you who have done well in kung fu will think, "That's great! It's a great improvement." To be honest, it depends on your body, this red meat ball, a piece of red meat. When the meat is broken, where do you go?How to go? "I have a treasure, the secret is in Xingshan", how to get out?How did you run in?How to find it out? Therefore, the Shurangama Sutra talks about the view in the front, and then goes all the way down, and tells you the secrets of attaining realization. The secret of this kung fu is all in the next volume or two, the part that people usually pay the least attention to, especially the fifty kinds of yin demons-the liberation of the five yins.The Heart Sutra says: "Seeing that the five aggregates are all empty." How are the five aggregates empty?It takes nothing to do.I once said that everyone "turns the fruit into the cause" and takes the fruit of Buddhism and makes it our own.Now turning back to "reverse cause and effect", I have to verify it myself.When it comes to the fifty kinds of yin demons, you have to read books. Not reading books is arrogant and a violation of the precepts. The Buddhas and Bodhisattvas passed on the Dharma door to you, and this is the Dharma book.The Buddha said in the Shurangama Sutra in the nine-color shade area: "When you sit in the Taoist place, you will eliminate all thoughts. If your thoughts are exhausted, then all thoughts will be shrewd, moving and still, remembering and forgetting as one. When you live here, Enter samadhi. Like a person with clear eyes, who is in a great darkness, whose essence is wonderfully pure, but whose mind does not shine, this is called the shade area of ​​form.” At that time, the thoughts are gone, everything is clear, and the movement and stillness are the same at this time , I can't stop distracting thoughts, and when the kung fu reaches "remembering and forgetting as one", you should enter samadhi here.Just like "a man with eyesight is in great darkness", there is a twilight in the darkness. "The spirit is wonderfully pure, but the heart is not radiant." At this time, the state of the nature of life is very pure and subtle, while the mind of ordinary people is active and messy, and when the eyes are closed, it is pitch black.If someone now achieves the state of "dispelling all thoughts, unmoving movement and stillness, and remembering and forgetting as one", then I don't know how boastful it is. In fact, it is only a state. What is the boundary? "The essence is wonderful and clean, but the heart is not shining, this is called the color and shade area." This is a psychological change when the mind is about to change, nothing unusual!In other words, when you meditate, your heart is empty, or for many years, months, days, or hours, it is because your four major psychological adjustments are in harmony, a blind cat encounters a dead mouse, and it is plugged in like a power supply. .This is not real kung fu, and it will fall off after a while, and these belong to the color and shade area. When it comes to Seyin District, there are several books that should be read--Biography of the Divine Monk, Biography of the Divine Nun, and the History of the Buddha.Reading these biographies can inspire a sincere heart to the Tao.There is also a Chronicle of Master Hanshan. Master Han went to study everywhere at the age of twenty-eight. On the top of the winding mountain, there was a thatched hut, and a monk meditated inside, ignoring Master Hanshan.When the monk ate, Master Hanshan ate, and when the monk drank tea, he drank it himself.Later, when it was time to eat, Master Hanshan would cook for the monk, and when it was time to drink tea, he would make tea, and then he would walk by himself after eating.On the seventh day, the monk spoke to Master Hanshan. The monk said, "I have lived in this rock for more than 30 years, and today I have met a fellow monk." One night after eating porridge, Han Shan continued to burn incense on the top of the mountain, stood there for a moment, and felt that the world, in a bright light, was the state of "dispelling delusions".After he entered the hut, the monk looked at it and said: Let me tell you, this is Seyin District Yu, and it's nothing more than this level of your kung fu.The old monk has been here for 30 years, and he has been walking in this environment every night, what is so strange about it!Young people, as difficult as it is, is also as easy as it is.That monk, who walked through the night for thirty nights, forgot both his body and mind.Attention, practitioners!You are still in the upper half of the shade area, with your eyes closed and it is pitch black, sitting there blindly. "If the eyes are clear, there will be holes in the ten directions, and there will be no more darkness, and the shadows of name and form will be exhausted." With a bright light, the walls, mountains, rivers and the earth can be seen through.Don't think that at this time, you have obtained supernatural powers and want to be the patriarch, and you are playing here.There are ten realms in this shade area, all of which are demonic realms, so go and study for yourself.What are you doing there, doing qi channels, three meridians and seven rounds, upper dantian, lower dantian, upside down, over and over again?They are all in the shade area.If you want to exhaust your sexuality and empty your physiology, do you think that you will become enlightened if your Qi channels are unblocked?At best, it has reached the end of color.Being able to achieve the end of color and yin, the body is really empty, the so-called qi channel is not a problem, it is still the most preliminary thing.The Buddha said that only at this time can we "surmount the turbidity of kalpas", and it is only one layer out of the five turbidities. But have you become enlightened? Next, the Buddha continued to say: "Look at its cause, and take it as its foundation." This is still a delusion, and it is a big delusion, not a small delusion.We are sitting there now, delusional.In that state, both body and mind are forgotten, it is just a big delusion, a solid big delusion, and I think I don’t have any delusion. In this paragraph, the Buddha told you that there are ten kinds of forks in the world of color and shade.The ten are still big principles. If you explain them in detail, you will have to talk about them for at least three months. You should study them yourself. "That good man, those who practice samadhi and samadhi, whose color is exhausted, see the minds of Buddhas, like a bright mirror, and show their images. If they gain something, but fail to use it, they are like a nightmare. , the heart touches the guest evil but cannot move, this is called the shou yin area." This is the situation when the shou yin area is described. There are also some people who often think in vain when they work hard. After a long time of emptiness, their bodies become rigid, which is called "dry Zen" in Zen Buddhism. "There are many forks in front of Kumuyan, and pedestrians will be wasted here." If you think it's right to just think about it, it's still far from it!After a long time, the body and mind will become rigid, and fifty pairs of one hundred will go astray.These are the scriptures of the ancients, you all have to read them. Now that you understand, you don’t have to be afraid at all, and you have to go through it.At this time, I have reached the range of feeling, and if I go any further, it seems that my body is pressed down by something, bound, and I can't turn it over.When it's time to grab it hard and turn it over, some people feel like there's a ghost!In fact, it is your own alone shadow consciousness, where is the ghost?They are all physically uncomfortable, created by idealism, and there is no such thing as ghosts. At this time, I turned around and said, "If the nightmare rests, the heart is renounced, look back at the face, go to live freely, there will be no hindrance, and the name will be the end of the yin." Feeling that I have left the body, Taoism speaks of the spirit of yin.What's so great about leaving the yin spirit, the seventh and eighth haven't left yet, and the warmth, longevity, and consciousness are still there, so you can see yourself breathing. "If you are a human being, you can transcend the turbidity of seeing." At this time, the view is different, and any great scholar or great thinker is no problem.The so-called knowledge and thinkers are actually just the concentration of delusions. "Look at its cause, and think of emptiness and delusion as its foundation." This is still a delusion, not a solid delusion of lust. At this time, the body and mind can be separated, and the delusion becomes like a bubble, empty. "Delusion of ignorance" is still a big delusion.In fact, the five Yins are all delusions.If you don't know clearly in the Yuyin area, there are still ten realms of great demons.But supernatural powers and nerves are twins. When the realm comes, you are told not to make holy interpretations.You grasp what the Diamond Sutra says: "All appearances are illusory. If you see all appearances and non-appearances, you will see the Tathagata." If you ignore it and don't think that you have obtained the Tao, it will help you progress. "If you make a holy interpretation", if you think that your kung fu is great, this is the way, "that is to accept the evil", and you will fall into the way of Asura, the way of demons. Therefore, Buddha and demons, hell and heaven, sentient beings and Buddha, there is only a difference of one thought, and there is no difference, and there is no difference between a thin line and no separation.From an ordinary person to becoming a Buddha, all rely on a little truth of prajna wisdom.If you don't know the reason, you have to rely on the Buddha's experience.In the fifty kinds of yin demons in the Shurangama Sutra, almost all the realms of kung fu and all the secrets are revealed to you.In fact, if you use these fifty yin demon realms well, they are no longer demon realms.In other words, these fifty kinds of demonic realms are all realms step by step, and some of them are realms that must be passed through.If you don't use it well, it's over and you'll go down.For example, if you climb more than ten flights of stairs, you will go down if you can't climb two floors. This is what you need to pay attention to when practicing.Therefore, the so-called Great Buddha Top Tathagata in the title of the scriptures has practiced and verified the meaning, which is indeed a secret meaning.Therefore, the Buddha said in the Diamond Sutra: "Subhuti, the Tathagata is the one who speaks the truth, who speaks the truth, who speaks the truth, who does not lie, and who does not speak differently." Shakyamuni Buddha did not lie to us, nor did he lie to us, It is because we read the scriptures ourselves that we did not understand his secret causes, nor did we understand the cultivation methods he told us. The above is our second outline, the outline for practicing certification.