Chapter 6 Basic Beliefs of a Buddhist Practitioner-6

This is the vow that Buddhist practitioners must obey. Whether they are monks or monks, they should "will to practice" and "maintain" all the subtle methods of the Buddhas.The word "holding" includes self-cultivation on the one hand, and being an abbot for the Dharma on the other hand, so that it will not be cut off and stay in the world forever.So you have to practice hard. If you practice this method, all the methods are included. If you follow the law, you will achieve limitless achievements. Only with success can you truly abbot this method for this world and benefit all sentient beings.Basically, if you really read it 900,000 times, you will definitely gain benefits in practice.Now we have seventy-seven forty-nine days, and the statistics are only 110,000 to 20,000. If we want to recite it a million times, we need to concentrate on it for a year in the way we are currently reciting day and night every day.

Many people who study Buddhism in the world now take Tantric Buddhism as an example. Many people say that he has given the crown, but ask him if he has recited the mantra 100,000 times?Did each of the four plus lines actually do it?The answer is probably not very optimistic.So now you are able to cultivate like this, I am still happy, practice like this, and vow to uphold the Buddha’s subtle teachings in the future to benefit all living beings, then you will be able to "show all good deeds" and make Bodhi seeds spread all over the land, Buddha Fa-rectification will always flourish.Now that Buddhism is in decline, I hope that you can really make up your mind for Buddhism and the Dharma.How?You must benefit yourself and others, and only when you succeed in your own practice can you "show all the Bodhi actions and ultimately purify the way of Samantabhadra".Samantabhadra, everywhere, everywhere, all the time, all the time, everywhere in front of your eyes, there is nothing that all Buddhist teachings do not do.When you have reached the "ultimately pure and universal way of Samantabhadra, practice it for the next kalpa", you will never get tired of this vow, and you will never stop it. You will follow it forever in the ten directions and three times. This is the true spirit of the Bodhisattva way.

Since the start of Zhunti Dharma training, quite a lot of people have initiated Samantabhadra vows in your diaries. This is a gratifying phenomenon, and I am really happy for you. (Master especially praised the first session of practice on the evening of January 12th. The public cooperated very well in both the chanting and the sincere visualization of the artistic conception. He also explained the principles of chanting and Qimai again. Temporary omission) Now go on to the next verse: (Students chant in the same way) Now it still belongs to the scope of Hengshun sentient beings, which is to sacrifice oneself to achieve others.What is practice?Do you think that you left your parents and family, went to the mountains to shave your head, and said that I became a monk to become a Buddha?It’s not that it’s wrong to become a monk. It’s definitely a manly thing to be a monk. It’s not something that emperors and generals can do. What you do is the other side of Hengshun sentient beings. It’s definitely not abstaining from the world.The Dharma does not leave the world. Once you are married, your family members are sentient beings. Why bother them?Hengshun sentient beings have at least two meanings. First, it includes skillful and convenient educational methods, as stated in the "Vimalakirti Sutra" and other classics: "First hook with desire, and then make people wise." Two: The merits and virtues of all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are cultivated and achieved from living beings. Without sentient beings, there will be no merits and virtues of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Without sentient beings, what do you do to become a Buddha?And it is impossible to become a Buddha at all.

"Among all beings, the blessings and wisdom I have cultivated are endless." To learn Buddhism, you must never miss a chance to practice blessings and wisdom in all dharmas. Pay attention to practice in any small place, "Don't do good things because they are small, and don't do evil because they are small."Cultivation is to cultivate among all existences. The Buddha taught all living beings to be classified into three existences, nine existences, twenty-five existences, and so on.Everything has the way, representing all life, and all living beings in the six ways have existence, that is, desire, form, and formlessness.To learn Buddhism and obey sentient beings, one needs to extensively cultivate merit and wisdom in all the dharmas of the world and the six realms, so as to achieve success.Therefore, all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are incarnations and reappear in the existence of the six realms, never escaping from reality.Although the reality is affliction, true practitioners and achievers will strive to be liberated from the great affliction.Only when there are sentient beings can there be a Buddha, only when there are afflictions can there be Bodhi, and if you have a home, you become a monk. If you don’t have a home, where do you come from?Our teacher, Shakyamuni Buddha, has achieved success, and will eventually come back to save his family. Isn’t he entering the family again?

"Convenence of Dinghui and Liberation, you can obtain endless merits and virtues." All samadhi, all wisdom, all conveniences for saving sentient beings and the way of liberation are all cultivated in all three existences and six ways, and they can naturally complete their merits and virtues and achieve supreme Bodhi. So, why do we need to cultivate Dinghui?Because it is easy to be scattered among the three existences, you must have concentration when you enter the world. Because the ignorance and ignorance in the world of sentient beings are full of confusion, you need wisdom to be in harmony with light and dust.It is only through Dinghui that a practitioner can enter the world and transcend things. This is only possible through Dinghui, and only through Dinghui can the door of convenience be opened to save sentient beings.It is convenient to praise, and it is also convenient to be fierce and scold you. Sometimes you can't suppress you if you are not fierce, so I am fierce.Everyone in this world likes to be a good person. Could it be that I don’t understand and I can’t live with myself?So as soon as I come up, you recite with all your strength and sincerity; if you don't come up, you recite weakly, so if I don't have the convenience of being fierce, is that okay?Therefore, scolding and fierceness are also a kind of convenience paramita if you know it correctly!When the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas come back with their vows, their laughing and cursing are all expedients, and all kinds of positive and negative educational methods are also expedients, and all the expedient paramita of us practitioners must be practiced in all existences, so that we can experience and find out.Convenient paramita is the seventh paramita among the ten paramitas "giving, precepts, patience, diligence, meditation, prajna, convenience, wish, power, and wisdom".After attaining prajna with great enlightenment, one may not be able to teach others, but one must enter into the Three Beings and learn the Paramita of convenience. "The Dharma Gate is boundless and vows to learn", you must understand all the knowledge in the world, Buddhism and magic.As long as it is in all existences, convenience is required, but the Western Paradise does not need convenience, because Amitabha Buddha’s Pure Land Convenience Paramita has already been achieved. Up to Amitabha Buddha, down to the forests, mountains, rivers and lands, they are naturally reciting Buddha, reciting Dharma, reciting Monk, there is no need to be more convenient!

Let's talk about "liberation" again, and ask a question first, why do we need to be liberated?The middle of the three is a sea of ​​suffering, is it good or not? (Classmates answer: I don’t feel well) , Therefore, liberation is required, and the essence of Buddhism lies in liberation, not only the liberation of oneself, but also the liberation of all sentient beings.Where and when to be liberated?Just be free in the moment of trouble.Buddhism talks about "liberation" in the transcendental law, and "accomplishment" in the worldly law and merit. To be able to get rid of all sufferings is to achieve incredible merit.

"Convenence of Dinghui and Liberation" is cultivated among all living beings in perseverance. It is said that persevering all beings means taking care of all living beings, but in fact it is still taking care of yourself. The "Big Husband Theory" says: "Bodhisattvas are difficult to think about in the life of those who beg, so what is the reason? If there are no beggars, tanparamita will not be satisfied, and the supreme Bodhi will not be obtained." From this point of view, it is said that you are helping sentient beings. , In fact, sentient beings are helping you!You can get rid of greed by giving money to beggars, and you still have to pay homage to beggars and be grateful!That's why I often say "I want to save sentient beings, but I am saved by sentient beings." Although it has the meaning of transforming others and being transformed by others, it also has the meaning at this level.Look at one sentence, just like Patriarch Linji said in Zen, "There are three Taoisms in one sentence, and three essential meanings in one Taoism."Word prajna is so difficult.Come again:

(Students chant in the same way) Where is the land of the Buddha?Just out of this world.To be born is to enter the world. After the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas have achieved success, they are transported freely in the Three Realms—"Just like the lotus flower does not touch the water, and the sun and the moon do not live in the sky."In fact, the Three Realms are not bad either. When the desire realm changes, desire turns into joy, when the form realm turns happiness, and when the formless realm turns brightness into no-thought, is this a rare enjoyment? !But if you are attached to no thought and keep an empty space, you will fall into the formless realm and have no liberation; if you are attached to light, thinking that light is the way, you will fall into the form realm and you will not be liberated.Therefore, being able to travel freely among the three realms is the true freedom and liberation, which is the Buddha way.

Furthermore, "There are as many dusts as there are dusts in a dust", dust can mean many things, such as our physiological cells, physical atomic nuclei, or even a grain of sand in the material world is dust.There are countless buddha lands hidden in a dust, which is the principle of "mustard seed Nasumi".Taking medicine as an example, an egg and a sperm in a human body, after their chromosomes are combined, can differentiate into various parts of the baby's fine and coarse organs in the mother's body. There are a lot of children, this is "mustard seed Nasumi", "there are countless bodies in one body", and they are born endlessly.

Based on this, we may understand that "in a dust, there are as many dusts as there are dusts, and in each moment, there are difficult to think about Buddha".The Buddha is in this world, there are Buddhas everywhere, and there is no Nirvana for the Buddha, from heaven to hell, Buddha is everywhere.The Buddha in our world has such a form, but it is not necessarily the same in other lands. Maybe it becomes a demon, which is beyond the imagination of us ordinary people.Some sentient beings refuse to listen to your persuasion, but if you pick up a knife and try to kill them, they will listen.Therefore, "Believe it and you will be saved, and if you don't believe it, you will kill it."

However, you must pay attention to the incredible teachings and conveniences of the Bodhisattvas. They are based on great wisdom, great kindness, great compassion, and great vows. But it's big! "One by one Buddha is in the assembly, and I see the constant performance of Bodhi action." Among the countless and boundless Buddhas, there are many disciples of the Buddha in front of each Buddha, forming various causal associations, numerous and endless.Everyone in each Dharma assembly is learning Buddhism and Taoism with various methods, diligently practicing diligently on the path of Bodhi.We should not look down on the world of sentient beings, they are all practicing Buddhism!All sentient beings are Buddhas, "mind, Buddha, and sentient beings are indistinguishable". All sentient beings are singing and performing the Dharma in their own unique ways. Do we have the eyes of the Dharma to see it?The Sixth Patriarch tells us: "Buddhism is in the world, and you can't leave the world to realize it. Seeking Bodhi when you leave the world is like looking for the horns of a rabbit." Do you understand?Enlightenment must be in the world, leave the world, what to realize? Now following the next verse, everyone recites a verse with great confidence and sincerity: (Students chant in the same way) The previous sentence clearly indicates that the Buddha is in this immeasurable, boundless, overlapping real world. There are Buddhas everywhere, and the truth exists everywhere. This point has been repeatedly emphasized in many previous verses. It is the generous development.The second sentence is about space and time.In the past, present, and future worlds of the Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds, there is an infinite and boundless Sea of ​​Brahma, and the sea represents greatness. It is a metaphor for Samantabhadra’s vows to be as vast and limitless as the sea, and there is not only one "sea". There are countless Buddha worlds in this universe. , that is, the endless "sea of ​​Buddha and sea of ​​land". These countless Buddha worlds contain endless time and space.Taking time as an example, time is not fixed, "One by one Maoduan Sanshihai", a tiny thing like fine sand.Water droplets and so on are an incredible world. A small space contains the time that lasts for three lifetimes, and a moment of time also contains the infinite and boundless space.A day or a year on the earth is nothing more than a snap of a finger or a day on some planets; while our day, to some beings who live for a few minutes, feels like tens of millions of years.Pigs, cats, dogs, mice, etc. all have their lands, and in the lands are their bodhisattvas and teachers who help them with various conveniences.Although most of their lives are shorter than that of human beings, and it is often remarkable to live for a few years or ten years, but according to their physiological structure, metabolic function and state of consciousness, a few years or ten years or even life and death, for them, But it is also a long time! Time is relative, and so is space.An ant crawls one hundred meters, with their bodies and energy consumed, relatively speaking, it is probably equivalent to a person's journey of hundreds of kilometers!This is just a rough conceptual metaphor. In fact, only by practicing to achieve the unattainable state of the past, present, and future can we truly understand the mysteries of time and space. Modern science perseveres in exploring time and space, and there are many experiments and theories. It is very worthy of us Buddhists to use as a reference for ideals. "The sea of ​​Buddha and the sea of ​​land" refers to the material world. China, the United States, Japan, etc. all belong to the sea of ​​land; the earth, the sun, Saturn, etc., all belong to the sea of ​​Buddhas. "I have practiced the sea of ​​scriptures everywhere", this "sutra" is not a scripture for chanting, but a scripture for passing through; it means that I am willing to be reborn in all living beings to save them, and strive to practice Samantabhadra in the most difficult and filthy situations. The place contributes itself unreservedly to benefit all sentient beings, so after countless kalpas, no matter how difficult it is, it will not regret it and never turn back. The next eight sentences are spoken in succession.This paragraph is quite related to the quasi-teaching method that you are practicing now. You are still in the "generation stage" of practicing the quasi-teaching method, the foundation is not solid, and the number of times is less than one million times.From the perspective of "things", it is really difficult to practice and recite mantras!Some people have made up their minds to become a monk and learned the Shurangama Mantra by heart, thinking that this can really turn away demonic obstacles?To practice the Shurangama Mantra, at least recite it every day, and it will take several years of effort. Only when the mandala is arranged according to the law and recited continuously day and night can one achieve success.The same is true for the method of practicing the Great Compassion Mantra. It doesn’t mean that if you know this mantra, just chanting it casually will have a great effect.It's nice that the spell works great, but does it melt into you?Don't think that you have taken refuge, just go to the temple often and that's it!Then learn to recite the mantra, in a trance, just want to have an effect, don't be confused!So everyone should pay special attention to this paragraph.Now sing it again, and when you sing it, you still have the same sentence. You have to put your body and mind into it, understand the meaning, and recite it ecstatically. (Students chant in the same way)