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XNUMX. How to keep the heart precepts

XNUMX. How to keep the heart precepts
Perfectly upholding the precepts of the heart is not easy. Strictly speaking, you must understand your mind and see your nature, start from the realm of your own nature, see that all people are Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and can truly implement the Ten Vows of Samantabhadra. The perfection of keeping the heart precepts.When you have not yet seen your nature, you can only learn to constantly reflect on your own mind, whether you can be in harmony with the truth, goodness, beauty and wisdom, whether it can correspond with compassion, whether it can correspond with wisdom, whether you can stay away from selfishness, whether you can truly In terms of altruism, whether it can bring happiness to sentient beings... If you leave these principles of righteous thoughts, you must return to righteous thoughts as soon as possible, and in the process of pulling back and forth, gradually get rid of defilements and return to purity, and achieve Bodhi. The Heart Precepts of Mahayana Bodhisattva.

How to uphold the heart precepts of virtuous cultivation?To be able to abide in the stillness of Nirvana at all times without losing this state, and in this vast and boundless peace, light, compassion, love, abundance, gratitude, abundance, happiness, tranquility... Purify the mind, Ren Yun will naturally and unconditionally perform Buddhist deeds in dreams for the benefit of all beings who are boundless in the same body. He never forgets the righteous thoughts of this self-nature. As long as this righteous thoughts are lost, he will immediately break the precepts and feel ashamed. , repentance, and then rest in righteous thoughts.When encountering adversity, we must fully accept the current state, without a trace of anger and impatience, without losing the righteous thoughts and joy, without thinking, without thinking, but with pure and broad love, accept it like the ground, and naturally. Acceptance, like breathing, does not obviously work naturally.I am cultivating forbearance, I am facing adversity, distinguishing the self, human beings, living beings, and longevity. There is absolutely no self or adversity that can cause troubles, and still remain in the true self of nirvana and tranquility. To see everything, to let all realms come and go freely like flowing water forever, until the karma is exhausted and habitual, this is the perfect mind and precept.

Heart precepts are the highest level of precepts in Buddhism. How can we be able to learn and uphold them?You must start from the basic three refuges, five precepts, sravaka precepts, and bodhisattva precepts one by one, and then you can gradually catch the starting point through the meditative experience of collecting the six sense organs. If you go beyond these precepts, you want to enter directly. It is absolutely impossible to have no sign of heart precepts. Those who truly know how to abide by the heart precepts will definitely be able to do it in terms of things, and they will do it more fully and properly than the average person.From this, it can be seen that the precepts are not only the common practice foundation of monks and sects, but also an indispensable practice for the achievement of Buddhism.