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June 1993_Love and Thoughts

Love Thoughts

At three o'clock in the morning, this is the time for the jungle dwellers to wake up.But at this moment, most of the monks living in this urban jungle are still doing the Buddha's dream in their dreams. I walked to the corner of the living room and sat quietly.The floor we live in is very clean. The residents are all good knowledge of the diligence. The magnetic field inside is very stable and there are few incidents. Usually, everyone can grasp a few fragments and care about them in addition to close homework. Encouraging each other, this kind of cause is really rare.In a small corner of the guest house, from the three western saints provided by the residents, the teacher’s photos and various offerings, and the green leaves decorated on the side, you can see what the scholars in this room have about the Three Jewels. The feeling of admiration.At this moment, the night is so deep, looking up at the starry sky outside the window, imitating the moment when Blessed Master Shakya saw the stars at night when he enlightened, and slowly entered a short silence, and I just watched this quietly. The hard-won silence.Suddenly, I saw a shadow appearing in my mind, that was myself praying to the Buddha statue of Ke Xie.Oh! Originally, after waking up this morning, I didn't seem to bow to the Buddha and Bodhisattva! After the service, the thoughts began to move again.Just now before the appearance of the Buddha worshiping form, there was a short silence in my heart, and there was nothing in it, but now there is a Buddha worshiping form. If I continue to follow my thoughts like this, continue to weave again. In other realms, wouldn't the entire world be created by me?And the "heart is like a master of art" and "all things are created by the mind" mentioned by the Buddha in the sutras are not exactly similar to this situation?The only difference is that what is created by our delusion is an illusion of impermanence, while the world manifested by our true heart is a pure land that is constant and unchanging.

As delusions are constantly being created at this moment, we can indeed perceive that thoughts are constantly changing in moments and moments. Therefore, the realm imagined by delusions is an illusion of impermanence; it is temporarily false. Existence, this is not difficult to understand, but the Blessed One said that not only is the realm imagined in our thoughts, it is an illusion, and even the six elements in front of us touch the six dusts and feel the mountains, rivers, earth, Flowers, birds and beasts, as well as people, things, things, everything; so real, alive, and rigid, this kind of material phenomenon is actually within the scope of what we want to achieve. This phenomenon is like "the mustard can be "Accommodating Xumi" mustard seed is a metaphor for our heart, and Xumi is a metaphor for the outside world. The entire vast and boundless world is not in our little thoughts; it is all contained in our one-minded mind.This is like a small hard disk in a computer. In that small and unobtrusive volume, it can hold a lot of data in it.The metaphor of this incident is the truth of the origin of the universe that the Buddha said.However, this realm of reality is too difficult for us to understand, because everything in front of us is so real and alive, and it is clear that the dependent origination and cessation of all things and human beings are also generated by independent causes and conditions. Would it be said that the whole world can be imagined by our own minds?What's more, what my heart thinks is different from what other people think. Then, is this whole world made according to who's mind?In the past, someone asked Lord Sakyamuni, why the land of other Buddhas after enlightenment was pure and untainted, but the land that you have emerged is this five-turbid and evil world?After the Blessed One listened, he used his feet to show his magical powers, and suddenly a bright and pure land like the world of bliss appeared.Oh! It turns out that there is indeed a realm of Dharma conceived by one's heart in everyone's heart, and although the realm of Dharma conceived by every sentient being is in the same place, they can overlap without hindering each other, so the same is here. In the world, the world that Sakyamuni has seen in the eyes of Blessed One is no different from the world of bliss created by Amitabha Buddha with a pure heart. Although he is in a bad world, he is still happy and free of suffering. But in the eyes of the Blessed One Everyone here is as good as a Buddha and Bodhisattva, and there is no evil person or enemy in his heart.Only the situation felt by the evil mortal karma is like living in a hell of burning fire, always resentful in his heart, and no one is pleasing to the eye. It turns out that this is due to the different effects of personal heart.A person with a pure heart will live in a pure world, and a world where a turbid heart and evil lives will be turbid and evil. It does not mean that there is another pure time and space that exists after leaving this turbid and evil time and space.Therefore, our practice in Buddhism is to return to simplicity and to restore our own pure nature, so that the pure world manifested by the pure mind can replace all the filth and troubles manifested by the delusion.It turns out that the eighty-four thousand methods of Buddhism need to be cultivated, nothing more than this one thing! But now, although we seem to be able to recognize these principles and understand the ways to treat and improve them, we are actually facing In real life situations, our minds will always follow the past habits, maladies and delusions. If we say that the truth is truly understood, then we should be able to do so in reality. Is it right?What is going on here?Could it be because our karma and habits since the beginning of the karma are too heavy or too heavy, or that the seventh consciousness as the only consciousists say, the strength of the "Muna consciousness" to strengthen attachments far exceeds ours Reason makes us continue to recognize the false as the truth again, joy, sorrow and resentment for all gains and losses, just like a fool watching a play, knowing that it is just a play, but still following the joy, anger, sorrow, and sorrow of the people in the play. Happy but not independent.It seems that practice is really something that is not possible for a man.Even though it is difficult, our pure Bodhicitta has shown light in a single moment in a thousand years of dark night, but then it disappears. Therefore, it is only in Zen that we have to cultivate after enlightenment, and our kung fu must be maintained.The bodhisattva's practice also has to go through three more a monk's karma, and even the immeasurable kalpa, in order to cultivate according to the enlightenment path and produce the real power to cure karma and habits.Hey! Cultivation seems simple, but it is not easy! When will we be like the old monk Xuyun, after traveling thousands of miles, he accidentally broke a hot teacup and completely shattered the firmness of his heart since he was innocent. Perseverance, presumably the kind of freedom and relief he was at that time is beyond words.At this time, he must be living in the blissful world in this saha like the Blessed One, able to play the world at will and dream about the Buddha in the world; he can rejoice with the joy of all beings, follow the sorrow and sorrow of all beings, and follow the hearts of all beings. I felt it, and I was completely immersed in the pure world I created, wow! How free and easy this kind of life would be! Thinking about it, I saw myself immersed in delusions about the Dharma again, hey, Although this is also an inevitable process of practice; practice always has to first interlace the prajna of writing and contemplation of prajna, and at the same time, through the actual practice of the bodhisattva path, to personally verify the state of prajna.However, the question is whether the little contemplation skill we have mentioned before can be effective! When the realm is reached, if the law-like counter-rule can be achieved, then this contemplation merit is deemed to be Small achievements are achieved. If the realm comes and then immediately changes with the realm, and the karma and habit are taking control, then it is considered to be a visualization of the Dharma, and the analysing of the textual prajna, is it also to be frustrated? ?Think about it, or honestly recite the "Nanwu Amitabha Buddha" Wan Dehong name, steadily scribble, and accumulate the current pure Buddha name to cure all kinds of delusions; relying on self-reliance in faith, aspirations, and deeds. Linked to Amitabha’s aspiration to live in the pure land of bliss, such a long time, "no thoughts, no thoughts, no thoughts", when embodied in "the heart is the Buddha, and the heart is the Buddha", then it is not false. Convenient and self-satisfied"?The white sky of fish belly gradually appeared, and the heart should have been emptied, otherwise, in this early morning, the beautiful sound of Liuchen said, but it would be unattainable.Wow! Everything is so beautiful and magical, but the sleeping creatures are so sad and stupefied. How can we help sentient beings to enter this world of bliss? ----I think there is only one way to pray continuously and sincerely for the blessings of the three treasures. "Namo Amitabha"….

(Published in Taiwan Ciyun Magazine June 93)

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