"Zen Gate" said that the Millennium darkroom should be lit by Yi Deng, and the light in the heart should be lit. How can I light the light in my heart? Now we also have this ability, for example, when sleeping, the pillow falls under the bed and our eyes can't see in the dark, but we will reach out and pick up the pillow and continue to sleep. What is that? That's the heart! Not necessarily with the naked eye, but with your heart!
I also report to you that my eyes are not good recently. I don't regret it at all, because after using my eyes for more than 80 years, it can't follow me forever. There is always a limit. Life has a cycle of life and death, just like a piece of wood. After burning, another piece of wood, another piece of wood. This wood is different from one to another, as if the body is different from one stage to another. The fire of life is always burning, that is, our hearts will follow us. However, our hearts have suffered a lot of pollution, covering up our true hearts. What pollution? There seems to be dust on the table, dirty clothes, and mental pollution-greed, hatred, jealousy, arrogance, Jaken, a lot of nameless and incomprehensible things that cover our hearts and make them unable to shine.
We are in a hurry because we have lost a book and a pen. Where are my books and pens? Or where is my money? Where are my things? But rarely find your own heart.
I am here to help you today-how to know ourselves and our hearts. A Zen master named Yixiu went out to preach and took a disciple with him. The bridge was washed away by the heavy rain, and the flowing water was too strong to cross. This is a dilemma. Later, there was a beautiful girl who probably had something urgent to cross the river. When she saw the bridge broken, she was anxious. The Zen master said, "Girl, are you going there?" Can I carry you? " That girl can't help it. It's urgent, okay. So he paddled across the river. The master paddled in front with the woman on his back, and the apprentice had to follow. But his apprentice thought to himself: Hum! Master, you always tell us that men and women are reluctant to give up. When you meet such a beautiful lady, do you eat tofu and carry her? But only the apprentice thinks so in his heart, but he dare not say it. Back to the other side, they ran around, but this disciple was very troubled: Master, you shouldn't, your words and deeds are different! We didn't tell you or you did it. I can't stand it for a month, two months, three months … finally one day, "Master is merciful, but some disciples don't agree. Why can't we give and receive, but you can carry a woman? " After a break, Jackson patted the table and said, "Oh, no! Great! You work too hard! You work too hard! When I carried the girl to the other side, I put her down. How did you keep her in your heart for three months? Too hard! . It can be seen that we are not necessarily burdened with women, but also with many complicated things, many of which we don't know, because we usually don't pay attention to our own hearts.
There is also a story in Buddhist scriptures: In ancient China, the rich had three wives and four concubines. A millionaire, he really has four wives. But people will die when they are old. He thought: I have a lot of money, so many wives and children, so I am dead and I am unwilling. We have an old rule in China to find someone to be buried with, such as Qin Shihuang. Isn't there a lot of people buried with him? Monopoly wants to find someone to be buried with. Which one? Of course, my favorite is the fourth concubine, who is young and beautiful. She was called to her side and said, "I am old and dying. I want to take you with me." Fourth Aunt turned pale and said, "How can this be done? I'm too young to die with you. Monopoly is disappointed, but it doesn't matter. There are three aunts who are also young and beautiful. It's just that the usual treatment will be a little worse, but she is often given food and use. Call Third Aunt, and Third Aunt will say the same thing: "Oh, how can that be done?" Although you are usually very kind to me, I will marry someone else after your death, and I can't go with you. Looking for the second wife, the second wife said, "There is no one at home. If you die, people have to deal with the funeral. I want to help you with this. But I'm telling you. We have been married for so many years since you died. I will send you to the wilderness and bury you. I'll see you later. Monopoly can't help it. The first wife, the yellow-faced woman, disliked her the most and ignored her at ordinary times. At this time, I think it is better to have someone to accompany me. So he asked, "First wife, would you like to die with me? "The first wife agreed, and she said," We women marry chickens and follow dogs. Since you are going, I want to go with you. Monopoly was very moved. Usually, love is not mine in the end. I don't love it at ordinary times, but I have seen people's hearts for a long time.
It's so long and complicated, in fact, this story is very interesting. Fourth aunt is the body. You usually clean, maintain and care for your body. You should make up and love her. After death, this body is not mine. Third aunt means money. How much money do you have in the world? When you die, the money will flow to others, which means she will remarry someone else, not us. My second aunt is our relative and friend. We usually have a little contact. When you die, I will try my best to help you with the funeral, take care of your affairs and send you to the wild. The first wife is our heart. You don't usually care. You take care of your body and money, your friends and relatives, but you don't take care of your heart. Finally, this heart is yours and it will always follow you. Therefore, we usually fail to live up to our hearts, so it is better to find out earlier.
Now there is a very interesting sentence in the advertisement: I found it! What did you find? What we find is not true, it is not mine, everyone has a share, and only finding the heart is ours. This heart tells us six things: eyes know red, yellow, blue, white, black, long and short Fiona Fang; The ear knows all kinds of sounds, whether good or bad; Nose, like spies and intelligence agents, can smell fragrant, smelly, delicious, what taste and good air; The tongue can taste salty and can speak; The body can feel cold and warm, comfortable, comfortable and uncomfortable; We can easily feel this. This heart is not easy to understand, but in fact, the human body is like a village, inhabited by the six people just mentioned: eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and heart, and the heart is dominant: when the heart moves, the eyes look; Tell your ears to listen, and your ears will listen. Therefore, if you are absent-minded, you will be absent-minded, turn a blind eye, and listen but not smell. If you have the heart, it will be different.
This heart is good and bad. In the Mahayana belief theory of Buddhism, one thought opens two doors, and one thought has two paths, one is good and the other is evil, that is, good and evil. So we usually choose the good road or the bad road, and we must make a choice. In fact, each of us, in one day, sometimes goes to heaven and sometimes goes to hell. Maybe heaven has been there many times, and hell has been there many times a day. When I get up in the morning, my heart is bright and my eyes are bright. If I want to help someone and do a good deed today, I will go to heaven. When bad things happen, hatred, jealousy and greed arise, and the heart of hell comes out, so where is heaven and where is hell, you don't have to look far away. People often ask me where heaven and hell are. Take it for example, it means nothing to say that heaven is in the place of heaven and hell is in the place of hell. Where are heaven and hell? In fact, it is among us. Look at many high-rise residential buildings, and their daily use is very comprehensive. Isn't that heaven? A person's life is very hard and painful. Isn't that hell? This is heaven and hell on earth. In fact, where is heaven and hell? In our hearts.
Of course, the world is half, half is day and half is night; Half man, half woman, everything is half. Now our hearts are half good and evil, half Buddha and half demon. How to make the good half slightly surrender to the bad half depends on our efforts. The village of human body, with good heart, will lead the eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body to do good deeds. The so-called see no evil, don't say anything if you are indecent, don't move if you are indecent. This is what Confucianism said, which is very meaningful. He has a bad heart. He kills people, steals things, commits crimes, is not free and commits crimes every day. This heart is invisible and intangible, but since ancient times, many people have made some metaphors about it: What does the heart look like? Like flowers, happy flowers, flowers bloom, flowers will fade if they are not good; Mr. Wang Yangming said it well, and his heart is like a thief. It's easier to catch a thief in the mountains than in the heart. We can't control this heart, and it won't listen to us. Sometimes we often say: you don't listen to me either. In fact, you don't listen to yourself. It can be said that it is this heart that refuses to listen to us the most.
Sometimes heaven and man are at war. What about our hearts? Therefore, people should have wisdom and strength, analyze my actions, control it, and let my heart listen to me. I can't hear myself. Because the heart is like a king, he can give orders to his eyes, ears and nose, but our eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body should also have personality: if you tell me to look good, I won't look; You want me to listen to unpleasant sounds, I won't listen, I have my own personality. So practice, fix your eyes, fix your ears, practice six, and fix them together. The table is broken. Trim it a little. Clothes are broken and repaired, houses are missing repairs, hearts are leaking and there is pollution. How to fix it? How to fix it? I think, for example, commandments: commandments, the rule of law. With the development of China's economy, we attach great importance to the rule of law, so we should control our thoughts and stop fooling around. The heart is the length of the body, so take care of your eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body.
Heart like an ape, tossing and turning; Heart is also good: heart is like the earth, heart, heart, heart, heart, heart, heart, heart, broad and inclusive; Plant grain in your heart, fertilize it, and harvest it. The price of Xin is very high, so you can go to Gai Lou. This is the quality of the heart. The quality of microphones is different. Some microphones are 1000 yuan, bought in 500 yuan, and some may cost 50,000 yuan or10000 yuan. Why is the difference so big? Because the quality is different. The core of everything is human quality. Look at people's hearts, personalities and energy. Some people can be big or small, but they can't be the second child. But some people can be big and small, full and hungry, early and late, progressive and backward, happy and bitter, glorious and humiliating, omnipotent. This person has high energy and full heart energy, just like a good car with good engine and horsepower, of course, the price is different. Although everyone is equal and one heart, the energy shown by the heart is different.
How to show our inner energy, for example, I have a sense of mission to the country, a sense of responsibility to the society, and a character of service, service and tolerance to parents, family, friends, teachers and students, for them. Jian Zhen, a Yangzhou master in those days, went to Japan six times and finally succeeded. Master Xuanzang of China, at the age of 26, went to the West Indies to seek the Dharma. Eight hundred Li of quicksand, the water he brought accidentally fell down. If he goes forward, he will die, and he may have a chance to turn back. At this time, Master Xuanzang said, "I would rather die in the West than live in the East." His top gun said. Their success is based on their energy, which is different from ordinary people. In Buddhism, it is called the enlightenment and development of our hearts. Develop our heart, it also has layers. For example, for people at home, it is generally necessary to develop and grow their minds, and the family should grow and be happier; Your organizations, institutions and undertakings should be increased, higher and better, which is equivalent to the Olympic spirit: higher, farther and faster, and give play to our inner strength.
If the heart is like the earth, everything can grow on the earth, and beautiful things can be born in the heart. So sometimes, when the country is short of energy, we need to save a little and save energy. Where is the energy? In our hearts. Solar energy and offshore oil exploration are our economic energy sources. The energy of human mind and life is in our hearts. You should understand that wisdom is the energy in our hearts, compassion is the energy in our hearts, and patience is the energy in our hearts.
Become attached and make good friends; Serving you and serving you is the energy in our hearts, and everyone can take out part of our energy for the country and society. You said that I am not for the country and society, but for myself, no, because I am not myself, but for the country and society. In this world, nothing can be said to make me exist personally, and everything has the same cause, so I can exist. Where can we eat without farmers farming? Where can I wear clothes that are not woven by workers? How can I be reasonable without a teacher? Without the support of my parents, I can't jump out of the sky; I can't buy things in the street where there are no scholars, farmers and businessmen. I can't exist without them. I can become a person in the world and live happily because there are people who serve me, so the world is interdependent. Flowers planted in the ground need sunlight, water and fertilizer. It has a reason: seeds; Fate, karma, can blossom and bear fruit. Even if you are a good variety, but there is no sunshine and water, no matter how good the seeds are, there is no desired fate on the table. Every one of us, how can you do it? Because of good things, you have to be predestined friends.
Our hearts are hierarchical. People say that the normal heart, the sage heart, the bodhisattva heart and the Buddha heart are all understood. Kindness, how to make your heart better? This is not good at once. Sometimes I see others suffering and want to go to relief. Remind yourself to correct others' mistakes when you see them; The ground is dirty, sweep it and wash it; Dirty clothes can be easily solved by washing them. But the heart is dirty, and it takes a lot of thought to clean it. How to make your heart clean, to study, reading is to use some truth to wash your heart, do things, and be polite to people; Accept teaching, and others' teaching also helps me wash my heart; Learning suffers; Learn to be nice to others.
If you want to be accepted by others, people won't accept you no matter how good you are: you are a teacher, the principal won't hire you, you are a teacher, and students won't choose your class. It's boring for this teacher to do it; As a student, you said you were good, but you failed the exam and often fouled. How can you ask the chairman and general manager to use you? I don't know what conditions you have for me to accept. You say you have money, but I'm looking for talent. What can be accepted? Be careful. When I was in America, one day a group of people were having dinner. When they introduced each other and a gentleman, I asked, "What do you do in America?" "He replied," I run a vegetarian restaurant. The vegetarian restaurant is not easy to open, so I asked, "Where do you open it? He said, "What restaurant do you ask me?" I said, "How many restaurants do you have? He said: "I have more than 400 vegetarian restaurants. 」
I thought it was great when I heard it. Where do managers, chefs and service personnel come from? Especially when there are so many vegetarians? I asked him again, "Is anyone eating? He said: "Many Americans like vegetarian food very much." I exclaimed, "this business will be so good! He replied, "I don't just cook for people, I cook for people my heart." "I think this makes sense. Not to mention opening 400 rooms, even opening 4,000 rooms, 40,000 yuan is also conditional, because the heart is empty, the heart is big, and the heart is big, even vanity can be tolerated.
What's the fastest in the world? Electricity? Unhappy; The speed of light is not fast, and the fastest is the heartbeat. Just as you are sitting here now, you suddenly think of Beijing and Shanghai, and immediately, in a few seconds, your heart will be in Beijing and Shanghai. If you sit here now and think about building a120th floor building, it will take many years to build a120th floor building, but your120th floor building can be built immediately. The mobilization of the heart, the strength of the heart, the vastness of the heart. If you are a painter, just like an artist, we should be our own artists and sculptors, and we know what we want to shape ourselves into. How to shape with heart and be your own doctor? If you really want to understand these problems, you should be better than a doctor. The heart needs health care. Doctors show you X-rays and instruments. We can't know ourselves better.
Mind, heart is omnipotent, in this world, people can exchange everything, everything is different, only the heart is different; Everything can change in the future. If the eye is broken, change one eye; if the skin is broken, change a piece of skin, a kidney, a liver and a heart, but the real heart cannot be changed.
There is a profound prophecy in the Buddhist scriptures that a traveler arrives at a place without a hotel. What should we do? Seeing a small temple, he thought, well, in a word, there is a shelter from the wind and rain for one night, and you can stay in the temple for one night. In the middle of the night, the problem came. A child came in with a dead body on his back. He was afraid to think about it. Shit, I met a ghost! Just when I was afraid, a tall ghost appeared behind me. This is also a fact. A ghost is difficult to deal with. Two ghosts seem destined to die today. As soon as GREAT GHOST came in, he pointed to the child and said, "Why did you bring my body back?" The child said, "This is mine. How can it be yours? " In the classic, this is called two ghosts fighting for the body, and two ghosts fighting for the body. The child said it was his, and GREAT GHOST also said it was his. Scared the people who slept under this shrine. When the child heard the sound, he saw another person here. He said, "Hey, don't be afraid. Come out and prove it to us Who did you see bring the body in? " This person is very embarrassed, saying that GREAT GHOST won't spare me when that boy comes back; It is a lie to say that GREAT GHOST recited it. Perjury is a crime. It seems that people are dying, so you must always tell the truth. He said, "I saw this body belongs to a child." GREAT GHOST was very angry when he heard this. Why don't you help me? You broke this man's right arm and ate it. When the child looked at it, he thought, "Oh, no, this man helped me speak. Look at this arm and give it to GREAT GHOST. Hey, here's an idea. I will break this arm on my body and then attach it. GREAT GHOST was still angry. He broke his left arm and ate it. The child also took his left arm. In short, this man was eaten by GREAT GHOST, and the child took the body for this man. The two ghosts roared away after such a prank, leaving the man with a serious question: Who am I? I used to be Zhang Moumou in Yangzhou, but now this body is not me, not Zhang Moumou. Where is he from? The man said, "I am Zhang Moumou from the East Gate, and this body is not mine. He realized that the body was not mine. So I was thinking:
Being a bodhi tree is like a mirror. Wipe regularly to avoid dust. -Master Tang Shen Embroidery
By the sixth ancestor Huineng, he was superior again:
Bodhi has no trees, and the mirror is not a stage. There was nothing, so there was no dust. -Master Tang Huineng
As we know, Shen Xiu's poems started from the standpoint of some people, while the sixth ancestor Huineng's realm was higher, but it started from the realm of nothingness. Is this heart here or not? Once upon a time, a Zen believer asked Master Zhizang:
"Teacher, is there any good and evil cause and effect. 」
"Of course! 」
"Is there a cause and effect, is there a heaven and hell? 」
"Of course! 」
"Is there a Buddha or a bodhisattva? 」
"yes! 」
No matter what the disciple asked him, the Zen master said yes. The believer said:
"Teacher, are you wrong? 」
"How do I say wrong? 」
"When I asked Jackson Jinshan, he didn't say anything. I asked him if he had heaven and hell, and he said no; Ask him what karma is, and he says no; Ask him if there are any Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and he says no, how can you say yes? Why are you different from him? 」
"I ask you, Jackson Jinshan what treasure? 」
"No.
"He has a house in Tian She? 」
"No.
"He has a wife and children? 」
"Neither did he .."
"So Jinshan Jackson didn't tell you anything. Then I ask you now, do you have a wife, children, house and land? 」
"I also have. 」
"Do you have any baby? 」
"yes. 」
"So I will tell you. 」
This is the difference between being and not being, this explanation, right? That's true. In fact, some things seem to be there, but they are nothing. What seems to be nothingness actually exists. So in fact, I just said yes and no, depending on how to use it. The teacup must be empty. It's empty. You can fill water when you are free, and it becomes something. If it is not empty, it can't be empty. There is no space. Where are we? This bag is not empty. Where is the money? How can you live without an empty stomach? Empty space is built. Therefore, in the past, Buddhism often said that everything was empty. In fact, there are four, but no two. Vacuum produces wonderful things. In the Prajna Heart Sutra, it is said that color is empty, and empty is color. Therefore, we can reconcile and accommodate everything about the universe in our hearts, and we can accommodate people and me in our hearts. The universe is naturally in my heart, and our treasures are inexhaustible.
If you really know your heart, for example, if you get rich and you have it, it doesn't matter. I'm glad to see you become rich, and I enjoy it; I'm glad to see you buy land to build a tall building. I like it. You own it. I can't afford your charity, but I'm glad, really glad, it's more precious than tangible. Therefore, the heart can give birth to all laws, the heart can give birth to all things, and the heart can destroy all things. If you can understand all hearts, you can understand all laws. Please forgive me for what I said above. In short, there is nothing else today, and I will give it to you wholeheartedly. Heart, you all have, I tell you, you all have a sincere heart, bless you all, thank you!