**“By understanding and practicing ‘no self,’ ‘no person,’ ‘no sentient being,’ and ‘no lifespan,’ one can cultivate all virtuous practices and attain Anuttarā Samyak Saṃbodhi (Supreme Perfect Enlightenment).”**
### Explanation:
1. **No Self, No Person, No Sentient Being, No Lifespan**:
- **No Self**: Refers to the absence of a permanent, independent self. In Buddhist teachings, what we consider as “self” is merely a temporary aggregation of the five aggregates (form, feeling, perception, mental formations, consciousness) and not an eternal, unchanging entity.
- **No Person**: Indicates that the concept of a person as an independent, self-sustaining entity is also empty. Just as with the self, a person is a result of various interdependent factors and does not possess an inherent, lasting self-nature.
- **No Sentient Being**: Refers to the emptiness of the concept of sentient beings. Sentient beings, or living entities, do not possess an inherent, unchanging essence; their existence is also dependent on various conditions.
- **No Lifespan**: Points to the emptiness of the concept of lifespan. Lifespan is not an eternal, independent entity but rather a phenomenon that arises from interdependent conditions.
2. **Cultivating All Virtuous Practices**:
- **Virtuous Practices**: Include all actions and practices that lead to the cessation of suffering, the enhancement of wisdom, and the cultivation of compassion and moral conduct, such as observing precepts, meditation, generosity, and diligent effort.
- **Cultivating All Virtuous Practices**: Means to engage in these practices with the understanding of the aforementioned concepts of emptiness, thereby guiding oneself towards enlightenment.
3. **Attaining Anuttarā Samyak Saṃbodhi**:
- **Anuttarā Samyak Saṃbodhi**: Refers to the ultimate, unsurpassed, perfect enlightenment—complete Buddhahood.
The statement implies that by deeply understanding and realizing the emptiness of “self,” “person,” “sentient being,” and “lifespan,” and by practicing all virtuous deeds, one can achieve the highest state of enlightenment, known as Anuttarā Samyak Saṃbodhi. This highlights the significance of understanding emptiness and practicing virtue as the path to ultimate liberation and enlightenment.
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By practicing all good deeds without the self-image, with No self-entity, with No person-entity, with No sentient being-entity and with No being with a lifespan, one will attain Ānuttarā Samyak Saṃbodhi.
Cause: Do not kill.
Result: The place where you are born has no enemies or weapons. The heart is free of fear, and you are free of illness and have a long life.
Cause: Do not steal.
Result: The body is perfect, the limbs are complete, and you are upright and intelligent. You have no lack of wealth.
Cause: Cut off lust.
Result: You are not born in the filth of the womb, and you are not born by the womb, but are born by transformation.
Cause: Do not tell lies.
Result: You have a good appearance. There is nothing false in the place where you are born. There is no time of sorrow and pain in your heart.
Cause: Do not speak divisive words.
Result: You have complete limbs. The place where you are born is strong and difficult to break, beautiful and solemn.
Cause: Do not speak dirty words.
Result: You have a soft voice, upright and intelligent. There is no unpleasant sound in the place where you live, and you are always accompanied by gentle and elegant sounds.
Cause: Do not speak flowery words.
Result: The body and mind are happy, and the limbs are complete. What you say will be accompanied by benefits.
Cause: Do not be greedy.
Result: The place where you are born is as flat as the palm of your hand. There is no lack of wealth.
Cause: No anger.
Result: The place where one is born is free from filth, wind, clouds, and dust. The appearance is dignified and the mind is always calm.
Cause: Free from wrong views.
Result: No suspicion or worry, body and mind are at peace. The body and mind are complete. The life span is long.
Not because the heart has gained something, nor because the heart has gained nothing.
Just right. The "Goldilocks principle" in Western stories is what we often call "just right" now.
The story of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" makes extensive use of the three laws of literature, including three chairs, three bowls of porridge, three beds, and three protagonists living in the house. There are also three scenes in the story where the bears discover that someone has been eating their porridge, sitting on their chairs, and finally lying on their beds, when the climax of Goldilocks' discovery occurs. Before this, Goldilocks tried three bowls of porridge, chairs, and beds in turn, and each time found the third one "just right".
Writer Christopher Booker described it as the "dialectical three", in which "the first is wrong in some way, the second is wrong in another way or the opposite way, and only the third, which is the middle, is just right". The way forward lies in finding a precise middle way between opposites, and this idea is very important.
The concept of just right has spread to many other disciplines, especially developmental psychology, biology, economics, Buddhism, and engineering.
Just right is called the Doctrine of the Mean in Chinese studies and the Non-Two in Buddhism.
Just right in cognitive science and developmental psychology refers to infants’ tendency to attend events that are neither too simple nor too complex based on their current understanding of the world.
Just right in astrobiology refers to the habitable zone around a star. If a planet orbits the sun at just the right distance so that its surface temperature is neither too high nor too low for liquid water to exist, it is in the Goldilocks zone. The development of intelligent life requires planetary temperatures to be ‘just right’. ”
In medicine, just right refers to drugs that have both antagonist (inhibitory) and agonist (excitatory) properties. For example, the antipsychotic drug aripiprazole not only causes antagonism of dopamine D2 receptors in areas of the brain such as the mesolimbic region, but also causes agonism of dopamine receptors in areas with low dopamine activity.
In economics, just right refers to an economy that maintains moderate economic growth and low inflation, allowing for market-friendly monetary policies.
In statistics, just right refers to a linear regression model that represents the perfect flexibility to reduce errors caused by bias and variance.
In machine learning, just right refers to the learning rate that causes the algorithm to take the fewest steps to achieve the minimum loss. Algorithms with too large a learning rate often fail to converge at all, while algorithms with too small a learning rate take a long time to converge.
Bad news is good news, good news is no news, and no news is bad news. Or, sometimes Bad news is no longer good news.
The second free supermarket opened. There is no cashier, and the goods are basically food, not just canned goods and bread, but also fresh fruits and vegetables. You can take what you need, and you don't need to pay. There is a donation box at the door. If you want, you can put a coin in before leaving, but it doesn't matter if you don't put a coin in.
The first such supermarket opened in Sydney. This is the second one, which opened in Adelaide. The third one may be in Melbourne, and the venue is being renovated.
A customer said that her job is cleaning work, and she works until about 11 o'clock every night. She and her husband both go to work. There are two children at home. After paying the rent, they are very tight. The children often ask their parents in the morning why they don't have breakfast together, and the parents answer that they will eat alone later. In fact, in order to save money, she and her husband are reluctant to buy breakfast. According to statistics from Sydney Free Supermarket, about 500,000 people have picked up food here in the past six years. Customers are not only unemployed people and people with disabilities, but also many full-time workers.
According to organizer Ronni Kahn, being able to find free food in the current inflation rate of 4.2% is supported by generous philanthropists. So Richard Collins' name was dug out.
In 1984, a private car dealership in Trinity Gardens, South Australia was acquired by Richard Collins, a former Ford executive in Melbourne. The male owner of the store had just died at the time. His wife Rita Jarvis retained the name Jarvis in the terms of the sale. From 1984 to now, the Jarvis Group is still a private enterprise, and the car dealership has become a very important charity donor in Australia. The group's donations in the past few years have reached 10 million Australian dollars. The donation amount is not the reason for bringing it to the media, because this company has always deliberately avoided the media. Recently, the second free supermarket in Australia opened in Adelaide has attracted the media's attention to Jarvis. Richard Collins is actually the chairman of the group. He is also the chairman of Carsales, an Australian online car sales platform.
Richard Collins not only donated a large sum of money to the Free Supermarket, but also has information showing that he is a major donor to animal welfare organizations and child welfare organizations. However, Richard Collins usually refuses to disclose the details of his donations.
The eight levels of meditation in ancient India: "Neither thought nor no thought" was the highest level of meditation in India at that time, followed by "nothingness", "boundless consciousness", "boundless emptiness", "fourth meditation", "third meditation", "second meditation", "first meditation". These eight levels of concentration must be deepened in order and cannot be skipped. Among these eight levels of concentration, one has not yet gotten rid of emotions, so it is not considered complete liberation.
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.-Ecclesiastes 1:9 New International Version
"Xia" means spare time. This leads to "having spare time" and "not having spare time". Having spare time means having time to do something. Not having spare time means not having time, and the time is completely occupied. Having time to do something requires fate. Having time to do something particularly important requires a particularly great fate. What is the most important thing depends on a person's cognition. Some people think that food is the most important, while others think that health is the most important. Prince Siddhartha believed that saving sentient beings was the most important, and that its importance surpassed the throne, family, and even life. So in order to have time to do this most important thing, he left the palace at the age of 29. Six years later, at the age of 35, he attained the Supreme Enlightenment and began to preach to sentient beings. So Prince Siddhartha, from the age of 29, became a person who spent all his time doing the most important thing, that is, a person with "full spare time". Sariputra, a disciple of Sakyamuni Buddha, was extremely wise. He began to learn about various cognitions of the world at the age of eight. He left home in his twenties to seek the truth and became a person who spent all his time on the most important thing, that is, a person with "full spare time". In contrast, people without spare time are as numerous as the sands of the Ganges. The book says that most people's time is dominated by five things: money, sex, fame, food, and sleep. Very few people can leave these five things behind and try to spend their time studying. And there are even fewer people who study the most important things. The book says that when a person looks in the mirror and finds that he has grown his first white hair, it is the last time node, the node from having no spare time to having spare time. Because this node means that there is not much time left for the most important things.
Nothing counts in this world except love.
-Les Miserables 1958