When wisdom is consummated, the cognition of things is no longer things, and cognition is no longer cognition. It merges with all things and follows it. There is no longer any difference. The middle way can appear, everything is one, equality without concern and hindrance, this is full wisdom.
Mr. He Li'an said: According to legend, there was a scholar in the end of Ming Dynasty. When he walked alone in the grass, he heard the sound of reading. Feeling that there is such a strange thing as reading in the wilderness, he went to find the place where the sound of reading books came from, and wanted to see what was going on.
He walked over and took a look and saw an old man sitting in a deserted cemetery, with a dozen foxes sitting beside him, all sitting there with books in their hands. When the old man saw the scholar, he stood up to greet him, and the foxes stood holding books like people. The scholars think that since they can read, they will certainly not do bad things. He just talk to them, sit there and ask them why they are studying.
The old man replied: "We are all cultivating immortals. Under normal circumstances, there are two ways for foxes to cultivate immortality. One is to gather essence, worship the star, and gradually become proficient in spiritual power and change, and then continue to do this, accumulate and cultivate to the right result; The other is to cultivate the human form first, and then cultivate the inner alchemy through learning knowledge after adulthood. This is to cultivate into immortality from the human way. Although breathing, breathing and guiding cannot be completed overnight, but if you keep going, you will naturally In the end, success is achieved. This approach is slower, but safer. The body does not change by itself, but changes with the practice of the mind. So we first read the books of the sages and understand the principles of the three principles and five constants. The mind is refined and the form will change."
The scholars took a look at their books and found that the oils were "Five Classics", "Analects of Confucius", "Book of Filial Piety", and "Mencius". But only the scriptures and no explanation. The scholar asked: "There is no explanation in the scriptures, how can you explain it?"
The old man said: "We only want to understand the truth in the book. The words of the sages are not difficult to understand. By teaching each other orally, you can know its main point. What is the use of explanation?"
The scholar felt that what the old man said was very extraordinary, and he had nothing to answer him, so he asked the old man his age.
The old man said: "I don't remember either. I just remember that people hadn't invented printing when I started studying scripture.”
The scholar asked the old man what is different in the world through so many dynasties? The old man replied: "Basically, the difference is not far, but there were Confucian scholars before the Tang Dynasty. After the Northern Song Dynasty, every time I heard that someone was a sage, it was just a little different from the average person."
The scholar couldn't understand the old man, so he bid farewell to them after making a decision. Later, he met this old man again on the road. He wanted to talk to the old man, so the old man turned his head and left.
This story is probably the fable of Mr. He Li'an. Mr. He Li'an once said that the use of interpreting scriptures to seek imperial examinations is to dismember and perfunctory scriptures. The more gorgeous his words, the more ruined the scriptures. If you use interpreting scriptures to create your own school and debate, the more detailed your theory, the more ruined your scriptures. The language is consistent with the meaning you want to express, just like the coincidence of stanzas. Mr. He Li'an once said: As long as it is a clever method, there must be some instability in the middle. If you can step on it step by step, even if there is a small stumbling, you will not break your hands or feet. This has the same meaning as the two methods of cultivating immortals mentioned by the old man.
The obvious self-attachment: I like, I don't like, I think, I don’t want to... Rough self-attachment is easy to be detected and subdued.
The subtle form of self-attachment: relatives, friends, other people, pets, houses, cars, property...These still exist from "me", belong to the extension of "me", and are still self-attachment, which is not easy to be detected and subdued .
A more subtle form of self-attachment: I want to get rid of this world, and be tired of this world. Because liberation is also the release of "Me", the desire to be free from suffering and happiness is still based on the feeling of "Me". For example, in the "Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment ” it says: If you have your own love, you will love Nirvana and hate the rotation of life and death, but you don't know that "craving" is the root of the rotation of life and death. Merely abandoning life and death cannot be liberated, and liberation requires giving up craving.
Bhikkhu do not rely on skills to make a living. He is indifferent to material life, regulate and control sensory desires, free himself from secular rules, abandon his family and walks in the world, and he has no self-attachment and has no desires. Such a person has been able to subdue demons and wander in the world alone, and can be called a Bhikkhu.
If you can’t get rid of self-attachment, you can’t enter the pure consciousness.
In one thought, good luck and god follow:
In the past, there was a man named Ruan Zishi who hated a man surnamed Miu for being virtuous. Ruan sharpened his sword at dawn and wanted to kill Miu.
Ruan happened to pass by a nunnery, and the master of the nunnery, Xuanyuan Weng, was a man of power who could see extraordinary things. When he saw Ruan Zishi going, dozens of strange ghosts followed Ruan, each holding a sword and halberd, with a vicious aura. After a while, he saw Ruan Zishi coming back. There were more than a hundred people with golden crowns and jade pendants following Ruan. Those people had umbrellas used by the king on their heads, and they were gentle and peaceful, with a peaceful expression.
Xuanyuan Weng was very puzzled. When dawn came to ask about this matter, Ruan Zishi said, "That person owes me a lot of debts, and neither repays me, and I was criticized by him. I went to kill him in the morning, but I changed my mind. Although he has taken me down, what's wrong with his wife? And he still has an old mother. If I kill him, it is equivalent to killing his family, and I couldn't bear it, so I returned with hatred."
Xuanyuan Weng congratulated Ruan and said, "You will have a great payback and the gods have already known about this." Then, Xuanyuan Weng explained what he saw to Ruan. From then on, Ruan Zishi worked even harder to learn to be kind, and later he was admitted to a high official and achieved a very high official position. -"The Truth of Fate"
Eliminate craving and have no attachment.
Chen Zhuyin used to teach in a rich man's home. There was a little maid in that man's family. Hearing that her mother was begging on the roadside and was about to starve to death, so she secretly stole three thousand coins to her mother.
But this incident was exposed by other maids, so the rich man whipped this little maid very cruelly.
There are foxes living in a building of this rich man's yard, and they have never caused trouble for decades. However, when the little maid was whipped by the rich man that day, the foxes suddenly cried and weeped very noisy like a pot was boiling in the building upstairs.
The rich man was surprised, so he raised his head and asked, and only heard the upstairs replied in unison: "Although we are not human, we have human hearts. We pity this girl. She was less than ten years old and was whipped for her mother. So we cried bitterly, not deliberately to disturb you." After hearing this, the rich man threw the whip on the ground, and his face was bloodless for days. -"Fantastic Tales By Ji Xiaolan”