"Forget me and only for all sentient beings, and then forget me and all sentient beings and enter the realm of insensitivity, expand the heart and become one with the universe, that is when'I' enters Nirvana. This is the original reality of the world, there is no life or death in that place."-Buddha Shakyamuni
All the functions and activities of our eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, mind, etc., are the cause of life and death. If you can deeply understand the cause of this life and death, you won't be attached. The concept of equality can arise in all laws, and only then can we know the truth of ourselves. This truth is the so-called impermanence. However, if one really wants to gain insight into this impermanence, it is not easy. Because of the conscious existence of human beings, various desires arise. Desire, flesh, and mind are all arising and passing away, and they cannot be permanent. Do you know that our bodies are impermanent? If you know that all the laws of color and mind are impermanent, uneasy, illusory, and empty, then there is no delusion of "I" and no bondage of "my own". Understand that "I" is impermanent, "my own" is false, and without "I" and "my own", there will be no suffering and no bondage. Keeping the above in mind, you will be in a cool place and a place of relief. -The teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni to King Bimbisara
One should maintain a firm belief to transcend the world. All changes and unchanging things in the world is a form of corruption and restlessness.
The Pu'an monk of Zhongnanshan in the Sui Dynasty was a very spiritual monk. Wherever he went, people gathered around and tried to set up a fast to support him.
One day, he led the monks to Dawan Village. There was a family named Tian in the village who was very poor. The four daughters in the family are too poor without clothes to cover their bodies. The eldest daughter's name is Hua Yan, who is twenty years old. Seeing that there is really nothing in her home, only two feet of coarse cloth, she felt painfully thinking that she was so poor that she could not support the monk. She looked up at the roof and was very sad. Suddenly she saw a mess of grain in the gap on the beam, took it down and took a look, and got ten grains of yellow millet. She grinds away the chaff, together with two feet of coarse cloth, and prepares to give it to the monk. But she thought that she could not go out without clothes on her body.
She waited until the night, crawled, threw the cloth in front of the monk's room, put ten millets into the rice bucket with her hands, and silently said: "I suffered from poverty in this life because of my stinginess and greed in my previous life. Today, in front of the Buddha, I beg for mourning and repentance, and use this tiny thing to provide for the monks. If my poverty karma ends from now on, may the rice cooked in the retort turn to yellow." She returned with tears after she wished.
The next morning, the monks saw that the five-stone rice cooked in the retort was yellow. Master Pu'an realized the reason, and everyone sighed. So the zealous and righteous people each provided financial aid to the Tian family, and this woman later became a nun to learn the Tao.
[Press] Although there are only two feet of coarse cloth and ten grains of millet, these are already doing her best to give to this woman in the Tian family. How can the karma of the previous life not end here?
Excerpt from "An Shi Book" "Wenchang Emperor Silently Doing Good Virtue" Generalized Excerpts: Ten millets relieved poverty
People should be content if they want to be free from distress. Contentment means being happy to be in a quiet place. Contented people feel happy even if they sleep on the ground without a bed. People who are not satisfied will not be satisfied even in heaven. Although the unsatisfied people are rich, they are actually very poor. Although contented people are poor, they are actually very rich. People who are not satisfied are often led by the nose by various desires, and pityed by contented people.
People with indifferent desires do not need to flatter, be calm in their hearts, not restricted by material desires, have no sorrow, no fear, and no shortcomings.
If someone dismembers your body section by section, you should also control your mind and don’t arouse anger. (When the Buddha was five hundred lives before becoming a Buddha, as an immortal, he practiced forbearance. At that time, he was innocent, while King Kalingaraja dismembered his body section by section, but he didn't arouse even a trace of anger. Instead, he swore that the first person to be saved after gaining the Dao in the future was the King Kalingaraja. Five hundred lives later, it's Kaundinya Bhikkhu, who was the reincarnation of King Goli, taught by the Buddha as his first student. Later, Kaundinya Bhikkhu became the first arhat. And the Buddha fulfilled his vow five hundred lives ago). You should also guard your own words, and don't speak vicious and unkind words. The virtue achieved by endurance is beyond the reach of precepts and penance. Only those who can endure humiliation can be called powerful people. -"Bequeathed Teachings Sutra"
Shakyamuni Buddha said to his disciples before he went into nirvana that " If you are greedy for sleep at night, time will be wasted, and your life will pass in vain, without spiritual sublimation. " Sleep is still like this, not to mention running around for material desires during the day. Therefore, the Buddha said that we should always remind ourselves that everything in the world is not eternal, there must be death, and there must be degeneration. We should hurry up to learn the correct cognition, strive for early liberation, and do not waste the opportunity of this life.
When Buddha Shakyamuni was in the Bamboo Garden of Yugala, he once recounted a sutra called "The Fundamental of All Dharma", with the general idea as follows: People who are not close to the good Dharma think that the earth is the earth, water is water, fire is fire, and wind is wind; it’s not just that mortals cognizant like this, the heavens recognize themselves as heavens, Brahma recognizes themselves as Brahma, and even higher-level heavens recognize themselves as higher level heavens; so that people who saw something believe that they have seen, people who heard something believe that they have heard, people who have desires know they have desires, wise people think they have wisdom, one type of self-knowledge is known as one type, several types of self-knowledge are known as several types, fully knowledge known as fully knowledge, Nirvana knows itself as Nirvana. However, all these cognitions are not wise cognitions.
Those who are close to the good Dharma can clearly observe the earth, water, fire, wind, man, heaven, Brahma, the heavens, seeing, hearing, reading, knowing, one type, several types, and even Nibbāna, and they do NOT stay in any realm, because any realm is caused by greed, anger, and ignorance in the heart, because there is existing there is life, and because of life there is old age and death. Enlightenment can only be achieved by excluding everything on the craving net.
If you can't be moved by hearing this, it's still because your mind is blocked, you should try to think of the wonderful meaning in it.
-"Ekottara Āgama-Chapter 9 The Place Where All Living Beings Live Section 44"