It is not the traveler who reaches the end of the world. There is no escape from suffering until the end of the world. Only those who can correctly recognize the touches of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind and can escape are those who have reached the end of the world. Only the right wisdom can understand what is the end of the world. Enlightened wisdom can reach the end of the world and make people escape to the other shore. -The Venerable Ananda explained the Buddha's words "Saṃyukta Āgama Chapter Two Three Four"
What are you working so hard all your life for? All grand banquets will eventually come to an end. Sorrows and joys are like illusions, in ancient times and now they are as dreamlike and absurd as they are. - "Dream of the Red Chamber"
My father used to drink with guests on Yishui while a swarm of wild bees approached the crowd. Whoever swats away a bee is stung, but my father stood alone, motionless, and the bee did not sting my father. Perhaps when people have a peaceful and kind heart, they will not compete with things, so things will not interfere with people. (Liu Yin's "Taming the Rat" in the Yuan Dynasty))
Self-mind is unobstructed, always contemplates self-nature with wisdom, and does not create any kinds of evil. Although you cultivate all good deeds, your heart is not attached. Respect the elders and care about the younger generation, pity the lonely and the poor.. ...Your mind has nothing to cling to, good or evil, so you won’t sink into the void and remain silent. That is to say, you must learn widely, know your own mind, learn to master all Buddhist principles, be in harmony with everything, have no self and no others, and your true nature will not change until Bodhi. - "The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch"
If you want to cultivate your mind to be unmoved, then when you look at all people, if you can’t see the right and wrong, good and evil, faults and troubles of others, then your own nature is unmoved. - "The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch"
The eyes, the image of things, and the recognition of the image by the eyes, the combination of these three factors is the touch. Touching leads to feeling, which eventually leads to existence and non-existence, happiness and suffering, birth and death. If there is no touch, there will be no feeling, no existence and non-existence, pain and happiness, birth and death.
A winemaker, whenever he saw a fly thrown into a wine jar, he immediately picked up the fly, put it in a dry place, and carefully sucked the water off its body with ash to save the fly. For such a long time, the number of flies saved is innumerable.
Once, the winemaker was implicated and falsely accused by thieves, unable to confess, and was about to be convicted of a prison charge. Just as the presiding judge was holding a pen to write the verdict, many flies came and gathered at the end of the pen. If the flies were waved casually, the flies would gather again, so the presiding judge could not make a judgment. The presiding judge suspected that there must be grievances. So the presiding officer interrogated again, after careful scrutiny, he found out that the winemaker was falsely accused, and finally the winemaker was released.
Few things have been heard about flies repaying kindness. The Buddha said: "Flying and wriggling are all spiritual." It is not surprising that cause and effect repay each other.
In the fourth year of Longqing reign of Emperor Muzong of the Ming Dynasty, Master Lianchi (the eighth-generation patriarch of the Pure Land School of Chinese Buddhism) went out to stay overnight in a temple. He saw someone capture several centipedes and tie their heads and tails with bamboo bows. The master took pity on them, so he bought them and released them. But most of the centipedes were already half dead, only one was alive and escaped quickly.
Then one night, the master was sitting and talking with a friend when a centipede suddenly appeared on the wall. The friend used a wooden ruler to vibrate near the centipede, trying to drive it away. But the centipede did not leave. The master said: "Is it you who I released before? Did you come here to thank me? If so, I should explain the Dharma to you. I hope you will listen carefully: 'All sentient beings are created only by the heart. Sentient beings with cruel hearts turn into tigers and wolves. Sentient beings with vicious hearts turn into snakes and scorpions. If you get rid of malice, you can liberate this form. ’” After the master said these words, the centipede walked out of the window slowly without expelling. The friends who were sitting there couldn’t help sighing in unison.
Appreciation of children's poems
It's moving! It's moving! The fish has been fooled!
ha! as big as my palm
dad said
let him go
Baby fish is too young
It's moving! It's moving! The fish has been tricked!
wow! bigger than daddy's palm
I also said
let him go
daddy fish is too old
fish mother
she wants to go home
To take care of daddy fish
She will miss baby fish, let her go
at dusk
we are empty handed
Easily
heart full of fish
full in heart
What ordinary people call the ocean is just water, big or small. The ocean mentioned by the sages refers to seeing things with the eyes, generating love thoughts, deeply feeling them, and resulting in greed, resulting in physical, verbal, and ideological karma. This is the ocean. All the asuras in the world, even gods and humans, are in this ocean, greedy and happy to feel and sink in it, like weeds being covered up. This life, the next life, is constantly entangled with this. Not only the eyes see things, the ears hear the sound, the nose smells the smell, the tongue tastes the taste, and the body feels the touch. These feelings make all living beings entangled and entangled for life and sink in this ocean. - "Saṃyukta Āgama. 216"