In the fifth chapter of the Vimalaya Sutra, "Manjushri Asks the Sick Goods," this scenario is told:
Vimalaksha sent a "text message" to the Buddha, saying that he was sick, so did your old man send a disciple to visit me?
Rulai received a "text message" from Vimalaya, and as a result, he wanted to send a disciple to visit Vimal, but after asking five hundred arhat-level disciples, it turned out that these five hundred arhat-level disciples had all been intimidated by Vimal, and they were all speechless, and as a result, only the bodhisattva-level disciple Manjushri dared to accept the task of visiting the sick.
Therefore, the Buddha also sent a "text message" back to Vimalakirti with his heart, saying: Manjushri and everyone will come to visit the sick in a moment.
When Vimalaksha received the "text message", he immediately emptied the room, leaving only a bed, leaving him alone on the bed waiting for Manjushri's arrival.
Vimal is a rich man, and the house he lives in is not small, and you can imagine this scene: in a large room, there is a bed in the middle of the empty room, and Vimal is lying alone on the bed.
What was Vimalakirti's intention in doing this?
In order to understand vimal's intentions, we need to use the "source oracle" to help us understand, please see the following figure:
The picture above is the structural diagram of the "complete person".
In the era of creating the "source oracle", Chinese's understanding of "people" was much more advanced than that of modern people, and the Chinese of that era was a complete understanding of "people" from the perspective of "overlapping structural worlds". Modern man, on the other hand, stands in the perspective of a "single structural world" and only understands the human body.
"Overlapping structural world" means that the "complete world" is composed of two real worlds with completely different physical properties, one of which is the real world, which the human senses can feel, this real world is called the "dominant world", and there is a real world, which the human senses cannot feel, and this real world is called the "hidden world".
The "hidden world" is the subject of the "overlapping structural world", and all the subjects in the "explicit world" exist in the "hidden world", and all the causes, motives, and dynamics that occur in the "explicit world" also exist in the "hidden world".
"Complete world" is a kind of "overlapping structure world", then, people in this "overlapping structure world", naturally also overlapping structure, and "the human body in the overlapping structure world" is more complex than the "overlapping structure world", look at the following figure again:
The "complete human body" consists of three layers of the human body, three layers of consciousness, and two mental systems.
Above, the oracle "human" character on the left indicates the first level of human body and the first level of consciousness of the "complete human body", and the first layer of the human body is the body we can feel.
Above, the oracle bone "body" in the middle indicates the second layer of human body and the second layer of consciousness of the "complete human body", the second layer of the human body is not felt under normal conditions, but some skilled craftsmen, art performance masters, and competitive sports stars can feel the second layer of human body, and the reason why they can stand out among all sentient beings is because they have the talent to use the second layer of human body.
Above, the golden text on the right "slack" character indicates the third layer of human body and the third layer of consciousness of the "complete human body", the third layer of human body and the third level of consciousness are the real sense of "we", Taoists call it "Yuan Shen" or "Ceres", the Names of the Buddhists are more, such as: Rulai Tibet, True As Self, Circle into Reality, Eighth Consciousness: Alaya Consciousness refers to the third layer of human body and consciousness.
In fact, the so-called Ten Thousand Laws return to Buddhism, in fact, the fundamentals of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism are all teaching people to practice and strengthen the third level of consciousness, because the third level of consciousness is the real "we", and the physical person is only the carrier of the real "we".
By sorting out the structure of the "complete human body," then Vimalaksha's intention to lie alone in bed is also clear.
The meaning of "house" is: the first level of human body and the first level of consciousness of Vimalakirti.
"Bed" means the second level of human body and the second level of consciousness of Vimalakirti.
"Vimalaya this person" means the third level of human body and the third level of consciousness of Vimalaya.
Vimalakirti is telling the upcoming Manjushri that I can already feel the dialogue between the three levels of the human body, the three levels of consciousness, the dialogue between the three levels of consciousness, and I hope that the dialogue between the two of us in the third level of consciousness.
Therefore, through the understanding of this passage in the Vimalaya Sutra, we find that the "overlapping structural world" and the "transformation of mental systems" are also the basic background of Buddhist practice, and only by understanding this basic background can we get started with practicing Buddhism.
The "Source Oracle" was not created to carry the language of the Chinese of the time, but to convey to future generations the principle of the "world of overlapping structures" and special illustrations of people practicing the "transformation of mental systems" method in the "world of overlapping structures".
Therefore, the connotation of "source oracle" is completely different from the meaning of oracle bone as we understand it. Lao Tzu's "Lao Tzu True Classic" written in the meaning of "source oracle bone" at HanguGuan is completely different from the Tao Te Ching.
The Tao Te Ching is a book re-compiled by later scholars without understanding the meaning of the Characters of the Lao Tzu Zhenjing, according to the intellectual background of the time, such as the I Ching and social and political needs, with the help of proofreading methods such as falsehood, missing characters, and derivative texts.
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