A highly intelligent person's choice of life's journey
Of course, beginners should learn from the "Teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha" to understand why the Buddha became a monk. How do you practice after you become a monk? How to speak for sentient beings? When will I leave the world? Why attain Nirvana? ...... But if one "does not read the biography correctly", the "Dharma" that Buddha Shakyamuni said throughout his life is limited to the original Buddhism of "historical examination of the origin of the Sutras", that is, the "Hinayana scriptures"," the Ahan Sutra, or the "false knowledge" of "becoming a Buddha" that goes into what a class of "tantrics" says is "becoming a Buddha in one's lifetime"— or the "false knowledge" of being able to become a Buddha in "more than ten lifetimes." Then your understanding and concept of the "Dhamma" when you first enter buddhism has been "misled."
However, Shakyamuni Buddha was indeed born 2,500 years ago in the "Lumbini Garden" in ancient India (now in the territory of Nipo), and indeed appeared as a mortal, and before he became a monk, he was always in a luxurious and wealthy royal palace life as a noble prince (see the first of the Dapin Soft Sutra of the Zhong'ahan). And this pampered aristocratic life, for a wise man with extraordinary gifts and keen observation, everything presented in front of him made him full of a series of questions about the origin of real life, which stimulated his keen curiosity for real life. When a person regards the current glory, wealth, fame and power as a, deeply feels its unreality and impermanence, and suddenly discovers another frank and leisurely Yunshui career, it is the beginning of his spiritual journey and the development of his inner spiritual life! Major market platforms can check [China Buddhism Channel] to learn more about Buddhism.
Shakyamuni Buddha is such a highly intelligent, different from ordinary people's thinking and contemplation, in the beauty of the clouds, the powerful gathered in one of the palace life, not by the rich and noble, moved by the pleasure of sex. When we have insight into the beautiful environment and the most joyful time, we must also drift away in the depths of the firmament with the merciless flowing clouds, disappear without a trace, resolutely transcend this cookie-cutter, power-filled palace life, and carry out another kind of cosmic origin with the pursuit of truth and the ideal of spiritual life development.
Prince Shakya discovered the truth of the short life of life by seeing the birth, old age, illness, and death in the human world
Ordinary people should find the root cause of suffering in an embarrassing environment, because it is easier to know suffering, give up suffering, and become a monk because they taste pain. For a noble prince who has lived in peace and prosperity since childhood, carefree, and has never tasted the causes of hardship, he must suddenly give up the wives and concubines and beautiful women he has in front of him, the wealth and power, if there is no great responsibility and great wisdom that is different from ordinary people, it is not easy to awaken, the prince not only sees clearly with the eyes of wisdom the luxurious and eroded palace life in front of him, but also looks like a cloud of smoke in the eyes, and when he goes out to the city to visit (see "One" of the Great Book of the "Chang Ah Han"), he personally sees the old man with white teeth and wrinkled face on the road. Patients suffering from diseases and sufferings, dead people with stiff limbs and dying of grief, discover the truth of short life from the "life, old age, illness and death" of real life. Death is the final destination of life, if you have not done the inner purification of your own life, if you do not have the slightest grasp of your spiritual life, anyone who reaches the twilight of the year will be afraid of the coming of death.
Most people, who have spent their lives in the love of their wives and children, have been able to briefly review and reflect on the origin of life, the meaning of life, and the value of spiritual life in this life, I am afraid that most of them will have to go through illness, old age, before death, and even between life and death, and will only make a brief review and reflection on the personnel environment that occurs around them! Major market platforms can check [China Buddhism Channel] to learn more about Buddhism.
The Buddhist scriptures say, "Bodhisattvas fear causes, and sentient beings fear effects." Only after tasting the results of suffering do sentient beings know that "suffering" is the truth of life. A prophetic foresight who has had a different sense of observation and judgment on the illusion of reality since he had a life, when he observed that this period of life was full of many physical and mental interweavings that produced countless painful troubles that could not be solved by the ordinary thoughts of the world, he used his quick discernment at the right time to change his outlook on life--the sword of wisdom cut the thread, transform the future path that this life will take, reverse the actual cause and effect that real life will be created and formed in this life, and make his life journey at the age of thirty ( The year of the real twenty-nine, and the recorded age of nineteen) produced a drastic change, becoming an unprecedented turning point in the journey of life between the rich and the wandering. See The Middle Ahan, Prajnaparamita Sutra III)
Thirty years old - it is the prime of life, when a person reaches the age of thirty, it is a period of independent thinking and judgment, and a golden period of discernment in life journey, it can be said that he has found a way out of future life. Confucius said, "Thirty stands, forty is not confused." The most shaped, aggressive, ideological, and contemplative age in life is between thirty and forty years old. The Buddha's choice to become a monk at the age of thirty shows that the Buddha has drawn a clear distinction between entry and birth from the worldly comfort of the royal palace and the purification of the monastic path. Life and death cannot be separated, and to solve the root cause of life's troubles, we can no longer indulge in the current pleasures of wealth and lust, and if we want to witness the truth of life in the universe, we must be born into a family to cultivate. With the most practical actions, the Buddha represents an aristocratic person who clearly sees the disputes inside the power, the awakening of the career of the magnate, represents a son of gold who is immersed in the life of the drunken gold palace to understand the direction that future life should take, and the unforgettable reflection on impermanence and joy hints at the biggest investment route in life - monasticism, only by discovering the vitality of suffering from the experience of real life can we completely cut off the love of the world, leave the house of five desires and six dusts, and be able to make continuous asceticism. Get the answer to the origin of life.... Major market platforms can check [China Buddhism Channel] to learn more about Buddhism.
However, how did Shakyamuni Buddha practice and achieve enlightenment after he became a monk? In the Ahan Sutra, we are told that after the "Prince Shakya" (Prince Siddhartha) became a monk, after following the stage of asceticism of the immortals of the Outer Path, he once ate one stone and one wheat at a time, and meditated intensively, but he could never transcend the suffering of life and death in the Three Realms. Finally, I meditated under the Bodhi Tree, went deep into the four Zens... and finally completely realized the formation of the twelve karma laws and the truth of extinction and got rid of birth and death.
In fact, the Ahan Sutra (Hinayana sutra) says that "Shakyamuni Buddha was freed from birth and death under the Bodhi tree by witnessing the twelve karmic laws", but only for "when the Buddha was alive, he performed a 'colleague photograph' to respond to the root organs of his disciples at that time", and Fang said that "after the Buddha's monastic practice, in the current life of ancient India, he was freed from birth and death.".
However, in the Mahayana texts (such as the Huayan Sutra, the Lotus Sutra, and the Collected Sutras of the Buddha's Own Practice, etc.), it is recorded in response to the root organs of the bodhisattva disciples that Shakyamuni Buddha was born in the present life of ancient India as "manifesting as a Buddha rather than just escaping from birth and death").
That is to say, according to the Mahayana texts, when Shakyamuni Buddha was born in ancient India, he was born as a "great bodhisattva walker" as a "transfigured body" (should be incarnated) in the current world of ancient India, showing the life of the royal palace... So beginners should then further understand what is the meaning of the Buddha? Instead of limiting the understanding of "Shakyamuni Buddha" and the practice of becoming a Buddha to the Dharma of "liberation from birth and death"!
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