At that time, Master Huineng of the Six Ancestors listened to the Five Ancestors Hirohito to preach the Diamond Sutra for him, and after he heard a sentence, he realized that you would not have to learn it anymore after the Five Ancestors Hirohitoshi talked about it. So what is this sentence? It is "to give birth to the mind without dwelling in it." What exactly does this sentence mean? What kind of wisdom is there in it? Let's first look at the original text of this sentence.
"It is therefore the bodhisattvas, the bodhisattvas Mahāsāsa, who should be born with a pure mind. We should not dwell in color and give birth to the mind, we should not dwell in sound, incense, taste, touch, and dharma, but we should give birth to our hearts without dwelling in them. His Holiness said to His Holiness Subhuti, O practitioners of bodhichitta, should have a pure mind in this way. How to "be born"? What I say below is the way to generate a pure mind. "We should not dwell in color and produce hearts, nor should we dwell in sounds, incense, tastes, touches, and dharmas that give birth to hearts." The six aspects of color, sound, incense, taste, touch, and dharma, as long as you cling to one of them, you are enlightened, blinded by the dust mind, just the opposite of the pure mind, no matter what kind of mind you live in, even the Dharma, it is a polluted mind, not a pure mind. These six aspects represent all the realms of the world, and they should not be attached. To dwell without dwelling is to completely let go of one's selfishness, greed, obsession, and calculations, so that the mind is empty and does not give birth to a single thought, so that a pure mind can be born.
Why should we have a pure mind? Quiet can produce wisdom, "University" has clouds: "Knowing and then being fixed; being still and then being able to be quiet; being quiet and then being able to be at peace; being able to be safe and then being able to worry; worrying and then being able to get." "If the mind is blinded, it will live in a muddy nightmare, such as falling into the fog of five miles, as the saying goes: "The bystander is clear, the authorities are confused", because the bystander does not care about himself, he is less persistent; when it comes to the vital interests of the authorities, his attachments are more obstructed, and the confusion is more, so many times, the authorities need to ask the bystanders to point out.
Buddhism holds that the world's mind and things are one, "all phases are illusory, and if you see that all phases are not phases, you see them as they are." Under the premise of not clinging to any appearance, when all delusions and distractions are removed, we will see the essential truth of things, just like the "Art of War of Sun Tzu" said, to achieve the powerful determination of "Tarzan collapses in front of the front and the color does not change, the elk is happy on the left and does not look at the moment", so that the heart can be cured, and then the interests can be controlled, and the enemy can be treated.
Therefore, no matter where it is, the mind must not have the slightest attachment, it should have no place to live at any time and place, be calm, and when things come, they should not stay in the past. To understand the words in the Diamond Sutra that "one should have no dwelling and to be born of one's heart" is equivalent to opening the key to the door of wisdom in life. In the future, no matter what kind of situation you encounter, don't be in a hurry, don't panic, don't be mentally anxious, suffer from gains and losses, stay calm, and have a pure heart, so that the solution to the problem will naturally appear, at least much stronger than panic.
