What is becoming a Buddha?
Because I like Professor Wang Defeng, I listened to his video about Zen today out of boredom.
talked about Sixth Patriarch Huineng, and Huineng wrote
Fifth Patriarch Hongren asked the monks to write verses, and whoever writes well will become the heir to the mantle. The great disciple Shenxiu wrote verses:
"The body is like Bodhi tree , the heart is like a mirror stand. It should be wiped clean at all times to prevent dust. "After Huineng heard about it, he was not convinced and asked someone to help him write:
"The Bodhi tree is not a stand, and the mirror is not a stand. , Where to stir up dust. "
These sentences are taken for granted by people with understanding. They talk about emptiness, dependent origin, emptiness, and color and color.
Later, the Sixth Patriarch Huineng heard the Diamond Sutra "One should have no abode to give birth to his mind."
After that, he had great enlightenment and wrote:
The self-nature is inherently pure,
The self-nature does not arise or die,
The self-nature is self-sufficient,
The self-nature is self-sufficient. Nature is unwavering, and
is capable of producing all kinds of things.
writes about the Sixth Patriarch’s understanding of self-nature.
I can’t turn my head when I hear this. Isn’t it the mentality of “the mind should have no place to live”? Why did you go to your own nature?
The original mind is not the self-nature!
Without abiding, non-discrimination will arise. This is easy to understand, but in fact it does not mean understanding. It should be that it arises naturally.
I feel that after living in nowhere, we should not obtain our true nature, but should be born with our original mind.
is born naturally, not by enlightenment.
The mind is self-generated, not enlightened.
I thought to myself that the Buddha was enlightened first and then born.
Where does self-nature come from?
Come from your original heart, keep your original heart and your own nature.
After enlightenment, the mind is born, and the mind is born to obtain the self-nature, which is the original nature.
Then what? How come practicing well according to one's nature and keeping one's compassion is so similar to Laozi's Tao Te Ching?
