After Sakyamuni attained enlightenment, he once came to the Jeta tree outside Raksha City to preach to the Lonely Garden. He was warmly received by the local people, and many people spontaneously came to him to listen to the lecture and ask for advice.
Before dawn, an emperor named Akama came to Gion, hoping to pay homage to the Buddha. At that time, Akama also showed his wonderful appearance to his disciples, and a soft light shining from his body, illuminating the entire Gion.
The Emperor of Red Horse soon met the Buddha. After asking for advice on the week, he asked him a question, probably to ask us whether we can fly over this world and reach the world of non-birth, ageing, and immortality?
Shakyamuni's answer is very straightforward, saying that we cannot do this.
Reasonablely, after my question is denied, most people will be angry, but after hearing Sakyamuni's answer, Chima became even more happy, and praised in front of him with more respect:
Buddha 's answer is really magical, because I remembered my life. At that time, I was a heretic practitioner named Chima. I have practiced Divine Foot Passion and can fly in the air. How fast is the Chima Taoist? In short, it is to fly over East Sea to reach the West Sea in an instant.
I thought at the time that my speed was so fast that I should be able to fly over the boundaries of this world and reach another world.
So, Chima immediately started to act. Except for the time when she was eating, sleeping, and defecating, she kept flying. She had only been flying like this for more than a hundred years, but still had not reached the legendary edge of the world. It would be best to die of exhaustion halfway.
But the Buddha actually knew this result and told me with certainty that I could not do it. If I had met you back then, I would not have died halfway and accomplished nothing.
Shakyamuni continued to tell Chima that if we want to fly over this world, then we must first know what the world is.
The so-called world refers to the gathering of species that are stained, that is, the five types of Yin, including matter, emotion, thinking, will, and identification.
Sakyamuni also believes that the fundamental factor in the formation of the world is love, including the present and future, the various loves for the self and the self-thought I have.
After understanding the basic form of the world, we must also understand the cessation of the world, that is, the elimination, abandonment, extinction, desirelessness and extinction of all kinds of love.
After we know the cessation, we must also understand what the cessation method is in the world, that is: right view, right thinking, right speech, right career, right life, right diligence, Right mindfulness , right concentration, we call it the Eightfold Path.
So, Chima, we should know the true situation of worldly pain, so that we can think of bibimbap to eliminate all the sorrow and pain in the world, and we should also know the true root of the formation of the world, so that we can have the opportunity to eliminate it; we can know the worldly nirvana and be able to realize it, and understand the way of worldly nirvana, so that we can have the opportunity to practice it.
can only do this, that is, you really cross the edge of time and spend the love in the world. By then, do you still need to consider how to cross the edge of the world?
Red Horse listened to Sakyamuni's explanation and felt even more happy and admired, and paid joy and respect in front of the Buddha, and finally attained the Arhat fruit. Although the story of
is a bit difficult to understand, it is also deeply enlightening for people in the world. There is no scientific answer to the origin of the universe so far. Modern science is far from reaching its edge.
But Sakyamuni paid attention from another perspective, that is, shifting the focus of attention from the "edge of the world" to the urgency and struggle of life.The reason why a person wants to escape from this world must be the result of some kind of suffering in his heart. Why is he forced to suffer in his heart?
For every person in the world, the world is actually his own Five aggregates Body and mind. If he is separated from the world of "people", will he still become the world? In other words, no matter how big or small the world is, only the world constructed with our senses and consciousness is the real world, a world that is meaningful to us.