In life, many people like to recite Buddhist scriptures. Even those at home know a little about some Buddhist classics. However, among the thousands of things to learn about Buddhism, enlightenment is the first. If you can't understand the following three sentences, it really doe

In life, many people like to recite Buddhist scriptures. Even those at home know a little about some Buddhist classics.

However, there are thousands of ways to learn Buddhism, and enlightenment is the first. If you can't understand the following three sentences, it really doesn't count as "enlightenment."

. Do not lie:

Buddhists hate "lie" deeply, believing that it will create various oral karma, thus damaging one's own practice.

But what is lies? Is it a lie as long as it is said casually?

In fact, this is not the case. The so-called abstaining from lying not only means not to talk nonsense, but also not to say too much. This includes not only untruthful words such as lies, but also gossip and gossip.

The so-called "talking too much will lead to mistakes," is the same for everyone. Silence is golden. Although you don't have to keep silent about everything, you should keep your depth appropriately and think carefully in your heart before speaking.

Such people can better prevent disasters and reduce verbal karma, and will also bring more blessings to themselves.

2. To distinguish:

Buddhists also have great experience in the precept of discrimination. It was even believed at one time that discrimination is the root of life and death. If a person cannot get rid of discrimination, it will be difficult to escape from the six paths.

How to get rid of discrimination? There is a saying that "thinking, reflecting and making distinctions" means that we can't just stop at the words, but should start from the heart.

We all need to stay in the present moment. When a thought arises in our hearts, we must know how to immediately observe our hearts from another angle to identify this "thought".

In fact, this is a process of self-reflection. The so-called thinking twice before acting does not mean being indecisive, but evidence of acting cautiously.

We need to repeatedly ask ourselves why when a thought arises to determine whether the thought belongs to the discriminating mind. If so, we must know how to stop it immediately.

Buddhists call this behavior "introspection and internal reflection". Only such people can awaken to the discriminating mind earlier and cut off the root of inner troubles.

But in real life, everyone is a little insensitive to their own differences, and some people will even follow the judgments of others and go with the flow, and even the hostility in their hearts will increase without even realizing it.

Objectively speaking, everyone in the world has a discriminating mind, but if you don’t know how to uphold the precepts, those bad habits will gradually increase, which is the biggest obstacle for people who learn Buddhism.

3. Thoughts and no thoughts:

Everyone who studies Buddhism believes that the highest state is purity and no thoughts. Perhaps it is the saying that "an ancient well has no waves". There is a kind of stability that is not shocked by honor or disgrace, and that there is no chaos when Mount Tai collapses before your eyes.

But many times, people’s thinking is not under their control, and the six senses of body and body will bring all kinds of distracting thoughts to people.

How can we "think without thoughts"?

is actually very simple, that is, when a thought comes to mind, you should first maintain the state of neither liking nor disliking it, knowing its existence, but you cannot use the kind of blindness that must be eliminated quickly, and you need to use an attitude of indifference.

It’s like knowing that air is everywhere around us, but we almost never take the initiative to confirm whether there is air.

For those thoughts, there is no need to deliberately suppress or calm them down. Just treat it as if it does not exist, but know that it has been initiated. In that case, those random thoughts will not be able to continue.

Therefore, if you want to practice diligently, regarding the issue of "mindfulness", if you fully understand the above three sentences, then such a person can be regarded as enlightened. Even if their cultivation seems to be unremarkable, in fact, it has reached the level of samadhi .