Lecture Hall of Sravasti State
At that time the Buddha was in Sravasti State. only gives the tree to Lonely Garden .
The Buddha began to preach from the age of thirty-one (some say thirty-five) until he was eighty. During the forty-nine years (one says forty-five), most of his teaching work was in Sravasti. Savatthi State is located in central India, with a developed economy and culture and a lot of wealth. The king of Sravasti is the king Pasenadi in the Shurangama Sutra, and he is also a disciple of the Buddha. There was an elder there who was very old and virtuous. He was a wealthy man in Savatthi State, named Elder "Gigui". One day he went to Rajagaha for a blind date with his son, met the Buddha, and developed faith in the Buddha. He asked the Buddha to go to Savatthi City to preach the sermon, and to build a lecture hall for the Buddha. Buddha said: If there is a predestined relationship, if you build the lecture hall, I will come. He returned to Savatthi and found the best site, but it belonged to Prince Jeta. The prince made a condition: if the elder could make leaves made of gold and cover eighty hectares of land one by one, he would sell the land to him.
He loves to give alms to lonely elders. When lonely people come to him, he helps them all and specializes in doing good deeds, so it is called "giving to loneliness". He really spread the gold leaves piece by piece on the eighty hectares of land. Halfway through, someone reported it to the prince, and the prince asked him why he did this. The elder said: "That is really a Buddha! He is a real saint." The prince said: "I believe you, don't stop building it, let's build it together!" Therefore, this lecture hall was built by Prince Tuo and the elder Ge Lonely together, and it was called "Tree Gong Lonely Garden". The Surangama Sutra is also taught in this place. This garden is the Buddha's lecture hall and he often preaches here.
One thousand two hundred and fifty people
with the great monks. One thousand two hundred and fifty people.
Every Buddhist scripture mentions these two sentences. No matter where the Buddha preaches, it is always with a group of great monks, 1,250 people. When the Buddha preaches, are all the monks listening? It only talks about monks here, not how many lay people, how many men, and how many women. Some Buddhist scriptures record that when the Buddha preached, there were hundreds of millions of gods, dragons, and eight tribes, which were unknowable, uncountable, and unspeakable. That was a lot, and that was "Mo Laolao." Generally speaking, there are 1,250 people in the Dharma. These 1,250 disciples of the Buddha are called the "always following the crowd" and follow the Buddha wherever he goes. Taking our current terminology as an example, these are the basic students and the basic team are all monks.
Why only mention one thousand two hundred and fifty people? After the Buddha came out to teach the Dharma, the first batch of students he recruited, in our current terms, the most difficult students to subdue were these 1,250 people. One of the relics, before the Buddha came out to preach, he was already a great teacher, with a hundred students following him. There are also three Kassapa brothers (not the Kassapa who is smiling at Nianhua). Two of them each have 250 students, and the other has 500, totaling 1,000 students. They are all great scholars who influenced the society and religion at that time. In addition, the miraculous Venerable Mulian Mulian was also there. He was a few years older than the Buddha and was also preaching. He also had one hundred basic disciples. There is also the son of the elder Jeshe, who has fifty cronies. So after the Buddha had these six disciples convert, they led the students who were monks and monks to convert to the Buddha together, and they became a group of 1,250 regular followers, that is, people who always followed the Buddha; every time he preached, they were the audience.
But remember it! Some of them are dozens of years older than the Buddha. The Buddha started preaching the sermon when he was thirty-one or twelve years old. Relics are twenty or thirty years older than the Buddha. Maud Lana is also older than the Buddha. The so-called bhikkhu is a monk, which means "beggar" when translated into Chinese. Beggar is a nice word, which means a beggar. What kind of food are you begging for? It’s not about asking for a bite to eat, it’s about asking for spiritual food that will never live or die. Therefore, those who go up to beg for Dharma from the Buddha and go down to beg for food from all sentient beings are called Buddhist monks. Bhikkhu's teachings also include the meaning of getting rid of all worries, ending all life and death, and being able to accomplish something and achieve fruition.
The world and the vast world
The then World Honored One. When eating. Wearing clothes and holding an alms bowl. He went to the great city of Savannah to beg for food.
At this time, this time.World Honored One is another codename of Buddha. The World Honored One in Buddhist scriptures refers to the most respectable person in the world. However, we must note that the so-called world does not only talk about this human world; Buddhism the so-called world has two concepts: the three worlds and the four worlds. The so-called three worlds are: the world of objects, the world of land, and the world of sentient beings.
The world of tools: It is the world of land. Using the current concept, it is the material world. It is the world where humans and living things exist on this earth.
The world of land: It refers to the various countries on the earth, such as China, the United States, Europe, etc., which are a range in the concept of this world.
The world of sentient beings: sentient beings are all sentient beings, beings with life and spiritual intelligence. This is a worldly concept, which is similar to the concepts we now talk about society and human beings.
The so-called four worlds mean that in addition to the first three, there is a fourth world, which is the world of sages, which is another realm achieved by the enlightened sages. Amitabha's Western Paradise is the world of sages where virtuous people live. The paradise that other religions talk about is another kind of world where sages and good people live.
In Buddhism, there are pure lands and dirty lands. Our Saha world is considered a dirty land, while Amitabha’s Western Paradise is a pure land. There are two concepts of soil. One is the Eternal Silence Light Land. This land is no longer land or material. Rather, in that realm, it is always happy, pure, and peaceful. Another concept is that our world is a land where saints and saints live together, where saints and ordinary people live together. This world can also be said to include the four worlds and the concepts of various lands at the same time. Therefore, the world referred to in Buddhist scriptures includes our world and all worlds beyond this earth.
Another concept is that Sakyamuni Buddha is the Buddha of our Three Thousand Worlds . For the research of our beginner students, we will explain the concept of the Three Thousand Worlds in Buddhism.
When I was young, an old man asked me: Do you know who is a braggart in the world? I said I don't know. He said: It is Sakyamuni Buddha! The number of three thousand worlds he mentioned is infinite and boundless. Who can compare it? It's so huge that you can't even touch it. When I was young at that time, I just laughed when I heard it; but now, it is even more proven that the Buddha's words are true, and his supernatural powers and wisdom are even more amazing. His view of the world is that a solar system is a world, and this is a world of ordinary concepts. A sun and a moon lead and nine planets . There is an earth in the middle, which is a solar system.
In the past, physics and astronomy called the sun a star, but now some people object and do not necessarily call it a star. This is scientifically inconclusive. In this solar system, the earth is very small, and compared with the lifespan of other planets, it is also very short. But in our opinion, this is already extraordinary! This is a world.
Buddha said that the life span of a person on this earth is sixty or one hundred years. People in this world think that one day and night is very important, but on the moon it is half a month of day and half of a month of night. Now that people have arrived in space, they find that it is indeed the same as what the Buddha said more than two thousand years ago. The Buddha told his disciples that in this void, a solar system like this leads to a world composed of many planets, which are countless and unknowable, as numerous as the sand in the Ganges River ; and as numerous and countless as the sand in the Great Yellow River in China.
A world like a thousand solar systems is called a small thousand world, and a thousand small thousand worlds is called a medium thousand world. Adding up a thousand medium thousand worlds is called a big thousand world. He said that there are three thousand big thousand worlds in this void. In fact, there are more than three thousand big thousand worlds, but so many that are unknowable, uncountable, and immeasurable. No one believed this statement before.
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