heart refers to the true heart.
This may be difficult for people to understand nowadays. Compared with modern culture, there is one word that can be connected: vacuum . The word
is often used in science nowadays, and our traditional culture has long been used like this.
The vacuum we anciently talked about is called the natural vacuum.
The Western people's cognitive methods always believe that there is an objective existence, so they must look for objective laws. Because of this vacuum the same.
Our traditional culture believes that our nature is inherently complete.
Our heart is a state of vacuum.
Recognize the vacuum of our original mind, and we can unify our mind and things.
is actually that way. If the door to wisdom is opened by traditional methods, reformism and maintenance can be unified to observe the universe.
Everything in this world has regularities.
So is there no regularity in our human nature?
This is true for Western culture. They cannot understand human nature, and they cannot even understand the essence of consciousness.
So Westerners used to study the ontology, but later they gave up because they did not have a wise way to understand.
Understand the vacuum of our nature. There are many wise methods in traditional culture. The most commonly used one is: to understand the mind and see the nature.
This has become an idiom.
, as the name suggests, is the nature that our eyes can see.
Our eyes are using them every day and at all times.
There is such a wise method in Buddhism. Through our daily use, we can realize the true heart from the visible nature, function, and essence, and convert it into the language that is easy to understand now, which is to realize this essence.
This means that there are very detailed and intelligent methods in our traditional culture to study the ontology. Only by using this method can we successfully solve the problems in Western philosophy.
records and teaches ten levels of principles and methods of seeing the nature in the classics. In the present words, it is the law.
This tells us that to understand our nature, there are systematic laws and regulations here.
In this world, anything can be understood and studied using science, and the rules can be discovered.
But Western culture means that we cannot truly understand our human hearts.
Knowing our hearts and knowing ourselves is the mystery of our Chinese culture, which is greatly lacking in modern culture.
In our current society, if we want to integrate Eastern and Western cultures, we must discover the various laws and laws of enlightenment in traditional culture. In this way, we can open up the infinite light of wisdom within us.
We have opened up the wisdom of our nature, and the light can integrate and observe Eastern and Western cultures.
Contemporary monk Master Jinghui
