We often say "giving", but many people do not accurately understand the word "giving". What to give?In order to get real open-mindedness, peace of mind and happiness.
At present, sentient beings often entangle themselves and trap themselves in a narrow (small) space, such as a house or a car, and are obsessed with material greed. In addition, the mind is lost and bound in the so-called "me" and is obsessed with self-centeredness. As a result, sentient beings are not relaxed physically and mentally. What we call "giving" is greed, indulgence, selfishness, and obsession, and what we get is peace of mind, ease, happiness, and pleasure.
On the material side:
In the Buddhist scriptures, it is also said that "giving up the heart", but it does not refer to the intention of giving up or giving up, but it is a kind of middle way thought. First of all, it recognizes human nature's pursuit of money, the opposite sex, fame, food, and comfort, but does not advocate human nature's excessive greed and attachment to these things. Once excessive greed, the evil in human nature will be magnified, so that it will destroy human nature, break the law and commit crimes, separate wives, consume body and mind, and also promote the extravagance and chaos of the entire social environment.
As Zhuangzi said, "The wren (jiāo liáo) nests in the deep forest, but only one branch;The squirrel drinks the river, but it is full. "With the desire without attachment, more without taking, know how to face life with a sufficient mentality to be happy and prosperous.
And the spiritual aspect:
As the "Fan Net Sutra" says: "Everything is one and the same, there is no self, and what I look like is pretended to be all laws." "The contemplation of the self, right and wrong, all colored and colorless things, and all kinds of dharma principles are all formed by the combination of causes and conditions. It is necessary not only to be liberated from the obsessive pursuit of fame and fortune, but also from the so-called "self-being". Clear: one's body is a combination of earth, water, fire, and wind, and the conscious mind is taken from the environment that already exists. In this way, we can look down on ourselves and all living beings, and all things are equal.
For all internal and external legal things, not attaching and not intentionally giving up, and finally achieving the middle way of "giving", so as to "view" the world, and get an inner open-mindedness and a broadening of vision, it is said to be giving and giving.
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