The Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra says: "The mind has no obstacles, no obstacles, no fears, and is far away from upside-down dreams, and it is nirvana."
Ordinary people are afraid of fruits, and bodhisattvas are afraid of causes! The law of cause and effect is the law of the universe! But many people are turning dreams upside down and confusing black and white! Don't work causes, but fear on effects!
We are always in a hurry to ask God for results, and we don't want to wait at all! Under the kidnapping of capital, we demanded that we have a car and a house in a short period of time, so when our income was not stable, we were saddled with a mortgage for decades.
Under the advocacy of **, we continue to fall into the darkness of the collective unconscious, we are willing to give up our precious self-consciousness, and instead seek collective acceptance and shelter, this false sense of security, let you mistakenly think that this is the starting point of happiness, but this is just the collective frenzy staged the final madness.
The reason why we feel pain is because we seek eternity in the causes of impermanence, cling to self in the selfless world, and seek liberation in illusory samsara and nirvana.
Therefore, mankind has become extremely difficult to get to this day: plague epidemics, constant wars, and economic depression!
People are constantly chasing material satisfaction, sensory stimulation, for their own interests, can lose their conscience and morality!
We will stubbornly believe that the more materially developed, the more advanced science and the more prosperous the economy, the happier we will be, but this is precisely the biggest misunderstanding of happiness!
This is just a point of no return, the more developed human civilization is, the closer it will be to extinction! But sadly, many people are burying themselves with their own hands!
In the future, the competition between people will no longer be the competition of academic qualifications, the competition of intelligence, the competition of appearance, but the competition of health.
Because in the future, two to three out of every ten people will suffer from cancer, and under the attack of the virus round after round, under the destruction of pesticides, vegetables and genetically modified foods, it is our body's ability to withstand it!
Our biggest problem is that the pig farmer does not eat pork, and the fish farmer does not eat fish, but we both stubbornly believe that we are not the most unlucky person, we are in a vicious circle of mutual harm, and paranoid that the pain and disaster belong to others. We seem to see a lot of people killing Tan Sitong and rejoicing!
So, what is an upside-down dream? Because of ignorance, there is no distinction between right and wrong, up and down, left and right, not knowing the truth and falsehood, not knowing the good, evil, beauty and ugliness, with this kind of foolish knowledge, wrong feeling, so living in the upside-down but not knowing.
The Buddha said that we should stay away from upside down, how can we stay away? First of all, we must have a correct understanding of the world and correct our wrong thinking. What is a wrong idea?
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1. Always regard impermanence as permanence.
It is precisely because of our stupidity that we think that everything is permanent, we are constantly clinging to status, to wealth, to our wives and children, and to stubbornly believe that these are eternal and will not break!
So we are always attached to this world, greedy for the so-called good things, and resistant to the so-called bad things! This is the source of suffering!
Everything you have today is like a dream bubble, but it is fleeting, no matter how beautiful your life is, it will eventually return to nothingness, and only by seeing through this as soon as possible can you give birth to the heart of freedom from the sea of suffering, so that you will not continue to incur all kinds of suffering because of your love for the world.
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2. Always take suffering as pleasure.
Everything in the mind is a duality.
Therefore, if you pursue more happiness, there is an unhappy existence, and our pursuit of sensory stimulation is nothing but to please the mind and make the mind addicted, but we do not know that this kind of stupid behavior of greedy for pleasure is the root of all suffering.
We are born in this world of sava, and pain is the normal state of life. Birth, old age, sickness, and death are suffering, love and separation, resentment, and unwillingness are all suffering, when you covet the pleasure of material desires, it is like eating honey on the tip of a knife, not only can not satisfy a full meal, but can bring the trouble of cutting off the tongue.
If your desires are not satisfied, you will be miserable, and if your desires are satisfied, you will be bored! So sentient beings have been reincarnated in suffering!
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3. Always take the absence of self as the existence of me.
Is there really a you in this world? You may never have thought about it, but if you think about it, which one is you? Is it you? Is the name you? Is the body you?
If you think the identity is you,In order to maintain the integrity of your identity, you will constantly suppress yourself and transform yourself to cater to the identification of others with you. You will be more flattering, you will control without restraint, you will express it insincerely!
So, your whole being is**existence,**is painful**!
If you think the name is you,Then your subconscious fears, insecurities, and low self-esteem will be deeply projected on your name and become part of it.
Therefore, your mind will think that those fears, insecurity, and low self-esteem are you, and you will constantly search for all kinds of evidence to confirm the correctness of your mind!
If you think the body is you,Then you must magnify your greed for life and your resistance to death. That's the anxiety of the worst!
We will cling to our own flesh, suffer from gains and losses, tremble, and our lives are not in a state of confrontation all the time!
There are obviously six joys in the dream, but there is nothing empty after awakening! What is the difference between the physical and mental world in front of us, all of which arise according to the delusions of ignorance, and all of them are not real, and all kinds of perverted attachments arise because of delusions, and all kinds of upside-down attachments arise from them?
Therefore, we suffer from attachment, birth and death, and samsara.
The Heart Sutra says: When contemplating the bodhisattva of self-reliance, when he walks in the deep prajna (bōrě) paramita, he sees that the five aggregates are empty, and he overcomes all suffering!