Post by Neo on Oct 15, 2020 19:55:45 GMT -5
To find a Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, being mindful of Buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are not equal to it.
Being mindful of Buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good intelligence; keeping precepts results in a good rebirth in heavens, and making offerings results in future blessings -- but no buddha.
If you don't understand by yourself, you'll have to find a teacher to know the root of births and deaths. But unless he sees his nature, such a person isn't a good teacher. Even if he can recite the twelve groups of scriptures he can't escape the Wheel of Births and Deaths. He suffers in the three realms without hope of release. Long ago, the monk Good Star was able to recite the twelve groups of scriptures. But he didn't escape the Wheel, because he didn't see his nature. If this was the case with Good Star, then people nowadays who recite a few sutras or shastras and think it's the Dharma are fools. Unless you see your own Heart, reciting so much prose is useless.
...ooOoo...
Source:
www.purifymind.com/Sutras19.htm
Being mindful of Buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good intelligence; keeping precepts results in a good rebirth in heavens, and making offerings results in future blessings -- but no buddha.
If you don't understand by yourself, you'll have to find a teacher to know the root of births and deaths. But unless he sees his nature, such a person isn't a good teacher. Even if he can recite the twelve groups of scriptures he can't escape the Wheel of Births and Deaths. He suffers in the three realms without hope of release. Long ago, the monk Good Star was able to recite the twelve groups of scriptures. But he didn't escape the Wheel, because he didn't see his nature. If this was the case with Good Star, then people nowadays who recite a few sutras or shastras and think it's the Dharma are fools. Unless you see your own Heart, reciting so much prose is useless.
...ooOoo...
Source:
www.purifymind.com/Sutras19.htm