Lectures on the Eight Great Masters [Master Huazang ]
1961Master Wu Runjiang, the Vajra of the Year of the Lotus
Teaching in San Francisco, USA
Lectures on the Eight Great Masters
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196 AD o On December 31, 2018, Master Wu Gongrunjiang, the saint of the Lotus Vajra Tibetan, was invited by the believers of the Zhengshan Buddhist and Taoist Research Association in San Francisco, USA, to travel across the ocean to spread the Dharma. He was fifty-five years old.He stayed in Dabu, Xi and read for ten months, practiced the Great Sacrifice Dharma for dozens of caliber, and taught countless Dharmas.He also repeatedly told scriptures to the public, clearly demonstrated Buddhist principles, observed the mechanism and taught the teachings, and took metaphors from many ways to make the listeners suddenly understand.
At that time, there was a great master Xie Shi, a disciple of the ancestor who was nona.Whenever the Master is promoted to the seat and preaching the Dharma, he will personally record and preserve it.In April 1979, Master was silent in Xiangjiang, and his fellow disciples suddenly lost their support, and they were all sad and sad.Because I gathered in the room of Master Thanks for my uncle, I showed the photos of Master Appreciation and listened to the recorded Master’s French. I felt that the tone was clear, as if I were a room, I heard it more and more the admiration of my admiration and the pain of losing my teacher.
The following year, in order to seek widespread Dharma, Mr. Cui Baichuan, a senior brother from the United States, specially asked Mr. Xie to select the key points of his recordings and recordings, including the Master's explanation of the "Eight Great Persons Awakening Sutra", "Medicine Master Sutra" and "Sixth Patriarch's Platform Sutra" and sent them to Professor Wang Shouyi of Tsinghua University.However, because the Master's school talked in Cantonese, in order to benefit the local senior brothers, the Master's daughter Ms. Wu Ruiying and the editor made a decision and asked Senior Brother Lin Huizhuang and his husband to revise it. After several months, the final draft was completed, named "Mr. Wu Runjiang's Collection of Lectures" to commemorate the second anniversary of Master's death.
In 1989, Mr. Chen Fajun, a senior brother in the United States, made up his mind to send another recording of the "Amitabha Sutra" of his former master's speech in San Francisco to the editor, so he asked Ms. Wu Ruiying to take the time to write it out.For the sake of caution, the manuscript was completed and then forwarded to the United States. I beg for the editor to edit it together with the senior brother Chen Fajun, and then the editor will do the final compilation. ──The efforts of the two generations of fellow disciples of Mei and Taiwan were finally completed, and the preciousness of them can be seen.
Over the years, although these two books have been published twice before and after, they have been delivered.Now, when the "Complete Works of Master Huazang" was published, it was reorganized and included in the "Essentials of the "Complete Works of Master Huazang's Sutras".All my fellow disciples can understand the style and charm of Master Huazang's early lectures and the profoundness of the Buddhist principles he taught.
Editor Zuo Huiling is very careful
Buddhist calendar 3 o January 8, 1998, 2015
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Time: Spring 1961 AD
Location: Lecture Hall of Zhengshan Buddhist and Taoist Research Association, Dabu, San Francisco, USA
Narrator: Master Wu Runjiang, the saint of the Lotus Vajra Tibetan Buddhism
Now I will talk about the "Eight Great Awareness Sutra".The "Eight Great Awakening Sutra" was specifically said to lay Buddhists before Nirvana, that is, to lay Buddhists, men and women;The "Forty-Two Chapters" and "Buddha's Last Teachings" are said to monks.The Buddha said that the "Eight Great Awareness Sutra" is the sutra that eight kinds of people should be enlightened.
As a Buddhist disciple, he always recites it with sincerity in his heart, and the eight great masters realize:
The first enlightenment: the world is impermanent and the country is in danger.The four major sufferings and emptiness are the five aggregates without self.Birth, death, mutation, hypocrisy and unparalleled.The mind is the source of evil, and the body is the source of sin.Observe this way and gradually leave life and death.
The first thing the public must realize is that all dharmas in the world are impermanent and selfless, impermanent, suffering, emptiness and selflessness.The country is in danger of brittleness, and the country is prone to rise and fall, and it is very brittle.The four elements are bitter and empty, and the four elements are earth, water, fire, and wind.The five yin are form, feeling, thought, action, and consciousness.No matter who changes birth, death, change, no matter who does it, it is changing all the time, that is, the four stages of birth, existence, change and extinction.Hypocrisy and unparalleled, the hearts of the masses are taken away by external environment.Everyone should know that the mind is the source of evil, and the body is the source of sin.Observe this way and gradually leave life and death.The mind is the root of all sins, and the image is also sin. As the "Ksitigarbha Sutra" says: I see that they are sentient beings in Jambudvipa, and their thoughts are nothing more than karma.The public understands the body, observes the four physical bodies, and gradually finds the master of his own nature, and then gradually escapes from the sea of suffering of life and death.The first enlightenment is to seek the public to regain their own nature. As the Five Patriarchs in the "Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch" said: If the self-nature is confused, how can you save blessings?That is, people’s nature should not be confused by the troubled mind, so that they can restore their own nature and find their own ownership.It is to find the master in the smelly skin and make the master free and free, so that he can gradually escape from life and death.
The second awareness: the suffering of many desires, the fatigue of life and death arises from greed.Less desire and inaction, and be free in body and mind.
The second enlightenment is to make the public not greedy, that is, to be content.The fatigue of life and death arises from greed;If you have fewer desires and no action, your body and mind are free, that is, you should avoid greed and be content, that is, you should be free of your mind and reduce all troubles.The first enlightenment is to restore one's own nature, and the second enlightenment is to eliminate greed and develop a sense of contentment.
The third awareness: the mind is not satisfied, but you can only seek more and increase your sins.If a Bodhisattva is not, always think about contentment, be content with poverty and keep the way, only wisdom is karma.
The third enlightenment: The heart of ordinary people is insatiable, but they only need to seek more, and the more they greedy they will be.Because of heavy greed, all evil will increase.Bodhisattvas must be content;Not only contentment, but also keep it, just like Yan Zi is satisfied with the poverty and the right path, and takes wisdom as his karma.The right path is the Hinayana Dharma.The eight right view of the thirty-seven auxiliary teachings are correct views, correct thinking, correct speech, correct life, correct career, correct diligence, correct mindfulness, and correct concentration.The Thirty-Seven Helping Taoist Chapters are the fundamental method of Hinayana that understands the Mahayana. If the gradual method is gradual, those who practice gradually should practice and learn it.Gradually repaired is very suitable for both middle and lower machines, even for upper roots and upper devices.
The fourth awareness: laziness and fall, and always practice diligence.Break up troubles and evil, destroy the four demons, and leave the Yin Realm Prison.
The fourth should be enlightened: Those who are lazy and do not practice will easily fall into depravity, so we must always practice diligently and break ignorance, especially to break afflictions, that is, the masses diligently practice precepts, concentration, and wisdom, and eliminate greed, anger, and ignorance.The four demons must also be destroyed. The four demons are: 1. Yin demons, namely the five diseases of form, feeling, thinking, action, and consciousness.2. Dead Demon.3. Disease.4. The devil is also called the devil of reincarnation.The fourth enlightenment requires the public to make diligent efforts to resolve their worries.There are five coarse and five subtle troubles, and many other troubles.
The fifth enlightenment: ignorant life and death.Bodhisattvas always recite, learn extensively, increase wisdom, achieve eloquence, and educate everything, and enjoy great happiness.
The fifth enlightenment: Fools need to reincarnate the sea of suffering of life and death, so Bodhisattvas (that is, those who are enlightened and saved) should learn and listen to the Dharma extensively, increase their wisdom, achieve eloquence without hindrance, teach all sentient beings, and use the joy of the Mahayana Dharma.The joy of the Mahayana Dharma or the joy of the Great Nirvana is the joy of permanence, happiness, self and purity.
The sixth awareness: poverty and suffering are more resentful, and arbitrary relationships are made.Bodhisattvas give alms, and they think of their enemies and relatives, and do not think of their old evils, and do not hate others.
The sixth should be enlightened: the poor people often blame the heavens and others, and should not blame the heavens and others, and be content with poverty and keep their lives so that they will not make bad karma.Therefore, there are three types of donations for Bodhisattvas, namely, donating wealth, donating Dharma, and donating fearlessness, and finally donating nothing.The scriptures say: If you can give, what you give and what you give, you will gain nothing in the three lives.We will settle our most supreme mind and offer to all Buddhas in the ten directions.Bear on the empty mind of giving, giving and giving, and your mind is based on the mind of compassion, compassion, joy, and giving, and practice the Tao with the infinite mind of giving.Give up means a large amount of mind, and sacrificing mind is the samadhi of Maitreya Bodhisattva.
The seventh enlightenment: the five desires and disadvantages.Even if you are a common man, you will not be defiled with joy in the world.Always recite the three robes, tiled bowls, and magic tools.Volunteer to become a monk and keep your innocence.Brahma is lofty and compassionate.
The seventh, the need to realize: There are two solutions to the five desires: one is color, sound, fragrance, taste, and touch.Second, greed for money, sex, fame, profit, and sleep are all called the five desires.The five desires are the joys and enjoyments that are uncontaminated by ordinary people.Here we need to cultivate the lotus heart, that is, although I am in the secular world, my heart is not stained by the five turbidities of the world, and my heart is like a lotus, which comes out of the mud and is not stained.Always recite the three clothes of a practitioner, that is, always recite the three clothes of a practitioner.There are several types of three types, including coat, seven clothes and five clothes.As for the tiled bowl and magic tools, you must always protect them.When you volunteer to become a monk, everyone thinks that being a monk is becoming a monk. This is a common meaning and a narrow method.If you are ultimate, you will not be a monk like this.In a broad sense, becoming a monk is not a monk, but a lay Buddhist is a monk.It is possible that lay Buddhists will become monks, but monks will not become monks.The Buddha's Last Teachings says: In the last days, monks pretend to be monks, but their hearts are not monks.They pretend to be monks, but their hearts are not monks!The meaning of monks is to diligently practice precepts, concentration, and wisdom, and to eliminate greed, anger, and ignorance.So how do you call it a home?The verse says: There is no peace in the three realms, just like a fire house, all the six realms are suffering, so you should seek liberation.The desire realm, form realm, and formless realm are fire houses. If they can jump out of the three realms, either monk or lay Buddhist will be called monks;If you cannot jump out of the three realms, you will still not be called a monk. ──It is a solution in a broad and ultimate sense.Therefore, the preaching can be discussed from both the conventional truth and the true truth.Nowadays, the Buddhist teachings taught in China can only obtain a small part of the conventional truth, and the method of the true truth is not easy.
The eighth awareness: life and death are fiery, and suffering is immeasurable.Develop the Mahayana mind and help everything.May I suffer immeasurable suffering on behalf of all sentient beings;All sentient beings will be happy after all.
The public should realize that life has birth, old age, illness and death, and who cannot avoid it?This is a outlook on life.The universe is about the world's existence, existence, destruction, emptiness, and infinite suffering.There are all kinds of sufferings, such as the suffering of birth, old age, sickness and death, the suffering of not seeking, the suffering of separation, the suffering of resentment and hatred, the suffering of the blazing of the five aggregates, and many more sufferings.We must develop the Mahayana mind;Not only do you have the Mahayana mind, but you also have the supreme and correct mind to save all sentient beings.May all sentient beings suffer immeasurable suffering on behalf of all sentient beings, and may all sentient beings be blessed in the end.How to suffer on behalf of all sentient beings?It is not that sentient beings are sick and I am sick, but that they regard the state they encounter as themselves. Suffering sentient beings is equal to suffering is as nervous as they are to save themselves. Saving sentient beings is equal to saving themselves, etc. Seeing that sentient beings are sick means saving themselves when they are sick.To make all sentient beings happy after all, that is, ultimate nirvana.Great happiness is to understand Nirvana. If you do not have the state of Nirvana, it cannot be called great happiness.
These eight things are enlightened by all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and great masters.Essence is used to the Tao, compassion is cultivated wisdom.Take the Dharma Body Boat to the shore of Nirvana;Restore life and death and save all living beings.
Take the Dharma Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body Body BodyRestoring life and death and saving sentient beings is very important. This is the most important part of the ten recitations of Amitabha.Essence is used to the Tao, compassion is cultivated wisdom.Take the Dharma Body Boat and reach the Nirvana Side. Here you have entered into samadhi and become Amitabha Buddha.The following is the concentration of the world: Once you come out of the concentration, you will drive backwards to the charity, become Guanyin Bodhisattva, enter the five turbidities and evil worlds, and ride the forty-eight great vows of Amitabha Buddha to save all sentient beings.The ten-recitation method of Amitabha is to implement this wish, so the ten-recitation method of Amitabha is very special.When he first became Amitabha Buddha, he returned to Guanyin Bodhisattva when he came out of meditation, and sailed back to the compassionate sail, and came to save all sentient beings again with his wish.
The previous eight things enlightened everything, so that all sentient beings will realize the suffering of life and death, abandon the five desires, and cultivate the holy path of the mind.If a Buddhist disciple recites these eight things, he will eliminate countless sins in every thought, advance to Bodhi, quickly attain enlightenment, forever eliminate life and death, and be permanently happy.
Now let’s talk about the deepest verse in the “Four Preparation Sutra” (i.e., “Four Preparation Rituals”).There is a verse in the practice of Amitabha's longevity and practice of the Pure Land of Direct Rebirth:
The three realms are like beings in prison, but the Buddha has skillful means to lead them to the Pure Land.
All parents and enemies of the past lives have been liberated from this extraordinary method.
It is as fast as lightning to realize the Bodhi fruit, even if it is difficult to achieve it, it will not be afraid of falling and falling.
You will naturally achieve supreme dharmas in the Buddha land and will never encounter them in a hundred kalpas
The ultimate truth and vows of the original deity, Samadhi, must live in this secret and solemn heart
The three realms are like prisons, and the three realms are uneasy, just like a fire house, so the three realms are like prisons.All beings are not in suffering, that is, all beings are sank in the sea of suffering, that is, in the sea of suffering of reincarnation.The Buddha has skillful means to lead the rebirth of the Pure Land, just like Amitabha’s method of rebirth putting a lifebuoy to save sentient beings in the sea of suffering, that is, the method of directly rebirth of the Pure Land to open the realm.Parents of the past kalpas, enemies and relatives from previous generations, parents of the past kalpas, and ancestors of the past nine generations and enemies and relatives from all generations must be liberated to obtain the Pure Land Dharma.It is as fast as lightning, and it is directly attained by the Bodhi fruit. If the fruit is thunderous, it is like lightning, and you will be reborn in the Pure Land and become a Buddha.Even if you are unable to achieve success, you will not be afraid of falling into falling.If you are reborn in the Buddha land, you will naturally achieve success. Even if you cannot become a Buddha in a human body, you will not fall into depravity and you can achieve success in your life after your death.When you are reborn in the Pure Land, you will naturally achieve success.There is a supreme Dharma that is difficult to encounter in billions of disasters.The ultimate truth and the vows are the original deity of Samadhi. The ultimate truth and vows are the practice of Bodhi, the vows, and the samadhi Bodhi, which are the three bodhicitta.What is called Bodhi of Vow?If you make a vow to go to the South China Sea to go to Putuo, you will make a vow
，Having never left or practiced it is called the Bodhi of Vow.OK, it must be implemented.If you make a vow to go to Guanyin, you must go to Putuo to Guanyin to be implemented.The ultimate Bodhi is Samadhi, which means cultivating the mind and cultivating nature into a habit. When one attains a concentration, one attains its mystery into a habit. It is called Samadhi.The practitioner must live here, secretly adorn the mind, which is the last mind of the ten kinds of bodhicitta, called the secretly adorn the mind. Only Tantra, Zen and Huayan schools have reached the state of this secretly adorn the mind.The deity has a deep relationship with this land, that is, the relationship between Amitabha Buddha and the Saha world is very deep, so it is easiest to achieve success in practicing this method.If you wish to be reborn in other Pure Land, you can also fulfill your wishes as you wish. The rest of your wishes is as follows.Anyone who wants to be reborn in the Pure Land and is afraid that it will be difficult to achieve his wish can practice this method first to prepare for the merit of rebirth. Practice the method for seven days, or 37, 77, or even a hundred days. The top door will open and then change the other method from then on.I only recite the mantra of my deity several times a day to think it is news.As the death period is approaching, you should quickly practice this thunderous thunder sound, and enter the heart of the deity and follow the light to be reborn in the Western Paradise.This method is red, white and yellow in Tibet, and there are many teachings from the four schools of flower, especially the most special teachings from the Red Sect Master Huasheng.If you want to learn this method, you can learn it at any time.(The following is chanting the mantra)
The long-lived Tathagata of the Vajra body without disease, healthy, and wealth is like drinking nectar. The blood vessels of the whole body are circulating, and the inside and outside are clear, and the light gathers inside, which has this merit.(Recite the mantra again)
Save all the sentient beings of the six realms
All of them have achieved great bodhi
Records of disciple Wu Ruiying
