Daoneng Gao, a great scholar, made it clear that heaven and man in Buddhism are Taoist immortals? Please don't hesitate to give me your advice and solve your questions.

First of all, it must be made clear that the Taoist pick Jin Xian does not belong to reincarnation-the Taoist way of becoming immortal is not the natural humanity of Buddhism.

If you want to know whether Taoist practice can transcend the three realms and six Taoism, you must first confirm one thing: what is immortality? It is often said that "Taoism is what Buddhism calls' heresy', and the highest fruit of Taoism is only immortality, which is inseparable from the cycle of life and death", which is a fallacy. The person who said this obviously didn't understand the concept of "immortal", but just confused China's immortal with pagan practitioners in ancient India or the concept of heaven in Brahmanism.

1. Immortality does not mean heresy in ancient India, which is basically certain.

Although pagan monks in ancient India have a long life span and some magical powers, they are not so detached as fairy families. They still have life and death. Obviously, this is not comparable to the realm of the immortal family, and most of these pagan monks just want to be born after death-note that being born after death is to give up one's body and get the body, relying on karma, and cultivating immortality is a self-made achievement. The two are very different. Unfortunately, the eminent monks who translated Buddhist scriptures in ancient times translated foreign monks into "immortals" out of readers' reading habits, but they didn't want to mislead a large number of people and confuse Taoist immortals with Indian monks.

2. Immortals are not equal to printing heaven.

Taoism says that the five paths of reincarnation are roughly equivalent to the six paths of Buddhism: Shinto (heaven and Asura), man, beast, hungry ghost and hell. Shinto itself, as one of the five ways such as ghosts and gods, mostly has its own functions and is bound by heaven. Although they are blessed, they will be demoted if they are guilty, and their situation is the same as what Buddhists call heaven and man and Asura. The so-called fairy house, whether it is the innate respect for the fairy truth, the incarnation of the avenue, or the reality of awakening, has already reached the position of carefree travel in Zhuangzi, not limited by the outside world, not to mention karma. So, it has nothing to do with Shinto. It is common for Taoist incantations to serve Shinto, but they dare not disturb immortals. It is for this reason. Although some monks said that "the immortal family failed to die in the end", Sakyamuni never said this, which is obviously deceptive. If the immortal is bound by karma, he can't go beyond the three realms, and the fairy road is not expensive!

3. Why do many people take it for granted that immortals are inseparable from the cycle of life and death?

In fact, the reason lies in the image given by Taoist immortals. For example, the gathering of gods' Shinto and Luo immortals in the Yuan Dynasty scrolls made people unilaterally think that there was another human being among Taoist immortals, and Luo Shengdi was heaven, and then naturally they directly grafted the Buddhist view of Indra into the Sanqing realm of Taoism in Luo Tian.

Actually, wrong! First of all, the Jade Buddha is not Indra. It is clearly written in The Jade Emperor Sutra that the Jade Emperor was originally a prince of Jingle Kingdom, because he was merciful to all beings, became a monk, and first proved the immortal way, and then proved Jin Xian (the Buddha fruit among the four sacred fruits of Buddhism). He quietly and naturally felt the Buddha Tathagata, and finally achieved the jade emperor's fruit position.

If the Buddha fruit of Buddhism has already surpassed the six realms, then the Jade Emperor naturally surpassed the six realms. In fact, the Jade Emperor is not generally understood as the head of one God and the Lord of the Three Realms, but the Great Sage who manages the world according to the road operation. Most importantly, both the Jade Emperor and most Taoist immortals who are now in the stage of emperor, god, king, heaven, official, heaven and even Shinto have already surpassed reincarnation. They appear in front of people in order to better attract and save all beings in the world, and their expressions are like the male and female aspects of Guanyin Bodhisattva. Therefore, the Taoist pick Jin Xian has already fallen into reincarnation. In fact, it can be said that he has reached the fruit position of the fairy, just like an arhat, and there is no danger of falling into reincarnation.

Later Taoist scriptures always mentioned demons,

The Jade Emperor's classic: "All demons are evil, and all demons who can smell this incense will rest in heaven." It can be seen that the devil also exists in heaven.

"The Divine Curse of Pure Heaven and Earth": "When you walk in the Five Mountains, you will know the stink of the Eight Seas, and the demon will bow his head and guard my porch."

"Lei Zubao's Patent": "Clean your big wish with your heart and subdue the devil with your wisdom."

The curse of Lingguan: "The power is lifted, the general is dismissed, and Lingguan is picketed all day. The train is the third and fifth largest tripterygium wilfordii, and it was ordered to worship ghosts in the third cleanup. Traveling around the world with a golden whip in hand, wearing a golden armor is full of energy. Green boots and windbreaks protect your figure, and your eyes shine. In an instant, I prayed to God for three days and I saved my life for nine days. The silver-toothed phoenix will have three thousand soldiers, and the tiger will have a million soldiers. The former guards who marched against the wind climbed mountains and mountains to catch goblins. Pray for sunshine and rain to help the world, and Yuanguang will understand things. Curing diseases and exorcising evil spirits, such as lightning, gathering epidemics and taking poison, will help ward off evil spirits. Clouds fly in vain and thunder rumbles. All the demons in the Three Realms surrendered, and all the foreigners learned to convert. I am looking forward to today's arrival, and I am very grateful to Ray Jia Wei for his support. " Demons are mentioned many times in the Taoist scriptures.

From the Jade Emperor Classic: "Exquisite liberation, natural fragrance, is fragrance or fragrance, surrounded by heaven, a wonderful paradise, and all places, all blessings, six sentient beings, those who smell it, are fragrant and will be enlightened." The so-called heaven, humanity, magic, hell, hungry ghosts and beasts. If heaven is heaven, all heaven and man, or those who can smell this fragrance, will be destroyed forever and become a blessing. If all people are kind, Wang Shu, or if someone can smell the fragrance, they will live a long and happy life. The degree of physical body or death is the way to get rid of the shell. If all demons, all demons, or anyone who can smell this fragrance, live in the heavenly palace, fight the pain and get their place. If all the roads to hell, all the evil souls, or those who can smell this fragrance, suffer from hell and get the happiness of pure land. If all the hungry ghosts, all the hungry ghosts, etc. Or anyone who can smell this fragrance, they will be full and have no hunger, thirst or trouble. If all animals know, all animals, or anyone who can smell this fragrance, get rid of the pain of animals and get wisdom and happiness. "It can be seen that although the Jade Emperor Classic was written late, Taoism has formed six local characteristics. In early Taoism, there was no theory of becoming a demon, but evil spirits and evil brakes. The evil brake is called "magic" by later generations.

4. The difference between "immortals" in Buddhism and "immortals" in Taoism:

Buddhism "immortal" and Taoism "immortal" are two different concepts.

The "immortals" in Buddhism actually refer to practitioners, mainly practitioners of various schools in India before Buddhism. Taoist "immortal" is actually the fruit position obtained after practice, which refers to immortality, immortality and so on. The true meaning of Taoist "immortal" actually corresponds to Buddhism's Buddha, Bodhisattva and Lohan. When reading Buddhist and Taoist classics, we should understand these two concepts, not to mention that Buddhism has a higher fruit position than Taoism.

Similarly, the Taoist dragon and the Buddhist dragon are two different concepts. The dragon in Taoism is the most advanced beast, while the dragon in primitive Buddhism, especially in ancient India, is actually a snake. After Buddhism was introduced into China, the "dragon" of Buddhism began to be China-like, and we in China changed the "dragon" of Buddhism into the "dragon" of China. In short, many concepts of Buddhism and Taoism, although they use the same words, actually have completely different meanings, which we practitioners must make clear. Don't follow the trend, lest you make mistakes.

Immortals in Buddhism refer to people who practice hard outside religion, including Brahmanism and Jainism practitioners, who are not necessarily characterized by longevity. On the contrary, most of them are known for their asceticism and erudition.

As for dragons, forget it. The story of Guo Moruo positioning Phoenix as Phoenix is actually a big joke. According to this translation logic, we can call turkey a phoenix bird.

As for the position of Taoist immortals, we should look at Taiping Jing. Generally speaking, Taoism's classification of the status of immortals is beyond the scope of Taiping Jing.

The realm and status of Taoist immortals are divided into realms, such as Taiqing Nine Immortals, Shangqing Nine Truths and Jade Qing Nine Saints.

There are official positions, such as Emperor Tai-huang, Emperor Jun, Wang Shen, Wang Xian, real people, Taoist priests and so on.

There are levels of practice, such as heaven, earth, people and ghosts.

There are many ways to practice, such as bridal chamber, Huang Ting, exorcism and so on.

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For example, the nature of Buddhism is different from China, the heaven of Buddhism is different from China, the immortal of Buddhism is different from China, the Tao of Buddhism is different from China, and the dragon of Buddhism is different from China. However, many Buddhists are confused, thus belittling China culture, which is a great pity.