The meaning of Prajna paramita

"Prajna Paramita" is a Sanskrit transliteration and cannot be explained in Chinese characters. These Chinese characters only represent Sanskrit sounds, not meanings.

Prajn a% (Sanskrit) is a%, also known as Banruo, Polo, Polo, Banruo, Polo, Polo, Mother of Polo, Banruo, Polo, Polo Chen Xian and Polo Niang. Translation is wisdom, wisdom and understanding. Theory of Wisdom 43: "Prajna, Qin Yanzhi. Among all the wisdom, it is the first, supreme, unparalleled, and there is no winner.

Paramita (Sanskrit) Pa%ramita%, also known as Paramita, is widely broadcast. After all, on the other side, the degree is infinite, and the degree is simply translated. The great walker of the famous bodhisattva, the great line of the bodhisattva, can do all his own things, hence the name. This trip can go from this side of life and death to the other side of nirvana, hence the name. Therefore, the big line can measure the width of thousands of laws, so it has an infinite name.

The above is the explanation in the Buddhist dictionary. Sanskrit translation cannot be explained by hyphenation, just like saying "Obama" now. If you explain it in words, you will make a joke. Man has nothing to do with "horse", but a pronunciation. Below I try to make a simple explanation of the landlord's problem and talk about my personal shallow understanding:

What the landlord means is to make this truth easy to understand and make people understand, not just understand. But this question is actually very profound, and my practice is also very shallow, so it is difficult to explain, and I can't explain it directly. Direct explanation is what the classics and dictionaries say, just copy it. I think that in order for ordinary people to understand it, we should start with some questions to understand it easily, which may seem a bit verbose, but to understand these truths, we need to know some basic knowledge first.

First of all, we should know what this shore and the other shore are. This shore is our troubled life and death cycle, all kinds of miserable lifestyles, and the other shore is the road to get rid of all our troubles and no longer suffer from life and death cycle. People should avoid misfortune, from pain to happiness, from worry to happiness, from danger to safety. But how can we do it?

Everything in this world is understood through causal reasoning. Our mathematics, physics, chemistry, philosophy and other modern sciences are all based on strict causal reasoning, and our life is also based on causal reasoning. This problem can be understood by careful analysis, so I won't say much here.

Through reasoning and analysis, we can understand all kinds of problems in life now, find the crux and solve them.

First of all, we must analyze the foundation of our existence, that is, why are we on this troubled shore? This is like a disease. Only by finding the root cause can we find the corresponding treatment and cure the disease.

In our life, there are at least eight kinds of sufferings: birth and death, love parting, resentment towards society, lofty aspirations and prosperity of five yin. Where did these sufferings come from? How to remove it?

Through careful analysis and reasoning, we will know that all these sufferings come from our ten bad jobs: three manual jobs, four language jobs and three professional jobs. There are three kinds of karma: killing, not taking, and wanting evil. There are four languages: nonsense, nonsense, two tongues and swearing. There are three intentions: greed, anger and Jaken. That's what we mean. Bad karma will bring endless pain. People think that greed is happiness, but in fact, after careful analysis, greed is the root of many sufferings.

The word "karma" in Buddhism is simply "line", which is still very commonly used now. The occupation of students is called learning, the occupation of workers is called industry, and the occupation of farmers is called agriculture, which is generally called career. Simply put, what goes around comes around refers to what we do. These behaviors have cause and effect, good results and bad results, which are also common in people's common beliefs now. We don't want to violate this law in life and interpersonal communication, but also follow this law in study. No one thinks that you can be promoted without hard work, respected if you are unkind to others, believed if you are full of lies, and recognized by society if you steal ... all these are against the law of causality. Our life is inseparable from the law of cause and effect. Everything we do is within the law of cause and effect. First of all, understand the cause and effect, so as to further analyze and reason and find out the problem.

For example, what happens when someone loses a hundred dollars? If this person is an optimistic person, he may think: if you lose it, it will be useful if you find it, and maybe it will help you; If he is a pessimistic person, he may always remember this loss and often mention it. Every time he mentions it, he will feel sad for a while. In this example, the same person, the same thing, just different ways of thinking, different feelings and different troubles. The former idea is more liberal. If you can look at it honestly, there will be less trouble. On the contrary, if you can't let go of the latter, you will have more troubles. Therefore, worry is not certain, not something will make people worry, but mainly lies in people's own thoughts.

Wise people are more open-minded and know that everything has a cause and effect. There is no unprovoked result in this world, just like a flower suddenly turned out in the air or a golden brick falling in front of you. It's nothing, just that the magician has changed, and it's also a causal process. Everything in this world is supported by many factors, but most of us can't understand or understand it. For example, when we buy a mobile phone, we don't know how it is made, and we don't know which workers and bosses, designers and manufacturers are there. But we bought it at a price. Can you say that this mobile phone was bought with money? Money is not the reason for the mobile phone, but the reason why you got it. The reasons for the formation of mobile phones are very complicated, which are created by many people. We don't know, but it's not without. Many people say that they don't understand if they don't understand. In fact, the idealistic attitude is anti-scientific. Science is a good tool to help people understand the world.

For another example, children will cry and suffer because of a small toy and a trivial matter, but adults will not. Why? Adults have the wisdom to distinguish what is important and what is irrelevant. This is a sign of wisdom. The same thing, wisdom makes them worry less, and no wisdom makes them worry more.

When people encounter troubles, it is also a kind of wisdom if someone can explain them skillfully and free them from wrong persistence.

Great wisdom can solve many troubles, small wisdom can solve small troubles, and great wisdom can solve big troubles. The "Prajna" in Buddhism is the most extensive and thorough wisdom that can solve the "cycle of life and death" and "all troubles". It can't be compared with the world, because the world can only solve some temporary troubles, but can't fundamentally solve the problem of life and death.

This is about Prajna, the wisdom that Prajna represents, and my understanding is still very simple. In a word, we realize that the root of life and death troubles on this shore lies in all kinds of bad karma, so we can change these in various ways. We abandon bad karma and do all kinds of good karma to accumulate our blessings and wisdom, so that we can gradually improve our karma, just as people try to change their lives, and we can change our destiny by practicing good karma and good law.

When we gradually give up bad karma and greed and ignorance through practice, everything will change accordingly, all the troubles caused by it will disappear, and all the troubles caused by lack of wisdom will disappear. Although this body still bears everything in the world, it no longer has the feeling of pain and trouble, but faces everything calmly, bears everything calmly and benefits all sentient beings calmly. With the progress of our spiritual practice, our wisdom will also increase a lot, so that we can understand the nature of the world and life more clearly, thus reducing countless troubles. A person's life is like taking a road. We mortals cross the river by feeling the stones, knowing nothing, because we don't know the cause and effect, so we have countless troubles. If we can recognize this road clearly, know where it is dangerous, where it is safe, and how to go better, will life become brighter? Will it reduce many unnecessary mistakes? Can you avoid a lot of bumps? Is it easier to accept some due results? If people's hearts can be so calm and bright, the troubles in life will undoubtedly be reduced a lot. Buddhist scriptures are actually various methods to help us understand life and the world, and to help us find and solve problems. They are the most authentic and effective methods and the most scientific methods in modern words. Just as the good medicine in the world can cure physical diseases, Buddhism can cure the heart diseases of all beings and free them from body and mind.

But these are all to reduce trouble, and we can't "go to the other side." How can we reach the other side of life and death troubles? This requires practicing hard according to the methods mentioned in Buddhist scriptures, further correcting our incorrect thoughts and behaviors, and further increasing our wisdom. With the growth of wisdom, we can recognize more potential problems and further solve them, so that our problems will be less and less, our troubles will be less and less, and our happiness will be more and more. These things are real. This is the road to the other side. As long as we persist, one day we will have enough wisdom to get rid of all our troubles. This wisdom should be the Prajna that can reach the other side.

In Buddhism, there are many classics about Prajna. We prove the correctness of what Buddhist scriptures say through study and practice revision, and gain corresponding wisdom at the same time. In our knowledge system, most of them are learned from books or others, and then become our own wisdom. This is a way to gain wisdom as soon as possible. No one wants to use mobile phones to design their own mobile phones and make their own TVs for their own use, right? We all increase our knowledge by learning from the wisdom and experience of others, and Buddhist scriptures are the deepest and widest wisdom that the Buddha personally practiced, and the wisdom that can free all beings from all sufferings and benefit all beings. Through the study of Buddhist scriptures and the proof of self-practice, we can turn the wisdom mentioned in Buddhist scriptures into our true wisdom and get unlimited benefits. Not only benefit yourself, but also benefit relatives, friends and all sentient beings.

All human sufferings are mostly due to the cycle of life and death. So how can we get rid of life and death and achieve the realm of immortality?

The Shurangama Sutra talks about "four pure and clear methods" and several fundamental reasons why people are addicted to life and death. The Buddhist scriptures say:

"Ananda, what is a cloud? My name is quit? The six sentient beings in the world would not continue to live and die if they were not immoral. If you practice samadhi, you will have to work hard. You can't get out of the dust without lust. No matter how wise Zen is, if it continues to commit adultery, it will also fall into the devil's way. "

"Ananda, there are six beings in the world. If you don't kill your heart, you won't continue to live and die. If you practice samadhi, you will have to work hard. If you kill your heart, you can't leave the dust. No matter how wise the meditation is, if you keep killing, you will fall into the path of God. "

"Ananda, there are six sentient beings in the world. If they don't steal their hearts, they won't live and die together. If you practice samadhi, you will have to work hard. If you steal your heart, you can't get out. No matter how wise Zen is, if you keep stealing, you will fall into evil ways. "

"Ananda, so there are six beings in the world. Although there is no killing or whoring in body and mind, all three lines are round. If you talk nonsense, samadhi can't be clean. If you love watching the devil, you will lose the Buddha. As the saying goes, if you don't get it, you won't testify ... You teach the world to fix samadhi, and then you cut off all the lies. It is the Buddha who comes first, and the fourth will be clean and clear. "

If these four kinds of bad karma can't be eliminated, life and death can't be freed at all, and there will still be reincarnation. It is very rare to get someone in this life and hear the liberation method. It's hard to say whether there will be anyone in the afterlife, let alone practicing the law. Therefore, it is very important to cherish this life and practice hard.

These four are the root causes. In other ways, there are more reasons why we can't live without life and death. Here is an excerpt from a Buddhist scripture to understand how much bad karma has affected us:

Buddha! This Bodhisattva Mahasa is reading again:

"Ten bad karma, hell is the best, animals are the best, and hungry ghosts are the next. Yu Zhong:

The crime of killing can make all beings fall into hell, animals and hungry ghosts; If you are born, you will get two results, one is short-lived and the other is sick.

Theft also makes all beings fall into three evil ways; If a stranger gets two results, one is poor, and the other is not at ease with money.

The crime of lewdness also makes all beings fall into three evil ways; If there are two kinds of karma between strangers, and one of them has an unfaithful wife, it is not allowed to marry at will.

The sin of lying also makes all beings fall into three evil ways; If there are two kinds of karma between strangers, one is slandered and both are slandered by him.

The sin of two tongues also makes all beings fall into three evil ways; Born as a man, you will get two results, one is deviant and the other is evil.

The sin of evil mouth also makes all beings fall into three evil ways; If there are two outcomes between strangers, one often hears bad voices and the other talks too much.

The sin of yee language also makes all beings fall into three evil ways; If there are two results between strangers, one is not accepted and the two languages are unclear.

The crime of greed also makes all beings fall into three evil ways; If there are two outcomes between strangers, one is insatiable greed and the other is insatiable greed.

The crime of blasphemy also makes all beings fall into three evil ways; If there are two results between strangers, one is that they are often asked about their length, and the other is always annoyed by them.

Jaken's sin also makes all beings fall into three evil ways; If you are born, you will get two kinds of results, one is born in Jaken, and both are flattering. 』

Buddha! Ten bad karma can lead to such endless suffering, which is why the Bodhisattva wrote: "I will stay away from ten bad karma, take ten good karma as my dharma garden, live in it with my music lovers, and persuade people to stop it." 』

Excerpted from the Huayan Sutra of Dafang Guangfo, Volume 35, Item 26-2.

"Buddhism is like a boat, which can help people get out of the sea of life and death." In fact, Buddhism is a variety of real and available methods to help us understand and solve problems in a realistic way. These methods can help us get rid of all the troubles and pains and achieve a situation without troubles and pains. Therefore, metaphor is like a boat, which can ferry people from one shore to the other. Knowing the troubles and dangers on this side and the happiness and safety on the other side will naturally give birth to the heart of taking pains. Nirvana is Sanskrit, which means: extinction, extinction and immortality. Destroy, destroy the meaning of life and death. Those who destroy the degree, destroy the cause and effect of life and death, and cross the waterfall of life and death. Nirvana is neither born nor dead. Since there is no life, there is no death. Most of our pains are caused by life and death, and we are obsessed with the gains and losses of life and death, which makes us addicted to life and death.

Cheer yourself up and get ready to start practicing. Life is just a few decades, and it is fleeting. Smart people should do something meaningful for their own lives instead of always being busy for others. I didn't know I was still empty until I died. I didn't bring all my possessions and love, and I was so blind and helpless to the other world I was about to face. No one can help themselves, only a good career practice in this life is the next life.