You can only test it out when others say unpleasant things or look at you when you go out to do things. Only at this moment can you see your inner reaction clearly. Therefore, what “reacts” is your ow

You can only test it out when others say unpleasant things or look at you when you go out to do things. Only at this moment can you see your inner reaction clearly. Therefore, what “reacts” is your own “heart.” The stronger the reaction, the clearer the vision. Therefore, the ancients said: "Trouble is Bodhi." Only with the help of worries can you check your mentality. Moving is the heart, and not moving is also the heart. When the six sense organs face the six objects and are differentiated, this is the manifestation of the true mind. It’s also true that it works wonders. When distinguishing something, the heart is moving. When knowing the existence of external things, it is also the manifestation of the inner heart. But we are used to attaching an attribute to it: saying this is "good" and that is "bad". From the perspective of the world, we can see that things are good and bad. From the perspective of transcendental dharma, there is nothing good or bad. But Buddhism is not separated from the worldly laws, even if you have transcended the heart, you do not distinguish between good and bad. When doing worldly laws, you must do them in accordance with worldly laws. That is to say, you alone cannot change the big causes and conditions, but you can change your own heart. In fact, Buddhist practitioners do not need to change their surroundings, they only need to change themselves and take care of their own hearts. If everyone takes care of themselves, society will be fine. The so-called purification of society means that everyone first purifies himself.

If we are in concentration without thoughts or distinctions, what kind of state will we be in? Although everyone has never experienced it, it can be understood theoretically. We have all had dreams. When we are in the dream, we will regard everything in the dream as true. Therefore, when dreaming, those who should fight are still fighting; those who should quarrel are still quarreling. When you practice dreaming without attachment and tell yourself: this is a dream, you will wake up soon. With this kind of concentration, when you encounter a realm during the day, you will immediately tell yourself: You will leave this world soon, that is, you will wake up immediately. The reason why there are dreams is to tell you that you are also dreaming during the day, but in fact you are all dreaming. "Dreams tell dreams, and dreams are more dreams." When we no longer distinguish between everything, everything in the world is in total emptiness. Just like you are sitting here, straighten your back, raise your righteous thoughts, and don't think about anything or breathe for a few seconds, you will suddenly feel that everything has disappeared. The cave, the people, nothing existed anymore. You and all things form one body, and all things are one with you, one and without body, because there is no longer any distinction or attachment, neither presence nor absence. Therefore, the ideology of a person who has entered concentration can travel across mountains and seas.

The first novel I read when I was thirteen years old, "Fengshen Yanyi", described the scene of Tu Xingsun walking through the earth. I believed it very much. Because I often travel across mountains and seas in my dreams. After studying Buddhism, I realized that people can really reach this state through cultivation. There used to be a class leader in Tiantai Mountain, and his spiritual consciousness could go to the kitchen to get things. Every night, I take the rice dumplings from the kitchen to the meditation hall and share them with everyone. The people in the kitchen noticed that the rice cookers kept being thrown away, so they reported it to the great monk. The great monk was also very skilled in meditation, so he meditated in his room, and his spiritual consciousness went out to observe. As a result, he found that the spiritual consciousness of the class leader came down from his seat. Went to the kitchen. At this time, he made a joke and put the body of the class leader on the bed. When the class leader returned to the meditation hall, he placed the rice dumplings in front of everyone. When he returned to his seat, he found that his body was gone. Just look everywhere. There can't be any movement in the meditation hall, it's so anxious. At this time, the great monk stood at the door of the meditation hall and shouted: "Do you know that you have violated the precepts?" The class leader's spiritual consciousness talked to him: "I have not violated the precepts. I do it for everyone, because from midnight every day, everyone is so hungry that they can't stand up." I have no way to work hard, so I went to get rice cakes for everyone to eat." The monk said, "I still have to move the order." The class leader said: "Okay, but there is a request. If everyone is still studying at midnight, we must have a dinner." The monk agreed to his request and told him: "Your body is under the bed!" He came back to life in an instant, bowed and took leave. In fact, everyone experiences this kind of skill several times a day. I just didn't pay attention to it, let alone catch it. If you take it for granted every day, you won’t be surprised. How do you fall asleep if you lie in bed and capture it every day? How did you wake up? How do you dream? These three processes are exactly the same as the process of entering, remaining in, and coming out of concentration, as well as the process of death.

When I first wake up in the morning, my spirit is clear and there are no thoughts, which is very similar to concentration. At the beginning, Monk Kongyou asked me: "Do you want to enter samadhi?" I replied: "I dream about it." Monk Kongyou said: "Then let's see how you dream first?"

Lie down first. Relax your body and withdraw your mind. First bring it from outside to the inside of the house, and then from the inside of the house to the mind. There is a force in the body that slowly becomes thinner when falling asleep and becomes thicker when waking up. There is also a power that can completely leave the body.

Especially when the body is tired and the mind is clear, gradually calm down. When entering concentration, you must calm down first. But once you calm down, you will feel sleepy again.

Question: Since you know everything after entering concentration, why do you still need to use a chime to knock out concentration?

Teacher: There are many levels of meditation. It's so deep that I can't even scream. People with such high skills will tell themselves how long it will take to stay in concentration before they enter it, and they will automatically come out of it when the time comes. (For example, if you have to catch a train at five o'clock tomorrow morning, hint to yourself before going to bed that you will definitely wake up at that time.) Some people forget to hint to themselves, so someone needs to call them out.

Question: I can see that many people are possessed, and I have indeed cured many people of terminal illnesses...

Teacher: Everyone has a Dharma Protector! There are many invisible beings surrounding us, which are karma formed in the past. If you do good things, it will also do good things; if you do evil things, it will also do many evil things. It is not your power to heal people. Invisible beings are behind and heal people with the help of your hands and blows.

When you meditate and become quiet, your spiritual consciousness goes out, and your body is covered by a light shield, preventing invisible beings from entering. For people with heavy Yin energy, invisible beings can easily enter and become possessed.

* The Sixth Patriarch said: "The sixth and seventh causes will turn upward, and the fifth and eighth fruits will turn upward." At the beginning of practice, you must change your thoughts and avoid discrimination. Only when you become a Buddha can the first five consciousnesses and the eighth consciousness be completely perfected.