The essence of this desire is hopelessness, which deviates from the reality of self-improvement; The essence of love is that it doesn't want to change, and it deviates from all impermanence, so there are all kinds of pains and troubles, and all kinds of careers are born.
Let's take a look at the enlightenment of Master Hanshan (one of the four eminent monks in the late Ming Dynasty):
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It is very important to recite Buddha (in Yun Qi, I told my son's mother)
★ chanting Buddha in the pure land is a matter of life and death, so the cloud "chanting Buddha has killed life and death." Nowadays, people are very concerned, because they want to live and die before they want to read Buddha. They only say that chanting Buddha can live and die. If you don't know the source of life and death, where on earth are you going to study? How can you live and die if you can't break the root of life and death? What about life and death root plants? The ancients said, "Love will never give birth to pure land, regardless of karma and concubines. It is to know that the root of love is the root of life and death, and all beings suffer from life and death, and they all love too much. Pushing this root of love is not in this life, nor in 1234, but from the beginning of birth and death, handed down from generation to generation, and self-sacrifice, all of which are the streams of love desire. Until today, looking back on the past, have I ever thought about leaving this root of love for a while? So love a seed, the accumulated robbery is deep, life and death are endless. I just started thinking about Buddhism today, hoping to survive in the West. I don't even know the name love is the root of life and death. Why would I forget? If you don't know the root of life and death, you can read Buddha at the same time, and the root of life and death can only be heard. So chanting Buddha has nothing to do with life and death. How to read it is up to you. When you die, you will only see the root of love between life and death. At that time, you will know that the Buddha is powerless, but you will regret that the Buddha is invalid, and it is too late to regret it.
Therefore, today, people who advise to read Buddhism must first know that love is the foundation of life and death. Now, if you miss the Buddha, you will break the root of love. If you use it from time to time, you can read Buddha at home, and you will see your children and grandchildren, family property, which are not love, so everything is not life and death, just like being in a fire pit. I don't know when I am chanting Buddha, but I can't let go of my love roots. Just like when I was chanting Buddha, I just said that I didn't know that love was dominant, and chanting Buddha was superficial. In this way, Buddha only listens to reading, and love only listens to long. If we look back, can this Buddha fruit compare with this love? Did you really break this love? If you can't break this love, how will you live and die? I am familiar with love, and reading Buddhism is unfamiliar and unrealistic, so the effect is not good.
If you can't ask for love now, you can't ask for love at the end of your life. Therefore, to advise Buddhist practitioners, we must first know that we long for life and death, and we must long for life and death. If we want to miss the essence of life and death, we will miss the time of life and death. Why wait until the thirtieth of the twelfth lunar month? It is too late. The so-called present is a matter of life and death. At present, life and death are empty, missing the truth and seeing blood. If there is no life and death, the Buddhas are talking nonsense! So being a monk at home, but knowing the heart of life and death, is the season of life and death, so what?
Namo amit Ba
There are no lotus flowers in the south.