A hook between fish and water
"Phoenix and Luan couple, when will their love and affection end? Living ghosts stay with each other, and they will break up when their fate is over. Hey, I have prepared for you two, wearing shackles They looked at each other and found their own homes, so they hooked up with the fish and water couple."
"Feng and Luan couple", both Feng and Luan are legendary divine birds. Lv, 俦 means companion, spouse. Husband and wife are as intimate as a phoenix. "When will the entanglement of affection end?" When will the entanglement of affection and affection stop? I have been entangled for life after life, countless lifetimes after countless lifetimes, and it has never stopped. Do I want to continue to be entangled like this endlessly? "Two living ghosts guard each other." They pretend to be like living ghosts, stay with each other, and love each other. "Breaking up when fate is over", no matter how close you are, when fate is over, you have to part ways and go your own way. You can die at the same time, but you can't go to the same place.
The ancients said: "Husband and wife are originally birds of the same forest. When disaster strikes, they fly apart." This passage in the "Infinite Life Sutra" caused many people to scream: "People are in love and desire. , Live and die alone, go and come alone, have their own sufferings and happiness, no replacement. Good and evil change, pursuit of life, different paths, no end." Therefore, the Buddha advises us, "Why not work hard to practice good deeds when you are strong? What do you want to do? ”
Some people are not satisfied with being husband and wife for one life, and they vow to be husband and wife for life after life. If you make such a wish, you are destined to be reincarnated again, but you won't be so lucky to be reborn again. I'm afraid it's not humane. Some news reports about human-animal love affairs, love between humans and dogs, dolphins, cows, horses, etc. This is a clear example of reincarnation. The relationship was too good in the previous life, but one fell into the animal realm in this life.
"Song of Everlasting Sorrow" is a long narrative poem by Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. It vividly describes the love tragedy between Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and Concubine Yang Guifei, and reveals the suffering of love. Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was forced to consign Yang Guifei to death. Her heart was broken and she was so painful that she didn't want to live. It is said that on the night of July 7th, the two of them swore in the Hall of Eternal Life that they would be husband and wife for the rest of their lives. After saying this, they held hands and cried. At the end of the poem: "On July 7th, in the Palace of Eternal Life, when no one is whispering in the middle of the night, I wish to be a winged bird in the sky, and a branch on the ground. The eternity of heaven and earth will eventually end, and this hatred will last forever." Making this vow is a wish for reincarnation, and you will be reincarnated again endlessly.
"Hey, I've got two things for you", alas! I am deeply attached to you and have a deep love for you. "Wearing a yoke and wearing a yoke" is a metaphor. Worrying attachments are like shackles and other instruments of torture, which bind people to the six paths of reincarnation, making them unable to feel free or free. Therefore, the Buddha said in the Sutra of Forty-Two Chapters: "A man is tied to his wife's house, which is better than a prison; the prison has a period of release, and his wife has no intention of leaving." A man is tied to his wife, children, house, house and other things. Being restrained is worse than being imprisoned. There is a release date after being imprisoned, and his wife and children have no intention of staying away.
Father and daughter, mother and son become husband and wife, this type of reincarnation farce has been staged too many times. The Buddha said in the "Surangama Sutra": "You bear my life, and I will repay your debt. Because of this cause and condition, it will last for hundreds of thousands of eons, and it will always be in life and death. You love my heart, and I pity your color. Because of this cause and condition, it will last for hundreds of thousands of kalpas." "In reincarnation, I love you, you love me, I care about you, and you care about me. The result is that I tie you and you tie me, and we are tightly tied to each other in the reincarnation, and we cannot leave for life after life. "Life and death will never end, and evil will never end."
"Looking at enemies", looking at them means seeing through them. To see through couples and lovers, it is often enemies from previous lives who come to collect and repay debts. For some couples, it is very painful for both parties to be together. They want to separate but cannot, and torture and suffer each other. This is a typical debt collection type. You owe him. Awakened people "find their own way" and each have to find a way out. Deciding to recite the Buddha's name and seek rebirth in the West is the most upright and bright way to escape from life and death.
"So the fish-water couple is a hook", fish cannot live without water, and the fish-water couple means closeness. There is an idiom called "help each other with foam", which means that when the water dries up, the fish spit foam to moisten each other. It is a metaphor for helping each other with little strength in a difficult situation. This word is usually used to describe the love of the elderly. Although the elderly are not as vigorous as the young, they can stay with each other for decades, and this relationship has always been praised by the world. People in the world always think that the stronger the love, the better. I can’t bear to tell you: if we stay together, we are destined to reincarnate again. If we can’t let go of the inner concern between an old husband and wife, we will have to reincarnate again. Therefore, Master Lianchi advises everyone to write off the love between husband and wife that is as inseparable as fish in water.
It must be stated that I am not advising you to divorce, but to give up this life from the bottom of your heart. Take things as they come and do what needs to be done. (From the Internet)
Back to the Pure Land Dharma, how do we view emotions? In human nature, some people are more attached to feelings, some are less attached to them, and their roots are different. For example, women are generally more attached to feelings than men. What should I do? For those who recite the Buddha’s name, I think it’s still the same saying: There’s no need to do anything, the Buddha will take care of it.
The Pure Land Dharma is a special method. It does not require us to change our innate ability to practice it. Of course we can change it to a better one, but most people really have poor innate ability. Amitabha is also called the Tathagata of Unobstructed Light. As long as an ordinary person wishes to be reborn, he will not be tied down by his girlfriend, boyfriend, husband or wife, and he recites the Buddha's name single-mindedly, there will be no obstacles to rebirth in the West.
Okay, but when we have to choose between the two and Amitabha, we will choose Amitabha without hesitation. There is no problem in this.
Buddhism cannot be separated from life, and life cannot be separated from Buddhism. This is the only method. So what should I do if I get divorced because of reciting the Buddha's name? You don’t have to do it, Buddha will do it. That’s when fate has come to an end. It’s yours and you can’t throw it away. It’s not yours and you can’t grab it. You have to get off the bus when you get to the station. No one can jump off until you get to the station. Amitabha Buddha clearly saw who and what kind of fate you have with you ten kalpas ago, and Amitabha Buddha will even use these connections to help you eventually pass away.
(Master Zongdao)