Master Zhao: Real Happiness and Pain

In fact, life is a big concept. Everything that happens in human society at all times and all over the world is related to life, and all our efforts on the road of life are also around life. We know that the phenomena of life, that is, fate and cause and effect, are actually driven by inertia and karma. Buddhism believes in fate, all past efforts will become life in this life, and all efforts in this life will continue to advance your life. So "fate" comes from the past, and "luck" is the result of hard work in this life.

The ancients said, "Fortune telling is a fleeting time, and lots are drawn for luck." . But all the efforts in the past will affect this life, and all the efforts in this life will affect the future. This is the similarity between karma and fate, causality and inertia, and it is not constant. Our life is a machine composed of earth, fire, water and wind, and what drives this machine, we tell you now, is karma. But who created karma?

Many people don't realize this phenomenon in their lives, so some people only believe in fate, while others only believe in the present and cannot be unified. When we have a deeper understanding of life, we can sum it up in four sentences: the first is never knowing or not knowing, that is, being fascinated. You don't know where it comes from and what kind of rules it has. The second is from ecstasy to deep sleep. Because of the convergence of karma, I met Buddhism and good knowledge; Or read Goodall's works; In other words, under special circumstances, observing what happened around us, we have a profound understanding of life and summed up our life experience. Although the past was lost and unknown, now it has become an awakened person. The third is the ecstasy from perception. Of course, this feeling is not a real feeling. For example, when a person was a child, he knew that he should be kind to others and try hard to grasp the direction of life in a harmonious state of self-interest and altruism. However, due to the fate of growing up, he was fascinated and forgot his kindness and happiness. The last one is from perception to perception. Even in the past life, there was a great good root, and this good root has not been forgotten in this life. We will continue to move forward on the road of enlightenment.

You can compare these four situations yourself. Life is a machine. If you don't make good use of it, I see a lot of people. His life is a trouble-making machine, and all his motivations and pursuits revolve around trouble. There are also some people who are intelligent machines and have left a beautiful scenery for themselves and others in this world.

Life is like this, driven by the inertia of cause and effect. All our efforts have one thing in common, that is, we keep escaping and pursuing. As small as a family, a team, as big as a country and a society, without exception, we must escape from something, give up something, and then pursue something. Escape from what we all think is painful and pursue what we think is happy. Everyone's original intention is to pursue happiness and avoid pain, but they are not sure about the overall law of life. The so-called principle of the legal world is the rule of origin and cause and effect, and the rule of emptiness without self is the uncertainty of this truth. Moreover, everyone thinks that happiness and pain are often reversed, and happiness is often regarded as pain and pain as happiness. Therefore, people in the world cannot tolerate and understand each other.

Let's take a look at the reversal on the road of life: for example, killing, eating meat and hurting all beings are painful in themselves, but if you look at restaurants, how many creatures are eaten every day, and they still eat with relish, thinking that they are not like normal people at all; Vegetarianism is normal and won't hurt any sentient beings, but they think vegetarianism is too bitter. The painful result of struggling on this realistic road of life is often a mistake in initial understanding.

The same is true of your inner emotions. Especially for many practitioners, according to the rules of precept and wisdom, with meditation, there will be wisdom. When your heart is really settled, you don't have to worry about food, clothing and shelter. But he just wants to find a little trick to bother himself, otherwise it will not be enough to show your existence. In fact, you are happy, but you sent the information of happiness to a painful address by mistake, so you received a painful result.

A psychologist said: How to treat psychology? Is to send your painful emotions and information (such as meditation and hard work, meditation, compassion and charity, you feel as uncomfortable as cutting meat) as a letter to a happy address; Send your happy emotions and information (such as greed for money, desire for sex and anger) to a painful address.

So what should we give up and pursue? Everyone should calm down and think about it. Buddhism tells us that the standard of Buddhism is not to harm oneself or others. It is painful to hurt yourself. It is not only an external manifestation, but an internal feeling. So Buddhism tells us that it is best not to hurt ourselves or others. However, it seems difficult to do a good deed because of the inversion of our lives and the inversion of the positions of happiness and pain. So as the Buddhist scriptures say, practicing is as hard as climbing a mountain. If you don't practice, it seems to be going downhill. Don't go, just sit there and roll down naturally.