What do Buddhists mean by the six divisions of the wheel of karma?

The reincarnation of all beings in the world

Generally speaking, there are six ways to reincarnate Asura (a family fighting against the protoss in Asura legend): humanitarian paradise, hell, hungry ghost and animal way.

Six ways refer to "three evil ways": the way of hell, the way of hungry ghosts and the way of animals; And "three good ways": humanity, Asura and Heaven.

One or six conditions

Buddha summed up all sentient beings in the world and divided them into six categories, namely, heaven, man, Asura, beast, hungry ghost and hell. This is the' six roads'. Many biologists in the world have different classifications of animals, but because of their personal wisdom and knowledge, they are not as considerate as Buddha. This is because the Buddha can not only see what ordinary people can see with the naked eye (such as people and animals), but also see what ordinary people can't see with the naked eye (such as heaven, shura, ghosts and hell). People who study Buddhism rely on the amount of faith in the holy word, and they must not say that they were born falsely because of my ignorance.

The situation of the six sentient beings is very different and too complicated to elaborate one by one. Today, I will give you two examples to get a general understanding. 1 is' class acceptance', which refers to the type of body and mind and the enjoyment of the world. Among them, it is reported that there are many kinds, and single people live long, so as to push the rest of the blessings. 2, it is' bitterness', bitterness is pain, and it is a disaster. The six results are different, but in a word, there are pains in it.

1, heaven

Natural, with extraordinary enjoyment and extraordinary figure. This way of life is the first of the six ways, respected by Witt and freely used by God, hence the name Heaven.

It is said that * * * is divided into three realms, namely, desire realm, color realm and colorless realm (also known as empty realm); From bottom to top, it's 28 days. Among them, the desire of six floors is also like the human world, with the desire of men and women to eat; The second floor, called "Heaven of Heaven", is located at the top of Mount Sumi, and has its own 33 days (this 33 days is a horizontal statement), that is, the four corners of the mountain have eight days each, with Indra in the middle and the secular god respecting the Jade Emperor, which is the meaning of this statement; However, the sixth floor is called "Freedom Paradise", but it belongs to the demon king Papman. In addition, there are four Zen and eighteen layers of heaven in the color world, all of which have meditation, and there is no desire for men and women to eat and drink, which is still full of colors; The first three Zen Buddhism have three days each, and the fourth Zen Buddhism has nine days. Moreover, the achromatic world has four layers of days. If you enter the sky, you will be out of sight. Only God knows.

All kinds of enjoyment in the sky are superior to those on the ground; The food is delicious, and it will be different with the blessing. Clothes are seamless, unlike humans, where thousands of seams are patched. As for life expectancy, there are many people in the world: for example, on the first floor, there are four days, and the life expectancy is 500 years, but 50 years counts as one day. By going up one flight of stairs, click here to double it; For example, on the second floor, a thousand years, but a hundred years is a day; Even on the sixth floor, he became Freedom Day, with a life span of 6,000 years, which counts as a day on the earth for 600 years. If it is incremental, if you want the sky, you will live for 80 thousand years. This is because the ten good deeds in the last life are so unique.

About' Bitterness': When you are going to have five declines in the world, when your life is coming to an end, naturally your head will wither, your armpits will sweat, your clothes will get dirty, your body will stink and you will be unhappy. It's five consecutive drops. Now five failures, knowing death, worrying about terror, waiting for hell. In addition, there are three disasters in the color world. The first is fire. When the fire is robbed, the ashes will melt under the first Yi Chan; The second is the flood, which flooded below the second Zen when grabbing water; Third, the storm, the strong wind blowing, the following three Zen, and even dust, nothing left. Oh! The world we live in can't exist yet, let alone in all beings. Can we live forever? Even the four Zen Buddhists, though deep in Zen, will not be happy to enter Zen once they die, and the wind will move, except for their eyesight. In addition, after four days of colorless, although there is no rough pain in the latter two realms, there are still hidden pains such as sores (the sky is boundless), carbuncle (the sky is boundless), illness (the sky is everywhere), and arrows entering the body (I don't want to go to heaven). And when the life is over, the concentration will be lost, and you will know when to die. For example, a mountain suddenly falls into a deep stream, which will cause great terror.

2. Humanitarian

People, in Sanskrit, credits are translated into meaning, so that all beings can do everything first. Fayuanyun: People are patient, but they can endure if they don't obey the world.

It is said that human beings are distributed on four planets, with different shapes and different life spans. For example, Rudolph Poti lived to be 250 years old; Jambu-Di^pa, a century-old shop; Xi Kuni, who lived 500 years; North Yu Danyue lived for 1000 years. That is to say, as far as Jambu-Di^pa (that is, the earth where we live) is concerned, the races, hair colors, customs and even land resources of the five continents are very different. However, the book says: only man is the spirit of all things; Rites also say: people, the heart of heaven and earth, the end of the five elements. Gai is easy to get close to others, and he can be most modest, as far as practice is concerned. This is because of the top ten acts of kindness in previous lives, and I feel this way.

About' Bitterness': Three Bitterness and Eight Difficulties.

3. Asura Road

Asura, this turning point is incorrect. There is no wine, or clouds are not sky. In this way, all beings are ugly and ugly, so the name is not correct. Because of the famous flowers, they are brewed in the sea and want to become fragrant mash; But because of the ichthyosaur, its taste remains unchanged, so there is no wine in the cloud. Because of many complaints and many taboos, although there are blessings and no virtues, it is named non-heaven.

It is said that all such beings are heaven, human beings, livestock and ghosts, so the Shurangama Sutra says that there are four kinds of Shurangama in the three realms. If you are in a ghost road, you can protect yourself and use it to enter the air. This is taken from Laying Eggs and Ghosts. When the sky falls, you fall, and you live next to the sun and the moon, which is taken from the vividness and interest of people. And asura King, who controls the world and is fearless. He can compete with Brahma King and Heaven Emperor for power for four days. This Asura was captured by nature because of change. Don't have a bad shura, born in the heart of the sea, diving in the hole, swimming in the void, and returning to the water at dusk. This Asura, because of its humidity, belongs to the beast. Because it belongs to the four meridians, it is different in shape, life and other aspects, and it is different according to the type. There is always a reason. Although I have practiced the five permanent members (husband, wife, son, husband and wife, brothers and friends), I am afraid of being slow, and I feel this way.

About the word' bitterness': each has its own kind, and the bitterness is different. That is to say, as far as Tianqu Shura is concerned, in addition to general suffering, it is often good to fight with the emperor, or break his limbs, or break his body, or die again; If you are sad and broken, you will continue as always; If the head is broken, it is lost. Other three-fun shura, its suffering is more.

4. Animal way

Animals, in Sanskrit, are born with clouds. Because of its shape (horizontal) and walking (heart is not right), it is born with clouds.

As the saying goes, this way of living beings covers a wide range, including birds and beasts, feather scales, four feet and many feet, whether there is enough, whether there is water, land and air travel. As far as their origins are concerned, they can be divided into four categories:

(1), viviparous as cattle and horses, hidden in the mother's abdomen.

(2) Laying eggs, such as geese, birds and peacocks, are hatched by shells.

(3), wet as a moth, heated by wet dirt.

(4) Metamorphosis is like a dragon, which is born out of nothing and only depends on karma. If we talk about life span, there are people from ephemerality, people who live in spring and summer, people who die in autumn and winter, and even people who are chitose.

The dead vary widely; And its body enjoyment is also very different.

About the word' bitter': hard labor, full food, killing people, or spitting on each other, its suffering is endless. Modern western scholars once said: "The law of the jungle, natural selection", it can be said that China animals are humane. I always feel this way, because I was stupid and greedy in my last life, not as good as others.

5. Hungry Ghost Road

Hungry ghost, Sanskrit translation? Li Duo, Li Duo, Li Duo, Li Duo, Li Duo, Li Duo, Li Duo, Li Duo, that is, ghost road, ghost interest and hungry ghost road. Ghosts are scared and hungry clouds are hungry. So all beings are afraid of hunger, hence the name Hungry Ghost.

About' class acceptance': it is divided into three categories and nine kinds. (1) Without wealth, you can't eat old. (2) Less money and ghosts, less food; If you have more money, you will get more food and drinks. There are three kinds of ghosts without wealth: a, ghosts who spit flames often come out of their mouths; So, if you eat and drink, it will turn to ashes. My eyes were attached to my mother before, and I fell into this body. B, the needle swallows the ghost, the abdomen is as big as a mountain, and the throat is like a pinhole. C, smelly mouth ghost, rotten mouth, self-inflicted. There are three kinds of ghosts with less money: A, ghosts with needles and hairs, whose gross profit is like needles, stab themselves when they walk. B, smelly hair ghost, gross profit and smelly, extricate themselves from suffering. C, bold ghost, bold in the throat, self-invited pus. It should be noted that ghosts with less money get less food, which is not really like clean and wonderful food on earth, but like delicious food in toilet pits. There are three kinds of rich ghosts: a, to abandon ghosts, often to sacrifice, to abandon food; B, gains and losses, often strange, food; C, power ghost, with weed power, is often sacrificed. For example, the city god, the land, the monarch, and even the gods in general all belong to this category. All kinds of hungry ghosts live in various interesting places and are influenced by their shapes, either in Haizhu or in the mountains; Or like a man, or like a beast, also comes from the difference. Its life span is 500 years, but it is counted as a day in January.

About the word' bitter': by karma, I don't smell the name of serous water, and all the clear water I see is purulent blood. I don't eat or drink, and my mouth is dry. And often driven away by knives and sticks, so it's scary. This is the idea of flattery in my last life. It is heinous to make domestic products, and I feel this way.

6.the road to hell

Hell, Sanskrit mud, has become a bitter tool; It is a tool to create evil and pain; It is also called hell because it lives underground.

It is said that (1) there are three kinds of fundamental hell, namely, eight cold and eight hot hell; (2) Near hell, that is, sixteen tours increase hell; (3) Lonely hell, that is, three layers of hell in the mountains, in the water and in the wilderness. Its material life and suffering are different. Among them, A Nose Hell suffered the most. I always feel this way when I do the top five evils and ten evils.

A-bi, whose translation is seamless, is one of the eight basic hell, and there are five seamless reasons. (1) There are endless people who are interested in fruits, and all of them die in the end, falling straight into others without going through the Yin; (2) People who suffer from each other without interruption have no pleasure in it; (3) When there is no time, decide to rob (intermediate robbery) and continue to do so; (4) endless, endless in robbery; After peeling, dicing and cooking, the limbs are eroded, but due to industry, the cold wind blows and life is not interrupted; (5) The shape of human beings is seamless. Hell is 80,000 from the 10th, and the shape of all beings is 80,000 from the 10th. There is no shortage in the middle, and one person is full.

If we say life expectancy, in terms of eight fever, primary schools live in hell, and their life expectancy is as long as four days and five hundred years. If we regard four days and five hundred years as one day, one day and night is equivalent to more than 9 million long lives on the earth; Two black rope hell, the life span is as long as 1000 years, taking 1000 years as a day, one day and night is equivalent to living on the earth for more than 3600 years. If so, it will increase with the six desires, and even a nose and a life will be taken away. Its bitter days are so long, can it be fearless?

About the word' bitterness': or a pit of fire, or hard ice, or a knife mountain, or a sword tree, or run over? Or soup, or boiling shit, or mountains and many other bitter utensils, too many to describe. As far as boiling excrement is concerned: in the boiling excrement river, it is beneficial for maggots to rush to the middle, or from the nostrils, the soles of their feet will come out; Or go in from your feet and come out from your mouth. It's dirty and smelly, and the hot air stings. Why is it bitter?

Second, mutual reincarnation.

There are six kinds of sentient beings above, those named' Six Tao', if they are still on the Tao, they can understand righteousness; It refers to the four turns of six sentient beings (viviparous, oviparous, moist and metaplasia), and the three realms are circulated to reach each other, hence the name Tao. This is commonly referred to as "the six divisions in the wheel of karma". The situation of reincarnation depends on karma, or people become ghosts or ascend to heaven. The ancients said,' How many times have you drilled into a horse's belly, into a donkey's uterus and rubbed charcoal? Sometimes you go to the Temple of Heaven, or you come to Yanjun's pot? In the past, God was greedy for heaven, but in Taoism (such as the metaphor of French sentences), he still had to become a donkey, not to mention the people below him.

Regarding the six divisions in the wheel of truth of karma, twelve karma is the easiest to understand in the interpretation of canon; For example, the Book of Changes in Confucian books says:' Being refined for things, wandering souls for change',' Birds of a feather flock together, and things are divided into groups'. We can also know that it is less. As for the fact that there are six divisions in the wheel of karma, where do all beings come from, those who have a discerning eye and a two-way destiny? Which way to go? Now that you can see it; Without these two links, it is not difficult to get more empirical evidence as long as we look at history extensively. Only those who have neither studied classics nor read history and do not believe in the amount of holy words will blindly doubt exclusion.

Among these six paths, heaven, man and shura are three, and because of the middle way, there are many good things, and the result also wins, so it is called the three good roads; Ghosts, animals and hell. Because most of them are evil and have bad consequences, they are called three evil ways. The third evil way, also known as the three ways, contains two meanings: one is the way of charcoal, which means taking harm and harming all beings here; The second is to take the road, take interest, and create evil beings. 1, the knife path, that is, the hungry ghost path, is often driven by a knife and a staff; 2, the blood road, that is, the animal road, will bleed to death; 3, the fire road, that is, the road to hell, up and down, a sea of fire.

Moreover, the everyman of six ways, or ascending three good ways, or descending three evil ways, are all said to be' outstanding' in the classics; It is said that the whole three realms and six roads are like a sea of suffering. The waves in the sea rolled and surged. The waves ahead just knocked us out of the sea, and we haven't absorbed enough fresh air, then the waves came and sank us to the bottom of the sea. In this way, sometimes the head comes out, sometimes the head doesn't come out, and it is always inseparable from this huge sea of suffering. This is our affectionate environment!