Sanskrit Weimai Accati transliteration: Vimalakīrti, Vimalakīrti, abbreviated as Vimalakīrti or Vimalakīrti. Free translation is a clean name and a clean name, which means that a person is clean and unpolluted. He is a Mahayana Buddhist layman and a famous layman. According to Vimalakīrti classics, Vimalakīrti was a rich man in ancient India, far away from Vishnu. His family is rich and there are many slaves. However, he is diligent in learning, devout in practice, able to get along with others without living, facing the environment without living, and achieved fruitful results, so he is called a bodhisattva.
Once, he said at home that he was ill, which alarmed the Buddha. The Buddha sent Manjusri Bodhisattva to visit patients. The Buddha knew that the Vimala Bodhisattva was only deceiving the disease, so he sent Manjusri Bodhisattva, which was called "wisdom first". After Manjusri saw Vimalakīrti, the two Bodhisattvas fought bravely and repeatedly talked about Buddhism, which was meaningful and witty, making the Bodhisattvas who went to visit together dumbfounded. After the war, Manjusri Bodhisattva paid more attention to Vimalakīrti, and people paid more attention to Vimalachi Bodhisattva.
Brief introduction of Vimalachi Bodhisattva
He is a Mahayana Buddhist layman and a famous layman. According to Vimalakīrti, Vimalakīrti was a rich man who lived in ancient India far from Vishnu. His family is very rich and has many maids.
However, he is diligent in learning, pious in practice, able to get along with others but not with others, with the environment but not with the habitat, and has achieved fruitful results, so he is called a bodhisattva.
Once, he said at home that he was ill, which alarmed the Buddha. The Buddha sent Manjusri Bodhisattva to visit patients. The Buddha knew that the Vimala Bodhisattva was only deceiving the disease, so he sent Manjusri Bodhisattva, which was called "wisdom first".
After Manjusri met Vimalakīrti, the two Bodhisattvas fought wits and braved each other and talked about Buddhism repeatedly, which was profound and interesting. It was the same bodhisattva who visited, and the arhats were shocked.
After the war, Manjusri Bodhisattva highly praised Vimalakīrti. Since then, people have paid more attention to Bodhisattva Vimola.
Therefore, Master wants us to read Vimalakīrti classics!
Vimalakīrti Sutra and Vimola Bodhisattva
Among the vast Mahayana classics, nothing is more wonderful, magical and incredible than the Vimalakīrti Sutra. The scripture is magnificent, incisive, ups and downs, and there are many discussions, which have strong persuasiveness, appeal and fascinating artistic charm. For thousands of years, it has been a serious work for domestic practitioners, especially intellectuals. Wang Wei, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, took Wei as his name and Mo as his word, which was very impressive. As for the Vimala Bodhisattva, its person is as magical, great and incredible as its sutra. It is precisely because of the Vimola Bodhisattva that the Buddhist scriptures on the earth have developed so extensively and deeply, covering thousands of households.
At the beginning of the Buddha's turn, he only taught the monks around him, and the doctrine was only the content of pursuing self-liberation. However, hundreds of millions of people in Jambu-Di^pa are more comfortable than monks. If Buddhist belief is confined to the circle of monks and nuns, then the so-called "Buddha shines everywhere" and "all beings are exhausted" are all empty talk. Moreover, there is no one to raise the three treasures, no one to repair the temples, and no money to engrave scriptures. Buddhist scriptures will be divorced from all beings and unsustainable. For this reason, the Buddha specially said that the Vimalakīrti Sutra opened the door for the majority of believers to practice at home, and pointed out that practicing at home is not only convenient and convenient, but also can achieve the highest result of "more aunts, three joys and three bodhis". This not only greatly inspired the confidence of lay people at home and their disciples, but also provided great impetus for pushing Buddhist scriptures to the society and the world.
Vimalakīrti Jing is extensive and profound. Based on the thought of Mahayana Bodhisattva, it criticizes the Mahayana practice of narrow self-interest and pursuing personal liberation, and preaches the Mahayana altruism doctrine of saving all beings and realizing a peaceful Buddhist country.
It is classified as 14. The first "Buddhist product" is the origin. When the Buddha said that there were 32,000 Bodhisattvas and 8,000 monks in Luoyuan, Pierian, the son of an elder named Baoji asked the Buddha: What should the Bodhisattvas do if they want a peaceful pure land of Buddhism? The Buddha readily agreed and said a ground-breaking quip: "OK, Baoji! The place where all beings live together is the pure land of Buddha! Because bodhisattva can only get Buddha land with all sentient beings. " It turns out that the pure land of Buddhism is not in the sky, not on earth, but around us! The Buddha also said: If a bodhisattva sacrifices all sentient beings and asks for Buddha's soil, it is like building a house for nothing, and it will never achieve anything; Only by standing on the earth to benefit all beings, just like building a house in an open space, can we get Buddha land. In the final analysis, the bodhisattva's desire to become a Buddha and the bodhisattva's desire to become a Buddha country are all for the benefit of all beings and the salvation of all beings. The origin of this passage paved the way for the emergence and incredible liberation of the following Vimala Bodhisattva.
The second section "Convenience Goods" comprehensively introduces Vimalakīrti and his deeds. From the classics, we know that Vimalakīrti was originally a "layman" who gathered all kinds of human beings: he was once a white man, a huge businessman, a prince, a minister, an official, an ordinary man, a Khrushchev, a Brahman, an elder, a layman ... a magical figure who showed impermanence. He has secular desires and the pursuit of the world. He has unlimited wealth, a complete family, a luxurious BMW and luxurious food. He likes reading world famous books and games. You can not only enter politics and law, but also talk about schools; It is also easy to enter various wineries, indulge in debauchery, and even go to brothels and stay in bars. However, in the secular world of secular affairs and material desires, this layman can diligently practice wisdom and benefit all beings, and finally obtain supreme bodhi and solemn and peaceful Buddha body. Therefore, Vimalakīrti's appearance statement is very convincing. He is an example and proof. All beings in the world of mortals saw hope and direction from him, and no longer worried about not becoming a monk, nor felt inferior for being a layman. Practicing at home still does not hinder liberation, nor does it hinder the attainment of Tathagata.
The third and fourth are disciples and bodhisattvas. In order to educate all living beings, Vimalakīrti preached Mahayana to those who asked about diseases when patients visited heaven and human beings. The Buddha appointed ten disciples, including Sharifutsu and Mahayana, and four bodhisattvas, including Maitreya and Yan Guang, to ask questions, but they all learned Vimalakīrti's great skills in Buddhist debates, so they were all "incompetent" and no one dared to go. Finally, the Buddha had to lead the masses on his behalf.
From the fifth article Manjusri Asking for Diseases, the scriptures entered a wonderful stage. Because "Manjushri and Vimalakīrti, two great scholars, will talk about magical methods", it attracted "8,000 Bodhisattvas, 500 people and 100 people who all want to go with them". Manjusri had to lead the mighty gods to ask questions. Vimalakīrti used his divine power to empty his room, only bought a bed, and fell ill. Incredibly, Manjusri and thousands of Bodhisattva disciples entered the square room safely (hence the name of the abbot) without being crowded. Mahayana Buddhism has the saying that "the world is seen from a grain of sand" and "a mustard seed hides sumeru", which is vividly proved by Vimalakīrti. Manjusri's questioning led to Vimalakīrti's famous saying, "Be merciful and take the world as your responsibility". He said: "if there is love from delusion, I will get sick;" All beings are sick, so am I. If all beings die, then I die, too. So what? Bodhisattva is a sentient being, so she goes into life and death. If there is life and death, it will get sick ... (Bodhisattva) All sentient beings love their children, and their children will get sick, and the more they get sick, the more they get sick ... And the diseases of all sentient beings start from the Big Four, because they are sick, they are sick. "The greatness of Mahayana Bodhisattva's altruistic character lies in treating the suffering of all beings as their own suffering, their worries as their own worries, and their diseases as their own diseases. The only purpose of Mahayana Bodhisattva's persistent practice is to free all beings from nirvana. When Vimalakīrti spoke here, Manjusri Bodhisattva led many people, among whom 8,000 Bodhisattvas gave birth to Aunt Doro, three reserved virtues and three Bodhi.
Sixth, "incredible products" are getting better and better. The relic sat for a long time, and Vimalakīrti enlightened him and said, "A husband who seeks Buddhism will not be greedy for his life, let alone a bed seat." Are you here for the law? Or are you looking for a bed? Sharifutsu said shyly, I am here for the law. Vimalakīrti smiled, so he borrowed 32,000 "high-spirited, totally clean" Leo from Sumeru, a world far away from the Ganges. The height of the seat is "84,000 Xun You" (a Xun You is about 40 miles), which is equivalent to 400,000 times the height of Mount Everest. However, it is incredible that so many leos are so big that they are packed in a room ten feet square! This is Vimalakīrti's good intention to declare incredible liberation.
The seventh "Audience's Life" shows the empty sect of Mahayana, breaking the law and sticking to it. In response to Manjusri's What Clouds Mean to All Living Beings, Vimalakīrti said: The audience is just like watching the moon in the water, the image in the mirror, the clouds in the air and the bubbles on the water, just like nothing. Manjusri asked: Since the masses are empty, how can you exercise detachment? The answer between the two Bodhisattvas has reached a very high level, which contains profound Buddhism. Vimalakīrti's emptiness is not without its merits. If you think there is nothing, you will deny the masses, Buddhism and Buddhism. This is an evil opinion that Buddhism does not allow. The Buddha exhorted "breaking the air": I am empty, I am empty, I am empty, I am empty, I am empty, I am empty. Those who mistakenly think that emptiness is nothingness are committing "emptiness persistence". Vimalakīrti doesn't think that all life is nothing. The moon in the water is the reflection of the moon in the sky, and the image in the mirror is the reflection of the image outside the mirror. Clouds in the sky are empty, but the water vapor that produces them exists. The foam on the water surface disappears instantly, but the water that produces the foam still flows frequently. The hue of all beings is illusory, but the troubles of all beings are real. Therefore, Vimalakīrti said that Bodhisattva should get rid of the troubles of all beings and extradite them to a state of immortality and nirvana. But these reasons failed to make Shalifusu understand. So the goddess came out to spread flowers, and the flowers immediately fell on the Bodhisattva, but they were scattered on the voices of Sharifutsu and others, and they could not be pulled down. The goddess relic is too persistent, becoming a goddess than the relic, and turning herself into the relic, proving that the body is like an illusion, and all men and women have no fixed phase. This is completely consistent with the teachings of all laws advocated by Hokkekyo, which are gender-neutral.
The eighth "monk product" shows the noble character of Mahayana Bodhisattva who is willing to go to hell in order to educate all beings. Manjusri asked the Bodhisattva how to reach Buddhism and Taoism. Vimalakīrti replied: "Bodhisattva is a non-Taoist, so as to achieve Buddhism and Taoism!" The so-called "non-Tao" is the way of hell, the way of hungry ghosts, the way of beasts, the way of greed, the way of anger and the way of delusion. Hit the floor has a famous saying: I don't go to hell, but who goes to hell! Only when the Bodhisattva shows its wrong way can the public's pain be relieved, and the troubles be turned into bodhi, and the color be turned into liberation, and the supreme consciousness be gained. The ninth book, The Way to Success is the quintessence of the classics. Vimalakīrti asked eight thousand bodhisattvas, what is the unique method? Methods Thirty-one Bodhisattvas expressed their opinions one after another, but Vimalakīrti disagreed, so all Bodhisattvas had to ask Manjusri Bodhisattva to make a decision. Manjusri is outstanding in his insight. He said bluntly, "This is the only way to be silent, ignorant and detached from all questions and answers." Manjusri asked Vimalakīrti what he said. Vimalakīrti was silent for a long time, and Manjusri was amazed: no words, no language, this is the only way to really enter! As a result, all the 5,000 Bodhisattvas in the crowd entered the only way.
The 10th to 12th places are incense Buddhist products, Bodhisattva Travel Notes and Acheng Buddhist products. Based on unique principles and practices, Vimalakīrti invited rice to taste the delicious soil, went hand in hand with thousands of people, and made an elephant in the room, which often showed miracles. Seng Zhao has a very incisive summary of this classic: "As this classic shows, strength and wisdom are the main factors to unify various activities, six degrees are the foundation to cultivate virtue, compassion is the purpose to help people confuse, and extreme language is the only way to learn. All these opinions are incredible. "
The thirteenth article "Fa Sacrifice" and the fourteenth article "Exhortation for Learning" are the concluding remarks. The Buddha pointed out that all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are born. If a good man and a good woman believe in understanding and support, reading and practice, and deeply support them, there will be endless blessings. Finally, the Buddha named this sutra "What Vimalakīrti said", also known as "The Unbelievable Method of Emancipation", and handed it to Maitreya for circulation. Now, as a conclusion, the eight methods of Bodhisattva in Part 10 are quoted as follows, which are also encouraged by practitioners:
"A, Rao Yi sentient beings without reading the newspaper; Second, on behalf of all living beings suffering from the Lord; Third, do all the merits you have done; Fourth, wait for all beings and be modest. Treat all bodhisattvas as buddhas; Fifth, I have never heard of it and don't doubt it; Sixth, don't be jealous of each other, don't be selfish, and adjust your heart; Seven, often save themselves, not litigation; Eight, persevere and strive for success. "