【證悟了空性，可超越一切的苦難】／海濤法師

【Only When the State of Emptiness is Achieved, Can the Sufferings Be Transcended.】／Master Hai Tao

Just like everyone's meditation, leg numbness is a must-experience while meditating. What fun is it if meditation isn't accompanied by numbness in legs?

Despite the fact that your legs feel numb and waist feels sore, you still concentrate on the thoughts, breath, or a certain place, and you'll eventually surpass the pains in your body.

Therefore, it takes half an hour, one, two, or even three hours to meditate. Until you experience deep meditation, you could skip meals naturally while meditating as Patriarch Bodhidharma's facing the wall to meditate for nine years. You may sense that it only feels like twenty minutes to meditate for two hours.

Why? Actually, our mind power is far beyond measure. Thus, many aged cultivators having cancer need no anesthesia. "Don't give me anesthesia, for I'll be ok by reciting the Buddha's name." When he focuses on nothing but reciting the Buddha's name, the sufferings of his body would either be lowered to the least or be transcended to no sensation. He just recognizes it as a perception, not a pain.
"Amitabha" lives in my mind. My mind exists in the nature of emptiness, not on the pain itself. Thus, I believe everyone is afraid of getting sick. However, there is no way you could live healthily forever.

Even Shakyamuni ever got so ill that he himself couldn't straighten up his waist and had to apply a hot compress. He got diarrhea for more than seventy times a day.

Once Shakyamuni Buddha had a fever, Ananda tried to rub Shakyamuni Buddha's forehead with a towel. The Buddha said, "Don't get close!" Then the Buddha wiped the sweat during a fever and dropped a bead of sweat on the ground. Consequently, the sweat was more corrosive than sulfuric acid and it damaged the floor. The Buddha said, "Ananda, don't touch my sweat, for this is my past-life karma. Nevertheless, now I turn to be the Buddha, so I could bear the corrosive sweat which you couldn't stand."

Hence, I think everyone craves for knowing how to keep from getting sick. If you are able to realize non-self and achieve the state of emptiness, you are free from all kinds of diseases. If you wish "I would never be ill," it will only happen when pigs fly.

It goes without saying that reality exists both in relative and absolute truths in Buddhism.

When it comes to relative truth, in order to stay healthy, you'd better release lives, stick with a plant-based diet, and donate medical supplies as often as possible. Doing all the things mentioned above will help decrease the possibility to get sick.

What makes it qualified to always keep well in absolute truth? You've got to achieve the state of emptiness and liberation with a released mind.

The fundamental purpose of the Buddhism is to achieve a liberated mind with no greediness, hatred, and delusion, with non-duality, and with no expectations and no mind. Just stay in the emptiness effortlessly without clinging.

Diamond Prajna, the wisdom, is the toughest and most incredible. "Diamond Prajna Paramita" could guide you to surpass everything and complete all. However, it's not possible to ask for staying away from sickness. Fundamentally speaking, "Egoic-self" is the root of life suffering, whereas "non-self" leads to life liberation.