Dharma Outline???? 7-3 If you build view of life from the ultimate void, you directly attain Buddhah

(English Subtitles) Lectured by Master Jìng Jiè (淨界法師) from Taiwan. 佛法修學概要, 你能夠從畢竟空當 中建立你的人生觀，直接成佛，速度最快了。
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【97】Why does your inner quality guide all your studies?
Generally speaking, receiving precepts and studying the disciplines; listening to teachings and reading scriptures; and practicing Chan meditation, these three approaches established by the Buddha enable one to attain great merits. For example, you observe the precepts; you study the teachings; you practice ceasing thoughts and rational observation; you study Chan and do meditation; you recite Buddha's name or mantras, and so on. Generally, Buddhists will choose a dharma that suit them best to study and practice.
You may perform repentance rituals and chant the Buddha every day, or you may also participate in group practice. Although we are accumulating good karma in Buddhism, there are five possibilities for our next life. Although we are both accumulating good karma within the Dharma, there are five possible outcomes for our next life.
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First, "But if you harbor desires for fame and gain, you sow the seeds of three evil paths." Let's say your psychological level is focused on worldly fame and gain, and you have many thoughts, but your main stream. What is main stream? Let me explain.
We all have both good and evil thoughts, but if you have a thought and often put it into actions and then feel a deep sense of joy, and this thought frequently arises in your mind, this will become your main stream. If you value fame and fortune too much today, even if you do good karma, which will lead to retribution in the three evil realms, because that's just how your mindset is.
Secondly, "But clinging to forms sows the seed of human, heavenly, demonic, and heretic beings." This kind of attachment is better than the desire for fame and fortune, because the desire for fame and fortune is the lowest class. You are pursuing worldly glory and wealth. The 2nd one is attached to good karma.
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Although he is attached to the form of good karma, his level is higher.
This person will either be a human or a celestial being. If he is obsessed with psychic powers and divine abilities, he might well become a heretic. But in any case, this is better than pursuing fame and fortune.
The pursuit of psychic powers and good karma indicates a higher
class of attainment, at least a noble human or heavenly status, even though he hasn't transcended birth and death.
Thirdly, "But solely pursuing liberation from birth and death is the seed of the Two Vehicles (Śrāvaka and Pratyekabuddha)." Those who are the Two Vehicles actually possess a strong desire for cultivation, but they have a flaw.
He feels the pain of life too deeply, and the torment he has suffered in this life is too heavy.
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So he is completely pessimistic about life. He believes that human life is valueless.
You see, our journey to the Pure Land is temporary; one day
we will return to the Saha world to liberate sentient beings! We merely regard the Pure Land as a transitional state.
However, those who practice the Two Vehicles who leave the Three Realms never want to return. They view the Three Realms as a prison and regard birth and death as foes. They only seek to liberate themselves and are unwilling to liberate others.
Such individuals who are devoted to the view of emptiness will go to nirvana, where the good karma they cultivated will guide them to that destination. We generally call such people pessimists.
You must understand that practicing the Dharma is like taking medicine—know when to stop properly. Some medications should not be taken in excess, especially the bitter truth. You'll gradually realize that. Although the truth of bitterness can subdue the obsession with this world,
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you better use it appropriately.
If you operate excessive the truth of bitterness, it may affect your great compassion.
In fact, this is how the two vehicles are; they have a particularly deep understanding of the truth of bitterness, perhaps because they have had such hardship since childhood.
In conclusion, the excessive exertion of pain caused him to develop an extreme aversion to life. Mahayana Buddhism believes that life is neither good nor bad because it is ultimately empty.
If you operate properly, you can create great merit in your life; if you operate improperly, you will commit grave sins.
So, life itself is neither good nor bad; the emergence of a living being is neither good nor bad.
However, those who practice Theravada Buddhism define life as suffering, which is absolutely bad. This is bigoted.
This is why he doesn't achieve utmost solemnity in the end; his thought is flawed, as he is obsessed with transcending birth and death. Transcending birth and death is okay, but you shouldn't go extremely or excessively.