Dharma Outline????4-4 Cultivation is your own business. No one can give you the Way

(English Subtitles) 佛法修學概要, 修行是自己的事，沒有一個人可以把道送給你 Lectured by Master Jìng Jiè (淨界法師) from Taiwan.
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【64】Cultivation is your own business. No one can give you the Way.
In fact, cultivation and study cannot be replaced. I say it again, no one can give you the Way. Impossible. So, a patriarch said that the Buddha cannot eliminate your sins, nor can he give you merits.
So what did the Buddha do? The Buddha could only tell you this truth so that you can reform yourself. You have to walk the path that you should go, so the Buddha had to enter Nirvana, because cultivation is your own business and has nothing to do with whether the Buddha is still in the world or not.
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If you study hard, the Buddha will seem to be present in the world to you; if you don’t study hard, it will be of no avail for you to stay beside the Buddha.
You see, when the Buddha was alive, two of his disciples, among the six groups of monks, fell into the three bad paths. They grew up next to the Buddha and became monks after him, but still fell into the three bad paths. So, the success or failure of your practice has nothing to do with whether the Buddha is still alive, but it has to do with the Dharma. The true refuge in the Three Refuges is the Dharma.
Since the Buddha didn't play a leading role, but rather a secondary one, his presence was merely to teach the Dharma. Whether or not you can change is your own business; it has nothing to do with the Buddha's presence. So, when the time comes for the Buddha to leave, he will leave. This is to manifest passing for living beings.
【65】The Buddha’s nirvana made his disciples realize that our true refuge is the Dharma.
Let's look at what benefits the Buddha's nirvana brings.
“It eliminates all defilement, and cultivates the roots of virtue.” The Buddha's passing away tells us that we can only rely on ourselves and practice according to the Dharma.
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This is what it means to raise good roots from the Dharma. We have not seen the Buddha, so we do not know the disciples' dependence on the Buddha. But if you look at the sutra of The Last Teachings, those who were close to the Buddha were deeply saddened when the Buddha passed away. How sad was it? Even the Arahants, who had no emotions, couldn't help but were weeping. How did the Buddha pass away so quickly? It is very rare for something to touch the heart of an Arahant. Because Arahants abide in emptiness, we can imagine how much dependence the disciples had on the Buddha when he was alive. The tears of the celestials are like rain. However, the Buddha had to do this. He wanted to let his disciples know that what we truly take refuge in is the Dharma, that humans are temporary, and that the Buddha's coming into the world was only to bring forth the Dharma.
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Therefore, whether we succeed or not has no direct relationship with whether you are in the Proper Dharma Age, the Dharma Semblance Age, or the Dharma-Ending Age. If you are willing to study the Dharma in accordance with the dharma, there is the Way within it, the Way to rebirth in the Pure Land, the Way to transform the ordinary into the sacred, and the Way to peace and happiness.
【66】The eight phases of the Buddha’s enlightenment guide us towards the path of the Tathagata.
The eight phases of enlightenment mentioned above explain how the Buddha relied on eight forms to reveal the path of peace and happiness, the path of liberation, and the path of bodhi, which are the paths of the Tathagata.
At the end of the Amitabha Sutra, it divides the Buddha's body into two parts: the first is the Buddha's Dharmakaya.
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Some sector regards this part as the fundamental door. That is to say, there is one thing in the Buddha's body that is neither born nor destroyed, namely the Buddha's Dharma body(Dharmakaya) and reward body. These are for the Buddha's own use and cannot be shared with others. The Buddha's Dharma body does not have the so-called birth, old age, sickness and death. There are no such problems. The Buddha's clear mind always abides in the four merits of permanence, bliss, at ease, purity. This is praising the fundamental door of the Buddha.
The second one is traveling to all Buddha lands and spreading the way everywhere, which is a praise of the Buddha's traces. The Buddha manifested the eight phases of his life to achieve enlightenment. Throughout his life, from birth to marriage, having children, becoming a monk, attaining enlightenment, and turning the Dharma wheel, he manifested himself in the ten directions of the world.
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The ancients used a metaphor to describe this manifestation: "There are thousands of rivers and thousands of moons in them." The Buddha's Dharmakaya is like the moon, and the Buddha's Manifested Body(Nirmanakaya) is like the moon's reflective image. Wherever the water surface is calm, that is where the good roots of beings have matured, and the Buddha will manifest the eight phases of enlightenment.