Legend of Faun's Celestial Eyes 37 - As a Toddler I Spiritually Wandered in the Universe 我的淺薄神足通經驗

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Đại Nguyện Nguyện 18 trong 48 Đại Nguyện của Phật A Di Đà : Nếu con được thành Phật, mà chúng sanh trong mười phương dốc lòng tin tưởng, muốn sanh về cõi nước con chỉ trong mười niệm, nếu không được toại nguyện, thì con chẳng trụ ở Ngôi Chánh Giác, trừ kẻ phạm năm tội nghịch và gièm chê Chánh Pháp. Nam Mô Pháp Giới Tạng Thân A Di Đà Phật Lời Khuyên Tịnh Độ (Ấn Quang Đại Sư) “ Ấn Quang từ Tây qua Ðông, từ Bắc xuống Nam, qua lại hơn vạn dặm, gặp gỡ nhiều người. Trong số đó, lắm kẻ bình nhật tự vỗ ngực là bậc thông Tông, thông Giáo, coi Tịnh Ðộ như uế vật, chỉ sợ nó làm bẩn lây đến mình. Lúc lâm chung, đa số chân loạn tay cuống, kêu cha gào mẹ. Trong số ấy, có những người trì giới niệm Phật già giặn, chắc thật, dù Tín Nguyện chưa đến mức cùng cực, tướng lành chẳng hiện, nhưng đều an nhiên mạng chung. Vì sao như vậy? Là vì tâm thuỷ trong lặng, do phân biệt nên xao động, đục ngầu, sóng thức trào dâng. Do Phật hiệu nên tâm thuỷ ngưng lặng. Bởi thế, kẻ thượng trí chẳng bằng kẻ hạ ngu, biến quá khéo thành vụng về lớn vậy!”
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(Subtitles in Chinese and English) These are the stories of Chinese legendary writer Peter Faun(馮馮) who are renowned for his celestial(3rd) eyes.
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Many people use US and Canadian passports to travel to mainland China. After returning to the US and Canada, they say how beautiful Mount Emei and how beautiful the Three Gorges are. How beautiful is the West Lake in Hangzhou. How magnificent is the Forbidden City in Beijing. How solemn are the Buddha statues in the Yungang Grottoes. How Guilin's landscape is the best in the world.
They also often persuaded me to visit the mainland for sightseeing. They said: "You are Canadian, and applying for a visa to China is very convenient. Why don't you go for a tour? It doesn't cost much money to go with a tour group arranged by a travel agency."
"I'm not going," I said.
"Why not?" they asked. "Have you been to the mainland?"
"I haven't been to the mainland, and I have been to the mainland."
"I don't understand what you mean?" they said.
"I have never been to the mainland in this body".
I explained, "You said I have Canadian nationality. Do you know I haven't applied for a Canadian passport yet, and I still hold a Republic Of China(Taiwan) passport? However, I have been to all the places you have been to, and I even have been to all the places you have never been to.
Sometimes, I wandered several places at the same time in one night. At the same time I was at the Golden Summit of Emei, in the Three Gorges, in the Kunlun Mountains, in the Huashan Mountains, in the Shaolin Temple, in the West Lake Lingyin Temple..." "How can that be?"
"There is a saying in the Flower Adornment Sūtra: 'When one body enters meditative concentration, many bodies arise.' 'One mind travels all over the world in the ten directions.' Without abandoning this place, you can travel around all worlds.' Do you understand these words?
That is to say, after entering meditative concentration, you can take multiple trips concurrently with separated bodies." "Is there such a thing?" Friends said suspiciously: "How is it possible?"
"For people who have never entered meditative concentration, it is impossible." I said, "It is common for people who have entered meditative concentration, whose separated spirits go out and wander, which is the so-called magical feet ability.
In fact, it's not a great magical ability, it's just a separation of consciousness. You must know that human consciousness is formed by the convergence of many individual consciousness, just like the flow of many streams of photons, which merge into a beam of light. It is like countless optical and magnetic waves that converge to form a 'field', The ordinary people are ignorant or unconscious of these 'consciousness', much less able to separate themselves.
"This is not a myth, this is something that everyone can achieve, and it is the realm of meditative concentration. Even if you don't pursue it, it will produce. This is in line with cosmic physics, although it is still unknown to geophysics.
In fact, this is not the topmost state of meditative concentration." "When did you discover that you had this ability?" someone asked me.
However, a Buddhist practitioner has entered a deep state of meditative concentration via his practice. His 'consciousness beam' or 'energy field' can be separated, and can travel in any space and time of the universe in the form of photons, let alone a place on earth."
"Isn't this a myth?" Someone sneered: "How can there be such a thing?"
I replied,"I have been spiritually wandering since a toddler. When I was only three years old, I often told my teacher about the many wonders in the depths of the universe.
At that time, I was sent to Fang's elementary school as a pre-study. The children of the Fang family were all a few years older than me, and they were in the class in an orderly manner. I was too young for the class and could only sit aside and watch.
Maybe there was no nursery nearby at that time? Or because of poverty, my mother left me there in care.
I remember that I used to sit on a small bench specially prepared for me, beside Teacher Fang, a man of about 30 years old, was always my companion until I entered kindergarten at full age.
Every day, he taught the children how to recite the cat jumps and the puppy barks; and taught them how to read and write. When students were studying, he would sit and play with me, and he would have to listen patiently to me telling stories that he might not even understand. "What are you talking about?"
"I am talking about a large sphere with a halo, about flying broom stars, flying icebergs and eerie rocks, glowing clumps of hot gas, and deep, deep, dark, unfathomable swirling deep holes."
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