What is Yashida?

Bachitian

Author: Zhang Fan

Bachitian

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● Zhang Fan

Where is the seed of cause and effect?

When I was a child, I remember that there were street performers who would set up street stalls in the Xiaopo area to play tricks. There were always thrilling moves that made onlookers sweat. For example, after a strong man’s heart was broken by a big stone, the little girl’s heart was “broken.” "Broken" to see, it is best to lie down on a nail board filled with iron nails. The iron nails are still rusty. The little girl's face is frightened and uneasy. The more exciting and thrilling the audience feels, the more onlookers there are, and the more they are on the line of life and death, cheering. The louder the sound, the human nature was a bit abnormal at that time. While the little girl was suffering, the gong sounded to ask for reward money, and the audience donated their money one after another. In exchange for three meals a day, the charlatan performers use self-abuse to incite the audience's senses in exchange for rewards that include both sympathy and appreciation. Seeing others suffering and giving generously is a good deed. However, it is a bit "black-hearted" to be willing to help others only when you see others taking risks or suffering. Behind good intentions there are seeds of evil.

The seeds of good and evil are sown in the field of eight consciousnesses.

I recently read the Eight Consciousness Rules by Master Xuanzang of the Tang Dynasty. What is consciousness? Consciousness is ‘mind’, and mind and consciousness are two things of one body. In the era of Hinayana Buddhism, only the "six consciousnesses" were mentioned, namely the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind. Mahayana Buddhism developed into eight consciousnesses. It is after the six consciousnesses that Mana consciousness and Alaya consciousness develop. The Eighth Consciousness Field in Buddhism means that when a person is about to die, the physical body dies, but the Eighth Consciousness still exists; the Eighth Consciousness will not disappear with the passing of the physical body. This eternally living consciousness is collected from the outside at all times. Photographic images, whether good or bad, are all stored in the field of eight consciousnesses. Saha sentient beings will receive different retributions in the Eight Consciousness Fields because of the good and evil seeds they have collected. I also read in the "Yangulimala Sutra" that Yangulimala asked Sakyamuni Buddha for advice, and said that good people hate all evil views, because when practitioners practice Buddhism, they are all misled by wrong knowledge and wrong views. Wrong views not only endanger life, causing people to waste time, energy, property, and waste valuable life. When these wrong views are absorbed into the field of eight consciousnesses, people will be misled by these wrong views in the next life, repeating the tragedy of the previous life. Therefore, good people regard it as their duty to eliminate evil views.

There are endless charity stories, from street stalls to street tricks to TV entertainers’ sincere performances. There are all kinds of tricks, unexpected and endless. Only when you see others taking risks or suffering or suffering do you want to help others, Whether such charity is a wrong view is for monks to make a judgment. But what is certain is that from an educational point of view, we have allowed the next generation to learn to use sensationalism and deception to engage in charity. Through these pragmatic means, we have exchanged a lot of money to solve the temporary needs of patients, but we have also lost money. An opportunity for the next generation to establish a correct sense of compassion.