See through the color of our obsession

Always talking about hue

There are so many hues, like the bubbles in a dream, that always make people fascinated and obsessed with them. Since ancient times, heroes have struggled with beauty. What is the charm of beauty? Confucius said: I have never seen anyone who loves virtue as much as he loves sex. Ordinary people are fascinated by color and moved by circumstances. In the process of being obsessed with color, they also lose themselves and lose the opportunity to see the truth. Isn't it a pity? If color is not charming, people will be fascinated by it. Let’s unveil the color palette together. Let’s look at the definition of color first.

Color refers to everything in the universe, all phenomena, all things, all people, things, things, everything you can see, hear, perceive, and touch , things you can feel, including male and female sex, money, reputation, status, and various opinions. Emptiness does not mean that there is nothing, but it means that none of the things produced by ordinary people's consciousness and discrimination are eternal. They can change and perish at any time, come into being, come into being, and perish again. It cannot exist independently. If the causes and conditions connected with it disappear, it will also disappear. It can also turn in the opposite direction to your wishes at any time.

The color is like this, and the hue is like this. When you haven’t seen it, you want to see it. When looking, the eyes never turn away. After reading it, I will never forget it. Such is the power of color. Don’t you know that there is only one painting in the color book? Wouldn't it be a pity that my body with Buddha nature is bound by form and cannot be refreshed and free. Also, those who are obsessed with sex may secretly plant the roots of desire, or commit sexual immorality, causing physical and mental destruction. Isn’t this not foolishness?

The body is mine, not the ultimate self. The Buddha Dharma is everlasting and impermanent, so why should we be obsessed with it? The water flows away all the time, who can stop to preserve the beauty. In the blink of an eye, the body ages, and the youth returns to the loess. It's really sad that you don't understand Buddhism and live twenty years of your life in vain. The truth can only be understood through Buddhism. Dreams and bubbles will always wake up. See through the body and form, abstain from evil and sexual intercourse, and feel more at ease.

See through the body

Anyone who wants to quit sexual immorality must see through the form and see clearly the essence of our body. Lustful people are often immersed in all kinds of lustful fantasies and cannot see through the essence of the opposite sex we are obsessed with. Even those who do not commit sexual immorality cannot see clearly that the object of their affection is actually composed of a pile of impurities. There is a concept of impurity in Buddhism, which makes people think that the human body is nothing more than a vase for holding excrement, nothing more than a portable toilet. Ordinary people are always obsessed with that appearance, mistakenly thinking that that beautiful appearance is everything about the other person. In fact, as long as you observe carefully, the entire human body is impure, and all kinds of filth are constantly flowing out of the nine orifices. Under the skin, pus and blood often flowed out, and it was extremely dirty. All the various organs were disgusting. Even this stinky skin makes ordinary people so obsessed that they are willing to sacrifice their own lives. It is really pitiful and pitiful.

The nature of the body is impermanent and is changing all the time. Imagine that a very young and beautiful woman ages again and again, first to a mature woman, then to a middle-aged woman, to an elderly woman, and then to an old woman. Moreover, after the new image is created, the old image disappears. The woman will continue to change and age, and no one can stop the pace of creation. Thinking about the further aging of the woman, she was unable to support her body and was paralyzed on the ground. In the end, he died. His whole body was swollen, pus leaked, and maggots came out of his body. In the same way, my physical body will also age, change, get sick, and die. ” After this reflection, we should be able to deeply understand the truth about human life.

In today's era of rampant beauty, how many people can calmly think about the essence of beautiful bodies? It is recorded below.

1. The seeds are unclean. It is said that the red and white colors of the parents' essence and blood are combined. The Theory of Wisdom says: This body seed is impure and is not a remaining wonderful treasure. It is not born from purity, but comes from the path of filth.

2. The residence is unclean. It means that in the mother's womb, under the raw organs and above the cooked organs, impurity overflows and is filled with filth, so it lives there. Haishan also said: Impurity is used as clothing, and filth is used as food.

3. The body is impure. It is said that the thirty-six things are all composed of impurities. Those who say thirty-six. There are twelve people outside, with hair, claws, teeth, stains, sweat, large and small bones, tears, tears and saliva. There are twelve times, skin, blood, flesh, fat, meninges, bone marrow, tendons and veins. Among them, there are twelve, the heart, liver, gallbladder, lungs, spleen, kidneys, intestines and stomach produce internal heat, red phlegm and white phlegm. That is to say, you know that everything from the top to the feet is impure. Master Yongjia said: The leather bag contains excrement, pus and blood gather, and the impurity overflows. It cannot reach the place where insects and maggots live, nor can it reach the hole of the toilet.

4. Impure self-image. It is said that all kinds of filth and evil always flow from the nine orifices. Those who talk about nine orifices. There is dirt on both ears. Tears burst out of both eyes. Purulent discharge from both noses. Saliva comes out of the mouth. Shit tells shit. Urine coming out of urinary tract. The Theory of Wisdom says: All kinds of impure things fill the body, and impurities often flow out, just like a leaky bag holding things.

5. Ultimately impure. It means that life will be bad for life, fat, bloated, smelly and filthy, pus and blood will be eaten by maggots, and it is unbearable to be close. Tiantai Yun: From feet to head, head to feet, observe all over the body. All I could see was fat, swollen and rotten, worms and pus leaking out of the urinary and fecal tracts, and the smelly odor caused the dog to die. The Heart-Earth Meditation Sutra says: You should observe that you are smelly and unclean, like a dead dog.

Looking closely, the woman's body is filthy and smells bad. Nine orifices are exposed, and none of the unclean things flowing out are cute, just like an unclean container containing feces and urine. At the same time, greed is extremely serious, like a bottomless pit. No matter how much food you enjoy or how much wealth you have, you will never be satisfied.

Some people say: "Although a woman is dirty and filthy inside, she is covered by skin on the outside. Then she puts on beautiful clothes, gold and silver jewelry, and is very solemn. Isn't it beautiful?" This kind of thing? The statement is incorrect. Looking at it from the other side, no matter how much you decorate the surface, it cannot change the essence of a woman's body. Use your wisdom to observe, is there anything clean from head to toe?

Therefore, if you really observe it, a woman’s body is full of impurities both inside and outside. Even if she wears beautiful clothes, gold earrings, a gold nose ring, a gold navel ring, and a gold necklace, it is only the clothes and decorations that are beautiful. It’s not that the human body is beautiful. Many people have a confusing delusion and like to confuse decorations with the body. In fact, the human body is like a bottle filled with unclean excrement, but it is just wrapped in five-color silk and satin. The female body that makes people lustful, hidden under the gorgeous clothes and decorations, is actually a disgusting nature.

The Buddhist scriptures have very good and many teachings on this aspect, friends can read them carefully.

"The Theory of Entrance" says: "Long hair, dirty claws, yellow teeth and the smell of mud are all frightening."

"The Swastika Sutra" says: Female lust, pure heart. Ordinary people are upside down, drunk by desire, wandering in desolation and confused, not knowing their faults, like catching flower stems without realizing the poisonous snakes. A wise man sees it as the mouth of a poisonous snake, the hands of a bear and leopard, and the fierce fire and hot iron, which are not metaphors. Copper pillars and iron beds, scorched back and rotten intestines, ulcers of flesh and blood, pain piercing the heart and soul, looking at it like this, only suffering and no happiness. The leather sac contains excrement, pus and blood, and is coated with false fragrance on the outside, but smells filthy and unclean on the inside. It is the place where insects and maggots live, and it cannot reach the toilet hole of the toilet. When a wise man looks at it, he will see hair, claws and teeth, thin skin, thick skin and flesh, sweat, tears and saliva, abscess and sinews, yellow phlegm in the meninges, white phlegm in the liver and gallbladder, bone marrow, lungs and spleen, kidneys, stomach and heart, bladder, large intestine, small intestine and raw internal organs. Things like cooked dirt, feces, urine, smelly places, etc. are all non-human. Knowing the wind blows, speaking nonsense, defrauding relatives and friends, but actually being resentful and jealous, corrupting one's moral character and obstructing one's path, is a serious sin and one should stay away, just like a thief with a grudge. Therefore, a wise man looks at it like a poisonous snake. He would rather be close to a poisonous snake than kiss a woman. Why? Poisonous snakes kill people, and they are bound to death for a lifetime. Women are bound by lust for hundreds of thousands of kalpas. They have all kinds of poisons and endless pain. It is difficult to get close to them if you look deeply and deeply. Therefore, a wise person should carefully examine the three mistakes, correct the past and practice the past, turn away from evil and do good, do not kill or steal, give life to others, do not engage in obscenity, and always practice the holy life.

"Chu Yao Sutra" says: In the country of Kusuimi, there is Moyinti. If a girl is born upright, she will go to the Buddha and be willing to give her a broom. The Buddha said, "What do you think is good about women?" He said, "Looking around from head to foot, there is nothing wrong with it." The Buddha said, "My naked eyes are confused! I look at it from head to foot, and there is nothing good about it. You see the head. There are hairs on the top, just like the tail of a horse. There is a skull under the hair. The skull is a bone. The bones of a butcher pig also have a brain. The brain is like mud and smells bad. When the nose is on the ground, there is no way to escape. The eyes are full of pure juice. There is mucus in the nose, but there is saliva in the abdomen, stomach, and bladder, but there is feces and urine in the limbs. The bones are leaning against each other, the muscles are cramped and the skin is contracted, but it is like a wooden man. When the mechanism is used to make it, the body is peeled off and separated, and the head and feet are in a mess. It is the same. Where? ”

Elder Maudgalyana attained the path of Arhat. This wife [my wife before she became a monk] wants to follow her, dress her up in a solemn way, and wants to destroy Mulian. Mu Lian immediately spoke a verse: "Your body's bones are standing, your skin and flesh are entangled, and your inner body is full of impurities, none of which is good. My heart is like empty space, with nothing to hold on to. Just as the gods want to come, they can't contaminate my heart." If we have the wisdom of the elder Maudgalyana, we will not be able to engage in sexual misconduct and be peaceful and happy.

Nagarjuna Bodhisattva's "Book of Relatives and Friends" says: When looking behind the girl's body, the stench is revealed through the nine-hole door, just like a dirty vessel that is difficult to fill, and a leather ornament that covers it is also impure.

"Wenchang Baoxun" says: "The bodies of men and women are originally leather bags, full of lochia, but because they are covered by thin skin, they are hidden from the heroes of the world..."

Yin Guang The master said: An impure person is beautiful and has only a thin layer of skin on the outside. If you peel off this skin, you can't bear to see it. Bones, flesh, pus, blood, feces, urine, and hair were all in a mess, and there was nothing to be loved about. But if it is covered by a thin skin, love will arise in vain. The flower vase holds dung, but people don’t play with it. The thin skin of this beauty is no different from that of a beautiful vase. The contents of the skin are more filthy than feces. How can one love its outer skin and forget about all the filth it contains and indulge in delusional thoughts? As long as you work hard and get rid of this habit, you will only see the beauty of your posture, and the arrow of love will penetrate into your bones and you will not be able to extricate yourself. It's always like this, if you want it to disappear without entering the woman's belly, you can't get it. It is okay to enter the belly of a human woman, but what will happen if it enters the belly of an animal woman? Just thinking about it makes me feel frightened. However, if you want to avoid being tainted by the situation you see, you must always think of the above three kinds of thoughts when you do not see the situation. Then the situation you see will not change with the situation. Otherwise, even if the state is not seen, the mind and body will still be lingering, and will eventually be bound by lustful habits. It is advisable to carefully eliminate bad karma and habits before you can gain freedom.

Get rid of the desire for female sex

"You love my sex, and I pity your shape." If you know that the obsession with sex is just from wrong cognition and illusory persistence, Then the greedy heart is weak. There is a poem that says: If you say you like the body and want to see it and touch it, then why don't you want it and have no intention of carving it? It can be seen that what we covet is not the body of the opposite sex. If it is not the body, what is it? Could it be the other person's heart? However, the desire of a woman's heart cannot be observed or touched. It can be touched but not consciously. What can I do if I have nothing to do with it? ”

Female lust is an illusion, and greed is an illusion even more. The past cannot be grasped, the present cannot be grasped, and the future cannot be grasped. The desire for female sex is unattainable. It is neither obtainable nor satisfying. It's nothing more than making mistakes upon mistakes, making the situation deeper and deeper. If we recognize the truth clearly and understand the filthiness of the female body (male body), we can naturally change our previous misconceptions and stop being infatuated with female sex.

We are stupid, often have excessive delusions, do not know the truth, are immersed in the imagination, and never examine the facts, so we beautify the other person's image in our hearts. If we truly take the view of impurities in hair, we will be able to get rid of the attachment to lustful appearance. Return to the truth and appreciate the joy of life.

Female lust is not only illusory and has no substance, but also harms people's health and hinders their progress. It can even disintegrate our will, suck away our life essence, and destroy our body. If we are greedy for female sex to a certain extent, we will commit adultery. From then on, if one does not cultivate his virtues or advance his career, he will become a useless person. Thinking about this, one should feel great fear towards female sex.

But we can never look away. We are always captives of the color. We don't care about "our body, hair and skin, which we received from our parents and dare not damage." "The way of a university - being virtuous and caring for the people, ending with perfection." There is no doubt that we have been blinded by our appearance. Now it is time to open our eyes.

Chen Dahuiyun: A girl with a bad beauty stands in front of her, with two big watery eyes, looking away and wandering, and a peach-shaped face. Such a woman must be kept away. In the eyes of ancient Chinese, they said, " Beauty is a disaster." Because she makes you lustful. This statement is absolutely true. Anyone who is a Quaker must have a pure heart and must not be lustful. Lustful people have many leaks, how can they be blessed?

"The Diamond Sutra" says: All appearances are false. If you are attached to all forms and care about them, your mind will follow the form, or you will be greedy for it. Once it changes, you will hate it. If it is not love, it is hate, if it is not greed, it is anger. You will be full of troubles and lose your true nature.

There is a poem by Lu Dongbin of the Tang Dynasty: The body of the twenty-eight beauties is as crisp as a stick, and a sword is held at the waist to kill the foolish man; although the head is not seen, it is secretly causing the bone marrow to wither. Unfortunately, there are many such fools in the world.

"Bodhisattva's Dharma" says: Women are the shackles of the world, ordinary people are in love with them and cannot extricate themselves. Those who lust after women are a serious trouble in the world, and ordinary people are trapped in them until death. Those who lust after women bring harm to the world, and all ordinary people will suffer from it. After the practitioner has given it up, if he thinks about it again, he will come out of prison. If he thinks about it again, he will find righteousness from madness and regain happiness.

Another saying goes: A woman’s appearance is like honey, her heart is like poison. It's like a deep mirror standing still, with a dragon dwelling in it. The golden mountain treasure cave, and the lion lives in it. There is disharmony between the family and the wife. It is a woman's crime to destroy her family and her clan. He is really a thief who destroys people's wisdom. It's like Gaoluo, where all the birds fall and cannot fly. It is also like a dense net, into which many fishes throw their intestines. Therefore, the wise know it and stay away from it, and are not confused by this thing.

"Dabao Ji Sutra" says: You should know that women are the root of suffering, the root of obstacles, the root of killing, the root of binding, the root of resentment, and the root of blindness. You should know that women have destroyed the eyes of saintly wisdom. You should know that women are like hot iron flowers, spreading on the ground and walking on them. He also said: Why is she called a woman? The woman mentioned is called a heavy burden, because she can make all living beings bear heavy burdens and travel around the world.

He also said: In all the thousands of worlds I look at, there is no great resentment among living beings except for the sexual desires of wives, concubines, and women. Being entangled in female sex, etc., many obstacles arise in all good dharma.

"The Sutra of Forty-Two Chapters" says: It is better to be tied to the wife's house than to be imprisoned. There is a period of release from prison, and my wife has no intention of staying away.

"Tao Xing Prajna Sutra" says: When a person at home meets a woman, his heart will not be happy and he will always be filled with fear. For example, there is a person who is walking in the wilderness and is afraid of thieves.

"The King's Classic" says: "Women are the most evil. It is difficult to establish a relationship with them. Once bound by love, they lead people into sin."

Confucianism talks about "investigating things to gain knowledge." , only by eliminating, seeing through, and letting go of attachments and obstacles to things can we achieve the goal of truly understanding them. If you truly understand that the essence of form is emptiness, realize emptiness Bodhi, your mind can change form, your mind can change circumstances, you can overcome your worries and gain great freedom. Otherwise, the mind will follow the form, and the emptiness will not be the form. However, we ordinary people also possess the wisdom and virtue of the Buddhas Tathagata. As long as we diligently practice the Buddhist precepts, concentration, and wisdom, we can develop our life potential and realize the wisdom and virtue of the Tathagata. Empty, you can survive all hardships."

Advice to people with good looks

Beauty (handsomeness) in this life is not accidental, it is the result of the merits accumulated in past lives. However, blessings and misfortunes depend on it. If a beautiful (handsome) person relies on the advantage of appearance, she (he) will be bound by her own advantages throughout her life. The advantage will turn into a disadvantage, and she will not be as good as those with popular looks. people.

For example, a very beautiful girl, who has been surrounded by all kinds of praise and flattery since childhood, gradually develops self-esteem and vanity, and becomes overly focused on her appearance. They always long for praise from the outside world, ignore the improvement of inner virtue, spend time on dressing up and dealing with social interactions, and fail to master the ability to live independently, so they become more dependent on others. This dependence intensifies her (his) focus on appearance, because that is her (his) spiritual support and capital in life. Because of his beauty (handsomeness), he has many admirers. The pursuit of beauty can have negative effects and is often accompanied by sexual immorality. Have you ever seen that many women with good looks tend to be seductive in appearance, which is an external manifestation of their inner evil.

Our ancestors taught us that men and women should not be intimate with each other. People in the past knew the shame, so there were fewer cases of colds and bad morals. It's different now. It talks about openness, but the connotation is to lose shame.

Many people have gone even further and have broken through the bottom line of morality, becoming worse than animals. Nowadays, both men and women pay more attention to dressing up, especially women, who pursue bold exposure. But I don’t know that doing so is a crime! Especially in this era, due to the lack of moral restraint, people have very poor self-control, and inappropriate dressing can arouse other people's lust. This is definitely harmful to others, and according to the law of cause and effect, the blessings of people dressed in this way will become very poor, and they will suffer more and more painful things than ordinary people.