People always yearn to beautify the world outside the incarnation. It is wonderful and mysterious, full of hazy beauty.
Monk practice is boring and uninteresting. After three years, three months and three days of retreat, Da Shiru walked around the gate of hell. After regaining consciousness, the Living Buddha presented Dashi with a certificate of "Cultivation of Success", and Dashi was very satisfied. At the same time, Dashi's entire body and mind also radiated new vitality, and the beauty of rebirth made him tired of the rigid Buddhist teachings.
One day he went out to teach the scriptures, and Dashi met the Tibetan girl Pama. Under the blue and pure sky of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the breeze is coming, the colorful prayer flags dance with the wind, and the girl in Tibetan robes has long black hair flying. The girl's charming face and plump figure deeply attracted Dashi's attention.
The body has not moved, the heart is far away, and Da Shi has been unable to let go for a long time. He broke through the obstruction, took off his cassock without hesitation, ran to Pama, and walked into her life.
However, the passion faded, and the world began to show its trivial, hard, ordinary and ugly side. From lovers to couples, Dashi has learned about Pama's unique personality in the day and night with Pama. Pama and Dashi, who are steadfast and persistent, have no desires, and are at ease with each other, gradually become attuned to each other. From eminent monks to ordinary people, Dashi's status has plummeted, and everything has been started from scratch, and the eyes of the world have changed from respect and admiration to contempt and rejection. Confused and helpless, Dashi hit it off with the wandering Indian female worker, and Dashi found the freedom and casualness he longed for in the Inca woman again.
All this was expected by his wife Palma. She is very aware of Dashi's temperament: single-minded love and marriage are not suitable for him, restraint and hardship are not suitable for him, and he has a prodigal son in his heart. It is more in line with Dashi's ideal to be free and unfettered, to do whatever you want without paying or being responsible. Dash's desire for freedom, passion, novelty, and unknown adventure originates from human instinct, which is a persistent and even obsession. But there is no absolute freedom in this world. Whether it is secular or Buddhist, rules and constraints are indispensable. Therefore, Dash is a utopian who is out of touch with reality. In his heart lived a childish child.
The hermit sees that the red dust lives in the mountains and forests, but it is only "hidden" in form. Although the masters are in the noisy world, they can still be wise and foolish, and deal with them indifferently, so as to achieve the state of mind of forgetting things and I. This is a great hidden peace of mind. "Sit and watch the clouds and clouds, and watch the flowers bloom and fall, I walk in the garden." Life is that simple. The real enlightened one is Pama.
Why did Pama marry this willful, selfish and weak man, just to complete his practice?
In fact, as Dashi's guide and witness in the mortal world, she used Yalundhara to persuade her husband to return to the family, just as Master Apu wrote a letter to Dashi to persuade him to return to the Buddha.
"Oh, Dashi, if your craving for the Dharma is as strong as your craving for me, you can become a Buddha." Pama pointed out the problem. Pama knew Dash better than Apu did. Pama is both the enlightener and the seducer. She was the trigger for Dash's original sin.
The Nirvana Sutra says: "It is not the wind, nor the flag, but the heart." The mute monk used the erotic palace map to reveal to Dashi the relationship between desires and demons in his heart. At one time, he was moved, and after many years of practice, he was completely broken. Dash understood but was unmoved.
"It is more important to satisfy a thousand desires or to overcome one desire in your heart?" Dashi answered with his own words and deeds.
Da Shi is like a flowing cloud, coming and going freely and freely; Pama and Apu are like green mountains, standing still and making no sound. The cloud will not stop because of the green mountain that hits his arms, and the mountain cannot follow the cloud far away and fly high. Bai Yun will be infatuated with a certain green mountain (female sex, marriage, family, children, money, power, honor or dojo) for a while, but Bai Yun's ambitions don't stop there.
If the cloud turns into rain and snow, the mountain turns into dust, and the water droplets flow into the sea, can they be together? But is that still them?
It turns out that some feelings, some things are compromises, changes, and beyond recognition. There are always some people who prefer not to, prefer to be themselves! Baiyun and Qingshan are two different things, just like Dashi can never be Apu and Pama.
When the marriage hits the reef and creates a crisis, the desire cannot be let go and cannot be fully realized, and the Dharma cannot be enlightened. All efforts are in vain, and the love full of contradictions will also end in vain. The freedom of the two worlds on earth is so out of reach for Dashi.
Perhaps it is more difficult to become a master in control of one's own destiny than to become an eminent monk. As the so-called life is full of dojos, the secular world and Buddhism have the same destination by different paths, just like the rivers, lakes and rivers will eventually merge into the sea.
If a drop of water only melts into the sea, it will never dry up, but Dashi is farther and farther away from the sea. Monotonous Buddhism is not a sustenance, and a dull marriage is not a destination. Dashi feels hopeless about his future and can't help crying.
It's a pity that he still doesn't understand: not breaking, not standing, not reluctant. Sometimes, we have to learn to give up if we want to achieve what we want. Otherwise, it will be like a duckweed swaying in the wind and rain, and it will be difficult to lay a solid foundation.
This ordinary person who has been delayed by Buddhism is destined to fall into samsara and never be liberated.
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Digression: Actually, Tibetan Buddhism has a tradition of double cultivation of men and women. Is the male protagonist not high enough to practice cultivation? Tibetan Buddhism originated from ancient Indian Buddhism in Nepal. When the male protagonist cheated with the Indian female worker, the yoga posture of the Indian woman was somewhat like a double cultivation ceremony. Shakyamuni also said: "If you don't get rid of lustful evil, you won't get out of the world." The lustful mind will drive the six faculties of a person, repeatedly struggling with various desires. Human beings themselves have been unable to escape from the sea of suffering. As a lay disciple, because you have a family, you can gradually get rid of your "lust", but you also need to exercise restraint. But as a monk, it is to get rid of the shackles of life and death, to release the six faculties that bring people's traction, and to achieve complete emptiness in the heart. Therefore, we must get rid of "obscenity". It's just, how many people see through the red dust instead of escaping the suffering of the red dust? All things in the world "begin when the relationship arises, and return when the relationship ends, nothing more than that".
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