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8/3/2019 The Sixth Patriarch's Sutra February 24, 2012 Lecture
3. Killing, whatever the intent, is an action, a karma that carries aretribution that binds us in this conditioned world; …
• …we fail to comprehend the law of karma that good and evil
are just the effect of causes planted in the past and karma willtake its course regardless of whether you take action or not – overlook to comprehend patience with non production.
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• A Bodhisattva teaches and transforms expediently according
to the conditions; we accord with conditions but do not change,we do not change yet accord with conditions yet ultimatelythey also truly abide in the emptiness of all phenomena.
• A thought of killing is a mind that moves; the Buddha is onewhose mind is thus, thus unmoving despite teaching andtransforming living beings using either :
1. The method of kindness and compassion
2. The method of awesome virtue of patience.
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Sutra: “When one is attached to states of being, production
and extinction arise like waves on water. That is what ismeant by ‘this shore.’”
Comments:
• A common person is stuck in ‘this shore’ because…
• A common person ceaselessly make all manner of discursivethoughts, imaginations, speculations, idle thoughts, jealous
thoughts, angry thoughts, thoughts of attachments, randomthoughts, thoughts of contention, thoughts of scheming andplotting, frivolous thoughts, thoughts of desire and all themyriad types of thoughts that are like continuous waves hittingthe shore.
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Sutra: “Past thoughts deluded are the thoughts of a common
person. Future thoughts enlightened are the thoughts of aBuddha. Past thoughts attached to states of being areafflictions, and future thoughts separate from states ofbeing are Bodhi.”
Comments:
• Why are past thoughts delusion?
• It is because the very reason you have past thought is justattachments.
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Sutra: “You should use great wisdom to destroy affliction,
defilement, and the five skandhic heaps. With suchcultivation as that you will certainly realize the BuddhaWay, transforming the three poisons into morality,concentration, and wisdom.”
Comments:
• How do you use wisdom to overcome afflictions, defilement andthe five skandhic heaps?
• By turning around the mind
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Sutra: “You should use great wisdom to destroy affliction,
defilement, and the five skandhic heaps. With suchcultivation as that you will certainly realize the BuddhaWay, transforming the three poisons into morality,concentration, and wisdom.”
Comments:
• The mind of greed, anger and delusion is the sick mind of the7th conscious mind.
• Because of the false self, to benefit self, there is these 3poisons.
• Cultivation is putting down the false mind of greed, anger anddelusion into the practice of being mindful of morality,concentration and wisdom.
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Sutra: “Understand that this dharma is just no-thought, no-remembrance, non-attachment, and the non-production offalsehood and error. Use your own true-suchness nature,and, by means of wisdom, contemplate and illuminate alldharmas without grasping or rejecting them. That is to seeone’s own nature and realize the Buddha Way.
Comments:
• Wisdom is no-thought, no-remembrance, non-attachment and
non-production of falsehood and error.
• How is it we are able to bring out our prajna wisdom nature?
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8/3/2019 The Sixth Patriarch's Sutra February 24, 2012 Lecture
Sutra: “Understand that this dharma is just no-thought, no-
remembrance, non-attachment, and the non-production offalsehood and error. Use your own true-suchness nature,and, by means of wisdom, contemplate and illuminate alldharmas without grasping or rejecting them. That is to seeone’s own nature and realize the Buddha Way.
Comments:
• No-thought does not mean to suppress the false thoughts.
• No thought is not to give rise to discursive thinking and this isachieved by putting down the discriminating mind andattachment to the self.
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Sutra: “Understand that this dharma is just no-thought, no-
remembrance, non-attachment, and the non-production offalsehood and error. Use your own true-suchness nature,and, by means of wisdom, contemplate and illuminate alldharmas without grasping or rejecting them. That is to seeone’s own nature and realize the Buddha Way.
Comments:
• Grasping and rejecting are dualities that comes fromattachments and false thinking that the myriad phenomena arereal and existing.
• Grasping is when we like something; rejecting is when wedislike.
• Ultimately the original mind does not hold liking and disliking.30
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