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Bodhidharmas Bodhisattva System
Also called:
“Great Convenient System into Dao with Four Actions Observation.”
Introduction
Into Dao or Dharma has many ways but there are 2 main ways you can separate them all.
One way is a mental, logical way into it.
One way is action, which is absorbing the ideas to become reality.
The First Way: From logic into Dao
But you have to start with understanding the idea first.
When you understand the idea, you will create deep trust and that trust only comes because you truly understand.
What do you understand? Your true essence
You understand your true essence is covered by your own creation of blind illusion.
Because of this, you are not aware of your essence.
But if you can see through the illusion then the true essence will appear.
And I have been facing the wall observing for many human years and aware that there is no true self from any appearing forms.
Because all appearing forms come from other appearing forms.
That means every appearing form has no appearing form.
So that proves all appearing forms are from others, have no true self, they are all illusion.
That includes our four element body.
That includes even Buddha’s appearing form all the way to animal or insect appearing forms.
They all illusion.
That is the first awakening in mental, because the illusion appearing form makes us believe they are real and if we can’t be aware of that truth then we are lost blindly in this dream-illusion-creation form. We take it so serious.
Take serious creates reincarnation, makes the dream create even more dreams, and you can never wake up from those dreams.
And in this dream, Buddha also dream, we also dream, but Buddha knows he is in a dream and then he have true understanding so he is not lost.
One who doesn’t know they are lost can continue from blindness create more nightmare.
But once through mental, you reach understanding clearly the truth of life, you will not be blind to follow any other blind feeling and that is called from complete mental logical power into the Dao.
Then you will understand all the judgemental, all the searching from mental and ego I, is fake.
And then your heart becomes calm from all of those non-stop blindness ideas of judgement and searching.
So you will be into a stage of freedom called no more judgemental power.
The Second Way: Absorb the idea become action
There are many, many ways to train – but Bodhidharma separates them into 4 main kind of actions.
- Blind Reincarnation Action
- Following Causation Action
- No Searching Heart Creation Action
- True Dharma Natural Being Action
1. Blind Reincarnation Action
If we are in suffering we know that suffering come from our blindness from the past life.
So from our blind creation and blind receiving then create blind causation this lifetime
So we should regret, Bow to Hell Bodhisattva to support us to relieve this Hell karma.
Way to stop it is to stop all the blind causation this lifetime, any connection, not spiritual, stop them because any connection non spiritual will keep you connected to reincarnation.
(See posts on Hold Nothing Meditation, No existence Meditation, releasing the blind greedy hooks of our own creation)
You can stop this causation this lifetime if all your connection become spiritual then that chain will break but break now for future but still this lifetime receiving from the past. For example, learning Amitabha Buddha System, that is why we bow to Hell Bodhisattva to ask for his protection.
You have to be careful not to create more I get crazy with any suffering, more I to judge this suffering.
Get crazy from it, or judgemental towards it, you actually just supporting that reincarnation.
So transform that I with wisdom new I to change whatever pollution become spiritual direction add in purify system, bow to Hell Bodhisattva regret Hell Karma from the past, make Amitabha Buddha spiritual will connection for incredible future. (Sifu add this in.)
2. Following Causation Action
In life wherever we have I-ego, searching for good, even if it is good karma, right away bad karma is there.
They are twins, they are a circle.
That is called following karma. Searching one side didn’t expect the other one would come. You can’t have half a circle. This is following causation.
Whatever you choose through I, you surely have good and bad.
And that is because we take this illusion dream as reality. That Illusion dream-I have this possibility, all the good and all the bad follow each other. Following causation.
And if we can be free out of that ego-I, back to no good no bad, no more searching heart towards good and bad causation. Then we can be free from the main power to make reincarnation appear.
So when good happens, don’t get lost by that good feeling. When bad happens, don’t get lost feel so down, remain in pure four eternal heart, or at least Daoism foundation of harmony, remain with your natural being.
Energy god has this also. Their harmony power last one universe time, but that much joy means they experience equal that much suffering if they didn’t purify their illusion-I.
Summary:
These first two help you to be from blind reincarnation.
1st one stops the past blind causation.
2nd one stops the present blind causation.
3. No Searching Heart Creation Action
This is where the spiritual power starts to appear.
If you want to have spiritual juice to drink you need to clean out your dirty cup first.
They can’t mix.
Searching heart comes from our greedy and possessive.
And those appear because we don’t understand eternal truth.
We are in a dream illusion, temporary four element-I is not ourself.
And whatever we connect to is even more illusion.
And because we don’t understand this truth, we get tricked by our own creation and we can never find security.
In fact no one can find security.
Even energy gods can’t find security – that’s why they fight to devils, they are afraid their harmony power will get destroyed. So they have anger and hate, and they fight to the devils. And finally they also become devil. Then that one universe time joy will become one universe time suffering. Circle. Following karma.
When you understand this and create your wisdom power to stay eternally wise, not stay sometimes and then forget, then you heart will create eternal peace. Because all the insecure power cannot control you anymore.
All the insecure power come from ego, take ego illusion-I, appearing world, as real power, and create greed to it all. That power is a habit from many lifetimes of being lost in dream illusions.
And you can only win it if you are away from this constant, lost in dream illusions state.
You have to know all these illusions from illusion-I blindness creation are like a burning house and you live inside. You have to see them as dangerous for your heart’s development and you will really want to be out of it.
But if you try to be greedy or possessive to it, you just support yourself to get burned in the house.
When you can be free from it, from there you start to have no searching heart, because searching surely just go back to the first two, create reincarnation from past and future – good and bad constantly changing suffering.
Blind searching come from suffering, cycle continues.
No searching doesn’t mean you don’t enjoy life.
Enjoy with good intention, with wisdom, you share all the joy of creation but not searching.
And when you reach this you become no searching heart creation action.
4. True Dharma Natural Being Action
Pure Dharma is understanding that because you are in dream, all the appearances are illusion, are empty, are not real, when you awaken from that your heart becomes no pollution.
And because your heart has no more pollution, you understand that even though you have spiritual will to help everyone, you never create an ‘I help’ anyone.
You just enjoy creating that. Pure Land will, pure spiritual dream, but still know it is a dream. But you know it is a dream, you rather create that dream.
But in a pure dream you don’t create an I who is doing that, to help anyone.
When you know it is a dream, when you don’t create ‘I help’ anyone, Diamond Sutra wisdom appear – no I, no human, no lifeforms, no lifetime. Wise people remain in that sharp awareness.
And that sharp awareness is the Dharma. True Dharma Natural Being.
Because all the illusion continues to test you, you have to continue to be aware of them, and that ‘continue to be aware’ is the wisdom.
And because you continue to be aware of your true essence Dharma is never what you are aware of.
Whatever you are aware of, the pollution is not you. That pure awareness power is not the pollution.
You will awaken that awareness power itself.
Then you will be naturally kind because in that illusion why not to be kind? So you will be kind without ego.
You will be free and released from past, present future, time illusion chain.
Released from ego I and ego I connection to every relationship.
You will be released from material and physical space and possessive heart.
And you will not try to hold, you will not want to depend on anything anymore, because it is illusions, so nothing to depend on. If you depend on it you support that possessive once again.
Instead, you are being the wisdom and depend on you yourself to truly awaken.
When you depend on your own wisdom natural being you help yourself and help everyone awaken and become Bodhisattva system. Then you create 6 Bodhisattva characters.
And the power to create 6 Bodhisattva characters is 4 Eternal Hearts.
Finally create pure land for every life.
But still in that process, not create ‘I help’ anyone.
Remain pure open, empty heart.
All the Buddhas reach this level. That is the true final awakening, it is called True Dharma Natural Being Action.
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Special thanks to Bodhidharma for bringing this incredible wisdom for us to learn.
Special thanks to Forever-Wisdom Forest for teaching this wisdom to us, translated from another language. Hen Hao! Made in Taiwan.
And special thanks to Dharma Creator Hong Long for inspiring us all to be more disciplined to Awaken now.
For Red Pine translation see link here:
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