Speaker: Bennie
Organizer: YinYue
Translated by Qihong CHEN
First draft begins: January 25, 2024
On January 24, 2024, Bennie and his disciples were at No. 35 Darwin. After lunch, everyone happily invited Bennie to explain the profound meaning of the lyrics of Inner Journey once again.
lyrics:
The sentient beings in the Saha World, the Five Evil Worlds，Confidently believe in their false thinkings, follow up their feelings and rely on their impulses.
Just for the illusory pleasures from Five Desires, they gain and lose in an illusory form, but they are attached.
Such kind of living beings are occupied by False Views, which come with Greed, Hatred, Arrogance and Doubt. They gain various sufferings via costing them dear.
False Views etc. keep living beings running without a stop. When they arise an intention, the evil-grasping mind comes first.
Such False Views etc. induce them to eat, drink and have fun day after day.
While living beings deem such False Thinking, Feelings and Impulses themselves.
In Reality, as to the Feeling, it is an illusion.
To the False Thinking, it is a dust from memory.
Greed originates from Cultivating.
Without Greed, how could Hatred, Arrogance or Doubt come into being?
The Buddha comes into the world, just like the Sun shining in the sky, removing all the darkness, Like the moon in the sky, cooling all the sentient beings, carries out Perseverance, Gentleness, Benefiting and Being with others, in order to awaken the beings staying in flaming Houses via Dharma Speech.
He finds that
all the beings are upside-down in the Saha World. All their Imaginations originate from their feelings, Greed, Hatred, Arrogance and Doubts of the past and present. Such imaginations automatically write plays and perform, inducing them to indulge in so deeply. Such imaginations, travelling over space and time, mix things up randomly, just because they are the Ignorance itself. While the sentient beings from endless beginning follow such imaginations, the demons,
however they collect, the imaginations are still false and illusory. The sentient beings never know that the feelings are just illusions. that the Imaginations are always writing.
Is it possible to succeed going against the rules?
All of the sentient beings wrongly take False Thinking as themselves.
The False Thinking shields and confuses all the way, while from such details as being stingy and greedy, the tricks it uses are disclosed.
However, the root of suffering is greed. However you chase after, you could never reach the illusory states.
Everything changes, except The True Nature of seeing. The sound comes and goes, while the True Nature of Hearing never does. Treating every phenomenon as real is the root of False. In addition, through long time cultivation, the false views become firm.
The Lord of the Saha Worlds instructs:
There is no need to find skillful means but just to leave the illusions behind at once when recognizing them. Leaving them behind is awareness, without any step. The living beings in the Dharma Ending Worlds practicing accordingly could leave all the illusions behind forever.
The Suffering is the Bliss, or the Bliss is the Suffering? The Illusion is the Reality, or the Reality is the Illusion?
To germinate Great Compassion based on True Self is the right practice of Buddha’s heirs in their every thought.
1. Sentient beings in the Saha world
1-1. The state of Saha beings – weaving delusions in dreams
1-2 What all sentient beings are actually doing- chasing delusions in their dreams
1-2-1 Chasing the Five Desires
1-2-2 Buying Suffering
1-3 Causes – recognizing delusion as one’s own 1-3-1 Not Knowing Suffering and Happiness
1-3-2 Not Knowing that Feeling Delusions are Illusions
1-4. Causes – The material of delusion is the knowledge of cultivation plus greed, hatred, ignorance arrogance and doubt
2. The Buddha comes to the world to accompany and awaken the living beings with the four means of embracing
2-1. The Buddha observes sentient beings– dreams flying and weaving delusions
2-2. The Buddha Observes Sentient Beings – Unaware of Truth and Delusion
2-3. Teaching to Recognize Truth and Delusion 2-4. Teaching to Leave Illusion
2-5. Suffering, happiness, truth, and illusion are all manifested by self-nature
2-6. Teaching compassion, kind, joy and giving Information Access:
To be continued
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