Heavenly mercy and Teachers' virtue,
Glad to have the chance to share the idea of "the sides" from the six Paramitas.
Usually when we speaking of the six Paramitas, we will come up with this lines:
"The six Paramitas is the way people practice to have better virtue, to learn the god and buddha's behavior."
"When we apply the six Paramitas in our live, it can lead us from drowning in this side, in ocean of suffering from pain, life and death, to the other side which is peacful and harmony."
From reading the words in the line, we could understand that six Paramitas can bring us to a peacful world. But why does the sentence describe this side as an ocean of suffering, and the other side is peacful and harmony? I would like to explain these contents.
To make us understand, I take reference from lines in "The Holy Registration", "Tao Propagation lines" (which Tao Master speaks when attain Tao), "White Sun Era" and "Yi Jing (I Ching)"
The Holy Registration: "To all living beings who have not yet been saved, as the disasters of fire and water draw near: The Enlightened Teacher provides an opportunity to guide those destined to learn, helping to keep selves away from such fates."
Tao Propagation lines: "It is here the truth, where stable (true water) and peace (true fire) is fully gathered. Now, the teacher is going to point you the way to the glory."
What is the disasters of fire and water? Generally speaking, we would say the water are floods and fire are wars. But when we claim our mind and look deep in detail, we will find out that, in reality, all these disasters were all started from our kindness/wisdom covered.
In Yi Jing's symbol, there are constructed with six strings (which we call each as Yao "爻" ). The three Yaos on top show the state of outside, sometimes means situation, others are body condition. Here we take it as our body. We discribe the body's desire as water. To illistrate, see that when we want something, our body produce water. Example, when we see some treat, our mouth will generate saliva; when we can't get something, we're sad and tears dropped; Or even when it comes to adult stuff, when boy meets girl, well, theres also water issues.
The three Yaos at the bottom shows fire, which represent our mind/thoughts. There's usually hundreds of thoughts flashing throught our mind, just like fire fluttering. When our mind comes up with fury, greed or some unwise selections. In Buddha's word, it is illustrated as burnning down the kindess forest.
To draw the theory down in lines, I will take the Ukrainian-Russian War as example. Why, and how was the war started. We go deep, and we find Putin. When his eye (body, water) sees the benifits in Ukraine, he wants it. Greed and fury (thoughts, fire) covered his mind. Then on Council, he transmit his thoughts to his men. Then the chain reaction end up lead to the war happened, which takes lifes with families departed. From the viewpoint, we could see the root of disasters.
Putting the theory together: one man's desire is water. And look at the billions of being on earth, do you see the Great Flood, where Noah's ark flotting on?
Then we take a look at the Tao Propagation lines:
"It is here the truth, where stable (true water) and peace (true fire) is fully gathered. Now, the teacher is going to point you the way to the glory."
When we find the truth on us (Every beings has the same truth). Our mind is Qian(乾,天), which is clean and clear. Wisdom, kindness and harmony fufill our mind. Our body is Kun(坤, 地), which is robust, with no selfish, able to apply, present the words that god wants to told his kids.
When our body trun from Water into Earth, it's no longer floating. Our heart no longer feel unsafe. With steady goals in mind, we are now on
this side.
A man with a steady mind, we sad he is the God's Ark. He is the angel that is able to bring more brothers and sisters back to heaven, leaving from the suffering ocean.
For White Sun Era (the era where we are now), the Yi Jing's symbol is 泰(Tai)
This is how the Tai symbol describes.
This is the contents to share with all us.
If there's any mistake, I humbly hope for god's forgiveness.🙏🙏
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