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aria-label="Play from 10:01">10:01</a><strong>Date and Place</strong></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name">Master YongHua</div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">Today is a very auspicious day. Do you know why? Uh... we are starting lecturing on the 15th day of the lunar month. How is that? Speaking of, uh, coincidence. Uh... I was driving up here last night—uh, yesterday. I looked at the moon and I was, "Wow, it's like a full moon." [chuckle]</div></div></div></div>
<div class="tag-book-section tag-book-main-topic"><div class="tag-book-section-heading"><a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-topic-time" href="#video-time=10:33&source=youtube" data-book-time="633.774414" aria-label="Play from 10:33">10:33</a><strong>Opening Remarks: The Avatamsaka Sutra</strong></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name">Master YongHua</div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">Today has been a long day in coming. Uh, in that I've been meaning to lecture on the Avatamsaka Sutra for years now. Uh, and uh, Finally, we have a chance to uh, start lecturing on that—uh, this Sutra. Um... It is uh... an important Sutra we need to explain. Uh, where is, where is the... the Sutra Text? Oh, thank you. Finally some sound. Uh And this is a very important Sutra to lecture because it's in keeping with the tradition of my late Chinese Master. He was, uh, really the most wonderful lecturer on this Sutra. Because before he came along, no one really dared lecture on this Sutra because it's very, very difficult to lecture. And uh... in my generation—his disciples, they all practically fell in love with it. It's a wonderful Sutra. So I hope that you too, will also get to enjoy and appreciate it. I meant to explain this Sutra not because I really understand it because it's very profound; It's really difficult to understand.</div></div></div></div>
<div class="tag-book-section tag-book-continuation"><div class="tag-book-dialogue"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name"><a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-turn-time" href="#video-time=12:28&source=youtube" data-book-time="748.284912" aria-label="Play from 12:28">12:28</a></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">I will try of course to do my best to share with you what I know but one of my primary reasons is to transfer to you the knowledge about, particular knowledge about this Sutra that's critical to me for the development of Mahayana in the west. In particular, my interest was to, uh, in a very small way, add to the knowledge about this Sutra that my late Chinese Master, Master XuanHua, uh, didn't have a chance to do. Primarly because probably his students weren't ready for it. They weren't ready to receive the information. But for Mahayana to really prosper in the West we need to transfer this knowledge from the Chinese into the Western languages. And that knowledge there contained in this Sutra. an explanation of this Sutra by Master QingLiang.</div></div></div></div>
<div class="tag-book-section tag-book-continuation"><div class="tag-book-dialogue"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name"><a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-turn-time" href="#video-time=13:56&source=youtube" data-book-time="836.585205" aria-label="Play from 13:56">13:56</a></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">This, uh, I will get to that. We probably won't get to that until much later but I want to tell you there's a real reason behind this. It's very important. I've been preparing to do this. It might take me 5 years, 10 years before I get to that stage where, uh, you are ready to receive it. Uh, ok, and uh, Many of you will be ready to receive it uh, so that, uh, it's no longer a Chinese secret. Right now it's a Chinese secret. And if we leave it a Chinese secret, uh, it will be lost because no one in China can really understand it anymore. So, not only is it up to me but also up to you to, uh, try to absorb it and understand it so that we can carry on, uh, and append to the Mahayana that Master XuānHuà brought to this country. Okay. It's that important. And um, it's given to you because you deserve it. Uh, If you, in 5 to 10 years when ... if I feel that you're still not ready, we may, it may not, I may not explain it to you. I may wait another 5 to 10 years. Okay, so, you have to work hard.</div></div></div></div>
<div class="tag-book-section tag-book-continuation"><div class="tag-book-dialogue"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name"><a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-turn-time" href="#video-time=31:14&source=youtube" data-book-time="1874.368164" aria-label="Play from 31:14">31:14</a></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">He's not sit with his back to the Sutra of the Dharma Realm. Meaning that for his entire life, he would never show his back to the Sutra of Dharma Realm. What is the Sutra of Dharma Realm? It's the Flower Adornment Sutra. It's because it's considered the Sutra that explains about the Dharma Realm, the universe. Meaning that everything you need to know, you want to know about the universe, it's all there. And only the Buddhists can make the claim. Hmm, that the Buddhas can see the entire Dharma Realm and that's why they can explain this Avatamsaka Sutra. Okay. And it takes a person of a caliber of uh... Qing Liang or Cheng Guan Master to be able to say yes that's what the Buddha means. Okay. So, uhm, so he says because that the information containing in that Sutra is so extraordinary. Okay. To—to be at the same level as the Buddha himself. It's just like when you see the Buddha, you don't show your back to the Buddha, do you? You know, you're like—even the emperor, you go see the emperor, bow to the emperor and then the emperor, okay, go. What do you do? You turn around and walk away? He will shoot you, chop your head off, right? Chinese people. I was never born in a, you know, in an emperor. Agree? I mean, I remember in Chinese movies. You bow and say goodbye to the emperor and then you walk backwards, right? And you trip over something, eventually. Okay? So, so he would, he would never sit with his back to the Sutra of Dharma Realm. So he would—that's the kind of respect he has, okay, towards this Sutra. Uh, the nature...</div></div></div></div>
<div class="tag-book-section tag-book-continuation"><div class="tag-book-dialogue"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name"><a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-turn-time" href="#video-time=33:32&source=youtube" data-book-time="2012.036" aria-label="Play from 33:32">33:32</a></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">Uh, the nature... Number four. The nature is not defiled by the states of emotions. Uh... Chinese for what? Anyone? The Chinese are very literary; very, very nicely put. Okay. It means that he's totally emotionless. Okay. Uh... He's probably very boring. You give him good food for lunch. He says, "Oh, thank you." This is such a good, great food. Uh. And you find him picking out at lunch? Never. How was lunch today—today by the way? [chuckle] I'm so full. [chuckle] Good thing that you cannot see my tummy. [chuckle] You see. So this man here has emotions? But how can you have emotions not defiled by emotions? He's no ordinary people; he's no ordinary person. Okay? When we have fun, right? When we enjoy food, uh... uh... that's called defilement. You know we like food; that's a defiled thought. Okay. As far as the pure, the Buddhist goes, they will tell you, you like food? Oh my God! And you're supposed to be a monk? [disgusted] I'm going somewhere else where they're True Cultivators—like over there. [chuckle] Okay. Uh, so... so how can you have emotions not defiled by it? Okay. And that's a state of a Great Bodhisattva. Regular Bodhisattvas have emotions and defile by that. They can't help it. With Great Bodhisattvas and Buddhas, it will not be defiled by emotions. Not just Great Bodhisattvas—Great, Great Bodhisattvas. Okay. At least 10 Ground or above, I feel. Hmm. Number five. So, so number four shows you that—when he talks about nature now. The nature, you know—nature not defiled by states of emotion. Nature here refers to the fact that—his Buddha Nature, meaning that he's enlightened; no two ways about it. But not just enlightened, very high level of enlightenment. Okay. To reach a state where you no longer are defiled by, by emotions.</div></div></div></div>
<div class="tag-book-section tag-book-main-topic"><div class="tag-book-section-heading"><a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-topic-time" href="#video-time=36:33&source=youtube" data-book-time="2193.67627" aria-label="Play from 36:33">36:33</a><strong>«澄觀 /Chéng Guan/» Requirement 05</strong></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name">Master YongHua</div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">#5: Feet would not tread the dust of a nunnery. Uh, you can tell that it's okay to discriminate against nuns back then. That's Chinese. Okay. We don't do that anymore in this country. Right? I think if we say that—explain this to American people, westerner or western women, they can say urr... [chuckle] you guys are so, uh... are so discriminatory. How can you become enlightened if you discriminate like that? Uh... I don't know. I'm not enlightened, so I can't answer you. But it's kind of interesting that it bothered me; I admit to you. Because I had a sister-in-law who's Caucasian, and when I explained to her—when I became a novice monk—I explained to her that nuns have to walk behind monks. And then she asks why? This—she was talking to the nun at our temple in Long Beach Monastery. She came to—to pay me a visit. And she happened to talk to a nun there who were also visiting another disciple of Master XuanHua. And so, she's asking how's your life as a nun and so forth. And so the other nun open her big mouth and explain to her everything. She's a Chinese nun. She says, you know, I... uh... I have to walk behind the monks. I've been here 20 years. I still have to walk behind him. Uh... uh... And she says, "Why?" Because the Buddha, with all his wisdom, tells us to. [chuckle] And, and, uh, I was busy, but from a far, I can see her face, getting redder and redder. So by the time, I got to see her, I said, Hello. Goodbye." [chuckle] I walked. I ran away, right away. She said, "No, no, not so fast." "Tell me! Why do you pick on women in your world?" "I thought you're supposed to be superior people." And I said, "Uh, uh, uh, can I get back to you on that?" [chuckle] Uh, so, westerners couldn't understand that. So when I was a novice, uh... this is about 20 years ago, uh... 25 years ago—20 years ago. Uh... uh... we avoided—we avoided talking about you know—the nuns and regulations and stuff like that, because we know none of us could, uh... face the wrath of the western women. So, so to say that you never go walk, put your foot on the ground of a nunnery; that's really extreme. Okay. And, and why is that? It's not for him. It's for us—monks. You understand that? It's not about him. If he's a Great Bodhisattva, he's a Buddha; it doesn't matter anymore. Whether he walks into a nunnery or into a playboy mansion—you know—Is it still around the playboy mansion? [chuckle] Uh... you know... they walk into those places, it doesn't matter to them. Okay. They're way above it. So... but for him to say that, "I'm going to be like this." Initially, it makes sense. For him to be older and still do this, it's for the sake of his disciples, his followers. He says that, "beware of women, basically." You guys are sheeps. Good. Good. Good. Okay. So anyway. Uh... it's very difficult to explain to western women. Hmm. All right. Uh... luckily, I don't have to do that; I'm Asian.</div></div></div></div>
<div class="tag-book-section tag-book-main-topic"><div class="tag-book-section-heading"><a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-topic-time" href="#video-time=41:04&source=youtube" data-book-time="2464.128418" aria-label="Play from 41:04">41:04</a><strong>«澄觀 /Chéng Guan/» Requirement 06</strong></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name">Master YongHua</div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">#6: Ribs will not touch the bed of a lay person. Meaning that he would never go and use the bed or sleep on the bed of a lay person. Whether, uh—whether it's the bed that a lay person sleeps in the monastery or a bed outside of the monastery as long as a lay person touches it, he would never touch it. That's how pure he is. Now speaking of discriminating against women, uh, this is even worse. Think about it. It's both women, and men, and children, and babies. Very extreme, Chinese person.</div></div></div></div>
<div class="tag-book-section tag-book-main-topic"><div class="tag-book-section-heading"><a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-topic-time" href="#video-time=41:53&source=youtube" data-book-time="2513.415283" aria-label="Play from 41:53">41:53</a><strong>«澄觀 /Chéng Guan/» Requirement 07</strong></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name">Master YongHua</div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">Seven, the eyes will not gaze at improper spectacles. [sigh] No kung fu movies. That's too much. [chuckle] What about culture? I object to this. Would you agree with me that in this day and age, the TV is such an important means of education? Jongin Sunim, you agree or not? He watches Netflix by the way. [laughter] Yes? It's very cultural. I learned so much from PBS. Okay. [chuckle] So improper spectacles. He's so pure. It's just incredible of a man. Okay. And that's why he's able to understand this Sutra that—that we can't. Okay.</div></div></div></div>
<div class="tag-book-section tag-book-continuation"><div class="tag-book-dialogue"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name"><a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-turn-time" href="#video-time=43:04&source=youtube" data-book-time="2584.947559493507" aria-label="Play from 43:04">43:04</a></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">#8: the tongue will not taste edibles after noon (12:00 pm). Uh... Okay. Uh... he observed strictly the one meal a day. Uh, meaning you don't eat after noon (12:00 pm). Okay. Um... uh... But the one thing that you—you have to pay attention to the way the Chinese put things. It's very subtle. Especially, it's important to remember the context of all this information. This is about the behavior or the standards of a Great Sage. Okay, not just anyone. So that's why. Why do they say taste edibles? Meaning what? Meaning that he's not seeking flavors. "What's the point of living?" I ask myself. You can't enjoy good food. I mean geeze. [chuckle] Hmm. Okay. So... uh... I don't get it. How can you live and not enjoy food and wine?</div></div></div></div>
<div class="tag-book-section tag-book-continuation"><div class="tag-book-dialogue"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name"><a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-turn-time" href="#video-time=47:53&source=youtube" data-book-time="2873.950684" aria-label="Play from 47:53">47:53</a></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">So—he's—that's—that's the constancy of his cultivation. Incredible individual. Okay. So he sets his standards; it's just so high up there. And that's why—that's why he's able to attain a state of mind that enables him to understand the Flower Adornment Sutra. It takes that kind of mindset to be able to understand it. All right? Okay.</div></div></div></div>
<div class="tag-book-section tag-book-continuation"><div class="tag-book-dialogue"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name"><a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-turn-time" href="#video-time=57:44&source=youtube" data-book-time="3464.9104" aria-label="Play from 57:44">57:44</a></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">He passed away at in 1838, was 102 years old, 70 years of dharma age. 70 years as a monk. It's incredible. Okay. And nine feet tall. You think when you're nine feet tall, when you reach about 70—80 then you have to have problems in walking, I imagine. Yes, mhm. mhm. Yes.</div></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name">Cao Qun<a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-turn-time" href="#video-time=58:17&source=youtube" data-book-time="3497.087891" aria-label="Play from 58:17">58:17</a></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">I thought he left home at age of 11. So if he passed away at 101 years old then the Dharma Age should be more. Is that right?</div></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name">Master YongHua<a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-turn-time" href="#video-time=58:29&source=youtube" data-book-time="3509.165283" aria-label="Play from 58:29">58:29</a></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">I leave the math to you and uh...</div></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name">Cao Qun<a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-turn-time" href="#video-time=58:30&source=youtube" data-book-time="3510.8111063766232" aria-label="Play from 58:30">58:30</a></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">90, yeah, uh, small correction.</div></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name">Master YongHua<a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-turn-time" href="#video-time=58:33&source=youtube" data-book-time="3513.6289100389617" aria-label="Play from 58:33">58:33</a></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">I don't care. [chuckle] Not interested in math. I'm a monk. Okay. Uh... you money counters. [chuckle] Just seventy years—six years. You know, in this day and age, forget about 70 years of Dharma Age. That's impossible. Okay. And it's not; it's—it's not done anymore. Okay. Uh, I just pray to God I live to be, uh, thirty years of Dharma Age if I'm lucky. Uh... His explanation is very inconceivable. I highly recommend that if you are interested in True Wisdom to investigate this teaching in Chinese.</div></div></div></div>
<div class="tag-book-section tag-book-continuation"><div class="tag-book-dialogue"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name"><a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-turn-time" href="#video-time=01:30:45&source=youtube" data-book-time="5445.524414" aria-label="Play from 01:30:45">01:30:45</a></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">So, no. Short answer is no. Probably not good use your time. It's meant for the scholars who have samadhi. The scholars from the universities, I can only think of one who has samadhi. The others—too low to bother. So they can—they can read the words, but they don't—they don't get it. So it's a waste of time in my mind. Okay. It's very easy to become, uh, to get caught up on all the words, all these concepts that are totally meaningless to you. All right? Any other questions. Yes, red [microphone].</div></div></div></div>
<div class="tag-book-section tag-book-main-topic"><div class="tag-book-section-heading"><a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-topic-time" href="#video-time=01:31:40&source=youtube" data-book-time="5500.489746" aria-label="Play from 01:31:40">01:31:40</a><strong>«Question: Nữ» Is it disrespectful to listen to a Dharma lecture while lying in bed when I’m too tired from work to sit up?</strong></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name">Nữ</div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">Master, I would like to ask a question because sometimes when we get home for me, personally, when I get home from work and I get tired, and I love to listen to, uh, Dharma lecture. But I got tired, so I lie in bed and listen. And I know it's disrespectful, but I don't have the energy to sit up. Is that okay, Master?</div></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name">Master YongHua<a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-turn-time" href="#video-time=01:32:04&source=youtube" data-book-time="5524.205078" aria-label="Play from 01:32:04">01:32:04</a></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">Absolutely. It's better to lie down and listen than not listen at all.</div></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name">Nữ<a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-turn-time" href="#video-time=01:32:08&source=youtube" data-book-time="5528.867855" aria-label="Play from 01:32:08">01:32:08</a></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">Thank you. Thank you.</div></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name">Master YongHua<a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-turn-time" href="#video-time=01:32:10&source=youtube" data-book-time="5530.567403" aria-label="Play from 01:32:10">01:32:10</a></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">You're not Qing Liang anyway. So who cares? [chuckle]</div></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name">Nữ<a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-turn-time" href="#video-time=01:32:15&source=youtube" data-book-time="5535.109826" aria-label="Play from 01:32:15">01:32:15</a></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">I don't know what Ching Liang is.</div></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name">Master YongHua<a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-turn-time" href="#video-time=01:32:18&source=youtube" data-book-time="5538.63417961039" aria-label="Play from 01:32:18">01:32:18</a></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">Uhm—I’m—I’m of the school that we need to be flexible. These standards are so high—are meant for—are meant for a certain kind of people; not for us. We are not really able to follow their standards. We should know about the standards and challenge ourselves that someday we want to do it. Then maybe we'll understand why. Okay. They would spend their entire life demonstrating it. That—that you can do that—they could do that. But for us—uh—I—I feel that especially the Chinese and Vietnamese and Koreans and Japanese and so forth. They're caught up in the marks, in the forms. I don't care. Okay. What matter is the heart. Okay. If—if let me put it this way. If you're Catholic and you don't sit in full lotus and you wear masks uh... and uh... uh... and you don't take refuge. Uh... In spite of all those weaknesses, [chuckle] if you sincerely want to say, "Wow this is interesting." I'd like to—I, you know, I'd like to listen to it." Okay. That to me—is—makes—it's worth my time to explain it to you. Okay. So whether you're lying down, or you're sitting up, or you're in full lotus, or wide awake, or asleep, it doesn't matter. Okay. The point here is that the Dharma is supposed to help you. They're not—if you ask Master QingLiang—he may say, "I will not lie down if I listen to myself." [chuckle] But then you say, uh, Can I ask you a question? Can I lie down while I listen to you? He says yes.</div></div></div></div>
<div class="tag-book-section tag-book-main-topic"><div class="tag-book-section-heading"><a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-topic-time" href="#video-time=01:41:53&source=youtube" data-book-time="6113.375" aria-label="Play from 01:41:53">01:41:53</a><strong>«Question: WMT Apple» Can we attain purity while living among others in the world, or must we strictly follow Master Qing Liang’s ten precepts and way of life to attain it?</strong></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name">WMT Apple</div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">Emituofo! Master, I think Daniel's earlier question was the monk observing these 10 precepts to help him attain purity. Now, the question is can we still obtain purity while we mix up with the other people in the world and being contaminated, or we absolutely have to do it that way to obtain purity.</div></div></div></div>
<div class="tag-book-section tag-book-continuation"><div class="tag-book-dialogue"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name">Master YongHua<a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-turn-time" href="#video-time=01:55:58&source=youtube" data-book-time="6958.915527" aria-label="Play from 01:55:58">01:55:58</a></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">Now, the next part about the Prologue of Master Qing Liang is that it's very, very scholarly. But so I... I read it 17 years ago. I didn't understand any of it. I was terrified, worst yet you see. But, but I read it recently again. I had to read it because I had to lecture on it. Oh my god. [chuckle] And, and I realized how it dawned on me that, that Master XuanHua's explanation and Master Qing Liang's bringing up these topics are very important. Okay. That's why I decided to go through that with you as well so that because it has very important Buddhist concepts that I glossed over the last 15 years when I lectured because I was more interested in helping you develop Samadhi. But now you're at the level where you need to have a deeper level of wisdom. So, so that's why, that's why a lot of these things are very important Buddhist concepts that are fascinating if you ask me. Okay. So you go through the 10 doors approach to analyzing a sutra</div></div></div></div>
<div class="tag-book-section tag-book-continuation"><div class="tag-book-dialogue"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name"><a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-turn-time" href="#video-time=01:57:39&source=youtube" data-book-time="7059.973633" aria-label="Play from 01:57:39">01:57:39</a></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">The first one is cause and conditions of why the teaching occurred. The Buddha or the Sages, Buddhist Sages, teach us something because they have very good reasons—many, many good reasons. Okay. In the Lotus Sutra, Uh... no, go back to that slide please. Okay. In the Lotus Sutra, it says that... In the Lotus Sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha says all Buddhas appear in the world for one great matter. Number one, to open living beings to the Buddhist knowledge and vision. Number two, disclose what that knowledge and vision is. Number three, to lead living beings to awaken to that knowledge and vision of the Buddha. Meaning all of us can have that knowledge and vision. Do not sell yourself short. If the Buddha does it, it's because we can. Don't let anyone else convince you otherwise. Okay. And it may happen. May... it may, uh, it may uh, you may awaken to it while lying down listening to a tape. It could happen. So its... So the teaching is never that rigid, never that narrow-minded. Okay. uh... and... And number four, to lead—to enter the path of the Buddha's knowledge and vision. Okay. Meaning that you can be the same as the Buddha. So the Buddhas appear in the world, because they want you to be just like them, not just draw near god. Do you hear that Daniel? Is he still there? He's gone. Okay. But he's still not in full lotus. [laughter] Okay. So, in the Lotus Sutra, the Buddha appeared in the world says, "I want you to know that I’m, I’m cool; I know so much." Okay. And, and you know what? My, my knowledge so cool. I know all there is to know about the world: about making money, about becoming famous, about you know, becoming a great chef and all those things—being happy, uh, successful—you name it; I know it all. Okay. Uh, and, and, uh, it's possible. And then—you, yourself can be like me. and uh, the interesting thing, uh, that about all Buddhas is that as soon as they become Buddhas, they speak the Avatamsaka Sutra. That's how important it is. It's a goal. It is a vow they made. In the future when I become a Buddha, I will speak the Avatamsaka first. Next.</div></div></div></div>
<div class="tag-book-section tag-book-main-topic"><div class="tag-book-section-heading"><a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-topic-time" href="#video-time=02:01:46&source=youtube" data-book-time="7306.560547" aria-label="Play from 02:01:46">02:01:46</a><strong>«The Explanation Method» C&C Arisal of Teaching</strong></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name">Master YongHua</div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">Why? Uh... Because my job as a Buddha is to help you those with the greatest potentials. That's why I came to the world to help YOU—those of you who has the potentials. So if you can tell as you... so clearly the reason we're able to listen to the sutra is not—it's not haphazard. It's because we have the potential. And it includes me. All of us have the potential to be able to listen to the Sutra, to look at Master Cheng Guan's explanation, and Master XuanHua's explanations. It's because we have Mahayana potentials. Okay. Hmm We are special, I think. Okay. And, uh, uh, the standards that he sets in this particular sutra is so high. You know, he sets the standards for what is called the ultimate teachings. Okay. Uh... which is not beyond complete eradication of your greed, your anger, your stupidity in all living beings. Okay. And in order to understand these ultimate teachings, you have to save all living beings at all times, at all places. That's the only way. Buddhism is not meant for you to study the books, and then stay behind this enclosure of this property, and expect to become a Buddha. It doesn't work. You have to try to save all living beings. Okay. Uh... And after you become a Buddha, uh, it's only in order to save even more living beings. Okay. Another uh, another uh, uh... cause and a condition is to liberate living beings from their own obstructions. Why is the resolution so bad on my monitor? Is this my monitor or just... Or is that a Google thing, Google Slides thing where you lose, you lose... Uh... Uh... the resolution is very poor which is uh... A Discord problem? Okay. This teaching is to help you know how to liberate living beings from their own obstructions, from their own self-limitations. Okay. Meaning what? It's about you. Okay. Yeah. When talking about living beings—it's about you, meaning that the you are limiting yourself. You are obstructing yourself. You say no, I’m, it's not for me. I, I, uh... uh... uh... I don't have time. I don't believe. I am too busy. I have other obligations and so forth and what you don't realize is that when you talk like that when you—when you justify yourself like that, it actually, it's a pattern of selling yourself short, a pattern of, a lack of seeing the big picture. Okay. Uh... And that's my experience been the last 15 years. You are the one who stopped yourself; we don't stop you. Okay. Uh, you, you uh... Uh, you... happy, you come to the temple. We are nice to you. You say, "Oh, I’m so happy. I’ll be back next week." And then, and then, uh, you get into an argument with someone else at the temple, you say, "Oh my god, these people are something else." "They're so bad." Uh... "It's not a good place." Uh... So you quit. Okay. And that's the typical—the self-limitation. You say, "I don't have to take this." Hmm? Hmm. "This is too much." Uh... You ain't seen nothing yet. You think it's too much. Uh, you haven't seen anything yet. Okay. Uh, so, uh... it's living beings, they limit themselves by making excuses. Okay. Uh... And, also in this sutra, he will also see... uh... see what is so-called—the Catholics, call miracles, huh? Miracles of the world. Okay. In Buddhism there's so many miracles that, uh, we, uh, use the word inconceivable. Meaning that, uh, that when you talk about miracles—you... you can, uh... you can uh, you can um, it's uh, it's analogous to, uh, extraordinary. It's uh, it's uh, fantastic. Inconceivable means that you cannot even imagine, you cannot explain, you cannot conceive of. Okay. So that's the state well, well beyond miracles. Okay. Uh, what kind of miracles, what kind of inconceivable states we're talking about? This sutra talked about their, uh... their states where the tip of a hair can contain, uh, the entire universe—entire worlds on the tip of a hair. Okay, this morning we talked about—Heng Lai talked about uh, uh... Master Heng Lai talked about the uh... Pang Layman, who's wife, who says I see the patriarchs. I don't think they quote it right. Uh, I was careful when I was younger. I read about those stories because I don't—never trusted the English translations, so I read it in Chinese—asked for a Chinese text. And the... the woman said—the wife said I, I see on the tip of a blade of grass the intent of the patriarchs. Whatever it means. Okay. Uh, so on the tip of a blade of grass, she sees what the patriarchs meant. Meaning that, that the tip of a blade of grass contains the patriarchs teachings, the insides of the patriarchs. And here, this, this is uh, just a Chinese woman. Okay.</div></div></div></div>
<div class="tag-book-section tag-book-main-topic"><div class="tag-book-section-heading"><a class="tag-book-jump tag-book-topic-time" href="#video-time=02:10:51&source=youtube" data-book-time="7851.495117" aria-label="Play from 02:10:51">02:10:51</a><strong>«The Explanation Method» C&C Arisal of Teaching</strong></div><div class="tag-book-dialogue"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-turn"><div class="tag-book-dialogue-name">Master YongHua</div><div class="tag-book-dialogue-text">Here, we're talking about the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas who say boys and girls, on the tip of your hair pore, okay, you can manifest, uh, manifest the entire world. They see the entire world, the Milky Way can be contained, can be seen on top of your hair, the tip of your hair. That's why it's called inconceivable. Okay. And they're talking about one place is all places, one time is all times. That's the state of the Flower Adornment Sutra. Okay. It's not. So that's why people said, asked earlier, am I supposed to understand it, and read the—the explanation. Uh, it will not help. Okay. It has to be groomed. You have to be prepared so that one day you'll be ready to be able to research it on your own. Okay. Right now, it's premature. I’m sorry. I think time is up. We next time, we pick it up from slide 18. Thank you everyone. Thank you for your patience. I talked so much today. And I’m so tired. I’m hungry again. [laughter] Thank you all. You are—you are good sports. [applause] Thank you. [applause] Korea has no questions? You're all lost? [chuckle] Yeah? [chuckle] Uh, it gets—it gets easier. Don't worry. This is the first part here, it's uh, to give you, to give you a flavor of, of uh, of uh, uh... how profound it is. But, but again remember: don't try to understand, just listen. Because what happened is that your mind... This is what—this is what happens to all of you. Your mind is that I don't get it, and you reject it. Okay. This Avatamsaka's world is that you cannot get it; forget it. There's no way for you to get it. You just have to listen to it. And let go of that demand that you must get. It's nothing to get—whether you get it or not, a world can still exist at the tip of your hair pore. I don't get it. [chuckle] Okay. That's what makes it wonderful. You don't need to get it. There's no need to get it. Just listen and someday you'll get it without trying to understand. Okay. Thank you everyone. Okay. Sayonara.</div></div></div></div>