Basic Insights
"pravrajyā"
It is not just about saying goodbye to relatives and giving up love, but more precisely, it means transcending the home of Trailokya(three realms).
The three realms:
the realm of desire, the realm of form, and the realm of formlessness.
Trailokya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailokya
Vimalakirti Sutra, Volume 1, Chapter 3 disciple:
"Vimalakirti says: Yes! Once you develop the anuttara-samyak-saṃbodhi heart, you are a monk and authorized to undertake upasampadā."
Upasampadā 具足戒
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upasampad%C4%81
Not moved by the six sense organs, equal to cutting off twelve-linked chain away from the Dark Lord's territory.
Don't be robbed by the six thieves
The Venerable Master Hsuan-Hua gave a lecture
You have to know that our eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind are all great thieves. Don't consider the eyes are helping you, you have not become a Buddha now, it is because these eyes are doing mischief. Not only the eyes are thief, but also the ears, the nose, the tongue, the body, the mind. The eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind, these are the six thieves.
不要被六賊來打劫
https://www.book853.com/show.aspx?id=34&cid=77&page=127
Enlightening talk from XU YUN MONK:
Everything is empty shadows.
Yet, unenlightened people are still in confusion and delusion.
How sad!
Enlightening talk from XU YUN MONK:
The most important thing for all monastics is to remove the stubborn concept of "self ego".
Śūnyatā
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%9A%C5%ABnyat%C4%81
Master Che Wu (1741—1810) said:
Before becoming a Bodhisattva on Dūraṃgamā-bhūmi, he was practicing Dao in a dream.
Dreaming in Sahā.
Dream in dream, dreaming within dreaming, indulged.
Dreaming in Sukhāvatī, dreaming into enlightenment, gradually achieve the ultimate enlightenment.
Although all in the dreams. They are totally different.
一切諸法悉皆如夢，修之何益
https://www.fodizi.tw/qt/qita/21539.html
Sutra of Forty-two Chapters
Section 28: Don't Indulge the Wild Mind
The Buddha said, "Be careful not to believe your own mind; your mind is not to be believed. After you have attained Arhatship, you can believe your own mind."
Plain Introduction of Sutra of Forty-two Chapters
https://www.cttbusa.org/42sections/42sec_contents.asp.html
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