is the harder the life of a practitioner, the better?

tibetan buddhism Buddhism 2022-12-28 15:16

when studying buddhism and practicing, you must meet certain material conditions. what conditions are there? you cannot fall into the two sides in life. you can't be too poor or too rich.

the conditions are too superior and too rich, which is not conducive to practice, so you can ensure basic living conditions. some monks or lay buddhists come to the practice center and go down the mountain after a few days or a period of time because they think the conditions here are too poor. the conditions at the temple at the foot of the mountain are indeed very good, but studying buddhism and practicing is not a pleasure.

i have a deep understanding of this. in the past, most people had very poor living conditions in larung, but some "living buddhas" sent by other temples were better than ours. at that time, the master ruyibao specially set up a study class for those living buddhas, with about fifty or sixty people.

some living buddhas have a good relationship with us and often have contacts. on the surface, they are also very diligent and hardworking, and hardly waste time. however, their academic performance is not very good, and in the end, no one passed the kanbu.

i was puzzled about this and thought about it for a long time. finally, i concluded that they had good conditions and had a lot of things, which delayed their study and practice.therefore, i told the young monks later that when they were studying and practicing, first, the conditions were not good, and the money was not too much; second, they could not have too many things, and they could not have trivial matters to disturb their minds, so that they could concentrate on their studies and practice.

otherwise, it will affect achievements.if the conditions are too good, you can eat it in the morning, at noon, and you can't help but eat it at night, which will easily make you sleepy. furthermore, if the conditions are good, the sleeping place is more comfortable, so i don’t want to get up if i lie down.

i live in a good place and there are many decorations inside. i wipe this one today and fiddled with that one tomorrow. time slipped away without realizing it. time flies, time is endless. therefore, the conditions of practitioners cannot be too superior.

of course, the conditions cannot be too bad, and it is not enough if you don’t even have basic living conditions guaranteed. shakyamuni buddha once practiced hard with heretic practitioners for six years, but later he became extremely thin. heretics believe that enlightenment can only be liberated through hard practice - eating less and drinking less, and practicing alone at night.

later, the buddha woke up and knew that practicing hard cannot achieve liberation and achievement, so he stayed away from them, ate and drank milk, and his body recovered from health and had the strength to meditate. he sat under the bodhi tree and finally achieved enlightenment.

the buddha also gave us scholars to come forward to our posthumous scholars, so that we can understand that simple asceticism cannot be done. therefore, the basic conditions of life must be guaranteed.

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is the harder the life of a practitioner, the better?

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