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          1-2.Becomming an Arhat “Arhats can fly and transform themselves. They have a life span of vast eons, and whereever they dwell they can move heaven and earth.” What is an Arhat? A fourth stage Arhat has reached the position called Beyond Study, because further study is no longer necessary. So Arhats of the first three fruitions are in the position of Having More to Study. Arhats of the fourth fruition have reached the position of th Way of Certification; second and third fruition Arhats have reached the position of the Way of Cutivation; and first fruition Arhats have reached the position of the Way of Seeing. Later this Sutra says: “Be careful not to believe your own mind; your mind is not to be trusted.” We should be particularly careful not to believe our own minds. Our minds are unreliable. You can trust your mind only after you reach the fourth stage of Arhatship. Sages who reach the fourth fruition of Arhatship don’t have any more G2000 desire and love. They have severed love and desire. What proof if there that some has certified to the fourth fruition of Arhatship? A fourth stage Arhat’s feet don’t touc the ground. His feet leave the ground by three-tenths of an inch, and for that reason hae never squashes insects or ants, as would an ordinary person who walks along. When he’s walking, there may be insects or ants beneath his feet, but he won’t step on them. This proves that he hase beocme certified to the fruition. Not only can fourth stage Arhats do this , but first stage Arhats can do this as well. Therefor, the text says: Arhats can fly and transform themselves. A fourth stage Arhat can go whereever he wants to go , and he can transform himself in endless ways. He can creat endless numbers of transformation-bodies. For example, when I was in Taiwan, I visited the eld cultivator Dharma Master Guang Qi 面膜ng and invited him to come to America. He pointed to his heart and said he could come whenever he wanted to come. Now when he wants to come, he can. He knows he has come, but other people don’t know. Only those who have opened their spiritual eyes will be able to se that the elder Dharma master Guang Qin is here. Not onley can the spirit of a fourth stage Arhat travel to some other place, his whole body can go. He can go easily and whenever he please. It’s not necessary for hime to buy an airplane ticket. He can just travel throought the air and transform himself freely. Arhats possess the ability to make eighteen transformations, and each of these transformations is truly inconceivable. They have a life span of vash eons. These vast eons are limitlessly long, because a fourth stage Arhat can live as long as he wishes. Longevity is no problem. When the body he inhaits gets old and deter 房屋貸款iorates, he can exchange it for another body quite easily. Thus he has a life span of vast eons. People who realize the fourth fruition of Arhatship have freedome over birth and death. Theyare truly tree: if they want to live they can live; if they want to die they can die at any time they choose. If they want to die standingup, they can die standing up. If they want to die sitting, they can die sitting. If they want to die walking, they can die walking. If they want to die sleeping they can die sleeping, just as they please. They are very independent; no one can control them. So that’s why the have a life sapan of great eons and are said to be free of rebirth. They are not reborn, and they no longer die. And wherever they dwell they can move heaven and earth. Wherever an Arhat dwells, the heaven spirits and the earth spirits are influenced and moved by him. They are all taught and tansformed by hime. That’s 褐藻醣膠 what this line means. Wherever an Arhat dwells, the gods, dragons, and members of the eightfold pantheon protect his Dharma and keep his locale peaceful. There aren’t any hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, avalanches, tidal waves, or an such disasters because the Dharma protectors and good spirits are always guarding hime and making everything auspicious. Inauspicious thing s do unexpectedly happen to Arhats,though; these are manifestations of karma from their past lives. Occasionally such things do occur. Because an Arhat’s cultivation at the stage of causation may not have been perfect, he will encounter trials and difficulties after he has achieved the fruition.So it is said, “One who cultivates blessings without cultivating wisdom is like an elephant wearing a valuable necklace. One who cultivates wisdom without cultivating blessing si like an Arhat who receives scanty offerings. “ Some times Arhats have no food to 澎湖民宿eat. They go out on alms rounds, but nobody makes offerings to them. That’s because when they were at tha causal stage, they only cultivated wisdom and didn’t cultivate blessings. And so even after they become Arhats, they don’t have any blessings. People rarely make offerings to them. Another way to explain “move heaven and earch” is that in every move this Arhat makes, no matter what he does, both heaven and earth will tremble and quake for hime . This is a brief explation of the word “Arhat.” “Prior to the Arhat is the Anagamin. At the end of his life, an Anagamin’s vital spirit will rise above the nineteenth heaven, and he will bexome an Arhat.” Prior to the Arhat is the Anagamin. A fourth fruition Arhat has realized the position of beeing Beyond Study. While an Anagamin, an Arhat at the third stage of fruition, is still in the position of Having More to Study. A Sakridagamin of the second stage has severed six grades of delus 房屋貸款ion in thought in the desire realm and still has to cut off the last three grades of delusion in thought in the desire realm. Once he severs those last three grades, he realizes the stage of an Anagamin and becomes certified to the the third stage of Arhatship. One who has not finished cutting off these last three grades is called a Sakridagamin. At the end of his life, if an Anagamin’s vital spirit becomes a ghost, then it is known as “the body between sets of skandhas.” If it is yang, the it is know as the vital spirit; this is also what we refer to as the soul, or efficacious nature. It will avove the nineteenth heaven, and he will become an Arhat. When the Anagamin’s life ends, since he has not ended birth and death, his soul rises above the nineteenth heaven. We count from the Heaven of the Four Kings up to the Heaven of No Afflictions. The Heaven of No afflictions is above the nineteenth heaven. Above the nineteenth heaven, the Anagamin will realize Ar 辦公室出租rhatship, so his name means “he who never again returns.” He doesn’t return into the human realm. This is the Anagamin, an Arhat of the third fruition. Just now we heard that there are no diseasters wherever an Arhat dwells, and some people have raised doubts that it might not be peaceful where an Arhat dwells. I won’t comment about that, but I will speak about the Eldere Master Hsu Yun in China and the responses that occurred during his live. Once during the Sino-Japanese War, when the Elder Master was living a Nanhua Monastery near Canton, Japances warplanes dropped several bombs on the area, but none expldoed. Some people say, “Well, they were duds, It was just a coincidence. “ But then, why weren’t other people so lucky? Why was it only at Nanhua Monastery that there were duds? Another time, when the Elder Master Hus Yun was transmitting the precepts at Yun Qi Monastery in Yunnan, the trees blossomed with lotus flowers. Why didn’t the trees blossom with lotuses in t 結婚西裝heose areas to which he didn’t go? On the leaves of the vegetables and other plants there appeared images of Buddhas. Despite the power of such miraculous responses, people still failed to recognize them as such. They considered them to be mearely isolated occurrences. When the Elder Master Hsu Yun was a Nanhua Monastery, a cypress tree that had been dead for several hundred years came back to life and budded. That was another inconceivable happening, as was the time when a white fox came and took refuge. At the time people still didn’t realize clearly what was happening. Not that the Elder Master Yun has entered Nirvana, every praises him. They call say that the Venerable Yun was a sage who realized the fruition of the Way and that he was a Bodhisattva who returned to earth. This is just how people are- when something is before their eyes, they miss it; and once they’ve missed it, they regret it. People are strange and stupid creatures. Now in America I want to create living Buddhas, living 商務中心 Budhisattvas, and living Arhats. I want to create Anagamins, Sakridagamins, and Srotaapannas. Anyone who can get rid of desire and cut off love will have a share in it. As for those who can’t get rid of desire and cut off love-those whare are completely spineless-there’s just no way to help them. Everything is made from the mind alone. If a person wants to be a ghost, he can be a ghost; if he wants to be a Buddha, he can be a Buddha. If a person wants to be a person, he can be a person. If he wants to be an animal, he can be an animal; it just remains to be seen which road his mind takes. Don’t assure tha the Ten Dharman-realms Are Not Beyond a Single Thought is an insignificant little book. A thousand yeas from now , there may be many people who will become enlightened upon reading that book. That is a future matter. 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