What is the basis for studying Mahayana Buddhism?

Everyone's foundation is different, some people hear that it takes many billions of years to succeed.

(To learn Buddhism, you need to see the teacher's lectures, such as Master Da'an, you can practice the Pure Land Method, starting from the Ten Good Karma Sutras and the Amitayus Sutra).

Actually, the Mahayana and Hinayana are our own hearts. Our Buddha name is specifically for ourselves, to seek rebirth, to hope to be free from suffering and to be happy, this is Hinayana . If our Buddha name is to hope to go to the Western Elysium and achieve attainment, and then come back to live through these suffering beings, this is Mahayana.

Therefore, it is convenient to say here that the Bodhisattva of the Great Trend teaches us to recite this Buddha name, and Guanyin Bodhisattva is the great compassion and great compassion, teaching us to develop a Mahayana mind, not completely for ourselves, but for the suffering sentient beings, and to have the ability to help others. If you don't have the ability in this world, you go to the Western Elysium to study, and the purpose is to transform sentient beings, which is Mahayana.

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In the time of the Buddha, there was no distinction between Mahayana and Hinayana teachings, and the Dharma was the same, but because the object of the Dharma was different, the content and realm of the Dharma were also different.

The Buddha said to the audience with shallow roots, the fundamental principle of being a human being, holding the five precepts, and cultivating the ten virtues, which is called the human heavenly vehicle; For people with a strong sense of misanthropy, it is said that the method of liberation from birth and death is called Hinayana of shravaka; For the listeners who have deep roots and a compassionate desire to reincarnate, it is the Bodhisattva Mahayana.

In fact, there are five vehicles of Buddhism: the human vehicle, the celestial vehicle, the shravaka vehicle, the enlightenment vehicle, and the bodhisattva vehicle. Cultivating the five precepts and ten virtues of the upper grade, the five precepts and ten virtues of the middle grade, the comprehensive five precepts and ten virtues, called the way of heaven; Shravaka is liberated from birth and death by listening to the Dharma and practicing, and Dujue is liberated from life and death without listening to the Dharma without being conscious, and the comprehensive sound and hearing is called the path of liberation; The bodhisattva path is a method that seeks the path of liberation without giving up human nature, so the bodhisattva path of Mahayana is a synthesis of the path of liberation and the path of human nature.

Those who only practice the five precepts and ten virtues in the way of human heaven are still ordinary people. Those who have attained liberation and are no longer subject to birth and death are saints, because they only care about their own liberation by the Dharma, and do not want to turn back to save other sentient beings, so they are called Hinayana people. The Bodhisattva seeks the supreme Buddha path and liberates himself from birth and death, and descends to transform immeasurable sentient beings from the sea of life and death, so it is called Mahayana.

In terms of the distribution of Buddhism, it is generally said that the Sanskrit Buddhism of the Northern Transmission is Mahayana Buddhism, which is centered on China and extends to Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and Tibet. Pali Buddhism in the South Theravada Buddhism, centered in Ceylon and spread to Thailand, Burma, and other countries.

The statement of Mahayana Buddhism is actually inaccurate, strictly speaking, Mahayana Buddhism should actually be called Mahayana Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism is not long after Shakyamuni was not alive, some people according to the high-level principle that Shakyamuni said, that Buddhism is universal to all sentient beings, founded Mahayana Buddhism, this Mahayana Buddhism, about the Han Dynasty introduced to our China, since then it has been mainly inherited in the Han Dynasty, almost become the state religion of our China. This kind of Mahayana Buddhism, in fact, has been improved Buddhism, he and the Buddhism of the time of Sakyamuni has been different, because he has changed from the costume to the entire state of enlightenment and cultivation, primitive Buddhism only worships Shakyamuni Buddha as an ancestor, but Mahayana Buddhism wants to worship multiple Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and has become a belief in many Buddhas, while primitive Buddhism is only for Sakyamuni. Mahayana Buddhism is mainly relative to Hinayana Buddhism, in Southeast Asia, that the Dharma taught by Shakyamuni Buddha is for ordinary people to hear, for their own liberation, the achievement of the body of an arhat, this way of practice, we Han people call Hinayana Buddhism, of course, Southeast Asian Buddhism does not have such a statement, and will not admit that they practice Hinayana Buddhism, and they think that they inherited the original practice of the Shakyamuni era, and this is indeed the case, they are cultivated according to the cultivation methods of the Shakyamuni era, and there is not much change, This is different from Mahayana Buddhism.

Mahayana Buddhism is a great teaching. Awaken and clear, enlightened and empty, all beings have no self, I am all living beings and their enlightenment, what is Buddha, what is Dharma, what is Dharma. Awakening enlightenment, what is the enlightenment of the Dharma, what is the Dharma, this is not illegal, what is the extra-legal is not illegal, and there is no Amitabha Buddha Sutra, awakening and enlightenment.