What does the Buddha mean when he said, Follow its form and forget its meaning?

It's that if you put all your attention on the exterior that is easy to see, you won't see the inside and the real meaning of things.

1, from the Great Nirvana Sutra - The Twelfth. The eight sufferings are the eight kinds of suffering fruits suffered by sentient beings in the six realms of reincarnation, and are the main content of the four noble truths.

2. Life is always bittersweet, know its joy, forget its suffering. Know its heart, bitter its will. Chase its shape and forget its meaning.

What is said, what is thought, what is done, what is done, what is used, what is abandoned, what is liked, what is complained, what is worried, what is worried. All of them are the five elements of man and the will of the heart. So how much of life is bitter?

Birth, old age, sickness and death, love and hatred, joys and sorrows, ups and downs, ups and downs, pain and loss, betrayal and displacement, all these are the manifestations of suffering.

Birth, old age, sickness, and death are natural physiological sufferings; Resentment, love and parting, five yin blazing and unbelievable, are mental pain. Resentment will be with people or things that are resentful and hated, and it is impossible to get rid of it, which is a kind of pain; It is a pain to love to part, to be separated from one's dear ones; The five yin are blazing, and the five yin are the five kinds of color, acceptance, thinking, action, and knowledge. 'Fiery', fiery also.

Sheng, many also. Shade, obscuration, too.

It means that these five dharmas can obscure our people's original enlightenment and sincerity, so that they cannot be revealed. I can't ask for it, but I can't get what I want, and it's a pain.

I've heard of these things, but I don't dare to make a mistake in front of the Buddha, I think, ah, it's all in the Buddhist scriptures.

From the Diamond Sutra, it is yours after all, it is yours, not yours, and you don't have to force it, people live a lifetime, you must be open-minded and tolerant, everyone encourages it, think of Lao Tzu's words, good as water, thick virtue, generally the same meaning.

The Four Noble Truths, the Twelve Causes. Talk about eight hardships, six hardships and three hardships.

The eight sufferings should be the sufferings of birth, the suffering of old age, the suffering of sickness, the suffering of death, the bitterness of resentment, the bitterness of love, the bitterness of parting, the suffering of asking for nothing, and the five aggregates of suffering.

Bitterness of birth, old suffering, sickness, death, love and parting suffering, resentment will be bitter, seeking hardship, and the five yin are blazing bitter.

From Emperor Liang Jianwen's "Ode to the Bodhi Tree".

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