The relationship between Yi and Tao and Buddha?

There is no difference between Yi and Tao and Buddha, except for the difference in age. In each thought, they belong to the Supreme Being, which can be represented as the origin of the universe. Although they have different doctrines, different propaganda, and different understandings, they have one thing in common, they understand human nature and know the principles of heaven.

To put it simply: you are going to a place, the goal has been set, but you are hesitant to go in what way, and then you have to choose. It can be an airplane, it can be a train, it can be a rocket (o(*o); It's just that the method is different, and the destination is the same.

The difference is that Taoists believe that only by understanding the way of heaven can they use the Tao to control the Tao, while Buddhism uses the precepts to break away from the reincarnation of cause and effect in order to obtain the qualification to walk out of the Three Realms and obtain upward cultivation. The Taoist Yin Fu Sutra also mentions the view that grace is born of harm, and harm is born of grace. Differences in religion lead to changes in favor and harm.

To put it simply, the highest state of Taoism is the realm of all beings in the Heavenly Dao, which is still in reincarnation. The reason why Buddhism is divided into sizes is not to correct it upstairs, but the key is that the self-benefiting person is the Hinayana position, the highest is the great arhat position, and the self-benefit and then the altruism is the bodhisattva and the Dharma gate of Buddhahood.

Amitabha, good brother, Buddha is the meaning of the enlightened person, everyone has Buddha nature, the concept of "heart" has a lot of meaning in Buddhism, different places often have different meanings, if you are a beginner, it is good to understand it as the meaning of the mind for the time being, and there will be more and deeper understanding in the future when you learn slowly.

I knew some Taoism before I started school, and I also read the Tao Te Ching, but I didn't study it in depth, so I could only talk about the difference between "Buddha" and "Tao" according to my own understanding.

Buddhism and Taoism have a lot of similarities, but they are not the same, if the subject really understands the two, it is basically impossible to believe in both, so it is impossible to talk about nothing.

Taoism advocates "Tao and Nature", that is, to follow nature itself, to do things according to the original operation of things, everything is in line with the "Tao", and finally understand that oneself and the Tao are one, and no matter what you do, you are in line with the Tao. Does it sound very similar to the Buddhist "spontaneousness" and "detachment"? (Many people have misunderstood the word "fate", if you are a beginner, you can understand this word as "condition", that is, the secondary cause of the result, cause is the cause and condition, after in-depth study, you may have a deeper understanding of the fate) But "fate" and "non-attachment" are not exactly to let things develop naturally, if to let things develop naturally is to follow fate, that is, not to be attached, then why cling to a "natural development", to cling to a "Tao of nature"?

Why climb a "natural" edge?

So, what Buddhism says about detachment is actually to let go of both attachment and non-attachment, and to let go of it, because attachment to "detachment" is still attachment. The ultimate state is life and death and nirvana, afflictions and bodhi, and sentient beings and Buddhas. Afflictions are Bodhi, and sentient beings are Buddhas.

So why do we keep emphasizing detachment? Isn't that clinging to non-attachment? In fact, there is a stage of cultivation, people must first be able to climb before they can learn to walk, and then learn to run, and after learning to run, they can abandon the initial climbing.

Cultivation is to let go of attachment step by step, and it often takes a long time to reach the state of complete letting go above, and the bodhisattvas will have ignorance, and the only one who can truly and thoroughly "let go" is the Buddha. (The reason for the quotation marks is because don't be obsessed with putting it down).

It is for these reasons that the true Dharma cannot be said in words, because as soon as you open your mouth, you will fall into attachment again, and the Dharma that the Buddha says is like a finger pointing to the moon, and the real Dharma is the moon, not a finger. That's why there is the phrase "can't be said", and there will also be Zen Buddhism's "don't set up words, don't pass on them outside the church".

Amitabha.