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Finding Peace: 40 Introductory Lessons on Buddhism
Cheng Qing
Hello, I’m Cheng Qing. Welcome to Relief for Life: Forty Introductory Lectures on Buddhism.
In the blink of an eye, this program has run from May to November and passed its halfway point. Thank you for your enthusiastic responses, which help me adjust its emphasis to your needs. My aim is not to survey the vast field of Buddhist theory comprehensively, but to use certain Buddhist perspectives to loosen inner constraints and open another door to self-understanding.

Giving without Abiding in Marks

Last time I introduced the Diamond Sutra’s important teaching of the absence of four marks. Some listeners seem to understand this as denying the four marks. But as our discussion of prajñā showed, Buddhism consistently emphasizes thatall dharmas lack essence and substance. The correct meaning is therefore that there are no essential“marks of self, person, being, or life span.”
We treat the self as substantially real and form attachment to a personal self. By deeply observing and successively analyzing the five aggregates of body and mind, we see their impermanence, relinquish this attachment, and experience the non-self sought by śrāvakas. Yet that understanding is incomplete. Mahayana therefore teaches direct insight into emptiness to break attachment to dharmas: a more thorough emptiness, expressed here as“no mark of self, person, being, or life span.”
When the Buddha tells Subhūti to practice the bodhisattva path without clinging to these four marks while liberating beings, Subhūti wonders:What should a bodhisattva actually do? Saving beings is not abstract speculation confined to the mind; it requires concrete practice.
The Buddha answers:“Furthermore, Subhūti, a bodhisattva should give without abiding in any dharma: giving without abiding in form, sound, smell, taste, touch, or dharmas. Subhūti, a bodhisattva should give thus, without abiding in marks.”
To save beings, bodhisattvas practice the six perfections. The“six crossings”are the“six pāramitās”:namely,giving, discipline, patience, diligence, meditation, and wisdom.These are six practices for carrying beings across. Giving comes first. Prajñā, the wisdom of emptiness, guides the other five; without it one may do many good deeds, but not practice the bodhisattva path in the Buddhist sense.
Episode editor: 夏夏、小蒲
2023.11.01
Audio in Chinese

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  • 妮可。鸡汤曼
    2023-11-01 14:35:30

    ▲“如果我们对他人的关爱只是建立在以“牺牲自我”来“成就他人”的叙事结构里,那大概只能让人感动,但却无法让人愿意去实践。” ▲“这些“相”本来只是世界存在的样貌而已,但是我们的认知却通过抽象化的概念,将其视为实体化的存在。” ▲“难道一定要杯子才能喝水吗?当然不是,你可以用树叶喝水,可以以手掬水。” ---是啊是啊为什么不可以?真的是“起心动念,都是各种执着”啊 ▲“受过现代教育的人,因为被各种概念名相所淹没,常常缺乏认知的灵活性,导致认知僵硬、死板,其实所有的概念和知识都只是符号而已,并不是世界的真相,因此佛陀才说:“若见诸相非相,则见如来。””

  • luise
    2024-11-23 07:07:08

    不住相布施,和康德的思想非常一致,帮助别人是因为这是对的,没有任何其它目的

  • 408****469
    2023-12-18 13:18:15

    真心希望成老师能开一门金刚经解说。我也听过网上一些大师的金刚经讲解,但是成老师真的是最清楚明了,最贴近生活的!

  • ch
    2023-11-03 21:26:35

    起心动念之处,都是各种执着

  • 妮可。鸡汤曼
    2023-11-01 14:22:21

    这一期连着听了好几遍,很受益。最有感触的是老关于厕所和杯子的例子。碰巧今天如厕时忘了什么起因,就联想到,儿子从小在城市长大,到时候回到老家,碰到旱厕,会是什么体验? 就这么一闪念也就撂下不管了。 接着就听到老师这节课,哈哈,真是奇妙。 老师讲的经历一下子让我有个想法,就是到时候给儿子看一下,看看世界上有各种各样的厕所,马桶只是其中的一种。他应该会觉得很有意思吧。

  • 丸尾同学
    2023-11-01 09:29:53

    继续金刚经!

  • 小羊
    2023-11-01 11:09:55

    这集听完有被安慰到…连须菩提祖师都还要得到如来的耳提面命才能避免陷入对“相”的执着之中,更何况平常之人呢。把“凡所有相皆是虚妄,若见诸相非相,即见如来。”抄在便签上,提醒自己:修行乃是一生的功业,觉悟一点便有一点的欢喜。

  • 紫杉2023
    2024-08-19 05:20:19

    没想到 只有金刚经听懂了

  • 1
    192****4855
    2024-01-16 13:39:25

    感谢成庆老师!让我重新思考了最近的一些困扰。“人相”难以清除,是因为“我相”太过坚固!有种恍然大悟的的羞愧感。道阻且长,希望自己能从眼前点滴开始修行🙏

  • 墨隐
    2024-04-03 15:31:16

    金刚经这几集,很清明,可以边听边自省,不执着我相,加油加油!

  • 阿阮
    2023-11-02 21:07:54

    之前看过季羡林的解说金刚经,有点懵懂,今天梁老师再讲一遍空,明白了。最后说的“做菩萨的开始”今天无意帮朋友开解郁闷,哈哈哈哈,感觉有点开始了

  • 墨掩
    2026-06-03 20:13:03

    说的就是我啊

  • 1
    186****3067
    2025-10-16 08:09:14

    请问波热和波若是一个事情吗

  • N
    Nancy
    2024-12-07 19:13:48

    这段讲的真好,听到起鸡皮疙瘩。

  • 子兮子且
    2024-10-28 22:11:11

    若有所悟