Verifying Real Dharma by Three Marks of Dharma

Verifying Real Dharma by Three Marks of Dharma
JUL/08/ 2023—JUL / 09/ 2023

Hello everyone, welcome to our Dharma talk at Dharma Rain Meditation Center.

What is the significance of the three marks of Dharma for us?

First, impermanence is hope. “Whatever is phenomenal is ephemeral” is to tell us that although everything in the world is impermanent, it is changing at every second. For example, “good things could become a bad thing” is impermanence, but “misfortune may prove to be a blessing in disguise”, this is also impermanence. Hence, impermanence has its positive, optimistic and energetic side also. I’ve watched a movie before, a poor kid from slum became a millionaire because this world is impermanence. When things are frustrating, as long as we can persist, we may change the adversity; the fortune is impermanent. Also, bad luck won’t last forever. Therefore, impermanence brings unlimited light, hope and vitality to our life.

Besides, impermanence reminds us to cherish life and time, making us detach from the greed desires. Especially for Buddhism, as long as we build a concept of “the birth and death are the big issue of life, impermanent of life come so fast “, we can work hard in the Buddhism cultivation and attain the enlightenment soon. Therefore, impermanence pushes us to improve, renew, and find a way to live long and prosper. The impermanence contains unlimited vitality.

Second, keeping no ego-self could make us combine together like lights. The Buddha said that “essential universal Dharma contains no ego-self” is largely to break the “self-love” of all beings, and the “realm of love” for the items belong to us. Because the body we thought is a combination of the four elements and five accumulations, it gathering with the origin, it went with origin too. There is no “independence” from our body. From birth to death, our body keeps changing; it is not constant. Our body is the place that suffering gathering, hunger, cold, disease, fatigue, anger, fear, frustration and so on. When those suffering approach us, we cannot escape; there is no freedom at all. Therefore, in the “Contemplating the Great Stillness”, he said: “Without wisdom, there is ego exist; with wisdom, there is no ego exist at all.”
However, the “no self-ego” here does not mean that we do not exist but ask us to get rid of the relationship’s tangible treatment and make ourselves live in the realm of no ego, no indiscrimination. According to the Diamond Sutra, it should be “wiped out false notions of an ego, a personality, a being and a life. “, we can attain the enlightenment only by this way.

No ego is also a description of the self-nature. When Sakyamuni Buddha enlightened, he said: “All sentient beings have the wisdom and virtue, because they want to be separate and cannot be proved.” This shows our self and Buddha. This self-integration, to remove the desire to adhere to the difference, the card is self-sufficient, the most important thing is to be aware of this, without me. Nothing is the foundation of our practice.

Thank you for the listening!