Chinese Studies: Why did the Buddha speak Tibetan scriptures for his mother?

国学研究：佛祖为何为母亲讲地藏经？

No matter who, filial piety should be the first priority.

----Zhuge Changqing

Filial piety is the law of heaven and earth.

Filial piety is the law of heaven, the law of earth, and the law of man.

Throughout the ages, all sages and sages have put filial piety as the first priority.

Why?

Zhuge Changqing believes that filial piety is the law of heaven and earth.

Father is heaven, mother is earth, and child is in the middle.

Zhuge Changqing believes that filial piety to parents can be divided into three levels: first, filial piety to their own parents, second, filial piety to the world's parents, and third, filial piety to all things in the world.

There is a classic in China, called "The Book of Filial Piety", which focuses on filial piety.

Filial Piety is an ethical work of ancient Chinese Confucianism. One of the thirteen Confucian classics.

Confucius and his disciple Zeng Zizuo. From the Western Han Dynasty to the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties, there were hundreds of annotators.

The current popular version is Li Longji's note of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and Xing Bingshu of the Song Dynasty. The book is divided into 18 chapters.

The Book of Filial Piety, centered on filial piety, focuses on Confucian ethics.

It affirms that "filial piety" is the norm set by heaven, "filial piety is the law of heaven, the meaning of the earth, and the conduct of man."

It is pointed out that filial piety is the foundation of all virtues. It is believed that "people's behavior is no greater than filial piety". The monarch can use filial piety to govern the country, and the subjects can use filial piety to manage the family.

The Book of Filial Piety first links filial piety and loyalty, considers that "loyalty" is the development and expansion of "filial piety", and extends the social role of "filial piety", and believes that "the highest degree of filial piety" can "connect with the gods, light all over the world, and understand all". The requirements and methods for implementing "filial piety" are also systematically and in detail.

It advocates that "filial piety" should be embedded in all human behaviors, and that "body and skin should not be damaged by parents" is the beginning of filial piety; The end of filial piety is to "stand up and practice the Tao, become famous in later generations, and show your parents".

It is believed that "filial piety" should "begin with the matter of being close to one another, focus on the matter of being king, and finally establish oneself".

The specific requirements are as follows: "to live is to respect, to raise is to be happy, to be sick is to be worried, to be mourning is to be grieved, and to sacrifice is to be strict".

The Book of Filial Piety also stipulates the different contents of "filial piety" according to the different identities of different people: the "filial piety" of the Son of Heaven requires that "love and respect should be done to their relatives, while morality and education should be imposed on the people, and punishment should be imposed on the world"; The "filial piety" of the dukes requires "not to be arrogant in the top, high but not dangerous, strict and prudent, and full but not overflowing"; The "filial piety" of the Qing Dynasty requires "not to speak unlawfully, not to speak without morality, not to speak without choice, and not to act without choice"; The "filial piety" of the scholar class requires "to be faithful in matters, to keep the position of the emperor, and to keep the sacrifice"; The common people's "filial piety" requires "to use the way of heaven, to divide the benefits of the land, to be prudent in using, and to support their parents".

Zhuge Changqing saw in his study of Chinese classics that Sakyamuni Buddha is also an example of "filial piety".

In order to repay the kindness of his mother's upbringing, Sakyamuni Buddha, after becoming a Buddha, specially went to the Trayana Heavenly Palace to preach for his mother. Among them, the "Sutra of the Earth" was told by Sakyamuni Buddha for his mother.

So why did the Buddha Sakyamuni preach for his mother? The core is filial piety.

Zhuge Changqing shared the relevant information in the "Big Study" website with those who were destined.

Tibetan scriptures: [I heard that. For a time, the Buddha was in the Trayana, which is the mother saying.]

(solution) Like this, I personally heard what the Buddha said. For a time, the Buddha was in Trayana, speaking Dharma for his mother.

Buddha is Sakyamuni Buddha.

Zhuge Changqing: Sakyamuni（ Śā Kyamuni) is not his real name, but his honorific title, which means "Sage of Sakya".

"Sakyamuni"=the name of his tribe, which means "brave, benevolent and righteous";

"Muni"="Zen silence" is a sage who can meditate. It was the title of those who achieved monastic practice at that time.

"Sakyamuni"="capable of benevolence and righteousness, meditation and silence". It is also commonly referred to as "Buddha" or "Buddha".

His meaning is that Buddha is capable, brave, compassionate, and able to meditate quietly.

Buddha Sakyamuni taught these stories for his mother. Who recorded them?

It was recorded by the Buddha's disciple Ananda Venerable Bodhisattva.

There is no record of the time when the Buddha said it in the past.

Later, the cousin and disciple of the Buddha named Ananda. I'm afraid the date is too long for everyone to remember. They specially recorded every sentence of the Buddha's Dharma.

When the Buddha is about to enter Nirvana, Ananda asked the Buddha, "In the future, you will weave all the Dharma you have said. What's the first sentence?" Buddha replied: 'In the first sentence, use the words "I hear what I hear"! That can prove that this sutra is what you Ananda heard from the Buddha, not from the people around you. ' So these four words are used in the first sentence of Ananda's sutra. If yes, it refers to the sutras said by Buddha. I am Ananda himself. To smell is to hear.

Zhuge Changqing: Everything that begins with "I hear what I hear" in the classic is told by the Ananda Buddha himself.

For a time, there is a time when the Hun language, because the time is different from each generation. For example, foreigners use the solar calendar, while China previously used the lunar calendar, such as the summer calendar for the Xia Dynasty and the week calendar for the Zhou Dynasty. So we can't limit a certain month to a certain year.

Why does Buddha speak for his mother?

This is the essence of this sutra, which is different from other sutras. Because Sakyamuni Buddha had already become a Buddha, in order to persuade people in the world, he specially came to reincarnate.

At that time, in Central India, in the country of Kapilavi, the king was called King Jingfan, and his wife was called Mrs. Moya. The Buddha was reincarnated into Madame Moya. In the 26th year of King Zhao of the Zhou Dynasty in China, on the 8th day of April in the year of Jiayin, she was born from the right flank of her wife. Is a prince. Later, when I grew up, I saw that people in the world were suffering from all kinds of sufferings, so I saw through everything. I didn't want to be a prince, but rather became a monk and went to practice. From the age of nineteen to the age of thirty-one, he became a Buddha. He went everywhere to preach the Dharma and persuade the world. At the age of eighty, he entered Nirvana.

Nirvana is Sanskrit (Sanskrit is Indian). Nirvana is not born; The disk is immortal. Immortality is the truth of Buddha's evidence. Evidence means to get. The truth is the truth, which means that the truth obtained by the Buddha is not a false one. It can never be changed or destroyed, and it is invisible to ordinary people.

What we can see in the world is called body. Look at the sun and moon in the sky. Wherever there is water, no matter how big or small it is, it can take care of the shadow. Our sentient beings are not the same in their fate. They feel the Buddha. Like the sun and the moon shining on the water, the Buddha is born to save us. This is called Ying Shen.

Besides, after the birth of the Buddha under his threat, Mrs. Moya died on the seventh day. Because he was a Buddha mother, the spirit was born in the Trayana Palace and became the Son of Heaven.

When the Buddha is about to enter Nirvana, because his mother's grace has not yet been repaid, he initiates a filial piety, specially flying the body to the Trayana sky, and specially speaking for his mother (Dharma, anything that can be seen, heard, and spoken can be called practice.) to repay the great grace of the body.

Then the original wish sutra of the earth-trapped bodhisattva, which is fully performed filial piety, was also passed on. Therefore, filial piety is the basis in the scriptures, and the context of filial piety can be found in every sentence. None of the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Grandfathers have been unfilial to their parents or to the three treasures of the teachers and monks. So filial piety is the most important and fundamental event of the three religions!

Zhuge Changqing believed that the saying that the Buddha Sakyamuni was the mother itself was a manifestation of filial piety. Through the Sutra of the Earth, the Buddha also demonstrated in person, reminding everyone to honor their parents. Of course, the most advanced way to honor your parents is to accumulate merits and virtues for them and give them advanced wisdom.

Zhuge Changqing: This article refers to online materials such as the Great Library and the Tibetan Classics. The pictures are selected from the Internet.

Introduction to Zhuge Changqing: Zhuge Changqing, the inheritor and promoter of the traditional culture of Chinese sages and sages, is willing to work with like-minded people in the world to "inherit Chinese culture, promote good morality, revitalize China, and benefit the world".

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不论何人，都要把孝敬父母作为第一位。

---- 诸葛长青

孝道，天地的规律。

夫孝，天之经也，地之义也，人之行也。

古往今来，圣贤都把孝敬父母作为第一。

为何这样呢？

诸葛长青研究认为，孝是天地的规律。

父亲是天，母亲是地，中间是孩子。

诸葛长青认为，孝敬父母，分为三个层次：一是孝敬自己父母，二是孝敬天下父母，三是孝敬天地万物。

中国有一部经典，叫《孝经》，专门讲述孝道。

《孝经》中国古代儒家的伦理著作。儒家十三经之一。

孔子和弟子曾子作。自西汉至魏晋南北朝，注解者及百家。

现在流行的版本是唐玄宗李隆基注，宋代邢昺疏。全书共分18章。

《孝经》，以孝为中心，比较集中地阐述了儒家的伦理思想。

它肯定"孝"是上天所定的规范，"夫孝，天之经也，地之义也，人之行也。"

指出孝是诸德之本，认为"人之行，莫大于孝"，国君可以用孝治理国家，臣民能够用孝立身理家。

《孝经》首次将孝与忠联系起来，认为"忠"是"孝"的发展和扩大，并把"孝"的社会作用推而广之，认为"孝悌之至"就能够"通于神明，光于四海，无所不通"。对实行"孝"的要求和方法也作了系统而详细的规定。

它主张把"孝"贯串于人的一切行为之中，"身体发肤，受之父母，不敢毁伤"，是孝之始;"立身行道，扬名于后世，以显父母"，是孝之终。

认为"孝"要"始于事亲，中于事君，终于立身"。

具体要求:"居则致其敬，养则致其乐，病则致其忧，丧则致其哀，祭则致其严"。

《孝经》还根据不同人的身份差别规定了行"孝"的不同内容:天子之"孝"要求"爱敬尽于其事亲，而德教加于百姓，刑于四海";诸侯之"孝"要求"在上不骄，高而不危，制节谨度，满而不溢";卿大夫之"孝"要求"非法不言，非道不行，口无择言，身无择行";士阶层的"孝"要求"忠顺事上，保禄位，守祭祀";庶人之"孝"要求"用天之道，分地之利，谨身节用，以养父母"。

诸葛长青在研究国学经典中看到，释迦牟尼佛也是“孝”的榜样。

为了报效母亲得养育之恩，释迦牟尼佛成佛后，特意到忉利天宫为母亲讲经说法。其中《地藏经》，就是释迦牟尼佛为母亲讲的。

那么，佛祖释迦牟尼佛为何为母亲讲经说法呢，核心就是孝。

诸葛长青把“大书斋”网中有关资料分享有缘者。

地藏经：【如是我闻。一时佛在忉利天，为母说法。】

（解）像这样的话，我亲自听见佛说的。有一个时间，佛在忉利天，专为他的母亲来说佛法。

（释）佛，就是释迦牟尼佛。

诸葛长青：释迦牟尼(Śākyamuni)不是其本名，是后人对他的尊称，意义是"释迦族的圣人"。

“释迦”= 他所属部落的名字，有“能勇、仁义”之意；

“牟尼”= "禅定寂静"，是能禅定的圣人。是当时对出家修行成就者的称谓。

“释迦牟尼” = “能行仁义、禅定寂静"。一般也称为"释尊"或"佛陀"。

他的意义，就是说佛有能力、又勇敢、又慈悲、还能够禅定寂静不动。

佛祖释迦牟尼佛为母亲讲法这些故事，是谁记录的？

是佛祖的弟子阿难尊者菩萨记录的。

从前在佛（以后佛字都指定释迦牟尼佛的）说法的时间，是没有人记录的。

后来佛的堂弟、弟子名叫阿难的，恐怕日期久远了，大家都记不得，特意把佛讲过的佛法，一句句都记录起来。

等到佛将要入涅槃了，阿难问佛道：‘将来把你说过的佛法都编起经来，开头一句怎样的说？’佛答阿难道：‘开头一句，就用“如是我闻”四字吧！那才可以证明，这种经都是你阿难亲身听见佛这样说的，不是从旁人口里听来的。’所以阿难编成的经，开头一句，就用这四个字。如是，是指佛说的经。我，是阿难自己。闻，就是听见。

诸葛长青：凡是经典开头有“如是我闻”的，都是阿难尊者菩萨亲自转述的。

一时，即是有一个时候的浑语，因为时候是各方各代不同的。譬如外人用陽历，中国先前用陰历，像夏朝用夏历，周朝用周历。所以不能限定某年某月了。

为何佛要为他的母亲说法呢？

这就是这部经的根本，和别部不同的地方。因为释迦牟尼佛本来早就成佛的，为著要来劝化我们这世界上的人，所以特意来投胎做人。

当时在中印度，迦毗罗卫国，那个国王，名叫净饭王，他的夫人，名叫摩耶夫人。佛就投胎到摩耶夫人肚里。在我国周朝昭王二十六年，甲寅年的四月初八日，从夫人的右边胁骨中生出来。就是一位太子。后来长大了，看见世界上的人，受种种苦恼，就看破了一切，不愿做太子，情愿出家去修行。从十九岁起，修到三十一岁，就得道成了佛，便到各处去说佛法，劝化世人，到八十岁，就入了涅槃。

涅槃是梵语（梵语即印度话）。涅，是不生；槃，是不灭。不生不灭，就是佛证的真如实相。证是得到的意思。真如实相，就是说佛得到的真实相，不是虚假的相，能够永久不改变、不消灭，而且凡人所瞧不到的。

在我们世界上看得到的，那是叫做应身。你看上天的日月，无论什么地方，只要有水，不管你水的多少大小，他都能把影子来照应著的。我们众生根机缘分不是一样，感应了佛，佛像日月照水一样，就现出身来救度我们，这是叫做应身。

再说摩耶夫人从佛在他的胁下生出来以后，到第七日就死了，因为他是一个佛母，所以神魂就生到忉利天宫去，做了天子。

等到佛将入涅槃的时候，因生身的母恩，还没有去报答，发起一片孝心，特意把肉身飞升到忉利天上，专门为他的母亲说法（法，凡是见得到、听得到、说得出的，都可以叫做法。）以报生身的大恩。

那么就将这部完全演孝的地藏菩萨本愿经，也连带的传了出来。所以经里都以孝做根本，句句可寻得出孝的脉络来。从来佛菩萨及祖师，没有一个不孝敬父母，不孝敬师僧三宝的。所以孝是三教同尊的一件最要紧的根本大事呀！

诸葛长青认为，佛祖释迦牟尼佛为母亲说法，本身就是尽孝道的表现。通过《地藏经》，佛祖也是亲自示范，提醒每个人都要孝敬父母。当然，孝敬父母最高级的方式，就是为父母积累功德，送给父母圣贤高级智慧。

诸葛长青：本文参考大书斋、地藏经等网络资料，图片选自网络。

  诸葛长青简介：诸葛长青，中国圣贤国学传统文化研究传承弘扬者，愿与天下志同道合者一起“传承国学、弘扬善德、振兴中华、造福世界”。

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Introduction to Zhuge Changqing: Zhuge Changqing, the inheritor and promoter of traditional Chinese culture, is willing to "learn from sages, promote virtue, revitalize China and benefit the world" together with people with the same ideals in the world.

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诸葛长青简介：诸葛长青，中国国学传统文化传承弘扬者，愿与天下志同道合者一起“学习圣贤、弘扬善德、振兴中华、造福世界”。

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