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Then I read from the book about that ascetic spiritual practitioner, who ignored the rain and the hot weather, ignored everything. He’s very carefree, really practicing asceticism. I’ve never practiced so hard. What to do? Then I gave it a thought, then another thought. Ah! After thinking, I realized. It’s nothing. Really, when we get it, we just get it. I’ve seen many people who haven’t practiced the same asceticism as him, yet have attained higher levels of enlightenment than him. I won’t tell who they are. I just know it and make comparisons. The same with our fellow practitioners. There are ordinary people who have wives or husbands, also enjoying worldly pleasures very conveniently. Yet they have Light, their own (inner Heavenly) Light. Don’t think that I alone have Light. Many of our fellow practitioners have (inner Heavenly) Light, including lay people or monks and nuns. […]
I’m not saying who is good and who is bad, what is simple and pure and what is dirty. Just that I see things differently. But I still must advise you to avoid playing with those things. For example, a doctor will tell you, “Ah, morphine is not good.” Or there are some drugs which you can’t buy without a doctor’s prescription. You cannot sell them to others just like that. But the doctor can use them any time, no need for anyone’s approval. He can allow others or himself to use them, depending on situations. He can use poisons to save people. (Understand.) We’re still not doctors, we can’t use those things. We don’t use them. (Yes.) In the same sense, if you tell me, “Everyone is a Buddha. No need to keep the precepts.” I’d advise you to still keep the precepts. […]
When we practice to a certain degree, our Real Self will wake up, who never forgets. It doesn’t matter that our mind forgets! We don’t have this mind at all. […] All day long we collect new materials and new experiences, and then forget our Self. That’s all. When we die, if we haven’t been completely satisfied with what we’ve been curious about and want to experience, we still have to come back, which is so-called transmigration. For trivial things like having meals and sleeping, we can safely satisfy them, which won’t cause our transmigration. But some very serious habits, very serious ones that you cannot control will make you transmigrate again. […]
