From a prophecy to a Buddha
Milarepa tells you the true power of the mouth a thousand years ago
On the Xizang Plateau
A young man chanted a mantra in a darkroom for fourteen days
Last Night
The Dharma Guardian appeared in front of him with thirty-five bloody human heads
Say
What you asked me to do
This is it.
That night
His uncle is throwing a big wedding party for his eldest son
Full house
Laughing
Suddenly scorpions and snakes appeared all over the ground
Scrambling around the brackets of the house
Horses kick each other in anger
Knocked down the pillar
The whole house came crashing down.
Uncle's son, daughter-in-law
And more than 30 relatives and friends
All buried under the rubble
This young man's name is Milarepa.
In the future he will become one of the greatest practitioners in the history of Tibetan Buddhism
Become enlightened
Become a beacon in the hearts of countless practitioners in future generations
But at that moment
He's just a murderer consumed by hate
And the starting point that drove it all
Not a knife
Not an army
Not even by his own choice
Is a sentence
It was a sentence from his mother
Hello
Hello.
I am Wang Lijie
Today's issue of < Stories About Practice >
I want to use Milarepa's arc of fate.
To dismantle a grossly underestimated dimension of practice
trimming
It's called oral karma in Buddhism.
It's the karma of what you say
Before it unfolds
I have a question for you.
If someone asks you
What is the most important thing in practice?
The vast majority of people's answers fall in two directions
One is to keep your mind
Meditation, meditation, vipassana.
Cultivate your thoughts
The other one is holding your hands.
Don't steal, don't kill, don't do anything to hurt others
Practice your behavior
Have you noticed
Very few people's first reaction is to keep their mouth shut
And this is the central illusion that we're going to debunk in today's issue.
The vast majority of people believe that
And then he left.
Actions have practical consequences
What the body does is more serious than what the mouth says
Thoughts just float by
Therefore, the priority of practice should be the most important
The oral industry is second
Italy is the lightest
But what if I told you
In the Buddhist practice tradition
The reason why oral trade is particularly emphasized is precisely because it has the highest frequency among the three professions
Which one is the hardest to control and the most widespread?
Your mouth
It's the most active, high-frequency seed planter in your conscious system.
And the number of seeds you plant through it every day
Far more than your actions and thoughts you think you can control
The Story of Milarepa
Show the mechanism gory and clear
Let me tell you the story from the beginning.
Milarepa was born around 1040 AD
Gongtang behind Xizang
His father's name was Mille Juncker.
The family has fields, houses and livestock
It's a locally affluent family.
But when Milarepa was seven years old
Father passed away
Before dying
Father left a will
Entrust all the family property to Milarepa's uncle and aunt in escrow
When Milarepa becomes an adult
You can probably guess
Uncle and aunt stole all the property
Milarepa, his mother and sister became servants
Forced to toil on their own land
Wear the rarest clothes
Eat the worst food
Do the heaviest work
At first, the villagers spoke for them.
Call uncle and aunt cruel and mean
But it's been a long time
Even the villagers are starting to look down on them
Milarepa's mother is called White Sovereign Mother
She is one of the key characters in the whole story
Not because of what she did
But because of what she said
I finally waited until Milarepa came of age
Bai Zhuang Yan's mother took out her husband's will
Formally ask my uncle to return the family property
Uncle not only refused
He beat her with a horsewhip
The mother and son were completely kicked out of the house
Years of humiliation have accumulated to a tipping point
Bai Zhuang Yan's mother sold off the only remaining assets
Said a word to Milarepa that changed everything
You go learn spells
Come back and avenge me
I want you to stop at this moment.
From a human perspective
This mother's anger is completely understandable
Her husband was on his deathbed
Relatives entrusted to betray trust
She and her children were deprived of everything
Beaten and humiliated
Almost nowhere to go
Anyone in her position
The hatred in my heart will surge
But from a seed theory perspective
And in that moment, something very precise happened.
Baizhuang strict mother language
Planted an extremely powerful seed in the Alaya consciousness of Milarepa
What are the properties of this seed?
Is hatred
Is revenge
You must respond to violence with violence.
And notice
This seed is written in a way that is not ordinary everyday small talk
Mothers don't just talk casually
She sold off all her assets to pay for school
She used all her wealth to cash in this sentence into a command to act
This is equivalent to pulling the precision weight of this seed directly to the highest level
In the framework of predictive coding
A priori belief of higher precision weight
The harder it is to be covered by subsequent new information
Milarepa has been locked into this seed ever since.
His entire conscious system began to flow along me
This high-powered prior operation must be avenged
Milarepa went to Uzo
Find a lama who is proficient in secret executions
Soon learned the spell
After completing the study
He cast a spell on his enemy
On the last night of his practice
His uncle's house is having a wedding reception
The house collapsed under the influence of the spell
He crushed his uncle's son, wife, and 35 relatives and friends
After
His mother sent another letter
Ask him to hail again and destroy the crops of the whole village
To prevent the villagers from retaliating
Milarepa complied.
Did you see it?
A word from my mother
To thirty-five lives
Then the whole village's crops were destroyed
The conduction path in the middle is clear
one sentence.
Plant a seed
Seeds take root and germinate
Drives learning behavior
Learning behavior gives us the tools to kill.
Tools are used when conditions mature
Thirty-five people died
A village's livelihood was destroyed
This is not metaphysics.
It's a complete causal chain.
And the first link in this chain
Is a sentence
OK
This is the first half of the story.
Now I'm going to ask you a question.
If you are Milarepa
After killing 35 people and destroying the entire village's crops
What do you think should be done next?
Most people's intuition goes in both directions.
The first one.
Run away
hide
Don't Get Caught
Second
If you have any regrets
Then go to confession
Do good deeds
Accumulate merit to make up for it
Both directions make sense.
But neither gets to the root of the problem
Milarepa took the third option.
He was bursting with guilt.
Start looking for a guru who can teach the Dharma
After tossing and turning
He found the interpreter Marba
Marpa was one of the most outstanding esoteric masters in Tibet at that time
He has traveled to India three times to seek the Fa
Milarepa came to Marpa
He confessed that he had killed thirty-five people and destroyed his crops by hail
request transmission
What was Marpa's response?
He did not comfort Milarepa
Didn't say it's okay
Did not preach the law immediately
He had Milarepa build a house.
First go to the top of the east mountain and build a round house
Half covered
Marba is wrong
dismantled
Change to the west mountain top cover
dismantle again
And then to the North Mountain top triangle
dismantle again
Finally, let him build a nine-story stone tower in another place
Milarepa carries stones up and down the mountain alone
Worn hands
Bleeding sores on his back
Cover it and dismantle it.
Taken apart and covered
So repeatedly
For years.
You might think Marpa is cruel
But if you look at it in terms of consciousness-only
What Marpa does is extremely precise
What is Alaya in Milarepa now?
A large number of killing seeds
Plenty of seeds of hatred
And the powerful seed of vengeance planted by his mother
These seeds have already been used once
Thirty-five lives are the outcome of the current situation
But just because the seeds are active once doesn't mean the seeds are exhausted.
Seed generation
The current one will smoke new seeds
Fear of killing, guilt after killing, obsession with one's own strength
These are all new seeds
Continue to ferment in the seed bank
Marpa made him repeatedly build and demolish the house
Not punish him
Is doing two things
first
The potential energy of old seeds
The handling of each stone
It's the urge to replace violence with physical labor
Release the energy of hatred with physical labor
second
Plant new seeds
Every time I'm asked to tear it down and start over
Are training Milarepa in a very difficult ability
Accept that your efforts are cleared without breaking down
What is the deeper meaning of this ability?
Is to reduce the precision weight of the prior belief that "I deserve to be rewarded"
You've done so much
All in vain
Can you not be crushed by this "in vain"?
Can you accept the difference between giving and giving back?
There is no causal relationship as you think
This is like an entrepreneur who has worked hard for three years to start a business
The company collapsed
All inputs zero
Then can he get up and start over?
The issue is not whether he has the money to start over
It's in his seed bank. "
My efforts must be reciprocated "How high is the weight of this seed
The higher the weight
The more deadly the hit to zero
What Marba is doing
Is to repeatedly initialize high-powered, persistent seeds like Milareba's seed bank
OK
Now comes the most powerful twist in the story
After years of tempering
Marba has finally begun to preach
He put all the esoteric techniques he had learned from his master in Nanobar, India
Taught to Milarepa
Milarepa later returned to his hometown
Found out that the mother had passed away
Sister missing
He began his penance in the cliff cave at the back of his hometown
Later, he went to retreat in the deep mountains around Jilong and Nyalam
I have been practicing in caves for many years
After the food is cut off, only eat nettle soup
The body turned green
In the end he achieved great success
Become one of the most important ancestors of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism
Did you see it?
The same person
The same consciousness system
The first half of my life was destroyed because of one sentence
The second half of my life is awakened by another word
Milarepa later left behind a large number of Taoist songs
Recorded by later generations as "One Hundred Thousand Songs"
And the songs were the words that he was encoding his enlightenment.
How to pass it on to future generations
A man who once killed with words
Finally, use language to teach people
What has changed?
seed
What are the core tools used to rewrite torrents?
Language.
It's just that it's changed from a curse to a Fa-rectification
From black mantras to practice mantras and songs of enlightenment
A Life
Pushed into the abyss by a word
Pulled back to the light by another word
That's the full power of mouth.
OK
Milarepa's story ends on the first level.
Now I'm going to use the framework of our series
To unravel the underlying mechanism of the concept of mouth industry
Let's go back to a basic question
In Buddhism, karma is divided into body, mouth and mind
Your body is what your body does
The mouth industry is what your mouth says
It's what you have in mind.
Why is the oral industry particularly emphasized?
The answer lies in three dimensions
The first dimension is frequency
How many body movements can you do in a day?
Hit people, steal things, help people move things
These behaviors require time and effort
Frequency is limited
But how many words do you say a day?
Hundreds of sentences
Thousands of sentences
If you include your inner monologue
Maybe tens of thousands of sentences
Every word
Every inner monologue
Are projecting seeds into Alaya consciousness
The mouth industry is the seed planter with the highest frequency among the three industries
The second dimension is the spread surface.
You hit someone
Affected is a person
But you say a word
Maybe ten people heard it.
Everyone who heard it planted a related seed
You planted it yourself
In the age of social media
A sentence can be seen by millions of people
The Seed Diffusion Efficiency of Primary Oral Industry
It's orders of magnitude higher than what you're doing.
Confucius said eight words
Prosperity with one word
A word to lose the state
This is not hyperbole.
It's describing a mechanism.
A crucial sentence
At a critical juncture
You can change the distribution of seeds throughout the system.
And the third dimension is stealth.
You did a bad thing.
You probably know you did.
But you said something hurtful
You probably don't even realize it.
A casual complaint in everyday conversation
A judgment, a damning prophecy
It's like, "This is your life."
This company is doomed. "
I've always had bad luck. "
The person who said it may have no brain at all
But the seeds have been planted
These three dimensions are stacked on top of each other
You'll understand.
The reason why the oral industry is particularly emphasized
It's not because it's worse than karma.
But because it has the greatest combined power
Highest frequency, widest spread, hardest to detect
What is the core self-cultivation skill of Zeng Guofan's life?
speak carefully
He repeatedly told his brothers in his letters at home
Keeping your mouth shut is a hundred times more important than keeping your hands shut
Not because he's conservative and pedantic
But because he was a man who had experienced the power field of life and death
I have seen so many cases where a single sentence has changed the whole situation.
He summed it up himself
In ancient times, there are about two ends to the loser
said Changao
Say more
He listed talking as one of the two greatest causes of failure in life
Attention
It's not the wrong thing to say.
It's polyglot.
Talking too much is a risk in itself
Because every word
You plant a seed
And you have no control over when that seed is.
In what way does it germinate?
OK
This is the destructive power of the mouth industry
But it's not just about destruction.
It has a constructive side.
And this side
Directly related to several videos I have done before
I did a special issue of < Wish vs Wish > before.
They made a core distinction.
Making a wish is negotiating with the universe
I'm sincere, you get the result
To make a wish is to write instructions to one's own conscious system
I decide what to become
What is the essence of making a wish?
It is the positive use of oral industry
You make a wish
All Beings Boundless Vow
What are you doing?
You're using language.
Plant a highly directional master seed in your Alaya consciousness
This seed will reprioritize the other seeds in your vault
Push the seeds of goodness associated with your wishes to the front row
Push the irrelevant to the back row
Your behavior patterns, attention allocation, decision-making tendencies
There will be a systematic shift due to the existence of this seed
I also did an issue of < Dharani is a compression algorithm 2,500 years ago >
What is the principle of dharani chanting?
Is through a specific sound sequence
Repeated input into your conscious system
Aerial consciousness
Reduce the weight of old prior beliefs
Let light shine through the hidden Tathagata
It's the same principle.
I have done a < sentence Amitabha Buddha is a set of parameter optimization algorithms >
The core logic is
Every time you recite a Buddhist name
It is to plant a pure seed in Alaya consciousness
At the same time, do a micro directional fine-tuning
You put it all together.
You will find a very clear picture
Wishing is to plant directional seeds with language
Mantra chanting is high-frequency directional fine-tuning with language
Everyday kind words, encouragement, honest expression
It is to plant the seeds of goodness with language
And the daily grumbles, the complaints, the damning prophecies
It is to plant the seeds of evil with language
Language is not a neutral tool.
Language is the most powerful seed planter in your hands.
It could be like Milarepa's mother saying.
Drive a person to ruin
It can also be like the Dharma taught by Marpa
Transform a murderer into an enlightened person
The direction depends entirely on what you put in it
Now I want to take this discussion to the next level.
Have you noticed
Not just Buddhism
Almost all ancient wisdom traditions around the world
They put language in a very special place.
The Bible begins
How did God create the world?
God said
To have light
And there was light.
Say
Then there is
Create all things with language
The first sentence of the Tao Te Ching
dokedao
Fei Hengdao also
Tao itself means to speak.
The source of all things is the Tao
One of the core attributes of Tao is that it can be said
The Vedas of ancient India hold that the universe began with hum.
A primitive sound vibrates
The entire material world unfolds from this original sound
The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus said that all things are created according to logos
Logos means both words and laws
Later, the Gospel of John begins by saying that in the beginning there was the Word.
The word in the original Greek is Logos
Taichu said
Buddhism has a 2,500-year-old tradition of mantras and dharanis.
The Christian Orthodox Church has the Jesus Prayer.
Sufi Islam has Zikhar.
Hindus have mantras.
Civilizations drill from different directions
Intersected deep in the mountain
All civilizations are confronted with the ultimate question of how the world came into being
All invariably put language or this
An act is placed at the heart of creation
Most of these civilizations do not communicate with each other
But they came to the same intuition in their independent exploration
Language is not just a tool for describing reality
It participates in the creation of reality
What does this cross-civilization consensus imply?
It suggests that language may be more than just a means of communication
It may be one of the fundamental ways in which consciousness participates in the creation of reality
Certainly.
This is what I call conjecture.
But even without entering this conjecture level
Just starting from predictive coding and seed theory
The conclusion is shocking enough
Your every word
Doing three things at the same time
first
Rewrite the prior weights of your own brain
You say, "This is the end of my life."
You're not telling the truth.
You're writing a high-weighted prior belief into your predictive model.
Once this prior weight is pushed up
And your brain automatically filters out anything that doesn't fit that belief.
You see failure, difficulty, impossibility.
It's not that the world has changed
It's your rendering engine that has been rewritten in your own words.
second
Plant seeds in your alaya consciousness
Every sentence is a seed write
Good words sow good seeds
Bad language seeds of evil
Complaining about the lack of seeds
Gratitude Seeds of Abundance
Seed generation
Current smoked seeds
positive feedback loop
The more you talk
The more you plant.
Grow denser
The more your destiny solidifies in that direction
third
Broadcast your seeds to those around you
Your words don't just affect yourself
Still rewriting the prior weights of everyone who hears those words
Milarepa's mother said something.
Rewrote Milarepa's entire life trajectory
The diffusion effect of a sentence can be exponential
Three things happened at the same time
Every word is simultaneously programming yourself
And the consciousness of the people around you operating system
Do you understand now?
Why is it that all the traditions that have delved into the workings of consciousness
Eventually come to the same conclusion
Keep your mouth shut
Zeng Guofan said to be cautious
The Buddha taught mindfulness
Lao Tzu said that it is better to keep the center than to be poor
"The Bible says in Proverbs," Keep your tongue and save your life. "
It's not because a god is listening to you
But because your words are your seeds
Your seed is your life
OK
By this point you might be thinking
Then I'll talk less in the future
Shut up as much as possible
Is it the safest?
If you have this idea
It means you only understand half of it
Trimming is not shutting up
Shut up is passive avoidance
Forbearance is not practice
Forbearance is crouching
Boiling water is pressed down with a lid
Sooner or later it will explode
True repair is not achieved by holding back
The full meaning of a trim
It has two directions.
The first direction is to stop evil
Reduce the output of bad language
Specifically
In Buddhism, the evils of oral karma are summarized into four categories
lie
Just lie
Two tongues
It's just gossiping between people
bad mouth
It is to use language to attack and hurt others
Qiyu
That is, meaningless nonsense, gossip, gossip.
Each of these four karma is planting the seeds of evil
Be aware that you are doing any of these four things
And then it stops.
This is the basis of a trimming.
The second direction is to do good
Increase the output of good words
Encourage others with sincere language
Deliver valuable information in accurate language
Comfort those who are in pain with compassionate language
Use pure language to chant Buddha, mantra, and vow
Every kind word is a kind seed
Stop evil and do good
Push in both directions simultaneously
Your seed bank will fundamentally change
This is the full pedagogical significance of the story of Milarepa
His mother planted a devastating seed in the direction of the bad language
Marpa planted a seed of awakening in the direction of good words
Milarepa himself
Through years of penance
Turned the seed bank from evil to good
I have been investing for so many years
Have a particularly deep experience
In the community of entrepreneurs and investors
There is one type of person I am particularly wary of
People with particularly broken mouths
It's not good to talk too much
It's the kind of people who judge people casually and label people casually
A person who says that the company is not good and that person is unreliable at every turn
This kind of person often has a narrower and narrower career
Why is that?
Because every negative judgment he says
Plant one in your own seed bank
The seeds of "The world is full of unreliable people and companies"
More plants
His brain renders the world according to this prior
Really, you can only see unreliable people and companies
His investment horizons have narrowed
He has fewer partnerships.
His world got smaller.
It's not that the world has changed
It was his mouth that rewrote his rendering engine
reverse
There is a class of entrepreneurs and investors
There's something about the way they talk.
Precise but generous
They will point out the problem
But we're not jumping to conclusions.
They inspire others.
But not to brag
They rarely judge people behind their backs
It's not that they're bad judges.
Quite the contrary.
Because they instinctively know
Casual judgment comes at a price
This kind of person tends to gather more and more excellent people around
Because their mouth has been planting seeds of good
What is planted is kindness
For the content of this issue
What do you think?
Have you ever noticed the random words you say every day?
How many of them are planting seeds of goodness?
How many are planting the seeds of evil?
Or be more specific
Is there a certain sentence you have said?
Later, it profoundly changes the direction of a person or event
Welcome to share your observations in the comment section
Finally, I want to leave you with a deeper question.
Milarepa's mother put him on the path to murder with one sentence
Marpa used another word to pull him back to the path of awakening
You and Me
I talk to the people around me every day
Talk to yourself
Every word we say
All write new seeds in someone's seed bank
We're also putting new seeds in our seed bank.
The starting point of practice
Maybe not on the futon
Maybe not in the scriptures
Maybe it's in that silence before you next speak
In that silence
You have a selection window
It is a good seed
Or plant a bad seed
And the width of that window
It is the scale of the depth of your practice
I am Wang Lijie
See you next time.