The scriptures tell us that a bodhisattva must have seven big ones, which seven big ones? The first one is to follow the root of the Mahayana, that is, to follow the root nature of the Mahayana, then we truly develop the bodhicitta, seek to live in the blissful world, and be willing to become a Buddha and be willing to save sentient beings. This is the root nature of the Mahayana.

The second one is great wisdom, that is to say, only great wisdom can practice the bodhisattva way. You have great wisdom to fight wisdom, not little wisdom and little wisdom. The real people who honestly recite the Buddha to survive in the Western Paradise are the big ones. What about wise people without great wisdom? You will not believe in this method, and you will not come to recite the Buddha to survive in the Western Paradise. Therefore, you need people with great wisdom like Sariputra and Manjushri Bodhisattva to be able to believe in this method and pray for survival.

The third aspect is to believe in Dafa, that is, to believe in the Mahayana method, especially the Mahayana method like the Prajna Buddhism. The most important thing is to believe in our Amitabha Sutra. You can believe that it is very, very difficult. Tell us, the difficulty in the difficult, without the difficulty, the most difficult to believe is this "Amitabha Sutra", the Pure Land Method, so you can believe this Dafa is a great bodhisattva.

The fourth is Ming Dali, this principle represents the Mahayana principle. Believe in this Mahayana theory, that is to say the truth of reality, what is the principle in particular? Especially the principle of reciting the Buddha and becoming a Buddha, this must be believed. Many people don’t believe it. You see, we said at the end of the three blessings of the net karma. We believe in cause and effect, read the Mahayana, and persuade the person to proceed. This belief in cause and effect is to believe in Mahayana, the real Knowing and comprehending, reciting the Buddha is the cause and becoming a Buddha is the result, he really understands.

So after he understands it, he can truly recite the Buddha, he will be able to truly die and become a Buddha, so it is very, very difficult. Normal people can’t do it, he won’t come to cultivate, and he won’t understand, so he doesn’t believe in this method. If you refuse to recite the Buddha, you will not be able to become a Buddha. If we can truly believe and believe in our wishes to survive, you are a true Ming and Dali person, and you will be able to become a Buddha.

The fifth is the great practice of cultivation. This great practice, on the one hand, represents the extensive cultivation of all the six degrees of ten thousand actions. He can practice all methods. What is the most important practice here? It means to become a Buddha by oneself, wishing all beings to become Buddhas, which is the great aspiration of Amitabha Buddha in the scriptures, to be a Buddha, and to be like a Buddha. Buddha.

Cultivating such great deeds, cultivating such self-interested and altruistic deeds, means that if you want to become a Buddha, you will also allow all sentient beings to become Buddhas with yourself. No sentient being can not become a Buddha, so you must have such a great behavior. Okay, you can't just look at yourself, it's the supreme mastery to be independent.

The sixth one is the Great Tribulation. Look at the general practice of Bodhisattva. It takes three great aksangs to become a Buddha. For Amitabha, it is after a trillion years of eternal calamity that the world of bliss can be established and achieved. Buddhism and Taoism extend all sentient beings, so this time is the time of eternal calamity, which is longer than the three great aksangs, including our belief that this method will be reborn in the Western Paradise of Bliss. The boundless and innumerable calamities have to spread all sentient beings and manifest various identities, that is, to transform all sentient beings in the future, without getting tired and tired, but also going through the catastrophe.

The last one is Zenda Fruit, which is Buddhahood. Only becoming a Buddha is the greatest fruit, how can we become a Buddha? The fastest, easiest, most convenient, and most ultimate method is to recite the name of the Amitabha Buddha, and rebirth in the Western Paradise can achieve the Buddha's path the fastest.

Those who have these seven principles are called bodhisattvas. Therefore, the bodhisattvas who can meet are also big bodhisattvas, all of which are above the eight places and even equal enlightenment bodhisattvas. Therefore, the bodhisattvas are called enlightened sentient beings. Unfulfillment is emotion, perception is the Buddha's path that is sought, and sentiment is the sentient beings that are transformed. Every great bodhisattva seeks the Buddha's path up and down, and spreads all sentient beings with the same great enlightenment with endless great mercy and compassion. To feel sentimental, is called a bodhisattva.

So the Bodhisattva also told us in the Lotus Sutra that there are six big ones, what are these six big ones? Believing in Dafa, understanding the general ideas, developing a big heart, having great fruit, cultivating a great path, and proving the great path, is not much different from the Seven Greatest Paths. We only talk about the name here and won't explain it. Bodhisattvas are also known as Dao-mind sentient beings. They are also introduced to us in the "Qing Liang Shu". They must have the four elements, so they are called Dao-mind sentient beings.

To be great is to ask for the great Bodhi. Just like Amitabha, he made forty-eight great wishes, wishing to become Buddhas, wishing to save all living beings. We should also learn the spiritual aspirations of the Bodhisattva, and we should also make great wishes and send to To generate the great aspiration of the Buddha to save sentient beings and to achieve great bodhi is great enlightenment, that is, to become a Buddha, so we must have such a great heart.

In particular, wishing to survive is the program and the key point of this sutra. Only by faith in wishing to survive can you achieve Bodhi and become a Buddha. If you don’t have this aspiration and only recite the Buddha in this world to ask for blessings, what is the use? ? This is called a small wish.

Therefore, we must make great aspirations, and must have great aspirations, like Samantabhadra, to persuade all sentient beings to follow the Buddha's way, like Amitabha, to save sentient beings like Amitabha. This is Great wish.

The two are big, it is the achievement of the two forces, so what are the two forces? Self-interest and altruism means to become a Buddha by yourself, and to benefit all sentient beings and help all sentient beings to become Buddhas. This is the great action. Our great action will never be exhausted, just like the great wish of the Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. , All beings are endless. I wish to be infinite. This is to do great, to save sentient beings forever without being exhausted, to always be self-interested in this way, including altruism after becoming a Buddha, to do this great deed is the universal deed, this is the line Big.

The third one is Shida. It is the three great almsgivings, the immeasurable karma. Just now, we said that Amitabha Buddha achieved the Western bliss through the immeasurable karma. In the future, he will eternally attract and transform sentient beings, like Samantabhadra. Like a Bodhisattva, it is also infinite to save sentient beings in the future.

The fourth is the great virtue, which has all the merits of the first multiplication. Therefore, all the merits are sufficient. Like Amitabha, the Guanyin is the most powerful. The greatest virtue, the greatest virtue, is to recite the Buddha. When we truly recite the Buddha and become a Buddha, you will gain the greatest virtue, which is no greater than this virtue.

So looking at all the above explanations of the Bodhisattva, it is actually easy for us to have enough. How easy is it? One Amitabha name will complete the Bodhisattva's line. If we can honestly recite this Buddha's name to survive in the Western Paradise, we will fulfill the aspirations of all the Bodhisattvas, fulfill the aspirations of the Samantabhadra, everything is fulfilled, so we should If you really write a letter and wish to pray for the bliss of life, you will have all the bodhisattva's aspirations. You are the Bodhisattva Mahasattva, not only the Bodhisattva Mahasattva, but you will soon be born into the Western Paradise of Bliss, and you will become fully enlightened.