The essence of the Avatamsaka Sutra: One flower, one world, one leaf, one Tathagata

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Scientific answer:

Buddhism believes that one Three thousand worlds can be seen from a grain of sand. Today’s science is called cosmic holography. Buddhism believes that people can cultivate hundreds of thousands of incarnations. Technology can now have rudimentary so-called “killers”. The most interesting thing is that science understands the most basic composition of objects. The understanding of matter was once thought to be atoms, then particles, and then protons, etc. In fact, this means that the current understanding of matter is incomplete. However, as early as 2,000 years ago, Buddhism Even earlier, countless light years ago, it was believed that "all things have no self-nature and essence"! One word - emptiness, explains the root of everything. Buddhism and science go in the same direction, revealing the true nature of things!

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Literary answer

Notes from the Enlightenment Master:

The universe is contained in the leaves, and there is a hole in the petals. It is indeed a flower One world, one leaf, one Tathagata! This can’t be said unless you have been there in person!

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Master Nan Huaijin’s Jian said:

The focus of the "Huayan Sutra" is to talk about "one truth" "Dharma Realm", there are Buddhas everywhere, and all living beings are Buddhas. "One flower and one world, one leaf and one Tathagata." . . All Buddhist scriptures, and even all religions, view life pessimistically, believe that life is painful, and require liberation; they all believe that the world is defective and miserable. Only what the "Huayan Sutra" says is that this world has no defects, even if it is defective, it is still beautiful; this world is the most true, the most good, and the most beautiful; it is the one true Dharma Realm, where all laws are free, and Buddhahood is achieved everywhere. Enlightenment. This is the so-called Huayan realm.

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"The Source of Common Sayings of Buddhism":

[Flower World] Buddhism has many sayings about the "world". For example, the "Hua Ye Sutra" says: "The five-colored stems are born from the Buddha's soil, one flower is one world, one leaf is one Tathagata," and the volume of "Brahma Net Sutra" says: Lusena Buddha sits in a thousand-leaf lotus and transforms into thousands of statues. Sakyamuni Buddha each lives in the thousand-leaf world, and the Sakyamuni Buddha in each leaf world has transformed into tens of billions of Sakyamuni Buddhas, sitting on the Bodhisattva tree. The saying "Flower World" comes from this. The world of flowers comes from this. Huahua World generally describes a prosperous place, the earthly world. As the saying goes, the world of flowers comes from this. The world of flowers generally describes a prosperous place, the earthly world. For example, Chapter 15 of "Shuo Yue Quan Zhuan": "Every time I think about the colorful world of the Central Plains, I want to seize the power of the Song Dynasty." And Chapter 1 of "He Dian": "The middle realm is the colorful world where everyone lives today."

In the traditional Buddhist classics, there is a sentence that is well-known to the world: "One flower, one world/One leaf, one Bodhi." This roughly means: the entire world can be seen from a single flower, and the entire Bodhi tree can be represented by a single leaf. Buddhism is a broad and profound knowledge, and there are many profound philosophies that our young and growing minds cannot comprehend. Similarly, I can only make some superficial guesses about this "famous saying" that often lingers in my ears.

At the same time, not only does the idea of ??"one flower, one world/one leaf, one bodhi" exist in traditional Buddhism, as early as the 18th century, the great British romantic poet Blake also once wrote in a famous poem: The poem "Innocent Hints" reads: "A world can be seen in a grain of sand/A paradise can be seen in a wild flower." I think, whether it is Buddhism's "One flower, one world/One leaf, one Bodhi" or literature "One sand, one world/one flower, one paradise", they should all have roughly the same meaning!

"One grain of sand, one world/one flower, one paradise" is the original philosophy of eternal existence of life.

For us humans as a whole, life should have no end, and matter will develop eternally. However, in the rotation of celestial bodies and the reincarnation of time, we can clearly see the frailty of the single life owned by each individual in the reincarnation of time and space. Individuals like us are so insignificant in the universe that they are probably no more than a drop in the ocean. However, the living people are unwilling to suffer. Even in pain, they still hope. Therefore, when one person's hope is passed on to another, it is the hope of two people. If the hope of two people continues, it is the hope of one nation. When the hope of one nation is passed on to another nation, it is the hope of two nations. If the hope of the two nations continues, that is the hope of the entire human race and the entire universe. As an individual, self, hope is humble, but when several or tens of thousands of humble hopes condense together, they are the huge vitality of a species. Human individuals are being renewed from generation to generation, and human history is spreading day by day. How many dynasties have risen and fallen around us? How many civilizations have grown and declined before our eyes? However, life as a species has transcended the barriers of time and space and continues tenaciously.

"Put infinity in the palm of your hand/Let eternity collect moments" is the original testimony of the eternal existence of life. Infinite human history can be intertwined by limited human individuals; the infinite space-time universe can be measured by limited ups and downs of life. The eternal pen can record the changes of human civilization;

The books of history can carry the great changes of the years. When the wheel of history rolls over the footprints of human development, countless civilizations will bloom on both sides of the road; when the dust of the universe settles on these civilizations, another beautiful spring is about to come into being.

If so, then whether the concepts of finite and infinite can be exchanged, maybe the concept of finite and infinite does not matter at all. Then, what is limited will be the endless reincarnation of time and space, but what is infinite is the powerful bond deep in the human soul. When there is no boundary between the finite and the infinite, then human beings will no longer care about eternity and collection, let alone individual life and death. This is the true realm of "one flower, one world/one leaf, one bodhi".

“A world can be seen in a grain of sand/a paradise can be seen in a wild flower” is the full self-confidence and freedom of human individual life, which together form the reason for the origin of a vast and broad species. From the life of a humble individual, we can clearly see the vitality of the entire species, which is precisely "put infinity in the palm of your hand/eternity collects a moment."

When you read this poem, you should think that it is a eulogy for the self-confidence and freedom in human life, but its title is called "The Premonition of Innocence". What does the author mean by "innocence"? "What about the word "? Since then, isn’t the meaning completely different? Is it the author's implicit ridicule of life, or the helpless masturbation of his official career? I'm afraid I have no way of guessing, because my understanding of Blake is only at a literal level. I only know that Blake hated the great philosopher Bacon very much, with some hatred to his bones, and thought that the great poet Wordsworth was "not a poet, but a heretical philosopher who is hostile to all true poetry and inspiration." Both sides of them. , one side is a romantic, the other is a realist, the ideological differences are evident. And we can also get some clues from another poem by Blake: "Sand": "Laugh at it / laugh at it / Voltaire Rousseau / laugh at it / laugh at it / but it's all in vain / you throw the sand to the wind / The wind blows the sand back again." However, if we want to truly have a deeper understanding of Blake's original thoughts, we need a deeper dual accumulation of history and literature.