..续本文上一页sion. Rather, it should be evaluated using ordinary human eyes.”
When I went to the Shanghai Institute of Science and Technology I was able to observe countless lives by using a microscope. Through this kind of observation, I deeply felt that just because our ordinary eyes cannot see something, it doesn”t necessarily mean nothing is there. With this, irreversible confidence in my heart for Buddha”s words arose.
The case of the bardo is the same. It is usually extremely difficult for most people to see them, but they do exist. Since there are so many bardos filling the empty space around us, when causes and conditions come together, beings can enter cells and cause a life to come into being. Therefore, for those sentient beings created by using cloning technology, to be born, a bardo must join with them, otherwise, even with cloning technology, it is impossible to breed a life. Previously, scientist Yu Zhi Biao had said: “No matter how advanced science is, it cannot even create a tiny ant!” Hence, life cannot be created by science. It is only because, when causes and conditions such as a sperm, egg, and the right temperature come together in the right conditions, occasionally, because of the bardo joining them, then a new life comes into being.
(6) Question: You just talked about cloning. I would like to ask: In accordance with the twelve links of dependent origination, have those cloned sentient beings gone through conception
Answer: Cloned living beings may not necessarily go through birth from a womb in the process of the twelve links of dependent origination. If they are born from a womb, then they may cover the twelve links of dependent origination. However, if they are born from moisture, then they will not have conception inside a womb. For example, during the summer, with the correct causes and conditions, small insects may appear in the manure in the soil. But you cannot say that the manure and soil are the cause that creates life. Buddha said in the sutra that living beings are born in different ways. They can be born from an egg, born from a womb, born from moisture, and born miraculously. For example, Murdhagata was born from the head of a human being. Therefore, there are various mysteries in this world. Buddha elaborated on these in various scriptures.
Regarding the whole process of being born from a womb, it is meticulously explained in the Maharatnakuta Sutra. If you read it, you will find that, without exception, Buddha mastered all the discoveries of modern medicine two thousand five hundred years ago, through his insights. Of course, it is not because I am Buddhist that I am praising Buddhism. If you subject Buddhism to critical analysis, you will realize that today”s medicine, physiology, and the macro and micro worlds that scientists are researching, up to emptiness and dependent origination, are all mentioned in Buddhism. We should be aware of the greatness of Buddhism.
Question: One of the Yogacara schools asserts that, ultimately, there is an alaya consciousness, and the Samkhya school also believes that there is a self called atman. Mipham Rinpoche and other eminent masters considered that liberation cannot be achieved with this kind of grasping on an intrinsically real nature. Since it is so, then what is the difference between this Yogacara school and the Samkhya school
Answer: There are many differences between the Yogacara and Samkhya. What Mipham Rinpoche meant when he said: “If you posit that the alaya consciousness is intrinsically real, then there is no liberation” is that this kind of grasping at things to be inherently real is the cause of cyclic existence. However, he did not deny that “with the basis of Yogacara doctrines, then enter the Middle way, and liberation can be attained.”
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