Simply put, people have eight senses. The first six are: eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind. These six senses can be understood literally. The seventh consciousness is the last consciousness, and it is a kind of transmission function, which transmits all the information we perceive with our eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and heart to the eighth consciousness-Alaye consciousness. The eighth knowledge, Araille knowledge, is a warehouse that records all our good and evil. All the seeds of good and evil that we have done, or seeds that are neither good nor evil, are stored in Araille's knowledge, and will not be lost or destroyed even if they are robbed hundreds of times. This is the source of cause and effect. Why don't you masturbate after watching porn movies, but you will break the rules in a few days? That is, Ayaya's knowledge has recorded the pornographic images seen by the eyes and the erotic thoughts produced by the sixth knowledge-consciousness. As long as the time is ripe, it will play a role in the present, leading to repeated abstinence and repeated crimes on the road of abstinence. This is the law of cause and effect. Eight senses have always dominated our behavior and psychology.
Like big warehouse, this knowledge of Araya, which has gathered the seeds of good and evil, has collected all kinds of love, hate and enmity that have been forgotten in this life, and from time to time has influenced our choice of all actions in this world. Buddhism calls it "ignorance troubles". Because of ignorance and trouble, we are reincarnated; When the seeds of evil causes planted in the past exist, we are distracted and create bad karma and become the seeds of evil causes; When the seeds of good causes planted in the past exist, we are wise and sober, and our conscience is not ignorant. We should do more good deeds, and the seeds of good deeds will be smoked back to Araille. This is the theory of Buddhist epistemology that "the seeds should be smoked out from now on" to explain the psychological motivation of all human behaviors.
So today you think it's okay to watch a little porn, as long as you don't masturbate. This idea is all wet. As long as the eyes see something touched, the seventh consciousness will send this information to Araille, the eighth consciousness, and store it. Once you meet fate, you have reverse delusions such as greed, anger and delusion inside, and the temptation of five desires and six dusts outside. This seed, hidden in Araille's knowledge, will take effect immediately, so that you can quit recidivism on the road to abstinence. This is the root of abstinence. Why did Master Kong Jing repeatedly emphasize that if you want to be free from external pollution and keep a clean heart, you must "not watch TV, read newspapers and listen to the radio"? Now we need to add "no Internet". It is precisely because our six roots (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, sound and heart) are exposed to the six dusts (color, sound, fragrance, taste, touch and dharma) that we will be moved, and the seeds of good and evil will fall in Araya, and they will all blossom and bear fruit in the future. This is a terrible and dangerous thing. Just watch the TV news. Read the headlines in the newspaper. Don't read the following. It's dirty. Surfing the internet is just for consulting some information about study and work, or Buddhist forums can be used, and other websites must not be accessed. Now there is no pornographic content on any website, and all the pollution is planted on Araille, and all the future results will come from here.
Therefore, you can't take a look at pornographic things, and you can't help it if you don't plan to play in front of you. Downloading some porn on purpose is not hell. Do you have to attend? "No one can help you in misfortune, but only one can help you." It's not that God makes you unlucky, that others bully you, or that Buddha and Bodhisattva don't bless you. But ask yourself how many tainted seeds you have planted in Araille's knowledge. All the situations we encounter at ordinary times only attract our attention because Araille knows that the present situation is at work.
If you can really understand the role of the eight senses, especially the role of Araya's consciousness, you will know what to avoid and what to learn. Why can't you kill animals and eat meat? When you killed him, you not only planted the seeds of killing in your knowledge of Araya, but also planted the seeds of hatred in another knowledge of Araya. Animals also have knowledge of Araya. In the future, he will be reincarnated as a human being, even though he is still an animal. When the opportunity is ripe, he will definitely come to get back at you. At that time, you will pay this debt. For example, you were a clever man, but you would be cheated by him. This is caused by karma. Don't say you don't know you, unless you kill it yourself, but it's easy to understand. You have planted the seeds of killing in your knowledge of Araille, and you will come to pay your debts in the future. Think about it, have you ever brought disaster? Letting go can let the other party plant the seeds of compassion, kindness and gratitude in Araya's knowledge, and the other party will repay you when it meets fate in the future. This is how some noble people we meet in our lives come.