Jan 31, 2009

The Joy of Being Alone -- Zhenlin (Master)

You will enjoy being alone after you cultivate the Buddha Dharma. Do you feel like you are not doing much anyway? Well, this shows you are making progress. Those who follow me and learn the Dharma tend to enjoy being alone. It shows your mind is at peace. When the mind is at peace, the state will change. You shall be living a decent life without lacking in anything.



This is so because as cultivators you are less and less attached to the worldly ways, and therefore your mind is more at peace. You shall feel running out of time as your life is just fully scheduled everyday. As the time and space sink into oblivion gradually, you may not be aware of the passage of time and take Friday as Tuesday.



(Disciple Lingju commented: Master, I like the state you described as“Gone is year after year, the mind remains concentrated. Into oblivion the time and space shall pass, as the mind power disappears” in your Year Message to us.)



Yes, these lines of the verse remind us that the time and space shall disappear in our consciousness as we cultivate furthur, though they remained on-going, in truth, with their due mark in the Three Realms.



We don’t practice the Buddha Dharma to develop a passive or negative world outlook. Rather, by doing so, we shall embrace life with with a bigger heart.

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