1-About adversity
Adversity or any painful experience is but a test for us. Being hit by a disease or a disaster, though painful, is meant to bring us back to our true self. We need to first enlighten ourselves. If we ourselves refuse to change, how can we enlighten others?
When everything is gone, you will realize, in retrospect, that the warmth of sunshine always awaits us amidst the pouring of rain.
Our eyes are in such a position that we seem only able to see the mistakes of others but fail to see those of ourselves. Therefore, Buddha keeps reminding us of "looking inwardly". Everything is clear to us once we are able to realise our true self.
2-About Getting the Response
By reading the Buddhist sutra and sitting in meditation, we are cultivating our heart. An enlightened heart, which is our true heart, is pure, except often it gets contaminated by material worries.
Water, though clean, cannot wash away the dust in our heart.
Wind, though strong, cannot take away the offenses we commit in kalpas.
If we are to clear the dust in our heart, we need to be stay single-minded, or keep the Bodhi mind.
Take half an hour or one hour a day to practicing reading Namas Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. Gradually, you shall be able to keep calm before whatever challenges and never get disturbed.
If you pray to Buddha and Bodhisattva with complete faith, you get responses all the time.
If you pray to Buddha and Bodhisattva with doubt and suspicion, you still cultivate good roots, but your voice may not be heard. : )
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