It takes single-minded sincerity to get responses in the cultivation of the Buddha Dharma. While sincere, you send a message, and the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and a well-cultivated master will know it. They shall come to be with you. People who claim to be sincere but harbour doubts inside do not get the response.
Think about it. Nothing remains permernant or unchanged. Watch out. Do not indulge yourself. Otherwise, it will be too late to regret.
Bodhisattva Samantabhadra once warned us, “This day has passed, and your life too has lessened. Like a fish running short of water, for what do you rejoice? Strive on diligently now, as if putting out a fire on your head. May you be mindful of the transience, and be cautious not to be slack.” Nevertheless, do not act like an ostrich. Why bother to indulge in the worldly pleasure?
Develop a singular focus in your cultivation of the Buddha Dharma, though you may apply whichever Dharma door you think convinient to your everyday life. This is analogous to eatting. That you have to eat is the thing that cannot be changed. However, you may use different bowls or pots to go with it.
There are eigthy-four thousand Dharma Doors avaiable for you to listen to or comtemplate. However, you only need to pick one out of them to culitvate. It is enough to listen to or contemplate just one of them.
The singular focus of cultivation can be chanting Amitabha-Buddha, or the Six-syllable Great Brightness Mantra, or sitting in stillness observing the movement of water or listening to its sound, or watching the sun set and rise, or practising calligraphy.
If you never practise cultivating, it is like someone who is well-read in medical books and classics yet is unable to recogize what herb it is when he sees it nor provides consultation to patients. That is why it is said reading all the sutras of the 12 sections of the Tripitaka is not as good as chanting Amitabha-Buddha once.
People tend to say that seeing is believing. However, they fail to realize that their eyes could only reach their toes.
Do not complain that the sunshine is too weak. It is all because the dust on the mirror of your mind is too heavy. Don’t be disturbed by the idea that your karmic obstacles are too ehavy. Read a single verse of a Buddhist sutra or mantra, or chant a Buddha name, and they all melt away.
We have to practice cultivation of the Buddha Dharma to change our destiny, and release ourselves from the invisible hands of it so that it can do nothing about us.
It is all because our thoughts are characterized by greed, hatred and ignorance that destiny is able to seize us, and keep us under its control. As I said, I have get out of its control by practicing the Buddha Dharma, with a singular focus. It can do nothing about me now! : )
That is why I am now so unfettered and, with a single idea, I can change anything as I will.
Are you really ready to practice the Buddha Dharma? Are you serious that you want to take refuge with the Triple Jewels? Do not hesitate! Start practicing now! The Buddha Dharma is boundless. Repent, and you shall be rescued.
Ask me about Buddha Dharma, and I shall always answer you.
Ask me to tell your fortune, and I give no answer.
Your thoughts are energy. I tell you to chant “Master, a special blessing, please!” This is an ineffably efficacious mantra. As long as you know how to apply it, you get all of your wishes realized.
Mantras are symbols of energy. They are inexplicable. It is like the use of phone number. You cannot dial the number Six by dialing seperately first 2, then 3, and then 1. You’ll never get through by doing so. Mantras and Buddha names are symbols of energy. As long as we use them in the right way, they are ineffably powerful. It all depends on our mind. Everything in the universe is born out of mind. If our mind is single, pure, and free from defilement, it produces spiritual power.
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