Why I wrote the Song Love without Regret

Why I wrote the Song Love without Regret (teaching by Master Zhenlin in the evening of December 27, 2008, at the Sina UC Room of Buddhism China. Chinese notes complied by Ling Wang)

I wrote the song as I realized that people of the present era tend to measure the Buddha mind with their human mind.

People pay homage to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas here at Flying-to-Heaven Cave, and repent. However, while doing so they keep thinking of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas with their own frame of mind as humans.

I mentioned several times before as I lectured to you on some Buddhist sutras the meaning of Buddha. In Chinese character, Buddha means not a human.

Therefore, how are we supposed to measure Buddhas and Bodhisattvas with our standards as humans, or perspectives as people of the present era?

In the Dharma-declining Age, most people are evil-hearted. For example, many people have made the earthly abodes of some Buddhas and Bodhisattvas a money-spinner。When we were building the Dongyue Temple, many tried to have their fingers in it so that they were able to squeeze money out of here, These were syndromes of the Buddha-declining Age.

Before His Niavana, Shakyamuni Buddha predicted that most people in the Dharma-declining Age would be evil-hearted.

Nevertheless, there are still many people, like you, who came to this world as Bodhisattvas. You cultivate the Buddha Dharma wholeheartedly. And, by all kinds of means, you make people see the human side of you, but also that you are practicing the Buddha Dharma diligently. You demonstrate faith in the Buddha Dharma, and also through it, many inconceivable manifestations.

After getting off-line last evening, I wrote the song off-hand. The title of the song is Love Without Regret.

I emailed the song to Ling Zhi (disciple) upon finishing it. You all read it today at the blog today.

It is quite lyrical a song. It is a lyric ode in honor of the Buddha, and therefore is rich in emotion. It is not about earthly love. The lyrics makes it clear to you all.

Preface:

The love to us from Buddhas and Bodhisattvas is great and profound, without expecting to get rewarded. It is not imposed on us forcefully. They never abandon us or depart from us.

Love without Regret---Shi Zhenlin (Master)



From the day when we met

I have been moisturizing you with the Dharma Water

Without asking why

I look at you absorbing it greedily

growing up happily day by day

taking no pleasure in it.

When you gain spiritual power,

you are deceived by Brother Greed

and taken away by him to suffer

Still, I take the Dharma water along,

accompanying you silently

satisfying your thirst...

lalala…

This is a love without regret

without expecting to get rewarded

I keep giving, without complaint.

This is a love without regret

It is not imposed forcefully on you

But heart to heart, cherishing each other

This is a love without regret

I shall never abandon you or leave you

but shall always accompany you, hand in hand.