My master said," When someone comes to you for a teaching, you need to know him well. If a stingy one comes to you, don't ask him to donate any money. Teach him to go round and give his love and the compassion to the poor and the needy. After he has experienced and seen the real hardship of the poor, he will eventually open his purse to do some donations."
I got a rich student is living in a bungalow with three mails serving the family, and I got her to sweep the floor in our Tai Chi center every time when she came in for the lesson. Slowly she learns that sweeping the floor helps her to sweep away her defilement. And she is quite happy doing the task. I allow some students to teach the newcomers and they begin to appreciate the teacher more because it is not an easy task to help another person to learn. Hence they learn to be patient and caring. We need to have some skillful means to guide people to walk a spiritual path instead asking them to read the scriptures and Sutras. Help them to lay them a good foundation and they will pick up the learning more quickly.
I got a rich student is living in a bungalow with three mails serving the family, and I got her to sweep the floor in our Tai Chi center every time when she came in for the lesson. Slowly she learns that sweeping the floor helps her to sweep away her defilement. And she is quite happy doing the task. I allow some students to teach the newcomers and they begin to appreciate the teacher more because it is not an easy task to help another person to learn. Hence they learn to be patient and caring. We need to have some skillful means to guide people to walk a spiritual path instead asking them to read the scriptures and Sutras. Help them to lay them a good foundation and they will pick up the learning more quickly.
When we think of good actions for the benefit of others, before we act, good fortune has already arrived at our doorsteps.
When we have bad ideas to hurt someone, misfortune has already knocking at our door. During this festive seasons, think good and act good, good luck and fortune, both will definitely rush into your home. Merry Christmas!
When we have bad ideas to hurt someone, misfortune has already knocking at our door. During this festive seasons, think good and act good, good luck and fortune, both will definitely rush into your home. Merry Christmas!
Jiun, a Shingon Master, was well-known Sankrit scholar of the Tokugawa era. When he was young he used to deliver lectures to his brother students.
His mother heard about this and wrote him a letter: Son, I do not think you became a devotee of the Buddha because you desired to turn into a walking dictionary for others. There is no end to information and commentation, glory, and honor. I wish you would stop this lecture business. Shut yourself up in a little temple in a remote part of the mountain. Devote your time to meditation and in this way attain true realization.
( True realization would only come upon when one searches within in silence and stillness and not from information or books.
- 2 cents opinion)
His mother heard about this and wrote him a letter: Son, I do not think you became a devotee of the Buddha because you desired to turn into a walking dictionary for others. There is no end to information and commentation, glory, and honor. I wish you would stop this lecture business. Shut yourself up in a little temple in a remote part of the mountain. Devote your time to meditation and in this way attain true realization.
( True realization would only come upon when one searches within in silence and stillness and not from information or books.
- 2 cents opinion)
A letter to a Dying Man
Bassui wrote a following letter to one of his diciples who was about to die:
" The essence of your mind is not born, so it will never die. It is not an existence, which is perishable. It is not an emptiness, which is a mere void. It has neither color nor form. It enjoys no pleasures and suffers no pains.
" I know you are very ill. Like a good Zen student, you are facing that sickness squarely. You may not know exactly who is suffering, but question yourself: What is the essence of this mind? Think only of this. You will need no more. Covet nothing. Your end which is endless is as a snowflake dissolving in the pure air."
Bassui wrote a following letter to one of his diciples who was about to die:
" The essence of your mind is not born, so it will never die. It is not an existence, which is perishable. It is not an emptiness, which is a mere void. It has neither color nor form. It enjoys no pleasures and suffers no pains.
" I know you are very ill. Like a good Zen student, you are facing that sickness squarely. You may not know exactly who is suffering, but question yourself: What is the essence of this mind? Think only of this. You will need no more. Covet nothing. Your end which is endless is as a snowflake dissolving in the pure air."
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