Enlightenment means the awakening of oneself. The seed of enlightenment is already in us when we come to this samsara world. We thought by reading and learning from masters, we will be enlightened by them. It is not true. Who is waking up in the morning, who feels hungry in the morning and wants to have some food, and who is going to the market to get food for the family? Most of the time we are self-motivated. Who motivate us to get a degree? Who motivate us to get married and settled with children? The true self of the mind is guiding and directing to do this and that. What we need to spend about twenty minutes each day to sit down to communicate with this one who has been teaching and advising to do the right thing and stop our ego from doing wrong. Once you realise the existence of this one and able to feel its bliss and wisdom, you are already awakened from the long sleep all the while. This is enlightenment.
My senior dharma sister said me just now," The green bamboo and the yellow flowers have buddha nature."
Then I replied," The green bamboo is still the bamboo and the yellow flowers are still the flowers if one hasn't realised his Buddha Nature."
"What is Buddha Nature then?" She asked.
" The one who wakes you up in the morning, the one who asks you to eat when you are hungry, the one who wants you to treat everyone as equal and the one who asks you to be compassionate and kind to others."
" Oh I see. Now I know what buddha nature is all about." She happily replied.
" When you are able to see or realise the buddha nature, this is only just the first open step walking towards liberation. All along the way you meet countless demons coming from within and without, you have to face your own debt collectors and have to overcome all kinds of materialistic and lustful temptations.
Every step you move, you need to be careful. Otherwise you will fall into the traps or the bottomless pits of no return. To walk this Dharma Path is not that easy."
Then I replied," The green bamboo is still the bamboo and the yellow flowers are still the flowers if one hasn't realised his Buddha Nature."
"What is Buddha Nature then?" She asked.
" The one who wakes you up in the morning, the one who asks you to eat when you are hungry, the one who wants you to treat everyone as equal and the one who asks you to be compassionate and kind to others."
" Oh I see. Now I know what buddha nature is all about." She happily replied.
" When you are able to see or realise the buddha nature, this is only just the first open step walking towards liberation. All along the way you meet countless demons coming from within and without, you have to face your own debt collectors and have to overcome all kinds of materialistic and lustful temptations.
Every step you move, you need to be careful. Otherwise you will fall into the traps or the bottomless pits of no return. To walk this Dharma Path is not that easy."
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