So, I would like to use this opportunity to continue introducing how to understand Buddhism.
Towards Buddhism, we must have the right
understanding, only then will our lessons,
our trip on this journey not be wrong.
We will not think wrongly and
everything we do will not be diverted
in the wrong direction.
Of this, I would like to remind everyone.
Today, we can understand Buddhism
and are able to listen to Buddha's Dharma.
That means our merits,
our roots to accept
the Dharma are very deep.
The condition for a Buddha to appear
in this world is not by accident,
is not accidental
and also in our case,
it is for a very short time.
In Shakyamuni Buddha's case, he propagated
the Dharma for only 49 years
before he went into Parinirvana.
So we must be very appreciative of that.
And speaking of the Dharma,
what are the benefits?
We should understand the benefits are really big.
In this big era, there will be
1000 Buddhas appearing.
In our Saha world, we will have about 1000
Buddhas lining up to appear. Shakyamuni
Buddha was number four out of the 1000.
The next one will be Maitreya Buddha, Maitreya
Buddha will appear in 570 billion years,
which is a very long time gap.
And when he comes, everyone who has affinity
with him in the past will be able to be
liberated from their sufferings.
So, the benefits of Buddhism
are definitely there,
they definitely exist.
Because
they help us to attain true happiness,
it is something that we cannot skip in this life.
Why is Buddhism so good?
Why should we learn it?
Because it helps you
to achieve what you want,
to live a happy life free from suffering.
So from this,
we can start
to appreciate Buddhism.
So the fact that you are here means that
you have affinity with Buddha and his Dharma,
otherwise you wouldn’t be here.
So in the last lesson we talked about
what Buddhism is.
Buddhism is about discipleship.
What is discipleship?
In Buddhism, it is the relationship between
a master and a disciple and it is more than
just a teacher and a student.
It's very close, very tight.
It's a bond.
As a disciple, whether or not you can succeed
relies on, what? That's the question
we need to answer today, figure out today.
I will
give a brief overview
on this topic.
As a student, as a disciple of Buddha, what kind
of attitude should we be equipped
with to learn Buddhism?
What is discipleship?
There is a saying
about discipleship
in Buddhism:
There are only disciples who seek answers
from the Master, you will never hear of a master
who asks for a student to teach.
What does this mean?
If you look at the stories of Buddha,
all students go to Buddha to ask for help,
seek for answers,
and their attitude is very respectful
in their deeds,
speech and ethics.
In comparison, current students, current disciples
level of seriousness, their level of sincerity
in seeking teachings varies too much.
It sometimes
even appears as a joke rather than
really wanting to learn.
So, if you have heard Buddha's story,
you have never heard of Buddha going to
someone's house and say:
Come and join my Sangha,
or walk up to a person
or go to their house and say:
This Buddhism is good,
you should follow me.
It doesn't work like that.
The reason why only students go to the teacher
and not the teacher going to the student
to teach is because the respect is different.
The attitude is different.
If the teacher is the one who comes to you
and teaches, for example, if I,
Venerable Xue Wu,
come to your house
to share the Dharma with you.
What would
people say if I did that every day?
They would be like:
Oh, I'm too busy, I cannot entertain you,
reasons like that.
If we're using
that kind of mentality to learn,
we can't absorb very much, we can’t take in
as much as those who really want to learn
and seek the answers by themselves.
For example,
the first patriarch
of Chinese Zen Buddhism
was BodhiDharma from India.
The second patriarch, before he was a patriarch,
displayed such a high level of sincerity
because he wanted to seek the Dharma to
achieve inner peace. He knelt in front of
BodhiDharma's cave,
where he sat in meditation for nine months,
and stayed three days and three nights
in the snow to seek this teacher's guidance,
and BodhiDharma turned to him
after three days and said:
What do you seek for my student?
The second Patriarch of Zen Buddhism,
who was still a student said:
Please settle my heart.
My heart isn’t at peace.
BodhiDharma replied :
Give me your heart and
I'll settle it for you.
So this Second Patriarch cut off
one of his arms
to show his sincerity.
So this is just to show how serious and sincere
he and people were back then
in seeking Dharma.
And you can see the benefit they reaped from it.
As long as the students are willing to learn,
teachers will not reject them.
However, the teacher
does not seek respect for themselves.
That's not the point of
why students seek the teacher
or why you need to show respect and bow.
It is not because
the teacher wants you to respect them.
I am your teacher,
I'm your boss, I’m your parent,
you must respect me.
No, that's not the mark
of a good teacher.
If a teacher has this kind of mindset,
this is not a good teacher, not worth following.
Shakyamuni Buddha was not like that.
As long as you were willing to learn, you showed
a willingness to learn, he would teach you
everything you could understand and know.
He would
teach you without hesitation,
without reservation.
It is like
Master Yin Guang印光大師
said:
One with an ounce of respect will reap
an ounce of benefit, one with 10 ounces
of respect will reap 10 ounces of benefits.
The whole point is your attitude
when you seek
help and teachings.
If we get it too easily, like nowadays,
sutras can be easily printed from the internet,
that level of respect is not there,
the level of appreciation is not there
and that correlates to our ability
to absorb the Dharma.
Recently, I saw someone open a YouTube video
of Master Chin Kung’s speech and then
while listening to it,
they had their phone out
scrolling through other stuff.
So it's hard to achieve anything like that.
For example, if there are 10 students learning
from a teacher, everyone is listening
to the same lessons.
However,
when you look at the results
after they were tested,
you can observe that
in most cases they are
at different levels of achievement.
Some
will have mastered the lessons,
while some will have failed.
So, in the Buddhist’s case,
some people who listen to Buddha
immediately attain enlightenment
while some people who have been with Buddha
for many, many years still haven’t
attained anything.
If you observe this beyond Buddhism,
in worldly matters,
it’s the same thing.
Those who achieve
will definitely have that level
of respect towards the teacher.
So, if you think from that perspective,
for example, in my case,
every time I listen to the Dharma,
I always prostrate
to Buddha for 10 or 15 minutes,
seeking Buddha's blessings,
so that I can have
enough sincerity to accept
the Dharma,
because
in this Dharma Ending Age,
in this life, in this current era,
without Buddha Dharma, we would definitely,
almost certainly be diverted
from the right path.
So knowing this theory and principle, the point
of success for students in learning what
was taught is not intelligence,
it relies more on the ability to learn,
willingness to learn, willingness to listen,
the sincerity to learn, the sincerity to listen
because students who are respectful towards
their teacher will take every single word
to heart and learn it earnestly,
because if a student refuses to listen,
no matter how good the teacher is,
even if Buddha himself teaches you,
you cannot learn anything at all.
So you cannot blame the teachers
for the journey of your learning.
In the past,
there have been a lot of
lay practitioners who asked me:
Why after listening to so much Dharma,
can't I understand much or improve much?
I mentioned this in last Friday’s Dharma talk.
This is a common problem.
A lot of people cannot hear the core of
the Dharma, even though they hear it
a lot of times, they can't get it,
because they are not
truly listening to it.
That means their hearts are not in it.
Therefore,
this is why Master Yin Guang
told us:
A person with 100% of respect towards
the teacher will receive
100% of the benefits from the lessons.
The same lessons were given to everyone,
but there are different levels of reception,
based on different levels of sincerity.
This is a common principle of education,
regardless if it is of a spiritual
or secular nature.
Whatever you learn, whether it is Buddhism
or any techniques, or any degrees
or anything you pursue,
without a heart of respect towards
the lessons, towards the teacher,
we can't achieve anything.
As long as
we are going against this principle of
sincerity towards learning ,
if we go against that,
we will not achieve anything.
In the history records,
most of Shakyamuni Buddha's students
who followed him around,
when he was walking around India,
attained enlightenment,
at least attained Arhathood.
None of them were left without achievements.
All of the 1,255 students that followed him
were not just common people,
they all had achievements.
They all had a common trait,
they all listened and
took the lessons from Buddha to heart.
Looking at our case, chanting Amitabha Buddha,
the merits of Amitabha Buddha,
of his name is equal, equal,
it is not discriminatory, whoever is willing
to chant will get all the benefits
by being reborn in the Pure Land.
However, people who
practice the recitation of his name
do not seem to get a lot of benefits,
as said in the Buddha’s sutra,
because of their sincerity.
Therefore,
it's not easy to be a teacher,
especially nowadays.
At school or in the Dharma Center,
it’s the same everywhere,
it's getting harder to be a teacher.
That's why we have Di Zi Gui《弟子規》
The Guideline of Being a Good Person
in this temple
because we realize the importance of
having good roots, good beginnings
for the students, for the kids.
The main reason why it's so hard to teach
is because the students nowadays
are off track by a lot.
The level of sincerity,
the level of their attitude
towards the teachings is not there.
In Indonesia, we have this example,
it is common for a teacher to be invited
to the household to teach.
I asked a lot of these teachers: what was
the hardest thing you had to face
when teaching at students' homes?
They almost unanimously answered that
the students are not listening
to the instructions.
A lot of parents
have this misconception
that if their children are not gaining anything
despite having paid a lot of money
to hire a private tutor,
they will commonly blame the teachers
and do not reflect on
how they raised their kids,
how they imparted that level of attitude
and sincerity inside their children's mind,
it was not thought of in that way.
For example, today
if we find a good Dharma teacher
who has the right view, the right virtues
and then you ask him:
Could you teach me how to
be successful in my cultivation?
And if you take seeking guidance seriously,
you don't need to take three years,
you only need three months
to achieve
whatever you want to achieve.
Master Chin Kung has mentioned that
whether we can succeed in anything
depends on two things,
number one is our sincerity,
our attitude and number two is
choosing a noble teacher善知識.
For example, pick one teacher
that you really like, Teacher Chai
or anyone who you really admire,
who you respect
from the depths of your heart,
you like how this teacher carries himself,
what he/she does, their virtue is very good
and you truly respect that person,
then stick to them.
Do not change the target of your learning.
Do not change the examples of your learning,
stick to that person until the very end,
because you will achieve
not just small achievements,
but great achievements in the end.
There's an example of historical precedent,
Mencius. Do you know
who Mencius learned from?
He learned from Confucius, who lived 200
years prior to his time, but even though
they did not even live in the same era,
Mencius was able to achieve
second only to his example,
which was Confucius
and became the second sage
of the Confucius school.
There is a more contemporary example,
there was a kid who really
liked Michael Jackson.
He listened to Michael Jackson songs and
watched his performances
every time he danced,
he learned every single detail and mimicked
every single feature of Michael Jackson
and when this kid performed,
he looked almost like Michael Jackson.
Same thing. Like if I talk about Dharma,
I always listen to Master Chin Kung,
I mimic him as well.
Having a noble teacher is good,
and we should learn.
But we must stick to one
because if we have too many,
we will be distracted.
If we follow too many examples our hearts
are not settled, they might all
be good examples
but if we follow all of them
we'll be in a mess,
we'll be distracted.
If you want to learn
you must focus on and
deepen our studies on one approach.
So that's the principle we're trying to
bring out from these examples,
especially in the Dharma Ending Age,
where
there are so many options and
so many selections,
avoid that and solidify your studies,
your Buddhist cultivation,
do not mix and match
because our time is so short and
everything's changing so fast.
Of the Four Great Vows, Number three is:
May I vow to learn all of the Dharma
approaches towards enlightenment.
However,
this vow is not
for our current situation.
It's meant for after you go to the Pure Land.
In our time, everything is pushing us,
so we can only focus on one,
we only have the energy for one.
Our Pure Land patriarchs
were all enlightened people.
But they let go of all the teachings
and all of the sutras that they
learned and mastered
and focused only on chanting Amituofo in the end.
So therefore, you only need one teacher
if you want to learn.
In your heart, who is your teacher?
It has to be someone
who you admire,
who actually is virtuous
and has profound knowledge,
wisdom.
So,
for many of us,
we choose Master Chin Kung.
We come to
this Dharma place to learn
from him or his teachings.
So, one teacher is enough, if you already
selected this person, stick to him/her,
stick to his/her teachings,
because if you have two masters,
it is like pointing at branching
paths in your learning.
Three masters is like pointing to a T Junction
in your learning. Four masters ends up
as a Cross Junction in your learning.
So which way do you want to go?
Because everyone is good, right?
He's good, she's good, everyone's good.
So you end up
doing nothing at all
and getting confused
Like back when I was being ordained as
a monk, some people told me
I should learn from Zen禪宗,
some said
I should learn from Tibetan Zhonya
which is Aiyana and Tian Tai天台宗,
some said I should learn from the sutra point of view.
There are so many points of view and
all of them are good.
As you see in the picture, one person who
stands in the middle of four directions,
which way should you go?
Everyone says
every direction is good.
You get confused, right?
Therefore, you should pinpoint in one direction
and stick to it. Otherwise, we learn nothing
in the end, we achieve nothing.
We can't achieve anything
if we get distracted.
You have to start from
what your current situation is,
your current circumstance.
Look at the people who are successful,
they put all of their effort and
energy on one thing.
So it also
applies to worldly pursuits,
not only spiritual pursuits in Buddhism.
You can succeed as long as
you are willing to focus,
concentrate on one path.
If you want to be a teacher, you focus on
the skills and the demeanors and
the virtues of being a teacher.
If you want to be a dancing instructor,
you focus on dance techniques and
everything about dancing.
If you want to be a Dharma teacher,
you must focus on all the conditions
that make a good Dharma teacher,
specialize in it.
There are a lot of
people who like to study.
Why are they not successful?
If you're learning
from more than one master
at a time, you are done for.
Why? No matter how accomplished the teacher is,
if our attention is diverted, left and right,
up and down,
if our heart
is not settled in one direction
then we can't achieve anything.
So, hence,
this is what we call discipleship.
One teacher, one path. 一師一道
From now on, after hearing this Dharma talk,
we should constantly reflect on
this phrase: Focus on one approach.
Not only do we need to follow only one teacher,
we must also only focus on
one approach to cultivation.
All Buddhist cultivation methods,
given by Buddha, will help you
achieve a pure heart.
You just need to focus on one path to get there,
you will not go wrong and if you
find a good teacher, stick to him/her.
Because
the problem we have nowadays is,
we are not listening with our heart.
There are many people, no matter what you say,
no matter what you try to
explain or prove,
that will always try to go against what is being
taught because they keep thinking about
a lot of things, they get distracted.
Everyone's trying to learn everything because
we think if we learn a lot of knowledge
then I can help solve society's problems.
However, I ask them:
Have you solved your
own problem first?
Have you solved your own problem that is
facing you right now? If you can't even
fix yourselves, how can you fix others’?
That's why
Buddhism is high wisdom
because it gets to the root of the matter.
And this is why
it's different from religions
as well.
Religions are focused on Gods,
they're not focused on
attaining a pure heart,
only Buddhism keeps
bringing up the attainment
of a pure heart, which is non-attachment.
Only Buddhism
puts so much emphasis on this.
What is the appearance of a person
who has attained a pure heart?
First, less affliction and vexation.
Second, they have more wisdom.
These two are enough to handle everything
you encounter.
It's enough to liberate you
from all of your troubles,
in everything you face.
Purity of heart
comes from the heart of respect,
the heart of sincerity.
All of the worldly problems,
all of your problems,
how do you solve them?
Only wisdom can solve them.
Only wisdom can solve all of these
societal problems or any kind of problems.
There are no alternatives beyond that. That's
why Buddha Dharma focuses so much on
wisdom and awakening from delusion
because we are lacking in both of these.
Especially in this era,
especially nowadays,
if you want to be happy and have a fulfilling life,
the ingredients we lack in achieving this beautiful
ending picture are wisdom and awakening.
So in the past, in my Dharma Center that I host,
after Sunday’s chanting service, we always
gathered together to talk about Buddhism,
and sip some tea along the way.
Tea and Dharma. We can't do it now
in Sydney unfortunately.
After the chanting service,
a few people would stay behind,
especially business people,
I asked them: You do not lack things
because you are wealthy.
But do you know what you guys lack?
They were like:
I don't know.
They could not answer this question.
So let me ask you guys the same question:
What do you guys lack in this life?
You can’t answer it.
Can you chant the sutras? Yes.
Can you chant Amituofo? Yes.
What do you lack in this world?
I answer: a heart of peace,
a heart of joy, a peaceful heart,
a peaceful state of mind,
a joyful state of mind all the time.
To learn,
to start on this journey,
we need to start with
the most everyday problems
that we face.
Only common people, only ordinary people
have afflictions, issues, problems,
depressions and all that.
A sage does not have problems at all.
So we have to start from something close to us,
something we need to solve right away.
I don't even need to ask, by looking at your face,
by looking at your expression I already know
there are a lot of problems, because
what we think appears on our face.
So if you want to truly liberate yourself
from all of your affections,
to be happy and to be fulfilled,
what do we rely on?
Wisdom and awakening,
with this right combination
it becomes Right Awakening.
Only when you have Right Awakening wisdom,
will you be able to navigate
out of these problems.
Because it's safe, it's a solid, safe path.
It's a path that will definitely lead you
to liberation from your suffering.
If you look at society today,
if you look at issues,
a lot of people think:
I would be happy if I had more money,
I can live in a good home, have a good car
and have a good quality of life.
But when we
actually look at those people who
made it, even though they're wealthy,
it's common that these people’s hearts
are not at peace, they are still
agitated and still depressed.
So, in my Indonesian temple,
there are young Buddhists who go to
the temple to be married
and during the ceremony,
most of them take the Three Refuges
and the Five Precepts.
So, the ceremony goes like this,
they ask for the Dharma and
as a Dharma teacher,
I give them the Five Precepts
and the Three Refuges
before they marry.
So, beyond that, I also ask them:
Why do you marry?
To be happy.
If you
want to be happy,
what is the condition for that?
They say:
Having cars, a house and the basic
securities, then we will be happy.
However, when we look at
the actual statistics of divorce,
a lot of these people have good incomes,
most people who get divorced
are good income earners, they have
all of these conditions mentioned,
but they still
end up with a broken family.
So these things are not the cause of happiness.
So, this warrants our rethinking,
our reflection.
All of the problems,
from our personal level,
our livelihood, our lifestyle to society,
family and workplace,
they all rely on wisdom
to be resolved.
We must not neglect the importance of wisdom,
the role of wisdom, because other stuff
is not reliable.
All of these things like possessions,
status and prestige, appear because
the condition is right,
but they will
go away as well and they will not
give you what you are looking for.
You can’t find happiness outside,
no matter how hard you work or
how much OT you perform,
it will only bring you
more and more (worries),
as you own more, you worry more.
The person who truly made it,
made it to the happy place,
is the one who has a very rich inner world,
they will not be moved by outside phenomena.
However, remember that we do not lack
wisdom, but wisdom is pure.
Good fortune is untainted, it is a pure heart,
because our wisdom, our good fortunes are
there but it's mixed up with our afflictions.
Smart people are everywhere as well.
We are not lacking smart people in our country,
in our world.
In Chinese,
there's a saying:
People who are too smart end up toppling
themselves, end up making a fool out of
themselves, trying to be smart.
For example,
you can look at the politicians nowadays,
they're all smart people.
But how
do they use their smarts?
What is the effect of their smartness?
They have to be smart to make it to the top of
the chain right? However, what's the effect
of their policies,
what is the effect of their actions and deeds?
They cause more harm than good to the stability
of society on almost every matter.
They cause more misery to the people
and the people go through worse
and worse times.
So why is that the case?
Because the wisdom they have
is polluted or mixed with afflictions.
What afflictions?
Wandering thoughts, discriminations, prejudice,
attachment to things, selfishness, pursuit of fame,
prestige, greed, hatred and ignorance.
None of them is clear from their heart. And this
is why, with this kind of tainted heart, we face
the external world and end up making it worse.
Very smart, but not wise.
That's a common problem,
a common affliction nowadays.
All of these smart people
were born with desires and
other afflictions.
For example, the first World War and the
Second World War were pushed by desires
such as the desire to expand,
the desire to own
and the desire to inflate the ego.
If there was a First and Second World War,
there is a guarantee
for a Third World War
but I don't know when.
All we can do
is chant Amituofo and really seek
to be reborn in the Pure Land.
If everyone purified their heart,
this world would become
the Pure Land.
Because these two wars happened
without people thinking about it,
they didn't plan for them.
WWI happened because some people
got assassinated, and then
a chain of events caused the war.
WWII was caused by some madman who
wanted to expand his territory and
it ended up causing conflicts.
The third world war will happen
in the same way,
it's not illogical.
Two days ago, there was a lay person who told me:
I regret (not traveling around before Covid,
and now I am) not able to walk around.
I told him: The world is illusionary,
there's no need to be regretful
in this illusory bubble.
Because when we go to the Pure Land,
everything is real. I mean, everything
comes from the True Nature.
So you can go anywhere at any time.
So moving back to our current world,
why is the world not at peace?
Because everyone starts with thinking
from their own self-interest
at the expense of others.
If everyone thinks like that, self-interest as
number one, how can we have a peaceful
world, have a world of harmony?
Because of self attachment, we have hatred,
because you do not follow me
or follow my desires,
or you have greed, I want, I wish, I love.
So the attachment to self is the cause
of all this misery.
If it goes against me, I hate it.
Something I like,
it's great.
And ego brings out that arrogance as well.
I am above others, stuff like that.
Everything's I.
So Buddha starts with
open heart surgery on the ego.
This is how Buddha treats this problem.
We have to break through the illusion of self.
Without true wisdom, without true effort,
even if you learn Mahayana Buddhism,
it will have no effect on us.
There's no achievement in our cultivation
because the pollution is there.
The ego is still there.
Everything you do is tainted
by that perspective.
So no matter what we do, we will be tainted
by the ego and end up creating bad karma.
So our life becomes miserable.
A person who is full of ego, cannot be at peace.
A person who is full of ego cannot have
a united family or a united nation.
Even in an organization like a Dharma place,
you will not be brought up to the good point
if everyone's egotistical.
So Buddha advised us if we can take our
“I” out of the way when we are doing stuff,
thinking stuff, speaking stuff, planning stuff,
and instead we
always think about others,
then eventually, everything gets better.
If we think more about benefiting others,
less about ourselves,
then we get closer to that happy life.
I met a householder, a lay Buddhist and
I said to her: You seem to have a very good
material life, everything you need is there.
This was an elderly lady who served the
community every day in the temple.
I asked her:
Do you feel tired, fatigued?
This elderly lady said,
No, I don't feel fatigued at all,
I feel more energetic. The more I do,
the more energy I have.
I feel the world is bigger.
On the other hand, when people who have
everything, but only think of themselves
rather than to benefit others,
experience any little triggers, any little
wrong tone, or being brushed the wrong way,
begin bickering, ranting and whining.
Everything
comes from hatred,
because it touches the ego.
Therefore, if we remove selfishness,
we will gain true benefits. With that,
we will attain Right Awakening.
So we understand that Right Awakening
has its own standard to measure against,
it's not a title you can give to anyone.
Why do we start from Right Awakening?
A person with this level of cultivation,
has let go of ego and selfishness,
the idea that “I” comes first.
Do you understand? If so,
we should take it seriously and start
aiming for Right Awakening.
So how do we attain Right Awakening?
We need to let go of our selfishness, purify
our heart from all this selfishness, narrowness.
On one side you're letting go of this, and
on the other side recovering your compassion,
the broad mindedness.
So, this is a brief introduction
on the first level of
Buddhist cultivation.
The definition of Right Awakening
is the absence of selfishness,
the absence of ego.
So, using that standard, if we look at ourselves,
if we have a desire for fame, prestige,
lust and all that, still have those desires,
then
we have not attained Right Awakening.
Now we move into the second level.
Because when we learn Buddhism, we need
to go to the highest level gradually.
So, number two is Samyak-Sambodi.
So, Equally Perfect Enlightenment.
This is like a Master level
in university qualifications.
So from a Bachelor degree to a Masters Degree,
a Masters Degree in Buddhism is Equally
Perfect Enlightenment. Equal to what?
At this level, we are equal to Buddha in terms of
if we achieve this level, your level of enlightenment,
awakening, is the same as Buddha.
You have not attained Buddhahood but your
understanding and your awakening is already
at the same level as Buddha.
So you see what Buddha sees. So,what does it mean?
We should continue next week,
because our time has passed.
I would like to summarize it.
There's a lot more actually, that follows about
this Equally Perfect Enlightenment.
Not only do you need to attain Right Awakening,
which is Sambodhi, you need to attain
Equally Perfect Enlightenment,
which is Samyak-Sambodhi.
How do you get Samyak-Sambodhi?
Do you believe in yourself?
Do you have confidence in achieving it?
Don't be stuck being an Arhat.
You want to be a Buddha,
don't stop at the first level, you want to be
equal to Amitabha Buddha,
to Shakyamuni Buddha.
You should have this, Buddha
encouraged that you should. This is
what differentiates Buddhism from religions.
In Buddhism,
everyone is encouraged
to become a Buddha.
First you need to believe in yourself (have faith),
as long as you have the will and the persistence,
you will achieve that.
Obviously, during the process, you need to
pay the price equivalent to the level
of attainment you achieve. What price?
The price of your ego, that means you need
to be patient, you need to take
the test in everyday life.
Because without tests, the tribulations of life,
you never know how far you have reached,
how much you can take in,
how much you can resolve.
No matter what you see, what you hear,
what you touch, what you eat, what
you think, you must be patient, let it go.
If you have done it to a level where you do
not give rise to a single thought, congratulations!
You have attained the level of Buddhahood!
So now we will stop here.
We'll continue next week explaining
what Equally Perfect Enlightenment is.
Why it is not a normal level of attainment
and why it is so good. So we'll stop here.
If there were any errors,
please give me a bit of feedback.
I would like to wish everyone a good,
beautiful evening. Amituofo, thank you!
