é™æ€è¯ Readings For Silent Reflection
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"A person with a beautiful face may not find happiness in life;
A person with a pure mind will find joy and happiness in life."----------------------------------------------------------------
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Be brave enough to face your challenges. Nothing is difficult in the face of determination.
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The profundity of the Buddha Dharma is not that it is abstract or difficult to understand, but instead it is so direct and realistic about existence or our human condition, so much so we find it so confronting and has difficulty accepting it or go into denial.
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THE BUDDHA’S SALT ANALOGY
“Now suppose a man throws a lump of salt into a small cup of water. What do you think, monks:
would that small quantity of water in the cup become salty and undrinkable through that lump of salt?”
“It would, lord.”
“And why so?”
“The water in the cup is so little that a lump of salt can make it salty and undrinkable.”
“But suppose, monks that lump of salt is thrown into the river Ganges. Would it make the river Ganges salty and undrinkable?”
“Certainly not, lord.”
“And why not?”
“Great, lord, is the mass of water in the Ganges. It will not become salty and undrinkable by a lump of salt.”
LESSON: If one’s heart and mind are not too “salty,” i.e. nonâ€�virtuous, the sufferingâ€�oriented karma one generates will not have much of a negative effect on one’s life.
By reciting Nanmo Amituofo, our heart and mind are not too "salty".
Between cause and effect, there's condition. If the condition is not right, effect will not arise. Shifu said if every cause must have an effect, there's no way that we can liberate. Cause needs condition to be ripen into effect, by reciting Nanmo Amituofo, the condition for the negative karma is less likely to be ripen. -
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