Publish Date:2024-12-16
I believe I have here expatiated on the correct path a practitioner’s self-cultivation career should surge along. The path is not only correct in orientation but normal and feasible for most practitioners to take and incorporates all the twists and turns a practitioner might encounter in his or her endeavor to finally uncover Buddha-nature in his or her essence of mind. To push ahead along the path with his or her self-cultivation program, a practitioner is bound, with the passage of time, to find his or her exertion really rewarding. And in this I unswervingly believe. If a practitioner can timelessly devote himself or herself to doing things, large or small, to benefit others, he or she should be rightly acclaimed a de facto living Buddha. A habitually unselfish individual is the one whose noble-mindedness is predestined from birth and who never knows the need to worry about any obsessions or attachments. In the past decades our nation was urged to learn from virtues and merits of Mr. Lei Feng (雷锋) who was typically unselfish in nature and most diligent in doing various kinds of socially beneficial deeds. I have consistently acclaimed him as a reincarnated Buddha. We, Chan practitioners, should learn from Mr. Lei Feng his particular way of purifying his psyche by means of submerging himself in all aspects of the everyday mundane life.
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