Actually we should see him as the most kind person this person who is our enemy is our teacher of patience, for us to learn patience. In the beginning we thought that person was the same as a holy being, a bodhisattva or buddha, or even just a good human being, then when he gets angry with us, provokes us, harms us, or even tries to kill us, we see him as an enemy. Maybe in the beginning we were attached and now totally the opposite. Even the person who got angry towards us in the past, who gave us harm in the past, who we regard as an enemy, maybe first we cherished that person and now we have renounced him. So even this hour’s happiness, right now, if we think in a positive way, then we have happiness, but if we think in a negative way, then we have suffering. This life's happiness also comes from the right concept, the correct way of thinking, and correct actions, pure actions. From that there is the result of temporary and ultimate happiness in this life and the next life.Įven this life's problems come from the wrong concept and wrong action. So the mind which has none of these wrong thoughts is pure Dharma, pure mind, happy mind, inner happy mind and satisfied mind. We have ignorance of this, we have attachment to this life, and we have anger. From the wrong concept, ignorance of karma-not knowing what is right mind and actions and what is wrong, negative mind and negative actions-the result is suffering. Even ultimate happiness, the cessation of suffering, comes from the totally pure mind, the inner, happy mind, the total renunciation of samsara, the opposite of attachment, as well as from the ultimate wisdom realizing emptiness, shunyata, the emptiness of the I.įrom the positive mind-which means from non-anger, non-attachment and non-ignorance - from the positive mind and actions, which is Dharma, the result is happiness.
In reality, the experience of hell is produced by the wrong mind-ignorance and the wrong concepts-and the peerless happiness, the state of omniscient mind, comes from the right concept, from realizations such as compassion towards all the sentient beings and bodhicitta derived from that-to achieve the state of omniscient mind for all sentient beings. The causes are removed and you have totally purified all the delusion and karma, the wrong concepts, the wrong way of thinking, the unsubdued mind. So to achieve ultimate happiness means to achieve success forever, then you don’t fall back into suffering. To achieve the state of omniscient mind, to achieve the total cessation of suffering and the cause of suffering, which is not outside but inside the mind-the negative mind, wrong concepts, delusions and karma-and the actions motivated by those minds. There is a small book that has been translated into English, if you can practice that, reciting the Medicine Buddha mantra and the seven Medicine Buddha’s names, that is extremely good for success, to achieve the peerless happiness, the state of omniscient mind and then the ultimate happiness for sentient beings-to liberate the numberless sentient beings, the numberless hell beings, numberless hungry ghosts, numberless animals, numberless human beings, numberless suras, numberless asuras and numberless intermediate state beings from the oceans of samsaric suffering and bring them in peerless happiness. Then for you the Medicine Buddha practice is best. Discuss this with the Kopan manager and if you can't afford it, then it could be combined with others who also need to have it done.
It comes out very good if you start reciting this sutra regularly: The Dharani Called “Possessing the Attributes of All the Buddhas". You also need to have the Prajnaparamita read by the Kopan monks. My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
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