Amituofo
This means dedicating all of our good deeds and merits to all the sentient beings in the universe. It means broadening our hearts so that the entire universe become one entity. Only when we have reached this state can we be said to have attained the Great Perfection. In our learning and cultivation of the Read More …
Since we benefit from the education we receive from the Buddha, what can we do to repay his kindness? Nowadays, most people enshrine and worship him, making daily offerings to his image on an alter. Is this the right way to repay him? No. These are only rituals to remind us not to forget the Read More …
This requires us to go against what seems so natural to us, jealously. It is natural for humans to have this emotion. For example, small children appear unhappy when others receive more candy than they do. This is jealously and it is a major obstacle to our self-cultivation. Universal Worthy Bodhisattva largely attributed this vow Read More …
Everybody has karmic obstacles. Every thought in a person’s mind causes a karmic act, which in turn will certainly result in an obstacle. What is obstructed? Our true nature, within which there is infinite wisdom and virtue. There are two types of obstacles: those caused by afflictions and those caused by knowledge-attachment. We create them Read More …
The primary characteristic of Universal Worthy Bodhisattva is an immeasurably broad and compassionate mind, which in Mahayana Buddhism is considered as the perfect function of the self-nature. Ordinary Bodhisattvas have seen to their self-nature, but it is partial, not perfect. Only the virtuous character of Universal Worthy Bodhisattva is perfect. All his vows are directed Read More …
Who are Buddhas? We read in the Flower Adornment Sutra, “Sentient or insentient, all attain wisdom.” So all beings that have self-awareness and all things such as plants and minerals are Buddhas-to-Be. With respect for all beings and things, not just the present Buddhas, we will foster the heart of Universal Worthy Bodhisattva. His heart Read More …
Only when we have applied the first four of the five guidelines, the Conditions, the Six Principles of Harmony, the Three Learnings and the Six Paramitas will we truly be a student of the Buddha and be close to Bodhisattvas. Based on the foundation of the Six Paramitas, we can progress to the next level Read More …