◉ Do not be joyful when a bad person is about to be born into the Hell realm for this means that we have no loving-kindness. Instead, try to help them to turn back by understanding what they did in their greed and jealousy.
◉ We practice giving to end greed, follow the precepts to end bad karma, patience to end anger, diligence to end idleness, concentration to end scattered thoughts and wisdom to end ignorance.
◉ Of the three bad karmas, speech is the most damaging, the most serious and the easiest to commit. Feeling remorse can reduce the effect.
◉ Although it is hard to truly understand Buddhism, if we try diligently, we will do so and thus receive the benefits. However, if we merely study Buddhism, we will miss this rarest of opportunities.
◉ Understanding is to understand the principle. Practice is to feel remorse for our faults.
◉ To be closed to the Teacher is to truly understand and follow what is taught, it is not being next to him or her every day.
◉ Why can we not fully understand? We are unable to abandon former improper viewpoints.
◉ Whether we accumulate merits or generate karmic results lies in one thought. Delusion at the time of that one thought creates karmic retribution.
◉ Understand that we have an affinity with all people we encounter. Once we understand this we will be able to accept the true reality that all have been our parents and all will become Buddhas. With this awareness everything else will come naturally and easily.
◉ To genuinely understand one sutra is to understand all sutras.
◉ We now have this rarest of opportunities to learn Buddhism. The question is whether we truly understand. If we do not firmly grasp on to it then misery and suffering lie ahead of us.
◉ If we do not know and understand the past as well as the present, we cannot help others.
◉ Understanding everything around us, without emotion, is deep concentration. This is the way to change the afflicted mind into the Bodhi Mind.
◉ After understanding karma and its consequences, we will refrain from creating any more karma or at least not any bad ones.
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Source Of Information:
《To Understand Buddhism》, by Venerable Master Chin Kung, translated by Silent Voices, distributed by: Persatuan Penganut Agama Buddha Amitabha Malaysia, 90 & 92, Jalan Pahang, Gombak, 53000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.)
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