Mettavalokanaya_Buddhist_Magazine_February_2018

Peace inner heart makes
Clean territory….
Most Venerable Master Tsu Cheng
Chief Abbot of Pure Land Temple in
Ban Qiao, Chu Lin Temple Xin Dian
& Vice Abbot of Cih Ming Temple in
Tai Zhong in Taiwan
There are two ways to create
peace and happiness. First is external. By
obtaining better shelter, better clothes,
food and friends, we can find certain
measure of peace and happiness. But
external peace and happiness cannot
last long without its counterpart. The
second is metal development, which
yield inner peace and happiness by
practicing Buddhism.
To practicing Buddhism is not
only on the purify of our mind, but
also on bringing forth our Budhi mind
(Bodhicitta), and having great mercy on
living creatures. Our life is depended
upon the help of others. Therefore, we
also need to use any convenient method
to let people cultivate the mind and
wisdom and let their inner heart peace
and happiness.
In Vimalakirti, Buddha said that
“If we want to get the Pure Land of
Ultimate Bliss, then we should purify
our mind and keep our heart clean.”
In order to have an inner peace
and happiness, we promote Buddhist
perspective to purify people’s mind
and use Buddhist precepts to purify the
society, through learning and practicing
Buddhism in daily life. As long as our
inner heart is calm, the world we see is
the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss. As long
as our heart is peaceful, our society will
become harmonious.
Most people pursue to get to the
Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss by chanting
Buddha. But they ignore that the main
reason to get to the Pure Land of
Ultimate Bliss is to self-purification that
is to wipe out their mentally slaves to
long existing opinions and traditions.
They should get rid of evil and offer
up all good conduct and enhance their
personality perfect. Tai Xu master said
that, “Perfect character can lead people
to the road of to be a Buddha.” If we
want to purify our mind and inner heart,
we should eliminate three poisons- the
greedy, hatred, and bewilder.
The Buddha said that “the world
what we see is depended on our inner
heart.” Therefore, if we want to live in
the clean territory, we should purify
our mind and inner heart first, have
a good nature, and offer up all good
conduct. Let the world fulfill the spirit
of self-altruism, and then the world will
become better.
Learning Dharma needs to be
thoroughly understood what Buddha
teaches, and needs to be practiced it in
our daily life.
There are eighty-four thousand
Dharma famennian. The most priority
of learning Dharma is bringing forth the
Buddha mind (Bodhicitta) and having
great mercy and gaining the prajna
wisdom. If so, we can get the real
advantages from Dharma and let our
mind and inner heart become peace
and our territory become clean.
“Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss by
Chanting Buddha”….
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