Teaching of our Kind Mentor
Author: Fafu
Translator : Lotus
Remember that it is not necessary for the mentor to answer what you want to ask. Maybe you ask this problem, but he answers that. However, what he answers is the most appropriate to what you need now. It is not when you consider some Dharma good and want to ask it that the mentor will teach you this.
As long as you keep your shame for whatever you do, the karma is not able to be created. When you keep repenting, you can cleanse yourself of karma, habits and afflictions. If you make a vow while encountering something, you can develop your future abilities.
Praise our Kind Mentor
I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, because your laughing and talking has developed a kind of atmosphere full of the joy of Dharma and happiness, which enlighten the sentient beings and make them improve their wisdom and insight naturally.
I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, because you have mastered the dharma to compliment precisely and subtly. You sincerely praise us from the bottom of your heart for our insignificant merits saying:” This is a very good vow, extremely good; I am very impressed and admire it limitlessly.” You recognize and bless all beings at the same time saying:” You have a few qualities of a Bodhisattva. You will be excellent. You are the smartest.” Your plain praise is free from corruption, full of fragrance and pleasant.
I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, because you, like the Prince of Medicine, have fulfilled your vow of great compassion to save sentient beings compassionately. You have even prayed, desired and thought of various ways to have sentient beings attain all benefits. You have not only released our physical suffering but also helped us to establish the Cause and Condition of liberation. Through your limitless salvation, we take refuge with you sincerely, so we have attained benefits invisibly.
I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, because you have been established in firm patience and taught us by example: “It is very important to be mild and receptive. The minds of veneration，devotion and embracing both awe and love can dissolve all obstacles and can make sentient beings quickly enter the state of the Buddha.” You have subliminally changed our natural rigidity.
I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, because you, with your wisdom and compassion, have taught us how to face sufferings and happiness: ”You are enlarging sufferings when you feel sufferings; you are enlarging happiness when you taste happiness.”
I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, because you have been practicing the teaching of the Buddha and always repenting: “ It is my shame that I have not led and inspired you to enter the path of the Buddha; it is the worst sin that I didn’t take good care of everyone.”
I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, because you are sincere and moving. Your unique manner and deportment cannot be kept down and your unparalleled qualities cannot be hidden by your humility. Your elegance and nobility appear through your speech and behaviors.
