Dear esteemed audience,Greetings to all!
Today, I wish to share a profound truth: every one of us possesses boundless wisdom, a wisdom that flows freely and can transform everything. Yet, due to our fascination with delusion and attachment, we overlook our innate, pure awareness, trapping ourselves in a sea of endless suffering—self-imposed, self-confused, and self-destructive. Let us explore together how to break free from delusion and awaken our true mind.
1. Inherent Wisdom Obscured by Delusion and Attachment
Within every heart lies infinite wisdom, pervasive throughout the universe, transcending all dualistic concepts. This radiant mind is “radiant” because it manifests whatever you affirm. However, due to ignorance, we become enamored with delusion and attachment, neglecting our luminous true nature.
We often mistake the “five aggregates” (form, sensation, perception, volition, and consciousness) as our true self. In reality, these aggregates are mere manifestations of delusional distinctions, yet we cling to them as “I.” Driven by the viruses of greed, anger, arrogance, and doubt, we create karma through body, speech, and mind, ensnaring ourselves in endless cycles of self-entrapment, self-confusion, self-destruction, self-pity, and self-sorrow. This is the root of boundless suffering!
2. Seeing Through the Five Aggregates as Delusion
How do we escape this sea of suffering? The key lies in deeply realizing the truth of the five aggregates. By contemplating and dismantling their illusory nature, we understand that the five aggregates are merely manifestations of delusional distinctions, not our true self. Bodhisattvas, fearing and renouncing delusion and evil, transform their inner toxic tendencies, cultivating the Buddha’s four immeasurable qualities—loving-kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.
The radiant mind is like a supercomputer: you can install “virus software,” leading to chaos and confusion, or “wisdom software,” enabling clarity and harmony. The problem is, beings often unconsciously choose the former, reinforcing contradictory delusional labels through habitual learning and conditioning, clinging to false perceptions and cycling endlessly in pain.
3. Clinging to the Body as “I” Distorts the World
One of the most common attachments is believing “the body is me.” We exhaust ourselves maintaining and indulging the body, unaware that it is afflicted by three obstacles—karmic obstructions, retributive suffering, and afflictive hindrances. When the radiant mind perceives the world through this diseased body, all experiences are distorted, like seeing through colored lenses, unable to discern the true nature of things.
Worse still, in this mistaken perception, we perpetuate karma through body, speech, and mind, reinforcing contradictory delusional labels and clinging to suffering. This cycle of ignorance, from past to present, is endless. Yet, the root of all this lies not externally but in our own affirmation.
4. The Wondrous True Mind Pervades the Universe
In truth, mountains, rivers, earth, and the vast cosmos are all manifestations of the wondrous true mind. This mind inherently possesses the ability to see, hear, and know, without relying on the body. It pervades the universe, unobstructed and boundless. When you identify the body as “I,” your spiritual perception is limited to the body’s three afflictions. But when you awaken to the radiant mind’s inherent purity, transcending all relative concepts, you unleash its infinite potential, freely manifesting whatever you need to see.
The difference lies in your affirmation. Identifying with the body confines you to limited joy and suffering, the realm of ordinary beings. Recognizing the radiant mind as true grants boundless freedom, the realm of sages. The distinction between ordinary and enlightened, suffering and bliss, hinges on a single thought of affirmation.
5. The Call to Awakening and Practice
Dear friends, your pure awareness has never left you—it is here, now, awaiting your awakening. Break free from delusion, let go of attachment, and realize the wondrous true mind as your true self. This is the swift path to liberation.
Your inherent Buddha-wisdom will guide you beyond the limits of time, space, light, darkness, and matter, unveiling infinite possibilities.
Conclusion
Beloved friends, the radiant mind is the source of your boundless potential, your innate treasure. Release attachment to the five aggregates, cease mistaken identification with the body, and awaken to the pure, wondrous true mind! When you truly awaken, you will discover: all suffering and bliss, ordinary and enlightened, are determined by your mind; all freedom is your inherent radiance.
Thank you all!
