Teachings of the Mentor
Author: Fafu
Translator : Lotus
Without seeking, but Possessing Everything
We don’t go to seek for these things such as food, clothes, play and pleasure. We are not in pursuit of these but practice the path of the Buddha wholeheartedly. Once you attain it, you will be established in ease because you can transform everything at will.
Without seeking, you will possess everything. That is to say: practicing everything through attachment to nothing. If you don’t go to run after all of these, you can possess them at will; if you go to chase after them, you can never catch up with them! You can never do this when you follow them, but when you don’t go to chase after them, you can possess them forever.
You can think that it is so good to let all of these follow you. You will be tired to death if you follow them. It will be so tired of you to seek such things as food, clothes, play and enjoyment but never catch up with them. You would prefer to make yourself free from them. Everything will come to be with you when you don’t go to seek them. How ease it is!
I am making a vow that all sentient beings, resembling our mentor and the Buddha, can practice the path of the Buddha attentively, be not in pursuit of all of these things such as food, clothes, play and enjoyment, transform everything at will and possess them at ease. I will become firmly established in this vow through undisturbed and dedicated thought in my mind with great joyful faith and the persistent and courageous power and then will make it become wisdom within myself and fit the roots of all beings. I will rescue all sentient beings with this wisdom and countless perfect kindness, compassion, joy and giving.
Praise the Mentor
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because you have taught us patiently how to just perform good deeds through the transformation of the wisdom when we encounter every person and everything.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because you have never hurt anybody and let none of them have the feeling of being abandoned.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because you have compassionately enlightened us saying “ Nobility is revealed in words and actions, and low is also shaped by oneself.”
I praise you endless, our mentor, because you have so treasured the affinities with sentient beings that you have considered carefully whether to send and reply a message from QQ or not.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because you have preserved the Dharma in your mind at ease and expounded all the wonderful Dharma originally.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because you have understood deeply our low character that though we get benefit from others, we don’t repay them and on the contrary, we even pick on them, however, you don’t have a little dislike and hatred to us yet.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because you explain the Dharma with illustrations, which is euphemistical, fascinating, thought-provoking and makes people have deep memories and enlightened easily.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because you have been versed in teaching us wisdom and firm it by films:” Sincerity and humility are what can move people and make them obey.”
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because you, like our kind father, have taught us the truth of being human compassionately, saying: “People who likes to beg is useless. Highly qualified people enjoy helping people. You should have hands-on approach to everything and improve yourself.”
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because you have truthfully expounded the real history, objectively and without any delusion, educating us so thoroughly that we cannot dare to judge and argue the ancients and the history accidents casually any longer.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because all of your mind, speech and action are the manifestation of the Buddha’s wisdom, full of the great compassion and without any fault.
I praise you joyously because of your merits and virtues and I am infinitely eager for them. I vow that may all sentient beings achieve none other than our mentor and the Buddha.
