Teaching of the Mentor
Author: Fafu
Translator : Lotus
Words from the authority
In fact, we have actually obtained a lot from our speech with our mouth by ourselves. Everyone is a king whose words are full of authority. You are what you say. Maybe you think it is others that you abuse, but the consequence is people will receive the result of evil karma which he does by himself and no anyone else can receive the result of it.
Bargaining
If you bargain, everyone will bargain with you when you do business and work in the future, and even each person around you will bargain with you. How could you live? Remember: because your roots can’t determine others’ roots and also theirs can’t determine yours, you will plant your roots forever according to what you do, so do the others. Everyone plants his own roots. You plant yours and he plant his. It’s your work to determine what you want to cultivate and the others also do the same thing according to their will. Anyway, you will receive the good or bad results according to what you cultivate. It’s up to you.
Praising our mentor
I praise you, our mentor, because you take others’ faults as your own by example, “It’s because we have not led and inspired sentient beings properly so that they have not done well.”
I praise you, our mentor, because you have never been obstinate and disputed with others. Contrarily, you have been mediating a dispute and resolving embarrassment timely.
I praise you, our mentor, because you have always been according with what the Buddha says and cultivating according to it all the time, having given the best to others at any time, abandoned thoroughly all afflictions, never used the Buddha dharma to serve your affliction and never against the buddhas and the Dharma.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because you have been endowed with these qualities such as humor and fun, Powerful Cohesion and gladdening sentient beings and the buddhas.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because you have been full of wisdom and insight, firmly like the true nature, never picked up the defects of others but their merits and virtues.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because you are capable of letting others abandon the bad habit of attachment to cosmetics with a few words and at the same time can accord with and satisfied their will of how to become beautiful by bestowing excellent skills.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because, owing to your powers of merits and virtues, I still live at ease today in spite of the rampant disease.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because you have diligently cultivated the hidden merits and virtues, having never mentioned your stomach pain for several decades.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because, having firmly established in belief, every moment you know you belong to the Triple Jewel and never forget this.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because you have been praising or criticizing somebody according to the various situations in order to enlighten them.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because nothing can prevent my advance, though it may be harder than others，if I rely on you.
I praise you, our mentor, and I take you as a jewel. May all beings immerse themselves in your kindness at the same time and may they be assimilated into the wisdom of the buddhas at the same time so that they can transcend the bondage of the world and experience the unspeakable wonderful stage.
