Teaching of our mentor
Author: Fafu
Translator : Lotus
We should grasp the key point, the root, to specially subdue afflictions which are greed, hatred, delusion, arrogance and doubt in our minds. This is the fundamental point. If you cultivate specially focusing on and treating the fundamental point, you will improve yourself faster than others. If you don’t cultivate like this and just do focusing on and treating unimportant point, you will be hard to attain achievement.
When we have no ability to lead and help others, we should not always think about and do what we can’t do. After we have abilities, we can go and subdue the arrogance of sentient beings. Now it’s the only way for us to quickly achieve our abilities first.
Praise our mentor
I praise you endlessly, our mentor. I am deeply grateful to you for rescuing me and my family from crises.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because you can remember the Dharma without thought and you have always applied your mind to achieve all merits and virtues.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because you have the super power of understanding. When translating sutras, you can understand them immediately.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor. To understand the Dharma precisely, you intentionally went to study in detail the development and change of ancient Chinese characters.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor. You told us that dhyana could produce transcendent power and was developed into witchcraft and traditional Chinese medicine. You compared the western medicine with traditional Chinese medicine. All these are more professional than experts. What you have taught is the most superior. I’ve never heard of it before.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, and enjoy the achievement you have made with great effort so that we can understand quickly the key points and principles of the Sutra, Law and Discourses of Tri pitaka, and go into battle lightly and with sufficient resources to achieve fast.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because you have enlightened us about the horror of afflictions with the help of examples in our life:” we should not apply affliction to bury our success, glory and future but master the arisal of conditions skillfully and train our attitude, expressions, words and gesture with joy and persistence so that we can achieve nobility and elegance as soon as possible.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because you have understood the Dharma thoroughly and expounded it more flexibly:” Joy should be put first among kindness, compassion, joy and giving. When there is condition, there can exist joy, interest and impulse. We can increase and solidify the conditions through feeling it repeatedly, thinking of its benefit repeatedly and paying homage to it joyfully.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because you are a scientist like a Buddha who overlooks the frontier of the science and apply the Buddha’s teachings precisely to awaken the dreamer:” The Great World is like a dream, so one should do the Buddha’s work in it and not build up various demonic realms in the midst of the illusions.” Your elegance is far-reaching, profound and appears from time to time so that sentient beings admire you and praise you with words.
