Teaching of our Kind Mentor
Author: Fafu
Translator : Lotus
Any game has its own principles and rules. Only when we understand and master these precisely can we attain outstanding achievements. Everything in our real life is like this and has its own principles and rules. Only when we understand and master these precisely can we obtain excellent achievements.
Happiness is not what you have got but what you have paid. Boddhisattvas have brought forth the mind like this, practiced it, preserved it and then become buddhas. It’s not that you can get what you want. Only when you give can you get. This is the rule of the universe. So a person who only wants to get will never achieve. A person who wants to give will attain what he gives.
Praise our Kind Mentor
I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, because you have improved our enlightenment and let us get improvement by means of each question.
I praise you endlessly, our mentor, because you are extremely versed in creating the atmosphere full of joy. There are full of meanings and states of the Dharma in your jokes, which inspires us to bring forth enlightenment and strengthens our interest and desire to study more.
I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, because you have taught the importance of the little things, saying: There is no little things in our lives, even including every behavior. If you take it as a little thing, it means that you are heedless. Heedlessness means decline. It is very important to show your part in the extremely small things.
I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, because you have emphasized that we should practice through little things and become a useful person who can find the problems timely and can finally achieve the ability to prioritize and solve these problems.
I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, because you have admonished the persons, who follow the Buddha, that they should have the true grateful mind saying:When receiving any gift from anyone, we should not have the affliction of seeking its defects. We should consider the gifts from others excellent and treasures, and we like them very much.
We should repay others in gratitude for their gifts, help, etc. A person who don’t have the gratitude is a faithless and ungrateful person, which betokens that he will never attain achievements. If we do not recognize the benefactor, the points of our achievement will be quickly nullified.
I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, because you have encouraged us to apply good conditions, saying: Sincere appreciation, praise and gratitude for others is a very good catalyst for the arisal of good condition, which can not only create good condition and gladden others but also win better care from others.
I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, because the light of your wisdom has driven away the fog which blocks our way of moving forward, cut off the way to cliffs behind us, resolved our doubts and confusions, moved away the stumbling block and made us not struggle toughly with uncertainty any more.
I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor. I appreciate you of your protection which has let me escape from one calamity after another though I was born in this evil world. You have enlightened sentient beings, bestowed the power to eliminate obstruction on me and never stopped the Buddha’s work. I praise your wonderful virtues, which have shone through the ages and have been remembered and valued in my mind.
