Steady Progress——72

Author: Fafu

Translator : Lotus

I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, for your subtle Dharma voice, declaring the importance of “respect”: “If you don’t respect everything, everything will not be good to you. You have formed a solid fruit in your mind for all your life, and you get angry when you see it. It is inexplicable, that kind of vexation will come, see everything is not good.

What will be the effect of the person who pays respect to everything? In the future, everything will bring you joy and happiness, and you will always be in that joy and happiness. If you respect anything, you will be able to have a natural joy and happiness in all the people you see and touch in the future, although you don’t know why. Respect produces happiness, but disrespect produces suffering.

I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, for the vivid examples you have given us to realize the truth of the world and to get rid of the mud of distress and delusion.

I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, you are joyfully optimistic about all these sufferings on behalf of all beings and feel ashamed that you have not cultivated your own causes.

I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, you are careful not to nourish troubles when you help people, but when others express gratitude, you often say, “I just want to help people”.

I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, you must do things for people when you receive their offerings, so that the merits of their offerings can be fulfilled through the karma of their offerings.

I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, for your honesty and integrity, and for your truthfulness and sincerity in your responses to each picture.

I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, you are extremely gentle. You are so gentle that you can round any square instrument. Like the soft water lapping against the boulder, you invisibly wear away our obstinance without causing any damage.

I praise you endlessly, our Kind Mentor, for your wonderful ingenuity, for your timely, precise, and quick adjustment of happiness; for your skillfulness in allowing people to delve deeper into and treat their worries; for not forcing them to do what they should do, and for allowing us to be elevated in joy.

I praise my mentor endlessly, and I am grateful to you, you have fixed your status, dwelling in the Dharma position. Gentle and elegant fragrance, dispelling dust and dirt, complete and harmonious, free from suffering and obtain happiness.