This passage explains how Buddhist practice can help transform the mind and achieve inner peace and wisdom. It begins by emphasizing that anxiety, greed, and anger are not innate but are ingrained bad habits that can be changed. The passage introduces the concepts of Great Compassion and Bodhicitta (the resolve to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient beings) as the starting points for practice. It describes how preoccupation is not something that needs to be nurtured to exist and can be weakened without constant reinforcement, offering the “21-day continuous practice method” to cultivate mindfulness. Finally, it points out that the root of all pain is involvement and encourages personally experiencing the nature of pain to realize its harm. It also emphasizes that although prayer can be a support, true merit and wisdom must be cultivated and achieved through one’s own practice.
