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- When you lose some money, you lose nothing
- When you lose a friend, you lose something
- When you lose your reputation, you lose almost everything
- When you lose your mind, you lose everything
- Mind is the soul of our life
- Protecting the mind is protecting the soul
- Developing the mind is developing the soul
- Buddha says
- Right mindfulness
- The meaning of the mind is the ability
- To be aware of things
- Right mindfulness is to advise us
- To be aware of things around us and treat them peacefully
- Do not be cruel to other living beings
- They have feelings just like us
- If fire burns them, the pain is the same
- If boiling water is pour on them, they too scream with pain
- If cut or hurt, blood too flows out
- Be gentle to them and those who are wild or fierce
- Usually they do not attack human, unless provoked
- If they are attacked for no apparent reason
- Then there is something to do with the past life
- They could be great enemies
- In one form or another
- We have heard of dogs killing people
- Snakes or poisonous reptiles killing or eating people
- And wild animals killing people
- With right mindfulness
- We won’t lose our mind or
- Suffer such terrible death
- Unless it is so serious that Heaven cannot even help
- It has to be repaid
- For the last time, the last life
- Some people are under delusion and thought that they have
enlightened
- Chinese says: "Buddha nature exits,
Demon enters."
- They have actually lost their Buddha nature
- Chi Sheung, a student of Hui Neng, who once felt that his
mind was enlightened said:
- "He who is puffed up by the slightest
impression,
- ‘I am now enlightened’
- Is no better than he was when under
delusion
- Had I not put myself at the feet of
the Patriarch
- I should have been bewildered without
knowing
- The right way to go"
- Do not be under the wrong impression and be lost.
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