世界華光功德會
蓮生活佛
真佛論劍
Guru's Talk
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如何皈依蓮生活佛
 

Guru's Talk

 

Focusing the Heart in One Place

•By Living Buddha Lian-Sheng, Sheng-Yen Lu•

Translated by Cheng Yew Chung. Edited by TBN

I want to say that most human beings are spiritually sleeping or living in a state of spiritual coma, often unaware why they are so busy at all. It is rare to find a moment of peace and tranquility for oneself.

Think about it--

Don't you have to rush to the office to attend to business everyday?

Don't you need to work overnight, overtime, and attend meetings every day?

Don't you have to attend to endless housework every day?

Don't you have to attend to ceaseless trivial matters every day?

Do you really enjoy a comfortable meal every day?

Do you really enjoy a good sleep every night?

……

We keep ourselves busy, and busily work until we fall sick and die. I realize that there are simply too many trivial matters in our lives, and it seems that keeping ourselves busy is normal, and not being busy is abnormal. Human beings have become a herd of deranged wild beasts, roaming in a world filled with too much desire, their thoughts wandering from one end to the other.

"Too little time!" says everybody.

Yet the Buddha says, "When you focus your heart in one place, you can achieve everything!"

Amitabha Buddha says, "If your heart is undistracted, you shall gain rebirth in the Buddha Land!"

We as practitioners are concerned with the heart. Of course, you cannot cut yourself off from your daily life and talk only about the heart, foregoing your office work, your business, your household chores, and your trivial little things. What I mean to say is that you must know how to prioritize. What you need to let go, you let go. You cannot want everything, and exhaust all your strength pursuing everything. By doing so, nothing good is achieved.

Modern man—his mental focus is scattered and his heart is restless.

We as practitioners—we focus our heart in one place.

We must keep to at least one practice session per day so that our heart is not wandering too much. We practice to keep our cultivation going, which helps to keep us awake spiritually. It helps to maintain a tranquil state of mind and spirit, so that we may experience the state of focusing the heart in one place.

If you are simply too busy and too tired, recite just ten minutes of the Buddha’s name or ten minutes of mantra! It is true that material desires may come to us from every direction, but we must ask ourselves, what is it that we can truly own forever?

We must learn to let go!

For those who can focus their heart in one place are the truly awakened ones!

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