Written by Andre Diniz Gongcalves Jasmin
With thanks for the Grace of LAO MU and the Virtue of Holy Teachers, it is a very motivating and precious experience in listening to and learning from His Holiness Great Grand Master Wang, Master Wang, Teaching Assistants, Dao brothers and sisters. Indeed, most of people in nowadays world do not behave according to their spirit, true self, pure self. They only look for sensual pleasure, for being admired, getting attention for what they have, for the way they dress and talk. And they don't pay attention to their conscience, their moral, spiritual, or original nature.
Most of the people lead either a life of appearance and dispute; or a life of sexual relationship and work for money; or both of them. I feel like, it is something artificial. Living like this is not worth living. There is no taste. It is sadly empty, aggressive, arrogant, non-humane, or false. People are always cheating each other, forgetting what is their original nature and how to reach the true happiness!
It is easy to think, reject, and blame on other people's fault. But something I've learned here is to be vigorous to myself and merciful to others. That means I've got to be patient, nice, and tolerant to anybody!
Now, the search for true happiness is what brought me to the Providence Maitreya Buddha Missionary Institute, Taiwan. Something what I need must be true and durable. Sensual pleasure is not what I need, since it is just like a snow ball that rolls down a snow hill, at the end it will crash against something, and being broken to pieces by collision. And this is also the way ego affairs go.
The search for something that fulfills, that puts an end to the fear which world affairs produce: what is worth doing? And have I found this precious answer? Yes, by LAO MU's mercy. It is to follow Dao by means of hard work.
Great Grand Master Wang says: An enlightened cultivator is the one who can always benefit others. Like the sky: life on earth would not be able to live without the sun and moon. And has anybody ever heard the sky be proud or arrogant about it? No, nobody has. Everything we get from what we have sowed. Well, everything grows from earth would be free for our life, so is the air we breath.¨ This is the right path of life, true life. No guilty, no worry; the shiny fulfills the empty! If we are able to follow our Holly Teachers virtues, the virtues of sky and earth, we shall live in complete peace and true tranquility!
The more we love and respect every person, every being, and every thing, the more we work to benefit humankind (as a whole), the more our life is worth living. This is what I'd call to follow Dao, live in touch with what keep you alive, instead of playing against your true self.
LAO MU is inside me (my true self or spirit)! Whatever we think, act, or react, Heaven can clearly see through, and completely record down (at least I believe so). We'll be in peace as long as our daily life is free of bad thoughts, arrogance, aggression, and other egoistic characteristics. Knowing the truth, having a merciful heart, it is only natural that we work hard in order to awaken brothers and sisters, helping them to find and restore their original Happy Nature, and departing their lost in worldly affairs. After understanding the truth, I've got to live in a modest, humble, simple, and true way.
Keeping in mind it is easy, very easy to say beautiful things but not as easy to behave beautifully. Don't give up our hope! May LAO MU forgive me if I wrote something that is not true! May LAO MU bless, protect, and guide everyone!
Conclusions:
(1) We are all so well treated in this trip, all for free. I mean, what I have done that made Dao brothers and sisters treat me so friendly. And the food! Thank you so much. Now, my next step is to treat every person, every being, and every thing in the same way too!
(2) There is a song that says we've got to build our love on one foundation, we've got to build our love on one solid foundation, yeah¨ I feel that Dao is just this solid foundation!
(3) Unlike the meat-eaters do, vegetarians won't be easy to get aging. They look younger than what they really are, in some cases a lot younger!
About the Writer:
Mr. Andre Diniz Gongcalves Jasmin is a Brazilian citizen of 20 years old, a university student of Psychology. Mr. Jasmin speaks Portuguese as the mother language while English is one of his foreign languages. Less than four months from receiving the Heavenly Great Dao in Brazil, Mr. Jasmin accompanies Master Liu, travels for almost 40 hours on airplanes, comes to our Missionary Institute, attends the Buddha-disciple Class and Ancestral Memorial Ceremony for two weeks. At the end of his visit, Mr. Jasmin writes and shares with us this article in English as How do I feel in this Holy Trip?
Mr. Jasmin is an active and progressive young cultivator, we eagerly wish him a successful and delightful future in Dao field!
heavenly tao are great... so are we ....
Practice wholeheartly... the greatness of all virtues is conscience
Heavenly love
Love and lights,
No comments:
Post a Comment