Learning Amitabha Buddha’s Pure Land Wills from the beginning, again.

First, we watched the Amitabha Buddha 48 Wills Video – Link

Sifu talked about the purpose of this new set of classes is to learn to develop the skill of meditation. Where in regular life we can connect to our pure heart essence, and connect to Amitabha Buddha’s Will.

What is a Will?

Before we can understand what WILL means we can go back to check WHO is making these wills? What are we? Understanding who am I will help develop the foundations to create a successful will.

What drives all life forms behaviour?

Then we learn the only two reasons that drive our behaviours – away from suffering and towards joy.

A Will is a way to release suffering (from endless rebirth in a weak body in a strange unknown place without skills).

Amitabha Buddha’s Will is a way to create joy because he has a pure land (larger than the universe) to be reborn and learn to become a Bodhisattva.

What does Pure mean?

Pure means the 4 Eternal Hearts:

• Kindness without Ego
• Care without Negative Personal Emotion
• Joy without Stupidity
• Freedom without Greed

But Pure means it can easily become dirty. So a Pure Heart is constantly practicing and learning wisdom to remain pure.

Free from our Greed

A great one we can focus on each day is to be free from our greed.

Remember Super Mario Bros? When you get a star and you’re invincible? What happens the moment it goes? Oh, sad, I need to get another one.

No matter how long it lasted, we would still be unhappy when it leaves.

Comparing appears – not as good anymore.
Judgmental appears – it’s only fun when I have it, not fun now.
Etc, etc…

Because we never had an appreciation heart to begin with, we cannot suddenly, after the suffering begin to APPRECIATE.

You ruin a cake recipe and suddenly throw some cream and chocolate on top… no sorry, have to throw it away and start again.

How to be free from our greed?

To be free from our greed, one word is enough.

Enough work, enough food, good enough, enough love, enough money, enough attention, enough lazy, enough. … insert any issue.

The more we observe ENOUGH in our lives, the closer happiness is to our hearts.

When enough appears as a calculation habit, we will create wiser causes for our lives.

Enough is when our heart is resting.

That is why Buddha said FREE means free from our own greedy heart.