Joyful sound, hmm.
Sound — you hear sound. No sound — you hear silence.
Ability to be aware — always there. Eternal, never changes.
Observing Self Being Bodhisattva, aware everything. The highest consciousness observes the sound.
Observe: Buddhahood is not the sound, not the silence, not good, not bad, not brightness or darkness.
The ability to be aware of all. That’s Buddhahood.
Buddha is the ability to remain aware of Buddhahood and help everyone become aware.
Great Force Bodhisattva observes all six senses to be aware of our essence, instead of using them to be lost in external information.
Purify your senses — then you are already in Amitabha Buddha’s Pure Land.
Aware the essence is not thinking. It’s the power behind thinking.
It’s like a boat that helps you get to the other side — you have to let go of the boat.
You would not carry the boat along the road with you?
Listen — the listening ability, not listening to the information, sound, or silence.
Who is listening?
That’s the essence — not what you hear.
Not aware of the essence is like a blind man trying to clean the place — bumps into everything and can’t see the dust.
Aware of the essence is like cleaning with the lights on — can clean out all the dust.
Out of the essence, lost in the six sense information.
Back to essence – the bright wisdom of Dharma shines everywhere.
If your heart doesn’t take this with possessive blindness, then your heart in this lifetime can experience internal Pure Land, even in this world.
What is Buddhahood?
- Never hold. Hold nothing, and nothing can be held — remain pure.
- Blindness force makes us always lost in blindness, searching heart.
- That is the bad emperor. We have to bring back the good emperor: Hold nothing.
Our essence, when it’s open, is bigger than any space or the universe.
When it’s shrunken, there is nothing smaller or more detailed — smaller than any atom, smaller than empty space.
If you create positive, joyful energy, then you spread this everywhere.
Create negative energy — you also spread this everywhere as well.
One Heart, 2 Gates. Which gate will you choose? The blind gate or the awakened gate?
Once we are aware of our essence, we will still be lost in our blind ‘I and mine.’ (See everything through the lens of possession. Separate from everything.)
One side has to be aware of not being lost in the blindness.
Other side has to be aware of the essence.
Once aware of both sides, this is back to pureness.
Five types of pollution make us not aware of our essence:
- Greedy for money
- Possessive for materials
- Crazy for fame
- Greedy for food
- Lazy for sleeping
The trick of greed is — you think you will get something and then you will be happy.
But you get it, and you just want more. You’re just lost in the greedy power.
Someone jumps from a building. When they jump, they feel regret.
Who regrets? The Buddhahood regrets — that they didn’t develop.
Have a big bed — if your heart is restless, you will not sleep.
Have a small bed, and your heart is peaceful — you will sleep deeply.
So it’s not about the materials — it’s about a pure heart to enjoy.
When people say they are good, doesn’t mean they are good.
When people say they are bad, doesn’t mean they are bad.
That is their illusion.
No coming or going.
Coming is searching.
Going is possessive.
Not coming, not going — nothing to bother you.
Possessive and searching creates all the troubles and worry.
Observing Self-Being.
Observing for blind self being.
Observing for our self being — and aware we still have a lot of blindness.
Observing power is the self-being — so no need to observe anymore.
After that, realize: self is a combination. No true individual self.
Then aware — everything is all just being together, which is all causation, united as illusion.
Because it’s illusion — then being is non-being. So even being, disappears.
Once being disappears — then back to pure empty.
Some people do meditation very concentrated to purify themselves.
But in normal life — don’t try to purify. In normal life, you have to train as the main cause.
Meditation is a short time. Regular life is a lot of time.
So training in regular life will create the greatest force.
Speaking more calmly is the quickest way to avoid making a mistake.
When bad intention appears — put a zipper to your mouth.
Or it will create bad karma so quick — faster than any action takes.
Trying hard to purify blocks your power.
Directly aware — life is illusion and essence is pure.
Amitabha Buddha wants to take away suffering and provide unlimited joy.
If we want to get rid of suffering and receive unlimited joy, then the double-will matches (his will and our will together.)
In philosophy class, you just practice and train.
If you can’t bring the philosophy into your normal life, then your training hasn’t graduated.
It never becomes a lifestyle.
When you fail a test — it’s not to complain, it’s to have appreciation heart to learn more. Humble, curious and patient – these are the causes to develop higher in anything.
Birth and death is just possessive heart to the information.
When possessive heart can let go, no beginning, no end can appear.
Respectful Calling
Namo means willing heart toward some type of pure, high spirit.
Amituofo (Amitabha) is unlimited light, unlimited lifetime.
Namo Amituofo / Namo Amitaba Buddha.
