One less thought means one less karma and one more liberation
2023-10-29
Lecture by Master Guang-Qin
You can drop anything, and letting go is work. Not be obsessed with anything at ordinary times, in case thoughts arise when you are about to die, you will continue to reincarnate.
Cultivation is to take stillness in movement, not take stillness in stillness, that means your state is not getting there. It is best to be free from any hindrance, no matter in the movement or stillness.
A more capable person does not cultivate well, because he will think what he wants and what he can do. Cultivation is to cultivate in the fragrance, Sparśa (touch sensation), the Dharma, to wear coarse clothes and coarse food, and to see if he can cultivate his mind to be pure and liberated.
Cultivation should be unhindered, like a bird making a nest, "a soup pot is near by a caged chicken, and a wild crane with no food where the world is wide", it flies anywhere and in anywhere, and just fly away anywhere, it is the most Ishvara bird. Cultivation should be unhindered everywhere, and then the mind will be calm, and then recite the Buddha, not moved as if Tathātā.
If you are greedy for one, means one more. One less thought, one less karma, and one more liberation. If the monks don't follow the teachings of the Buddha, then 10 out of 10 people make mistakes.
There are many causation and habits from the beginningless past, there is no light, and the light cannot manifest. The light of Buddha does not manifest, many habits and delusions, then there will be many afflictions, and there will be no "enlightenment". It's like getting drunk all day long, the heart has no sustenance, the mind is confused and doesn't know what's doing, the heart has no sustenance, the mind is viparīta, and the mind can't be focused.
