Saturday, May 17, 2008

Huayen practitioners should get into the habit of reading a bit of the Sutra every day

From Tony:

The Avatamsaka Sutra (Huayen Sutra) includes all the wisdom of all the other sutras and contains within it the solutions to all the world's problems, both personal and global, if we are only willing to look for them.

If Huayen practitioners could get into the habit of reading a bit of the Sutra every day, for example, and of thinking carefully about what the Sutra is saying, I'm sure it would protect them from a lot of mistakes.

In any case, as Buddhists we should avoid becoming too attached to personalities and organizations and try instead to focus on the Dharma and to work out how we can realize Enlightenment in order to communicate it to others: to "seek the Buddha's wisdom with all our heart, focus our energies on that and think of nothing else", as the Sutra says. (一心求佛智,專精無異念.)

If we can do that we will eventually be able to find out a way to turn all our obstacles into stepping stones.

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