To lead... is to take lead of our life...giving it meaning and directions. If you know the way to happiness...is because you chose to with awareness. You understand your own creation and action hence will result in fruit of your action, known as Karma.
In this universe, is the universal law that holds everything together...how the sun moves, how the earth move, how the food chain is...all in circle....even our lives...is in circle as well...day in and day out...only that we are getting older each and every second. This is the law of things.."change"...all in existence will revolve...
Hence whatever we are, who we are, we are only travellers.....nothing that we can bring with us in the end of lifetime...we can only appreciate and give "love" and compassion when we walk the path, anyone that in our path might be happier when they leave. In this world, all the things we have...might seems like it...however, if you seriously look at thngs...we can only temporarily borrow it..and later...everything we have to let go...even our most dearest friends, families ...and of course material possession as well.
Hence, if we based our whole life build on material possession, and focus on families, our kids, etc...it will come a day we have to see old age...and all our kids grown up, a process everyone gone through and kids leaving us and build on their new life and family. So....what now...we do with our lives many older people will think...as I visited senior residence...lots do not know their purpose anymore too live..and many are sadden and weaken daily because they loose thier hope and goal. It seems all their love ones has slowly abondoned. However, they have spent all their lives loving, building, etc....
I think is the method that is wrong....our method has loop holes...is not flawless.....
We have lost the focus about "respecting life".....we have become so selfish...so busy....have no time for our spiritual growth in within, that check us, that balance us.
Happy life is very different from love with attachment. What I have talked about is Life with great love......no attachment and will not change however the condition or the outside situation is...our heart always...soft..calm...warmth...with great compassion....with no slighless destruction....this force if greater than our "ego"...then our live will be build with great love....it will never end...even when this retribution body is over...we are born in pureland..peace with great love always with us.
Imagine if we do not loose sight of this "great love" in our heart....we are always in heaven...beyond the great circle...we have jump out of the loop of all things that is all out of order...people who are hateful..people who get angry at you, people who not happy with what you did, different voices and opinions...who do we listen to?? You will never never be able to satisfy anyone in this world. Because everyone in this world is not perfect...hence faults is easily revealed.....
Since you can never satisfy anyone...please give yourself peace in our heart...just do your best in things...if it doesn't work out...learn to "LET GO" when you need to...otherwise...is no end to it...you just have to know what you're doing....
If you're growing you dharma body instead of just human body...life is beyond the life expectancy of this body....is beyond...the spirit lives forever...because it changes so many lives of people and have touched so many people in many ways.
A tree has to have root...the root is compassion....then you've a strong base, and based on that you build your life around "compassion" and "love"...beautiful fruits will grow out of it. However, if we don't have these...is like a tree without roots...although is surviving...although it looks healthy...there's no fruits grown out of the tree. It wouldn't last long...before you know it...the top getting too heavy...like selfhness and ego..full of self get to you...everything you build if is based on this....you'll lead to your down fall...you'll see the truth...destruction of yourself...no peaace and no love with anythings...you feel your heart is empty...you feel nothing to sustain you....sooner or later...you still have to turn to "love" and "compassion" because this is what nurture you.
In this world...even the trees...is grown out of love...it bear fruits..people enjoy it and have healthy bodies...everything we depend on in this world is all build of love....however, humans don't see the love from our mother nature....the resource inside the earth is like the bones of mother...we're depleting at a rate more than we can imagine...and the trees is the mother's hair...we're getting more and more greedy to sustain our material life....Ever more hungry for more...never able to stop wanting.....one day...when the mother cannot stand ...because she is getting weaker and weaker by giving and giving....sooner ...it will collapse...and at that time....let us reflect ....
There is so many things in this life, what we do, how we do things, how our heart moves, how our mind things..is so destructive...if we don't take care of our individual mind...that's why cultivation of our mind, body and speech is so important. If we all are cultivators...this earth, the mother nature, our human race will have hope and will have no more hunger and war, no divorce...no unhappiness...
Whatever you do...if is not bringing you happiness is because what you do ...do not have "love and compassion"...or someone around you lack that....that's why "love and compassion" need to be taught to your love ones, to your children. If you do it properly....all the future generations...we wouldn't have problems of violence, disrecpect..etc..
"True love and compassion can heal"...is the medicine to our world problems.
Amitabha!!
May all beings have compassion...to ourselves, to our parents, to siblings, to teachers, to other smaller creatures, too mother nature who constantly sustaining our life with 70% of water, minerals and reources...Let us be grateful...let us give back to our parents starting from now...do not leave them at senior residence...let us lead a life with love and that will lead to a meaningful life with great compassion.
"Grateful to Buddha for all compassion you've taught, right mindfulness you've taught, wisdom you've taught..the path that liberate us from suffering you've taught...a way to liberation and true happiness you've taught" and to "god" who taught compassion as well.
