2015/03/09 以法去瞋得平安 To Eliminate Unrest with Dharma
Originally, this world was peaceful. However, some people do not understand life’s truth and give rise to disputes and unrest. This is truly worrying. We keep reminding people the importance of having sincerity. We must use our utmost sincere love in getting to know and to understand people. When we sincerely know and understand each other, what is there to fight about in the world? There is no need to fight with others. We live together on this Earth.
We must be grateful to Mother Nature for providing favorable conditions and a large living space to nurture all living creatures, including mankind. We all depend on Mother Nature to survive. It’s like after rice harvest, we need to replenish the land by planting flowers, such as rapeseed flowers. When it’s time to plant rice again, the rapeseed flowers will be tilled into the soil as fertilizer. This is how to enrich and to sustain the land.
Coming into this world, we live in the space between the sky and the land. We all live on this Earth, so we should really cherish this affinity with each other. Everyone has their own karma, karmic affinities and karmic retribution. We create our own karma. In this life, we have learned that what happens to us now is due to the karma we created in our past lives. We have to understand very clearly whether we have good or bad karmic affinities with people. When good karmic affinities prevail, we have to be grateful to have so many people who share the same goal of doing good for the world and be a person to help others.
This is pooling together people’s love because good karmic affinities bring us together to make society peaceful. When a disaster happens, we put our efforts together for disaster relief. Doing this will start a cycle of goodness in our world. When we encounter troubles in our life, if we have Dharma, we will automatically repent for what bad karmic affinities we had formed with the people who give us trouble in this life and cause us to have this retribution.
We have to practice to be at peace and at ease. Being at peace means we are blessed. We also need to be content. Living in this world, we should be grateful and be content with our life. To work toward a safe and peaceful society, that is leading the most spiritually rich life. There’s no need to compete or fight with one another. Then, crises like the one in Sudan or Syria will not happen. People become refugees due to fighting between groups of people in conflicts with differing views. As such, every day, people live in fear and suffering in the world and cannot be at peace. What we need most is to create blessings from joyfully helping others and to gain wisdom through being understanding and at ease.
To live a life of peace and ease in this world, we need to start the cycle of goodness. So, when seeing Tzu Chi volunteers being diligent and attending training courses, I am really moved. Everyone pursues Dharma diligently with great earnestness and wishes our society to be peaceful. With a heart of utmost piety, we sincerely hope that people around the world can bring their heart and mind in harmony so that unwholesome influence can disappear.
At present, what people need most in current society is for people to be amicable to one another and peacefully work together in harmony. Only when we feel harmonious with ourselves society we live in can become peaceful. Such efforts is what we have to strive for. I hope kind-hearted Tzu Chi volunteers can transform people’s minds from bitterly wintry cold into sunny spring warmth. Look, Tzu Chi’s spirit to help selflessly has spread out from Taiwan to the world. Without the enlightened love and efforts of many Tzu Chi volunteers, Tzu Chi cannot possibly bring aid to more than 80 countries and regions.
People helped by Tzu Chi remembered that they received such enlightened love from Taiwan. This love that makes Taiwan shine brightly in the world in fact comes from the love that has been distributed all around the world. We saw that in Myanmar, a couple in the heat of an argument burned down their house. This fire spread and engulfed other houses in the village. Hundreds of families are displaced and have no home to go back to. Tzu Chi volunteers provided immediate assistance by distributing relief aid and giving emotional comfort. This is their power of love. You see, we should never let hatred and anger control our mind. We must maintain our calmness and be content. Only with gratitude and love can we foster harmony in families and make society peaceful.
We must be on high alert to the current water shortage problem. This shows that climate is out of balance and is already impacting on the water we rely on for living. There is a serious water shortage in Taiwan which triggers trees to mass flowering and producing seeds to preserve its life. Actually water shortage provides an adverse condition for the trees. So, the trees are flowering quickly altogether at the same time. Even plants can sense this adverse environment and desperately try to produce seeds. What about mankind? We should be alarmed and truly be awaken. Living in this dangerous world, we need to be especially vigilant. With the environment we are dealing with, I hope people can discipline themselves and also be sincerely pious and cautious.
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