20200131戒慎虔誠洗無明Guarding Our Hearts Against Spiritual Viruses
We are going to monitor them for the full extension their evacuation. We will do fully evaluation there and everybody that I talked to has agreed to do that.
With cases being confirmed positive, but not displaying any symptoms, it is necessary to enhance border health measures to prevent coronavirus from spreading.
Ｗhen I tell the countries I go that your point of entry is not your border , your point of entry is your emergency department. It is where people will who will develop disease will go seek care. It’s really critical that hospitals make sure that infection prevention control meds they have place are medically.
The outbreak has become a global health emergency and international concern. People across the world are terrified and on high alert. The most important thing now is that everyone has to be humble and stay fairly vigilant. When we hear the news about the virus has spread so rapidly, our afflictions and ignorance creep into our hearts like virus into our bodies.
When our hearts and minds are infected by the spiritual viruses, it will be hard to get rid of them. The only thing we can do is to remain humble and with repentance. We have to be very vigilant and sincerely pious.
We should be sincerely pious from the bottom of our hearts. Now, we should take precaution measures. The best way to get rid of the virus is to keep our environment clean. We have to heighten our vigilance; however, when interacting with people, we still give our love and care. We need to remain alert and aware of the infected areas and stay away from them.
However, we must not be indifferent to people. We must use love and wisdom to interact with people and keep a safe distance from each other; yet, it is necessary to quarantine people who need to be quarantined, and give our love and care to those who need our support.
At this time, take a look at our society, some people are very eager to help and they put everything aside; like medical professionals, they put everything aside to be on the frontline and save lives. We members of society should view them as living Buddha and bodhisattvas, because they have willingly devoted themselves in an environment that is full of impurity and viruses; isn’t that the same attitude of the Buddha and Bodhisattvas who came to our world?
All the Boddhas and Bodhisattvas alike, they have left their world that is pure and entered a world filled with five turbidities just to save the wisdom-lives of living beings. Caught in the five turbidities, us living beings are also getting infected nonstop, and we get infected by various viruses at different times and places; One is saving life, the other is saving wisdom-life.
The medical teams on the frontline right now are caring for patients with this virus; they are truly risking their lives. At this pressing time, we need medical professionals who are willing to respond, hence, let us be respectful and grateful t othem.
Right now, in the hospitals, medical professionals are busy saving lives and caring for patients’ health as well as the health of all of us. We who are not in the hospitals know that, in the hospitals, people are busy saving lives, so we should safeguard our health and wellbeing. As members of society, let us come together as one tp help. Let us all harbor this wish and utilize this love which comes from our wisdom to get through this tough time.
The medical professionals on the frontline are serving with the heart of Bodhisattva; they are truly risking their lives. People like this, are indeed those we love and respect highly. Though we are not medical professionals, let us do our part in society by safeguarding our health and wellbeing.
Those who have just returned from infected areas should quarantine themselves for some time. Even though we are healthy, for the sake of easing others’ worries, we should self-isolated for a period of time. This is love and wisdom.
If we don’t have an important matter to tend to, we shouldn’t go out and about. We should take good care of our health. Art this time like this, when everyone is very worried, we should protect people with love and comfort people’ hearts. This is to safeguard people’s health. We need both wisdom and love. From our pure heart, we repent. To repent is to cleanse away our selfishness and ignorance with the Dharma.
If we are selfish, we will be ignorant. This ignorance keeps covering up our hearts and making us love only ourselves but not others. This is a form of spiritual virus. Viruses are everywhere. If we don’t know how to guard against them or be vigilant about them, viruses will be everywhere. We need to bring forth our utmost love and excise our purest and sharpest wisdom. This is the right thing to do.
Otherwise, with the current outbreak, if people do not have this concept of the whole humanity being in this together and if people cannot discipline themselves to protect one another with love, there’s a risk of being infected at any place.
In this way, the spiritual viruses are much more scary and worse than the actual viruses. As a Buddhist practitioner, the most important thing is to use the water of dharma to cleanse our hearts. We need to clean our hearts often. Repentance keeps our hearts clean. To repent, we need to use the water of Dharma to cleanse away the impurities in our hearts. Thus, everyone, please be more mindful.
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