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 20200313品德人生造福緣Living a Meaningful Life with Virtues to Create Blessings

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發表主題: 20200313品德人生造福緣Living a Meaningful Life with Virtues to Create Blessings   20200313品德人生造福緣Living a Meaningful Life with Virtues to Create Blessings Empty周五 4月 24, 2020 2:02 am

20200313品德人生造福緣Living a Meaningful Life with Virtues to Create Blessings

Everyone is talking about the recent infectious virus and being terrified. Yes, we need to heighten our vigilance. Although everyone is worried, what is the use of being worried? What is the point of being terrified? Let us quickly change our mindset, and earnestly think about this: Master often talks about collective karma.

Indeed, this is collective karma. I have frequently spoken about collective karma; after all, what is collective karma and what does it look like? Actually, this recently epidemic puts collective karma into perspective, some would say, master, I still don’t see it. Yes, it is invisible, but everyone can sense it, because the media, which we are exposed to daily, have been mentioning about this major issue.

With this infectious disease, the virus spreads so quickly, and it truly causes people to worry. It is said in sutras that, in the time of decreasing kalpas......The Buddha talked about kalpas, which means a very long time. How long? Incredibly long, so long that it is hard to calculate, that, the average human lifespan starts from ten years old, and the lifespan increases one year for every 100-year passed until human lifespan is 84,000 years old.

In our world, it had happened that human lifespan was over 80,000 years old, but that was because people had accumulated many good deeds, loved one another, lived in harmony and unity, were kind and friendly to one another, and waged no war.

Yet, at some point, people started to develop afflictions, ignorance, and to have disputes amongst themselves, resulting in continuous man-made disasters. People accumulated the five spiritual illnesses of greed, anger, ignorance, arrogance, and doubt in their hearts, which keep on growing and spreading.

As such, human lifespan started to decrease. At this time, we are living in the era of decreasing lifespan. People would say, no, people are living longer now. Humans seem to be living longer. However, when accidents happen, they occur to groups of people. Look around where we live, we live in a peaceful and a happy place. I always say that we need to be grateful.

We are blessed, and we share a collective blessing. So, we need to cherish it even more. Everyone needs to collectively cherish this in order to keep this blessing. However, some societies are not as peaceful as ours. Sometimes, when people talk, their words are like knives and swords which can injure or kill people.

Sometimes, people hear something negative or sensational, they start to think unwholesomely, begin to doubt people, and develop resentment or hatred toward people. This leads to conflicts and unrest in society. People start to create a lot of negative karma. When people create extreme negative karma, such as war, it will be very clear that human lifespan is diminishing.

So, we need to cherish we have right now. So, we need to cherish the space which gives us the opportunity to create blessings, to love one another and to respect one another. This is the space and the time we are in, which allow us to interact with one another. We need to make use of this space and time to create more blessings and do more good deeds.

With an epidemic going on now, If we have been to places where there have been confirmed cases, we must be very vigilant and know that by disciplining and self-isolating ourselves we are doing something good for people around us and the general public. To do so is to love ourselves and other people. Such is living a meaningful life with virtues.

In all, we have to harbor a correct mindset. Do not panic. Instead, be diligent in spiritual cultivation; to do this, we have to look inward, quiet our minds, calmly contemplate and reflect ourselves that yesterday, or in the past, have we done something wrong? Have we done things that make us feel guilty? Are there things that we’ve done or wanted to do, but have not completed them or fulfilled them yet?

Let us review our past and reflect. If the answer is yes, no matter when the things happened in the past, after self-reflection, we must quickly repent for what we’ve done, deeply and sincerely. After self-reflection and with repentance, we must aspire to do goodness and make vows right away so that we can give of ourselves and act without delay.

Repent for what we have done wrong in the past may not make up for them in time, however, we can aspire to do goodness and make vows to carry them out right away. Without delay, we carried them out and cherish every second of our lives for if we do not act upon them today, we will regret it tomorrow.

When we give rise to an aspiration, if we do not seize moment, act on it, and carry it through, we soon forget our aspiration. So, when we aspire to do goodness, we must seize the moment and quickly act on it. When something is right, we should just do it. So, let us be mindful about this.
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