How should I spend my life?
The Revelation of Buddha Ji Gong
translation 1997 by Servants of Truth, Mi-LER School with Ming-Der Books
For what have you come to this world? To give people advises and transform people’s lives! This is your mission! You are not asked to come to the world to eat, drink, play, seek pleasures, bear a few kids, build a few houses, or earn a couple of dollars. Is that so? You are asked to come to put the world in order, to transform and carry numerous living being across the bitter sea of life and death, and to do something meaningful. Don’t let yourself be lost, Please!
Both Bodhisattva Guanyin and Buddha Sakyamuni have accomplished Full Enlightenment and have become saint or Buddha through cultivation while they were human beings. They also have to eat the bitter (suffer from hardship), cultivate Tao (Truth) and then realize Tao thoroughly before they could become Buddha. Once the Human Way is fulfilled perfectly, they Heavenly status will be accomplished naturally. What is the Human Way? That is the path of Man, the road of Man, things that Man should do.
Whether your living in the human world or your stay in this world is valuable depends on how you take the limited time to create virtuous things and matters – things and matters that can be handed down to future generations, that are worth viewing, imitating , and learning. Only then your living in this world is considered to be useful.
Regard yourself as an artist; as a sculptor. Hence, you need to reveal the most brilliant aspect of your whole life to everyone and reveal it to the future generations. Let them feel that you are a person who deserves studying, and that you are a perfect sculpture. You need to stay and let everybody look upon you with respect. Even though you are a person with defects, yet you still possess “the beauty within your worst defect”. True? For an artist who is good at photograph, the places where he looks at are where he feels worthy to see. Using his professional judgment, he only takes notice of the most beautiful angle that he wants to keep. True?
Why does a Saint deserve respect and praise? A Saint has carved the most beautiful aspects from the world and kept them so that you can look at them. Well, since you have such a good camera yourself, you are an artist and a photographer, too. You have to look at things with the standards of an artist. Then only, you would feel that all worldly affairs are perfect, and everyone is a good person. In teaching and guiding a person, you need to take the mind and attitude of a sculptor and regard everyone as a person who deserves to be sculpted. Then, all things in the world will look nice and good in your eyes.
The physical body of man would be spoiled sooner or later. If one does not die now, one will die later still. If one is alive now, it is not sure that he can live how long. Hence the physical body and the outward appearance only provide us for ME while I am alive. Don’t take the exteriors (physical things) too seriously. That I am pretty, handsome or young are all useless. The most important is that you still possess your youth-hood and time now. Make good use of your vitality, your time and the splendor of your youth. During this span of time, do something that you consider to be the best. Do it really well, and also let others feels that you are really that good.
People are born the same way, and they all die in the end. They are born the same way, yet they don’t die the same way. Are they not all born the same way? Do they not all come bare-handed, naked and crying? People don’t die the same way, do they? To die of sickness is ‘to die’. To fall from a plane is ‘to die’. To be knocked dead by a car is ‘to die’. To die in a flight is ’to die’. To die in spreading Tao and to save people and the world is ‘to die’, too. Do they die the same way then? Is the value of dying the same then? Do you know how you would die in the future? Of the above-mentioned, which way to die has the most value? You must know that to die of sickness, or to die of falling from the plane or those other ways of dying are all “unknown-able”. But as long as you are determined to do die for Tao/Truth, that is something predictable.
Think carefully about this human world: nothing really matters. All worries are pursued by oneself. Have them cleared up, removed, dissolved and digested slowly, please. People have sufferings and worries. We all have frustration and sadness which must be transformed and dissolved by ourselves. No one else can absorb for you. Keep a pure heart. No matter how old you are, no matter at what level you are, no matter what your job is, may you all keep a pure heart and act according to the roles you play. Then, treat people with a true and sincere heart. Don’t mind how cunning and deceitful people are. That is their business! As long as your heart is all true, you can touch their hearts and transform them. Hopefully, all of you can give and do more for others.
translation 1997 by Servants of Truth, Mi-LER School with Ming-Der Books
For what have you come to this world? To give people advises and transform people’s lives! This is your mission! You are not asked to come to the world to eat, drink, play, seek pleasures, bear a few kids, build a few houses, or earn a couple of dollars. Is that so? You are asked to come to put the world in order, to transform and carry numerous living being across the bitter sea of life and death, and to do something meaningful. Don’t let yourself be lost, Please!
Both Bodhisattva Guanyin and Buddha Sakyamuni have accomplished Full Enlightenment and have become saint or Buddha through cultivation while they were human beings. They also have to eat the bitter (suffer from hardship), cultivate Tao (Truth) and then realize Tao thoroughly before they could become Buddha. Once the Human Way is fulfilled perfectly, they Heavenly status will be accomplished naturally. What is the Human Way? That is the path of Man, the road of Man, things that Man should do.
Whether your living in the human world or your stay in this world is valuable depends on how you take the limited time to create virtuous things and matters – things and matters that can be handed down to future generations, that are worth viewing, imitating , and learning. Only then your living in this world is considered to be useful.
Regard yourself as an artist; as a sculptor. Hence, you need to reveal the most brilliant aspect of your whole life to everyone and reveal it to the future generations. Let them feel that you are a person who deserves studying, and that you are a perfect sculpture. You need to stay and let everybody look upon you with respect. Even though you are a person with defects, yet you still possess “the beauty within your worst defect”. True? For an artist who is good at photograph, the places where he looks at are where he feels worthy to see. Using his professional judgment, he only takes notice of the most beautiful angle that he wants to keep. True?
Why does a Saint deserve respect and praise? A Saint has carved the most beautiful aspects from the world and kept them so that you can look at them. Well, since you have such a good camera yourself, you are an artist and a photographer, too. You have to look at things with the standards of an artist. Then only, you would feel that all worldly affairs are perfect, and everyone is a good person. In teaching and guiding a person, you need to take the mind and attitude of a sculptor and regard everyone as a person who deserves to be sculpted. Then, all things in the world will look nice and good in your eyes.
The physical body of man would be spoiled sooner or later. If one does not die now, one will die later still. If one is alive now, it is not sure that he can live how long. Hence the physical body and the outward appearance only provide us for ME while I am alive. Don’t take the exteriors (physical things) too seriously. That I am pretty, handsome or young are all useless. The most important is that you still possess your youth-hood and time now. Make good use of your vitality, your time and the splendor of your youth. During this span of time, do something that you consider to be the best. Do it really well, and also let others feels that you are really that good.
People are born the same way, and they all die in the end. They are born the same way, yet they don’t die the same way. Are they not all born the same way? Do they not all come bare-handed, naked and crying? People don’t die the same way, do they? To die of sickness is ‘to die’. To fall from a plane is ‘to die’. To be knocked dead by a car is ‘to die’. To die in a flight is ’to die’. To die in spreading Tao and to save people and the world is ‘to die’, too. Do they die the same way then? Is the value of dying the same then? Do you know how you would die in the future? Of the above-mentioned, which way to die has the most value? You must know that to die of sickness, or to die of falling from the plane or those other ways of dying are all “unknown-able”. But as long as you are determined to do die for Tao/Truth, that is something predictable.
Think carefully about this human world: nothing really matters. All worries are pursued by oneself. Have them cleared up, removed, dissolved and digested slowly, please. People have sufferings and worries. We all have frustration and sadness which must be transformed and dissolved by ourselves. No one else can absorb for you. Keep a pure heart. No matter how old you are, no matter at what level you are, no matter what your job is, may you all keep a pure heart and act according to the roles you play. Then, treat people with a true and sincere heart. Don’t mind how cunning and deceitful people are. That is their business! As long as your heart is all true, you can touch their hearts and transform them. Hopefully, all of you can give and do more for others.
