【Description】
“Fragrance lingers on the hand that offers the rose.” Helping others wholeheartedly can not only accumulate merits, virtues and blessings, but also increase wisdom and charisma. If you give compassionately every day and in every little thing you do, what kind of brilliance will your life radiate? Come and listen!
【You will learn】
- Learn the benefits of helping others.
【Featured aphorisms】
- Helping others is exercising the Bodhisattva Path.
- Thoughts determine behavior. Helping others lies not in the environment, but in the heart.
【Content】
Helping others is the Way of Bodhisattva. It can enhance our wisdom, generate merit and increase our energy. Therefore, those who often help others are increasingly intelligent and wise. When teaching others, you review the teachings several times. Then you understand them and become a person full of wisdom.
Helping others also brings you many merits, blessings and energy. All these plus wisdom mean your charisma and energy will become quite different. The change in you will be significant. So we should help others, and pass on Buddhadharma to benefit and free others from suffering. What kind of life is that? Whether you see your radiance or not, you are a living Guanyin Bodhisattva.
This infinite compassion of Guanyin Bodhisattva is an accumulation of each and every day, and every small deed. These small acts shine like the billions of rays from each of Buddha’s pores. Countless tiny good deeds build the Bodhisattva’s body, which is a great, perfect life. It is the collection of many small good deeds. How important it is for us to help others!
Molding a statue of a buddha is like molding our own future. Helping others creates our own bodhisattva life. With such a life, if you do go to hell, you are there to save sentient beings because of your own vow to do so, not for your sins. You will surely go to Heaven, to live eternally with no birth and no death.
All this depends on your understanding. I have told you all I can. If you understand, do as much as you can. As to helping others, your circumstances are irrelevant. In fact, it is your consciousness that determines your conduct.
(Practicing conscientiously and sincerely, and helping others achieves our own bodhisattva life.)