"The earth is beautiful. If you start living its beauty, enjoying its joy with no guilt in your heart, you are in paradise. If you condemn everything, every small joy, then the same earth turns into a hell. It is the question of your own inner transformation. It is not a change of place; it is change of inner space.
Live joyously, guiltlessly, live totally live intensely. And then heaven is no more metaphysical concept, it is your own experience"
One night a man had a dream. He dreamed he was walking along the
beach with the Lord. Across the sky flashed scenes from his life. For each
scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand: one belonging to him, and
the other to the Lord.
When the last scene of his life flashed before him, he looked
back at the footprints in the sand. He noticed that many times along the path
of his life there was only one set of footprints. He also noticed that it
happened at the very lowest and saddest times of his life. This really bothered
him and he questioned the Lord about it. “Lord, You said that once I decided to
follow You, You’d walk with me all the way. But I have noticed that during the
most troublesome times in my life, there is only one set of footprints. I don’t
understand why when I needed You most You would leave me.”
The Lord replied, “My son, My precious child, I love you and
would never leave you. During your times of trial and suffering, when you see
only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.”
So God is always with us to give us a helping hand; at times He
drives us fully. Only that we have to practice Godly qualities and have faith
in Him.
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THE
MYSTIC NATURE OF OUR LIVES – “BECOME THE MASTER OF YOUR MIND RATHER THAN LET
YOUR MIND MASTER YOU”
It is
the heart that is important, writes Nichiren Daishonin. Our heart, our mind,
is truly wondrous and unfathomable. We can expand and deepen the inner
realm of our spirit infinitely and boundlessly.
Like
the elation of soaring freely through the vast blue heavens, the heart can feel
immense and untrammeled joy. Like the clear, bright sunshine illuminating all
things, the heart can embrace those who are suffering with warmth and
compassion. And like a lion of justice, the heart can also at times tremble
with righteous anger and defeat evil. Indeed, our heart or mind is constantly
changing, like scenes in a drama or like an unfolding panorama. And nothing is
more wondrous than its ability to manifest the world of Buddhahood. Even people
weighed down by delusion and suffering can bring forth in the depths of their
lives the state of buddhahood that is one with the universe. This momentous
drama of transformation is the greatest of all wonders.
Buddhism
finds supreme nobility and the potential for great change in all human beings.
In “On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime”, the Daishonin therefore
concludes that when we thoroughly polish our lives through chanting the daimoku
of Myoho-renge-kyo, it is possible for us to tap the life-state of
Buddhahood no matter how steeped in delusion we may be, and to transform even
the most impure and evil into a pure land.
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