"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"
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.
Physical wellbeing is inseparable from emotional well being. Happy people are healthy people. The wisdom traditions of the world tell us that happiness does not depend on what you have, but on who you are. In an era of materialism, it may be worthwhile to reflect on what really creates happiness in us. The following ten keys, gleaned from the wisdom of traditions may give us some insight.
1. Listen to your body’s wisdom, which expresses itself through signals of comfort and discomfort. When choosing certain behaviour, ask your body. “how do you feel about this?” If your body sends a signal of comfort and eagerness, proceed.
2. Live in present, for it is the only moment you have. Keep your attention on what on here and now; look for the fullness in every moment. Accept what comes to you totally and completely so that you can appreciate it, learn from it, and the let it go. The present is as it should be. It reflects infinite laws of nature that have brought you this exact physical response. This moment is as it is because the universe is as it is. Don’t struggle with the infinite scheme of things; instead, be at one with it.
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