Buddha in our samsara world ( Suo Po San Shen ~Samsara Three Saints)

In the centre is Sakyamuni Buddha.

He was born as a prince in India 2,554 years ago. He has realized that life is suffering and impermanent, even you are wealthy rich, but still can not overcome old age, sickness and dying.

So, he left his palace to find the solution (answer)for this.

After the hardship of practice, He gained enlightenment to be a Buddha.

As soon as He gained the Buddha Hood, He started to delivered his teaching (Dhamma) through out the places in India.

Sakyamuni Buddha’s job is a great teacher. He worked 365 days through a year without a day off.

He has only 3 pieces of clothes, a bowl (for food) and His resting place is under the tree. This to show us, without all the luxury worldly things we still can survive, we should let go our craving for worldly things.

Food, clothes, lodging just enough will do, don’t need so much.

Craving is a heavy burden for us!

The main aim for Him to be here is to teach us ways to overcome our suffering and how to end the suffering.

Sakyamuni Buddha told us to recite

A Mi Tuo Fo (阿弥陀佛) and migrate to Western Blissful Pureland (Xi Fang Ji Le Shi Jie)

When our life span ends here, this will be the only and the best way to end the

Samsara world’s suffering.

(please read page 11 again)

On the right is KuanYin Pusa.

Kuan Yin Pusa represent compassion kindness.

On the left is Di Zang Wang Pusa (Earth Store Bodhisattva) who represent great vow to help those in need. There is Di Zang Wang Pusa around us to help us during difficult moments. Because Sakyamuni Buddha told Di Zang Wang Pusa to guard and help us as He is not around with us now.

Sakyamuni Buddha is somewhere else in the universe to teach the beings there to overcome and end their suffering. He is repeating His Job in another place.

This is ten direction worlds in the universe.

Our earth is just a tiny dot somewhere in the ten direction worlds.

Sakyamuni Buddha is somewhere else in the universe to deliver His Dhamma

We are cultivating:

Loving Kindness (Sakyamuni Buddha),

compassion kindness(Kuan Yin Pusa) and Vow to help ( Di Zang Wang Pusa)

when we bow and pray in front of them.

The purpose of having The Saints statues in our praying room is to remind us the practice of these great values in our daily life.

We will be blessed with wisdom, health and happiness when we practice these values.

Just like you want to make a call to someone, you must dial the correct number then only you will get that

number on line.

If we Nian Fo and practicing Dhamma

In the same time our mind is full of greediness, full of hatred, and so ignorant (don’t understand the truth) then we will not be “online” with Buddha and Pusa.