Letting go

Our great Teacher; Sakyamuni Buddha always use teaching aids to teach us Dhamma.

The image of Mitrya Bodisattva

(Mi Le Pusa) is always appear in a Happy Face. People also called Him

Happy Buddha or Laughing Buddha.

He will be the next Samsara World’s Buhhda (Mitrya Buddha).

He will appear to become the Samsara World’s Buddha in

5,67 0,000,000 years later.

(5.67 billion years later)

Now He is practicing in Dou Shuai Heaven. (兜率天 dou shuai tian).

He is a happy model with a big stomach and laughing face.

In China those days, Mi Le Pusa was appeared as a Sack Monk (bu dai he shang 布袋和尚). He always carried a large bag made of cloth. He used the sack to keep all the things that the villagers gave Him.

Mi Le Pusa is showing to us that

we should take things easy.

Learn to treat everything whether good or bad as rubbish as it is not important, keep all in the big cloth sack.

He taught us to be generous (da liang大量), don’t keep other people words in our heart. Pusa’s big stomach symbolize accepting what ever come to us regardless of either good or bad.

People say something good about us, we feel so happy, people say something bad about us, we will get

angry and sad for a long time.

In the same time hatred develop in our mind. At the end we suffer a lot.

(chi kui 吃亏). This is not a wise action at all.

Always smile like Mi Le Pusa.

A smile will bring human relationships closer.

Be generous like Mi Le Pusa. Always leave our forgiving switch in our heart ON, be ready to forgive anyone

for their short coming. In this way we will be happy.

Letting go will lead us to happiness.

If we cannot let go, we cage ourselves in the Miserable Cell and suffer silently. Why make ourselves so miserable?

Live each day a thankful day.

Live each day to benefit others.

Remember that nothing in the world

is permanent, so don’t need to be so rigid( zhi zhuo 执著). Take what comes. Do our duties as good as possible. The rest leave it to Amituofo. This is not trying to escape from reality but is a wiser choice.

Problems with solutions for it need not to worry.

Problems without solution for it worry will not help.

Time is precious.

For those businessmen, time is money.

For Pure Land practitioners, time

is our precious treasure.

Do not waste time in unnecessary worries and chitchat.

It is better to have Dhamma sharing or some spiritual development talks rather than gossiping.

ren sheng ji he(life is short)

jian mian tan fo (talk about Dhamma)

Delusion and distraction thought cannot be stopped. It will be in our mind every now and then.

Buddha said, it is difficult for us to stop from having the 2Ds’

(Delusion and Distraction thought)

We will have at least 84,000thoughts in a day (24 hours).Most of the thoughts are unnecessary one.

It is hard to stop the 2Ds’ here.

Buddha advised us to Nian Fo and go to Xi Fang Ji Le Shi Jie, it will be easier to recover our True-self ( ling xing 灵性) there. At that time, we can stop the 2Ds’.

Buddha said, want to stop the

2Ds’ here is as difficult

as stopping(chopping)the water flow with a knife from 40 meters

high waterfall.

It is impossible to do it here successfully.

Pure Land Practitioners recite Amituofo to suppress the 2Ds’.

The longer we Nian Fo, the lesser

the 2Ds’ will appear because during the concentration in Amituofo recitation, the 2Ds’ cannot be there in the same time.

Master Chin Kung has advice us, don’t care about the 2Ds’ if it is appears during our recitation.

Keep on reciting, it will be suppress after a longer time of practice.

Compare to we never Nian Fo, it will be worst still. Our mind will wonder

like a monkey without a chain.

So practicing Nian Fo will be the best way to suppress the 2Ds’.

No matter how busy you are,

The words of A Mi Tuo Fo should not stop from reciting.

May you be well and happy, Amituofo….