Wisdom from Chinese Literary and Buddhist Classics
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4/13: GREAT COMPASSION
Venerable Master Hsing Yun (1927 - , Fo Guang Shan)English translation: John Balcom
The Sutra on Contemplation of the Buddha of Infinite Life asserts, “Great compassion is the heart of the buddhas. Unconditional compassion is used to help sentient beings.” The bodhisattva cares about all sentient beings without distinction, whether they are family or not.
For this reason, we should learn from all buddhas and bodhisattvas to broaden and free love from its narrowest meaning of loving ourselves and our family to loving everyone in society, our country, and throughout the world. Through compassion, we must expand the scope of love, purifying it through wisdom, respecting all that we love, and making sacrifices to fulfill our love. If there can be love and closeness among all people, how wide the world and universe would be!
── from Humanistic Buddhism: A Blueprint for Life
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Humble Table, Wise Fare
INSPIRATION
Recorded by Leann Moore 0:16
Unpleasant things
usually create the opportunity
for us to be born anew;
adverse conditions
often reveal the way
for us to succeed.
Dharma Instruments
Venerable Master Hsing Yun grants voices to the objects of daily monastic life to tell their stories in this collection of first-person narratives.
Sutras Chanting
The Medicine Buddha SutraMedicine Buddha, the Buddha of healing in Chinese Buddhism, is believed to cure all suffering (both physical and mental) of sentient beings. The Medicine Buddha Sutra is commonly chanted and recited in Buddhist monasteries, and the Medicine Buddha’s twelve great vows are widely praised.
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