پیدا کردن یک استاد صادق سخت است، قسمت ۲ از ۵

Everything is Buddha. Buddha is everywhere. God is everywhere. Everything is God. If this is true, why do we have to keep the precepts? Why do we have to do good deeds? Why do we have to avoid those dirty, evil deeds? If those evil people also have Buddha Nature, God, and are also created by God, then why do we have to meditate? Why do you have to do good deeds and keep the precepts? I tell you. It’s because, life after life, we have already learned those nasty things. For example, God is like that: In the lowest, it’s Hirm; in the middle, it’s Hirm; and in the highest, it’s Hirm too. Where are we now? We’re in the lowest place, or at least in the middle place. At best we’re in the middle place. We haven’t recognized the higher place yet. Now, if we continue doing that kind of nasty work, or doing evil deeds instead of keeping the precepts, without clear understanding, then we only recognize the lower aspect of Hirm. We’ll never be able to climb up and recognize the highest part of Hirm. So, now, having learned the low aspects, we leave it. Life after life, we’ve learned too much, enough for us. Now we want to climb up. […]