Words of Wisdom delivered at The Temple Of Ultimate Bliss of Tainan Taiwan—Communities thrive when people praise one another, but they decline when people suspect one another （Episode 3） 2018/1/2 No：32-258-0003_en
No one believes in what religions can offer.
In the future quantum theory will greatly help the unity of religions: "All gods are one entity, all religions are one family."
Quantum theory will prove this scientifically.
Your pure mind attained is the Buddha's mind, which is omnipotent and all-knowing.
Why?
Because everything comes from your mind.
If you use your pure mind, then you will know everything.
This is not strange at all.
Everyone is capable of being supernatural because it is instinct.
Where has your supernatural power gone?
It got lost.
You lost it the moment you started thinking.
Observing precepts helps meditation.
Meditation brings on wisdom.
Wisdom is instinct.
That is how not thinking leads to wisdom.
That is how we get to know everything, just as the Buddhas and the Bodhisattvas do.
They know because they are not lost.
We don't know because we are lost.
What is getting lost?
Thinking is getting lost.
When we see fruits on the table, it is awareness that enables us to see them.
Once we start thinking about wanting to eat them, we are lost.
It takes great skills to eat them without thinking about them.
So by practising meditation, wisdom will come naturally.
Orientals emphasise mental tranquility, that state of the mind is the "pure mind".
This is the core of learning.
Once your mind is stirred, you are lost.
When it comes to the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind reacting to sight, sound, smell, taste, touch and idea, the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are different from us.
Their mind is in a quiet state and they do not think even when they use their eyes to see and their ears to hear.
When the eyes achieve samadhi on seeing and the ears achieve samadhi on hearing, the pure mind will appear.
The Buddhas and the Bodhisattvas can do it, so can each of us.
So everything originates from the same entity.
The whole universe and each of us are one entity.
To practise Buddhism is to return to the same entity.
To return to the same entity offers us the ultimate freedom from our being.
How to tell whether it is true or false?
As quantum theory puts it, everything from a mind stirred is false.
With the whole universe in front of me, it is false once my mind is stirred and I start thinking.
It is true once I keep my mind in a quiet state and do not think.
Trueness and falseness is the same.
Trueness is falseness, and falseness is trueness.
Why?
Because trueness does not entail birth and death, but falseness entails birth and death.
That is why there is birth and death once you stir your mind and start thinking, but there is neither birth nor death once you keep your mind in a quiet state and do not think.
This is fascinating.
What is so good about the Diamonds Sutra?
It is simple and clear, nothing verbose.
It tells the truth that "everything with form is unreal".
Once you truly let go, you will become a Bodhisattva and set an example for others.
The Chinese cleverly live up to that example through the Confucian practice of composure, kindness, courtesy, moderation and modesty.
Wherever a Confucius follower may be, you can see that he does not scramble to win; he is modest, he steps back.
The first and the last is actually the same.
The one stepping back is wiser than the one advancing.
The one who has stepped back had a pure mind.
Without a pure mind he would not be able to take that step backwards.
If he were pretending, he would have failed in doing that.
A pure mind leads to the realm of the saints.
That is why the Chinese traditional way of life is unique in the world.
Inwardly, there is no greed, hatred, delusion, arrogance and suspicion, it is the realm of the Buddha.
Outwardly, there is composure, kindness, courtesy, moderation and modesty, it is the realm of Confucianism.
The interior and the exterior of a person is the same thing.
They are two sides of the same coin.
Both Confucianism and Buddhism have achieved it, but not the others.
If Confucius were born in India, the Indian would have called him a Buddha.
If Buddha Shakyamuni were born in China, the Chinese would have called him a saint.
Let us eat this together.
Eating without stirring the mind, without a thought.
This is how we should practise Buddhism.
If people praise one another, the communities will thrive.