Dharma Master Andrew. J. Williams
RECITE & MEDITATE, LOVE & UNDERSTANDING
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“We should do our very best to mindfully recite important prayers and verses such as homage, refuge and the like, as well as important teachings of the Buddha, and commit them to memory, so that we can recall and access them at anytime and anywhere.
We should contemplate the meaning and develop genuine understanding of these immeasurably precious teachings, and then habituate our mind with genuine insight into the meaning of the words, verses and teachings that we are reciting.
When we mindfully recite verses and teachings, we are engaging our whole being, our speech, our body and our mind.
Of course the mind is the chief, for it is the mind that will understand and realise the purpose, methods, practise of the methods and result of the practise.
Study, recite, remember, practise and share the Dharma well, and eventually you will understand and realise the unification and perfection of inseparable wisdom and method, and attain unsurpassed supreme enlightenment.
Furthermore, we must remember that all living beings want happiness and want to be free from suffering. We all need to breathe, eat, drink, and sleep. We are all dependent upon each other.
We could say that all living beings are our brothers and sisters, and could have been our mother in our previous lives. Therefore, we must extend universal compassion, love, and understanding towards all living beings.
The more we do this, the more happiness we will create for ourselves and all others. At very least we must abstain from harming. We should open our hearts with love and understanding.”
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~Dharma Master Andrew. J. Williams~
