LIBERATE YOURSELF FROM WORLDLY WORRIES IN ORDER TO ATTAIN ‘A HEART OF RENUNCIATION’
Master Jun Hong Lu:
Whether you are a Buddhist practitioner who wishes to be free from all the life shackles or to become a Buddha, you need to have an experiential understanding of Prajna Wisdom. Prajna Wisdom is both noble and supreme. It is the wisdom of the Bodhisattva. If you wish to be awakened today, you must have wisdom. If you wish to become a Buddha, you must have wisdom too. What’s more, you must own it.
All of you are sitting here today, if you do not have wisdom, you will not do well in your spiritual cultivation. What is wisdom? Cleverness is not wisdom. Cleverness is the ability to take advantage of others or to think of a solution to a problem. Wisdom, on the other hand, is able to resolve problems; it is accommodating and all-embracing.
To have an experiential understanding of Prajna Wisdom, it must be combined with a heart of renunciation, as only then can you taste the fruit of liberation.
What is a heart of renunciation? This is when you know: “I have come to this world and I know the day will come when I will have to depart. I know very well that nothing in this world truly belongs to me and I am fine with that. The fame I am enjoying now is not mine, neither is the fortune. There is simply nothing that I truly own. There will come a day when I leave this world, though the day has not arrived and I am still physically here, but my heart has left. Hence, I will not be vexed by anything”. This is what it means by a heart of renunciation.
Source: Master Jun Hong Lu’s Buddhism In Plain Terms, Volume 8 Chapter 37