SAMANTABHADRA BODHISATTVA’S SIXTH GREAT VOW: TO REQUEST THE BUDDHA TO SET IN MOTION THE WHEEL OF DHARMA
Master Jun Hong Lu: Samantabhadra Bodhisattva’s sixth great vow is ‘to request the Buddha to set in motion the wheel of dharma’.
‘Shakyamuni Buddha has passed into extinction’. ‘To enter into extinction’ is how people in the past described the passing of the Buddha from this human realm.
‘Maitreya has yet to appear’. Maitreya Buddha is designated to promote the interests of the Buddhist faith in the future. In the meantime, eminent monks will represent the Buddha to teach the dharma, while lay practitioners like myself will help people strive for goodness and transform their mundane nature to become sages.
That is why, in this Age of Dharma Decline, teaching the dharma on behalf of the Bodhisattvas will generate an unimaginably massive amount of merits, so massive that it is beyond what you can fathom.
When a person shares the Buddha’s teachings and exhorts others to lead a virtuous life, this person gains an unimaginably large amount of meritorious blessings.
Source: Master Jun Hong Lu’s Buddhism In Plain Terms, Volume 11 Chapter 14
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