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(Master Jun Hong Lu’s call-in radio program)
HOW SHOULD WE INTERPRET THE VERSE ‘THE ABSENCE OF THOUGHT IS BUDDHAHOOD’
Caller: Master, you mentioned before in a Dharma Convention: ‘Contentment makes you rich and honorable; being ordinary makes you noble; having no selfish reason makes you sagely; and the absence of thought makes you a Buddha’. How should we interpret the last part, can you kindly explain to us, Master?
Master Jun Hong Lu: ‘The absence of thoughts’ refers to having no greed, hatred and ignorance. By that, don’t you think that person is already a Bodhisattva, a Buddha? They neither have hatred nor jealousy for others, right? The word ‘thought’ in this verse refers to all the distracting thoughts in the human realm which need to be eliminated.
Caller: I understand.
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