INITIAL ASPIRATION IS THE STATE OF PERFECT AND SUPREME ENLIGHTENMENT
Master Jun Hong Lu: According to Buddhist scripture, a perfect and supreme enlightenment is attained when your initial aspiration is conceived. Think about it, your initial aspiration is your innate nature. The moment you embark on your spiritual cultivation journey, the luminous mind of the perfect and supreme enlightenment is awakened.
These words of the Buddha are meant to tell us that clarity is at its best when the first notion strikes us. At the outset of your spiritual practice, you are able to see through the issue in hand most clearly, and you are crystal clear about the direction and path you are heading towards, which will lay the groundwork for the attainment of Bodhi.
With the Buddha in your heart, the Bodhi mind will gradually be in your possession and if you keep cultivating your mind, the path of the Buddha will be within reach.
Your initial intent to leave secular life and attain enlightenment in this lifetime, and the longing to abandon suffering and gain happiness is essentially the heart that seeks Buddhahood. Such a heart is a sincere and eternal one of the tathagata that is tantamount to your innate heart.
Source: Master Jun Hong Lu’s Buddhism In Plain Terms, Episode 72, 11 June 2020
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