Master Jun Hong Lu’s
Buddhism In Plain Terms
Volume 11 Chapter 28
(An Excerpt)
PRACTISE BUDDHISM TO RID MORTAL TRAITS
Master Jun Hong Lu: The Dharma theories we learn today are meant to help us mortals to transform our mindsets.
If a practitioner perceives Buddhism learning and practice as two separate entities and continues to respond to worldly challenges with the attitude of ordinary people, behaving fiercely and maliciously, then he is basically not cultivating well.
Many people look very dignified, with their palms together when performing recitations. However, once their children return home and start to stir up troubles, they will cast away their prayer beads and start scolding them.
They appear exactly like ordinary people. You can’t detect a single trace of Bodhisattva in them. This is called subpar standard of cultivation.
In Buddhism, it means they have yet to put in the ‘real effort’ in their cultivation. What does ‘real effort’ in spiritual cultivation mean then? It is when your Buddhism practice penetrates right into your heart.
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