THOSE WHO ARE QUICK-MINDED AND ALWAYS THINK DEEPLY SHOULD APPLY RIGHT THOUGHTS TO APPRECIATE THE HIGH SPIRITUALITY OF THE DHARMA
Caller: Master, those who are involved in brain-intensive professions are more adept at using rational thinking to analyse things in their daily encounters. Such people tend to have greater faith in scientific practices or things that are proven. Is it true that this group of people is weaker at gaining resonance with Bodhisattvas?
Master Jun Hong Lu: This is not how you should understand this concept. People in brain-intensive professions tend to be good at thinking. When you introduce the teachings of the Bodhisattva to them, they may not be fully convinced, as they will continuously use their worldly intelligence and methods to manoeuvre and attempt to understand the Bodhisattva’s mind.
Caller: Master, does this mean that it’s easier for such people to have faith in Bodhisattvas?
Master Jun Hong Lu: Of course. Take a look at the number of graduates, PhD students, graduate students, professors and those highly-acclaimed researchers in Guan Yin Citta. Aren’t they in brain-intensive professions? Let me ask you, do you use your brain?
Caller: I do.
Master Jun Hong Lu: That means you have a mind of your own. The ultimate objective of Buddhism practice is to cultivate the right thought.
It only takes a person like Master Lu, someone who constantly talks to them about Buddhism theories and philosophy, to make them understand the mind, the high state of spirituality and wisdom of the Bodhisattva. You see, the problem is no one talks to them!
Imagine a professor happens to go to a temple to pay respect to the Buddha, but no one tells him anything about Buddhism during his visit, what can he learn? How would he derive faith in Buddhism after that? He would think, faith in Buddhism is about burning incense, kowtowing to some mud statues of the Buddha and he would conclude that it is nothing but superstition.
Caller: Master, you mentioned having the right thoughts. Are right thoughts the same as having right faith and right mindfulness in practising Buddhism?
Master Jun Hong Lu: That’s correct. Right thought is about having the right faith and right mindfulness, as well as encountering the right dharma and treading on the right path.
It was written in the Buddhist scripture some 2500 years ago. The Buddha said, what is “Righteous”? It is when the dharma becomes one’s underlying support; when a person diligently studies, researches and reads up on the Buddha’s teachings daily.
Look at what I ask you to study every day, they are the Buddhist texts. And, what have you been learning? What I teach are the contents of the Buddhist scriptures. Isn’t this the true dharma?
Caller: That’s right.
Source: Wenda20160527 01:15:38, Master Jun Hong Lu’s call-in radio program
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