THOSE WHO ARE TRULY WISE WILL DEVOTE THEIR LIVES TO HELPING OTHERS
Master Jun Hong Lu: For Buddhist practitioners, we should understand that it is only through dedication that we are considered to be truly diligent. Have you dedicated yourself today? How much have you done for others, being of service to others and helping others? All of these are attributes of dedication and true diligence.
When you introduce Buddhism to others, don’t you think you are practising true diligence? As such, those who are truly wise will devote their lives to helping others. They will abandon their selfish interests and focus on helping others instead. Such Buddhist tradition is termed as Mahayana Buddhism, a tradition whose aim is to help sentient beings to be awakened spiritually.
In the Age of Dharma Decline, it would be a challenge to eradicate our attachment to self if we do not dedicate ourselves to helping others. Do you understand?
If you do not help others, you will always believe yourself to be infallible; only when you are able to blend in harmoniously with sentient beings, that you are a true Buddha and that’s because the Buddha exists among sentient beings. Many of us have long gone astray in the human wilderness. To be truly enlightened to the Buddha’s teachings, we must work hard without expecting anything in return.
Source: Master Jun Hong Lu’s Buddhism In Plain Terms, Volume 6 Chapter 32
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