A GREAT PERSON IS ONE WHO HAS A BIG HEART
Master Jun Hong Lu: Buddhist practitioners should understand that regardless of whom you are troubled by, they should be regarded as a person who toughens your self-cultivation and elevates your state of mind. No matter what others say about you or how they insult you, you should learn to endure.
The stronger your endurance, the greater the status of cultivation you are able to attain. Hence, the saying – “the Prime Minister can hold a vessel in his stomach”, which means a great person is one who is large-hearted or magnanimous, a characteristic that an ordinary person lacks.
I hope all of you will be steadfast in your Buddhist practice and mind cultivation. This is my only wish; I have no other wishes. Tracking my footsteps, all of you have achieved the halfway milestone – never allow yourself to trip and fall, neither should you backtrack nor tumble down the mountain, lest you will be ruined.
Source: Master Jun Hong Lu’s Buddhism In Plain Terms, Volume 12 Chapter 9
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