TIME AND TIDE WAIT FOR NO MAN; YOU CAN ONLY DEPEND ON YOURSELF
Master Jun Hong Lu: You still have a long way to go. If you are not diligent, you will only have yourself to blame when you suffer in the future. I have talked to you for so many years, how many more years do I have to talk to you? Essentially, you can only depend on yourself. You need to have self-awareness. If you are a good child, whether I am around or I am not, there shouldn’t be any difference. If you need someone to watch over you all the time, shame on you!
If you do not have self-awareness, aren’t you a disgrace to Bodhisattva? You must rely on your own self-awareness in whatever you do. Being aware means being awakened. Bodhisattva is the awakened one – an enlightened being. If you are awakened, you see through the reality of things and are able to let go, you wouldn’t intentionally be behaving differently just because others are watching, and behaving otherwise, when they are not. You need to transform yourself for the better. Time and tide wait for no man.
Source: Master Jun Hong Lu’s Discourse (Question 390), 16 June 2020
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