Wisdom from Chinese Literary and Buddhist Classics
365 Days for Travelers
8/10: SHINING FINGERS
Venerable Master Hsing Yun (1927 - , Fo Guang Shan)English translation: Zhi Yue and Calvin Ka-fat Lau
To have light emitting from our fingers sounds like an
impossibility, but to emit light is not an ability that only the
buddhas and bodhisattvas have. Anyone who has a pure
and sincere heart can radiate with light.
Whenever we encourage or console others, our mouths
emit light as our speech illuminates the way; when we
make circumstances more convenient for others, we
brighten the world with our hands. When we smile
compassionately at others, our faces radiate with light!
Whenever and wherever we give others happiness and
confidence, we allow others to feel the purity of our
wisdom─emitting light both inside and out.
Not only do we shine when we lessen our selfishness,
greed, hate, and argumentativeness, our lights dispel
darkness and illuminate others as well. In this way,
everyone is an illuminating body.
── from Hsing Yun Shuo Yu
(Hsing Yun’s Commentaries on Allegories)
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INSPIRATION
Recorded by Leann Moore
Language
—should be like sunshine
and convey a bright view,
—should be like a flower
and convey fragrant thought,
—should be like pure water
and convey clear ideas.
Dharma Instruments
Venerable Master Hsing Yun grants voices to the objects of daily monastic life to tell their stories in this collection of first-person narratives.
Sutras Chanting
The Medicine Buddha SutraMedicine Buddha, the Buddha of healing in Chinese Buddhism, is believed to cure all suffering (both physical and mental) of sentient beings. The Medicine Buddha Sutra is commonly chanted and recited in Buddhist monasteries, and the Medicine Buddha’s twelve great vows are widely praised.
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