January 11, 2022? Tuesday? Rain in Burnaby

The inner prosperity is not rich enough, and only the outer prosperity is needed to show it. As long as your heart is perfect, you can reach the state where the mind has nothing to dwell on.

"Hundreds of Dharma doors return to the same place, and the wonderful virtues in the river sand are always in the source of the heart." It means that if you want to be enlightened, you can neither be obsessed with the surface of objects, expect birds and beasts to worship these scenes, nor be persistent. In the word "Buddha". Hundreds and thousands of Buddhist teachings are in the human heart. Only by starting from the heart can one achieve enlightenment.

The mind is free of residence, which means that it is at ease and not bound by external things. When the mind is at ease, it does not need the support of external things, but can be self-sufficient and complete.

Because people in the world cannot maintain a state of indifference in their hearts, they cannot grasp the state of "being in the secular world, but their hearts are separated", so they are full of confusion and shame. In fact, no matter how prosperous the world is, it is just to meet the needs of life, just like the moon, no matter how beautiful it is, is cold and cannot be transformed into compassion to save the world. Therefore, instead of struggling in pursuit of material things, it is better to break free from the constraints of external things and live happily with a mind that is leisurely to see the wind and clouds clearly.

If a person does not know how to give up, he will be attached to external things, will be distracted when doing things, and will take detours on the way to achieve the goal. Not willing to give up means refusing a simple life, which will only make people overwhelmed and exhausted.