Lofty Peaks in Little Sayings

My 1st encounter to Teachings by Master Hsuan Hua was about 2 years ago when their branch in Singapore set up a free book distribution booth at the book fair at Bras Basah Complex and as then I just read about Rev. Heng Sure, hence the booth attracted my attention. There are many wonderful books.

Recently, they are reducing their operations in Singapore and distributing their collection of books and this small pocket-sized booklet is one of the treasures I have got.

Below are some of the quotes compiled in the booklet.:-)

When you seek nothing, you find true happiness.

Your nature will be steady, you will be at peace.

Wishing to climb high, we start low.

wishing to go far, we begin with what is near.

Parents are living Buddhas right in your home so do not neglect what is near to seek afar.

Everything is made from the mind.

If your mind is not true, even the true becomes false.

If your mind is true, then even the false can change.

A great response can happen.

If we do not look within ourselves to find our own mind,

then we will miss the chance to see things clearly.

For the sake of momentary pleasure, we may do things that we will regret for the rest of our lives. There is an old saying: "Content with what we have, we are always glad.

Being patient with what comes, peace is always with us."

How true that is!

First of all, we should work on not fighting, not being greedy, not seeking, not being selfish, not pursuing personal advantage, and not lying.

These principles are very simple. we should start from what is simple, moving from near to far, and from shallow to deep.

You cannot just get angry when you feel like it, you cannot think, "This is wrong. This is not right." Do not be so negative. Things are not always going to go your way, so take a step back and think, "Patience! Patience!Got to have patience!" Then things will turn out fine.

The effect fits the cause. Do good and good will come to you.

Do evil and you will get evil back.

This is natural law.

Create a perfect result and get a perfect result.

Plant a haphazard cause and get a haphazrd effect. Be clear about this.

Do not let it go in one ear and out the other.

Do not fight. If we do not fight with people, then people will not fight with us.

Even if people do fight with me, I will not fight back. If we can be like that, then disputes would just not happen.

Whatever is in our minds will also exist outside.

If there are no wars going on in our minds, there will be no wars outside.