Tonight, we did a Guru Rinpoche prayer. After which, Acho Rinpoche thanked fellow members whom visited Mayumla's mother at the hospital despite their busy schedules. He reminded us that showing concern to patients by being there personally is an act of a Bodhisattva. We might feel uncomfortable walking into a hospital environment of a different energy field because of the numerous spiritual beings there. It is nevertheless a duty of a practitioner to be there to help them.
Acho Rinpoche subsequently shared a teaching given by Venerable Jing Kong. Li Bing Nan, a Taiwanese layman Buddhist teacher, was one of the teachers of Venerable Jing Kong. Before Li passed away, he advised his students, "This world is in a terrible chaos now. Even the enlightened beings will not be able to save it." Mankind could only pray to the Buddhas for a rebirth in the Buddha's pure land when they passed away from this world. Mankind must dedicate their positive merits accumulated from their spiritual practice to change the course of this world which is heading for destruction. When the negative power accumulated from the harmful actions committed by mankind far exceed the positive power accumulated from their good deeds, this world will plunge into a chaotic state of never ending natural calamities and man-made disasters.
Take a look at the tensions between the North and South Koreas, between China and US today, wars can break out any moment between these countries. When this world faces its greatest destruction, no living beings could survive. By then, sentient beings who committed kind actions would die and be reborn in the heavenly realm; those who pray to the Buddhas would be reborn in the pure lands; those who committed harmful actions would fall into the three lower realms of animal, hell being and hungry ghost.
Venerable Jing Kong always reminded us that no one truly dies because one will simply continue to live in another form of existence elsewhere. It is inevitable that everyone will depart from this world one day. So, it is very important for us to practise well during this lifetime in order to gain a better state of existence, and finally return to the pure lands of the Buddha. One should not commit negative actions which will definitely lead to a miserable state of existence, being born into the three lower realms of animal, hell being and hungry ghost.
Reported by Sun Moon KFS on 3/3/2017
