[786]
When one ignores the truth,
one clings to delusion.
[787]
Those who imagine Amitabha Buddha’s Pure Land
to be fictitious and figurative miss the truly and literally best school
created with perfect compassion and wisdom for perfecting their Dharma practice.
[788]
The perfection of generosity
is to ‘give’ your defilements to no one [by harming none],
and to ‘share’ your virtues with everyone [by benefitting all].
[789]
The most simple way to attain sufficiency is the best.
The most complex way to attain excesses is the worst.
[790]
Since all wish to be happy,
may all help one another to be happy.
[791]
If you cannot care for a simple small being,
how can you care for complex bigger ones?
[792]
To truly reflect on the past, one does so in the present.
To truly plan for the future, one does so in the present.
To be lost in the past or future, one has lost the present.
[793]
If eating or fasting leads to enlightenment,
the greediest and the hungriest would long be enlightened.
[794]
Any ordinary ritual
infused with Dharma meaning
becomes a spiritual practice
[795]
As the precepts are interconnected
in the spirit of non-harm to anyone,
to truly observe any one is to truly observe all.