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Acknowledgment vii
Buddhism Today 1
He Who Has Accomplished His Goal 8
The Great Awakening 18
Turning the Dharma Wheel 28
The Path to Liberation 38
Shi Wuling
Buddhism Today
Buddhism Today
HE WHO HAS
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fell from his eye and rolled slowly down his face. He
began to weep, with more tears streaming down.
Greatly concerned, the king asked if some terrible
misfortune was to befall his son. Master Asita replied
no. On the contrary, the child would grow up to one
day find the Way to enlightenment. But he, Asita,
would no longer be alive, and so he wept.
Just a few days after Siddhartha's birth, the queen
died and the prince was raised by his aunt, the king's
second wife. She lovingly cared for Siddhartha as if
he were her own son.
When Siddhartha was nine years old he went to
the annual plowing ceremony. He saw the panting
oxen being lashed by their sweating handlers while the
sun blazed overhead. And as the plows tore into the
earth, he saw the worms being cut up by the plowing.
Small birds swooped down to devour the writhing
creatures. A larger bird flew down and caught a
smaller one. Siddhartha contemplated what he had
just seen. Even as a child, he was becoming aware of
the harsh realities of lifeall living beings kill one an
other to survive and in this there is suffering.
As Siddhartha grew up, he was provided with eve
rything a young prince cduld have: the finest posses-
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The Great Awakening
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The Path to Liberation
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Karma and Rebirth
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The Three Dharma Seals
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The Four Immeasurable Minds
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The Five Precepts
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and continuously.
As one keeps chanting and the mind focuses on
the sound of "Amituofo," errant thoughts are replaced
with pure thoughts. In this way, we also create less
negative karma. After Amitabha has been in our mind
continuously for a long time, our true natureour
Buddha-naturewill gradually be uncovered.
Amitabha Buddha is the wise and compassionate
teacher who understands everything, and who is always
thinking of us, lifetime afterlifetime after lifetime.
We are the students who are trying to learn and
practice. Just as a good teacher listens to the calls for
help from a student looking for the right answers, if
we have unwavering belief, vow to be reborn in the
Pure Land, and behave morally and sincerely prac
tice, Amitabha will respond. He is like the mother
who always thinks of her child. If the child does not
in turn think of his mother, her thoughts will not
help. But if he also thinks of her, they will eventually
be reunited. In such a way, Amitabha is always
thinking of us, waiting for our thoughts to turn to
him, so that we may come together.
When we chant to the point of single-mindedness
with the sole thought of Amituofo, we successfully
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