How to Most Quickly Attain Complete Fulfillment of Worldly Dharma

Almost everyone pursues worldly dharmas, hoping to be the most outstanding and excellent in the world—the most talented, the most wealthy and honored, the most wise, the most virtuous, the most cultivated, the most respected—perfect and complete in everything, including family and relatives. So how can one achieve this goal, and achieve it in the fastest way?

The answer is to come and cultivate, to cultivate wholeheartedly, earnestly and conscientiously, cultivating as much as possible by letting go of the self. Cultivation is the only path that can swiftly and perfectly fulfill one's wishes; there is no other way. No other path can remove greed, aversion, and delusion, nor can one's virtue, cultivation, and worldly dharmas be brought to perfection through them. You see, the Buddha is the supreme honored one of the three realms, perfectly endowed with all dharmas, including worldly dharmas. In worldly dharmas, whatever it may be, He is the most supreme, the very pinnacle, with no one surpassing Him. Compared with the Buddha, bodhisattvas are not the most supreme, but compared with all worldly people, they are all the most supreme, surpassing everyone in the world. Whatever worldly people hope for and admire, bodhisattvas are fully endowed with—it is only a matter of whether the bodhisattva chooses to manifest it and make use of it.

Only when cultivation is practiced well will a person's merit, wisdom, talent, wealth, relatives, and so forth all be complete, perfect, and wonderful, including aesthetic sensibility, eloquence in language and writing, unobstructed eloquence in debate—every kind of refinement will be elevated. We must devote our minds as much as possible to the Path and stop applying our minds to worldly affairs, for the losses outweigh the gains. When one's cultivation deepens, the mind becomes extremely subtle and fine, feelings become keen and intelligent, inspiration arises in whatever one does, and one becomes a person of spiritual vitality. Cultivating the Path is the greatest and fastest shortcut to obtaining supreme worldly dharmas.