眾生無邊誓願度
煩惱無盡誓願斷
法門無量誓願學
佛道無上誓願成

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18 Nov 2019    Monday     2nd Teach Total 2042

The environment turns according to the mind

When some sentient beings diligently cultivate and study the Buddha's teachings, their ignorance and afflictions diminish and their merit increases; this will inevitably transform the material world (inanimate environment) of their own minds. At the same time, the tathāgatagarbhas of sentient beings who share in the collective karma will also resonate with this, manifesting a beautiful and abundant material world, so that the world appears more beautiful and all kinds of resources become plentiful. When the world becomes increasingly beautiful and abundant, sentient beings with good roots and merit who correspond to it will be reborn here, thereby influencing and leading the world to become even more beautiful and luminous. Sentient beings with insufficient merit do not correspond to this world, and beings of unwholesome karma become fewer and fewer. This is a virtuous cycle. The reverse is a vicious cycle: beings of unwholesome karma increase, beings of wholesome karma decrease, and bodhisattvas are unwilling to come to this world, so the living environment of this world becomes harsh. What is called the change of the world is, in fact, the change of the material world within each sentient being's own mind.

——Master Sheng-Ru's Teachings
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