Buddha told Subhuti, "Don't talk that way. In the last five hundred years after the death of the Realized One, there will be those who keep the precepts and do good deeds who will be capable of conceiving belief in this exposition, considering it to be true. You should know that those people will have planted roots of goodness, not with one, two, three, four, or five buddhas, but with infinite thousands of myriads of buddhas. They will conceive pure belief on hearing this exposition for even a moment."
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What does planting roots of goodness mean? It may briefly be set forth as follows:
It means wholeheartedly supporting the buddhas and following their teachings, while always being respectful and obedient to bodhisattvas, spiritual friends, teachers, parents, old folks, experienced worthies, and venerable elders. This is called planting roots of goodness.
To develop an attitude of mercy and compassion toward all beings suffering because of craving, not conceiving disdain for them, giving them what they need according to one's ability – this is called planting roots of goodness.
To be gentle and tolerant with all bad types, treating them affably and not provoking them, causing them to develop a sense of joy, and stop being stubbornly perverse – this is called planting roots of goodness.
Not killing or harming living beings, not cheating and not despising them, not defaming and not disgracing them, not riding or beating them, not eating their flesh, always acting to their benefit – this is called planting roots of goodness.
As for belief, this means believing that prajnaparamita can eliminate all afflictions
believing that prajnaparamita can perfect all transmundane virtues
believing that prajnaparamita can produce all buddhas
believing that the buddha-nature in your own body is originally pure, without defilement, equal to the buddha-nature of the buddhas
believing that all types of beings are originally formless
believing that all beings can attain buddhahood ––
this is called pure belief.
Submitted December 02, 2017 at 12:12AM by KeyserSozen http://ift.tt/2AO8s0n
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