Good morning everyone.
Today I would like to share with everyone how important Great Compassion is.
What's the key to help us to attain the Buddhahood is Bodhicitta
as a path of attain the Buddhahood the most important foundation is Great Compassion
Based on this Great Compassion we can raise the Bodhicitta.
Bodhicitta has a Relative Truth Bodhicitta and Ultimate Truth of the Bodhicitta.
So right now we are going to describe what is Related Truth of Bodhicitta.
As we already know without this Bodhicitta no Buddha can attain their Buddhahood.
No being can attain their Buddha nature without their Bodhicitta. According to Buddhist Sutra,
Hua Yen Sutra. In this Buddhist Sutra is a clearly documented
there is no Ten Directions of a Buddha if there is no Bodhicitta arising within them.
So in this Buddhist Sutra already explained to us the seed of attain Buddhahood is a Bodhicitta.
So now we know the importance of the Bodhicitta the Relative Truth of Bodhicitta is benefiting others,
wanting to liberate all the being by our own mean, and wanting to help them to attain their Buddhahood,
just like the intention we want to attain our Buddhahood.
So this is the key essence of Bodhicitta. Since we already realize the importance of Bodhicitta
but actually how we can raise the Bodhicitta. According the teaching told by the Buddha,
Bodhicitta actually need to start with raising the Great Compassion.
This Great Compassion means there is a dependent origination with our relationship with all being
There's no self. All the being with us are inseparable it depends on origination. Because of this concept, it
helped us to realize, it is so important without freeing of the beings the suffering
we cannot attain our Buddha nature. Because once we deeply to understand and learn the
Buddha's wisdom you will realize in the Buddha's wisdom there is no self.
Based on this concept, it's easy to understand why the Buddha why the Bodhisattva
has a so strong connection to the beings because this is their true nature, Great Compassion. So
once the Relative Truth of Bodhicitta raising by this strong determination we want to free
the suffering of the Six Realms of beings. Once have these raised, the Bodhicitta will fulfill.
So the seed of attaining the Buddhahood is Bodhicitta.
Without the Great Compassion, no Bodhicitta will be raised. So the relationship between Great
Compassion, Bodhicitta, and attaining Buddhahood, they are all interconnected so that's why a
lot of Bodhisattva's behavior you can truly see from their conduct, it is more accessible and more
adoptable for all the practitioners because the Buddha has already attained their Buddhahood. They
already fulfill complete. So there is no progress or cultivation actually we can exam or to learn
from. But Bodhisattva path is a long progress practice to attain the Buddhahood. So that's why
as a cultivator is so important to study and to learn Bodhisattva's conduct and attitude. How they
are serving helping all the being from suffering. So I hope by my short sharing of Bodhicitta
relationship with Great Compassion can also help you to understand the closer to the Buddha and
the Bodhisattva, the more we will realize as ordinary human how self-attached we are. I
hope you enjoy my sharing today and hope next time you will join me again on this path. Thank you.