Instructional talk given by Venerable Master Hua on January 16, 1983, at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
No matter how we’ve been in the past, from now on, all we need is to be a new person, put on new face, and start afresh.
Ten weeks of Chan are completed today.
Put on a new face, strike the Bodhi resolve.
Always wield the Vajra sword of wisdom.
Roaming up, down, north, south, east and west.
This is the completion day of the ten-week Chan session. No matter how we have been in the past, from now on, all we need to do is to be a new person, put on a new face, and to start afresh. Be an entirely different person from the greedy ghost of the past. Strike a great resolve for bodhi. Do not keep on engaging in discriminations of self and others, of rights and wrongs, as we did in the past.
We should constantly wield the Vajra King’s Jeweled Sword of Wisdom, and get rid of stupidity. If we weren’t stupid, we wouldn’t do things upside-down. Why are we upside-down? It’s because of stupidity, ignorance, and dark confusion. We should always grasp the Vajra Sword of Wisdom, roaming upwards, downwards, to the north, south, east, or west, throughout the world, going wherever we please. That’s the state of great freedom in which there is no self and no others, no restrictions, and no rights or wrongs.
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