Buddhism As Education

Cultivating a Peaceful Mind lies in Having Few Desires. Having few desires and knowing contentment means to have no intense desire or insatiable greed and thus be able to cultivate a peaceful mind. Bringing peace to the minds of others is the activity and compassionate vow of a bodhisattva. One should make a compassionate vow to benefit others and work for their welfare and not just stop at having few desires and feeling contentment. Otherwise, it is not only insufficiently active and positive, it may even become negative and passive. Superior people cultivate a peaceful mind through the path. They give rise to bodhi mind and cultivate the bodhisattva path. Middling people cultivate a peaceful mind through activity. If given an appropriate amount of work to keep them busy, they won't go looking for trouble or make trouble for others. Inferior people seek peace of mind through the pursuit of fame, fortune and material desires. We hope that everyone can at least cultivate peace of mi...

Actually, the methods of Fivefold Spiritual Renaissance are not new. They have been around even during the time of Shakyamuni Buddha. When the Buddha manifested in the world to preach Dharma, his primary audience were human beings. His aim was ti imbed te Darma widely in people's lives, allowing them to awaken from ignorance and thus resolve their predicaments and uncover the original radiance of the mind ground-to-innate wisdom or powers of the mind. By applying the Dharma in their lives, people could moderate and subdue their afflictions and habits and ceaselessly build within their mind a clear and cool pure land. Spiritual refers to the mind and ideas. The Buddhadharma is a teaching of the mind. The mind itself is a kind of wisdom. In part of this wisdom is innate; in part, acquired. Put another way, the preconditions are innate and to them nurturing and development are added. If people have difficulty accepting nurturing and development, it is because they are unwilling to cha...