Verses Extracted From Venerable Master Hua’s

TALKS ON DHARMA

Volume Four

I would rather die while making one last step towards the West, than live by retreating one step towards the East.

(from page 3 “The Story of Great Master Hsuan Tsang, Who Went to India in Search of Sutras”)

We must look within ourselves and clearly see our own faults. Then we need to earnestly repent of these past mistakes. We must not hold onto our stinking habits and fail to let them go.

While walking, standing, sitting, and reclining,

Never stray from “this.”

Once you stray from “this,”

You’ve gone amiss.

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Things pass by quite easily,

But a bad temper’s truly hard to change.

If you can never get angry,

You’ve got a pearl beyond price.

Then, if you can never know hatred,

Everything will go your way.

Since afflictions never bother you anymore,

Your evil karma no longer comes to call.

But someone who knows only to criticize others

Is one whose own suffering has not yet ended.

* * *

Mahasattvas pay no attention to others;

Amitabha! Every man for himself!

* * *

Truly recognize your own faults,

And don’t discuss the faults of others.

Others’ faults are simply my own faults:

Being one in substance with all is called Great Compassion.

(from pages 23 to 27 “To Investigate Chan, We Must Look Within Ourselves”)