The Path of Detachment and Awakening

Leaving the Mundane for the Transcendent

If you wish to leave the mundane world and enter the transcendent realm, you must first understand what this truly entails. It means detaching yourself from the world of the Five Desires and the Six Dusts, and stepping into a world that is pure and unstained. Your heart must be transformed, and your actions must be disciplined. By abandoning desire and the dust of the world, you can finally enter a state of mind that is free from craving and free from the defilements of the senses. When your heart and your actions are transformed, your karma will naturally begin to transform as well. If this transformation of karma is successful, your spiritual achievements will surely follow.

Returning to Innate Capabilities

If you move away from reliance on hardware technology and instead enter the realm of innate, original capabilities, you are moving toward the truth. For example, if you can detach from the constant use of computers and return to the innate power of your Six Roots and your Dharma Body, you are effectively distancing yourself from the interference of demons. This is the moment you gain the opportunity to enter a state of purification, which then allows you to save infinite suffering beings.

The Vigilance of the Mind

You must be extremely careful. Before you have reached Awakening, every thought and intention you generate will attract karmic beings and attached spirits to manifest before you. If you can skilfully use hardware technology for the purpose of saving the world and rescuing beings, without being disturbed by demons, this shows you possess meditative concentration. You are not swayed by external demons or internal movements of the mind, and you demonstrate the true cultivation of a practitioner.

The Success of Righteous Practice

If you leave behind the deluded mind and enter the state of meditative concentration, you have achieved success in the practice of Precepts (Discipline), Concentration and Wisdom. This is the manifestation of Buddha-Recitation Samadhi, which is the ultimate achievement in both practice and chanting. Even if you have not yet reached Awakening, if you continue your practice without interruption, the time of your Awakening will surely come. If you leave the True Teachings and enter into false paths, your chanting and your actions will become distorted. Conversely, if you leave behind false paths and enter the True Teachings, both your chanting and your actions will remain on the righteous path.

Maintaining the Right Way

In your practice, you must never depart from the Universal Principle, the Truth, and the Right Way. Only by following this path can you remain free from bias, maintain righteous conduct, and keep your mind pure and unstained. Only then will your practice reach its ultimate success. Namo Amituofo.

Recorded and transcribed by Namo Amituofo’s disciple, Venerable Fa Hui.