- Chapter One: Prologue
- Chapter Two: Doctrine
- Chapter Three: Practice
- Chapter Four: The Way of Humanity
- Chapter Five: Cause and Effect
- Chapter Six: Doubts Clarified
- Chapter Seven: The Principle of the Nature
- Chapter Eight: Buddhahood
- Chapter Nine: Sending on Spirits in Transition
- Chapter Ten: Belief and Dedication
- Chapter Eleven: Maxims
- Chapter Twelve: Exemplary Acts
- Chapter Thirteen: On the Order
- Chapter Fourteen: Prospects
- Chapter Fifteen: Entrusting
Dictionary
The Scripture of the Founding Master
Chapter Three: Practice
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The Founding Master said to several of his disciples, “You should indeed apply the buddhadharma and try to enhance your everyday life; you should not be so attached to the buddhadharma that you waste your life. In sum, the buddhadharma was originally the great Way for delivering the world, but if some people instead renounce the world, enter the mountains to engage only in such practices as reciting the Buddha’s name, reading scriptures, or sitting in meditation, and waste their whole lives, finally leaving no real marks of having delivered anyone, then such people have been overly attached to the buddhadharma. Not only do they achieve little success for themselves, but they offer no benefit to the world, either.”
The Scripture of the Founding Master
Chapter Three: Practice
51
The Founding Master said to several of his disciples, “You should indeed apply the buddhadharma and try to enhance your everyday life; you should not be so attached to the buddhadharma that you waste your life. In sum, the buddhadharma was originally the great Way for delivering the world, but if some people instead renounce the world, enter the mountains to engage only in such practices as reciting the Buddha’s name, reading scriptures, or sitting in meditation, and waste their whole lives, finally leaving no real marks of having delivered anyone, then such people have been overly attached to the buddhadharma. Not only do they achieve little success for themselves, but they offer no benefit to the world, either.”
