Dylan Lee's Review 4A on Liao Fan's 英文字幕《Everything you do reflects on the material world》20220115
Channel: See Through and Let Go
Date: 2022-01-30

Text: https://xuewufashi.blogspot.com/2022/01/dylans-review-4a-on-liaofans-four.html

If you cultivate goodness without attaching to the goodness itself, to the notion of you doing good, then whatever you do will always be perfect.

That means whatever you do will always be natural, and will always be fully-rounded, but if your heart is attached to the goodness that you did or the goodness itself even though you have done a lot of good deeds, like what they say 3,000 meritorious deeds, you're only restricted to half goodness. So the level of goodness you would reach is half of the weight of full goodness. For example, using wealth to help others you must cultivate non-attachment to the notion of Giving.

So you must not see that you have done the good deeds, you must not see the other people receiving your good deeds and you must not see the deeds themselves as good deeds. That is what it means by Emptiness, the Doctrine of Emptiness, when we are cultivating the Parameter of Giving. 

1421 So this is what we call a pure heart. If we have that level of cultivation in terms of doing good deeds, that means you still have to do it, but when you do it, you do not say Dylan has donated one million dollars and the charity UNESCO has received one million dollars, then there is no notion of this one million dollars having been donated (a good deed having been done.) for a good cause.

1456 So you're aware of what's happening, what you are doing, without any form of regret or without any form of trying to get praise, so it just happens naturally by itself. If we can do that then it's what we call with a pure heart and this kind of heart when you use it anywhere, helping anybody, doing any kind thing, then even though your good deed may be small, like helping people to cross the street, small deeds, but the merits that it accrues is infinite. 

1532 Small deeds can accrue infinite merits, you don't have to do like actually 3,000 deeds for that, because you have captured the roots of it, your heart is right and you're not attached, so you're not bound to a certain ideas on views which is what we call erroneous view, erroneous ideas, you have attained emptiness which is pure heart.

So whatever you do is out of the purity of heart, there's no me, you, he and what.
 So one word(small good deed) can also help to resolve conflicts. When we look at this world, we think about how nowadays the media has posted a lot of fake news, they don't report facts, sometimes they just speculate and speculate and they keep causing a lot of trouble. If there is a person who can come out and say the thing as it is. If we all learn how to do that, then I think society will be much more peaceful.

1646 So this is what we are talking about by one word can help you to resolve all sins of the past. So if you haven't forgotten about this idea of goodness, this idea of me doing goodness that means if you haven't attained emptiness even though, if your coffers have millions of dollars or billions of (dollars) in property, your fortune will not be considered as full. 

So the good fortune that you accrue is only material, so this is restricted(limited, half). People who have good fortune and their fortune is filled to the brim, to the maximum and they don't have attachment to themselves, is a person who has a heart as big as an ocean, because they don't have attachment to themselves, so their heart is not as narrow as ordinary people. This kind of person can take in all sorts of fortune into their coffers, we call it fortune coffers. 心田. So this is how we should understand (half and full) goodness and what we should strive towards, the level that we should strive towards.

Big goodness does not rely on how much money you donate or how many good deeds you do. It's how sincere you are when you do them. If it's sincere, it's big. No matter how small the deed is, like saving an ant.

It was a relatively small deed, saving ants’ lives, not like saving a human life.

2536 So something like this, you don't need to wait for something big to happen, just do goodness from the small everyday practical part of your life. Then merits will accumulate by themselves.