The winds of karma blew me here and my karmic glue has kept me here. My teacher has told me to stay here and serve beings. So now with pure motivation, I want to give what is left of my life to establishing buddhadharma in the west. This is my gift to you. Since it is not material, it will last forever, until you attain buddhahood and your enlightened buddha essence benefits countless suffering beings.
Most beings experience nothing other than the heavy habit of materialism.
They can even be materialistic about spirituality, grasping at it and making it into a solid object. Because they are continuously involved in a materialistic point of view, their only concern is for themselves or those close to them. Their limited viewpoints come from a lack of wisdom and compassion. If we do not have compassion, then we are concerned only with our own welfare, and if we have that kind of limited viewpoint, then we have no wisdom. We will have lived our lives for nothing.