Our guiding principle in life is that, “Life is the field of merit, and work is Dharma practice.”
An authentic Dharma practitioner is fundamentally different from an ordinary person. Ordinary beings are caught in the cycle of afflictions, continually entangled as defilement breeds further defilement.
What is the greatest gift bestowed upon us? It is affliction itself. For it is precisely through afflictions that wisdom arises.
Time goes by real fast and impermanence is everywhere. Only through Dharma practice could we know how to live our lives to the fullest value.
In times like these, it is important to make positive connections with sentient beings and restore our inner peace. It is only when our minds are at peace then the world will be at peace.
There is a distinctive practice included in the sutra, which is the recitation of the 42-syllable Mantra of Avatamsaka.