Remember the Six Principles for Daily Living? They are: One Mindedness, Two Loves, Three Virtues, Four Givings, Five Excellences, and Six Perfections.
Throughout the course of life, one inevitably encounters obstacles of varying degrees. But what is an obstacle? It becomes an obstacle only when one perceives it as such.
In today’s Information Age, it is often difficult to discern the correct path. The Buddhadharma teaches that “if the causal ground is false, its resultant fruit will be distorted.”
The foremost purpose of practicing the Buddhadharma is to free ourselves from the suffering of samsara.
The view of practice is the Middle Way: it is not a matter of taking full delight in neither virtues nor non-virtues. Rather, our view is that “the mind does not abide in anything”—it does not fixate on any conditioned arising or changing circumstance.
The “Four Givings” should be practiced together with the “Five Excellences”; in this way, our system of service can function smoothly and effectively.