what is the meaning of bodhisattva ,according to ven shengyen
,
they are being who vowed to help beings without concern for their
personal benefit.
you see in everyday life , in our working life , we meet different
kinds of people
and different kinds of people show different needs and want.
As a Buddhist ,the difficulty lies in how to help other ,but not
overdoing it
this takes time and practice ,and sometimes we are not appreciated
in our effort at all
clearly ,as a clever Buddhist ,one should keep a low profile ,and
never to loudly proclaim that we are Buddhist.There are people who
just like to judge people based on level of conduct to their
conviction(religion),but they are just not seeing themselves as
turpidities.
the real practice all begins in our heart,if we willing to take
each day as a practice and getting corrupted by those insiduous
people , we will see one day those that work with us ,mellow down
and turned humble.
our existence in this world is temporary ,and why we are in this
certain company working is also due to our previous karma .with
this in mind ,always have a forgiving mind to other who may comes
to hurt us verbally and in action
dealing with difficult people
alot of people do encounter people who just want to try to be
difficult with us
we need to analyse the difficulties he/she impose was it to the
personal or for
work matter .Sometimes it proves too much a challenge to sell ones
idea ,but we just have to try.Our working relationship with other
is but impermanence,
if we just cannot tackle them in our lives , we should gracefully
avoid conflict or even leave the department or company
using 5 precepts as a guide , we must know never to break of
violate the precepts as it will bring harm to sentient beings and
even to ourselves
Using Diamond sutra analogy "all pheonomenon ,are like dream ,
illusion ,bubbles and shadow, like dews ,and lightning , thus one
should reflect upon ."
