(*Bell*) When I was young,
I did not believe in paradise,
In the Kingdom of God.
Because people suffer so much,
They don't find it easy.
Here and now,
So they are thinking of somewhere else that may be more pleasant.
And paradise,
The Kingdom of God,
The Pure Land of Buddha,
Are just the creation of that kind of imagination,
Longing.
It's springtime now,
And if we observe,
We see that there are so many wonderful things manifesting.
And if we look at these flowers and ask where they have come from,
They may tell you that they have come from the Kingdom of God.
And if you get in touch with them deeply enough,
They touch the Kingdom of God.
And if you ask the rain,
The sunshine,
The trees,
The fog,
Where do they come from,
They may answer the same way.
They have come from the Kingdom of God.
And if you get in touch with us deeply,
You touch the Kingdom.
And if your child comes,
Let her smile,
Her innocence.
And if you ask her,
Darling,
Where have you come from?
And your child may tell you in one way or another that he has come from the Kingdom of God.
And if you can touch her,
Touch him deeply,
You touch the Kingdom.
And because of that practice of looking deeply,
I have discovered that the Kingdom of God is available in the here and the now.
The Pure Land of the Buddha is in the here and the now.
Your heart,
You yourself,
Each one of us has come from the Kingdom of God.
Each of us belongs to the Kingdom.
We know how to get in touch with ourselves deeply enough.
We touch the Kingdom.
And the Kingdom can be touched with him.
That is just a thought,
A notion,
A concept.
With the practice of looking deeply,
You experience it.
Every flower is trying to open.
And the sunshine encourages them to open.
Your heart is one.
Allow it to open.
Don't be afraid.
Even if you have suffered,
If your heart wants to close,
Your heart is still a flower.
Let us allow our heart to open like a flower.
It's time to do so.
And that is in the here and the now that we can touch deeply the Kingdom.
And the Buddha said that joy and peace and happiness are possible in the here and the now.
You don't need to go to the future.
You don't need to go elsewhere in order to get it,
To get them.
You don't have to do anything.
You don't have to go anywhere.
So let us sit in such a way that we can touch the here and the Buddha within us,
The Kingdom of God within us.
We may become the Kingdom.
The Kingdom is a source of ambrosia that brings freshness,
Peace,
Well-being and joy.
The Buddha encouraged us to practice great thinking.
We suffer because we don't know how to think.
We don't know how to practice right thinking.
And wrong thinking brings a lot of fear,
Anger,
Separation and despair.
Right thinking brings us close to the Kingdom of God,
To peace,
To love.
Right thinking brings us back to the source of life.
Because right thinking is the kind of thinking that is free from discrimination,
Free from anger,
Free from separation.
When you think that the Kingdom of God is not there,
It is something that is elsewhere.
And you can only go to it after you die.
That's not right thinking.
When you think that your mother is entirely another person,
You are yourself only and she is herself only,
You are two separate persons,
That's not right thinking.
When you are able to see you and your mother,
And your mother is in you,
And you belong to the same stream of being,
That is right thinking.
The thinking eliminates all kinds of discrimination and anger and hate.
It brings love,
Understanding.
The Buddha said that everything is a product of our mind.
And if we practice collective right thinking,
We can bring in the Kingdom of God,
We can bring in the Pure Land of the Buddha,
We can bring in peace and joy for us,
Right in the here and the now.
You have the top side,
You have the trees ready,
You have the farm ready,
You have friends ready to join in on that too,
To create the Kingdom of God for you.
And so the Kingdom has become for me a reality of each moment,
And no longer an idea that you entertain your heart so that you suffer less.
The Kingdom is now or never.
As a good practitioner,
Whenever you make a step,
Mindfully,
With freedom and solidity,
You touch the Pure Land of the Buddha,
You touch the Kingdom of God.
And there is also always that desire to share the Kingdom with another person.
With other people.
When you observe a lemon tree or an orange tree,
You notice that the orange tree is capable of producing beautiful orange leaves,
Very green,
And beautiful red oranges.
And she enjoys producing leaves,
Flowers,
And fruits.
And that is her continuation.
Each of us is like an orange tree.
And if we do well,
We produce beautiful thoughts,
Beautiful speech,
And beautiful actions.
The kind of speech,
Action,
And thought that can improve the quality of the world.
And they are called actions.
Whether it is a thought of hate or a thought of love,
It is there to last.
When you produce a thought,
That thought will create a change,
Action.
If your thought is full of hate and despair,
It begins to destroy yourself.
And it will help destroy the world if your thinking is full of hate and despair.
A thought of hate,
A thought of despair,
Can destroy yourself and destroy your family and the world.
But a thought of compassion,
A thought of loving kindness,
A thought of compassion,
Has the power to heal yourself.
As soon as you produce a thought of compassion,
It will have a good effect on your body,
Your health,
Like the wind.
Writing can be very healing,
And it can help heal the world.
And writing does not cost anything.
You need only to practice.
Listen to the sound of the breath.
Enjoy their in-breath,
Their out-breath.
The energy of mindfulness is powerful.
There is silence.
But this is the kind of silence that is so elegant,
So alive,
So peaceful.
And you feel it penetrated into your body,
Your mind,
And you feel the nourishment and the healing because of that silence,
That energy of silence.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
