Author: Tao Qing Hsu (Hsu, Tao-qing)
Why I am interested in
learning Buddha? Because I have realized that the Buddha and I are equal in
Buddha-nature. The relationship between us is balanced. From learning Buddha, I
finally understand what is the really self-confidence. Such self-confidence is
coming from what I have realized that all of us are equal in the Body of
Emptiness, and that the causes what we have thought and what we have done are
equal to the results which we have to bear. So, each thought, especially the
first thought, is one cause which is very important and should be careful. The
sixth founder of Zen, Master Hui Neng, said that each thought shall have no
evil opinion.
This self-confidence is not
coming from the surface of phenomenon, intelligent, success or rich, because
such things are impermanent and always changing. Success in fortune, career,
even to overbearing in the politic, is that the worldly opinion about the
self-confidence. But, eventually, such self-confidence is ego-arrogance. There
is an ancient Chinese saying.” Once a General has success, ten-thousand human
bones have been dried.”
