quotes of Hsuan Hua master

Q: What is BLISS? What is SOUL? How do we MAKE CONTACT with our SOUL?

Hsuan Hua’s Answer: I've already talked about what is BLISS.

Not FIGHTING is bliss. Not being GREEDY is bliss.

Not being SELFISH, not pursuing personal advantage, and not LYING are bliss.

When you're fighting, you expend a lot of effort and brainpower thinking about how to fight people, which is quite miserable.

When you're GREEDY, you can't SLEEP at night and the food tastes bland to you.

That's MISERY. When you search for things outside, including men pursuing women and women pursuing men, you forget everything.

You don't even care about your parents.

You only know to go after the object of your affection. That's misery.

Being SELFISH, you always do things that hurt others and help yourself.

Pursuing self-advantage means that you only know about benefiting yourself but not others.

LYING is misery too. Being DISCONTENT is misery.

Being content is BLISS. I've already said that earlier.

~Venerable Master Hsuan Hua~