It has been transmitted to us that the teaching of the Buddhas is extremely profound and inconceivable. Immeasurable. Only Buddhas, meeting together with Buddhas, can fully know it. The karmic consciousness of sentient beings cannot reach it or realize it. It is not reached by thinking or feeling.

[01:29]

But if thinking and feeling are compassionately cared for and totally exerted, sentient beings can open to this Dharma, experience its demonstration, awaken to what they cannot reach and enter it. Sentient beings can enter into the Dharma which is realized by Buddhas meeting together with Buddhas. Our thinking doesn't reach it, but if we care for our thinking, we can join the realization.

[02:41]

And caring for our thinking is the practice, which is the realization. We can care for our feelings and our thinking the way Buddhas do. So, practicing that way is the realization of the Buddhas. Buddhas take care of all karmic consciousnesses. They teach karmic consciousnesses how to open and enter the Dharma. The Buddhas teach sentient beings to be mindful of their thinking, which includes their feeling

[04:07]

and their intentions and their cognitions, how to be mindful in the present in a completely compassionate way. And when sentient beings do not receive the teaching or forget the teaching, the Buddhas receive the confession and repentance of sentient beings and assist them to enter the practice again. We receive inconceivable, wondrous assistance by the power of confession and repentance

[05:09]

of any unskillfulness towards our karmic consciousness. Karmic consciousness, because it has no fundamental, can become more and more skillful. So skillful and so skillful that there finally is no clinging. And part of the skill, part of the kindness towards karmic consciousness is to be patient and with us slowly it evolves positively.

[06:11]

Not only does the slowness of our learning call for the kindness of patience, but the slowness helps the patience grow. There are no Buddhas without patience, without developing the capacity to open to twisted, giddy, constricting, confused karmic consciousness. We are all responsible for this practice and, of course, none of us are in control

[08:15]

of it. We're all contributing to it, we're all responding to it, and I hope that we more and more accept this great responsibility. I hope we more and more wholeheartedly receive the transmission of this responsibility and transmit this responsibility to others.

[09:16]

The responsibility of and for Buddha's wisdom and compassion. I think we need to help the Buddhas and great Bodhisattvas be successful. All Buddhas served innumerable Buddhas, now we can serve innumerable Buddhas. We can surrender our life to the service of the Buddhas.

[10:59]

We can give every action of body, speech, and thought to the service of the Buddha way, for the service of the Buddha way, for the sake of the Buddha way. And when we dedicate all our actions in this way, it is because the Buddha way is supporting us to do so. So, we support the Buddha way because the Buddha way supports us to support the Buddha way. We support each other because we're supporting each other. May we remember this and enjoy this.

[12:11]

Being ourselves completely and authentically, again as a gift to all Buddhas and all sentient beings. May we remember this and enjoy this. Thank you for taking care of karmic consciousness.

[13:26]

Thank you for taking care of this practice place where people can come and take care of karmic consciousness. Thank you for vowing to take care of karmic consciousness. Thank you for vowing to liberate all karmic consciousnesses. Karmic consciousnesses are numberless. I vow to save them.

[14:51]

May our intention equally extend to every being and place. With the true merit of Buddha's way. Karmic consciousnesses are numberless. I vow to save them. Delusions are inexhaustible. I vow to end them. Dharma gates are boundless. I vow to enter them. Buddha's way is unsurpassable. I vow to become it.

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