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Roving Over The World
- Book 111:
Roving Over The World
- Preface:
Roving Over The World
- Written by Sheng-yen Lu
- Translated by Janny Chow
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This book is entitled \`Roving Over The World\`. It is a record of how I reach a stage of perfection and harmony, after roving over the Samsara World.
The world can be far apart, as we have to climb many mountains and sail through many oceans to reach our destinations. The enlightenment only comes after different levels of understanding, gruelling tests and many years of spiritual searches.
The world can be very near. After travelling far and apart, you will come to realize that the truth is not found in the peak, nor at the bottom of the sea, it is within ourselves - our spiritual world.
I hope to pen down my feelings on people, places, evens, gathered through journey to many countries. In the process, I realize that the journey itself is \`food for thought\`, we can achieve mastery of life, if a comprehensive study of these subjects is carried out.
We hurry through our life just like taking a short journey, although most of us understand that life is impermanent. To me, if we can understand the truth in life, whether it is as trivial as a word, or a sentence, our life is worth more than a branded car, a grand house, even countless wealth we have.
To this end, I write this book to record my feelings towards events in my journey.
To those who don`t care about their lives or worse still who have wasted their lives, I hope they will change for the better after reading this book.
To those who are off their destinations, or have gone astray, I hope they will again seek enlightenment.
To those who are seeking the truth of \`Unrivalled enlightenment\`, I hope this book will help them in their endeavour.
I am also hopeful that this book could inspire better confidence into those who are willing but somehow forced to take an about turn in their search for spiritual enlightenment.
Finally, I dedicate this book to those who have achieved enlightenment, for the assimilation of spirits and the complement of brightness will converge at the sea of Vairocana nature.
I firmly believe in the truth that \`the world is a family\`.
Let me write you a modern poem entitled \`I am the Truth\`:
No one has passed through here,
for I am the truth.
Writing an enlightened article,
Everyday I am full of hopes.
For a long while now,
I await their abandonment of fame and status,
Waiting for their hands,
I hope they make a return to the truth.
Of an open mind,
I burn my own flame,
Painstakingly, I walk
the life-long journey.
Roving over the world,
I stop to reflect,
I wish I could pull many hands along,
in my enlightened and perfect life.
Sheng-Yen Lu
17102 NE, 40th Ct.
Redmond, WA 98052
U.S.A.
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