Be Diligent in Practice
修習佛法，如何得成法器？
修真實義為首。蓋自心為煩惱性故，去惡緣及依寂靜地，對治煩惱、見道與行道，不違誤而行持。
當煩惱生，即以正念執持而制。行者行修需精進勤奮，開展自性菩提，在成熟過程中，才能了知生命全體性德。
從發心門開始修行，具足大悲萬德，能生一切萬法，即能展開慈悲與智慧，方便善巧利他行。起勇利悲心，開種種方便道，能令一切眾生皆能共證法理。
故行者須先求自修，求得能力智慧、功行，變成力量資糧，才可以利他。
為什麼我們不能利他？
因為自心尚未清淨，致以不能起作用。修行欲施與利他者，也不離開道業清淨精修，應隨時隨地注意自己身、口、意三業，以正知、正念、不放逸自持。
修行當願利眾的行者，當如念佛人之願，能往生西方後，仍不捨悲願，再入娑婆度眾生。
故開悟以後，仍須行所當行，行普賢十大願，修行一切種智，當一切智智圓熟時，自然能善知一切方便，能任運自然，如大雨般能化育一切大地萬物，令其滋長成熟。
舉足而大千震 揮手而日月捫
疾吹而鐵圍飛 微噓而須彌舞
世界虛空，能含萬物色象，日月星宿、山河大地、泉源溪澗、草木叢林……，總在虛空，融入如來應化中。
資料來源：心靈甘露(三)，隆門圓通法師著。英文翻譯：張惠平。
Be Diligent in Practice
How do we attain achievements in the cultivation of Buddhism? To cultivate the genuine principles is the top priority. Because the self-mind possesses the nature of afflictions, we should get rid of bad affinities and stay close to the realm of silence to counteract afflictions, view the path, and practice the path. Then we can abide by the principles without violations and mistakes.
When afflictions arise, we can suppress them by adhering to right thoughts. A spiritual practitioner has to be diligent to open up the Bodhi of self-nature so that he will be able to understand the whole virtues of life before becoming sophisticated.
To cultivate, we can start from forming aspirations. If we are replete with great compassion and all virtues, we can give rise to all dharmas and open up compassion and wisdom to benefit others with expedients. If we can give rise to the courageous, altruist, and compassionate mind and create various kinds of convenient paths, we will be able to make all living beings confirm principles together.
Therefore, a practitioner has to cultivate to attain capabilities, wisdom and merits and turn them into power sambhara so that he will be able to benefit others.
Why are we unable to benefit others? This is because our minds are not pure yet and cannot function. If a cultivator wants to benefit others, he should abide by the Buddhist undertakings and pure cultivation. Also, he has to mind the three karmas of his—the body, speech, and thought—and then abide with right knowledge, right thought, and diligence.
A spiritual practitioner who vows to benefit others should also have the vows of those who are mindful of the Buddhas and cultivate attentively. When he has been reincarnated to the Pure Land, he will still keep his compassionate vows and will return to the Saha World to transform sentient beings with convenience.
So, when one has got enlightened, he still has to do what he has to do, practice the ten major vows of Samantabhadra Bodhisattva, and cultivate the wisdom of all seeds. When all the various kinds of wisdom have become replete, he will naturally know all kinds of expedients and operate freely the nature, like the rain that nurtures everything and makes them grow and mature.
One can shake the universe by raising the leg, and make the sun and the moon cover the world by waving the hand.
A rapid blow brings the iron fence away, and a mild exhalation moves Mt. Sumeru.
The Void can contain everything like the sun, the moon, and other stars, mountains, rivers, earth, springheads, streams, trees, jungles, and so on. They are always in the Void, blending into the embodiment of the Tathagata.
Source: Sweet Dew for the Soul (Vol. III), Written by Master Shih Longmen Yuantong. Translated by Huei Ping Chang.