How Do We Start to Cultivate?
如何讓菩提心開顯？
云何開展大悲萬行？
其根本之道在那裡？
菩提心以大悲為根本，自性能開展無盡秘密莊嚴國土，淨土世界，乃不待建立而自然形成。
所謂正報與依報。我們能得究竟智與佛之一切智智，開顯本有的菩提心，這就是正報。有正報就有依報，人之所以能創造一番事業，其因何在？主要在於人們具足智慧才能。當你具足本有的才能時，你的事業自然會有所成就。若才能尚不具足，則更加長養悲心， 誠心懺悔，祈求智慧增長，讓依報具足。
故大悲萬行如種子需水、土、人，方能成長茁壯。行者有慈悲心，即能增長菩提之緣也，如此持修，正報成就，依報自然成就。
資料來源：心靈甘露(四)，隆門圓通法師著。英文翻譯：張惠平。
How Do We Start to Cultivate?
How do we make the Bodhi mind manifest? How do we start the great compassion and wondrous actions? What are the basic principles?
The Bodhi mind is based on great compassion. The self-nature can open up an endless, secret, and solemn land. Hence, the Pure Land will naturally form without being constructed.
There are direct retribution and circumstantial retribution. The former means people can attain the utmost wisdom as well as the Buddhas’ sarvajnana to open up the innate Bodhi mind. The latter means people without replete capabilities should cultivate compassion and sincerely repent to pray for the growth of wisdom so that they may be replete with circumstantial retribution. Those who are successful in business surely are replete with wisdom and capabilities.
Therefore, the great compassion and wondrous actions are like the seeds that need water, earth, and people in order to grow and become strong. If a spiritual practitioner is compassionate, he will surely increase his Bodhi mind. If we cultivate in this way, then, when the direct retribution is achieved, the circumstantial retribution will naturally be achieved, too.
Source: Sweet Dew for the Soul (Vol. IV), Written by Master Shih Longmen Yuantong. Translated by Huei Ping Chang.