Dear Brothers and Sisters,

We have two ways to develop ourselves.

1. 99.99% of people of the world, called worldlings, all try to personally develop themselves all their life. But what do you see? They all are a flock of people with three poisons: greed, hatred, ignorance; tit for tat – I love who loves me, I hate who hates me; lying, distrusting, cheating, grabbing, fearing…

When people stand on the worldling platform, regardless of how much they try to develop themselves, they are worldlings all their life. And they all are exactly like one another. Can you tell any worldling is better than any other worldling?

If you live as a worldling, you will be worlding, like billions of other worldlings. No personal development efforts of yours can help you 1mm.

2. The other living platform is the platform of the Enlightened, the Bodhisattvas. This is a totally different way of living.

You love everyone of the world, including people who hate you, who treat you as enemy, who hurt you, who are thieves and robbers, who are anti-Christ and anti-Buddha…

You have no greed, no hatred, and no ignorance.

“No ignorance” means wisdom – knowing the depth of the human heart, the Buddhahood in each person, the ignorance state of the worldlings, and the wishes to bring the worldlings to Enlightenment.

That is truly personal development with readily recognizable result.

If you want truly personal development, make sense of it, and stand on the platform of true personal development.

With compassion,

Hoành

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