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Dharma Talk – Prajñā, The Fourfold Sangha (4)
Today, the World-Honored One is no longer just an image from 2,600 years ago, but is present everywhere and in countless forms. Practicing mindfulness of the Buddha by applying the six Earth-touching practices is “…opening the door for ourselves to enter,” not stopping at the image of the past but making contact with Him in the present moment. Living mindfully in the present is to have the Pure Land right now, not waiting until after death to be reborn there, so that each breath, each step, is accompanied by the Buddha, bringing peace and lightness:
- mindfulness of the Buddha
- recollection
- mindfulness of the Dharma, mindfulness of the Sangha
The practice leads to the Four Fruits, as recorded in the four pairs of eight noble beings, these four spiritual attainments corresponding to four stages of realization:
- Dwelling peacefully (attaining the fruit of being at rest, no longer looking for happiness elsewhere)
- Arrived, Home (at ease, living fully in the present moment)
- Interbeing (seeing the deep interdependent arising between oneself and all beings)
- No birth (realizing the nature of no birth and no death of all phenomena)
Each mindful step, each mindful breath, is the first step into the stream of practice, opening up the capacity to transform suffering and transmit insight to others. Compassion and insight become the inexhaustible “heritage” of the practitioner, sufficient to rescue and support all situations of suffering right in the present moment.
