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Venerable Master Chin Kung
Buddhism: The Awakening of Compassion and Wisdom
This is an excellent book on Mahayana Buddhism, with a focus on the Pure Land school. After explaining that Buddhism is an education, it discusses the goal of practice as well as the symbolism of Buddhist images and offerings. Covered in depth are the Five Guidelines of the Three Conditions, Six Harmonies, Threefold Learning, Six Paramitas, and Ten Great Vows. ( 553 KB PDF)
A commentary on Liaofan's Four Lessons, this book tells how Yuan Liaofan, destined to be heirless and to die young, learned from a Zen master how to change destiny. Following the master’s advice, Mr. Yuan attained all that he sought, and more. The life-changing principles in his book are as important today as they were 500 years ago.
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The Awakening of Loving-kindness
This book is a collection of several of Master Chin Kung's talks which have a connecting theme of personal growth and interfaith harmony. Included are "Everyone Can be a Buddha" and "The Foundation of all Religions: Loving-kindness and Compassion." (PDF 306 KB)
In this compilation of two talks, Master Chin Kung explained the meaning of taking the three refuges: Taking refuge in the Buddha—awakening without delusion; taking refuge in the Dharma—proper understanding without deviation; taking refuge in the Sangha—purity without pollution. (PDF 188 KB)
The Benevolent Person Has No Enemies
Master Chin Kung discussed what to do in the face of adversity and criticism, described some of the qualities of a Bodhisattva, and briefly explained the Ten Attainments, his list of the essential qualities of a Bodhisattva. (PDF 129 KB)
One Humanity, Many Faiths Keynote Address
. . . The true nature is of the utmost purity and virtuousness. It is perfect and radiant. Habits are the bad thoughts and views that one acquired after birth. Simply put, the conflict between the true nature and acquired habits is the conflict between altruism and self-benefit. Compassion, loving-kindness, and all virtues are innate in the true nature of all beings, but selfishness and all bad thoughts are not.
Therefore, if those who engage in the teaching of peace can (1) truly resolve in their minds their conflicts with anyone, any matter, and any thing, (2) let go of all selfish thoughts and actions of controlling and possessing, and (3) interact with others and engage in tasks with sincere love, then this would truly be the basic way to resolve all contradictions and conflicts in the world. More...
The Promotion of Ethical and Moral Teachings
. . . Fighting for personal gain will definitely result in others losing. This kind of mindset will be reason enough for conflicts between human beings. Therefore, the approach to reconcile all conflicts and to promote social stability and world peace does not lie in the use of military force. Then what can we do to change?
Ancient saints and sages, Confucius, and Sakyamuni Buddha all reached this objective by teaching. Thus, the only way for us to prevent conflict and promote social stability and world peace is to let go of all struggles for personal recognition and gain. We need to actively promote the enlightened teachings of benevolence, virtuousness, and compassion. This teaching of love in religion is the only method to end conflict and achieve peace. More ...
Reconciling Conflict and Promoting Social Stability and
. . . Why does conflict arise? Because one’s thoughts, speech, and behavior do not accord with the innate virtuousness of one’s nature. When one’s thoughts and behavior do not accord with one’s nature, conflict will arise. Why can’t one’s thoughts and behavior accord with one’s nature? If we look carefully, we will find that the origin of conflict is greed. Therefore, in the teaching of Sakyamuni, greed, anger, and ignorance are considered the root causes of conflict and are called the Three Poisons. The most fundamental among the Three Poisons is greed—one’s greed for material gain. More ...