Polishing The Diamond Enlightening The Mind 닦는 마음 밝은 마음 (영어판)

TForeword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama · xiii
Author’s Preface · xv
Introduction The Enlightened Teacher, Master Baek Sung Wook · 1
Studying under the Master · 2
Following in the footsteps of the Master · 9
About the Master’s teaching · 12
One The World That Is Created By The Mind · 17
Sound of a bell · 18
The image in the mind · 19
A millionaire’s karmic retribution · 20
Surrendering your delusions · 22
Surrender even the sins · 24
Scolding taints the mind · 26
Two Surrendering the Mind to Buddha · 27
Joy at seeing your karmic hindrances · 28
Not holding on to delusions · 31
Surrendering while watching the mind · 33
Surrendering the mind to Buddha · 36
Analogy from the Avalokiteshvara Sutra · 40
Three poisons: greed, hatred, and arrogance · 42
Mind’s poison and body’s disease · 46
Six perfections · 48
Three Purifying the Mind, Enlightening the Mind · 49
Surrendering the hatred · 50
Holy teacher Tulle · 52
Purifying the mind, enlightening the mind · 54
The person who enlightens me is my Buddha · 56
Surrendering the attachment to the body · 57
Purify anger to achieve Buddhahood · 61
The burning fire · 63
Check the door lock at the third hour · 65
About the practice time · 66
Discriminating minds occur in units of three · 68
See your own face and surrender your faults · 69
Four Be True to the Present Present · 71
Be true to the present present · 72
Minding the store · 74
Not losing your mindfulness · 76
A positive mentality · 77
The mind that shelters no impossibilities · 79
Be free from preconceived notions · 80
Hell is when you have a strong ego · 82
Only my mother · 83
Everyone helps me · 84
Do not stop people from coming to you,
nor stop them from leaving you · 86
Five May You Accumulate Much Merit · 89
Don’t just hope to be well off,
plant the causes to be well off · 90
Great merit of no limit · 93
Surrender even your merit · 95
You cannot give your merit to someone else,
nor can you accept someone else’s merit · 96
How to sustain oneself in the future · 98
Purify your needy mind, cultivate your plentiful mind · 99
Not imprinting poverty on one’s mind · 100
Black puppy · 101
Palace grandmother · 103
Earning three times your wage · 106
Why money is necessary · 108
Offering a meal to a dharma seeker · 110
Offering and accepting devotion · 112
The mentality of not being indebted · 114
A bowl of rice · 116
Six Reverence, the Fragrance of Eternity · 117
Trees in front of the Buddha hall · 118
Nonduality based on utmost reverence · 119
Surrender with reverence · 121
King Ashoka · 124
Venerable Shariputra · 126
Snow and star · 127
Visiting the Master at daybreak · 129
When you give the Diamond Sutra · 135
Seven May We All Serve Buddha Well, Parwon! · 137
May we all serve Buddha well, parwon! · 138
Buddha work is based on won · 140
Every moment we fulfill our wishes,
yet every moment we complain · 141
The governor of Gyeongsang Province · 143
Sentient beings leave the world after fulfilling their wishes · 145
Eight Absolute Freedom Is Loneliness · 147
Absolute freedom is loneliness · 148
When you are freed from loneliness · 150
Keep a distance the length of a bull’s rein
when you get to know someone · 152
Warmth is within Buddha’s bosom · 154
An embroidered phoenix might be seen,
but the needle tip cannot be seen · 156
The Zelkova tree · 157
The virtue of water · 159
My mind tree · 160
Kashyapa, what is the mind? · 161
Nine Enlightened Masters · 167
Bodhidharma · 168
Two masters in Myohyang Mountain · 170
Master Hakuin · 174
Ten The Path That We All Tread Together · 177
Three vehicles · 178
When one pursues the path, nine generations benefit · 180
About giving · 182
Giving without seeking reward · 186
Compassion · 189
Master Wonhyo and the raccoon cubs · 191
Memorial day · 193
The mistake of teaching others · 195
Saving beings is Buddha’s job, our job is serving Buddha · 197
The enlightened being walks one step ahead of the ordinary being · 199
The children who practice surrendering · 200
Eleven Reading the Diamond Sutra, Surrendering the Mind · 203
The Diamond Sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha’s spiritual housekeeping · 204
Why one reads the Diamond Sutra · 207
How to read the Diamond Sutra · 209
Ten years of practice and Namo Amitabha Buddha · 210
Tathagata Maitreya, where Shakyamuni Buddha’s mind is · 212
Why we recite Mireukjon Yeoraebul · 214
Twelve Stories of Cause and Effect · 217
The master who was born as a water buffalo · 218
King Cheoljong and Pak Yeong-Ho · 221
When a wicked person is well off · 223
Karmic retribution for taking a life · 225
Killing should be avoided · 227
Why we cannot but surrender the mind · 229
About the repeated cycle of birth and death · 230
Life as a wayfarer · 234
The sound of laughter · 236
Thirteen At the Monastery · 239
When the rays of spring come · 240
The mud house · 244
Young spiritual seeker and early spring · 247
Fourteen Path of the Bodhisattva · 253
May you plant great merit in the New Year · 254
Kind intentions will return to you · 255
The root of suffering · 256
The Dharma lecture of the pointing finger · 257
My fault · 258
A boulder · 259
Practicing the bright mind · 260
Realization and practice · 261
After death that is not far away, what body will I receive? · 262
The weighing scale of our conscience · 263
Cleaning the monastery · 264
Modesty is the greatest virtue · 265
The practice of lowering oneself · 266
Ask the experts · 268
The fragrance of virtue · 269
Scholar Kim Jip · 270
A spiritual legacy for future generations · 273
Ego · 276
The mindset of practice · 278
People who truly love themselves · 280
Retributive karmic ties · 281
Towards the mind of Buddha · 283
Spotted sleeper fish · 285
Emptying is the practice · 286
The difference between a bodhisattva and a sentient being · 288
Housekeeping of the mind · 289
Fifteen To practitioners · 291
Look back on yourself · 292
Do not become indebted · 293
The honesty of a practitioner · 294
The essence of spiritual practice · 296
Strengths and weaknesses · 298
Overcome the mind of dislike · 299
Sacrifice your life to cultivate the mind · 300
Your fellow practitioners are your teachers · 302
Three poisonous minds · 303
Change at once · 305
Keep Buddha in your mind 307
Sin-eon-seo-pan: body, words, writing and decision · 309
As if this day were your last · 310
Practitioner · 311
The method of practice · 313
When you do monastery work · 315
The path of the bodhisattva · 316
Preparing the monasteries · 318
Sixteen Practice in Daily Life · 325
Teaching within everyday life · 326
I should do my own chores · 328
Putting others first · 330
Putting the monastery first · 332
Why we must be frugal · 333
Your everyday life must change · 337
What are your thoughts · 339
Meticulous care · 341
Safety comes first · 343
The sanctity of life · 345
Like the bamboo trees standing tall to the sky · 350
Practice that flows like water · 352
Learning from nature · 353
Master’s worries · 354
Glossary · 359

Let’s practice the thought, “I am the lowest person in the world.” When we look into our mind, there is little desire to learn from others, but much desire to teach others. This is because we are lacking in modesty and humility. If we think highly of ourselves, we tell others “Be like me,” “Listen to me,” “Do as I say.” As we live, let us consider the position of others and be understanding, and help those in need. Let us refrain from telling lies, and live a pure, honest life. Let us not put our interests above those of our family members, and let others have what is good before we do. We must practice good deeds every day, so that the scale of conscience is balanced in favor of our good deeds and not bad ones.