Five Wise Reflections of a Bodhisattva to keep Anger at Bay

 ‘With the adornment of all the Buddha Dharma,

Wisdom, precepts and concentration,

He is able to benefit all living beings.

This is Bodhi.

His mind is not moving,

He can endure matters pertaining to the attainment of the Buddha path,

His mind is neither severed nor broken down

Such a mind is called Sattva.’

Bodhi is the Buddha Path, sattva refers to living beings or a great mind.

A bodhisattva wishes to accomplish the merits and virtues of the Buddha Path. His mind can neither be severed nor broken down.His great mind resembles the Vajra Mountain.

 A Bodhisattva is replete with the various Dharani Samadhi, patience, all merits and virtues.

 A Bodhisattva with Dharani is able to uphold all kinds of wholesome dharma so that they will always be with him, not dispersed nor lost.

A Bodhisattva with Dharani is able to obstruct the evils and unwholesome roots from growing in his mind. He has the strength to stop the growth of evils, sinful actions and unkind thoughts.

A Bodhisattva with Dharani will be able to remember all the dharma he has heard with the strength of mindfulness.

The Dharani will always follow a Bodhisattva and not to leave him just the same when a ghost gets attached to man and refuses to leave.

The upholding of the Dharani enables the Bodhisattva not to fall on the ground of the two vehicles, namely Sound Hearers and Pratyeka Buddha. It is like a kind father who loves his son. When the father sees the son is on the verge of falling into a pit, he will quickly stretch out his hands to stabilize him so that he will not fall down.

With the strength of Dharani, all the Mara Kings, Mara citizens, Maras are unable to move him, break him down. They are unable to win him over. It resembles the Mount Sumeru which is unable to be blown apart with the strength of a mundane man.

All Kinds of Dharani

1.  Listening and Upholding Dharani – A bodhisattva will not forget whatever that he has heard, all kinds of languages, all kinds of dharma.
2. Knowing and Differentiating Dharani – A bodhisattva is able to know and differentiate all kinds of living beings, all kinds of dharma, big or small, pretty or ugly.
3. Entering the Sound Dharani– A bodhisattva will not get angry or happy on listening to all kinds of words and sounds.

Even though he has not put his afflictions to extinction, a bodhisattva with Dharani will not get angry when all living beings scold and criticize him throughout Ganges Sands of Kalpas.

 He reflects wisely in the following manners:

 When he hears the evil sounds,critics, scolding, accusation etc. he reflects,

1.    ‘If one does not have differentiation, where is the angry man?’

2.  ‘If the ears do not go to the dust of sound, where is the angry sound?’

3.  ‘Words and sounds arise atone instant and become extinct the next instant. They do not dwell before this or after that. They have no fixed dwelling so they are empty.’

4.  ‘The words and sounds carry different meanings at different places and their meanings are not fixed.’

5.  ‘All dharma are neither born nor extinct. They resemble the dreams, the illusions.’