By Brother Initiate Child Heart, Taipei, Formosa

I am an elementary school teacher. I spend a lot of time with children. I love to play with them. When we play together in a carefree manner, communicating heart to heart, I really feel relaxed and joyful.

Children are innocent, kindhearted and lovely. We always try to give our children a happy environment in which to learn; however, it is we, ourselves, that deprive the children of their happiness. We, the adults, value social status, so we pass on this ideal to our children, that they will achieve high academic degrees. In this way, we neglect their personal interests and the true desires in their hearts.

I once taught a child with an introverted personality, whose academic results in school were obviously not very good. Nevertheless, he was very happy at school. Whenever it was snack time, he would dance with joy over such a little thing. Seeing this, I found him to be the child with the least desires among all that I have met. His simple, innocent joy shines through his bright smile, as if shining all the way into my heart. Suddenly, I felt that it was not me who was teaching him, but him who was teaching me. In this world, he was playing the weaker one perhaps, but to God, who dare say that he is weak?

Master has quoted from the Bible, "Children are the closest to God. If one is as simple as a child, one can enter the Kingdom of God the easiest. God gave us children to let us learn the lesson of love, so that both the children and us can grow. After initiation and spiritual practice, we should understand even more that knowledge is ephemeral, and realize that our inner wisdom is eternal. We should also know that fame and gain are all illusionary, but that spirituality is everlasting. The most important lesson in life is to cultivate morality starting from childhood, to practice spiritually with correct concepts, to realize our own God nature, and to keep our childlike innocence on our road back to heaven.  

 

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