Master Yinguang’s Short Teaching about “a heart willing to become a Buddha”
印光大師法語「只怕不成佛」之文
If you wish to benefit others, you must first benefit yourself. If you cannot leave the cycle of birth-and-death , how can you deliver other sentient beings? Just like a person drowning in the sea, he must first be rescued before he can save another drowning person.
欲利他,先須自利。 若非自己先出生死,何能度彼生死眾生? 譬如溺於海者, 不能救海中沉溺之人。
Namo Amituofo!
