The World Of Tzu Chi(Vol.114).

2019 • 09 52 all quite pitiable. Why is this? It is because we sometimes still live in a state of ignorance and confusion. For example, when a handful of people go to a vegetable garden to pick vegetables, they might have different opinions and all refuse to give in. One wants to pick water spinach, one wants to pick amaranth, and yet another one says, “If we pick water spinach, then we don’t need amaranth.” Then, after coming back with the vegetables, when the person in charge of cooking sees the vegetables, he or she might say, “It’s raining, so the vegetable leaves are covered in dirt. I need to take so much time to wash them. Why didn’t you pick bottle gourds? They are so much easier to wash!” Look! Four people have four different opinions—what a hassle! This is such a simple matter, yet there is still a dispute over what is right and what is wrong. If we can use the Buddha’s Dharma-water to thoroughly cleanse our hearts and then take good care of them so they do not become polluted again, we will live a joyful life. To become free from suffering is easier said than done. The causes of suffering have been accumulated over a long period of time, so we are unable to escape from suffering. If we can thoroughly understand the ways to end suffering, then we can transcend suffering and attain joy; this is called “Dharma-joy”. For example, going to see the doctor is painful, not only for the patient but also for the doctor. If the doctor is not compassionate, he will spend his days complaining about how hard he must work to serve his patients. Therefore, he will easily become rude and arrogant. Despite being as highly respected as a “living Buddha”, he will remain in the realm of the asuras. The samadhi of medical treatment If the doctor is a good doctor, do you know how happy he will be? Once, there was a young, married woman from Taitung whose ankle had been crushed in a car accident, so she had been taken to a large hospital in Taitung. The doctor there said that they would have to amputate her foot. This young lady heard this and said anxiously, “I want to transfer to a Tzu Chi hospital.” Therefore, at five in the afternoon, she was quickly transported from Taitung to Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, where she arrived at almost ten at night. Director Chen Ying-Ho (now the superintendent of Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital) immediately took her to the operating room. He spent more than five hours putting all the broken bones back in their original positions. It was nearly dawn when he finished the surgery. As the doctor left the operating room, he told her husband, “She must undergo another surgery because the backbone of her