Australia Buddhist Bliss Culture Mission

“All of Buddha’s teachings are intended for us, human beings, to reach the pinnacle of happiness If everyone embraces the path of learning to be Buddha and cultivates, and if everyone attains pristine Nirvana, that would undoubtedly be the highest, most complete, and most ultimate bliss. Therefore, the culture of Buddhism is Bliss Culture.”

Discover the path to true bliss and happiness through the timeless wisdom of Humanity Vehicle Buddhism.

In a world where happiness often seems elusive, this transformative book illuminates a path towards lasting joy. Create Bliss and Happiness is a meticulously collated volume of teachings by the revered Venerable Master Shen Kai, offering profound insights into safeguarding and nurturing our blessing and happiness Within its pages, the teachings of Humanity Vehicle Buddhism come alive – a teaching that is not only the simplest, most practical. And most useful, but also the most vital for humankind. Embrace this book as a guide on your life’s journey, approach it with an open and contemplative mind, and uncover the treasures that await those who seek the true path towards brightness, fulfillment, and lasting bliss.

“To learn to be Buddha means to learn to attain the pristine mind of Buddha.”

– Reverend Ming-An Chen –

Buddha is not just an image or a statue of the great enlightened universal teacher. Sakyamuni Buddha, or any other historical Buddha. It also means having an enlightened mind that is pristinely aware of the unequivocal reality. Every sentient being has the potential to be awakened to an enlightened mind and to become Buddha.

Learn to be Buddha presents concepts and practices for Buddhist practitioners who aspire a pristine mind – a mind that is fully aware and awakened, in other words, to become Buddha. This is the ultimate goal of Buddhist cultivation. It points to the heart of Buddhism – to observe the mind with pristine awareness and refrain from engaging with the endless ‘arising and ceasing’ of unnecessary thoughts. These teachings have been carefully selected to guide Buddhist practitioners towards cultivating a pure mind that is pristinely aware.

“One if limited by one’s thinking mind. When there is no mind, one is boundless.”

– Reverend Ming-An Chen –

This collection of excerpts selected from talks by Reverend Ming-An Chen, illuminates the mindsets and attitudes necessary to grow as a person and Buddhist practitioner. In his characteristically clear and straightforward manner, Reverend Chen encourages us to demand more of ourselves, view things with clarity and let go of our attachments. In doing so, we uncover the wisdom already within us to face everything in life.

“Buddha is like an enormous radiant sun. He has no ignorance and his boundless brightness permeates the infinite space. All of us have the same enormous radiant sun, but it is often obscured by our dark clouds of ignorance. Once we eradicate our dark clouds of ignorance, we will be able to see the sun, and it is just as enormous and bright.”

In this book, Reverend Ming-An Chen provides the fundamental basis for cultivation – the need to understand the significant relationship between our Buddha-nature and the mind, the resulting interplay of causes, conditions and effects, and how it all comes together to influence the journey of our life and determine its outcome.

Many of us continually seek external Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, yet never realising that within ourselves is a most compassionate Buddha. This book will help us discover that.

Teacup is not a Teacup is a collection of publications, discussions and public talks given by Venerable Master Shen-Kai, one of the most highly respected Buddhist Masters of our time. In this book, the Venerable Master cuts to the heart of Buddhist teachings, guiding us to penetrate through the superficiality of appearances and labels by which we define everything, to see the interplay of causes, conditions and effects, and realise the essential nature of everything. Thus, we understand how every aspect of our suffering – unhappiness, worries, aging, sickness and death, can be ultimately uprooted through a profound realisation of our true nature and the reality of our lives with clarity, wisdom and right actions, so we become our own masters in creating meaningful lives, attaining inner liberation and finding true happiness and peace on earth.

“He who sees me by outward appearance and seeks me in sound is practising the wrong path, and cannot perceive the Tathagata (cannot realise one’s Buddha-nature).”

– Diamond Sutra –

There are very few of us who are actually clear-minded and awake. Mostly, we exist in slumber, unmindfully grasping on to what is known in Buddhism as the Five Desires and Six Dusts of life.

Happiness is a birthright of everyone. Yet, why is there no happiness in life? When we die, is that the end of us? What is karma and how does it affect our life now and hereafter? Who is responsible? How can we distance from suffering and live life with bliss and happiness?