Section 2 : Strive toward Heaven

　　To strive toward Heaven is to strive with spiritual beings, to call on the Heavenly Realm to let one be on an equal footing. In life be an upright, decent human being, so that after death one can be an upright, decent spirit. Objective attainments that rely only on one’s merit and not on spiritual cultivation are the realm of freed spirit. To befriend immortals and buddhas above; to turn wholeheartedly towards goodness; to establish one’s virtue in the world and widely save beings without number; at death’s verge to draw down harmonizing force and transcend to Heaven’s environs–this is the realm of the sacred. To rely on one’s own pure karma, temper one’s practice to vajra indestructibility, strive arduously to reach the stage of equality on one’s own–this is the realm of immortals and buddhas. A person living in this world must harbor great enduring will and boundless vows to pursue eternal life. Only this is sufficient to escape the travail of reincarnation, to extricate oneself from the predicament of sin and hasten the manifesting of cosmic truth for later ages–only an upstanding person does this!

　　向天奮鬥者，即向神奮鬥，向天界要求平等之奮鬥也。生為堂堂正正之人物，死為堂堂正正之神靈，此不作修持但憑功德之客觀的收穫，自由神之境界也。尚友仙佛，一心向善，立德於世普渡無量，臨終引來和力奮超天闕，此聖者之境界也。憑自身之淨業，鍊金剛不壞之修持，堅苦奮鬥以自達於平等之域，此仙佛之境界也。故人生於世必須抱有永恆之大志，發無量之大願，以求生命之不滅，始足以免輪迴之苦，自拔於罪孽之域，並為千秋後世促成宇宙真理之實現，如此方為大丈夫！