#platform/youtube #channel/bodhi-light  This is when you can be helpful be patient you have to wait until they need us don't speak prematurely hello Master can you advise me how to explain about Pure Land to the young people don't try to advise her is my first reaction once she decided you're boring don't talk to her anymore don't try so hard sometimes in order to teach our children you need to be patient what does it mean patience you have to wait for them when they need it then we'll be ready to teach them when they're too busy playing and having a good time it's not something we can help they don't need our help remember why we're doing this we're doing this is in order to help them when they need it when they don't need us let them be there's no point in teaching about Pure Land you're making mistake in assuming they want to learn about Pure Land you simply say if she asks why you do Pure Land on Sundays because I want to go to a better place after I die okay because Buddhist wisdom is that if you didn't you have to come back to this world again and to repay your cosmic debts and typically after you die and you lose this human body you come back in much worse situation as animal as a ghost and so forth you see that's why the animals there out there look the horses and their buffaloes you look at them are they happy why do you think they're there they're there because they came from human beings when we come back we not careful most of us 95% of us will come back at a much worse than where we are right now and that's called the wheel reincarnation that the Buddha taught so tell them I believe in that therefore I want to avoid that and the Buddhist wisdom is that I should go to the Pure Land you're very humble you don't make the mistake of trying to teach her when she's not really interested in being taught the way that you can influence her is take advantage of her caring for you if you tell her I want to go to a better place I don't know how I really want to to devote my resources to go to a better place and rather than coming back here because it's from Buddhist wisdom then she probably more interested in helping you do that even though she doesn't believe in Buddhism it's emotional for her Mommy wants it I will get it for her Mommy wants a red car I try my best to get a red car so don't try to teach her don't try to convince her to come to the temple and go for Buddhism and so forth because she doesn't need it why would she go to the temple why would she need to go to the Pure Land but you are the one who needs to go to the Pure Land and so you say you know I want to go to Pure Land and I hope after I die you come to the temple and pray for me so that I can go to the Pure Land now she has a reason to go to the temple so be patient take care of yourself take care of your parents take care of your elders that's what you ought to do you cultivate to become a better person become stronger so that when your children need help and your children will get in trouble her daughter who one day will have problems with the boyfriend or with the husband will have heartaches nowadays 50% of marriages end up in divorce so 50% of the young people will get in trouble they wouldn't know what to do this is when you can be helpful be patient you have to wait until they need us don't speak prematurely