Master Mingzheng: Why didn’t you give up during your studies?

Why didn’t you give up on your way to study?

Master Mingzheng taught: This is impossible to give up, because I have been looking for a truth since I was a child, that is, how can I get rid of suffering and gain happiness. I didn’t understand it at that time, because getting rid of suffering and gain happiness is a Buddhist word. I wanted to write an article at that time, what is happiness and how to find true happiness. This is a word in the world. I have been preparing for a long time, and the article has not been written. However, during this period, I met Buddhism, so I made up my mind to study Buddhism and felt that there was the fundamental answer I wanted to seek. Therefore, after making up my mind, I felt that there was no power to stop me from becoming a monk. Therefore, when I became a monk, no one in my family said, don’t leave, because they knew that saying this sentence was meaningless, and after becoming a monk, I encountered all kinds of difficulties and twists and turns, but none of them could make me turn back. This is called the road to no return. Once I found the truth, I would devote myself to it and never regret it.

Excerpted from Master Mingzheng's "Buddhist Questions and Answers 1"