心念最大化——正见 | 中英文

生命之光

The Light of Life

阳光早餐

Sunshine Breakfast

自己的心念一定会是你的引领者。

不管你认为的是什么，它都会引领你的思维、言说与作为。正因为这一点，我们一定要特别在乎自己的心念，它就是你所产生的价值观。 你的价值观就是你的引领者，这个引领者就是你认为的正见。 你的思想、理念，在引领着你。

我们每一个人都离不开这个正见的引导，小到我们个人的作为、思维、言说，大到国际世界，都没有离开这个。像资本主义、共产主义、乌托邦，没有离开这个；哲学、逻辑、宗教也都没有离开这个，只不过是这个正见附着的内容不一样。

要是知道心念是最大值，我们对自己的知见、对自己的思想状态就一定会在意起来。我们需要 从心念这个根源上、根本上来调整，让它引领着我们的人生价值 ，这是个根本所在。调整它、运用它，人就能自觉。

我们要想改变事相以及习惯是可以的，但它是最小值，最难改。因为它已经固化，要改变的话，效果最小、最慢。平时大家看到的、听到的，感触到的、关心的、在意的、交流的，全部都是这些事相的内容，常有人说“心念——我感觉不到啊！”“事相——我感觉的到啊”“ 明明这事真的发生了啊”等等。心念这个地方，人很少在意。

我们可以透过现象看本质——“一切有为法，如梦幻泡影”，这就是觉悟者给予我们的正见，依止着这个心念的最大值（正见），能够让我们从一切业习烦恼中解脱出来。它把所有的事相、习惯都定格了——一切如幻！一切不可得！一切无有实质！

实际就是把我们 从对事相的固化、从执着的思想意识中解放出来，在心念上处理干净，然后再回到事情上。 调整得当，就变得简单。

真正了解、清晰了这个地方——“ 心念最大化，事相最小化 ”的特质，觉悟人生的方向与人生真正的价值就掌握了。

在跟随师父慈法法师学习佛法的过程中，常有抑制不住的感动与受益，我真诚地愿意对同参道友尽一份供养的心，尽可能地把师父随机开示的记录整理分享给大家。记录的内容主要是日常生活中出现的某一个角度的问题，希望我们能够举一反三、触类旁通地去观察、觉悟整个人生，依法唤起对本净本具美妙的缘起作用，使我们的人生变得美好与丰富多彩。

Our mind is our guide. No matter what is on our mind, it leads our thoughts, speeches and conducts. That is why we ought to care about our mind that finally forms our value, the “right view” we hold, which is our guide. People are led by their thoughts and ideas.

No one can live without the guidance of the right view. For instance, things as minor as personal thoughts and conducts or as major as international affairs are all led by the right view. No matter whether it is capitalism, communism or utopianism; philosophy, logistics or religions, they are all dependent on the right view, although each has diversified contents.

If we know that our mind has the most leverage, we would start to care more about our knowledge and vision as well as the state of our mind. What we need to do is to make adjustments to our mind, the origin or the root of everything. Our mind guides the value of our life. If we can adjust and make use of our mind, we would be able to become awakened.

Well, it is ok if we would like to make change to a phenomenon or a habit, but this has the least leverage. It is very hard to change them, since they have been solidified. To change a phenomena is the least effective and slow. Usually what we see, hear, feel, care about and communicate, etc. are all about such phenomenal things, rather than about our mind. We often say, “mind? I cannot feel it! But I can feel the phenomenon. This event did happen... ” What we could do is to see the essence through the phenomenon.

We should rely on the the right view received from the enlightened ones like "all conditioned phenomena are like dreams, illusions, bubbles or shadows" to set ourselves free from all accumulated habits and worries, because all the phenomena and habits have already been defined by this right view – everything is illusory; nothing can be obtained; and all is without essence.

That is to say, the right view can liberate us from our stubborn belief that all phenomena are truly existent, and from our own thoughts and ideas that we tightly hold onto. If we thoroughly cleanse our mind and then come back to deal with the phenomena, it will be easier to make adjustment.

As long as we truly understand and become very clear about the fact that our mind has the most leverage while the phenomenon has the least leverage in adjusting things, we would come to understand the orientation of our life and the genuine value of life.

Editor's Note

While following our Master Cifa and learning Buddhism from him, very often I cannot help being moved by his targeted instructions and benefit a lot from them. Now, with a sincerely offering heart for you my fellow practitioners, I’d like to try as much as I can to share his instructions with all of you that I have recorded and sorted out. These series of records covered a number of problems from our daily life. Each problem is reflected from a specific perspective. I hope that we can learn by analog to observe and enlighten our whole life, so as, according to dharma, to arouse us to start using the inherent pure Buddha-nature as our wonderful arising condition, and make our life more beautiful, richer and more colorful.

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