阳光早餐 | 习惯势力【一】
The Light of Life
Sunshine Breakfast
生命之光 · 阳光早餐
弟子： 当我烦恼的时候，我知道这是习惯的反复，但内心不愿意改变它，因为我觉得改变它我更烦恼。
师父： 这是习惯的抵触。
弟子： 改变它我更烦恼，还不如不改呢。我意识到了习惯，但我又不想改变它，怎么办？
师父： 没问题，习惯是一种势力，它有势、有力量。就像我们开车一样，有惯性，要不然就没有惯性的那个力量。习惯、势力这两个词一定要连到一起。
我要改变习惯——本身就是病！这个病在哪儿呢？你认为有可改变的东西，你违背了万事万物的本质是没有实质的，你违背了这个事实，你动念就出病了！
来自慈法法师的『生命之光 · 阳光早餐』
2018年10月由Robin整理
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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。
The power
of habits
Part 1
Student: When I am upset, I know my habit comes back but I am reluctant to change it, because changing it makes me more upset.
Master: This is the resistance of the habit that entraps you.
Student: I am getting more upset when I try to change it. So I am better off not changing at all. The situation is that I recognize the habit but don’t want to change it. What can I do now?
Master: No problem. A habit is a power, which has momentum and force. Just like when we drive, there is inertia. Habit has power of inertia as well, so changing a habit is not easy.
“I want to change my habits” - the idea itself is a problem. When you think there truly exists a habit that can be changed, you go against the fact that everything is illusory in nature. You have already created a problem once you intend to change a habit.
So the dharma of “the upset is without any essence” is the exact recipe for your problem. When you think your habit as truly existing, this “existing” will take effect into resistance when you try to change it.
Let us practice to use the dharma that everything has no substantial essence. Habit also has no self-essence. This is what we call “right view”, which leads to right speech and right actions.
“I want to change myself”, which, in itself, is a wrong speech that is generated from the wrong view. So the following wrong actions are inevitable.
It makes no sense to change a habit that is without essence. Therefore “I am getting more upset when I want to change it” is a wrong speech. It shows that you have a wrong view. Once you want to change the habit, the problem is created.
Light of Life
Sunshine Breakfast
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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