阳光早餐 | 做力所能及的事
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有时候你认为自己力所能及的时候，也许是一时能及，但长时间可能就不能及了；热情的时候能及，冷静的时候就不及了。所以力所能及看着很简单，实际在执行的过程中需要多角度的观察。
比如说帮助一个人，如果没有审视好自己的能力，用一时激情去做了，结果把对方的贪心给激活了，使对方养成对你依赖的习惯，一旦你不帮了，对方就会起埋怨心，甚至会颠覆。所以帮助别人一定要长久冷静地考虑清楚，才能真正力所能及地做事。
我们的心地可以回到性空，那就是无所不及，无所障碍，但在事相上呢，还是要遵循次序，就是要力所能及，否则我们在事相上承担不了。事相虽是如幻，但各受果报。
所以我们可以在事相上多一个调整。力所不及了，不能驾驭了，就休息调整。像在热情的时候做得到，冷静的时候做不到，去调整一下就好了；一时做得到，长时间做不到，同样调整到可承受、可控的范围上再去作为。
觉悟者常讲：诸恶莫作，众善奉行，自净其意。 这个自净其意就是让我们回到性空缘起上；去做力所能及的事，就是众善奉行。
来自慈法法师的『生命之光 · 阳光早餐』
2018年9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。
What You Are Capable Of
Sometimes, you might think you can handle something in a short run instead of in a long one, which would be the same as it’s with enthusiasm over sanity. Knowing what you’re capable of would never be just as easy as it looks. It actually requires quite a lot of perspectives while in practice.
For Example, if you help someone without determined mind but impulsive actions, which might be pulling back his greediness alive without notices and make himself get relied on you. Once your help stops, his hatred of you will kick in quickly and everything will fall apart. That’s why capabilities of helping others is based on having a thorough mindset, instead of being emotional for sure.
Our mind could get back to the fact that “emptiness applies to everything", in other words, for emptiness everything is practicable and with no obstruction. But on the things , we need to follow the order to do what we are capable of. “Phenomenon is formed by void, but karma’s of which pays back in kind eventually”.
With that being said, when it comes to certain thing that we are not capable of accomplishing, a break or an adjustment could be utilized. It applies to the situation such as you feel yourself being emotional engaged or chilled out, or for time period, as it’s in a long run or in a short one. Effort on each way is to make it under certain control and be more affordable for yourself to live on with.
In fact “positive or negative action” as we say in daily life could be distinguished by whether or not things we do are within our capability.. If things that we do are within our capability, they usually end up good. But if we cannot afford what we do, or things are beyond our capability, irresponsibility would follow and things would probably end in ill effect if there is no proper adjustment.
The enlightened ones always said, “To do no evil, to do only good, and to purify your mind”. Here to purify your mind is to make us get back to the emptiness. Positive action means being as most helpful as we could for others within our affordability and capability.
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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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