阳光早餐 | 娱乐恶习

我们一起来学习一个可行的方法——四念法，未念、欲念、念、念已，任何事相都可以划分成这四个过程。

好比说，我起了个嗔心，想骂人，张口就骂了，知道这是个习惯，我不要被它粘着，制约着。对这一念生起来的整个过程，我先静下来，把它定格截成四段——未骂（起嗔心）、欲骂（想骂人）、骂（张口就骂了）、骂已（知道这是个习惯），看看在每个阶段中会产生什么不同的效果，为什么会来这个念？这个念头没有来之前是个什么？那个对境是什么？我要是不嗔不骂，这个念头又是什么？我要是用爱会是什么样子？ 平静后是什么样子？

这样，整个事情发生的过程就可以像慢镜头一样拉大、放慢，自由、有序的心理空间就展现出来了。在这个广大、自由的空间中主动去择取自己的心念，并能看到自己的心念变化，特别美妙。

通过未念、欲念、念、念已的心理训练，我们能够了知一切世俗的共鸣——人我是非、好恶习气，它的本质是无自性性的、不可得的。这样不仅可以使我们的心安稳下来，并且完全可以来娱乐我们的习气。因为人人具有这个习气资源——贪、嗔、痴、慢、疑，我们不需要再制造个东西娱乐，用这种娱乐的方式，来把这个贪嗔痴慢疑有序化、公有化，我们就无畏于自身与他人的业习好恶。

把贪、嗔、痴、慢、疑化作珍宝，化作我们的良师益友，化作我们觉悟的资粮，觉悟它、娱乐它，我们的生活就会渐渐主动、清晰、精彩起来。

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。

Let us learn a feasible method-a 4-step method comprehending the thought process:

Having no thoughts, a rising thought, the thought at the moment and becoming aware of the thought.

For example, when we lose our temper and we want to swear at someone angrily, we just open our mouth accordingly. We usually behave this way because of our habits. Nevertheless, we should be aware it is a habit and avoid being stuck or constrained by it. How to deal with this with a method? We should calm down and break down the thought process into 4 stages: Before swearing (having hateful feelings), the rising thought of swearing (wanting to swear), going from thought to action ( swearing), after swearing ( realizing this is a habit). Then we should observe all this separately: Why did the thought arise? What was the thought before it arose? What was the object of the anger? What would the thought be if we stopped being angry and yelling? What would it be if we practiced loving kindness? And how would it be if we were at peace?

The whole process would be slowed down. Meanwhile, a free and orderly psychological space appears. We can actively identify our mind in this vast and free space, and we can also see clearly the changes in our mind.

Through such training of our mind, we can acknowledge and understand that most people have the habit of judging others. Liking or disliking do not have an intrinsic nature, they will change and disappear eventually. This training method can, not only settle our mind down but also be an entertaining way. How? As we all have such shortcomings like greed, jealousy, pride, doubts, ignorance, it could be a wonderful game if we could all use this 4-step method to freeze and adjust these feelings, slow down the thought process and recognize it is selfless by nature. As a result we will not fear our own habits or others’ any longer.

Let us turn attachment, jealousy, hatred, greed and doubts into treasures. Let us welcome them as friends or teachers and switch them into something valuable, sources of enlightenment and entertainment. Once we use this method as a game to train our mind, our life becomes clear, active and wonderful.

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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