The Light of Life
Sunshine Breakfast
生命之光·阳光早餐
做诸恶、做诸机巧,那就是在消耗生命,在伤害生命,被动于生命。就是后面修补的东西太多,修补起来十分艰辛。就像一个盘子一样,你用这个盘子很好的,“啪”扔到地上碎掉了,你要修补它就太难了。它可以给你带来方便,你要是把这方便击碎了,你再想要这个方便就特难,特别麻烦。后补容易让人自责,一旦成为自责的人,慢慢就会心灰意冷,慢慢自闭症就会出来,心灵的自闭症就会出来,那就很苦了。
来自慈法法师的『生命之光 · 阳光早餐』
2019年7月由Robin整理
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Robin 编后语
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。
To take early advantage
and avoid fixing later
Shakyamuni Buddha told us in brief that “to do no evil, to do only good, to purify one’s mind, which is the teaching of the Buddha.” If we use this principle as a mirror, we can easily see what our state of life is: are we active or semi-active? Are we passive or semi-passive? Are we accumulating merits by doing good while abiding by the essence or consuming our own life and hurting others?
By asking these questions, we can easily know what we should do. If we choose to follow the teaching of the Buddha and to do all good, we can become proactive and take an early advantage in life. We don’t need to suffer bad retribution and don’t have to fix the problems later. If we persist in this way, we will become true fearless Dharma practitioners.
In contrary, if we use skills to do bad things, we are consuming our lives and hurting others and our lives will become passive. There will be too many things to be repaired and the amendment is not easy to make afterwards.
For example, we have a plate and we like it very much. It brings us a lot of convenience. But it drops and gets shattered. It is hard to be fixed thus we cannot use it as a tool anymore. When we break this plate, we actually break our convenience. It is not easy to have such a convenience anymore. Moreover, when we try to make up our faults, we usually feel guilty. If we become self-blaming, we may feel disheartened or even slowly become autism. We will suffer a lot from it.
If we achieve happiness by dwelling in the essence, our inside will be same as outside, doing only good in activities and keeping away from fabricated efforts and dualistic mode of thinking in mind. We should acknowledge that we are only ordinary people and understand that the outside world is projected by our heart. Therefore we can position us well by choosing to do only good and make our life to be proactive.
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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