阳光早餐 | 觉悟之旅【一】

生命之光

The Light of Life

阳光早餐

Sunshine Breakfast

不管是什么缘，不可否认，

我们都可以去觉悟它。

这样我们就有一个 明确的心、明确的心愿——觉悟人生 ！这个心愿可以开启我们觉悟每一个事情的机会，它是一个很积极的开始。当然平时我们可能还会在徘徊、迷失这两个状态中，这是我们生活的习惯状态，也是不明确的心理状态。没有明确自己人生的价值，就会有被动的习惯；那觉悟呢，是明确、主动、积极的。

任何一个事情都挡不住我们去觉悟它！ 这个愿望是很有力量的——要觉悟这个事情，就去审视这个事情的现象与本质。通过一个现象，去认知它的本质，我们就去在本质上用功夫，主动起来。哪怕有被动习惯，也没有问题，但我们知道了这是不明确的、被动的。

在回归清净的心态下，有时我们会问自己 “那个我认为很大的、很严重的问题，是真实的吗？”“问题不被发酵、扩大时，是不是还是问题，或者还那么严重吗？”在遇到很具体的对境中，尤其是自己难以忍受，积累了很久的事相、理由上，我们更该这样去专注于这个地方。一旦解决了，那人生、人心就能轻松起来，就有方法了。

同样都是个缘，

我们是觉、是迷，

实际就是个自心选择的问题了。

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 life is continuously pushed forward by different forces from beneficial and kind ones to harmful and vicious ones. In the face of adversity, people usually feel reluctant and try to repel them. While in the face of desirable ones, people may feel joyful and they are welcome. But basically, regardless adverse or desirable, they are just matters.

No matter what kind of matter it is, there is no denying that we can always be enlightened from it.

In this way, we will have a clear aspiration - to find the truth in everything in our life. Such an aspiration can open a door for us to be awakened from every single matter possible. It is an active start. Of course we will still tangle or feel lost due to an unclear state of mind or habits of being passive, a sign that the value of our life is yet to be clear. While an enlightened mind is determined, active and positive.

Nothing can stop us from enlightening in it. It is such a powerful aspiration that we can be awakened from every matter by observing its phenomena and its essence. If we can see through the phenomenon and recognize the essence, we can then put efforts on the essence and thus become proactive. Even though we are still accustomed to being passive sometimes, it would be OK if we realize that those thoughts and deeds are unclear and passive.

‘It did happen!’ we often said. When we talk about unpleasant experiences, we might think “what has happened is real!”. This is actually a solidified or stubborn idea which focuses on the phenomenon, believing the matter to be real. Thus we become afflicted as we firmly attach to it. Whereas, if we choose to be enlightened, we can see things from their essence and understand every phenomenon is illusory by nature, thus we can get on the path to wisdom and set ourselves free. So different choices that we make to deal with a single matter will create corresponding impacts and forces.

Facing the same matter, to be enlightened or to get lost is a matter of our inner-choice.

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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