阳光早餐 | 觉悟之旅【三】

生命之光

The Light of Life

阳光早餐

Sunshine Breakfast

这个时代步伐太快了，世界变化得快，环境变化得快，人跟不上了怎么办呢？就完全变得被动，人的心里就会产生怨。怨，实际是完全被动产生的一个业力，这个业力的一个厚重积累。我们习气中的这个东西是很重的。

你看现在这个时代：说穷人怨吧，有钱的人，也怨！你说有钱安稳吧，实际反过来了。富有的、贫穷的，得势的、不得势的、有权力的人，亲人之间，怨！朋友之间，怨！父女、母女、夫妻……这个东西似乎像个幽灵一样，伴随着这个时代。为啥呢？被动的东西多！

被动接受的东西无法及时消化，甚至会引起我们身体的不适，例如胃痛。“哎呀，胃不好了”——一定是被动接受的东西太多了。因为是被动接受嘛，认为这个不舒服是别人给你的，身体就不愿意去消化它，胃病就出来了。

所以当我们认为是别人给了自己不舒服时，怨就会变成推脱。承担不了了，我们就会推脱责任嘛，拐着弯表达情绪，掩盖自心，就是不愿意直接面对。这样问题就发酵了，事情被放大了。

所以我们真正要选择觉悟，像这个幽怨的习惯也可以觉悟它。一切当下都能觉悟，这太美好了！让我们把当下的一切和觉悟划等号，哪怕是一件很糟糕的事情——当我们用心去体会、去观察、觉悟它实际是心作心是，是如幻不可得的时候，我们一定能够感受到自心从固执到自由解脱，这个转变过程的广大与美好。

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 pace of our era is too fast, so are the change of the world and our environment. As a result, we cannot keep up with the changes. Then what will happen to us? We will become passive and therefore will complain. The passiveness and its thick and heavy accumulation accounts for the complaint that is very obstinate in our habits.

In this era, as you can see, not only the poor people, but also the rich ones complain. The rich ones are supposed to enjoy a peaceful life, but actually, it’s quite the opposite, their lives my be even worse than those of the poor ones. All of us complain, whether rich or poor,     privileged or unprivileged. And complaint, like a specter haunting this era, appears among relatives, among friends, and even between parents and children, and between the wife and the husband. Why? There is too much passiveness!

If we have to accept things passively, it’s hard to digest in time, which sometimes may even cause physical discomfort, let’s say stomachache. “Oh my, I have an upset stomach.” —you must have to passively accept too much things. Just because of the passive acceptance, we may think such discomfort is imposed upon us by others, so we are reluctant to digest, which can trigger stomach problems.

If we do think our discomfort is imposed upon by others, our resentment can change into passing buck to others. We are used to shirking their responsibilities when they cannot bear it. They normally do not express their emotions directly and try to hide their true thoughts, unwilling to face up to it directly. This will actually cause the problem to ferment and get worse.

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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