这样坚持，你的智慧福报就会很快增长

我们在佛面前都像小小孩，世间的烦恼、业力是很恐怖的，你能坚持着，不管怎样都不退转，非常重要。你不退，你给自己时间，你才有机会体验佛法，然后加上用功，命运就可以转变。

 When it comes to learning Buddhadharma , we should make long-term vows. As a result, you will come to realise that you can predict the future changes. Reciting one Buddhist Sutra is not enough. Only through many years' perseverance in reciting Buddhist Sutras, your mind will be gradually awakened. For Buddha, we are like ignorant little kids. How horrible the worldly afflictions and karma are! It is so important that you persevere in practicing the dharma  and never give up, no matter what hardship or setbacks confront you. Not withdrawing offers time and an opportunity for you to experience the Buddhadharma, and with diligence your destiny will surely be changed.

Not withdrawing offers time and an opportunity for you to experience the Buddhadharma。

我们在五台山，文殊菩萨的金色界就在这里，过去包括法照大师在内的很多祖师大德都亲自进入过。所以，怎么样进入佛菩萨的这个现成的解脱世界，就是我们在这里的修行课题。

We are now in Wutai Mountain, where the Holy Place of Manjusri Bodhisattva is and many great patriarchs and eminent masters, including Master Fazhao, personally visited in the past. Therefore, how to enter the world of freedom of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas is our main topic of practicing here.

要融入五台山，首先就要把“我”的问题解决了。所以，每天要对自己敲木鱼：“我在道场，要懂得情绪管理，要和合，要精进。”和合是一种功德聚，你能呵护它，你就能得它的加持。

To integrate into Wutai Mountain, we must first solve the problem of “I”. Thus I have to beat “myself” every day: when I am in a Bodhimanda, I need to know how to manage emotions in order to be harmonious and progressive. Harmony is a kind of accumulation of merits and virtues. If you can take care of it, you can gain blessings from it.

身处一个团队，你的包容心不够，就会觉得哪里都是问题；反之就会觉得这都是五百罗汉，每一个都有个性。所以一个道场怎么样，道场里的人怎么样，跟观察者自己的业力是有关系的。讲到底了就是要提高自己的觉悟，要防护自己不要产生负面的情绪，产生了不要皈依它，不要相信它。

Suppose you are in a team, if you are not tolerant enough, you would probably think there are problems everywhere. Instead, you can regard them as 500 Arhats with their own personalities. As a result, what a Bodhimanda is like and what people are like in the Bodhimanda are deeply related to the observer’s own karma. In brief, it is necessary to improve your own consciousness in order to protect you from producing negative emotions. Even if those emotions occur, you should not to convert to it as well as not to believe it.

如果能克服自己的这个黑暗，我们在学佛的过程当中，佛的力量加持，让我们冲过自己人生的这个坎，那我们下面会比较顺。因为每个人都不是干干净净的，学佛之前无量劫来已经造作了极大的罪业，你怎么样克服罪业，让这些罪业不要来障碍，这是很难的。所以为什么要有善知识的引导，要有良友的扶持，就是这样的。

If we could overcome this darknessin ourselves, on the journey of dharma practice, with the blessing power from Buddha, we can surmount the hurdles in life, after that, our life and dharma journey will become smooth. Everybody comes to this world impure. Beforelearning Buddha dharma, we had committed a great deal of karma eons upon eons. It is very difficult for you to overcome the karma andprevent it from bothering you. That's why it's so indispensable tohave dharma mentors guidance andfellow-practitioners’support.

Our views might be totally opposite when our emotions and life state are different, though facing the same cases. Think carefully here. We don't even know ourselves and how can we know others? In addition, there are innumerable virtuous sages  behind us ordinary monks and Wutai mountain behind the Manjusri Temple which is the soil of the real Manjusri Bodhisattva. You are yet to pass the stage of "seeing Manjusri soil personally", what truth can you probably see? Therefore, let us practice in this way, the blessings and wisdom will grow rapidly while the karma will diminish gradually.

持之以恒  是成佛之路 

修行就像有的人吃大饼：吃了一个、两个，吃了第三个，肚子还饿，等吃到第六个，饱了。他忽然拍拍脑门：“早知道我就吃第六个好了。”这是个错误结论。假如今天拜了3个小时，你觉得“我好像没什么感觉，好像没有忏悔掉多少业障”，但你继续这样拜，继续忏悔下去是有用的，总会有感觉的。

Dharma practice is like eating pancakes, after swallowing one, two and three; he is still hungry, when reaching the sixth, he feels full. He then tells himself, patting his head：“ Should I know this, I would have just eaten the sixth pancake”. This is a false conclusion. If we prostrated for three hours, although you might say “I don’t feel any malicious karma being repented and purified”, but with continue prostration and repent, eventually you will feel obvious progress.

等哪天吃到第六个大饼，你就饱了，这第六个大饼是从前面一个、两个、三个、四个、五个累积来的。所以修行别后悔，不要说：“你们都有感觉，我为什么没感觉？”你若没感觉，那就继续“吃大饼”吧。

If one day you feel full when reaching the sixth pancake, it’s because the satisfaction of fullness from the sixth pancake is built on the accumulation of the first, second, third, fourth till fifth pancakes. So never feel regret, never say “Why you all feel progress but not me?” If you have not felt any progress, just keep “eating pancakes”.

作为出家人，不用为资身产业忧愁、担心，我们的主要功课就在心性上。心性即为佛，护念即为法，自性清净即为僧。从住持的三宝回归到自性三宝，从自性三宝能够达到住持三宝，佛法之灯就灯灯相传，然后从这个隧道打开极乐之门，通到佛的世界。

As Buddhist monks, we don't have to worry about the property. Instead, our major is to sublimate our mind. The mind is the Buddha, mindfulness is the Dharma, and the peaceful heart is the Sangha. The Three Jewels, the Buddha, the dharma and the sangha return to the self-nature, then the self-nature is promoted as the Three Jewels, the light of Buddha Dharma passed on and the door of bliss opened, leading to the Buddha's world.

众生因迷惑颠倒造了一个娑婆世界，诸佛以正觉的慈悲、威德造了一个佛国。当我们证悟佛国的时候，娑婆世界就如梦幻泡影了。我们现在觉得轮回很真实，那是因为我们没调频道。就像我们进入梦境时，梦里的一切都很真实，一旦醒来就觉得梦境很虚无。

Sentient beings have created a Saha world imputing to confusions, while the Buddhas have created a Buddhist kingdom with compassion and virtue. When we realize the Buddha Kingdom, the Saha world ruins just like a dream. Now we regard reincarnation as real, owing to the channel not switched. When we enter a dream, everything in the dream is very real. However, once we wake up, we feel that the dream is illusory.

作为出家人，我们实际上已经进入诸佛拯救众生的事业中了。所以，只要你能跟得住、不掉队，依靠僧团的力量积累资粮，照见佛性，进而自利利他，这条菩提路你一定会越走越光明，越走越快乐。

As Buddhist monks, we have actually started the cause of assisting the Buddhas to save sentient beings. Therefore, as long as you follow the steps and keep up, you can remarkably accumulate your blessings and recover your Buddha nature with the help of Sangha to benefit others simultaneously. Then you will have a great trip on the road of Bodhi with more and more brightness and happiness.