英文时分：关于菩提心、佛与生命的进步

　　菩提心是谁的心？是佛的心，是一切菩萨的心！过去菩萨已发，现在菩萨当发，未来菩萨应发，这个菩提心。我们现在发，就加入到这个行列中去了。叫从善如流。菩提心的流，菩萨的流。身虽然是肉体的凡夫，但是心已位同圣贤，已经进入到菩萨的阶级里了，所以我们要认真地发。“如昔诸善逝”，“昔”是过去的意思，“诸善逝”是所有的佛。“善逝”是佛的一个名号，过去诸佛都发这样的心。

　　发菩提心的人，什么事都是从众生的角度考虑，我的存在也是为了众生的存在而存在的。在这个社会上，别人就会说你：“这个人傻了、傻了，人不为己，天诛地灭，天下碰不到这么傻的。”所以别人也笑话你，开始远离你。怎么样？“愿不舍觉心，委身菩提行。” 虽然你行菩萨道的时候，受尽种种委曲，但是下一句话怎么说？“诸佛恒提携”，世间的人不理解你，不跟你交往，但是佛菩萨恒提携你。“断尽诸魔业”，无量劫因自私自利所造作的恶业都断除了。

　　What is Bodhicitta? It is Buddhas’ heart! It’s the heart of all the Bodhisattas! The Bodhisattas in the past had them, the Bodhisattas in the moment have them and the Bodhisattas in the future will have them. We, ordinary people can also initiate our bodhicitta to join this rank. And this behaviour is the so called ‘follow good stream’. The stream is not only the stream of bodhicitta, but also the rank of Bodhisattas. When we join this stream, although our body is common, the heart is already with oracle, having participated in Bodhisattas’ classes. So we should take it seriously. When we say ‘Ru Xi Zhu Shan Shi’, this ‘xi’ means past; ‘zhu shan shi’ means all the Buddhas as ‘shan shi’ is another name of Buddha.

　　A person who has bodhicitta is always taking care of the feeling of sentient beings. Thereby, the value of my existence is just because there are countless sentient beings existing in the world. In today’s society, however, rumour has it that, ‘You are silly! Every man lives for himself, and the devil takes the hindmost. No one will be fool more than you.’ People laugh at you, starting away from you. So what? The Buddhist classics say, ‘May not to forsake the buddhicitta and conduct the Bodhi path’. Although you may suffer a lot when practicing the Bodhi path, the next sentence tells us, ‘Buddhas and Buddhisattas are everlastingly carrying us’. So people may not understand you, not being friendly with you, but Buddhas and Buddhisattas constantly assist us. At last, ‘cut off all the evil behaviours’, which is to say that the bad karmas made by us selfish people in the millions of eons are broken apart.

　　一个人要有很高的内心的境界，同时又能够以慈悲的心，行化在人世间，生命就会进步。福慧都增长，既有慧，高高的智慧。又有福，悲悯苍生的情怀。所以佛教里面说：佛的相好，百福成相好。一个福，相当于我们三千大千世界所有的盲人，佛是医生，把盲人都治好，眼瞎的治好了，这样才算一个福。所以修福还要不离世间，不离众生，不离苦难。对于这个世间的凡人来说，苦难是铁定的。但对菩萨来说，这世间的恶业、世间的苦难，却会变成一个佛菩萨的庄严，变成佛菩萨的资粮，行菩萨道的资粮。

　　In a person’s life, his life will progress, if the higher spiritual realm has been coming up, and he can also serve the world with a compassionate heart. Meanwhile, both the virtue and wisdom of this person will increase as well. As for the virtue, it can be treated as the compassion and mercy for the sentient beings. So there is a saying in Buddhism, ‘The perfect appearance of Buddha is shaped by countless virtues. In another way, it is assuming that the Buddha is a doctor and we are the blind people in the worlds of the trichiliocosm. A virtue is achieved by that the Buddha has cured all the blind people. According to this, the achievement of the virtue should intertwine with the world, the sentient beings and sufferings. As for our ordinary people, the sufferings are guaranteed to be incurred. In the view of the Bodhisattvas, nevertheless, the bad karma and suffering in the world can turn into the dignity of the Bodhisattvas and Buddhas. At the same time, those bad karma and suffering would continuously generate the nutrient, which is treated as the prerequisites to conduct the Bodhisattva path.

　　佛是印度话，中国的意思叫觉悟。佛教是觉悟智慧的教育，人最缺的就是智慧。我们愿解如来真实义，做圣贤的弟子，这才是真正的龙的传人、炎黄子孙。否则我们愧对祖先。特别是现在这个时代，把祖先的财物遗产都快吃光了，把后代子孙的福报也都吃掉了。别觉得现在21世纪多了不起，我们现在很浪费啊。 以后大家要学会端正做人。现在媒体很发达，资讯很丰富，要学好的，不要一上网就看不该看的，要看佛教的资讯。我们佛教也有电视台，要看电视就看生命电视台。

　　Buddha is a word from India, in Chinese, it means enlightenment. Buddhism is an education of enlightening wisdom, which human be the disciples of the oracles, we therefore become the true descendants of the dragon and true descendants of Chinese. Otherwise, we are ashamed to face our ancestors. In the contemporary age, we are especially devouring our ancestor’s heritage as well as encroaching the welfare of our descendants. It is not a great thing living in 21st century, as we are all extravagant. Thus, people should learn to correct our behaviours. Specially, the media is developed and the information is rich, we need to learn more good things. When surfing the Internet, it is better not to see what we should not see. But the Buddhist news would be the good information for us. What’s more, there is a Life TV for Buddhism and that is what we should concern.

爱出者爱返，福往者福来。随喜转载，功德无量。