心灵下午茶：英文时分

21世纪，我们的聪明让我们走得越来越远，在享受科技成果的同时也带来了更多的负面影响。最大的负面，就是对我们生活环境造成的极大污染，对祖先留下的产业和子孙所要享受的财产的过度消费。如对煤炭、石油、黄金、白银等快速过度地开发，是吃祖先的饭、断子孙的路，我们还不自觉，还自乐其中，最终，会因过分享受这些而有果报。

In the 21^st century, our intelligence has allowed us developing further and further, while enjoying the fruit of success from technological advancement, it has also brought about various negative impacts. The biggest adverse impact is the extreme pollution that we create to our living environment and the excess consumption of the properties that our anscestors have left for us. For example, the over and rapid extraction of coal, crude oil, gold, silver and other mines is a sign of depleting the legacy from our ancestors and ending the future of our new generations. If we are still not aware of this and keep indulging ourselves in such a manner, the day will come where we all have to pay back for what we have done.

其实我们真正的财富，是每一个众生份上的佛性。假如懂得修行护持，返迷归悟，这才是真正的快乐之道，这才是家庭和睦、社会和谐、世界得以和平，一切众生皆得安养天年的一种保证。

Actually, our true wealth lies on the Buddha nature that we and all other beings possess. If we can understand the right way to practice Buddhism, protect our very own Buddha nature, and return from delusion, we will be able to find the real path to happiness. This is a guanrantee to harminious families and societies, as well as a peaceful world, where all beings can live peacfully in their natural span of lives.

爱出者爱返，福往者福来。随喜转载，功德无量。