这种做人的境界是一个高度，苦乐由心定
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第六篇
Chapter Six
释 说
苦乐由心而定
The Mind Decides Whether One Is Happy Or Suffering
（6.3）
无我利他的人
主持人：这得多高的境界呀 ! 在佛教里有个说法叫“无我”，所以“利他”前面还有个前缀，如果没有这个“无我”，“利他”可能就变成赵导说的“下等人”，可能会不快乐。这一会儿苦、一会儿乐的，我们对佛教还是有很多误解，到底是苦是乐，请法师来开示一下。
Moderator: What an elevated state that is! There is a Buddhist teaching known as ‘non-self’ which implies a prerequisite to the act of ‘the benefitting of others’. Without ‘non-self’, ‘the benefitting of others’ could become what Director Zhao has referred to as something that is being done by an inferior person who probably finds life to be suffering this moment and himself to be happy the next. We still misunderstand much of what Buddhism is. Let us have the master teach us on whether something is in fact suffering or that which brings us happiness.
传喜法师：现代社会都追求物质发展，追求占有的东西越多代表越幸福。我们看到微信里也说：你拥有非常名贵的床，却不一定拥有好的睡眠；你能吃到 108 道满汉全席，但不一定有好的胃口。判断人生是快乐还是痛苦，境界、格局很重要。痛苦来的时候，能看到这个痛苦里面对自己还是有建设性的一面的，在痛苦里汲取到了改变自己的经验 ，找到改善命运的新路径 ，就有了成功的垫脚石，这就变成快乐了。
Master Chuan-Xi: Everyone in the world nowadays chase after material advancement. The more one has the things he craves for in his possession, the greater the implication that he is happy. We see too in Wechat the saying that one does not necessarily get a good sleep with a very expensive bed and a good appetite with a feast of 108 dishes. In deciding whether one’s life is filled with happiness or suffering, the state of one’s mind and one’s outlook are very important factors. When pain and suffering befalls us, seeing that there might be a constructive side to this pain and suffering that we are facing, and that this will enable us to learn from our experience such that we are then able to find a new path that will improve our destiny, will transform this pain and suffering into a stepping stone that leads us to success and happiness.
就像以前的路面都是石头铺的，每次走都磕磕绊绊的，觉得路怎么这么不好走呢？后来医生说：脚底按摩，有利于健康。当你再走在那条路上，就觉得很幸福了，把它当脚底按摩了嘛。
This is like the roads that were laid in the past with stones. Whenever one treads on them, one finds it uneven and wonders why they are so difficult to walk on. The doctors later say that such massaging of the feet is beneficial to one’s health. When you walk on those roads again, you feel blessed as you take it as massage for your feet.
快乐和幸福，来自于我们的心态、格局，苦乐由心定。
Suffering and happiness originate from our state of mind and our outlook. The mind decides whether it is suffering or happiness.
《忍辱偈》
便是妙中宝
这样波罗蜜
佛教说，法无定法。弥勒菩萨有这个境界。《心经》这首歌好多名人都唱过，电影《唐山大地震》的结束曲就是这首《心经》。大家是否听过《忍辱偈》：
In Buddhism, it is said that there is no such thing as definite Dharma. Such is the level Bodhisattva Maitreya had attained. The song Heart Sutra has been sung by many famous people. It is the ending soundtrack of the movie The Great Earthquake of Tang Shan. Has everyone heard of The Verse of Forbearance?
老拙穿衲袄，淡饭腹中饱。
Old and blundering,
I put on a monastic’s robe;
My hunger is satisfied with a simple meal.
补破好遮寒，万事随缘了。
I am good to survive winter with some patching to my robe;
All things will resolve by themselves if we just let them be.
有人骂老拙，老拙只说好。
If someone should scold old and blundering me,
Old and blundering me will only say, ‘Yes’.
有人打老拙，老拙自睡倒。
If someone should physically attack old and blundering me,
Old and blundering me will just lie down for a snooze.
涕唾在面上，随他自干了。
When I am being spat on the face,
I will just let it dry on itself.
他也省力气，我也无烦恼。
This will save the perpetrator effort,
And leave me free of trouble.
这样波罗蜜，便是妙中宝。
Such a practice of perfection,
Is that which is a profound treasure.
若这知消息，何愁道不了。
If one should understand this,
There is no need to worry that the Dao cannot be attained.
这种做人的境界是一个高度，我们向这个高度去看一看，有时不是一下子就明白的。佛教的很多词语，包括我个人出家二十多年，有时还在消化呢。你只要去消化、去研究这个课题，它永远给你带来一种正能量，这种能量会源源不断地带给你。
Such an outlook of life is a state of being that is on an elevated level to which we should look up and which we might take some time to understand. There are many Buddhist terms which even someone like me who has renounced the household life for more than 20 years will still need time to understand. When you try to understand and look deep into something, a positive force will come to you. Such a force will come to you in an unending stream.
斤斤计较，得理不饶人，有的人因为自己有道理发脾气，佛教叫“有理瞋”；还有一种没道理也发脾气，叫“无理瞋”，你只要“瞋”，就已经失败了。游老、赵导都给大家示范了，你能保持着生命的阳光状态，心灵不被黑暗所吞没，也不被怒火所点燃，你就会成为世间最快乐、最幸福和最成功的人。
In Buddhism, someone who is always petty and calculative, unforgiving and prone to anger due to a sense of self-righteousness is known as one who possesses ‘righteous indignation’. There is also another type of anger known as ‘unreasonable indignation’ that arises without any reason. Once you give rise to hatred, you are already at the losing end. As has been demonstrated by Elder You and Director Zhao, as long as you can maintain living in a state of brightness, your spirit and mind will not be swallowed up by darkness and the fire of hatred will not be ignited in you, and you will become the happiest, most blessed and successful person in the world.
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