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按照佛法去修行。
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■不管是门坎子高还是门楣子低,是有哼哈二将,还是有四大天王,其实都是要降服我慢的心。我们要把装满了业障心的口袋抖搂抖搂。我们去拜佛,要斋戒三天,要三步一拜。因为每一拜下去,我执的大山就会崩倒一点,我慢之心得到消减,这才叫学佛。而不是到寺院里来寻求五星级的服务的。
Inside a monastery, door thresholds are high whilst the ceilings are low. There are heavenly gods with wrathful appearances. These are all designed to tame our arrogance and purify our negative karma. Before some people go on pilgrimage, they purify themselves by following the precepts for three days and bowing every three steps they take. Whenever they bow, the mountain of self-attachment subsides. This is how a Dharma practitioner should be. They don’t go to a monastery for 5-star hotel service.
■如果有人对你瞪眼、吼你、批评你、骂你,你要立刻意识到这是修忍辱的时刻,明白这是在消自己的业障。
Even if other people give us angry looks, shout at us, criticise us or tell us off, we should always be tolerant. We should think of these things as helping to purify our negative karma.
■其实就是这个“我”在贪图享受、贪图自尊、贪图别人对“我”好,就是这个“我”,才是无量劫来苦的本--“无量劫来生死本,痴人换作主人翁”。
If we crave a comfortable life, if we yearn for respect and for other people to treat us well, we enhance our attachment to the self, the ground from which suffering and the cycle of life and death have risen over countless past aeons.
■我们认为“我、我、我”,这个“我”是什么?这个“我”难道能让你解脱的吗?不是的。无量劫来就是因它在生死轮回。
Although we constantly cling to a ‘self’ and consider it as something substantial, is this really true? Can this‘self’ help you achieve liberation? Infact, we have been wandering in cyclic existence for aeons because of this‘self’.
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