當 有人誹謗我們的時候也是一樣。你可以回答，也可以不回答，都一樣。對我們而言沒有差別。如果我們想回答，而且覺得沒有什麼不妥，那就回答嘛，就當是過日一 樣，能答就答。如果不想回答，也好啊。沒有什麼事情是真的那麼重要，不管好壞、輸贏、毀譽，五十年以後你跟我都會在天堂見面。到時候所有的名譽，不管好 壞，誰還會在乎？你看那些好的國王、壞的國王，現在都到哪裡去了？全都走了。不管我們批評他們幾千幾萬次，或是判他們無期徒刑幾千次，對他們一點影響也沒 有。所以我們不要只看現在，甚至眼光要超越未來。不過我們甚至不用刻意去做，它已經變成自動的了，不用費力，你們修行一會兒之後，多少都有同感。我們看每 件事都很輕鬆、很幽默。所以當別人看我們的做法，想要加以預測的時候，都猜錯了。 　　

　 因為他們都用世界的方式去想，所以都猜錯。有人跟我報告，有人說我們喜歡幫助美國人，因為我們想要出名。這真是太荒謬了。那我們也幫柬埔寨人，他們怎麼 說？我們還幫非洲人呢！還有那些在大陸上的中國人，我們根本不認識！還有菲律賓人，以及那些我們根本不認識的南非人！還有我們幫助北韓，但是我們的人卻連 進都進不去，也不能公開談。所以北韓人根本不知道是我們透過聯合國捐的。兩次都這樣呢。還有很多像波士尼亞、車臣、盧安達等飽受戰爭摧殘的國家，我們也透 過各種不同的機構捐錢和醫療器材等。而他們也沒有誰聽到無上師這個名字，真慘（師父笑）。沒有人在乎，我們也不在乎。我們只要有機會能侍奉別人、和他們分 享我們的東西，就已經很高興了。因為這樣才能流通，不會停滯不動。好比水槽裡面的水，如果水一直留在水槽裡，過不了多久水就會變臭。不但水變臭，連水槽也 會爛掉，結果對水槽、對任何人都沒有好處。

　 同樣，錢也要流通、要使用、要以不同的方式幫助別人，它不是給我們放在那裡都不用。但也不是說我每天出門去強迫別人拿我的錢。不要誤會、也不要問我那種問 題。我們只是在必要的時候，根據我們自己的財力，還有當時情況的重要性來做事。因為有的時候，我們幫助一個人，接著那個人又會影響到整個國家或整個世界， 那這個人就很重要。好比如果你幫助總統或首相解決困難，到時候他心情就比較輕鬆，可以去照顧更重要的國家大事，影響其它的國家，為世界帶來和平，而不是在 那裡擔心幾毛錢而已。要不然真是太恐怖了、太低等、太物質化了。如果一個大國，甚至任何一個國家的領袖，負債累累，或是被人懷疑犯罪，那真是太可惜了。要 不你就尊敬他是你的領袖，要不你就讓他下台，怎麼可以懷疑他呢？對警察來說，即使是一個嫌犯也不可以隨便亂碰。任何人只要還沒有定罪，都是無辜的。當你變 成嫌犯的時候，他們都會這樣說：「你已經百分之八十完蛋了！」如果再沒有一個好律師，沒有一點好運氣，那就真的完蛋了。當別人叫你嫌犯的時候，他們已經看 你不一樣了，他們不想和你有任何關係。因此沒有很多人願意幫助你們的總統，因為他們擔心會牽扯上法律問題，到時候生意和聲望都會受影響。這種情況真的很困 難。

　也 不是說你應該幫助很多人才算是好人、才算合理。要看情況，有時候幫忙一、兩個人，那個人又可以去幫助整個世界。好比說，你去幫助耶穌基督或是佛陀，你認為 你只有幫助祂個人而已嗎？不是。你是在幫助達成一個理想、一種高雅的傳承、幫助人類在精神上醒悟，只要讓祂活下去，生活舒適、受到別人的支持、幫助、了解 和保護就可以了，因為這些人很稀有。雖然我們都是佛，但不是每個人都知道自己是佛，差別在這裡。雖然每個人都是上帝的兒女，但不是每個人都像耶穌一樣那麼 明白這個道理。所以那些人如重要的國家領袖，只要他們是正直的人，對國家或人類有利益，我們都應該支持。因為正直、無私的人、無私的領袖很難找，如果找到 一個，我們一定要幫他。如果我們真的相信他或她很好，我們一定要幫助他，一定要為自己的信仰挺身而出，要不然修行幹什麼？假設你是美國公民，你的國家有 難、政府有麻煩，然後我告訴你：「你是佛，不要介入。」那要這種沒用的佛幹嘛？ 　　

　 不過這個世界很好笑，如果你真的做了，別人會說：「你們是靈修團體，幹嘛要參與這些事？」如果你不做，他們也會說：「你們算什麼靈修團體？什麼事都不做， 有什麼用？我們不需要你們！」所以如果有時候別人不接受我們的幫忙，那也是上帝加持，因為我們可以就此打住。如果真要做，也沒關係；如果不做，也可以。沒 有什麼問題。所以如果別人拒絕你的幫助也不要在意，這很好，或許那個忙你本來就不該幫。你就把它保留下來，這樣以後別人就不能怪你什麼事都沒做。我們的團 體是做了很多，不過通常我們都默默做，一直到最後別人把它挖出來，說：「啊，這個是你做的，那個也是你做的。」那又怎樣呢？即使默默做，我們做的也都是好 事啊！ 　

　 不過很好笑的是，雖然我們不想讓別人知道，現在全世界都知道的一清二楚，甚至有一些連我們的雜誌也沒報導過。像我們幫助退伍軍人醫院(Veteran's Hospital)的那件事，我是以個人名義做的。我只是開了一張支票給他們的負責人，名字我忘了，好像是鮑伯什麼的。我答應給他二十萬美金，然後我就寫 下來，二十萬美金…給退伍軍人…從總部領，然後我就簽名，告訴他：「收好，這就是錢。」那不是支票，我身上沒有支票。不過我已經簽了清海和我的名字，我 說：「你把這張交給我們的人，就會有錢可以領了。」他簡直不敢相信，他說：「這就是錢？」在美國要用信用卡或支票，不是隨便在一張白紙上簽個名就好了，連 個公司行號名字也沒有，沒有地址，也沒有電話號碼，什麼都沒有，我只跟他說：「相信我，沒問題。」（師父及大眾笑）所以他也沒有實際去做。我給了他快一 年，然後我問我的「財政部長」，為什麼我的戶頭還跟原來一樣多？應該要少二十萬才對呀。可是我看那些錢一毛也沒動，我就覺得很奇怪。難道沒人來要嗎？他們 說不知道這件事。也許那個負責人以為我大概頭腦壞掉了還是怎麼樣，也許他以為我在和他開玩笑，愚人節快樂。所以他也沒去想，也沒來討錢。我就說：「好啦， 去和那個叫什麼鮑伯的連絡一下，我不曉得他的全名，你們可以問洛杉磯的師兄。」 　

　 他們連查也不想查查看我們是誰，他們以為是開玩笑。一張白紙而已，沒有公司行號名稱、沒有電話，什麼都沒有，只有簽名。只有寫二十萬美金給某某人，然後簽 「清海」，他們當時連清海是誰都還不知道，因為我是私底下做的。我不知道新聞雜誌有沒有登，也許順便提一下，因為錢是透過銀行匯出去的，沒什麼大不了的， 沒有舉行典禮，也沒有人來照相什麼，甚至連收款人是誰都不知道。當然會知道地址和醫院名稱，但不知道確切的收款人，大概像這樣，連報紙都不知道。我不知道 最近他們怎麼樣又把它挖出來登，已經兩年了。 　

　 很多事我們都不在乎，別人以為我們捐錢給美國人是為了要名，真是太冤枉了。我不懂算命，但是每次別人預測我們什麼，都猜錯。如果我們真要靠幫美國人來出名 的話，有太多更好的方法，有很多大官、管道，可以讓我們把事情搞大一點。甚至可以合影留念、上電視、辦個答謝典禮什麼的，不過我們不在乎啊。有時候政府會 知道，因為我們是透過他們做的，像夏威夷就是。有時我們沒辦法自己做，要先徵求他們政府同意，要問他們到底需不需要，有時候我們也不知道要捐給誰、誰需 要，而政府對災區的情況比較熟，他們有名單、貧戶的名冊。通常我們要救濟貧戶，都要透過當地政府，因為他們才有貧戶、急需救助的人員名冊。我們不能直接跑 到人家門口敲門說：「喂！你要不要我們的錢啊？」他們會踢你出去（大眾笑）。 　

　 像有些這樣的情況，政府會知道，有時會頒獎給我們，讓我好害羞，不過沒關係，我以前還有遇過更不好意思的情況。不過那也算是一種很光榮的困窘啦，混合的感 覺。這些都還只是小意思而已，那些別人不知道的才是大手筆。所以別人猜測我們什麼，都是猜錯，他們不了解我們，也不能想像世界上有這種事，有像我們這樣的 團體存在。我們甚至不能算是慈善的團體，我們也不是很有錢，只是普通老百姓而已。不過我還是有賺一點小錢啦，因為我花的不多，你們只是不懂賺錢的祕訣罷 了！我會告訴你們。（下期待續）

http://www.godsdirectcontact.org.tw/ch/news/77/

清海無上師以英文講於福爾摩沙屏東三地門 1992.12.21

問：我有一個純粹理論上的問題，十幾年來一直都想不通。我心裏了解其實沒有這個「我」，感覺和思想都不是真正的我，那到底是什麼東西在輪迴？是什麼在造業障及收業障？又是什麼在修功德及收功德？是這個頭腦嗎？

師父：是我們這個頭腦，以及執著這個頭腦 的靈魂，例如車子出了問題，而司機不跳出去，就會跟著車子一起出事了；如果他及時跳出去，如果他不那麼執著那輛車，不想去救那輛車，或許還可以保住生命， 有些人愛車勝過愛自己的生命。我們多數人就是有這種麻煩，愛這個收集垃圾的物質身體勝過愛自己的靈魂及真我。我們一直接觸外在的世界、眾人的思想、各種成 見以及許多沒有用的東西，而沒有和我們真正的主人、真正的自我聯繫，所以才有麻煩。

我再解釋清楚一點，你知道活著的是誰嗎？是靈識、真我藉由手、腳、眼、耳、口、感覺和頭腦這些知覺工具來生活。如果這個真我、這個靈識一直被感覺、思想和 資訊綁住，就無法從感覺、思想以及從社會環境收集來的成見和習性中解脫出來，當然這個真正的靈識、這個真我就必須再回來；如果這個真我能一直了解自己只是 所有感覺和思想的旁觀者，真我就絕不會被這些感覺和概念綁住，而會永遠自由自在。當往生時，會很清楚自己不是那些感覺、束縛、環境以及概念，然後就解脫 了，重回到那個完整的生命之河，而不會陷在思想、感覺、喜愛及憎恨的角落裏。所以我們必須再度喚醒自己的靈識，拉它回歸源頭，不斷的提醒它：「你不是這個 感覺，不是這個概念，不是這個，也不是那個，你什麼都不是。」

問：痛苦的情況也是一樣嗎？

師父：是的，是身體感覺到痛苦，是神經感 覺到痛苦，因為神經是用來感覺，然後靈識感受到這些感覺、認知外在的事物，否則我們怎麼知道呢？是靈識透過身體感受到痛苦，而靈識本身從不會痛苦。比方說 吃蘋果，甜的是蘋果，不是你的舌頭甜，也不是你自己甜，甜味不是你，是從蘋果來的，而你是那個享受甜味的人。同樣的，是我們的靈識享受快樂，知道痛苦，拒 絕不愉快的事物，但所有這些情況都不重要，享受也罷，拒絕也罷，愉快也好，不愉快也好，就是這樣而已，你本身並不是快樂和痛苦，這些只是情況而已。所以為 什麼會被綁在那裏？生生世世被綁住？那是因為人不滿足。我們必須知道這些東西都是無常，今天來，明天就走了，就是這樣，能享受就享受，遇到不愉快就忍受， 如此而已，該走的時候就走，失去了就失去了。否則如果我們這個靈識還繼續不斷地追求快樂，那就只好再輪迴；靈識會試著抓住殘餘的感覺，試著把自己再框進去 享受或忍受，一直執著那些酸、甜、苦、辣，追在它們後面。

如果有人給你一個蘋果，你吃了以後，哇！太喜歡那個味道，而你又沒有別個，所以就到處想再找一個，每天只想著：「蘋果、蘋果、蘋果！」什麼事也不能做，而 迷失了自己，迷失在蘋果的甜味裏。我們人生也是這樣，這個靈識追求快樂，討厭痛苦，然後困在那裏，無法從感覺中解脫，所以我們才被綁住，無法解脫。如果我 們時時刻刻，尤其是在死亡那一剎那，知道自己不是這些感覺，不在乎這些感覺，這些感覺已完全跟我們無關，那我們就自由了，其實我們一直都是自由的，從沒有 不自由過。（大眾鼓掌）

所以想哭就哭，想笑就笑，但要瞭解哭和笑都不是你自己，只是為了認知事物以及存在這世界而體驗它們，否則你不會存在，這世界也不會存在。我們說這世界充滿 痛苦，它不應該存在，但為什麼不應該？如果它不存在，我們也會很無聊，沒事可做，只是一直很快樂：「噢！我是這個，我是那個，（大眾笑）我是上帝。」如此 而已，「我是萬能的，我知道，我沒有痛苦，什麼都沒有，一直非常快樂。」那又怎樣？涅槃不涅槃又怎樣？如果你每天都快樂，那又怎樣？

但因為你現在仍想要涅槃，所以要努力，一直努力到不再想要，到厭煩為止，那時你就自由了（師父與大眾笑）。我要你們努力以得到涅槃，是因為要你們知道你們 不需要涅槃，但只要你們仍然覺得需要，就繼續努力。如果還需要假的塑膠奶嘴，就儘管含著，一直到有一天嘴含乾了，還喝不到牛奶或任何東西時，就會吐掉奶 嘴，然後了解到從一開始就不需要它，因為你本來就可以沒有它，本來就不需要它。

http://www.godsdirectcontact.org.tw/ch/news/117/sl2.htm  真我永遠自在

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The True 'I' Is Always
Free

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai
Santimen, Pingtung, Formosa December 21, 1992
(Originally in English)

Q: I have one question, which is purely theoretical, but I've stuck with it for over ten years. I understood with the mind that we don't have an I; our feelings are not us and our thinking is not us and so on. So what is the thing that goes from one reincarnation to another, and what causes karma and collects it, and what causes merit and collects it? Is it our mind?

M: Our mind, and our soul that clings to that mind. For example, if the car goes wrong and the driver doesn't jump out of the car, then he gets done with, together with the car. If he jumps out in time, if he doesn't feel so attached to the car that he tries to save the car, then he might save his life. Some people love the car more than their life. That's the same trouble with most of us; we love our garbage collector more than our soul, more than our real Self. We are always in touch with the outside world, with the collecting of thoughts, with all kinds of preconceived ideas, with all kinds of nonsense, but we are not in touch with our real Lord, our real Self. So we have trouble.

I will try to explain more. In your life, do you understand who is living now? It's the awareness, the real 'I' that is living through the perceiving agents of the hands, the feet, the eyes, the ears, the mouth, the feelings, and the brain. That's it. And should 'I', this awareness, always get stuck with these feelings, with this thinking, with this information, then the 'I' cannot be free from the feelings, from the thinking, from the preconceived collective ideas of society, of the environment, of the habits. And of course, that true awareness, that true 'I' has to come back again. But should this true 'I' always understand that he, the true 'I', the true awareness, is only the witness of all these feelings, all this thinking, all these collective thoughts, then this 'I' never gets stuck with these feelings or ideas, and is always free. So when he dies, he knows absolutely that he is not these feelings, not these bindings, not these surroundings, not these ideas; then he is free. He marches back to the whole, to the whole river of life, and doesn't get stuck in that corner of so-called thinking, feeling, hate and love. So we have to awaken our awareness again, pull it back and keep reminding it all the time, "You are not this feeling, you are not this idea, you are not this, and you are not that." Understand? Nothing is you!

Q: Is it the same with pain?

M: Yes, because the body feels pain; the nerves feel pain because the nerves are made to feel things. The awareness enjoys these feelings and enjoys knowing outside things. Otherwise, how can we be aware? This is the awareness that experiences pain through the body, but the awareness itself never has pain! If you eat an apple, it's the apple that is sweet; it's not your tongue that is sweet. It's not you who are sweet! The sweetness is not you, it's from the apple; you are the one who enjoys the sweetness. Similarly, we ourselves, the awareness, enjoy the pleasure, know the pain and reject the unpleasant things. But all these things don't matter. You enjoy it or you reject it; you experience the unpleasant or the pleasant, but that's it. You are not the pleasant or unpleasant. These are only circumstances.

So why should you get stuck there, and be bound life after life? Because you are not satisfied. You have to know that these things are fleeting. Today it comes, tomorrow it goes. Okay, that's it. If I have enjoyed, I enjoy it. If I experience an unpleasant thing, then I endure it, and that's it. When I'm gone, I'm gone. When I don't have them, I don't have them. Otherwise if we, the awareness, keep chasing after pleasure, then we reincarnate. The awareness is trying to catch the last leftover feeling, so it tries to put itself into a frame again and enjoy it or suffer, always clinging to this sweet or bitter feeling, chasing after it.

If someone gives you an apple, and you eat it: Oh, you love it so much! But now you don't have another one, and you go everywhere searching for an apple; every day your mind says only, "Apple, apple, apple!" You cannot do anything else, and you lose yourself. You lose yourself in the sweetness of the apple. It's the same thing with our life: The awareness is chasing after the pleasant and hating the unpleasant, and we get stuck there. The awareness cannot free itself from these feelings; therefore, we are bound, we are not liberated. If we know that at every moment, and especially at the time of death, we are not this feeling, we don't care about this feeling, and we are done with all these feelings, then we are free. We are always free! We have never been unfree. (Audience applauds)

So, cry when you want to cry, and laugh when you want to laugh, but understand that the crying and laughing are not you. You just experience them, for the sake of knowing things, for the sake of existence. Otherwise you don't exist; otherwise the world doesn't exist. We say that the world is full of suffering and it shouldn't exist, but why shouldn't it exist? If it didn't exist, it would also be boring. There's nothing else to do, and you enjoy all the time: "Oh, I am this, I am that, (Audience laughs) I am God, that's it, I am Almighty, and I know it! I have no suffering, nothing. I am always blissful." So what? Don't bother about nirvana, so what? If you are happy every day, so what?

But because you still want nirvana, so work for it. Work until you don't want it any more, until you're fed up with it, and then you'll be free. (Master and audience laugh) I only want you to work for nirvana because I want you to know that you don't need nirvana. But as long as you need it, then work for it. If you still want the dummy, the plastic one, then just have it. But have it until your mouth is dry and you have no milk, nothing, and then one day you will throw it away. And realize that you didn't even need it in the beginning. Because you are always free of that, you don't need it.

The True 'I' Is Always Free

清海無上師以英文講於福爾摩沙屏東三地門 1992.12.26

你們常說師父無所不知、無 所不在，但我什麼也不知道，是裏面的主人知道，但這個「我」不必知道，所以我們為而無為；如果每件事我都要知道，那就太忙了，因為要同時做千百件工作，你 們以為這個頭腦能同時將千百件工作匯報給這個所謂的「我」知道嗎？我沒有這個「我」，我們沒有這個「我」，我告訴過你們，我們只是思想的集合，所謂的 「我」只是一個接一個的念頭，只是垃圾、習慣和記錄下來的資料，其實並沒有「我」。

真正的「我」只是清醒的在旁邊觀看，看著我們收集一切，看著我們一連串的行動和反應，明白只是在觀看，而並不是行動，也不是反應，只是看而已，這才是真正 的「我們」，才是真「我」。但我們一直都把觀看的「我」和發生的事情混在一起，我們太執著在事情上面，太執著在我們所知的事物的感覺上面，以為那就是 「我」。現在「我」生氣、「我」快樂、「我」不快樂，事實不是這樣，那些只是反應而已，不是「我」在生氣，「我」只是在旁邊觀看生氣的發生，「我」在看這 齣戲的演出，一會兒好笑，一會兒悲傷，如此罷了，那些只是舞台上的行動和反應而已。

當我們為自己做事時，不會認為有什麼大不了，如果餵自己吃東西，難道也期望任何回報嗎？或者當你替自己洗澡時，會認為自己了不起嗎？（大眾笑）如果不洗 澡，自己會受不了，如果不吃東西，自己會覺得很虛弱而不能動，所以吃東西本身是一種自我回報，洗澡本身也是一種自我回報。同樣的，為師父、人類、同修及非 同修做任何事，都是自我回報，當然，替師父工作，也就是為人類工作，因為師父就是全人類，而不是一個個人，師父是大眾的工具，任何人都可以使用，這個你們 很清楚，你們可以要求師父做任何工作，不論多卑下或多偉大的事，你們總是要師父去做，而師父也會去做，無論你們是否看得到，師父不必一一向你們報告做了哪 些事。

因此，有時你們用智慧眼看到後會知道，但有時不知道，也許智慧眼在睡覺（大眾笑），有這種事，然後你們說：「師父沒為我做任何事，我從來都沒看過。」你母 親在你睡覺時打掃、洗衣、煮飯，你會知道嗎？（大眾答：不會。）但並不表示你母親沒做家事，當你醒來看到家裏乾淨、整齊，就知道有人整理過，如果家裏沒有 其他人，就一定是母親做的。

無上力量處理一切

所以只有師父包辦一切，還有其他人嗎？除了無上力量以 外，還有誰一直和你在一起、為你做任何事呢？你以為是自己在打坐、吃素、持戒，其實都是師父做的，是裏面師父在找師父，並不是你。是誰在尋找師父？是那些 一個接一個的念頭嗎？是它們在尋找師父的智慧嗎？不是，是我們的智慧知道該是認識自己、見識自己力量的時候了（大眾鼓掌）。你們打斷了我的靈感（大眾 笑），沒關係，另一個靈感又來了。因此如果我們還認為是自己在做、在尋求，那就錯了，所以我們才無法和師父合而為一，所以我們才不能認得自己是誰、不能認 得師父是誰；其實師父就是我們自己。

http://www.godsdirectcontact.org.tw/ch/news/117/sl3.htm 「我」是誰？

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Who Am 'I' ?

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai
Santimen, Pingtung, Formosa
December 26, 1992 (Originally in English)

You said the Master knows everything and is omnipresent. But I don't know anything! The Master knows. 'I' don't have to know. We are doing without doing. If I have to know everything, I am too busy, because I have to do a thousand and one jobs at the same time. And you think the mind is capable of flushing out one thousand and one jobs at the same time to report to the so-called 'me'? I already have no 'me'; we have no 'me'. I told you already that we are only thoughts. The so-called 'me' is only one thought after another, all garbage, all habits, and all recorded information. There is no 'me', actually

'Me' is the awakened one, the witness, the one who sees everything that we collect or we react to. There is a chain of action and reaction, and the one who knows that is the witness. It's not the action or the reaction; it's the witness. That's the 'We'; that's the 'I'. But then we always mistake the witness for the event. We are so attached to the event or the taste of all the things that we know, and then we think that's 'we'. Now 'I' am angry, now 'I' am happy, now 'I' am not. It's not true! It's just the reaction. It's not 'me' who is angry; 'I' am witnessing the anger; 'I' am seeing the drama that is going on. Now it's funny, and now it's miserable, but that is all, just the action and reaction on the stage.

Therefore, when we do some work for ourselves, we never think it's a big deal. If you put some food in your mouth, do you expect any reward? Or when you wash your body, do you think you are fantastic? (Audience laughs) If you don't wash, you cannot bear it. If you don't eat, you feel very weak, and you cannot move. So eating itself is kind of self-rewarding. Bathing itself is kind of self-rewarding. Similarly, doing any work for the Master, for human beings, for fellow initiates or non-initiates, these are self-rewarding.

Of course, when we do work for Master, it means it is for human beings, because the Master is a human being. He is not a private person; He is a public instrument. Anyone can use it - you know this already - to do any kind of job, it doesn't matter how humble or how great. You always let the Master or tell the Master to do it, and the Master will do it, whether you see it or not. The Master doesn't always have to report to you about what the Master does. Therefore, sometimes you know, you see it with your wisdom eye, and sometimes you don't. Maybe your wisdom eye sleeps. (Audience laughs) Yes, it happens like that! And then you say, "Master doesn't do anything for me. I never see anything." When your mother is cleaning, washing and cooking while you are sleeping, do you know anything? (No!) That doesn't mean the mother doesn't do the housework. When you see your house is in order, neat and tidy when you wake up, you know someone has done something. And if no one else is in the house, it must be the mother!

The Supreme Power Does Everything

So only the Master does everything. Who else is there, who else is with you except the Supreme Power who does everything for you? And then you think you meditate, you sit, you eat vegetarian, you keep the precepts, etc. Actually, it's all the Master who does it. It is the Master who seeks the Master; it's not you. Who is it that seeks? Is it all the thoughts that are jumping, one after the next, is that the one who seeks the Master wisdom? No! It's the wisdom who knows that it is time to recognize itself, to appreciate its own power. (Audience applauds) You cut off my inspiration! (Audience laughs) Never mind! I have another one. So if we still think we are doing something or seeking something, we are wrong. That's why 'we' cannot mix with the Master. That's why we can not recognize who we are, and who the Master is. The Master is ourselves.

http://www.godsdirectcontact.org.tw/eng/news/117/sl3.htm  Who Am 'I'?

以下摘錄的開示中，清海無上師揭示了她自己對詩集中一些詩作的闡釋。詩中「師父」是指內在師父，象徵圓通的智慧，在宇宙上，祂有最大的權力，祂的慈悲心無邊無量。

師父：一定不必試！（師父及大眾笑）

同修：這是師父寫的還是同修寫的？

師父：師父寫的。我自己翻譯的。

同修：因為是我們的心聲啊！

師父：我替你們寫嘛！

同修：師父了解我們。

師父：我也是學生，是我師父的學生。你們現在走的路，我已經走過了。應該修行到這個等級，才能了解這首詩的意思，不然的話不懂。

師父：這是說有一個學生打坐好久，但是看不到太多境界，看不到裡面師父。每個人都聽說應該看到內在師父等等，有什麼好體驗，但是他自己沒有，祈求好久也沒有，所以那種情況就會抱怨。

修行有的時候應該經過很乾枯的階段，什麼都沒有，好像勇氣都沒有，好像快要掉下去了，好像一點點都不想繼續修行，那個時候就是靈魂的黑夜。

師父：師父有好多學生，所以就不管他一個人，意思是這樣。本來師父說不要可憐自己，不要抱怨那麼多，應該忍耐等等。但是那個人太累了，受不了了，修行好幾年，怎麼什麼都沒有！他現在不能跟師父講，所以講給外人聽，很可能用麥克風（師父及大眾笑）：「嘿，路上的人呀！有沒有人知道我的苦心啊？」修行好久，看不到內在師父，祈求祂，祂也不聽，祂沒有耳根、沒有眼睛。有的人好久找不到明師，也會了解這種情況。

你們不要以為跟師父修行了以後就會永遠快樂，很可能剛印心的時候會快樂，但是過了一段時間，就會感覺那個苦心，那種很乾枯、很可憐的等級，好像整個宇宙都跑掉了，好像佛菩薩都去西方了，好像上帝都不在了，好像師父沒有眼睛、沒有耳根，祂聽不到、看不見我們的祈求。這種等級好苦喲！但卻是很必要的。你們如果平平常常修，沒有一點苦，沒有那種真正的渴望心，那不會得到什麼。必須超過那種等級以後，才真正得到自在無礙。但是在乾枯、黑暗的時候，我們好像不想做什麼事情，吃也吃不下，睡也睡不著，想要打坐也不能打坐那麼好，想停也不能停；因為如果打坐修行很久了，習慣了，不打就不行。

師父：所以沒辦法，應該繼續走。要得到師父的等級、要變成師父、要看到內在師父……「到您家的路」是什麼意思？我們修行，為了要達到師父的等級。還沒有達到這個等級的時候，好苦、好苦！路上充滿石頭和荊刺，我們以為走一會兒就沒有了；結果越走越苦，石頭越多，越走越有荊刺，但是已經走到半路了，現在如果要回頭的話，更慘！所以好苦呀，進退兩難。

師父：有沒有人修到那種程度啊？任何都放下了、不管了，成佛也不管，成菩薩也不在乎了，那個時候佛菩薩會出現。任何人都看到他的苦心、裸心。你們有沒有看到裸心的人？我們修觀音法門的人，好久以前就有這種情況了。修行四、五年以後，那個時候恭喜啊！（師父及大眾笑）會體驗到這種等級。那個時候快快來看師父這本《沈默的眼淚》。你會發現：「師父所講的好像跟我現在一樣。」師父有去過這個路！很苦啊！

師父：活不下去了，那活上來，好不好？只有兩條路：活不下去，就往上。

 師父：每天那個心跟我們打仗，不讓我們打坐，不讓我們持戒，不讓我們輕鬆。我們的師父可以移山倒海，可以變改整個宇宙和整個世界，可是祂卻忘記變改我們的頭腦，讓我們每天那麼苦。這個師父啊，討厭呵，你們還是喜歡祂，（師父及大眾笑）因為已經走到半路了，回去更慘！

師父：我們本來修行為了要得到上帝的果位，要得到「無上正等正覺」最高的果位。「如果您背向我的話，那個時候，上帝有什麼意思？」對他來說，他的師父比較重要，真的嘛！如果我們的師父不疼愛我們、生氣我們，那個時候是不是我們沒有興趣再修行？修到那種程度，沒有任何東西對你有什麼意思，只有師父而已。那個時候才快快變成師父，因為跟祂同一體了。師父是代表萬物、代表那個「道」。所以我們常想念祂到那種程度的時候，就表示說我們等級已經很高，快跟萬物同一體，快跟「道」同一體。我們真正的很渴望得到內在師父的等級，得到這個「道」。渴望到那種程度，睡不著、吃不下，才能夠寫那種抱怨的事情。

師父有經過這種階段，所以寫出來給你們看，這樣你們可以了解，會說：「師父了解我的心。」怎麼不了解呢？你們走的這些路，我都有走過了。應該走啊；不走，怎麼帶領人走呢？

師父：師父的人心好像沒有了，祂很可能只有菩薩心的意思。但是菩薩心就只有了解菩薩而已；人心不在，所以好像不了解我這個人的苦心。

祂有沒有給一、兩滴（無限救命水）？印心時有沒有拿到？印心的時候有啦。修行一會兒以後才沒有；有，但是還是好渴望。那個時候好像還沒有超過這個等級，就停在那裡，內在聲音很可能有，但變小了；光越來越小，好像沒有，好黑、好暗。那個時候好苦，祈求也沒有人聽，好像佛菩薩都跑掉了，去西方了。跟師父講也沒有用，講祂也會聽啊，但是好像還沒有幫忙什麼，祂好像無所謂，讓你受苦。這樣才能淨化我們的身、口、意，這樣才能夠讓我們的道心變得更堅強、更堅定，這是很必需要的。所以有的時候師父知道學生很苦，超不過這個等級，但是師父還是讓他受苦，這是最慈悲的。

師父：「師父」意思說內邊的力量。裡面師父的力量假如離開我們、不疼愛我們的話，我們真的會死掉。我們死掉的時候，真的沒力量，是不是這樣？我們修行，不是每天修行都那麼順利，有的人修行好久才看到一點光，有的人內在聲音好久沒有變改，有的時候又減小。所以我們修行有的時候很困難，不過任何東西太簡單得到，就沒有價值。所以自古以來，大修行的人都用功很多才得道。

♥ 詩人評析《沈默的眼淚》求道者之旅

引用清海無上師新聞雜誌211期 P39~P44

註：清海無上師在這場開示中，應弟子們的懇求，闡釋《沈默的眼淚》詩集裡部分詩作的涵義。

是不是你們有這個誠心啊？是，我知道，要放師父在世界上。但是他們都喜歡他們可愛的業障，他們沒有地方給師父住，所以世界還是一直有問題。我們知道這個世界充滿物質享受的東西，但是我們人還是有很多煩惱，好像快活不下去、快爆炸。為什麼呢？因為我們裡面有一個很不能滿足的那種期望、那種渴望，我們自然有那種祈求的品質。

多數的人祈求沒有感應，為什麼？我今天教你們怎麼祈求比較有感應。我們無論要祈求什麼東西，第一應該問自己：我祈求這個東西，真的需不需要？重不重要？對我自己真的有沒有利益？對人家有沒有什麼傷害？因為如果那個祈求，我們自己已經知道不重要、不慈悲、不需要的話，我們的下意識就不能接受。

我們那個萬能的能力，不是從西方掉下來的，不是從天堂放下去的，不是耶穌基督拿來的，不是釋迦牟尼佛留下來給我們用的，這是在我們的腦部裡面，從這裡看到後面去（師父指著智慧眼處），就是在中心的。那個地方具有萬能的力量。我們祈求什麼成不成功，都要看有沒有經過這個地方。如果經過這個地方，祂一定知道那個祈求需不需要、對我們好不好、對其他的人有沒有什麼傷害。我們沒有辦法騙祂。

所以如果祈求的東西根本不需要、不重要，或是不慈悲博愛的話，那我們根本不用浪費時間了。所以祈求什麼要成功的話，先看祈求的東西需不需要。然後應該用我們的全心、不分心的那個能力來祈求，那個時候一定成功。但是要一夜變成億萬富翁，要賭牌、中樂透那種，那可以祈求嗎？當然不可以！

我們修觀音法門的人應該祈求什麼？快快變成師父，快快跟師父在一起。為什麼呢？因為跟師父在一起以後，我們的痛苦都消失了，那個時候真正沒有煩惱。第一，煩惱都被趕走了。第二，力量不可思議，功德無邊，我們要幫忙任何人，馬上可以幫忙，不需要他祈求我們幫忙，他也不需要知道我們是誰，因為那個時候是無我幫助。所以金剛經有說：「度眾生，但是沒有眾生被度。」是這個意思。他們根本不知道你度他們，他們根本不知道你幫忙他們。

所以師父常說，你們不要以為師父去印心，只有一小撮人而已。有好多人印心，不用見面、不用知道師父名字。有好多人看師父的書，也得到印心；有好多人聽一次師父名號，也得到印心；有好多人誠心誠意祈求觀世音菩薩幫忙，也有得到印心，比如說這樣。因為師父不是這個肉體的凡夫，師父跟這個萬能的力量溝通，所以他祈求這個萬能的力量時，師父會在那裡。這個宇宙萬物的萬能，跟我們的萬能力量是一樣的。

所以老子說：「萬物同一體。」我們修行高等了以後，就會認識這個道理。我們可以看到一樣的力量在任何眾生裡面，在樹木也一樣，在動物也一樣，在修觀音法門和不修觀音法門的人都一樣。但是修觀音法門的人認識這個力量，他可以用到這個力量，他的力量已經開了。其他的眾生，或是其他沒有修觀音法門的人，他們不認識這個力量。他們也有啦，不是沒有，但是他們用不到；他們也有「財產」，但是都鎖起來，沒有鑰匙。

我們修到那種等級的時候，我們會尊敬任何眾生。因為我們看師父任何地方都在，都一樣啊。我們修到那種程度了以後，我們可以頂禮我們的同修、頂禮我們的徒弟。所以耶穌基督還沒有走以前，他洗他的徒弟的腳，那些徒弟好驚惶，說：「師父，您怎麼這樣做呢？」但是耶穌基督太高等了，他知道大家都一樣。所以他說：「我洗你們的腳，叫你們以後洗人家的腳。」（約翰福音第13章第14-15節）他的意思是什麼呢？應該有平等心。但是他的徒弟們還沒有得到他的平等心的等級，所以他應該用這個譬如來講。如果他的徒弟已經得到這個平等心的等級，耶穌基督根本不需要用譬如、根本不應該解釋，或是他的徒弟根本不會那麼驚訝。

只有我們跟我們的萬能力量溝通了以後，才能夠有期望可以上去。修觀音法門的人如果不毀謗師父的話，認真修，多多少少都不用去下面。但是應該認識自己的萬能力量，不要都依賴師父的等級。你們自己修，等級比較高，越來越好，又可以幫助其他的人，任何人你們想一想，有一點點同情心，那個人馬上得到幫助。

如果我們認識那個最高等的力量，認識我們最內在那個萬能力量，我們會做任何東西，任何東西都可以。所以剛剛你們聽師父那首詩：

因為這個你們自己弄。我們自己修行，幫忙自己，幫忙師父，幫忙世界。我們也不會幫忙師父怎麼樣啦，就是她不會太擔心，她不會太苦。如果我們好好修行的話，業障會快快消除，生活比較平安，做什麼事情都比較順利，那她當然好高興。

你祈求怎麼樣，你以後會碰到怎麼樣的師父。如果你這一世或是前世祈求最高等的果位、最高等的智慧，你現在回來，一定碰到最高等的師父，這個不用懷疑。如果你前世或是這一世，祈求觀世音菩薩慈悲幫忙你在世界上少痛苦，在世界上都順利，家庭都和平，那你一定碰到那種師父而已。比如碰到一位普通的和尚，他非常慈悲，你有什麼困難、什麼苦惱，都可以講給他聽。他可以為你解釋很多道理，或是回答你好多問題，你回去依照他的建議處理你的問題，那以後就高興了，你的生活就變好了，但是就這樣子而已。或是你會碰到一個非常有錢的人，你有什麼需要，他馬上來幫忙你；你不用開口，他馬上拿錢來幫忙你。或是碰到一個人，你不用開口，他馬上來救你的病，或是帶你去看醫生，或是幫你修理漏水的屋頂等等。這是因為你前世誠心祈求、專心祈求這些事情而已。

要解脫的人、要一世成佛的人、要一世完全了脫生死的人，會碰到最高的師父、最高的法門。祈求永遠解脫，得到阿耨多羅三藐三菩提（無上正等正覺），跟上帝合在一起，跟「道」合在一起，這樣才會碰到觀音法門。觀音法門不是任何人可以教，沒有力量傳法的話，被傳法的人沒有體驗。所以要分辨一位師父是不是真正的明師，印心的時候會知道，看他能不能給你跟經典上所講的一樣的體驗。

好了，讓你們回去多努力，用這個萬能、單純、至善的力量，多多用祂，不用很可惜啊！在這個世界上沒有什麼東西比祂更寶貝，沒有任何禮物師父可以給你們比祂更高尚、更寶貝。所以每次都講好多故事，最後還是勸你們修觀音、觀內在的觀音法門。

引用清海無上師新聞雜誌211期P35~P38

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清海無上師以中文講於福爾摩沙屏東 1990.01.13（影帶編號#112）

多數的人不了解，我們做自己喜歡做的工作，和做師父叫我們做的工作，二者的收穫不一樣。比方說，你們聽密勒日巴的故事，他每天搬石頭、蓋房子，辛苦七年以後，他師父才教他一些東西，然後他才能開悟。或許你們會認為像密勒日巴這樣搬石頭可以幫忙修行，然後自己就去搬石頭。

就算你搬了七十年也沒有用，一直搬到沒有石頭可搬，也不能消業障。但是，如果你的師父叫你半夜兩點去搬一塊石頭，而你確實遵照師父的指示，起來幫忙搬這塊石頭，即使那時候眼睛還半開半閉，但還是很歡喜去搬，因為你心裡知道：「師父是最開悟的人，我已經把身、口、意都送給她，她叫我做什麼我就做，不管事情合不合邏輯，我都依照師父的指示去做。」如果你有這樣的歡喜心去搬那塊石頭，那會比密勒日巴搬七年石頭還要好！

不過多數人都不了解這個道理，所以即使明師很難找，不過找到明師以後，繼續留下來跟他修行才是更難。有很多人修行以後，最多只是證阿羅漢或是菩薩果而已，證佛果比較難，因為我執沒辦法砍掉。「我執」就是我們自己所收集的成見和凡夫的概念，我們認為什麼才好、什麼不好，認為自己都已經學好了，世界都教我們很清楚了，沒有什麼需要師父教的，這是我們弄錯的地方。

http://www.godsdirectcontact.org.tw/ch/news/185/

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Adhering to the Instructions of an Enlightened Master Brings Unsurpassed Merit

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Pingtung, Formosa, January 13, 1990
(Originally in Chinese) Videotape #112

Most people don’t realize that they gain different benefits for doing things they like versus doing things that their Master commands. For example, in Milarepa’s case he had to work very hard carrying stones and building houses for seven years before his Master would impart any spiritual teachings to him, after which he was enlightened. You may think that carrying stones as Milarepa did hastens spiritual progress so you might also start carrying stones.

Most people don’t realize that they gain different benefits for doing things they like versus doing things that their Master commands. For example, in Milarepa’s case he had to work very hard carrying stones and building houses for seven years before his Master would impart any spiritual teachings to him, after which he was enlightened. You may think that carrying stones as Milarepa did hastens spiritual progress so you might also start carrying stones.

However, even if you kept doing that for seventy years it would be futile. Even until there were no more stones to be moved your karma wouldn’t be erased. But suppose your Master tells you to move a stone at two o’clock in the morning, and you faithfully follow the Master’s instructions and get up to move the stone. Although you can hardly keep your eyes open you still do it blissfully because you know: “Master is the most enlightened One. I’ve offered my body, mind and speech to Her. Whatever She tells me to do, I just do it. Whether they’re logical or not, I’ll still follow Master’s instructions.” If you can move that stone with such a blissful thought in mind, it will be much better than Milarepa moving stones for seven years!

However, most people don’t understand this logic. That’s why, although it’s very difficult to find a Master, it’s even more difficult to stay and follow the Master in spiritual cultivation once you’ve found Him. It’s hard to attain Buddhahood because most spiritual practitioners can’t axe their egos so they only attain the level of Arhat or a saint. The “ego” consists of the preconceived ideas and worldly concepts that we’ve collected over our lifetimes. We hold convictions about what’s good and bad and think we’ve learned everything we need to know because the world has given us enough education so there’s very little that a Master can teach us. This is where we go wrong.

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有時我們把錢浪費在很多不必要的事物上，不然，生活開銷會更少，也會更有樂趣。兩天前我在電視上看到一個節目，提到有個人原本要花二十年才能還清貸款，但有位專家來指導這對夫婦如何在兩年內還清，結果他們真的辦到了！

這位專家一一查出他們必須刪減的開銷，比方說那位先生喜歡買各種小玩意，專家便告訴他：「你不需要這些東西！」他買了很多小玩意，但後來都只是擱在一旁。所以他們第一步就是將那些東西統統清出來，以舊貨拍賣的方式賣掉，換回一些錢。從那時起，如果他要買東西，就必須考慮清楚是否真的有必要！不然就不要買，這是第一件事。

第二件事就是不要每天都去餐廳、咖啡館或自助餐廳用餐，他們自己準備三明治作為午餐，也自己帶咖啡，這樣每個月就可省下很多錢。不是一次就省下很多，而是這裡省一點、那裡省一點，加起來就很可觀。

最初的六個月，他們省下大約六千英鎊，僅僅六個月而已！平均一個月省一千英鎊，這裡省一點，那裡省一點。比如說那位女士也抽菸，專家便指出每星期一包菸要花費十四英鎊左右。她並不是一天抽兩、三包菸，不過專家算一算，這樣一兩年下來，買菸的錢竟也能買輛車了！兩年過得很快，如果不抽菸就可以買一輛車！我希望你們都不抽！（大眾笑）

此外，他們改搭火車上班，不再開車。這樣更便宜、省時且安全，還可以坐著看報紙，吸收各種資訊，或是讀師父的經書等，也可以利用坐火車的時間學些新的東西。所以他們又省了一筆錢，每個月大概省一百或五十英鎊。不只這樣，應該更多！現在汽油很貴，是嗎？如果你經常開車到處跑，像是開車上班，可能花更多錢。當然這要看你去哪裡而定，不過要是改搭火車而不要開車上班的話，每個月起碼可以省下幾百英鎊，不是嗎？（同修：你也需要停車！）對，停車位之類的問題，所以這樣又省下多少錢？你們其中一個告訴我，如果不開車上班，每個月可以省多少錢？

同修 甲：大約兩百英鎊，因為還要加上保險費、公路稅以及停車費。

師父：我了解。即使你不開車，還是得付保險費和公路稅嗎？（同修甲：如果你處理掉車子，就不用付保險費。）不，我是說即使車子都停在車庫，你仍然必須繳稅，是嗎？（同修甲：是！）還是可以少繳一點？（同修甲：你可以少繳一些保險費，以美國為例，如果你能證明一星期開車不超過一次，就可少繳一點。）喔，這樣更省錢！好， 如果算每個月省兩百英鎊，哇！一年就省了兩千四百英鎊！那可以買好多東西了。十年可以省多少錢？（同修甲：兩萬四千英鎊，如果把這筆錢拿去投資，會賺更多。）沒錯！會有更多利息。好，所以兩年就可以省 大約四千英鎊，是嗎？（同修甲：兩年可省下四千八百英鎊，再加上利息，大約有五千五百英鎊。）哇！你們看！有了五千五百英鎊，就可以去喜馬拉雅山打坐五年，什麼事都不用做。（大眾笑）

同修甲：師父，或許我幫得上忙，我是財務分析師。

師父：我現在就是在做分析！我分析這些給他們聽，當作例子參考。不只這些，還有許多其他方面，比方說，不要買當季流行的服飾，而買折價的衣服，或者等到冬季折扣或季末出清時再買，這樣就可以省下很多錢。穿些簡單實穿的衣服，就不用經常改變造型或趕流行之類的。如果你想過自在的生活，就不能時時打扮時髦。我們也不需要那樣，或許偶爾在一些特殊情況，比方說你去上班，參加正式的會談，或是有些工作需要穿體面的衣服，那時你才會需要那些。但是不必花很多錢買名牌服飾，有一些比較便宜的衣服也很好看。我只是舉個例子來說明。

這對夫妻不但省下那些開銷，還去兼差。太太擅長唱歌，先生則擅長做其他的事，於是他們每星期出去兼差賺一些外快。因為省錢就是賺錢，當然，如果賺越多，不斷地累積起來也是很可觀。

所以有很多方法可以過個快樂的生活，而不必工作太多，不用日以繼夜地燃燒生命、辛苦工作。除此之外，你們又不喝酒，這樣每個月可以省下多少錢，你們知道嗎？（同修：知道。）比方說你每天少喝兩、三罐啤酒，一個月可以省下多少錢？（同修乙：兩百英鎊。）輕而易舉就省下兩百英鎊！因為不只你一個人在喝酒，朋友會來，然後大家就一起喝酒，接著他回請你，你又回請他，於是越喝越多，事情總是這樣。不僅如此，喝酒還會傷身，你必須更常去看醫生，付很多醫藥費，保險金額也因而提高。你越常生病，保險費就越高。下次你想辦醫療保險時，他們會調查你多久去看醫生一次，病情有多重，然後提高你的保險費。

還不只這樣，萬一酒後發生意外，可能會斷送生命，或賠上你的手腳。套句英國人的說法：那會讓你的荷包嚴重「失血」（師父和同修笑）。如果你死了，故事到此就結束，那還好！如果你沒死，那你就必須永遠依賴別人生活，可能需要醫療、呼吸器或氧氣輔助設備來維生。你只能躺在那邊，成為家人和社會的負擔，讓每個人感到難過。

所以撇開打坐的利益不談，光是我的工作及教理就已經省去你們很多麻煩。即使你沒有打坐、看不到佛菩薩或沒有成佛，你也安全了。對你個人以及世界而言，你都是安全的公民。酒後駕車每天導致成千上萬的人喪命！世界各地每天都有很多人因酒後駕車而喪生，不只喝酒的駕駛會喪生，也會殃及周圍無辜的人，包括婦女、孩童、孕婦，任何人都有可能！這個你們都知道，是嗎？所以我們的教理對你們有好處，是不是？對我的教理有什麼要抱怨的嗎？（大眾笑）有的舉手，沒有嗎？很好！ 

生活小錦囊

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為了幫助我們更加明瞭所獲得的加持，並了解得到更多加持的方法以幫助自己和世界，清海無上師在一些場合透露了獲得某些特性的人生所需的靈性點數，以及高等眾生、大自然、動物和其他事物所賦予的靈性點數。她提醒我們：

和平需要代價。當全世界的意識提昇，和平就會來臨。所以，不要指責某某領袖或某某團體，全世界都同喜同悲。我們全體都有責任，我們全體都應被珍視，都應受到尊重和被疼愛。這是我們共有的家園。拜託，為了和平，也為了地球，我需要大家湊齊點數。

人身寶貴

我們都聽說人身寶貴。佛說，一隻烏龜從海底一路游上海面，恰巧遇到有個小洞的浮木經過，都比出生為人還更容易。這個故事你們也許有聽過了，但卻不了解人身有多寶貴。現在我用數學來解釋，這樣你們就知道多寶貴了。天堂確實會用點數來歸類。我們的人身真的非常、非常寶貴。

高等眾生、修行和大自然等等的加持

動物的加持

師父也慈愛地提醒我們，要對我們獲得源源不絕的加持，心存感激：

每次打坐時，每次記得的時候，就說：「謝謝，請加持我，感恩你的加持。」然後把加持力吸進來：「謝謝萬物，謝謝所有樹木、植物、地球、空氣、太陽、月亮、星星」、所有加持你的天神、天使、看得見或看不見的外星人，以及所有動物、野生動物…… 　

線上觀看清海無上師有關「如何獲得最多的加持」的訊息：
http://www.suprememastertv.com/tw/blessings/

清海無上師以英文講於英國舍瑞 2006.01.08

師父：我想將來所有政府制定的食品法規，都會採取類似現在防制菸害所使用的方法：在香菸盒上標示一些如「抽菸會致命」，或是「抽菸會危害健康，引發肺癌，縮短壽命」等警語。如果他們能在肉品上這麼做，很多人就不會再吃肉，那麼不久的將來，大家都會變成素食者了。

所以我建議那些領導者或政府機關，應該警告大眾肉食的危害，或至少強制規定在肉鋪放置一隻牛的屍體。要是能夠播映整個屠宰過程的影片那就更好，因為這樣一來，就可以讓消費者知道他們付錢買的究竟是什麼樣的東西了。否則我總覺得那像是在欺騙消費者，因為那些肉販只賣切好的肉給顧客，根本看不出原本動物的形狀。比方說，有時雞會整隻地賣，不過多數時候他們只賣半邊的雞或是肉塊，已經看不出來原來的模樣。顧客沒看到雞的頭是怎樣被活生生地剁掉，沒看到牛被單腳吊掛起來放血時，慢慢滴血到地面上的慘狀，也沒看到豬被

宰殺刺喉時，四隻腳還在掙扎亂踢的模樣，而且有時屠夫沒刺中要害，還得再刺一次！這些過程顧客都沒看到。還記得我那個節目—「真正的英雄」嗎？（DVD編號#760）

同修：喔！是的，那也是講這方面的事。而英國政府目前也正在推行公共場所全面禁菸。

師父：是，你們一定想不到，這還是愛爾蘭先發起的！你們相信嗎？一個酒館林立、喝酒人口眾多的國家，卻具備有充分的常識，決定在公共場所禁菸。而其他國家現在也開始慢慢跟進，已經有很多國家跟著做了。愛爾蘭太好了！這樣對那個國家很好。我真的為他們感到光榮，因為抽菸對誰都沒有好處，這一點大家很久以前就知道了。雖然香菸的包裝盒上標註有警告標語，不過還是有人照買來抽，所以乾脆在公共場所一律禁菸，這樣起碼能保護那些不抽菸的人。

不過有時情形還是很糟糕！就拿我下榻的旅館來說，雖然我住在禁菸的樓層，但我在浴室裡還是聞得到菸味。想不通為什麼隔壁的房客要躲在浴室內偷抽菸呢？有些人就是很不守規矩，因為我每天都聞到菸味。他們以為躲在浴室裡面抽就沒事了，可是菸味還是會飄到我的浴室來，因為他們打開抽風機，而旅館浴室的通風系統都是相通的。有時人們偏偏喜歡去禁菸區抽菸，純粹只是出於叛逆之類的心態。

因此，將來不但要禁菸，而且違法抽菸的人還應該要被罰款。比方說，任何乘客如果在飛機上的廁所抽菸的話，就得繳交2000美元罰款。每個地方都可以這麼做，包括飯店也是。如果被抓到，就得繳交罰款。應該強制施行這種政策，因為光靠宣導是不夠的，大眾並不怎麼遵守規矩，在道德上也不夠誠實。

此外，酒瓶也該貼上像是「喝酒會損害大腦，引發嚴重疾病」的警語，或至少要標示「酒會要人命」。酒真的會要人命！每年全世界都有成千上萬的人因酒醉駕駛而肇事死亡，這一點大家都知道。

不過酒駕喪生還不是最悲慘的情況，有些人寧可死掉，也不願一輩子殘廢，成為家庭和社會的負擔，讓自己和親朋好友痛苦、難過，那樣比死還難過。當然我們不希望任何人因喝酒而喪失性命，但是如果一個人已經斷手斷腳、神智不清，只能半死不活地躺在那裡，是不是生不如死？那會成為社會的負擔、納稅人的包袱，也會讓很多人悲傷。如果必須日以繼夜地照料一位這樣的病人，你們能想像他們家屬的心理壓力有多沈重嗎？那是不是比死還糟糕？

還有，對於那些父母因喝酒而出事的小孩來說，他們就像沒有父母一樣，甚至比孤兒還可憐。當這些小孩去學校，被大家問到父母的情況時，會覺得丟臉、尷尬和難過。那些家裡有人像植物人一樣躺在醫院或家裡的小孩，往往會有心理方面的創傷，因為小孩子不知道該如何向人解釋，於是其他小孩就會取笑他或是取笑他爸爸。你們能想像這些事嗎？那不是只有當事者死亡的問題而已。

我們並不希望看到有人因酒醉駕駛而死掉，不過由許多案例來看，那樣似乎還比殘活下來所遭遇的悲慘情況要好些。因為這種不幸事件的影響很深遠，不只是當事人受苦而已，連親朋好友也深受其害。光是談到這些事，就已經讓人很不舒服，更不用說如果是我們自己或家人遭遇到這種情況，會是多麼地痛苦。

所以我認為政府還沒有善盡職責。他們至少可以將每一樣危險的東西都貼上警語，讓小孩看得到。他們光只是禁止小孩喝酒，但是小孩根本不懂為什麼不能喝酒。如果小孩子拿起的每個酒瓶上面都寫著：「喝酒會損害大腦、降低智力，會減損對一切事物的判斷力。」至少小孩一看到警語，就會恍然大悟，明白為什麼不能喝酒。如果只是偶爾在電視或報紙上宣導，小孩不見得會剛好看到，電視也沒有每天播放這類廣告，讓小孩明白喝酒不好。大人只是用口頭告誡他們不要喝酒，你們也知道小孩子年輕氣盛，又很叛逆，你越是禁止他們喝酒，他們越是想盡辦法偷喝，像是自己去買來喝、去偷來喝，或是互相挑戰來喝，甚至闖進酒館偷酒喝。這樣反而造成反效果。他們為什麼不在酒瓶上貼標籤，或至少標示警語呢？讓小孩知道為什麼不能喝酒，就像在香菸盒上標示警語那樣，這麼一來，起碼會使一些小孩醒悟過來，或讓小孩從一開始就知道喝酒真的不好。

同修：師父，我認為政府並沒有全力禁菸，原因是他們擔心經濟會受到影響，因為香菸稅是一項很大的稅收來源。

師父：不過政府還是有努力，他們將警告標語標示在菸盒上。為什麼酒類不也這麼做？難道也是經濟考量嗎？政府還有很多方面可以課稅；只要不再打仗、不再花大筆金錢製造武器，那些經費就足以拿來餵飽全世界的人了。

所以政府應該將所有會危害人的東西，無論酒還是什麼，都貼上警告標語。因為身為國家的領導者，他們應該要這麼做。保護人民是他們的職責，不該等到人民生病或瀕臨死亡，才花很多納稅人的錢去醫治這些人，有時也沒辦法救治，已經為時已晚。就算最後這些病患治癒了，他們也飽受折磨，整個家庭跟著承受麻煩，以及情緒和心理的痛苦。

我真不懂全世界的領導人都在做些什麼、都在忙些什麼！他們應該處理這些基本問題：除了實施禁菸，違法的人也要處以罰鍰，就像犯法一樣。如果有人往別人背後捅一刀，兇手會被抓去坐牢，至少關上一陣子；同樣的，要是有人將煙吹到別人的鼻子裡，害人致癌或生病的話，這種人也應該坐牢或被罰款，這樣他們才不敢再那麼做。在別人面前抽菸是另一種行兇，也算是一種侵犯、傷害他人的行為。抽菸真的會傷害人體，就跟刺傷別人一樣，只不過受害者痛的方式不同，是那種慢性、無形的傷痛。每個人都知道二手菸對人體危害很大，會使很多人喪生、痛苦，讓成千上萬的民眾生病，造成國家社會福利系統的負擔。這點大家都知道，可是卻沒有人採取任何行動。

如果政府擔心因為警告人民不要買菸，或是因為香菸盒印製了警語導致人民減少買菸，造成經濟衰退，到頭來政府還是得把菸草業的稅金用在抽菸的受害者身上，支付他們的醫療費用，那又有什麼用？

同修：有相關研究報導指出，那種醫療費用更高。

師父：沒錯！首先，政府要花費更多的成本；其次，會造成民眾痛苦不堪。這不是只有錢的問題而已，抽菸會使人身體病痛，精神受苦，也會戕害全國人民的聰明才智。長久以來已經有許許多多的人由於抽菸、喝酒而導致腦部受損，這些人才原本可以投身建設國家，建設一個更祥和、更明智、更理性的世界。

大約一百年前，喝酒還是被明令禁止，而且是非法的，我不懂他們為何解除禁酒令。每個人都知道酒是穿腸毒藥，卻還依舊公開販售。雖然只有成年人可以買酒，可是如果家裡總是擺著一瓶威士忌，大人又成天喝酒，那如何禁止家裡的小孩喝酒？還有，當大人們跟朋友聚會，坐在岩石上或是其他地點，一邊喝酒，一邊愉快地聊天，一副很酷的樣子。這樣的畫面會讓小孩深信：喔！喝威士忌會讓人開心！

或是在某些浪漫的場合中，父母坐著一起喝威士忌或其他酒類。小孩看了心裡當然會想：「喔！想要羅曼蒂克，就要像爸爸媽媽這樣。」於是他會邀請女朋友來，遊說她一起喝酒，以為這樣才符合電影裡或家裡看到的羅曼蒂克畫面。

如果社會教導小孩一堆垃圾，卻又期望世界和平、井然有序，期望小孩乖巧聽話、頭腦聰明，畢業後當個好公民等等。但是當小孩看到大人這種壞榜樣時，又怎麼能倖存在這個世界上成為好公民？

所以我們一定要大聲疾呼，我們的話會造成影響。我們只管開口說，別人聽不聽隨他們，至少我們說出來了。本來就應該這麼做。如果不在酒瓶上印標語，至少餐廳裡也應該標示：「喝酒危害生命」。為什麼單單只禁菸而已？香菸造成的傷亡並沒有酒類多，酒精造成的影響甚至比香菸的影響更快速。如果有人喝醉了出門，被別人激怒，他們會大打出手、互相殘殺，甚至將對方刺成重傷。喝酒的後果是那麼立即可見，為什麼不在酒瓶上貼上警告標語？我實在不懂。

此外，酒精會損害人的腦部，這是每個人都知道的事。而且腦部一旦受損就無法修復，除非是喝很少量的酒，而且接著很長一段時間都不再喝酒，那麼腦部受損的區域才有時間復原，但也不是永久復原。如果你不停地傷害它，它就回復不了。如果你喝烈酒的話，那麼你的頭腦就永久毀損了。無論酒精進入哪個部位，都會損壞那個區域，腦神經一旦受損就無法復原了，這是許多人都知道的事實。現代人有電視可看，有報紙可讀，不能說你不知道這些知識，所以為何不將警告標語印在酒瓶上呢？

以後連肉鋪裡會危害人類的東西，也應該貼上警語，在每一小塊肉包裝上標示：「你以吃屍體維生！」、「為了你今天一頓飯，某些生命被殘忍地殺害。」這麼一來，至少顧客會先明瞭，再作選擇。而且還要將死牛或牛隻被殘殺的照片貼滿肉鋪的牆上，至少讓民眾知道自己正在掏錢買什麼。如果做買賣是靠矇騙顧客上門來購買，那就像詐欺一樣，一點也不誠實。

同修：有時肉看起來並不像肉，因為它們被做成火腿或香腸之類的東西，所以小孩嘴裡吃著香腸，卻不知道香腸是什麼東西做的。

師父：對，他們不知道。我認識一個人，他有個四歲大的姪子一點都不愛吃肉，只喜歡不含肉的東西。但是他父母卻一直強迫他吃肉，有時甚至害他生病。所以我告訴我那位朋友，應該說服那對父母讓小孩自己作選擇。之後的情形如何，我就不知道了，但至少我已經盡力了。

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我們無法說服全世界的人都不吃肉，不過至少要儘量告知周遭的人，儘可能去做。如果我們一起努力，一定會有結果。我們可以透過電視、廣播電台、小冊子或傳單來宣傳，隨時隨地呼籲大眾：「成為一位素食者吧！至少今天吃素，可以拯救一條無辜的生命。」把牛被單腳倒掛在天花板的圖片印在傳單上，把它印出來，讓人們看看牛是如何被殘殺的。

同修：師父，英國素食協會已經在這方面下了很多功夫。他們有特別為學校設計些活動，同時也製作了上面印有動物臉的T恤。

師父：是，我知道。要印就應該印牛被倒掛在天花板，屠夫在一旁拿刀的圖片，這比長篇大論更有力量。我希望這樣能真正撼動一些人的心，讓他們採取一些行動。即使人們不聽我們的勸告，以致於挽救不了他們的靈性，那至少我們可以拯救一些可憐的動物。

我們還應該做些什麼來淨化這個星球呢？我們可以在校園裡張貼些警告標語，到處貼些像是「毒品會致命」、「毒品有害心智」、「吸毒會使你上癮而無法自拔」、「吸毒使人傾家蕩產及性無能」之類的標語，這些都是千真萬確的事！我們為何不宣導這些事情呢？這些都是事實。吸毒會使人軟弱沉迷，臉色蒼白難看，又臭又老又病，為何不在校園裡宣傳這些事實呢？不要光在那邊說「禁止吸毒」，應該要全盤解釋清楚，因為學童的課業繁重，並不是每個小孩都會讀到全部的訊息。如果老師沒有說明清楚，或只提一兩次的話，還是不夠的。

我們應該到處張貼關於毒品、酒精以及肉食害處的標語，例如「為了你今天的晚餐謀殺了一條生命」，把這個標語印在每盒牛肉或豬肉上，看看有多少人還會想買肉，讓人們去想想看。殺害人命叫做謀殺，殺害動物也同樣是謀殺！動物牠們只是四處走動，對你無害，但你卻跑去把牠殺了，那就是蓄意謀殺，要不然該怎麼說呢？所以我們應該說：「為了你餐桌上的這塊肉，一條生命被謀害了。」看看大家會怎麼想。

將來如果所有政府都能確實盡責，更有道德、更堅定，而非只為經濟擔憂操心的話，世界會越來越乾淨。因為把收來的稅拿去支付病患醫療費用的話，怎麼算都划不來。這些東西會讓許多人受苦，不單是在治療過程中要受苦，有些人甚至根本治不好，即使讓他們服用再多的藥，接受最先進的儀器治療，還是無法康復。這樣倒不如根本就不要賣香菸，或在菸酒上面標示警語，這麼一來患病的人就會減少，我們也不必去支付那些醫療費用了。這些醫療的開銷遠比稅收來得高，豈不是在做虧本生意嗎？任何明智的政府都應該好好精打細算，就會知道怎麼做才合乎經濟效益。此外，警告大眾和保護人民本來就是政府的職責所在，他們有義務照顧人民的健康和安全。

有太多好事你們可以效法，你們可以從我做事的榜樣，過去的事蹟及教理中去找。我從不禁止你們做什麼，你們可以戴高級珠寶，我甚至還為你們設計天飾。有慶祝會時，你們也可以穿漂亮的服飾。我們並不常需要那些東西，但是想要的話也可以，如果不必要就不用，我們怎樣都自在。我們的美麗是由內向外散發出來，所以根本不需要穿華麗衣服讓自己好看，但是如果有人想要穿，我也不禁止。我不想讓你們當個苦行僧，只要記得吃素就好，這是為了長養慈悲心。只要你內在越美，外在各方面也會越美，你的穿著品味也會更好，一切都會一天比一天更好。

很久以前，譬如在中國，很多國王本身就是靈性導師，像堯、舜都是明師，而且他們都愛民如子。那個時代夜不閉戶，人民也不用繳稅給國王，完全不必為國王做任何事，一個社會理當如是。

所以每個政府都應該頒獎給我們、嘉許我們：「你們做得很好，是在幫助政府！」何況我們還是義務做的，他們不需要付錢給我們。因為每個政府都需付錢請警察或軍隊來防制犯罪和保護人民，而我們正是做同樣的事，而且不支領薪水呢！我們不會跟警察發生衝突，沒有傷害任何人，更沒有任何武器去傷人，所以怎麼可能是壞人呢？怎麼會有政府不懂這個道理？可見這個世界還是很落後。當然上帝是不會記恨的，祂還是一直在幫忙把每個人都提昇上去！

不妨想想，要是每個人都跟我們一樣，即使他們不吃素，那就先從不喝酒、不碰毒品及不抽菸開始，如此一來，他們會變得更神清氣爽、身體健康，還可以省下很多錢。人人都會更快樂，擁有好的房子及車子，身體健康，家庭安樂，同時也為孩子們樹立一個良好的榜樣。如果我們能戒除酒、肉和菸，家庭會更和樂，學校環境也會更好。

由此可知，淨化生活真的會產生很大的效應，它會影響到每一件事，不僅是個人或家庭，還會影響整個社會，這也是為什麼我認為世人都應該這麼做的原因。只要他們依照我們的榜樣去做，不必來跟我學打坐，也不必全都成為聖人；我可以不用去教他們，他們也不必來找我，只要淨化他們自己的生活就足夠了。他們可以向上帝或其他對象禱告，不過他們的美德及良好的生活方式自然會影響全世界，整個世界都會成為天堂，根本不需要我。

怎麼世人都沒有發現這一點？為何沒有更多國家領導人努力推行這種純淨的生活方式，建立一個人人都會快樂和平的天堂呢？如果他們真心想要照顧同胞，就該那樣做，至少要努力去推行，樹立典範。因為那正是當權者該做的事，他們有能力改變整個世界的！身為一國的領導人，至少也可以改變自己的國家。只要一步一步來，就會很容易。我們不妨也開始擘劃一個風氣純淨的社會，以及每個政府都應該要推行的事情，也許這樣的夢想會成真，事實上已經開始了。

我認為問題的根源還是在酒、菸和毒品，從那裡一切事情都變壞，因為人一旦失去理智，什麼事都做得出來。在佛陀的時代有個故事，那時有人教導民眾要持戒：不殺生、不偷盜、不邪淫、不妄語及不喝酒，不過有個人說他除了「不喝酒」之外，其他四個戒律都可以持守。結果他喝酒之後，就跑去殺人，殺人之後又說謊，接連做盡各種壞事，這一切都只因為他喝醉酒。酩酊大醉以後，要是有誰擋他的路，他就殺那個人，要是有人想勸阻他的話，他也將對方殺掉。因為那時他已經無法控制自己，不知道自己在做什麼。

所以我衷心希望將來所有政府都能這麼做：首先將有關酒精危害的警語張貼在每一家賣酒的商店裡，接下來印製有關肉類和魚類的警語，像是：「有些生命因為你而被謀殺了」，起碼要向大眾宣導這些事實，讓人們能有所選擇。因為人們也許不知道這些實情，他們知道自己是在吃肉，可是因為長久以來每天都這麼吃，所以也不會多想什麼。多數的民眾都沒被好好教導，他們只知道那些「優良」肉品和烈酒等的廣告，那些全都是騙人的！所以如果讓大家知道這正是他們的選擇時，他們可能就會去思考。你們不必強力推行，非得要別人吃素不可，只要讓大眾知道為什麼要吃素，讓他們知道還有另一種選擇，可以不用殺生就可以活下去，大眾自己就會決定，他們知道那將是比較明智的選擇，不過前提是必須讓大眾有足夠的知識來作選擇。

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Governments Should
Educate Citizens to the Hazards
of Meat, Alcohol and Tobacco

M: In the future, I think the governments of all countries will do something similar with food to what is being done now with cigarettes, where a warning is printed on the outside of the package saying things like "Cigarettes can kill" or "Cigarettes cause lung cancer and shorten your life." If they do that, then many people will stop eating meat and all will be vegetarian in the near future.

So I suggest that the leaders, organizations or governments should warn people or at least make it compulsory to put something like a dead cow inside the shop. Or have a film running with the whole picture of the butchering process; that would be even better, to let people know what it is that they're getting and what they're actually paying for.

Otherwise, I feel like it's a lie to just sell a person a piece of meat that doesn't have a form anymore. For example, chicken is sometimes sold whole, but most of the time they just sell half of it or pieces that don't look like anything. You don't see the way they chop off the head of the chicken while it's alive. You don't see the way they hang the cow from one leg and let the blood drip one drop at a time to the floor. You don't see the way they cut the pig's throat while he's still kicking and that they sometimes miss and have to cut again. People don't see that. Remember I have a show called The Real Heroes? (DVD #760)

D: Oh yes, that was about this very subject. The British government is also currently trying to ban smoking in public places.

M: Yes. Surprisingly, Ireland did it first. Can you believe that? This is a country with a lot of pubs and people who drink, but they still had enough common sense to do that. Other countries are also moving slowly now, with many more that have already followed suit. Bravo, Ireland! Good for that country. I really feel very proud of that because smoking is no good for anyone; that's been known for a long time. It's OK to put warnings on the packets, but people still buy them. So banning smoking in public areas at least protects the ones who don't smoke.

But it's still terrible sometimes. For example, in my hotel, I stay on a non-smoking floor. But I still smell smoke in the bathroom. Why do the next-door guests sneak in and smoke? They don't have much respect because every day it's like that. People might think that if they go into the bathroom it's good enough, but then the smoke still flies into my bathroom because they turn on their fan and the rooms are connected with each other. And sometimes people actually like going into a non-smoking room to smoke. They just feel rebellious or something.

So you not only have to ban it, but also impose a penalty. For example, if you smoke in the lavatory of an airplane, the penalty is $2,000. This could go for everywhere, even in hotels. If you're caught you should pay the penalty. That's the way it should be reinforced because just talking is not enough. People are not that disciplined or morally honest.

Also, they should put a label on alcohol like, "Alcohol can damage your brain and cause considerable illness" or at least "Alcohol kills." It does kill! Drinking and driving kill many hundreds of thousands of people every year around the world. Everyone knows that.

Even so, being killed isn't the worst thing. Some people would rather die than be maimed for life, which creates a burden for the family and society and causes suffering and sorrow for the individual and the people concerned. That's even worse than death. Of course, we don't want anyone to die like that, but wouldn't it be worse if you had already lost your arms, legs or brain but had to lie there because you couldn't die and couldn't live? That's a burden for society and the taxpayer's money. And it causes a lot of sorrow. But if you have to nurse a person like this day in and day out, can you imagine how much psychological strain that will put on the family members? Isn't that worse than death?

And then, for the children whose father or mother is affected, it's just like having none, or worse than having none. They go to school and everyone asks them and they feel bad, embarrassed and sad. So there's psychological damage to the child whose father is lying in the hospital or in the house like a vegetable. Kids don't know how to explain and then other kids make fun of them, or make fun of the father. Can you imagine these things? So it's not just about dying.

We don't support death by being killed in drunken driving accidents, but in many cases it's still better than the alternative because the effect is immense, not only for the victim; it's also terrible for the family and friends. Even talking about it already makes us feel bad, to say nothing of the situation if we or our family members are the ones who have to suffer it.

So I think that the governments haven't done the best they can. They can label every dangerous thing at least for the kids to read. Now they ban kids by saying, "Don't drink alcohol," but the child doesn't understand why. If every bottle he picked up said, "Damages your brain," or "Reduces your intelligence" or "Impairs your judgment in every way," at least the kid could read it and say, "OK, that's why." If it's just mentioned on television or printed in the newspaper once, he won't read it. And they don't run these ads every day on television for the kids to see that alcohol is bad. They just tell our kids, "Don't drink." And you know kids: They're strong and rebellious. When you say no, they sneak and do it some other way, like they try to do it themselves or steal it or dare each other to do it. Or they'll break into the pub to get it. It's no good. Why don't they put a label or at least a warning on it? Tell them why, just like they do for cigarettes. At least some people have come to their senses, or the kids know from the beginning that it's really bad.

D:Master, I think the government doesn't really try 100%; they're worried about the economics because the cigarette tax is a big source of income.

M: But they did try; they put a warning on the cigarettes. Why don't they do that with alcohol? Is it economics again? The government can get tax revenue in many other ways. If you stop making war and don't produce any more weapons that cost a lot of money, you can feed the whole world free of charge.

So the government should put a warning on everything that kills, be it liquor or anything. That's what they should do because they're the leaders of the nation. They are obliged to protect the people instead of waiting until people are sick or dying and then get a lot of taxpayer's money to try to cure them, which sometimes is not even possible because by then it's too late. And even if they manage to cure the illness, the patient has already gone through a lot of suffering and the family has undergone a lot of trouble and emotional and psychological pain.

So I don't know what all the leaders of the world are doing, what they're busy with. They should take care of the root problem: Ban cigarettes and also impose a penalty if the people break it, just like breaking the law. If someone stabs someone else in the back, they put him in jail at least for a while. So if someone blows smoke into your nose and causes you slow cancer or sickness, they should also go to jail, or at least face a penalty so that the person stops it. It's a different kind of killing, a different molestation with different harm. But it's still really physical. It's like stabbing someone but just different because it's invisible, slow pain. Everyone knows that second-hand smoke is also very bad. It kills a lot of people, inflicts a lot of pain, makes a lot of people sick and strains the national social security system. Everyone knows that, but they don't do anything.

What's the use of worrying about the economic setback of warning people not to buy cigarettes or worrying that people will buy fewer cigarettes if you provide a warning, when you use the income from the cigarette tax and pay it back to the patients anyway?

D: There's research saying it's more expensive.

M: Yes, it's more expensive, number one. Number two, it inflicts a lot of pain. It's not just the money! It causes a lot of physical pain as well as emotional pain, and it damages the nation's intelligence. There are so many brains out there that have been damaged by smoking and alcohol, when we could use that to build the nation, to build a more peaceful, more intelligent and more reasonable world.

Before, around a hundred years ago or so, alcohol was banned and was forbidden to drink. I don't know why they let that go. Everyone knows it is poison but they still allow it to be bought openly. They say that only adults can buy alcohol, but how do you keep your children from drinking it at home when you have a bottle of whisky and you're hanging around all day drinking. Or some day you're sitting with your friend and it looks so cool, on the rocks or whatever, and talk happily together and drink. And that creates a very strong picture for the kids to think, "Oh, whisky makes you happy."

Or when there's a romantic occasion, you sit together and drink whisky or drink some kind of alcohol and the kids say, "If I want to be romantic I have to do the same as Mom and Dad." And then you invite a girlfriend to come around and you talk her into drinking alcohol together so as to fit in with the picture of romance that you see in films or in your house.

If the society is teaching these garbages and yet expects the world to be orderly and peaceful and the children to be obedient, nice and intelligent, and to graduate and be good citizens. How can kids survive in this world to become good citizens when they see the bad examples we adults show them?

So we have to speak up. And your word does make a difference. You just have to say it. People can take it or not take it, but at least you say it. That's the way it should be. If not on the label itself at least in the restaurant it should say, "Alcohol kills." Why confine it to just cigarettes? Cigarettes kill even less than alcohol. Alcohol even has a more immediate effect. Someone gets drunk, he goes out and someone else just provokes him. So they fight and then they kill each other or they're stabbed or wounded so that they damage each other's bodies. It's even more immediate. So why not put the warning on the alcohol bottle? I don't understand this.

Also, it damages your brain; everyone knows that. And the brain doesn't grow back. If you drink very little alcohol and you haven't had any at all for a span of time, then it gives that brain-damaged area time to grow back, but it won't grow back forever. If you keep killing it, it won't grow again. And if you drink very strong alcohol, you become brain-damaged forever. Whatever part it goes into becomes damaged and the nerves won't grow back. Many people know that. Nowadays, if you watch TV or read newspapers, you can't say you don't know. So why not put a warning label on alcohol bottles.

Then later, you also have to put it in meat shops, on everything that kills. Every piece of meat should have printed on it, "You are living on dead bodies," or "Some being has been killed brutally for your meal today." Then at least the person buying knows it and they have a choice. They should also put pictures of dead or brutally murdered cows all over the walls of the butcher shop. Then at least the consumers know what they're paying for. It's not an honest job to sell something and then blindfold the people who buy it. That's like cheating; it isn't honest.

D: Sometimes a piece of meat doesn't really look like meat; they make it like ham or sausage and the children just eat the sausage but they don't know where it comes from.

M: Yes, they don't know. I know one person who had a nephew only four years old who didn't like meat at all. He liked only things without meat, but the parents kept forcing him to eat it. Sometimes he even got sick so I said to that friend, "You have to convince the parents to let him make a choice." I don't know what has happened since then, but I tried my best.

Increasing public awareness can create a paradise on earth
So you cannot tell everyone in the world, but tell whomever you can. Do your best. If we all try together, it will bear fruit. Air it on TV, radio, in pamphlets, leaflets and everywhere: "Be a vegetarian. At least today, save one innocent life." And print a leaflet with a cow hanging on the ceiling from one leg. Print that one; let them have a look at how they kill cows.

D: Master, the Vegetarian Society in the UK does quite a lot of work on that. They have special programs for the schools and a T-shirt with a face.

M: Yes, I know. So just print a picture with a cow hanging from the ceiling and the butcher with a knife; that will be worth more than a thousand words. That will really hit someone, I hope, and do something. If you can't rescue them spiritually because the humans won't listen, at least rescue some poor animals.

What else should we do to clean up the planet? Place warnings in the schools as well. Put signs everywhere that say things like "Drugs kill," "Drugs make you less intelligent," "Drugs make you addicted and dependent," "Drugs deplete your money and impair your sexual function." They do! So why don't we just say all these things? It's really true. Drugs make you weak and dependent and pale and bad-looking and smelly and old and sick. Why don't they write all those things in the schools? Don't just say, "Ban drugs." We have to explain all this as well because not every kid can read all about it; they're too busy learning in school. And if the teacher doesn't say anything, or only says it once or twice, it's not enough.

You have to put slogans and things like that everywhere: about drugs, about alcohol and about meat, saying, "A living being has been murdered for your dinner today." Put that on a piece of beef or pork and see how many people still want to buy it. Let them think. Because to kill a person is called murder and to kill an animal is also murder. If the animal just runs around doing no harm to you and you go and kill it, that's deliberate murder. What else could it be? So we should say, "Someone has been murdered for this piece of meat in your meal." And then see what they think about that.

In the future, the world will get cleaner if the governments really do their job, if they have more morals and are stronger instead of just worrying about the economy. Because it's bad calculation if you collect taxes but then have to pay for the patients. And you inflict suffering, not just the pain of getting better since many people don't get better. Even if you give them a lot of medicine and treat them with the best equipment, they don't recover. So instead of that, just don't sell cigarettes or put something on the cigarettes and alcohol so that fewer people get sick. Then we won't have to pay for their medical bills, which costs even more than the taxes we take in. It's a loss of business, no? So any intelligent government should calculate and then they'll know what makes even the best business sense. Besides, warning people and protecting them is really the government's job. It's their duty to take care of the people's health and safety.

There are so many things that are good for you to follow: in my example, my footsteps and my teachings. And I don't even forbid you anything. You can wear nice jewelry, which I even design for you. You can wear nice clothes when we have a party. We don't always need that, but we can do it if we want to. If we don't have to, we don't need to. We're comfortable as we are. We're beautiful inside out. So we don't even need to wear certain clothes to look good, but if you want to I don't forbid you anything. I don't make you become an ascetic, only vegetarian because of compassion. The more beautiful you are inside, the more beautiful you are outside anyway. Your taste in clothing and everything is getting better each day.

In the very old times, for example in China, the king was the spiritual Master, like King Yao and King Shun were Masters, and the kings took care of the people as if they were their own children. The people at that time didn't even need to lock their doors and they didn't pay taxes to the king. They didn't need to do anything for the king at all, and that's the way it should be.

So, the governments should give us an award: "You're doing good. You're helping us." We're even free of charge; they don't have to pay us! Because the government has to pay the police or army to suppress the criminals and protect the people. We're doing just that without getting paid, without clashing with the police, without harming anyone, without having any weapons to harm anyone to begin with. So how can we be bad? How can any government not recognize this? The affairs of this world are still backward but of course God doesn't hold a grudge against anyone; Hes is still helping everyone to go up, up, up.

Otherwise, imagine if everyone did what we do. Even if they didn't eat vegetarian, maybe just no alcohol, no drugs and no cigarettes to begin with, we'd be cleaner, healthier and save a lot of money. And everyone would be happier; they could have a good house, good car, good health and good family and this would set a good example for the children in the schools. If we take away the alcohol, meat and cigarettes, the family will already be much better and school will be a better place.

So the effect of a clean life is really big; it does affect everything, not just one person or one family; it affects the whole society. That's why I think the world should do this. If people just follow our example, they don't even need to study meditation with me or all become saints. I don't need to teach them, and they don't need to come see me. All they have to do is live a clean life. They can pray to God or pray to whomever they want, but their virtues, their good life will affect the whole world, and the whole world will become a paradise with no need of me.

Why doesn't the world see this? Why don't more leaders of nations reinforce this kind of clean living, this happy, peaceful Heaven for everyone? If they really want to take care of their families, then that's the way. At least reinforce it, set an example because that's what you have power for: You can change the world, or if you're the leader of a nation you can at least change your nation.

Just do it step by step and it will be easy. Meanwhile, we can hope and dream about a clean society and the things that the governments of the world should do and perhaps will do. It's already beginning.

Because I still think the root of the problem is drinking, smoking and drugs. From there, everything goes bad. Once you lose your mind, you might do anything. There's a story from the Buddha's time where someone said to a man, "OK, you have to keep all the Precepts: Don't kill. Don't steal. Don't commit adultery. Don't tell lies. And don't drink." And the man said, "I can keep the first four, but the 'Don't drink' I can't." And then he drank, and he killed, and then told lies, and all kinds of things happened because he drank and got drunk. When he was drunk, if anyone got in his way he just killed them. If they tried to stop him, he would just kill because he had already lost control; he didn't know what he was doing anymore.

So I just hope that in the future all governments will do that. First, write warnings about alcohol and post them in every alcohol shop. Next, write meat or fish warnings that say, "Some being has just been murdered for you" at least to tell them the truth, to tell people so they have a choice because the people may not know. They know that they eat meat, but they've been eating it every day so they don't even think. The majority of people aren't taught by anyone and so they only know about the advertised "good" meat and strong alcohol and so on. It's all lies. So, if you make them understand that this is a choice they make, then they might think. You don't have to be forceful and say, "You have to be vegetarian." Just give people knowledge about why they should be vegetarian--"There is an alternative. You don't have to kill to stay alive." Then the person can choose because they know it's a wise choice, but they have to have the knowledge to choose it.

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修行等級越高，智商也會越高，所以我們同修之中，有人的智商是天才。智商達到150或是140就算是天才了，我們團體中有很多這種人！不過外表有時候會騙人，有些人看起來笨笨的，但其實很聰明；有些人長得一副聰明相，卻剛好相反。

因為隨著你的修行等級越高，智商也會越高，智商會隨著開悟而提高。你們有沒有想過為什麼愛因斯坦那麼聰明？他是一位素食者，為什麼呢？他一定是修了某種法門，不然為什麼吃素？何況在他的時代，很少人知道什麼是素食！因此，愛因斯坦吃素一定是因為他有跟一些瑜伽行者學打坐，所以他的智商才變高。在那個時候，修行是很稀有的事，很少人知道瑜伽是什麼，也很少人打坐或吃素，像愛因斯坦這樣算是極少數，所以他的智商當然很高。要是我把你們送回那個年代，你們全會變成愛因斯坦，因為就那個時代來說，你們太聰明了。

你們全都是愛因斯坦：有的是大愛因斯坦，有的是小愛因斯坦，或是迷你愛因斯坦！這是因為你們的智商已隨著修行而提高。靈性的提昇會打通所有的管道，清除靈體、身體脈絡的阻塞。你體內的血液循環會更順暢，訊息傳遞更迅捷，看事情也會看得更清楚。你的等級越高，溝通管道就越暢通，可以從大腦接收更多的訊息和更正確的指示。否則，即使你的大腦夠聰明，指示你該怎麼做，但你還是會笨手笨腳，因為身體阻塞不通（師父指她的上手臂），只有一點點訊息傳得過去，所以你才會事倍功半。可見靈性上的阻塞也會影響身體運作的明確度。

如果沒有修行，就不會那麼聰明，即使小時候很聰明，長大以後因為吃肉、喝酒，或受到環境的不良影響，智商也會變低。所以我們修行不只是為了上天堂，我們在這個世界就能善用修行的成果，因為我們比較聰明，可以幫助別人，能成為領導者。當別人束手無策時，我們出來說：「啊！這個簡單！」結果兩分鐘內就想出解決辦法，別人想不到你看起來這麼年輕，竟然那麼聰明。

當你遇到情況考驗時，就會知道自己有多聰明，平時是不會知道的。你修行以後慢慢進步，因為你本來不聰明，所以你以為自己還是像以前一樣笨（大眾笑）。等到有情況考驗，你就會知道：「喔！原來我的智商有增加了一點。」如果你沒遇到考驗也沒關係，但是你越有不同的情況考驗，越會了解自己現在真的很聰明。你們真的很聰明！不是那種奸詐的小聰明，而是真正有智慧。你會覺得很自豪，知道修行真的有用，連家人和同事都會好奇說：「這是怎麼回事？你跟以前不一樣！到底發生什麼事？」

只是你所處的環境不一定會遇到考驗，四周的人也不一定以前就認識你，能看得出你的轉變。如果你是獨自工作生活的話，當然沒有人會留意到，自己更想不到。不過，如果你碰巧和別人有往來，就會知道自己真的不一樣了，因為別人也會注意到。他們不了解其中的原因，但是知道你真的不一樣，成長了，你現在有某種特質，是他們沒有而且不了解的。

所以說，即使你們在這裡只算小地瓜（大眾笑），但我知道你們在外面很出色。別以為我不知道，我很尊重這一點，我真的很尊重你們的成就，但我不想讓你們停在那裡。所以每次你們來這裡，我會用推的、用踢的、拉你們、磨你們，讓你們進步，等到你們回家以後就知道不一樣。就算我責備你們，也不要看輕自己，那只是訓練的過程而已。你們還是徒弟，所以犯錯是可以容許的，要不然你們就變成師父了。 ♥

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Progressing Spiritually Elevates the IQ

The higher one’s spiritual level, the higher one’s IQ will be. So among us, we have people with genius IQs. Because 150 or even 140 is a genius IQ, and we have lots of those! But appearances are sometimes deceiving. Some people look stupid but they’re not, while others look smart but they’re not.

Because the more spiritually elevated you become, the higher the IQ you will have. One goes with the other. Have you ever wondered why Einstein was so smart? He was a vegetarian, but why? He must have practiced something; otherwise, why would such a person be a vegetarian? At that time, very few people even knew what a vegetarian was!

So, the only reason Einstein ate vegetarian must have been that he was in touch with some yogis and practiced spiritual meditation, and so his IQ went up; because at that time such things were very remote. Few people knew what yoga was; few meditated and few were vegetarian. So, Einstein was one of the very few. Of course his IQ was high! If I threw you back into that era, you would all be Einsteins because you’d be too smart for that time.

You are all Einsteins: big Einsteins, small Einsteins, mini-Einsteins! Because your IQ has gone up together with your spiritual practice. So the spiritual level opens up all the channels. It cleans out all the clogging up from inside your spiritual ‘arteries’ and even your physical veins; it makes the blood flow better and the information travel better. Everything is clearer.

The higher you go, the clearer the channels become. So you get more information and even more correct instructions from the brain. Otherwise, even if the brain is smart and tells you what to do, your hands may be clumsy. The blockage is here (Master points to Her upper arm) and only a little bit of information seeps through. So you do only half as well. Spiritual blockage thus also influences physical clarity.

So, if people don’t practice spiritually, they become less intelligent. Even though they may have been intelligent when they were younger, if they grow up and ruin themselves with meat, alcohol or things from this damaging environment, they become less smart. So it’s not that we practice spiritually just to go to Heaven. While we’re on this planet, we can already make use of it. We can help others because we’re smarter; we become leaders. Then when someone doesn’t know what to do, you come along and say, “That thing is easy!” And within two minutes, you’ve already offered a solution. And that person was thinking, “You look so young! How could you be so smart?”

If you have a situation that tests you, you’ll know you’re smart. Because most of the time you don’t know. You practice and you grow slowly, and because you were stupid before you think you might still be stupid. (Laughter) But when the situation comes to test you, you realize, “Hey, I have gone up a little in IQ!”

It’s OK if you’re not tested, but the more you’re tested in different situations, the more you realize that you’re really smart now. You are really smart! Not like crafty smart, but truly intelligent. And then you feel proud; you know that spiritual practice really works. Even your family members and coworkers will be left wondering. They might say, “What happened to you? Something is changed! What did you do?”

You might not be in an environment where you can be tested or where people can see you or feel the difference in you because they’ve been with you for some time and they can tell the difference. So if you work alone or live alone, of course, no one knows or notices and then you also don’t think about it. But if you happen to rub shoulders with other people, then you know you are really different. Because they also know you are different! They don’t know how or why, but they do know that you are different, that you’ve grown in some way and that you have something now that they don’t understand and they don’t have.

So, even though you’re small potatoes here, (laughter) I know you are something outside. Don’t think I don’t know it; I do respect that and I do respect your accomplishments. But I don’t want you to stop there! Every time you come here, I push you, I kick you, I pull you and I scrub you to make you better. And then when you go back home the next time, you are different! Don’t think so little of yourself, even if I reprimand you. It’s just a process that you’re going through. You are allowed to make mistakes, of course. You are disciples! Otherwise, you would have been Masters.   ♥

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清海無上師以英文講於美國華府國際禪四
1997.12.27 （影帶編號#610）

 

我們修觀音法門的人，不用唸珠、石頭、香、蠟燭這些外在的東西，以免被這個世界的外相所吸引。因為這個世界的東西雖然美，但是會讓我們分心，所以要儘量避免。

我們可以享受這個世界，享受上帝為我們創造的所有美好事物，但應該看時候，至少在打坐時要統統放下，才能更專心往內集中。只有專心往內，我們才能得到解脫、快樂與和平。

當然，修行一段時間之後，等我們達到較高的意識等級，即使是在工作中或做任何事情，比方說專心賞花，一樣都可以入定，可以看到內邊的真實世界，這種情況又不一樣。有的人的確達到這種等級，有的人則要比較久的時間才能達到，所以要有耐心。

為了記得上帝，我們要減少各種外在的引誘、儀式，儘量避免倚賴外在的器具，因為我們已經太執著外在的世界，注意力太往外分散了，所以要儘可能隨時把注意力拉回內邊。在古代，很多人為了專心修行、忘卻塵世的誘惑，跑到山上去或閉門隱居。如果我們的情況需要的話，這樣做的確有幫助。

你們都很清楚，比如說，有時候你們聽到一首很美的歌，或是一篇精采的詩歌吟誦，感覺很喜歡，那首歌就會一直在腦海裡縈繞不去。如果那首詩或那首歌本身很高雅、很有靈性意味，或是在某方面對你有幫助，那還好。如果那首歌很憂傷，你想擺脫它就傷腦筋了！因為你越不喜歡的東西，越是在腦海裡揮之不去，尤其如果吟唱的人嗓音很好聽，在你腦海裡留下深刻的印象，那就更難忘記了。然後打坐的時候，就忘了念五佛號，就算是「五百佛號」也忘得一乾二淨！（大眾笑）然後待會兒突然回過神來，心想：「天啊，我在幹什麼？」然後想辦法擺脫那個印象，再繼續念佛號。這樣也算還好。

所以，就連外在的音樂、戲劇、電影等等，各種東西都會干擾我們，想把我們拉回這個比較低等的物質世界。我們如果不盡全力控制這個心猿意馬的頭腦，很難進入最高等的天國

編號：945 日期：2010.12.15 地點：墨西哥坎昆 性質：共修 用語：英文＋西語口譯

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編號：923 (2片裝) 日期：2010.12.09, 12.16 地點：墨西哥坎昆 性質：共修 用語：英文

字幕：英、簡體中文、正體中文、悠樂、韓、日、蒙古、印尼、馬來、泰、印度、旁遮普、波斯、阿拉伯、俄、波蘭、保加利亞、匈牙利、克羅埃西亞、捷克、德、法、義、西班牙、葡 (25種)

時時都要無私，永遠無條件奉獻。不管任何情況，絕不要想為自己謀利，這樣你獲得的反而會比你期望的更多。永遠要無私與無條件奉獻，這就是宇宙運作的方式。如果你想要太陽加持你，那就要記得太陽的品質；祂總是給予，從不要求任何回報。月亮、星星、樹木、空氣，從不要求什麼。這樣我們才能提昇自己的意識，才能加持別人，如果我們能夠無私、無條件奉獻的話。沒有「我」在給什麼，沒有「我」在拿什麼，那樣最好。如果你還想得到，即使是我的加持，你的等級還很低。順其自然就好了。該是你的，自然會得到，自然得到的就拿。不要試圖去抓任何東西，這樣對方會感覺很不舒服，對你也不好，非常不好。我的意思是，這種個性已經很不好，更別說靈性加持或等級了。

只要平常心、有智慧、永遠無條件奉獻，像太陽、月亮、天空一樣，寬大、崇高、無限，那麼你就會成為那樣。別叫我加持你，要自己加持自己，用所有這些高貴的品質、無邊的愛力加持自己。不要那麼狹隘，不要當一個乞丐。因為你會獲得加持的，你隨時都得到加持，24小時、25小時，永遠不用擔心沒得到加持。就算你沒見到師父，你也會得到加持，因為師父知道你在做什麼。不要強求，不要總是想在師父面前亮來亮去，為了得到更多加持。那樣不對，反而得不到加持；就算有，也很少，比起你不那樣做，只是一心一意做你的工作，所得到的要少很多。

我們在這裡只有一個目的，就是要幫助世界，一起執行我們的任務。不過如果你只想為自己謀利，那就已經把自己排除在我們團體之外，背離了我們的原則。比方說，如果你被分配做什麼，那就去做。我們很高雅，我們是上帝，我們不會謀取私利。不是因為我嚴格，而是我希望你們展現自己上帝的品質。我不要你們成為這種卑下的小偷或乞丐，即使是為了靈性加持。你一定會被加持的，尤其是當你不強求時。

你時時都受到加持，得到來自遠方、太陽、萬物的加持。就算沒被加持，那又怎樣？你已經有觀音法門了，你自己加持自己。我們是一體的，不必乞求任何東西。你我是一體的，你就是我，我的就是你的。我已經說過了，所以你應該很清楚，也很了解我。我不要非上帝的品質，我期望你們達到完美，因為我知道你們是完美的。我只要上帝在我身邊，無論是女的、男的、男同性戀、女同性戀、大、小、胖、瘦，我都不在乎，但一定要是上帝，懂嗎？（大眾答：懂。）哪種上帝我都喜愛，但一定要是上帝。

好，我們必須齊心協力，就像開4輪的車子。我常說，4個輪子必須往同一個方向走。如果1個輪子要往南，其他3個輪子要往北，你認為開得動嗎？（大眾答：不能。）開不動。我們必須像一個系統，一個整體，你必須做你的工作，我做我的工作。有時間的話，我們就像這樣聚在一起，真的很好。工作則不一樣。我們工作的時候，要把工作做好，以後會獲得獎賞，也可能沒獎賞，誰在乎？你們必須覺醒，現在不再是像嬰兒撒嬌的時候了。我們現在必須長大成人，要做地球的守護者，跟我一起合力工作。不是為我工作，不是因為我才做，不是因為想見到我或得到我的加持才做。不是，不是，沒有那些無聊的目的。我們生來就已經有加持力了，不需要再貪求什麼。只要打坐、做高雅的工作，那就是對自己莫大的加持了。因為那表示你長大了，表示你很高貴，你是聖人，你不要求任何獎賞。還有什麼聖人比這樣更偉大的？那時你就可以恭喜自己了。

我也會永遠愛你。我每次看到你，就會說：「請過來。來，來這邊見我。」是，我會這樣做，如果你無條件為別人奉獻的話，我會非常愛你，真的是那樣。就算我沒見你，我還是很愛你，而你也會感受到。不過如果你想抓我，只想利用任何工作或職位吸引我的注意，或打探我的事情，或想把我生吞，那你什麼也得不到，懂嗎？（大眾答：懂。）要當上帝，要感謝所有你們得到的加持。

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Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Cancún, Mexico, December 9, 2010
(Originally in English) (DVD#923)

Just be natural, be wise, be unconditional all the time,
like the Sun, the Moon, the sky. Be big, be grand, be limitless:
Then you are that.

Be selfless all the time, always unconditional. Never want to profit from any situation for yourself. Then you’ll get more than you expect. Always be selfless and unconditional. That’s the way of the working of the universe. If you want the Sun to bless you, then remember the Sun’s quality. He gives all the time and never asks anything from you. The Moon, the stars, the trees, the air – always ask nothing. That is the way we raise our consciousness and that’s how we can bless others, if we can be unconditional and selfless. There is no “I” to give, no “I” to take. That’s the best. If you still want to take even my blessing, you’re low. Okay? Low level. Just let it be. Naturally what’s yours will come. What naturally comes to you, then keep. Don’t try to grab anything. It is very uncomfortable for the person that you want to grab, and it’s bad for you, very bad. I mean, character-wise already, don’t have to talk about spiritual blessing or level.

Just be natural, be wise, be unconditional all the time, like the Sun, the Moon, the sky. Be big, be grand, be limitless: Then you are that. Don’t ask me to bless you. Bless yourself. Bless yourself with all these noble qualities, with the limitless power of love. Don’t be small; don’t be a beggar. Because you will be blessed. You are blessed all the time, 24 hours, 25 hours. Never worry that you don’t get blessing. Even if you don’t see the Master, you get blessed because the Master knows what you are doing. Don’t try to push, don’t try to always exhibit yourself in front of the Master so as to get more blessing. You’re wrong. You don’t get it that way. Or even if you do, it’s very little compared to what you will get if you don’t do that, if you just do your job.

We are all here for one purpose: to help the world and to do our job together. But if you just try to get something for yourself, then it is out of our group already, out of our principle. For example, if you’re assigned to do something, then just do that. We are noble, we are God. We don’t do this stuff. Not because I am strict, but I want you to be the God that you are. I don’t want you to be this kind of petty thief or beggar, even for spiritual blessing. You are blessed anyway, especially when you don’t grab it.

You’re blessed all the time, by remote control, by the Sun, by everything. Even if you are not blessed, so what? You have the Quan Yin Method already. You bless yourself. We are one. We don’t beg for anything. You are one. You are me. What’s mine is yours. I told you already, so you know what to expect. And you know me very well. I don’t want the un-God. I expect you to be the perfection, because I know you are the perfection. I only want Gods around me. God female, God male, God gay, lesbian God, big God, small God, fat God, skinny God. I don’t care. Have to be God. Okay? (Audience: Yes.) I love all types of Gods, but must be God.

All right. We have to work together. You drive with four wheels. I always say this. Four wheels have to drive together in the same direction. If one wheel wants to drive south, and the other three have to go north, do you think it will do? (Audience: No.) No. We have to be like one system. One. you have to do your job, I do my job. When we have time, we’re together like this. It’s excellent. Work is different. When we work, we have to do the job, and then we will have the reward after. Or not reward. Who cares? You have to wake up. It’s not the time to play baby anymore. We have to grow up now, be a man, woman, be the protectors of the planet, and work together with me, not work for me. Not work because of me. Not work because you want to see me or get blessing from me. No, no, none of all that rubbish. We are born with blessing power already. No need to ask anything more. Just meditate, do your noble job. That’s the big blessing to yourself, because that means you’re grown up. Means you’re noble, you’re a saint. You don’t ask for any reward. How can any saint be bigger than that? Then you congratulate yourself.

And I will love you forever. Whenever I see you, I’ll say, “Come here, please. Come, come see me.” Yes, I’ll do that, if you work for others unconditionally. I love you so much. Believe that. Even if I don’t see you, I love you, and you will feel it. But if you want to grab me and try to use any job or position just to get my attention or nose into my stuff or try to eat me alive, you get nothing. Understand? (Audience: Yes.) Be a God, be thankful for all the blessings that you have.

http://www.godsdirectcontact.org.tw/eng/news/209/    Master’s Words

我想告訴你們一些其他境界的事。我們有許多身體，它們各自有不同的名字，例如：肉體、靈體等等。那些喝酒、抽煙、吸毒或是做其他這類事的人，不只傷害了他們自己的肉體，他們的靈體也都受到傷害，所以當他們往生以後，天堂的眾生必須治療他們、照顧他們的靈體，就像這個世界的醫生治病救人一樣。過了好久好久以後，他們才能夠恢復正常，那時候才可以再來投胎，再回來做人。像這樣經過了很多世，直到他們覺得受夠了這個紅塵，想要修行了，然後才能夠進化成比較高等的眾生。

在「金星」這個星球上，當地有許多像這樣的小型醫院，用來治療各種不同的人。住在那個淨土的人都非常聰明，他們很有靈性、很高等，多數都已經接近明師的等級，他們大部份的人都可以成為明師。他們不用物質的醫藥或儀器來治療這類病人，而是用不同能量的光束來進行治療；就像在這個世界上，有時候醫生會用雷射光來治病、治療癌症。

這些人可以算是比較高等、比較傑出的科學家。明師也是一種高等的科學家，他們已知道如何改變磁場的能量，讓那些靠近的人變不一樣。就像在這個世界上，如果你是一個好的科學家，你就知道如何將太陽光轉變成能量、電能等。

「金星」只是這類天堂中的其中一個而已，你們不要執著那個名字，因為不是只有一個天堂而已，還有許多天堂也是用這種方式來為人們治病。很多別的淨土的人也有幫助我們，他們時時刻刻都在幫我們忙，用光的力量幫助他們那邊的病人、地球的人以及那些地獄的眾生，他們幫助很多窮人、絕望的人、祈求的人和痛苦的人。

有時候我們聽說有的人因為某些因素而自殺，但這不是唯一的一種自殺形式，事實上自殺有兩種形式：殺害了這個物質的身體雖然很不好，但還不是最糟的；毀壞了自己的靈體才是最糟糕的！如果你喜歡喝酒、吸毒，或是每天只照顧這個物質生活，從來不上教堂、不去寺廟、不去聽經、不打坐、不修行、不念佛，任何好的宗教的教理都不想接觸，每天只忙著照顧這個身體，忙著去交際應酬、喝酒、吃肉、跳舞、聽音樂、看電視、看報，什麼都做就是不想照顧自己的靈魂，這樣會毀壞我們靈體，這是很糟糕的！

如果你有親人修行，他們又很有道心，那麼你往生以後，至少還可以上去天堂；不是跟他們走，而是因為他們的福報，你才可以去天堂。不過去天堂以後，你什麼都不知道，躺在那裡像個死人一樣。通常一個人往生以後，會有一個光亮的身體，但是剛剛說的那種人往生以後的身體並沒有光，看起來像這個肉體一樣，不過沒有感覺。因為他們心裡非常執著這些物質的東西，所以就會帶著這個身體到天堂去，但事實上帶去的不是這個肉體，而是由他們意念造出來的一種身體，雖然看起來很像肉體，但是沒有感覺、不能思考、也毫無智力可言，就像石頭或木頭一樣。

因為他們的親人有修行、有道心，所以他們能夠得到一點點福報，可以跟他們一起去天堂，因為有血緣關係嘛！不過上去那裡後，他們會迷迷糊糊的，不認識他們的親人，這時天使會先帶他們到醫院去，然後他們就像石頭一樣躺在那裡很長一段時間。那時候那裡的一些美好的眾生就會用他們自己的光和力量來治療那些人，將他們的愛力與能量注入那些人的身體中。像這樣經過很長一段時間以後，那些人才得以甦醒，然後他們才能夠認得住在那裡的親人和所愛的人，那時候他們就可以快樂地團聚在一起。

不過，前提是那些人的業障必須不很深重，否則，即使有很多人幫助他們，他們也接收不到。像有些人被他們自己不好的思想和不好的生活習性綁得很厲害，以致於收不到那些愛力的幫助，因此，他們只能永遠迷失在黑暗中。這種情況的確很悲哀，確實有些情況是像這樣。

所以，那些有打坐或至少有去聽經求道的人，他們多多少少有和高等的力量接觸，高等的力量會保護他們一點。當然，修行越多，會越好。如果你能夠直接和上帝的光接觸，在世的時候就可以看到光，那麼你往生以後就一定會到高等的境界去。就像修觀音法門的人，在印心當天就看到光了，而修其他法門的人則比較慢，他們得等到往生以後才看得到光，或是要修好幾年以後才看得到。

在高等的世界，他們利用光來做每件事，例如：用光製造嬰兒、做衣服、造房子、造樹，造每樣舒服的東西給自己用，那裡的一切都是由光所造成。即使在同一個天堂中，也有不同等級的區分，就像在一個國家裡，有貧、富和中產階級的差別。不過，在高等的天堂，他們是不會彼此競爭比較的。

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清海無上師以英文講於美國夏威夷 1993.10.22

我們並不輪迴，只是我們的一部分習慣和收集的訊息在輪迴，也就是所謂的心智或第六識在收集各種業障訊息，然後一再地循環，就好像現在美國鼓勵回收可口可樂罐子或一些其它的物品一樣，只是我們人的「罐子」在循環。只要它能再利用，而且和世上其它材料還有關連，我們就稱之為「輪迴」，這只是一種回收再利用而已。可口可樂罐子裏面的東西並不輪迴，只是罐子輪迴而已，因為人們還認得它，或者也不認得，但因本質還在，所以我們視之為回收再生。

我們人身這個「罐子」的本質也並不輪迴，這就是我們的真我、我們的靈魂，每當我們想要體驗新的事物時，我們就把自己裝在一個回收再生品裏面，然而卻又習慣認同自己就是這些物質及資訊，所以才說我們輪迴，但其實並非如此，因為我們從來不死也不生，永遠存在，我們看著宇宙萬物生生滅滅，我們永遠只是個旁觀者，但是因為我們有時把自己與所看到的主體及環境當作是自己本身，所以才有苦有樂。

就像我們看電視時忘記那只是演戲而已，然後跟著哭、跟著笑，支持這個人、想要殺另外一個人，但那兩個人都與我們無關，也不是我們的朋友或敵人，而且他們都不是真實的，然而我們卻憎恨那個人，說：「噢！那個留小鬍子的是個壞人，殺掉他！殺掉他！」我們坐在螢幕前說：「宰了他，趕快宰了那個傢伙！」或是「快走！快走！他會殺你！快點離開！走這邊！走這邊！」就好像電視或銀幕上的人真的會聽從我們或能聽到我們講的話，其實不然，他們完全依據導演的指示演戲，不會聽我們的。所以許多電影結局都不合我們的口味，我們想變改情節，但是有什麼用呢？假如我們變改劇情，那就不再是那部電影了，所以電影必須有它自己的樣子。
事實上我們常常愚弄自己，這點我們每天都可以證明，不必談什麼「輪迴」、「幻象」或這世上的其它現象，我們可以證明它。告訴你們一個我自己的笨故事，我前幾天剛到夏威夷，他們租了一間房子給我和常在我身邊的工作人員住，而且我們也必須接見客人。那間房子一共租用10天，地方很大，但不貴，靠近海灘。我也想請你們過去，但不知道怎麼容納你們，房子是大，但也沒那麼大，對十個人而言夠大，但容納不了幾千人。所以這就是我們世界的相對性，有時我們說：「哇！好棒！」可是如果跟其它事情比較，就沒那麼棒，我們總是活在幻象中，直到和其它情境相比較，才知道自己錯了。同樣的，許多修行其它法門的人，他們有修行、吃素，也打坐，他們很好，可是好到什麼程度？跟我們觀音法門的同修相比，他們就像烤半熟的餅乾，就類似那樣。所以我們知道，如果與道和上帝無邊的萬能力量相比，世上再好、再偉大的事也都很有限。

神奇的魔鏡

現在回到我那個笨故事，我走進那個房子，裏面真是太棒了，到處都有大鏡子，讓我可以看到自己多麼漂亮！（師父比畫打扮的動作，大眾笑。）在臥室裏也有面大鏡子，我知道那是面鏡子，任何人都會馬上知道，不會弄錯；浴室裏也有兩個窗戶，可以讓我看到海洋。可是當我看鏡子時，我看到四個窗戶，然後一直想：「怎麼海會在那一邊？」原先我以為自己住在海角，被海環繞，所以可以從這個窗戶看到海，也可以從那個窗戶看到海，我被自己騙了兩天之久，你們相信嗎？直到有一天，湊巧從真的窗戶看出去，才發現那一邊並沒有海，然後我說：「怎麼會呢？」接著我再回頭看牆壁上的鏡子，我說：「嗯？有海啊！」即使在那個時刻，我還是不明暸，所以人們才說大智若愚。

到了後來我才記得：「噢！是鏡子的緣故。」可是並不容易察覺，你會很難以置信，因為我不習慣這樣的景象，兩個窗戶變成四個，從來沒見過這樣的情景。海洋在牆裏，不過看起來好真實，我被窗外美麗的海景迷住了，忘了是鏡子的緣故，我確實是這樣，自己也嚇了一跳：「我的天啊！你是『無上師』，居然無法分辨出是真的窗子或是反映出來的窗子！」所以我笑我自己。當察覺真相時也覺得很好玩，不過也很驚訝！為什麼我沒認出那只是鏡中的窗子，這讓我驚訝了好幾天，我怎麼這麼容易受騙？只因為我喜歡海，只注意到海，心想：「哇！可以從窗口看海，好棒！有四個窗戶，而且四面都是海。」我看到海就高興，而忘了那是幻象，不是我無法察覺，而是我太喜歡海了。

同樣的，大多數人在日常生活中也迷散在自己所喜愛的事物上，忘了那是幻象，忘了那面魔鏡。並不是他們無法察覺，當時間到了，自然就會明白；屆時明師會出現，或他們自己會醒過來。其實當明師出現的時候，就表示他們已經自己覺醒了，否則誰能告訴他們自己內在本來就擁有的？就像我有眼睛，鏡子就在那裏，我隨時都可以發現真相，但當時太著迷於欣賞海景，而且看起來又那麼真實，我以為有四個窗戶。這些都是真的，不是開玩笑，並不是編個故事來串場而已，這是真的故事，我就是那麼笨，你們相信嗎？而你們卻跟隨我！（大眾笑）所以要小心自己被鏡子拉到哪裡去！

鏡像與實相

我們一直（或有時）都局限在自己的幻象裏，所以無法發現真相與幻象的差別，無法發現影子和實體的不同，我們就在裏面載沈載浮，樂在其中。然後我們有時撞到頭了，才自問：「怎麼會這樣呢？」其實它自始至終根本就不在那裏。同樣的，我們的生活對我們來說是如此地真實，我們無法暸解及相信那只是幻象，無法相信另外還有真實的生命──這個影子生命的本體。但當我們閉上眼睛、關掉所有感官，去真正尋找那個真實的主體時，我們會瞭解：「噢！原來還有個美妙的世界，那才是真的。」你感覺那裏很好又很真實，比這裏更好。所以當我從真的窗戶往外看，真實的風輕拂我的臉，外面的樹搖曳生姿，而鏡子裏頭的就有所差別，然後我也發現四個窗戶有差異，因為那邊的窗戶看不到樹，而這邊的窗戶外面有樹，然後我才暸解：「啊！那只是反射後不同的影像，角度不同，造成景象反射後有一部分不見了。」

在我們實際生活中也是一樣，因為觀看的角度不同，所以反射的影像永遠都不會完美，因此我們才不滿足，就是這個道理，我們感覺到虛假，然後我們遲早都會渴望找到實相，實相就會出現，到那時，我們才明白自己的本來面目，明白自己之前為什麼會犯錯、為什麼會跌跌撞撞。

 

 

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The Enlightened Witness

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai
Hawaii, U.S.A., October 22, 1993
(Originally in English)

We don't reincarnate, but a part of our habits, our collective information reincarnates. So this part of us, which is called the intellect, or maybe the sixth consciousness, collects all kinds of karmic information. And then it recycles it again, like a Coca Cola bottle, or like some of the things in the United States now that they encourage people to recycle. It's the same thing; our 'bottles' are recycled. Each time they can be used, and they are still connected with other materials in this world, then we call it reincarnation; it's just a kind of recycling. The Coca Cola substance inside doesn't reincarnate, only the bottle does. Still, people can recognize that, or not recognize it. But the substance is still there, so they recognize it as recycled; we see it as recycled.

The things from which this bottle is made are not reincarnated; this is our real Self, our soul. Each time we want to experiment with new things, we bottle ourselves into a new recycled substance or subject; that's it. But then again, we're used to identifying ourselves with all this substance and information, so we say we reincarnate. But it's not true. We never die, and we are never born. We have always existed; we are the witness of all things created and destroyed in this universe. We always are the witness. But then sometimes we identify ourselves with the subject that we witness and with the circumstances in which we witness it, so we suffer or we have joy.

Just like when we watch TV, and we forget that it's only a movie, and we cry, or we laugh. We support this one, and we want to kill the other. Both of them have nothing to do with us, none of them are our enemies or friends, and none of them are real. But we hate that one: "Oh! That mustached one, he is a bad guy, kill him, kill him!" You sit in front of the screen, and you say, "Kill him! Kill that guy quickly!" Or "Get out, get out! He'll kill you! Get out, quick! This way, this way!" Like the personage on TV or the screen will actually listen to us or hear us, but they don't. They do what they have to do according to the director, not according to us. Therefore many of the movies' outcomes don't suit our taste; we want to change them. But what's the use? If we change it, it's not that movie any more. So the movie has to exist the way it is. Actually, we fool ourselves many times, and we can prove that every day; no need to talk about reincarnation, illusion or anything of this world, we can prove it.

I'll tell you a foolish story about myself. Yesterday or the day before yesterday, when I first came to Hawaii, they rented an apartment for me and our many staff members, like the ones who have to work close to me; also we have guests. It's a rented place for ten days, not much, cheap, but very big and near the beach. I was thinking to invite you there, but I don't know how to house you. It's big, but it's not that big! It's big enough for ten persons, but not for thousands. So now, the relativity of our world: Sometimes we say, "Wow, it's great!" But it's not that great compared to other things. We are always in illusion until we compare it against another background; then we know we are wrong.

It's similar with many practices. They practice, they eat vegetarian, they meditate and they are very good, but good to what point? Against our Quan Yin practitioners, they are just like half-cooked, half-baked cookies, for example! So, we know the good things and the great things in this world have their limits, compared to the Truth or the limitless almighty power of God.

Magic Mirror

Now, come back to my foolish story. I went into the room, fantastic, everywhere it had big mirrors, so I can see how pretty I am. (Audience laughs at Master's 'preening' gestures) And in the bedroom, there was a big mirror; I knew it was a mirror. Everyone immediately knew it was a mirror; there's no fooling about that. In the bathroom, there were also two windows, and from the two windows, you could see through to the sea.

Then when I looked into the mirror, I saw four windows. And I kept thinking, "How come the sea is over there?" I thought my place was situated on the edge of the water, and was surrounded by the sea. So, I could see the sea in that window, and I could see the sea through that window. And I fooled myself for two days. Can you believe it? Until one day I happened to look out of the real windows, and I saw there was no sea over there. And I said, "How come?" I looked back to the wall again where the mirror was and said, "Wow, there is the sea!" And even then, I did not understand.

So, they say the sage is like the fool. Actually, afterwards I remembered, "Oh, yes, it's the mirror!" But it was difficult to find out. You can't believe it. Because I was not used to this kind of scenery, two windows became four, that I hadn't seen before. And the sea was inside the wall. But it looked so real that I was mesmerized with the beauty of the sea through the windows and I forgot about the mirror. Really, I did! But it hit me like that: "My God! You are the Supreme Master, okay, but you don't realize the difference between the windows and the reflection of the windows." So, I laughed at myself, and had very good fun when I realized that.

But it surprised me that I didn't realize it was a reflection from the window. It really surprised me for many days. How could I be fooled so easily? Just because I love the sea, I focused on the sea. And I thought, "Wow! You can see the sea through the windows; fantastic, we have four windows and on all four sides is the sea." I was happy with the sea, and I forgot that it was an illusion. It's not that I couldn't find out, it's just that I was too fixated on the sea.

So, similarly in our daily life, most people are fixated on the object of their beloved desire. And then they forget the illusion, they forget the magic mirror. It's not that they can't find out; when they are ready, they'll find out. The Master will come, or they will wake up themselves. Actually when the Master comes, that means they wake up themselves. Otherwise, who can tell them they have it inside? Just like me: I have my eyes, the mirror is there, I can always find out, but then I am too fixated on the vision of the sea, and enjoying that. And it looked so real; I thought it was four windows. I'm telling you the truth; I'm not kidding you. I'm not telling a story to make a smooth gap between our lectures; it's a true story. I am that foolish. Can you believe it? And now, you follow me! (Audience laughs) So be careful where you're going with the mirror.

Reflection vs. Reality

We are fixed in our illusions up to now, or still, sometimes. Therefore, we can't find the truth between illusion - the reflection or the shadow - and the real. So, we play up and down; we enjoy it. And sometimes we hit ourselves and we say, "How come?" It's not there because it's not there; it has never been there.

Similarly, our life is so real to us that we can not understand or believe that it is an illusion, that there is another real life, the true object of this shadow life. But when we close our eyes, we shut all our senses, and truly look for the real subject, then we realize, "Oh, there is a fantastic world, and that is real." It feels good there, it feels real, and it feels better than over here. So, that's when I look through the real window; the real wind is caressing my face, and all the trees outside are waving. Whereas in the mirror, it's a little bit different. I discovered that the four windows are different. Because in there are no trees, and out there are trees. And then I realized, "Ah! This is a different reflection only, so the angle is different." So, the reflected picture is missing some part.

Therefore in our real life, it's the same thing. The reflection is never perfect, because of a different-looking angle. And now we are not satisfied; that's that. You feel something phony about it. Then sooner or later, we will desire the real, and the reality will hit us. And then we know: There we are. That's why we make mistakes; that's why we stumble so far.

The Enlightened Witness