清海無上師以英文講於美國華府國際禪四 


即使我們處境順遂,也要時時提醒自己:永遠把上帝擺在第一位,上帝就是我們的真我。我不是來這裡說教,要你們每天跪拜上帝,因為就算真有這樣的上帝,祂也不需要我們崇拜祂。不過要記住:上帝就是我們自己。我們必須先記起偉大的真我,才能好好生存下去,然後才能擺脫這個世界的黑暗面。因為當我們情況順遂、享有物質的安樂時,很容易忘記什麼才是最重要的,於是又掉進苦海裡,然後才吶喊、向上帝祈求,但有時已經吃盡苦頭,那就太遲了。


所以我們最好每天提醒自己,最起碼也要努力試試看。打坐之前,儘量用能夠感動內心的方式,向上帝、內在師父、內在真我、佛菩薩,或是我們覺得最親近的聖人祈求:「請幫助我,讓我記得自己是誰,讓我一天比一天更開悟。」就這樣,講一次就夠了,如果誠心祈求,一次就夠了,因為我們本人聽到了;如果不誠心,就算大聲祈求一整天,自己也知道沒有用,因為沒有全心全意祈求,所以沒有用。


不過,有時祈求確實有用,尤其在極度絕望、情緒低落時祈求,就會看到光,即使我們平常看不到光或很難看到光,那時就會看得到。如果沒看到,就再試試看。當我們遭遇失敗時,應該重新站起來再試一試。


我們每天都要致力於追求上帝、修行、真理、榮耀及美好的事物,不能永遠沉淪在這個物質世界裡,享受物質舒適,過著物質化的生活,因為這些都不是我們,包括這個身體也不是。現在我們感覺到身體的存在,所以我們還留在這裡,但是在入定時,我們不記得有這個身體,身體就不存在了,那時候,我們會認識自己的真我,知道我們根本不是這個身體。


我們大家都必須多用功,努力達到這種無我的境界,那時候就可以認識上帝的真面目。現在我們只知道上帝是無形無相,知道祂會加持我們,幫助我們做這個、做那個,回應我們的祈求,我們對上帝確實已經有某種程度的了解,但這樣還不夠。如果我們每天只向上帝祈求物質的舒適,祈求為我們解決問題等等,那是不夠的,我們必須達到和上帝同一體的境界,才會明白我們自己就是上帝。我們是上帝的兒女,也是上帝,這就是耶穌、佛陀和其他明師所達到的境界。我們也要多努力修行,達到這種境界。


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Continuous 
Spiritual Elevation 
is the Main Goal 
of Life






Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, 
Four-day Retreat in Washington D.C., USA, December 23, 1997 
(Originally in English) DVD #604











Even in favorable situations we should always try to remind ourselves that God comes first. God is our true Self. I’m not here to preach to you that you have to kneel every day to God and worship Hirm because if there is such a God, Hes doesn’t need us to worship Hirm anyhow. But remember that Hes is us. God is us. So we first have to remember our great Self in order to survive, and then get out of the darkness of this world; because in favorable situations and times of physical happiness we tend to forget the most important thing. We forget and then plunge back into suffering and scream and pray to God and so on. But sometimes it’s too late; we’re already suffering.


So it’s better that we remind ourselves every day, or at least endeavor to try. Before you sit in meditation, try to pray to God in any way that touches your heart. Pray to God, pray to the inner Master, pray to your inner Self, pray to Buddha or to whomever you feel is dearest to your heart and say, “Please help me to remember who I am. Please help me to become more and more enlightened every day.”


That’s it; once is enough. If you sincerely pray one time it’s enough because you yourself can hear it. If you’re not sincere, you can shout the whole day long but you know it won’t work because you aren’t putting your whole self into the prayer. That’s why it won’t work.


But sometimes prayers do work because when you’re already desperate and you know you’re really down, you pray and at that time you see the Light. Even if you ordinarily wouldn’t see it or if it’s difficult for you to see it otherwise, at that time you see it. If not, you can try again. If we fail, we have to stand up and do it again.


Every day we have to renew our strength in God, in our practice, in what’s beautiful and in Truth and glory. We can’t just sink into this material world with its material comforts and material kind of life forever. We can’t because we’re not that. We’re not that at all, including this body. At the moment, we’re aware of it so we still stay here, but in samadhi we don’t even remember the body. The body doesn’t exist and we know we’re not the body at all. At that time we know our true Self.


All of us have to endeavor to reach that state of selflessness. Then we’ll know what God truly is. At the moment, we only know God as an abstract being. Hes blesses us, helps us do this and that and answers our prayers so we do already know God to some extent, but that’s not enough. It’s not enough that every day we pray to God for material comfort and to solve some problem for us and so on; that’s not enough. We have to reach the state of being one with God. Then we know we are God, we are the children of God and we are also God. That’s the state that Jesus, Buddha and other Masters have attained and we must endeavor to attain as well. 



 




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