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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
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.
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'?
在《沈默的眼淚》詩集中,清海無上師賜給了我們最珍貴的寶藏。這本深受人們喜愛的詩集揭露了師父個人的求道經歷,為靈性追尋者道出內在的心聲。誠如師父所言:「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?」師父以英文寫下這些意涵深遠的詩,再先後口譯成中文及悠樂文。1988年2月25日,《沈默的眼淚》中、英、悠文合輯第1版發行,書中還收錄了師父的英文及悠樂文手稿。
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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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!
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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。
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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!
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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?
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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。
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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
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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:
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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
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。
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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.