清海無上師以英文講於英國舍瑞 2006.01.03
同修：我們來這裡後才找工作的。
師父：工作好找嗎？
同修：只是一些簡單的工作。
師父：這裡容易找到工作嗎？
同修：很容易，如果想找簡單的工作，像是幫人打掃之類的，那很容易。
師父：是啊，有何不可？足夠維生就可以了，真好！
同修：是的，打掃之類的工作機會很多。
師父：生活簡單的話，就沒必要去找什麼大不了的工作。
同修：因為我們一大清早就工作，所以有很多空閒時間可以打坐。
師父：你們都在早上工作嗎？（同修：我們四、五點就去做打掃的工作。）哇，很勤奮！（同修：然後整天就有很多空閒時間。）噢，我很佩服！（同修：這樣的生活很棒！非常美好！）我很佩服！你倆一起工作嗎？
同修：是的，我們一起打掃。
師父：你們在哪裡找到打掃工作？
同修：在一些辦公場所，有時候在一些住家。
師父：喔，我懂了。你們是受雇於一家公司還是自行找客戶？
同修：有些是自己找的，有些是仲介公司介紹。
師父：那樣的生活可以嗎？（同修：噢，我們都很喜歡。）兩人的收入夠用嗎？
同修：生活上是夠用了。
師父：沒錯，你們看起來很快樂！（同修：噢，非常快樂！）你們兩人都很有智慧。
同修：我們過得非常、非常快樂！這一切都因為有您的幫忙，因為您的緣故。
師父：為什麼？我做了什麼呢？
同修：每天都是奇蹟！在一卷錄影帶開示中，您建議我們做些很簡單的工作，像是打掃。這樣的生活真的很美好。
師父：是呀！如果你想當美國總統，我就不敢擔保了。但如果你只想有一份正當的工作，靠雙手勞動謀生的話，這類的工作很多！只要去找那些別人不想做，也不用花太多腦筋的工作，那麼你的頭腦就自由了！工作時還可以一邊默念佛號，加持別人的家，又可以賺錢！
同修：我們在打掃時也聆聽您的MP3，聽您的創作樂曲、佛讚和開示。
師父：噢！這樣很好。勞動身體也有益健康，有些人還必須花很多錢上健身房運動，而你們只要搬椅子、擦桌子就夠了！（大眾笑）
同修：以前我打坐時膝蓋會痛。自從開始做打掃的工作以來，由於活動量大，常彎腰，現在已經沒有這個問題了。
師父：那也是業障使然。如果我們自力謀生，各方面都會更好，這裡會感到舒服（師父指著她的心臟）。當你心情舒暢，身體自然也會好，兩者息息相關。身、心、靈、情緒都是息息相關的，這個道理你們都很明白。有時當你感到很沮喪時，就很容易生病，然後全身這裡痛、那裡痛！有些人看不起像清潔工之類的勞動工作，我不會！任何人正當地工作賺錢，我都心存敬意。只要你有獲得酬勞，我就會尊敬你。（大眾笑）
同修：人們下班後回家，看到家中一塵不染都很高興。（師父：是嗎？）有些人雖然不認識我們，仍將鑰匙留給我們，讓我們進去打掃。他們相當信任我們，這令我們感到開心，他們非常放心地讓我們打掃他們的房子。
師父：這是因為你們是好人，他們感覺得出來。（同修：是，真的很棒！）真好，我為你們感到高興。你們快樂嗎？（同修：每天都快樂！）很好！
同修：我們每天都很感謝您。
師父：你們真好！都是好人。（同修：謝謝師父。）不，這也是你們自己很好的緣故。因為你們善良，尊重自己並有自信，所以無論你們做什麼，心情都很愉快。有些人並不尊重自己，認為必須當個大人物才能尊重自己。在我們團體中則不然，每個人做自己的事，只要你們能照顧好自己，正當地賺取生活所需，這樣就夠了。我們通常不在乎誰是誰，我從來不過問！印心時，他們會問你的職業，那是萬一在團體中或是去做賑災工作之類的事時，他們才知道誰有哪些專長，或方便小中心指派某項工作給你。比方說你是個電工，當小中心電路故障時，就可以幫忙維護。僅是如此而已！
我從不需要知道你們的職業，我根本也不知道！你們多數人我都不認識，也不知道你們從事什麼工作。有時我會問一下，只不過為了聊聊天。我不用知道你們是誰，我完全不需要你們！我只要知道你們過得快樂就行了。像你們做打掃的工作，就是將我的教理實際運用在生活上。你們正當地賺取生活所需，照顧好自己，並省下時間來打坐，這是你們所能做的最令人敬佩之事。你們做些工作，賺取一點生活費照顧自己，這樣既不會麻煩別人，也不會有債務問題。因為你花越多錢，就得借更多錢，最後就被綁住，這樣並不好。最好衡量自己的經濟能力，量入為出，經濟能力好，才多花一點；如果荷包有限，就少花一點。
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Simple Living, Good Meditation
Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai, Surrey, United Kingdom,
January 7, 2006, (Originally in English)
P: We came here and found work.
M: It’s easy?
P: Just simple jobs.
M: Is it easy to find a job here?
P: It’s very easy. If you want a simple job, doing cleaning and things, it’s very simple.
M: Yes, why not? Just enough to live, my God!
P: Yes, there are a lot of jobs in cleaning.
M: No need to have a big deal job if you’re simple.
P: We have a lot of time free as well for meditation, because we work very early in the morning.
M: You work in the morning here, now? (P: At 4 or 5 o’clock, we go and do our cleaning jobs.) Wow, that’s very diligent! (P: And then we’ve got most of the day free.) Oh, I’m impressed! (P: It’s a great life! It’s very nice.) I’m impressed! Both of you are working together?
P: Yes, we both clean together.
M: But, where did you get the cleaning job?
P: In offices, and in people’s houses sometimes.
M: Oh, I see, I see. So, you’re employed by a company, or just freelance?
P: Some are freelance and some are through an agency.
M: And you’re fine with that? (P: Oh, we like it.) You both earn enough?
P: To live on, yes!
M: Yes, you look happy! (P: Oh, very!) You’re both very wise.
P: We’re very, very happy! It’s through all Your help, and just because of You.
M: Why? What did I do?
P: Miracles every day! You gave us some advice on a video to do very simple work, cleaning, and it’s worked out beautifully.
M: Yes! If you want to be president of the United States, I cannot guarantee that. But if you just want to have an honest living, by the labor of your hands, there’s plenty! Just take the jobs that other people don’t want and that don’t need thinking too much. Then your mind is free, also. Recite the Holy Names all the while, blessing their home, and get paid for it!
P: And we listen to Your MP3s when we’re cleaning, too, with Your music and chanting and lectures.
M: Oh, that’s nice. Also, it’s very healthy to do exercise. Some people have to pay lots of money to go to the gym. And here, you just lift the chair and clean the table! (Laughter)
Q: I used to have a problem in my knees when I meditated, but since I’ve been cleaning, with so much exercise and bending, I have no problem now.
M: It’s also the karma. If we do some work to earn a living, it’s better for everything. You feel good in there (Master gestures toward Her heart), so when you feel good, the body feels good. It’s connected, the emotional, spiritual, mental and physical; they are all connected. Yes, you know that very well. Sometimes when you are very depressed, you easily get sick. And then there’s pain here, pain there, pain everywhere. So some people look down upon physical work, like cleaning or doing anything. I don’t! I have respect for everyone who gets a job and gets paid. As long as you get paid, I have respect for you. (Everyone laughs)
P: The people are really happy to find their houses all clean when they get home from work. (Master: Yes?) And we’ve found that people who don’t even know us just leave us their key, and then we just go and clean. They are very trusting, which is lovely, very trusting to leave us their house to clean.
M: Yes, it’s because you are good. They can feel it. (P: Yes, it’s nice.) That’s good. I’m happy for you. And you are happy, yes? (P: Every day!) Good!
P: We say thank You every day.
M: You are so good! You are good people. (P: Thank You, Master.) No, it’s you who are good also. Because you are good, you have your self-esteem and self-confidence. You just do whatever, and you still feel great. Some people don’t have self-respect, so they think they have to be something in order to respect themselves. In our group, it’s different. You do what you do, and as long as you take care of yourself, earn an honest living if you can, that’s all we want. We don’t care who you are, normally. I never ask! At the time of initiation, they do ask you what you do, just in case, in a group or if they go to disaster victims or something, they know who is capable of what. Or maybe if you are in a Center, you are appointed to work at something. If you’re an electrician, you take care of the electricity in the Center in case something goes wrong. That’s all.
But I never need to know. I don’t even know! For most of you, I don’t know who or what you’re doing. Sometimes I ask, just for conversation, just to talk. But I don’t need to know who you are. I don’t need you, totally! I just need to know that you are happy, like you’re doing the cleaning job, you are really living my teachings. You go earn your honest living and you take care of yourselves and you save time to meditate. That is the most respectful thing you could ever do. When you do this or that job and just earn a little money to take care of yourself, you don’t bother anyone and you don’t incur any trouble. Because sometimes the more you spend, the more you have to borrow, and that binds you, which is no good. Better live within our means, with whatever you have. If you have big, then spend big. If you have small, spend small.
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