清海無上師以英文講於美國德州休士頓
1993.11.13(影帶編號#393)
用自己的智慧回答自己
你們問我什麼問題並不重要,問題的癥結在於你們忘了自己的智慧,才會來問我,要不然根本不用問。你們認為我應該什麼都懂,至少應該懂得比你們多,但你們仔細想想,我的頭腦和你們的一樣,吃的東西也一樣或差不多,事實上我吃得比你們還少,如果就這點來說,我的智慧、精力應該比不上你們才對呀!所有的答案都在你們的內邊,為什麼還要我給你們答案?
要回答你們的問題,最好的方式就是讓你們能自己回答自己,這是唯一的方式,也是最好、最永久的方法。我們的生活應該要幫助其他人認識天國、認識那個長養我們的生命、長養整個宇宙的偉大聖靈,了解到如果沒有祂,我們只不過是一個沒有用的空殼而已,即使有眼睛,也看不到;有鼻子,也聞不到;有嘴巴,也沒辦法再開口。可惜一般人都忘了這點,只將這個大力量浪費在吃喝玩樂,從來沒有想去認識這個聖靈(上帝)最重要的功用。
萬能的智慧寶庫
我們的聖靈是全宇宙最好、最高的力量,要是我們忘了祂,心裡會有好多問題得不到解答,生活也不會滿足。不管我們有多少錢、先生太太有多好看,都沒辦法讓我們真正快樂,也許偶爾快樂一下,但是不永久,就像一個人喝酒的時候會快樂幾分鐘,不過明天卻會頭痛。
這個世界上大多數的快樂都有副作用,就像吸毒一樣,問題是在這裡。要不然,我們照這個世界的方式活下去也無妨。世俗的快樂只是一種幻想,今天讓我們快樂,明天卻帶給我們更多煩惱。不是它故意這樣,也不是我們做了什麼壞事,只是因為世界上的快樂多數都有副作用,所以才不好。
那我們應該怎麼辦?我們內邊有一個解決問題的寶庫,裡面裝滿解決困難的本領,那就是偉大的聖靈,有了祂我們才有生命力,才能行動、講話、彼此認識、互相疼愛。只要我們向祂求助,就不會有問題。祂一直都在我們內邊,只不過我們忽略了祂,沒有向祂請教,沒有請這個最偉大的聖靈、至高無上的力量幫助我們。
這個力量其實就是我們本人最高的智慧,不是說有一個鬍子長長的人在那裡之類的。這個力量一直都在我們內邊,任何時候我們向祂求助,祂真的都在。不過我們必須知道怎麼求,多數人只是一直說個不停,唸了一大堆禱告文,製造許多噪音,卻沒有去聽祂給我們什麼忠告,所以才得不到答案。
「祕室禱告」的真義
比方你問我一個問題,然後又一直講個不停,這樣我怎麼能回答你呢?同樣地,多數人也是用這種不正確、沒有效果的方法禱告。我們要禱告也可以,但應該靜默地禱告。就像聖經所說:「你禱告的時候, 要進你的內屋,關上門,向暗中的父禱告;你父在暗中察看,必然公開報答你。」(馬太福音6:6)「你們禱告的時候,不可像那假冒偽善的人,愛站在會堂裡,和十字路口禱告,故意叫人看見。」(馬太福音6:5)這是什麼意思?就是要單獨和上帝溝通。我們可以坐在千萬人當中,但是和上帝、和聖靈溝通時,必須自己一個人。透過這種方式,我們才能解決自己的問題、解答自己的疑惑。
所以我從沒有任何問題要問,因為我自己可以回答自己。我對自己有形或無形的行為、自己的身、口、意和待人處世的方式負責,一切我自己負責,你們每個人也要為自己負責。這種生活方式很簡單,但多數人卻寧願過辛苦的生活,很多人問我:「噢!妳怎麼有辦法吃素、打坐?那很辛苦,不是嗎?」我說:「不,你們的生活才辛苦,我的生活不辛苦,我過簡單的生活,對我來說,一切都很簡單、很明白。」
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Turn to Your Inner Wisdom to Get True Answers
Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Houston, Texas, USA,
Nov. 13, 1993 (Originally in English)
Videotape #393
Answer Yourselves through Your Own Wisdom
It doesn’t matter what question you ask me; the basic question is that you forgot your wisdom. That’s why you ask me; otherwise you don’t need to. I’m supposed to know everything, or at least many more things than you do. That’s what you think. But when you think about it, I have the same brain as you, and I eat the same food as you do, or at least similar food. In fact, I eat less than you do. So, if it comes down to that, I have even less wisdom or less energy! So why do you look to me for answers, when the answers are all within you?
I have the best way to answer you, which is to help you answer yourself. That’s the only way; it’s the best way and the most everlasting. And that’s our way of life: helping people recognize the Kingdom of God or the great Spirit that sustains the whole universe, sustains your life, without which you’re just a dead corpse, useless. Those same eyes will not see anything, that same nose will never smell any fragrance and that same mouth will never open again. But we forget that. We abuse it in eating and drinking, but we never ask the most essential function of our Spirit or God.
The Wisdom Bank
It’s the best thing, the highest power in the whole cosmos. If we forget that, we have too many questions and can never answer them. And if we forget that, our life is never satisfied. It doesn’t matter how much money you have, or how beautiful your wife or handsome your husband, it won’t make you completely happy. And it will never make you stably happy. You can be happy now and then, like when you drink whiskey and feel happy for just a few minutes. But then, you have a headache the next day.
Most of the happiness in this world has side effects, just like drugs. That’s the problem. Otherwise, we don’t mind carrying on with this world the way it is. It’s just a kind of illusion. Today you’re happy and tomorrow it gives you more trouble. It’s not intentional or not even that we do anything bad. It just happens that most of the happiness in this world has negative side effects. That’s the bad thing about it.
So what are we to do? There’s a storehouse of resolution, of problem-solving power that lies within us. That’s the great Spirit. That’s what makes us alive; that’s what makes us move and talk and recognize each other and love one another. And whenever we turn to that Spirit, we never go wrong. It’s just that we go along with It inside us all the time, but we leave Hirm aside; we never ask Hiers advice. We never ask for help from this Spirit, the spirit of God, the greatest Spirit, the most High.
It’s our highest intellectual power; that’s all it is. There’s no such thing as a person with a long beard or anything. But Hes is always there; the Power is always there. And whenever we ask for help, It’s really always there. But we must know how to ask. Usually we ask by talking a lot. We sing a lot of prayers and we make a lot of noise, but we never listen to the advice of the Spirit. And then, that’s why we don’t have the answer.
When You Pray, Enter into the Closet
Suppose you ask me a question and then you keep talking all the time. How can I answer you? Similarly, most of us pray in the wrong way or in an ineffective way. We can also pray, but we should pray in silence. In the Bible, it says, “When you pray, enter into your closet, and having shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly,” (Matthew 6:6) and “When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men.” (Matthew 6:5) What does it mean to do this? It means that you communicate with God, alone. You can sit with hundreds of thousands of people, but you have to be alone with Hirm, with the Spirit. That’s the way to solve your problems and answer your questions.
That’s why I never ask questions because I alone answer myself. I alone am responsible for all my actions and non-actions, and for all my thoughts, speech and interactions with other people. I’m responsible. Each of us is responsible. It’s a very easy way of life, but we choose the hard life. Everyone asks me, “Wow, how can you be vegetarian?” Or, “You meditate; that’s kind of tough, isn’t it?” And I say, “No! Your life is tough; mine isn’t tough. I have an easy life; everything is easy; everything is clear to me.”
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