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清海無上師以英文講於法國聚會 2009.03.08



我期待你們完美,我一直都這樣期待,不論你們印心多久,我總是在看著你們,期待你們完美。或許在人類的標準上,我對你們是有些嚴格,但你們本該如是,你們是完美的!


所以如果你現在不做好事,如果你這輩子不努力達成你對自己的完美期待,就算你是我的弟子,也必須再回來,因為你不會接受自己不完美,因為你本是完美。不會有上帝把你從天堂踢下來,不會有業障,更不會有魔王把你拉下來,再也沒有這種事;如果你是我的弟子,就會免除這些情況。即使你做錯事,你在往生前就必須清付,把它清付掉,但你不會接受自己的。當你去到天堂,你會看清一切,你不會接受自己為不完美的眾生,所以你必須再回來,做到你滿意自己為止。了解我的意思嗎?(大眾答︰了解!)


所以我們必須做的每件事,都要做得盡善盡美,而且儘可能默默、謙虛地做,不需要炫耀,不需要告訴別人,不用憑空誇大。不要用「無上師電視台」或師父的工作或小中心的工作當藉口去麻煩別人,了解我的意思嗎?(大眾答︰了解!)都清楚嗎?(大眾答︰清楚!)都清廉嗎?(大眾答︰清廉!)好!我們必須清廉。因為我們如果不清廉,那就跟外面那些收受賄賂或是利用職務圖利自己的人一樣,沒什麼不同,我們只是坐在那裡浪費時間。這就是為什麼有人問我,或有些人自己不問我,而別人幫他們問︰「哦,他們一天打坐4、5個小時。」我說︰「為了什麼?世界正面臨麻煩,你每天坐在那裡4、5個小時,沒做什麼事,只有你們兩個人而已。」你們知道,男、女朋友兩個人,然後賺一點錢,生活過得去,有個房子,生活舒適,打坐一整天。這世界正處於困境,每天都有人餓死,兒童、老人、年輕人,有的人有能力卻沒工作,有的人找不到工作,因為全球暖化或全球經濟的緣故,或因為無能的領導者讓他們受苦。動物也每天遭受折磨,而你卻每天坐在那裡4、5個小時胡思亂想。我不確定你是否能一天打坐4、5個小時,而且很專心等等,然後提昇到較高的等級。不會的!一個自私的人,即使打坐幾千年也去不了哪裡。了解我的意思嗎?


這些年來我教導你們,甚至在不同的開示,以不同的語氣、不同的方法或形式,都是有關無私的愛,而現在正是你們應該運用自己所學到的這些無私功課的時候。假如你們到現在還沒有加以運用,那就再也沒有機會了。不是每個星球都會像地球一樣步上幾乎滅絕之路,好讓你們能出去拯救它,然後賺取功德。這是你們所擁有的最好機會。當然,我們的氣候越來越暖化,我們的地球正陷入困境,這是很悲哀的事;但另一方面,這是讓你們證明自己值得做這件事的最好機會。


我們長到現在20、30、40歲,整個輩子都吃這個世界的食物,但我們報答社會多少?所以不要找藉口給我。你們是我的弟子,應該讓我為你們感到驕傲,以你們正確的觀念、以誠實面對自己來讓我為你們驕傲。對自己誠實是最難的事,但你們必須這樣做。如果你對自己不誠實,那就沒有其他方法能讓你進步,因為我不會每天在那裡檢查你。即使我在那裡,我也不會告訴你。要不要誠實面對自己,是你自己的選擇,我只能教導你們必須誠實,但那是你的選擇,那是你的人生,你自己決定要怎麼做,要如何把無私的愛化為行動。每個人都說︰「哦,我愛師父!哦,我愛所有的人,我愛動物!」那就付諸行動,光說沒什麼用。


把愛化為行動


所以我們衡量自己或任何人的方法,就是看行動。看樹上長出的水果,就知道它是什麼樹。若一棵蘋果樹只是立在那裡,整棵樹所有的樹枝都聲稱︰「我是一棵蘋果樹,我是一棵很棒的蘋果樹。」但它從未長出一顆蘋果,你會怎麼想?是不是很好笑?


所以作為一個弟子或所謂的聖人,每天坐在那裡4、5個小時,無所事事,只照顧自己,那不是一種正確的人生態度,更不用說是聖人的生活。現今有時你們用電腦很方便,可以很容易賺到錢;你們有些人很聰明,不用工作太多就能賺到錢,但這時候,你們就該用這些福報出去幫助他人、喚醒他們,或為他們做些事。你們可以一起做或單獨做,做些事幫助這個世界。因為上帝加持你,所以你用它去加持別人,就像水槽裝滿優質、乾淨的水,就是為了供應給整個家庭或整個城市,而不是留給自己用,那會發臭壞掉的。


所以光打坐或聽師父在錄音帶中說︰「哦,我們必須無條件。」然後出去告訴每個人︰「哦,你必須無條件,你必須無私。」這樣還不行。你必須率先去做,而不能指望鄰居去做,以身作則比說教有用、比說教好。所以我們必須盡己所能去做,全力以赴。


不要太享受你所得到的加持,因為這樣你到不了哪裡的。以後當你上了天堂……當然你不會下地獄,因為你沒做錯什麼事,而且你是我的徒弟,當然會去天堂,好,這一點我可以保證。但當你上天堂後,你將看到所有其他聖人、師父的徒弟,師兄、師姊們都往上、往上、往上到更高的等級,而你卻留在第三界較低的地方;是第三界,但卻是第三界較低的等級。你看著他們往上去,然後你回顧自己一生的紀錄,因為每個人的一生都被詳細地記錄下來,整個宇宙都知道你做過什麼事,即使你是暗中做的。所以當你回顧自己一生的紀錄時,哦,你會覺得很難過,你絕對會對自己感到羞恥,甚至連上帝也無法安慰你!全能的上帝無法告訴你︰「哦,沒關係,孩子,你還好,你只是人類。」當然,每個人都會原諒你,因為在天堂沒有仇恨、沒有不寬恕,每個人都被所有眾生慈悲地看待。但是你出自完美,將不會接受自己不完美的行為,這就是為什麼人要一再輪迴,回到人世或任何世界,來彌補他們過去的錯誤。但是當我們下來後,又忘了,我們被誘惑,處在不同的舒適情況中。真好,你有個男朋友或女朋友,然後綁在一起,整天親親、抱抱,比方說這樣子,然後你太舒服了,輕易就賺到足夠的錢,有個房子或什麼的。在正常情況下,這沒什麼不好,但世界正處在水深火熱中,動物每天都在受苦。我無法忍受觀看週二(「無上師電視台」)的節目,看的時候,我尖叫,我嚎啕大哭。有時我必須看,以增強我的心志。但怎麼有人能享受呢?你能,當然你能享受自己私人的生活和福報,但要用一部分來幫助別人。


同修︰我每天也有相同的感受,感受到世界的苦難……


是,沒關係,感受苦難也好,但要做些事,盡己所能去做,依據你的良知做最好的事,不是為了我,不是為了動物,甚至不是為了世界。一直做到你覺得︰「好,我是一個好人,我有確實實踐聖人的教理,我是一個好的佛教徒(或基督徒)……」你必須真的了解,不是只為自己找藉口。


練習無私的愛直到成為第二天性


這非常容易,只要肯嘗試,它就會變成像是你的第二天性。如果你不試,它就不會在你內邊重新覺醒。你當年嘗試吃素,現在它成為你的天性,你無法再吃肉,你不能,即使有人強迫你或給你錢,你也不會吃肉。現在吃素已成為你的習慣、你的天性,還有,你對素食、愛心飲食的認知,使你對自己的決定非常堅定。有時你難免會想起過去曾吃過這個、吃過那個,但現在你絕不會再去吃那些東西。像是你會想起雞肉或魚肉之類的,但你絕不會再去吃它們。那只是頭腦思考的習慣,如此而已,但你知道那是錯的。是的,不是因為口味的問題,甚至不是因為師父這樣說,而是現在你的道德觀十分穩固,你的理智接受它了,你內心知道那是一條對的路,所以你不會再回去吃肉,不是因為被禁止或其他理由,而是你已經明白其中的道理了。


把愛付諸行動也一樣,如果你加以實行,就會了解其中的意義。首先,這麼做對你有好處,因為你的靈性會獲得提昇;其次,對其他人當然也有利益。所以你做的任何事,都是先為了自己。我們當然不會以那種態度來做事,我只是想讓你們知道,不論你為別人做什麼事,不要期待對方會感謝你,也不要期待我會讚美你。我有時會這麼做,我會說:「我為你感到驕傲」等等,但不要得意。當然我會鼓勵你們,但不論你們做什麼事,都是為了你們自己。你們做任何善事,都會獲得好幾倍的回報,你們應該了解這個道理。所以當你做任何事,不要期待任何回報,然後你就會獲得回報,因為你做任何事都是為了你自己。你們知道,同性相吸,這就是為何夫妻會住在一起。如果他們有許多共同的觀點、有許多共通點,那他們的婚姻就會持久。了解我的意思嗎?不同性格的人可能會互相吸引,但性格類似的人有更多共通點,婚姻會更持久。


我們能做任何我們想做的事,我們必須堅強,就是這樣;我們是上帝!或至少我們是上帝的子女,上帝的子女就是上帝的子女;我們不是人類的子女,而是上帝的子女。耶穌告訴我們這樣,佛陀也說我們是佛︰「你們內邊都有佛性。我能成佛,你們也能成佛。」所以要表現得像上帝的子女,表現得像佛一樣,不要找任何藉口,因為那不是我的人生。我會去天堂,所以要不要跟我去,端看你自己,完全沒有任何藉口。你找藉口給我做什麼?我可以說「好」或「不好」,但那是你的人生。我們必須堅強,因為我們是上帝的子女,我們是佛的子女。 


http://www.godsdirectcontact.org.tw/ch/news/203/index.htm


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Practicing Selflessness to Honor Our Own Perfection


Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai,
France Gathering, March 8, 2009 (Originally in English)



I expect you to be perfect. I always do. No matter how long you’ve been initiated, I always look at you, and I always expect perfection. Maybe I’m a little bit harsh to you in human standards, but that’s the way you are, you are perfection!


So if you don’t do anything good now, if you don’t do anything to your perfect expectation in this lifetime, you have to come back again, even if you are my disciple, because you yourself will not accept imperfection, because you are perfection. There’s no God to kick you down from Heaven. There’s no karma; there’s no Maya king who’ll even drag you down. No more. If you are my disciple, you will be exempted from that. Even if you do something wrong, you have to pay before you die, that will be done; but you will not accept yourself. When you go to Heaven, you will see everything clearly and you won’t accept yourself as an imperfect being, so you’ll have to come back again and do it until you’re happy with yourself. Do you understand me? (Audience: Yes.)


So everything we have to do, we do it to our utmost perfection, and quietly, humbly, as much as possible. No need showing off, no need telling people, and don’t make a big deal out of nothing. And don’t use Supreme Master Television or Master’s work or Center work as an excuse to burden other people. Do you understand me? (Audience: Yes.) Are we clear? (Audience: Yes.) Are we clean? (Audience: Yes.) Good! We have to be clean because if we aren’t doing that, it is similar to people outside who take bribery or who are using their position to do something to make it comfortable for themselves; then we are not anything different. We just sit there wasting time. That’s why some people ask me, or some people don’t ask me and someone else asks me for them, “Oh, they sit in meditation four or five hours a day.” I say, “What for? The world is in trouble, and you sit there four or five hours a day, doing nothing, only two of you.” You know, boy friend, girl friend, and then make a little bit of money, and live enough, have a house, comfortable, sit all day. The world is in trouble, people are dying of hunger every day, children, old, young, able-bodied with no work to do, cannot find work, because of global warming or the global economy, or because of incapable leaders who make them suffer. And the animals are tortured every day, and you sit there four or five hours a day, thinking nonsense. I’m not sure that you can sit four or five hours a day, and concentrate and all that, and get up to the higher level, no! When you’re selfish, you can sit thousands of years, and you go nowhere. Do you understand me?


All these years I teach you, even in a different lecture, a different tone, different way or formulation, it’s all about selfless love. And this is the time you should exercise these selfless lessons that you have learned. And if you haven’t exercised it by now, there’s no chance you’ll exercise it again. Not every planet is going into almost extinction like this so that you can go out and rescue it and then get merit. This is the greatest chance you have. Of course it’s a very sad thing that our climate is getting warmer, and our globe is going into trouble. It’s a very sad thing. But on the other hand, it’s your great opportunity to prove that you’re worth it.


We’ve been eating food from the world all this lifetime, until we grow up as 20, 30, 40 years old, and how much did we repay society? So don’t make excuses for me. You are my disciples. You make me proud. You make me proud with your right conception, with your honesty with yourself. Honesty with yourself is the hardest thing to do, but you have to do it. There’s no other way you can progress, if you’re not honest with yourself; because I am not there to check you out every day. Even if I’m there, I will not tell you. It’s your choice, to be honest with yourself or not. I only give you guidance; you guys have to be honest. But it’s your choice, it’s your life. You decide what you do. You decide how you translate this selfless love into action. Everyone says, “Oh, I love Master! Oh, I love all the people, I love the animals!” Then do something about it. Talking is cheap.


Translating Love into Action


So, the way we can measure ourselves or anyone is by action. By the fruit, the tree will be known. If an apple tree is just standing there, broadcasting from all over his body, on all the branches hanging there: “I am an apple tree, apple tree; I’m a fantastic apple tree,” but he has never produced one apple, what do you think? Isn’t that funny?


So, just being a disciple, or being a so-called saint, and sitting there four or five hours a day, idling around, taking care of yourself only, that is not the way to live a human life, not to talk about a saintly life. Nowadays sometimes you have easy access to computer, and you can earn money easily; some of you are smart and you earn money easily without working too much. But then you should use that blessing to go out and help other people; wake them up, or do something for them. Do it together or do it alone; do something to help the world. Because God blessed you, so you use it to bless others. Just like the water tank got filled with good, clean water. Then that water tank is to be distributing water to the whole household, or the whole city, not to keep it for himself; it would be rotten and bad.


So it’s not just good to sit or listen to the tape, where Master says, “Oh, we have to be unconditional” and then go out and tell everyone, “Oh, you have to be unconditional, you’ve got to be selfless.” You must be first. You cannot expect your neighbors to do it. Example is more than preaching, better than preaching, so we have to do what we can, the best we can.


Do not be too comfortable in your blessed position, because then you won’t go anywhere. Later when you go up to Heaven… You won’t go to hell, of course, because you did nothing wrong, and you are my disciple, surely you’ll be in Heaven, fine. That I can promise. But you will look, when you go up, and you’ll see all other saints, disciples, your brothers and sisters, go up, up, up, up, up to the higher level, and you sit in the lower third area. Third level, but a low third, and you look at them going up, and you look back at your record of your life, because every life is recorded to the minutest detail. The whole universe knows what you’ve been doing, even if you do it in the dark. So when you look at your record - oh, you will feel terrible, you will feel absolutely ashamed of yourself, that no God can even comfort you! No Almighty power can tell you, “Oh, it’s okay, kid, you’re alright, you’re just human.” Of course, everyone forgives you, because in Heaven, there’s no hatred, no unforgiveness. Everyone is looked upon kindly by all beings in Heaven. But you, yourself, born from perfection, will not accept your imperfect action. That’s why people come back again and again, into a human world, or any world, to redress their past mistake. But when we go down, forget again, we get tempted into a different comfortable zone or situation. It’s nice: You just have a boyfriend or girlfriend and are cooped up together, all day kiss, kiss, hug, hug, for example, and then you’re too comfortable; you earn a little, enough money, easily, and have a home or something. That is okay under normal situations, but the world is aflame, and animals are suffering every day. I could not bear to look at the Tuesday (Supreme Master TV) program. I look at it, I scream, and I cry so much. Sometimes I have to look, to reinforce my heart even more, but how can anyone enjoy? You can; of course you can enjoy your privacy and your blessed situation, but use some of it to help others.


Audience: Every day, I can feel like the same way, the suffering of this world...


Yes. Never mind. Feel suffering is okay, but go do something. Do the best you can, the best thing to your conscience, not to me, not to the animals, not to the world even. You do until you feel that, “Okay, I’m a good human, and I’m a good follower of the teaching of the saints. I’m a good Buddhist, or I’m a good Christian...” You have to truly know it, not just making an excuse for yourself.


Practice Unconditional Love Until It Is Second Nature


It’s very easy: Just try it and then it becomes like your second nature. If you don’t try it, it will never reawaken within you. You tried vegetarian then; now it becomes your nature. You cannot eat meat otherwise; you can’t, not even if people force you or give you money, you can’t do it. It’s become your habit now, your nature. And also your intellectual understanding of the vegetarian, compassionate diet, that makes you so firm in your decision. I guess sometimes, you remember before you ate this and that, but you will never go and eat it now. Like you remember chicken or fish or whatever, but you will never go back to eat it. It’s just a habit of the mind thinking, that’s all, but you know it’s wrong. Yes, not because of taste, even not because Master says so, but now you are firmly in your moral understanding; your intellectual understanding accepts it, your heart knows it’s a good way, so you won’t ever go back to eating meat. Not because it’s forbidden or anything else even, you just know it.


The same with love in action: if you do it, you understand the meaning of it. First, it’s good for you because of your spiritual elevation. Second, of course, it’s good for others. So anything you do, you do for yourself first. We don’t do it in that attitude, of course. But I just want you to know that whatever you do for anyone, don’t expect him to thank you, and don’t expect me to praise you. I sometimes do. I say, “I’m proud of you,” and all that, but don’t take it. Of course I encourage you, but whatever you do is for yourself. Anything good you do comes back to you many fold, so you must understand this concept. So anything you do, don’t expect anything, and then you get it, because you do everything for yourself. You know, like attracts like. That’s why husband and wife stay together. If they have a lot of common sense, a lot in common, then they stay longer. You see what I mean? Opposites may attract, but similarities endure and stay longer if you have some more things in common together.


We can do anything we want. We have to be strong, that’s it; we are God! Or, at least we are God’s children. God’s children are God’s children. We’re not human children; we’re God’s children. Jesus told you that. And Buddha said you are Buddha: “You have Buddha nature inside. I can be Buddha; you can be Buddha.” So behave like God’s children; behave like Buddha. Don’t make any excuse to me, because it’s not my life. I’ll go to Heaven, so it’s up to you to come with me or not come with me. There’s no excuse at all. What for would you make excuse to me? I could say “Okay,” or “Not okay,” but it’s your life. We have to be strong, because we are the children of God; we’re the children of the Buddha. 


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