從愛心出發

編號：794 日期：2007.08.22, 24 地點：法國巴黎小中心 性質：打禪  用語：英文

總之，有可能那個男人或那個女子過去曾當過某種動物，也許是高貴品質較低的動物，像那些掠食性動物，他們必須獵殺才能生存，那些動物的高貴品質比其他動物還低。至於那些很和平的動物，比方說大象，他們則有百分之三十的高貴品質。所以要發展高貴品質，就要運用你所擁有的「本錢」，也就是在出生前就有的「資本」。這些高貴品質是與生俱來的，而且以後也會一直伴隨著你，但除非你善加運用，讓它大幅成長，不然你的高貴品質頂多達到百分之三或百分之四罷了，或是停留在出生時的水平。

大多數人只有百分之三到百分之五的高貴品質，為什麼？因為這是他們與生俱來的，他們出生時就這樣，然後又沒有機會去發展。其實他們是可以發展的。你越去關心那些苦難者的感受，你就越覺得自己的慈悲心受到觸動，於是你會想為對方、為動物或那種情況做些事，這樣你的高貴品質就會增長，就像銀行利息一樣。你可以把本錢存入銀行，什麼也不做，也可以把它用來投資、用來做生意，這樣你的錢就會越來越多。

所以人類品質和高貴品質是可以發展的。雖然這種品質是與生俱來的，但是也可以發展，就像其他品質一樣，越用越多，很有意思！而不是越用越少，不是這樣，這和錢不一樣。錢是你給得越多，就剩得越少。但是這不是物質的東西，這些品質你越加以運用，你就擁有越多。聖人都是由凡夫進化來的，就像這樣，而不是每個人生下來就有百分之三百的高貴品質。

你們很多人只有百分之三、四、五、六、十…或百分之十五、二十、三十的高貴品質，這已經很好了，而且你們又繼續發展，這就是差別所在。因為你們接觸好的教理，這就像是高貴品質的養分。假如你們接觸其他不同的情況，也許你們的高貴品質還會更低，或只是原地踏步。如果你們接觸高雅的教理，而且也懂得如何去做，並實際採取行動，那就真的會實現。或許起初你沒太多感覺，但是那會成真。因為如果你被痛苦所打動，你就會很想奉獻心力做點事，你的愛心也會真正覺醒，這時高貴品質就會開始萌芽，並日益增長。

與此同時，至少你會有所行動。即使你不覺得深受觸動，但是假如你設身處地，把自己當成那個受苦的人，在那種情況下你會想要什麼？如此一來，你就會很清楚對方的需要了。如果有人在地震中受傷，當然他們需要藥物。或是如果他們的房子毀了，當然他們至少需要帳篷，他們也需要水和衣服，因為他們已失去了一切。只要設身處地為對方想一想，你就會清楚知道該怎麼做，也能了解對方的感受。即使你沒有完全體會到受害者的感受，但是你會開始對他人的遭遇感同身受，你會與他們同一體，然後越來越能體會他人的感受。不過上帝不會讓你感受過度，這樣你才不會太痛苦；否則，如果你像每個當事人一樣飽受痛苦，那麼你的內在會承受不了。

如果一個人所處的地位是一生下來就被賦予，或是經由繼承或出自於傳統而得到，這樣的情況就無助於高貴品質或慈悲心的發展。要發展慈悲心和高貴品質，必須在現實生活中，藉由實際行動，真正去體會痛苦，才能達成。不一定是自己受苦，而是看到他人受苦，那麼你內在的某些品質會被喚醒，那就是單純而無條件的真愛，如此你的高貴品質就會發展。即使你沒有幫那個受苦的人很多忙，或是你什麼也幫不了，只是同情對方，很想做點事來減輕面前這個人的痛苦，光是這樣就已經對長養你的高貴品質相當有幫助了。所以別怕受苦，也別怕幫助別人，因為這對你只有好處。 

http://www.godsdirectcontact.org.tw/ch/news/191/

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Suppose you have compassion in your heart, but you have never seen any situation where you need to show your compassion. It doesn’t touch you, because you don’t see anything that is suffering. So, how can you have compassion? Therefore, even God, Buddha or the son of God has to come down here in order to see. In Heaven, there is no requirement for anything like that. Everything is blissful and happy and peaceful. So if you want to develop compassion, it’s only in this world, in the physical world, or in hell perhaps, if you can survive it there, just like a lawyer goes into the prison without being affected by it.

Anyhow, suppose that guy or that girl has been in the past some animal, maybe a low NQ animal, like those predators or animals of prey, where they have to kill to survive. Those have lower NQ than other animals. The very peaceful animals, like elephants for example, have 30 percent NQ! So, to develop NQ, you just take what you have, the “capital gain,” the capital that you had before you were born. It will be with you at the time of birth, and it will continue to be with you. But unless you use it to maximize or to multiply, then it won’t grow any further than 3 percent or 4 percent, or whatever percent you had on the day you were born.

The majority of people have only 3, 4 or 5 percent NQ. Why? Because that’s what they had when they were born. They were born with that, and then they don’t have a chance to develop it. They could develop. The more you are exposed to the sense of the needy’s suffering, the more you feel your compassion being touched. And then you want to do something for that person or that animal or that situation, and then that’s how your NQ grows, like the interest rate in the bank. You can have the capital and just put it in the bank, doing nothing, or you can invest it. You can do business with it, and then it will grow.

So, HQ and NQ can be developed. The quality is inborn, but then it can be developed, and like everything else, the more you use it, the more you have it. It’s funny! It’s not like the more you use it, the more you don’t have anymore. It’s not like that. It’s not like money, where the more you give, the more you don’t have. But these are not material things. These things, the more you use, the more you have. Saints are developed from ordinary people. So, it’s like that. It’s not like everyone was born with 300 percent NQ.

Many of you have only 3, 4, 5, 6, 10 percent... or 15, 20 or 30 percent. That’s very good already. But you are expanding it; that’s the difference. Because you are exposed to the teaching, it’s like nourishment for the NQ. If you are exposed to some other different situations, your NQ might even be less, or it might just stand still. If you are exposed to noble teachings and you know how and you go about doing it, then it really becomes real. Maybe at first you don’t feel so much, but it will become real. Because if you’re touched by the sense of suffering, then you really want to do something, and your love really awakens in your heart. That is when NQ begins to germinate and grow more and more.

But meanwhile, at least you do something. Even if you don’t feel so touched, suppose you exchange the position, like if you were that suffering person, what would you like to have? Then it’s very clear to you. If a person’s in an earthquake and they’re injured, of course they need medicine. Or, if their house is lost, of course they want a tent at least. They want water and clothes, because they’ve lost everything. Just exchange your position; then you know exactly what to do and how you would feel. Even if you don’t feel exactly like the person who is affected, you begin to be more identified with each other. You’ll be one with each other, and then you will feel more and more what other people feel. But God will put in a break somewhere, so that you don’t suffer too much. Otherwise, if you suffer like everyone else, overwhelmingly, then you cannot bear it from the inside feeling.

If the person is just in a position from birth or from inheritance, or from tradition, then that doesn’t develop their Noble Quality or compassion. Compassion and Noble Quality have to be in real life, real action and real exposure to suffering. Not by yourself perhaps, but if you see someone else suffer, then something will be awakened in you: the love that is pure and unconditional, a true love. Then your NQ will develop. Even if you’re not doing anything much or you cannot do anything for that suffering person, just your sympathy, your desire to do something to lessen the suffering of that person in front of you, that is already good potential nutrition for your NQ. So, do not feel afraid of suffering, and do not feel afraid to help other people, because it’s only good for you.

Master Says  

http://www.godsdirectcontact.org.tw/eng/news/191/