《物不遷論》

 

南禪朋友好！

南禪基金會執行長跟我提起有人跟她講，中國東晉時期的僧肇法師寫的《物不遷論》

我看了一個網站寫得很不錯跟大家分享。

 用文言文寫的《物不遷論》只有專精研究的人才能看懂， 這個網頁寫的有趣的比喻讓中文思想裡面的「空」 多一個觀點。

 半寄

https://philomedium.com/blog/81226

 

 

心猿意猴The Monkey Mind

 

南禪朋友早安！

                 最近認識的大德有些焦慮自己的前途，

提供一個基本功。 

          當你的腦海浮現看到別人過好日子，你就認為他們都是搶

來的或是他們都是很容易就做到！ 那就應該告訴自己，他們一

定付出很多， 我自己做自己的。

魔鬼無非就是在你腦袋給你負面的顛倒妄想， 大家都生活的

好， 全世界只有你自己不好， 你盡量去嫉妒、盡量去掠奪⋯⋯  

當你的腦袋僅有這些負面的想法的時候， 其實你的福報已經在

報銷了， 魔鬼給你嗎啡吃，讓你完全顛倒妄想， 如果我們可以

克制這樣的想法，只看好自己， 讓自己的腦袋能從黒暗中透出

光明，

可以克制這些顛倒妄想， 除了供養功德外更為自己造福， 不必

怕自己不能往前走！

我個人就這樣修的， 個人早年很用功這樣做， 墊下一個雄厚的

基礎，幫助我有力量往前走！ 

             換句話說:佛經一直講「貪瞋癡薄，」反應的是光明的力量， 

自己的前途也會因光明的力量而開拓一條路的 

只問自己拿什麼能力往上爬。 

           佛陀自己也常說：天魔波旬常在搜尋祂的弟子腦袋，（意識） 

找佛陀弟子腦袋幹什麼？

裝進各式各樣的顛倒妄想啊！ 看似靜態的修行， 但只要大腦一

直是顛倒妄想，就一直在消耗自己福報， 

修行只要能反制不論是自己的，或是別人給的顛倒妄想，

基礎從此墊下。 

半寄

（上圖照片，不聽、不看、不說顛倒妄想，泰國佛寺）

（自己盯著自己，只要了解自己的心意識，不過只是一隻猴子

而已，哪有心思去看別人在幹什麼！ 拼命往前跑都來不及）

The Monkey Mind

Good morning, friends of Nan Zen!

Amongst the people I’ve recently become acquainted with, some are

 worried about the future, and I’d like to speak about that.

When we see others who are doing well, we tend to assume that

 everything has always been easy for them, or that their success has

 been acquired through nefarious means! It would be better to tell

 yourself that whatever they are now enjoying is surely the result of

 meritorious deeds done in the past, and that I can do the same.

The main way in which an evil spirit brings you to harm is to sow

 negative and deluded thoughts in your mind, the sort of thoughts

 that make you believe that you are the only one in the whole world

 who has problems, so that you begin to envy others, and may even

 start thinking that you might be justified in getting ahead by

 engaging in illicit activities.

 

When you fall prey to these sorts of negative thought patterns you

 actually attenuate whatever blessings you might have otherwise had

 coming your way. This is the morphine the devil gets you hooked on

 so that your thinking gets all twisted. What we need to do is to put

 an end to this way of thinking; when you gain a clear understanding

 of yourself, it’s as if a bright light comes shooting out of the

 darkness; by practicing the virtue of generosity you generate

 blessings and good fortune for yourself, enabling you to

 courageously go forward!

For a long time now I have been diligently practicing in this way; it’s

 a way of laying down a solid foundation, and it gives you the

 strength needed to keep moving ahead!

This is why the Buddhist scriptures repeatedly stress the importance

 of attenuating greed, hatred, and delusion; doing so generates a

 bright kind of energy which helps to illuminate the way ahead.

It’s up to us to generate this energy and to use it to keep moving in

 the right direction.

 The Buddha repeatedly said that Mara is always observing the hearts

 of those on the path of Buddhist Practice.

What for?

He’s looking for his chance to install all sorts of devious and twisted

 ideas in their hearts! Someone may appear to be enrapt in

 meditation, but as soon as a deluded thought pattern arises, one’s

 blessings are consumed.

So an essential part of practice is being able to overcome and

 eradicate these deluded thought patters, be they of one’s own

 making or learned from someone else.

This is one of the foundations of Buddhist Practice.

Master Ban Ji

Translated by Ken Kraynak

 

(photo: Three monkeys showing the idea of “Hear no delusion, see

 no delusion, speak no delusion” at a monastery in Thailand)

(By turning inwards, you come to realize that your mind is like a

 restless monkey; you won’t learn this by observing others! The mind

 is so fast that you’ll never catch up with it.)

龍年 Year of the Dragon

 南禪朋友好！

       

          在這裡跟大家拜個早年  ，十幾天來新加坡、香港的朋友們點閱部落格文章又破了1200次，讓我有一點喜悅!  

       從開始寫佛法，個人就認定好的文章靠口碑就可以傳出去！

所以也沒有任何廣告，任何的推動。

 我個人一直維持看書的習慣，自己看到好的文章、好的書藉也

一樣會去介紹，所以也認定自己如寫的好應該也會有口碑的。 

         在此感謝新加坡讀者熱心的介紹，「南禪精舍修行的探

討」 大家龍年如意！ 

半寄暨南禪精舍、教育基金會執行長郭芳純、董事會一同敬上

Year of the Dragon

Greetings, friends of Nan Zen!

I’d like to wish everyone an early happy new year! I’m pleased to

 report that over the past ten days or so the articles on the blog have

 had over 1,200 hits from our friends in Singapore and Hong Kong.

Right from the start of writing about Buddhism, I’ve found that a

 good article gets sufficient publicity by word of mouth alone.

So there’s no need for advertising or publicity.

I’ve always been an avid reader, and whenever I read a good article

 or book I recommend it to others; by the same token, if anything I

 write is of good quality, it will naturally get sufficient exposure by

 word of mouth alone.

I’d also like to thank the reader from Singapore for the review of

Search For Enlightenment with Nan Zen Vihara. Best wishes for a

 happy year of the dragon!

Sincerely,

 Banji, Nan Zen Vihara, education foundation CEO Sophiea

 Kuo, and the board of directors