自力耕生

 自力更生

早上打開台灣花蓮慈濟靜思精舍的產品，

是智美老師讀書會送的，

聖者說：他們很好耶，自力耕生，他都調查完了！😄👍

修行應該給人們一塊淨土

這一兩天的事：

「信息1.

師父午安：

這一次我察覺我自己心靈是多麼混亂與虛弱，還有非常強烈的牽絆。

（外在的，明明；理智與精神感受背道而行，精神上的折磨到我快受不了，臨時向您求救，真的非常抱歉。

（理智上交給醫生，精神上壞的想法、影像一直出現，哎...，精神、牽絆的感覺，我覺得用折磨也不為過）

向您求救之後，內心真的舒服許多。

師父您真的有穩定的力量。

信息2.

師父晚安，（另外一位）

眼皮仍三不五時跳跳跳，但已明顯改善很多。大悲水也有空就噴一些。

心經在心裡默唸。

師父感恩您給我的穩定力量。」

我個人的修行路上一直在追求，自我修行上的感應必須是真的，

不斷地，不厭其煩的印證也是我對自我的要求，

如果修行只是一堆幻想，不如去工作了！

（我帶的學員們，願意誠實寫出他們的心態，我是很感謝的，這不是懦弱，這是進步的開端！）

我寫的修行大德們，不管是華人或是印度的聖者，我也都追求為真，

所寫的也是近身的觀察，提供給想要更進一步的修行者參考，

沒有要攻擊誰？

如果真的看不懂文章，請不要看。

半寄

Self-Reliance Through One’s Own Efforts

 

This morning, I opened a package of products from the Jing Si Abode of Tzu Chi in Hualien, Taiwan. They were a gift from Teacher Zhimei at the studying， club.

The Sage said, “They’re really doing well! They support themselves through their own efforts. He has already investigated everything!” 😄👍

 

Spiritual practice should create a pure land for people.

 

 

What happened over the past day or two.

Message 1

 

Good afternoon, Master.

This time, I became aware of just how confused and emotionally weak I was, and how strongly I was still attached to certain things.

 

(On the outside, everything seemed clear enough, but my rational mind and inner emotional and spiritual experiences were going in opposite directions. The mental anguish was becoming almost unbearable, so I reached out to you for help at the last minute. I am truly sorry for troubling you.)

 

Rationally, I have entrusted the matter to the doctor. But mentally, disturbing thoughts and images keep appearing. Sigh… The mental distress and the feeling of being deeply attached to something are so intense that I feel the word “torment” is not an exaggeration.

After reaching out to you for help, I felt much more at ease inside.

Master, you truly have a calming and stabilizing presence.

 

Message 2

 

Good evening, Master. (From another person.)

My eyelid still twitches from time to time, but the condition has improved significantly. Whenever I have a chance, I also spray some Great Compassion Water.

 

I silently recite the Heart Sutra in my mind.

Master, I am grateful to you for giving me a sense of stability and inner peace.

 

Throughout my own spiritual journey, I have always sought genuine experiences and responses in spiritual practice. They must be real.

 

Continuously verifying these experiences, again and again, without growing tired or impatient, is also a standard I set for myself.

 

If spiritual practice is nothing more than a collection of fantasies, I might as well go to work instead!

 

(I am grateful that the students I guide are willing to write honestly about their own mental and emotional states. This is not a sign of weakness. It is the beginning of progress!)

 

When I write about respected spiritual practitioners, whether Chinese practitioners or the Indian Sage, I also seek to ensure that what I write is true.

 

My writings are based on firsthand observations, which I share as a reference for those who wish to deepen their spiritual practice.

 

I am not trying to attack anyone.

If you truly cannot understand what an article is saying, please simply do not read it.

 

Master Banji

時間Time

 時間

我們英國讀者笑著說：我時間還沒有寫完。

因為這不是可以寫出的公式，這是一種佛法的概念，卻屬於人體的修行，很難寫出來，

只有在南禪讀書會上，自己帶的成員想聽講述一下，

沒想到肉眼看不見的聖者，受利益最大，非常有趣😁

半寄

Time

 

A reader from the UK joked, “You haven’t finished writing about time yet.”

 

That is because this is not a formula that can simply be written down. It is a Buddhist concept related to spiritual practice within the human body, and it is very difficult to put into words.

 

It is explanined only when the members of my own NanZen study clubs ask.

 

Unexpectedly, the unseen Sage benefits the most. How interesting! 😁

 

Master Banji

印度聖者-空法The Indian Sage — The Dharma of Śūnyatā

 印度聖者-空法

10月20號的文章說：

印度聖者凌晨1:30把我弄醒，把中觀學派的照片塞到我腦袋，

我意識到他跟我去台南讀書會聽了「中觀20品」部分講解，他聽了大概滿意要我寫空法。

昨天23號早上他的侍者要求他回去印度，

他用流利的中文跟我說：這邊還沒有人，他不會回去，留下來看照我，

而且這段期間他跟我交流的空法讓他功力再次大進，他很感謝我！

到了下午，他在半空中對我大喊，你說的空法與時間併行在這裡，他的速度比之前快了一百倍！

所有的快樂，都比不上一位對你講解的內容心神領會並且實證的人物。😄

印度聖者來之後的一個月，就已經跟我照會過說：我講解的空法對他有利益，

讓我有一點錯愕！

上篇文章寫過虛雲老和尚2019年就已經來找我，

但事實上他們對於本身的佛法再進展幾乎是沒有意願的，

因為他們受儒家思想影響，了解的佛法跟印度聖者是不一樣的，以儒家傳統而言，虛老的修行已經到了頂尖的地步！

但這種頂尖一直遊走在儒家道德的溫良恭儉裡面，再加有修行入定的神通。

虛老本身所熟悉的思想已經沒有再擴展空間了，所以不會認為自己需要再吸收什麼？

印度聖者身處的印度環境及他們的數理觀念，讓他們知道還有擴展的空間，

這兩者之間的知識及周遭環境的認知就相距非常遠了！

記得我年輕的時候，看過一位在美國的華人修行者竟然大剌剌在雜誌寫說：

他身處藩邦，ㄧ句英文都不學，

我當時看到這文章，驚訝程度只能用突兀、錯亂形容，

他是修行者，應該再吸收其他民族的智慧，才能正確的引導別人，

把身處的國家視為藩邦，是一種己身民族給的教育錯誤，

還是他個人無知到底了？

路走遠了，才知道你只能跟眼界開闊的人們聊上幾句，

看過場面及閱人無數的人們，懂得什麼是真實的能力。

半寄

The Indian Sage — The Dharma of Śūnyatā

 

In my October 20 article, I wrote that the Indian Sage woke me up at 1:30 a.m. and implanted images of the Madhyamaka school in my mind.

 

I realized that he had accompanied me to the Tainan study club and listened to part of my explanation of Chapter 20 of Nagarjuna’s Middle Way: Mulamadhyamakakarika. He seemed satisfied with my explanation and wanted me to write about the Dharma of Śūnyatā.

 

On the morning of October 23, his attendant asked him to return to India. He spoke to me in fluent Chinese, saying, “There is still no one here. I will not return to India. I will stay here to watch over you.”

He also told me that the discussions of the Dharma of Śūnyatā we had shared during this period had enabled him to make another major advance in his practice. He was very grateful to me!

 

That afternoon, he shouted to me from the air, “The Dharma of Śūnyatā you described operates in parallel with time. Here, my speed is a hundred times greater than before!”

Nothing compares with the joy of encountering someone who fully grasps what you explain and puts it into practice. 😄

 

Just one month after the Indian Sage arrived, he had already communicated to me that my explanation of the Dharma of Śūnyatā had benefited him. This left me somewhat astonished!

 

As I wrote in my previous article, Venerable Master Xuyun had already come to see me in 2019.

Yet, in terms of further developing their own understanding of Buddhism, they had shown almost no inclination to do so.

 

The reason was that they had been influenced by Confucian thought. Their understanding of Buddhism differed from that of the Indian Sage. According to traditional Confucian standards, Venerable Master Xuyun had already attained the highest level of spiritual cultivation.

 

However, this supreme level of cultivation remained within the Confucian virtues of gentleness, kindness, respectfulness, frugality, and humility, together with the extraordinary abilities associated with meditative absorption.

 

The familiar intellectual framework within which Venerable Master Xuyun operated no longer seemed to offer room for expansion. Consequently, he would not have thought there was anything further he needed to learn.

 

By contrast, the Indian Sage's environment in India, along with the mathematical and logical perspectives familiar to people there, enabled him to recognize that further expansion was still possible.

The difference between these two approaches to knowledge and their respective understandings of the world around them was enormous!

 

I remember reading a magazine article when I was young in which a Chinese spiritual practitioner living in the United States openly declared that he was living in a foreign land and would not learn even a single word of English.

When I read this, I was astonished. His attitude seemed so out of place that I found it difficult to understand.

 

As a spiritual practitioner, he should have continued to learn from the wisdom of other peoples. Only by doing so could he guide others appropriately.

To regard the country in which one lives as a foreign domain is either the result of educational misconceptions inherited from one's own ethnic culture or a manifestation of profound personal ignorance.

 

Only after traveling a long way do you come to realize that meaningful conversations are possible only with people who have broad horizons.

Those who have experienced the wider world and encountered a great variety of people and situations understand what genuine ability truly is.

 

Master Banji