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【證嚴上人開示】

我們要時時護身口意,舉手動足、開口動舌,常自警惕,莫使眾生受驚恐,護諸眾生隨所安,這是我們平時應該要有的,最根本的修持的心態。

還記得昨天和大家分享,對大家說過:

或因風放火 飛鷹放犬

惱害一切

如是等罪 今悉懺悔

這些都是罪,這些都使眾生不得安寧。

牠的住處我們常常去擾亂,或是牠的生命,我們常常去威脅牠,這都是一種造罪業。或是你放出獵犬,無論是咬獸類;或是有一種鳥類,專門在抓魚;無論下水或是上山,這都會傷害眾生的物命,都是人所指使的,所以這些罪歸向哪裡呢?歸回原主。

什麼人飼養的,什麼人唆使牠去咬,這分罪業不是那隻狗,或是那隻鷹的,不是的,是我們人,人飼養牠、訓練牠,所以牠去做這樣的事,所以罪業還是人要受的。

所以我們應該要好好的,不只是自己的動作,其實我們也不可使別人去做。過去蓮池大師的《放生文》,裡面也有這樣一段文字,有時我們賺錢,要賺什麼樣的錢?

世間上有很多可用來養生活口,可以養活妻子、奉養父母,可以靠我們的勞力。不過,有些人的勞力,是有一些偏差,但是他說:「我是為了奉養我的父母。」

這個故事是在浙江省嘉興縣,有一位老太太,她有一個兒子,兒子算來也十分孝順,為了奉養母親,讓母親的生活比較好一些,他就很認真一直去捕,蟳或毛蟹這一類。

他若捉到了,就用菅草,一隻一隻將牠連結成整串,整串的毛蟹、蟳,這樣捉到市場去賣,一次賣都是整串的。他這樣幾十年來,一直都從事這個行業。若這些東西在市場上賣完了,就順便去買一些,母親喜歡吃的東西。買米、買柴以外,母親平時所喜愛的東西。所以算來也是孝順,來奉養他的母親。

經年累月,幾十年的時間,每天、每天都是連串的蟳、毛蟹,這些生命實在是不可計算,無法去計算。母親吃得很歡喜,生活過得很滿足;都會向人炫耀說:「我的兒子很厲害,我的兒子都在做什麼事。他很會捉,每一次捉來都是用繩子,將牠們綁成一串,很厲害。」這樣讚嘆她的兒子,這種營生的方法,經營他的工作。她很歡喜。

所以一直一直,到了年紀也大了,有一天不知什麼樣的病,很奇怪,就是一直會去吞菅草繩。每一次要吞食,都是整束往肚子裡的胃、腸,這樣一直吞;才自己再將整束整綑的繩子,一節一節一直抽出來、抽出來。抽完時,她又再整捆一直吞一直吞,吞下去又一樣照常一直抽、抽,抽出來。她若不這麼做,就很不舒服,所以一直做這個動作,苦不堪言。

經過很多天,胃腸裡的胃液都被她抽出來了,甚至連血也流出來了。這樣折磨了一段時間,一直到血全流出來了,相信那時沒有解剖,相信應該腸斷了、胃也破了,大量出血,之後就往生了。

在這麼多天的時間這樣折磨,這個村莊的人,大家都來看。人家來看,她就說:「我是在替我的兒子受罪,我替我的兒子受罪。」

人家告訴她:「妳就別吞了!」

「沒吞很難過。」

所以若沒吞,她就一直哀嚎;一直哀嚎就一直說:「我是在替我的兒子受罪。」

真的是因緣果報,雖然是兒子做的,不過,兒子一心,都是要供養他的母親,因為兒子去造這個業,所買回來的東西,都是他喜歡的;她還一直讚嘆,她的兒子從事這樣的工作。

一直到了幾十年後,她的兒子為了他的母親,傷殺了這麼多的生命,所以這些罪業,還是歸於他的母親。他的兒子是不是就沒業了?有的!不過,那時候,這樣活生生的因果,呈現在人人面前,這個母親一直說:「我要替我的兒子受罪,這是我要替兒子受罪!」

那種一直折磨到死,這是不是我們常說的:「業要對半分。」造業的人和使他作,一樣都有業!

各位,我們學佛就要好好,身口意真的要照顧好。我們要因緣果報,自己要好好時常警惕。

下來這段文字又這麼說:

或以檻弶坑撥

扠戟弓弩

彈射飛鳥走獸之類

或以罟網罾釣

這段的意思就是說,殺生的工具有很多種,有的就是用檻弶,裡面安裝機器、安裝弶,有時獸類,或是陸上跑的,就像有的人是捕兔子,或是捕很多種東西,都會使用檻,裡面裝上弶,牠若去吃東西,就被逮住了,門就關起來了。這樣去捕,這就是捕這些,陸上跑的、走的種種動物。或是在樹林裡挖一個坑,讓動物從這邊跑過去時,踩下去,爬不起來,這都是要捕捉這些走獸之類。

或是扠戟弩弓,或是用扠的,或是用射的等等,這都是殺害眾生的工具與方法。或是用彈的打鳥的那種,用石頭、用珠、用(彈弓)這樣彈的,那種彈射,或是用弓箭等等,使這些飛禽走獸很惶恐,喪失生命,這都是傷害生命的工具。

或是「罟網」或是「罾釣」,這是水中的工具。我們常聽到,牽罟,在海中要捕魚,有一種魚就是要去拉,用網子拉,名稱叫做牽罟。這種東西阻擋了水底的生靈,生活的範圍被牠被遮攔起來,遮攔起來之後,整個將牠網住,那些生命也是很多。

撩漉水性 魚鱉黿鼉

蝦蜆螺蚌 濕居之屬

使水陸空行 藏竄無地

像這種生物之類是這麼多,我們殺生的方法是這麼多種,有的人就是在水中,那樣用盡種種方法;或是有的是用蚌,是養珠的,毀壞牠自然的生活,用人工將牠撬開,植入珠子進去,這也是一種,很傷害自然界的生命。

所以在「濕居」,就是在水裡潮溼中生活之物,人類使一些小聰明,想盡辦法來傷殺,「水陸空行」之物,使這些東西「藏竄無地」,無論趕盡殺絕,這都是人心去造成了眾生界,不同的形命,牠有不同的生活生態,但是,就是人類來擾亂牠,趕盡殺盡,無論是空中飛的、陸上跑的,水中生活的,或是潮濕的地方,或是乾燥的地方等等,都有生命,人就是如此的惡劣,擾亂一切眾生界的生態。

想想看,我們現在整個地球,整個世界已經自不安寧了,我們要住在這個世間,也是一樣很不安全。

看到氣候的變遷,佛陀早就告訴我們,「人生無常、國土危脆」,這種無常、這種危脆,世間萬物那麼脆弱,山河大地,看看下大雨,在深山裡也一樣會走山,整座山移動了。

為何會整個走山?也是因為人去把它變換生態。原來山的原始林,一切生物、植物,有牠們的生活世界、環境,我們人就是這樣去損壞,說什麼:「人力定能勝天。」這種損害、破壞,說不定是幾百年前、近百年間;幾十年前、近十年間,這樣一直一直延續下來,不斷在破壞。

所以過去祖先所做的,說不定開山造林,那些人都不在了;說不定現在他的子孫繼續在做;說不定現在的人,為了生活交通,或是所需求的物質,現在的人去山上取這些資源、破壞生態。

說不定現在的破壞,比過去還快。因為過去是用人工的,無論是挖山、開路,都是用人工慢慢來,現在不是,現在是用炸藥、現在是用怪手、現在是用挖土機、現在已經是用電腦儀器,整座山一直鑽進去。

現在人的頭腦很好,愈發明的東西,傷殺力愈大。無論是山河大地的傷害,或者是物命的殺傷,愈來力道愈強。所以現在這顆地球,受破壞愈來愈快,所以已經國土危脆的現相,已經在我們這一代人,已經感受到了,再下去下一代的年輕人,再下去再下一代的幼年,將來長大時,在地球上這樣的生態,很可怕!
就如現在眾生界,被人類如此毀傷,使牠害怕、使牠恐懼、使牠居無定處,使牠…,很多。

看看天災大雨,多少人無家可歸?一個地震,有多少人的房子全倒了?甚至海嘯一來,生命、家園,颶風,一陣風一吹,這和我們人在破壞,眾生界的生態不都一樣嗎?愈來愈強,這些因果循環,愈來愈快、愈逼切,實在是令人很擔憂!

各位,凡事我們都要好好,從我們的良知開始,平時,我們要護身口意業,我們的心要顧好,我們的手腳要用來利益人群,我們的動作應該用在護生、保護生靈。

我們希望有一個好的環境,讓人居住;有一個好的環境讓生物、所有的生命界、形命界、所有的眾生能夠隨處所安。這樣才是真正的,萬物之靈來保護眾生。

所以我們大家時時要用心,護心、護生,保護我們的心不可以出軌,我們保護所有的眾生,都能平安生活。這才是我們的責任,所以人人要多用心!
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Lecturer: Master Zheng-Yan
Subject: Protect the Mind, Protect Living Beings (
護心 護生)

We must always protect our body, speech and mind. Even in the smallest things we say and do, we need to always be vigilant. Do not cause sentient beings fear. Protect all beings so they find peace. This should be our basic mindset.

We shared this yesterday. Remember I said, “We may set fires when there is wind or release eagles or hounds to distress and harm all beings. For these and other transgressions I repent today.”

These are all transgressions. These actions disturb the peace of sentient beings. If we often disturb their habitat or threaten their lives, we are creating bad karma. If we release hounds that hunt animals or birds that are trained to fish, we are harming living beings on land and sea. Humans cause this damage. Where do we attribute these transgressions? To the source, to the person who raised these animals and commanded them to attack. The bad karma does not belong to the dog or the hawk. No. Only to the people who feed and train them to do these things. The bad karma belongs to the people. So, not only should we not do these things, we must not cause others to do them.

In Master Lian-Chi’s Essay on Liberating Life, he addressed this as well. When we earn money, how do we want to do so? There are many ways to make a living, many ways to support a wife and parents. We can do it with hard work. However, some people’s efforts are slightly misguided. But they say, “I just do it to support my parents.” This story is from Jiaxing in Zhejiang Province. There was an old woman with a son. Her son was completely filial. To support his mother and allow her to live more comfortably, he earnestly went out all the time to catch crabs, hairy sea crabs, and the like. When he caught them, he strung them together with coarse grass. He took the strings of crab to sell at the market. He sold entire strings of them at a time. He did this for many decades. After he sold them, he would buy his mother’s favorite food. Besides rice and firewood, he bought her things she liked. So he was considered a filial son who supported his mother.

As time passed, over many decades he sold strings of crabs every day. The number of lives was incalculable. The mother was very happy and satisfied with her life. She often bragged, “My son is incredible. He can do all these things. He is very good at catching crabs and stringing them together. He is amazing.” She praised the way her son made a living, how he handled his business. She was very happy.

Gradually, she grew older. One day she became mysteriously sick. It was very strange. She began to swallow grass from the crab ropes. Every time she did, it wound through her stomach and intestines. After she swallowed it, she would draw out the rope, one section at a time. When she was done, she would swallow it again. Then she would pull it out again. She kept doing this. If she stopped, she felt uncomfortable. So she kept doing this although she felt unspeakable pain.

After many days, even her gastric juices were drawn out and she also began bleeding. She was tormented like this for a long time until she bled out. They did not perform autopsies back then, but she probably ruined her intestines and ruptured her stomach. After suffering massive blood loss, she died. During these many days of torment, everyone from the village visited her. When they came, she said, “I am suffering retribution in my son’s place.”
Others told her, “Stop swallowing it.”
“But I can’t bear it if I don’t.” So if she stopped, she would wail. She cried can kept saying, “I am suffering in my son’s place.” This is truly karmic retribution.

Although her son did wrong, he did it to support her. Her son created this karma all to buy the things that she liked. She also praised him and his work. Over many decades, her son had killed so many living creatures for her sake. If this bad karma came to his mother, does that mean her son was free of karma? No. But this is still a living example of karmic cause and effect. The woman kept saying, “I am suffering retribution in my son’s place. I am doing this for him.”
She was tormented until she died.

Don’t we often say that karma is shared equally? The one who created it and the one who incited him share the karma equally. Everyone, in learning the Buddha’s teaching we must look after our body, speech and mind. We must be vigilant about karmic retribution.

The next passage continues, “We may use traps, pits, pitchforks, and bows. We shoot birds that fly and creatures that walk. We also use nets and hooks.”

This means there are many tools for killing. Some use traps with a mechanism inside to catch beasts, or land-based animals. For example, some people catch rabbits, or many other animals. They use traps baited with food. When an animal goes in to eat, the door closes, and it is caught. This is how people trap land-based animals. Sometimes the dig a pit in the forest. When animals try to run across, they fall and cannot climb back up. These traps are used to capture beasts on land. They also “use pitchforks and bows.” They use pitchforks to stab and bows to shoot. These are tools and methods for killing. Sometimes they use slingshots to hid birds with rocks and pellets. They use slings or bows and arrows to frighten and kill the creatures of land and air. These are tools for damaging living creatures.

“Nets are hooks” are tools used in the water. I have heard about people using trawls to capture fish. For some fish, they use a big net drawn by boats. This is called a trawl. They block off sea creatures form their habitat. After it surrounds them, they are captured. Many living creatures [are captured this way].

“Fish, tortoises, sea turtles, alligators, shrimps, clams, snails, or mussels live in wet places. Creatures for water, land or air will have nowhere to hide.”

There are many types of living creatures and we have many ways to kill them. Some people find methods to use [creatures] that live in water. Some use oysters to grow pearls. We disrupt their natural way of life and force them open to embed particles. This is another way of harming creatures. Many creatures live in the water or in wetlands. Humans try to be clever and do everything they can to harm and kill creatures “of sea, land or air” so they “will have nowhere to hide.”

All of them are killed. The human mind shapes the realm of sentient beings. Sentient beings take many different forms. They have different ways of life. But humans disturb them and try to kill them all, whether they fly in the air, run on land, or live in the water or in damp places, or in dry places, etc. There is life everywhere. Humans can be so vicious. They disturb all sentient beings’ ways of life. Think about it. This entire planet, our entire world, is in great unrest.

If we live in this world, we are also in danger. We can see climates change. The Buddha already told us, “Life is impermanent; the land is fragile.” This impermanence and fragility can be seen in the vulnerability of all life. Look how heavy rains affect mountains and rivers. There are landslides deep in the mountains. An entire mountain can shift

Why are there landslides? Because people change the ecosystem. Originally, the creatures and plants in the undisturbed forests have their habitat and environment. But people damage them. We think “humans can conquer nature.” This damage and destruction may have taken place hundreds of years ago, decades ago, or within the last ten years. This destruction is continuous. Perhaps our ancestors went into the mountains to cut down forests. Those people no longer exist, but perhaps their descendants are still doing the same. Perhaps people nowadays seek those resources for transportation or to satisfy their needs, so they destroy those habitats. Perhaps they are causing damages faster now than in the past. In the past they used human labor to dig into the mountains or build reads. Both required slow human labor.

Now it is different. Nowadays they use explosives, excavators, backhoes and bulldozers, all kinds of robotic machines, to dig straight into the heart of the mountain. People nowadays are very smart. They invent things with great destructive power. Now they can cause greater damage to mountains, rivers and living creatures. This Earth is being destroyed more quickly. Now the land appears to be more fragile. Our generation can already feel this. When the next generation of young people and children grow up, the ecology of the Earth will be very frightening. We can see now how humans are destroying the realms of sentient beings. We harm them and frighten them. We destroy their homes….

Look at how many people are homeless after a huge storm. In an earthquake, many house collapse. A tsunami may even come to destroy our homes. A typhoon may sweep things away. How is this different from the way we destroy others’ habits? These cycles of cause and effect are growing stronger and taking effect faster. This is truly worrisome.

Everyone, we must follow our conscience. Monitor your body, speech and mind. Take good care of the mind. We must act to benefit others and protect living beings. We hope to have a good environment for people and animals to live in, for all sentient beings to live peacefully. That is truly protecting all living beings. So, we must always carefully protect our minds and all life. We protect our minds and keep ourselves on track. We should ensure a peaceful life for all beings. That is our responsibility. So everyone, please always be mindful.
(Source: Da Ai TV 靜思晨語 法譬如水)
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