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【證嚴上人開示】

一直告訴大家,如何培養我們這念心,心若慳貪,這種人必定是貧,無論物資再富有,慳貪者永遠都不夠,永遠都不滿足,不滿足就是最貧困的。

所以心若貧也是一種病,要治療,世間的藥無法治,唯有佛法,唯有有緣人來度化,所以心貧的人是最可憐憫者,我們若是能聞法,聽到法,能起那分恭敬三寶的心,聽聞教法他能入心,改變他的行為,這樣就能使他的心生樂布施,生出一分很歡喜,去布施給人的人,若能如此,就能轉貧為富。
我們曾聽到委員在分享,有這麼一位老人,他平時,在年輕時比較欠思量,雖然有田宅、有土地,也成家立業,也有孩子,人生應該滿足了,不過,他不滿足,他覺得要為事業更打拼,所以為了打拼事業,就需要和人應酬,應酬朋友就會約他去喝酒,同時將他套牢,牽他、牽引他去簽大家樂,一開始,讓他嘗一點甜頭,他覺得這比我做生意,還輕鬆、還快活,所以開始沉迷大家樂,慢慢的全都賠了。
再來朋友又對他說,不如上賭場,人對人比較好賺,一群賭徒圍著他,開始真的就和人賭博,本來是一個很和樂的家庭,認真打拼,疼惜妻兒,慢慢變成了喝酒,玩大家樂,同時沉迷在賭場,生意不會做了,酒醉回家就打妻兒,田地與事業都一直一直衰敗,後來太太就和他離婚了,將孩子帶走了,一直變成我們看到他時,他已經住在一個雜草堆中,外面已經不知多久了,草比房子還高。


不過,他的身體還算不錯,在外面很愛交朋友,雖然那麼貧困孤老,不過,他還是常常,會出去外面和人聊天,回到家裡就像垃圾堆。
所以鄰近的人就把這個個案,通報我們的委員,委員去看他,就和這位阿公溝通,是不是能讓我們,來為您清理一下?不肯。


慈誠隊就去和他交朋友,常常熱的、冷的東西,都趕快送來,早上來看他一下,晚上來看他一下,後來有一天就對他說:「阿公,常常來,很想進去屋裡坐坐,不過,外面這麼髒,是不是我幫您清掃一下,草除一除?」

「好啊、好啊!我是欠人力而已。」

「有的、有的,我們有很多人,和我一樣的慈誠隊,不久之前不是來看過您,您又不讓人接近,所以他們很想關心您,像我一樣,是不是我找大家來清掃一下?」

「若和你一樣,可以。」

所以就找了一群,有委員、有慈誠,十幾個人這樣,屋前屋後草都除了,四周的垃圾都清掃了。
從窗口望進去,裡面很髒,又再進一步說:「阿公,我找一天,我們把屋裡全都清掃一番。」阿公看到那麼多人,大家都對他阿公長、阿公短,而且都沒有嫌他是孤單老人,所以他覺得這群人可以交往,這群人可以。


所以跟他溝通要清掃屋裡,「好,看什麼時候來?」

「下星期六來。」

「好,下星期六來。」
門一打開,裡面實在又髒又臭,阿公就說,不好意思,十多年了,想打掃手都軟了,所以就放著讓它這樣。


「沒關係、沒關係,我們大家來清掃。」

一掀開,老鼠、蟑螂、還有蛇,大家驚嚇不已,不過,還是有這念愛心,所以在一天當中,一、二十人全都將它清理好了,甚至牆壁也幫他粉刷了,甚至垃圾清掃出去,乾淨的進來,煥然一新。

阿公歡喜了,甚至從此開始,和這些慈濟人有了互動。
一位師姊就告訴他:「阿公,您每天在廟口和人說那些話,實在沒什麼用,我想邀您去做事。」


「我這麼老了,怎麼可能做事?」

「有的,年紀比你大的也可以做,還可以救濟人。」

「我年紀這麼大了,哪有辦法救濟人?」

「你跟著我走就對了,跟著我做就是了。」就帶他去了,去了看到那些人,這些人在做什麼?這和我家裡那些東西差不多,但是站在那邊看,手背在背後看,看一看,由不得自己,兩隻手伸到前面了。

「這個我會,那個我也會,垃圾分類。」

大家就和他聊天,告訴他:「您知道嗎?這些都是黃金,這些能再回收,能做什麼…。」

說一說,他覺得這樣也很有道理,這樣我也能做,我也能參加。
開始每天走路來回,差不多四十分鐘,他在路上看到塑膠:「這是我剛才回收的。」


隨手撿起來,看到鋁罐,他覺得:「這也是我剛才分類的。」撿起來放在塑膠袋裡。

這樣沿路走,沿路回家,沿路撿,撿一撿,隔天將這些東西帶著,又沿路走,沿路撿,人家都很誇獎他,人一旦被誇獎,就很歡喜,和這群人結了很好的緣。
同時人家就告訴他:「我常常讓您這麼歡喜,對您說好話,阿公,您知道這是從哪裡來的嗎?」


「不知道,你們大家都很優秀。」「這都是我們師父教的,我們師父每天都有開示,來,我們來聽。」就把電視推出來,我們一邊做回收,一邊可以聽,聽這個時候是師父的「人間菩提」。

他就開始一邊看,那個人的房子比我家以前還髒,因為聽到我在說,慈濟去為人打掃,雖然不是他家,不過,他自己看了,他也覺得比我家從前…等等。

之後開始,他說:「以後要打掃也可叫我,我也會。」

就這樣一步一步,幾年來他的身體仍很健康,也一樣做環保志工。
有一回我去歲末祝福,他來跟我相見,委員帶著他,就開始說他的故事,他邊聽就說,很不好意思,想到從前實在很糊塗,就說他從前曾有過的風光。


問他孩子曾來看你嗎?

「不曾,他們住在哪裡我也不知道,我住在哪裡他們也不知道,這可能將來,就要讓鄉公所去處理了。」慈濟人就說:「不必,阿公,只要您歡喜,我們能替您去問,您有戶口,從前從前的戶口,我們去找。」就這樣,真的找到他的孩子,孩子沒有人肯認他,但是慈濟人開始,就一直去跟他們的母親拉關係,「再看看」。

我聽的故事聽到這裡,「再看看」,是不是能夠繼續拉出關係,考慮之後,如果知道阿公都改變了,知道他的脾氣也改變了,知道他菸也不抽了,酒也不喝了,習氣都改過來了,這麼多年來,他們如果知道,可能還能團圓。
所以說來,有緣聞法者,能令心生樂布施,歡喜去布施,生樂布施,自然轉貧為富,所以我們要多用心,貧富不是在有形的,是無形的快樂,是在人群中和人結好緣,富有感情,富有愛,這是心靈的富有。
貧富之間的差距
不在有形
只在一念心
心若慳貪
無論多富有都不夠
不滿足就是最貧困的
有緣聞法者
令心生樂布施
就能轉貧為富人

下面這段文接著再說:
如是乃至 以利求利
惡求多求 無厭無足
如是等罪 無量無邊
不可說盡

之前我們都說過了,在非道凌奪,或是鬼神畜生,四生的東西他全都要取,有時藉鬼神詐財寶等等都有,就是這麼多事情。


所以以上所說的,有很多以利求利,利息加利息,貿易之前也都說過,以劣換價值高的東西,劣質的東西換取價值高的東西,以少出去,多的進來,這樣的貪很多,無法說盡,這都是「惡求多求」

惡就是無理而去取,無論是做生意不以規則,不以尺寸斗秤,不公道的生意,這也是不對的,何況是搶劫,或是偷竊等等,或是詐騙欺瞞,這都是惡,稱作惡求多求。
因為貪心無止盡,所以無窮盡一直做下去,「如是等罪」,這種罪,「無量無邊,不可說盡」,實在無法一一說盡,雖然每天再說,還是不論是粗,不論是細,都很多。


我們大家聽經已經聽了這麼久,懺文也已經聽了這麼多,所犯的錯,我們應該對自己都很警惕,懂得反省、懂得警愓,自然就開始能改過,自然能反慳貪為樂布施,現在我們已經一段一段,一直懺悔下來了,所以「今日致禱」,我們今天應該,以最虔誠的心祈禱:
今日致禱
向十方佛 尊法聖眾
對佛法僧:


皆悉懺悔
願承是懺悔 劫盜等罪

因為我們前面說過的,都是劫盜的業,不是強搶、就是強盜,要不然就是偷,就是竊,甚至連挖地洞、鑿牆壁,他都要去搬運,去偷去劫,像這種這麼多的事,都是劫盜罪。
甚至用斗、用秤、用尺等等,這種生意也是不義之財,偷斤減兩一樣是竊盜之罪。


所以「所生功德」,我們既然懺悔了,懺悔即清淨,懺悔之後,自然慢慢我們愛的種子,布施的種子,做功德的種子,好的種子,慢慢在我們心中,開始已經進入我們的心地,所以叫做「所生功德」,只要你佛法入心,自然我們這分善的念頭,慢慢就會生出來,所以說:
所生功德
生生世世
得如意寶

未來我們若完全沒欠債,而且結了很多好緣,未來生生世世,就要從現在做起,有餘報未盡,我們要趕快還,好的緣趕快和人結,這都是積未來糧。


就像剛才那位阿公他家,裡外都乾淨了,住在裡面這個人,開始在做好事了,相信現在已經七、八十歲了,今生應該都是說好話、做好事,如此,來生他應該已經結了很多好緣,當然凡事都能得如意。
各位,因緣果報我們必定要相信,學佛一定要好好顧好我們的心,慳貪的心絕對不能有,我們若是心一直不滿足,這就是心貧的人,這是最可憐的人,我們若有因緣能聽聞佛法,我們要虔誠依教奉行,自然心就會樂生布施,他會很歡喜布施,自然就轉貧為富,所以大家聽法最重要的,就是要轉我們的心念,所以要時時多用心。
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Lecturer: Master Zheng-Yan
Subject: Giving Joyful is Spiritual Wealth (
歡喜布施心靈富)

I am always telling everyone how to cultivate good thoughts. If someone’s mind is greedy or miserly, that person will certainly be poor. No matter how materially rich they are, for the greedy and stingy, it is never enough. Such people are never satisfied.

Dissatisfaction is the worst poverty. If someone’s mind is impoverished, they are ill. We want to cure them. But worldly medicine cannot cure them. Only the Buddha-Dharma can. It requires someone with the affinity to help them.

Those with impoverished minds are the most pitiful. If we have the affinity to hear the Dharma, we will gain respect for the Three Treasures. If we hear the Dharma and it enters our heart, we can change our behavior and learn to give joyfully. Happiness arises in us when we give to others. If this happens, poverty can be transformed into wealth.

One of our commissioners once shared a story. “There was an old man. When he was young, he did not really think things through.” He owned property, a house and land. He was successful and married with children. He lived a life he should have been satisfied with. But he was not. He felt the need to work even harder. To grow his business, he needed to socialize and network. His friends would invite him out to drink. Thus, they began to have a tight hold on him. They drew him into playing underground lotteries. At first, they would let him taste the joy of winning. He felt gambling was easier and more fun than just doing business. So, he began to lose himself in these lotteries, and then he lost money.

His friends said to him, “This isn’t as good as going to a casino.” Those around him took a lot of pleasure in making money through gambling, so he started gambling too. He had a very happy family. He was hardworking, and he cherished his wife and kids. But slowly, he started drinking and playing the lotteries more and more. He became lost in casino games and gambling. He was not doing any business. He would come home drunk and beat his wife. His land and his business kept dwindling.

Eventually, his wife left him and took the kids with her. By the time we met him. He was living in a house surrounded by weeds. It was hard to say how long he had been that way. The weeds were higher than the house. But he was still in good health. He really liked to make friends. Although poor, old and alone, he would still often come out of his house to chat with people, then return to his garbage dump of a home.

Come out of his house to chat with people, then return to his garbage dump of a home. His neighbors reported this case to our commissioners. These commissioners went to see him. They would talk with this old man. “Why don’t you let us come clean up your house a bit?” He was unwilling. One Faith Corps member became friends with him. He would bring food and other things to the old man. This member would visit him once in the morning and again at night.

One day he said to him, “Grandpa, I come over all the time; I really want to go inside and sit down. But it is so dirty outside, can’t I help you clean it up a bit? What do you say? I will cut the grass.”
“Okay, okay,” the old man said, “but I just don’t have the manpower.”
“Don’t worry, we have a lot of people. They are all Tzu Cheng Faith Corps. Not long ago they came to see you, but you wouldn’t let anyone close to you. They were very concerned about you, just like I am. How about I invite everyone to come help clean? Is that okay?”
“If they are like you, it’s okay.”
So, he organized a group, with some commissioners and Faith Corps members, a dozen or so people. They cut the grass around the house and cleared away all the garbage. From the window they could see the inside was very dirty, also.

So, they took it one step further. “Grandpa, let’s find a day when we can clean up the inside, too.”
The old man saw so many people treating him like their grandfather. They did not judge him for being old and alone. So he felt that he could make friends with these people. So, when they offered to clean his house, he said, “Okay, when can you come?”
“We can come next Saturday.”
“Okay, come next Saturday.”
Then next week, when they opened the door, the inside was very dirty and smelly. The old man said, “I’m sorry for over ten years, whenever I thought about cleaning. I got intimidated, so I just left it.”
“Don’t worry, it doesn’t matter. We are here to clean it up for you.”
Once they got into it, rats, cockroaches, and even snakes came out. Everyone was very frightened. But they still had loving hearts and minds, so in one day, ten to twenty people worked together and cleaned the entire house. They even helped him whitewash the walls and clean up all the garbage. After it was all cleaned, it looked brand new. The old man really appreciated it, and from that moment on, he started communicating with Tzu Chi volunteers.

One of the volunteers said, “Grandpa, every day you hang around the temple talking to people, but it really isn’t much use. I want to invite you to do some volunteer work.”
“I am so old. How could I do any work?”
“There are people older than you who volunteer. These elders are still working to save people.”
“But I am so old, how can I save people?”
“Follow me, and just do it. Just do what I do.”
So, she brought him to see some of these elders.
“What are these people doing? The things here look like the things in my house.”

At first, he just stood on the side and watched. He stood with his hands behind his back watching, and observing, until he could not help himself. He stretched out both hands and said, “I can do this. I can do that, too.”
They were sorting recyclables. Everyone began to talk to him. They told him, “Did you know all these items have gold in them? Everything here can be recycled and used for other things.”
They would tell him this, and he felt it was all very sensible. “I can do all of this. I can participate, too.”

He started walking to and from the center, which took him about forty minutes each way. On the way, he would see plastic items. “This is what I just recycled.” He would pick things up as he walked.
He would see aluminum cans, too. “This is what I was just sorting.”
He’d pick it up and put it in his plastic bag. As he walked home he would pick things up along his way.
The next day, he would bring these things with him still picking more things up as he went.

Everyone praised him. That made him very happy, so he formed very good affinities with those people. At the same time, someone told him, “We are always able to make you happy, to say nice things to you. Grandpa do you know where we learned this?”
“I don’t know, you are all very excellent people.”
“This is what our Master teaches us. Every day the Master has a show. Come on, let’s watch it.”
They brought the television out. “We can watch as we recycle.” They listened to “Life Wisdom.”
He began to watch and work at the same time “That house is even dirtier than mine was.”
He heard me say that Tzu Chi volunteers go clean houses. Although I did not mention his house, he thought of what his house was like before and how it compared to others’ houses.
Afterwards he said, “Next time you clean someone’s house, call me. I can do it.”
They worked with him one step at a time. A few years passed and he was still in good health. He still worked as a recycling volunteer.

One year, during the year-end blessing, he came to meet me. A commissioner brought him over and told me his story. He listened, then said, “I am really embarrassed when I think about how confused I was then.”
He talked about how he used to have a good life.
I asked him, “Do your children ever visit?”
“No, never I don’t even know where they live, and they don’t know where I live. Maybe in the future,” he said, “the township office can do something about this.”
Our volunteers told him, “No need, Grandpa. If you want us to, we can go inquire for you. Do you have your residence information from before?”
Volunteers investigated and found his children. The children were not willing to see him, but Tzu Chi volunteers kept visiting the family. They began to have good relations with the mother.
She said, “We will see” I have heard the story up to this point. “We will see.” Will they be able to re-establish a relationship? After the family considers, if they know that the man has changed, that his temper has changed, that he does not smoke or drink anymore, that his habits have changed after all these years, if they know all of this, maybe they can be reunited.

Talking about this story reminds us that if we have the affinity to hear the Dharma, it can give rise to joyous giving. If we take pleasure in giving, poverty turns into wealth. So, we need to always be mindful. Poverty and wealth do not depend on the tangible. They come from intangible happiness, from making good connections with people and having an abundant feeling of love. Then one has abundant spiritual wealth.

The difference between poverty and wealth is not found in material things, but in our thoughts.
If our minds are greedy or stingy, no matter how wealthy we are, it is never enough. Dissatisfaction is the worst poverty. If we have the affinity to hear the Dharma, it can give rise to joyous giving. This can transform the poor into wealthy people.

The next passage in the text continues on, “In this way, we even seek profit from profit. We seek more and more and are never sated or content. We could speak endlessly of these limitless transgressions.”

We previously talked about seizing things illegally or taking things form spirits, animals and beings of the Four Forms of Birth. Sometimes we may use spirits to cheat people. There are many different instances. Just like what was just said, there are many cases of seeking profit from profit, adding interest to interest. We also talked before about trade and business, trading cheap, shoddy goods for expensive ones or selling under weight and buying over weight. There are many kinds of greed. There is no way to name them all. Thus, “we seek more and more,” so we take things improperly. Whether it is doing business without standards, not using proper measurements or not practicing fair business conduct, this is all very wrong. The worst is actually robbing, stealing, cheating, or deceiving others. These are all evil.

We seek more and more. Because a greedy mind knows no limits, these activities are carried out endlessly and we create these many transgressions. We could “speak endlessly of these limitless transgressions.” There is really no way to name them all.

Although we talk every day of acts that are both obvious and subtle, there are still so many to discuss. We have listened to the Sutras for so long, listened to all the wrongdoings listed in the repentance text. We should be vigilant of our behavior. We need to reflect on ourselves to be vigilant. Then we can begin to correct ourselves and turn greediness into joyful giving. We have already been repenting,
We have already been repenting, section by section. So, “Today we pray.”

Today, we should pray with the most sincere mind. “To the Buddhas and sages of the Ten Directions” To the Buddhas, Dharma and Sangha, “we repent completely. We willingly repent all transgressions of theft.”

This is because what we have been discussing is all about the karma of theft. If it is not robbery, it is hijacking, or perhaps it is stealing. This is all theft. Some even dig tunnels or cut through walls to transport stolen goods, or to steal and rob. There are so many variations of these acts, and all are the transgressions of theft. Some even use deceptive cups, scales and rulers. This kind of business leads to ill-gotten gains.

Shorting someone for even an ounce is still theft. So, merits will arise because we have repented. Repentance leads to purity. After we repent, slowly, our seeds of love, seeds of giving and creating merits, all these good seeds, enter into the ground or our minds. This is “the merits that arise.” As long as the Buddha-Dharma enters your mind good thoughts will slowly arise. This is “the merits that arise.”

So, “life after life, we will obtain the wish-fulfilling jewel.” In the future, if we do not want to create debt, and want to create good affinities instead, life after life, then starting right now, if we have unexhausted retributions, we need to repay our debts right away then create good affinities with others. Then we accumulate merits for the future.

It is like that old man we just mentioned. Now that his house is clean inside and out, he has started to do good deeds. I believe he is already 70 or 80 years old. If he speaks good words and does good deeds now, he will already have good affinities in his next lifetime. Then everything will happen as he wishes.

Everyone, we must believe in the law of cause and effect as Buddhists, we need to take care of our minds. We absolutely cannot have greedy, stingy thoughts. If the mind is never satisfied, we will live in mental poverty. This is the most pitiable life. If causes and conditions let us hear the Dharma,
we need to reverently practice the teachings. Naturally, giving will joyfully arise in our minds. We will take great pleasure in giving, and accordingly turn poverty into wealth. Everyone, in listening to the Dharma, the most important thing is transforming our minds. So, we should always be mindful.
(Source: Da Ai TV 靜思晨語 法譬如水)
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