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【證嚴上人開示】

心,要守住一念心,人類,人倫道理也是起自一念心;一個家庭有幾代同堂,有的三代同堂,四代同堂,五代同堂,聽起來多麼溫馨。但是現在都是小家庭,小家庭就是父母、孩子,就是親子的家庭而已,比較普遍。

即使小家庭一樣也要守家規,更要守禮儀。所以這要從:

夫婦和 教以禮

成孝敬 厚人倫

善教化 移風俗

正其行 誠其意

也就是要告訴大家,雖然現在都是小家庭,父母是孩子的模,父母日常生活如何說話,孩子就怎麼學;父母日常生活的行為,整天吵吵鬧鬧,以後這個孩子長大了,和外面的人,也是一樣計較吵鬧;父母的行為若不好,思想偏差,將來這個孩子,同樣不能守家教、守人倫、守禮節。

所以,一個家庭,要先從夫婦要和;琴瑟調和,聲音調起來才會好聽,這個家庭才是真的美。所以要教他禮,將來這個孩子才能成孝敬,對父母才會孝順。

古人說:「草繩拖俺公」,一樣的草繩拖俺父。做父親的若是不孝,將來他的孩子也是一樣,對父親同樣也是不孝,所以家庭倫理,孝敬是最明顯看得出來的。一個家庭若有這種禮節孝敬,我們就能知道,這個人仁義道德很深厚,是很忠厚的人。

所以要了解一個人,就看他的家庭,這也很重要。所以有人說:娶媳婦要看她的父母,要看禮教,是同樣的意思。

所以我們若能善教化,就能移風俗。現在的社會亂,亂在現在的人風俗敗壞。這說起來,是從家庭開始。青少年的教育,所以愈來變成,這個社會是青少年的主流,敗壞風俗的事很多,所以我們要很用心。

要正其行,誠其意。回過頭來,還是要行正、意誠。人的心,心若是不軌,會污染清淨行的人;若如此,人不如禽獸,這種仁義禮智廉恥全無,所以造了很多的業。將來他會墮入地獄、餓鬼、畜生,這是因緣果報,纖毫都無法遠離。這是我們之前一直一直,對大家說過的。

所以才會每天都說心要淨,智才能明。我們若能好好淨心明智,自然人人會尊重,這都要護心潔貞,不犯輕重。大家都能明白這些道理,我們要正行意誠就不困難。

下面這段經文這麼說:

如是等罪 無量無邊

今日至誠 皆悉懺悔

就是延續之前說過的罪業,地獄、餓鬼、畜生等等的罪業,必定要受報。

現在我們都知道了,知道這些罪應該是無量無邊,不知幾生幾世,無始!不知多久了,所以所造的業,這種的習氣所造作的業應該是很多,是無量無邊。

「今日至誠,皆悉懺悔」,還是一樣要懺悔,懺悔。每天我們都要懺悔,無論舉止動作,我們有懺悔的心才能時時反省;時時反省才能提高警覺,不會再犯錯。

所以接下去再說:

願承是懺悔淫欲等罪

所生功德 生生世世

自然化生

所以說來,懺悔即清淨,常常提高警覺,我們就不會犯錯;不只是不會犯錯,反惡為善。

所以自然諸惡不作,眾善奉行;若如此,「所生功德,生生世世,自然化生」。

要如何化生?

七寶池中
蓮華化生
從此不由胞胎受生
自然清淨皎潔
三十二相 八十種好
智慧光明 六根開朗
見明聞聰 覺利知達
我們祈求七寶池中蓮花化生,這是一個理想,理想的淨土世界,所以說,不由胞胎受生,自然清淨皎潔,形相端莊,智慧光明,了達諦理,最重要的就是要自然清淨皎潔,我們若能出生如釋迦牟尼佛,他雖然和我們人的生活一樣,是父母所生,但是他從小智慧的心,不會受人間欲念所污染。
這就是心靈,很自然的,一生下來,他就那麼善良,那麼有智慧,在成長中,他能從觀看人間的生活,當時的人間生活,四姓階級,貧富貴賤差距的距離實在很大,所以他慢慢了解人事,看盡了人間世俗,他的心並沒有受到污染。


進而更增加了憐憫心,所以他發心修行,去追求人生的真理,為什麼會如此不平等?所以他在不平等中,要找出平等的道理來。
所以在這種紛紛擾擾,或是那種階級高低差距那麼遠,他要找出平等,所以後來出家了,所以他也是形相端莊,人人所敬愛,三十二相具足,像這樣,因為他有超人的智慧,所以要去探討、了達諦理。


本來他就已經,與生俱來就知道了,不過,為了教育,所以他要離開小家庭,走入天地自然界的生活中,以清淨的心境觀天下眾生相,所以他五年的參訪,六年的苦行,這些境界都是在自然界中,等到他與天地宇宙的真理,完全了徹,所以他又回入人群度眾生,所以我們若諦理明白,自然「六情開朗、聰利明達」,這是佛陀開悟之後,走入人群要教化眾生,使人人的六情開朗。

六情就是隨著六根,凡夫就是因為六根,隨著六塵轉,所以就產生六識,我們若六識昏闇,就是隨著根塵的境界而轉,自然無明黑暗,這種無明就是凡夫,所以會產生人世間很多的罪惡,所以佛陀走入人群,教育眾生,六根塵和意識要分清楚,所以若能了解,「六情開朗」,都能了解分明,自然「聰利明達」,腦筋能很聰明,甚至對道理很通達,所以明達道理。
了悟恩愛 猶如桎梏
觀彼六塵 如幻如化

我們能了解世間,卿卿我我、恩恩愛愛,到底是為什麼呢?為了這種恩愛,衍生多少煩惱,更進一步去了解,原來「如桎梏」,這就好像腳銬手銬,腳鐐手鐐,讓我們完全不得自由,你看若有家庭哪個人有自由?除非不守責任的人,他不顧家庭責任,這種人不顧家庭,不顧妻子,不管丈夫,不管孩子,不想孝順公婆,這種人就是犯罪,不斷在外面造業,所以這叫做自由嗎?也是不自由,也是追求他自己的心欲愛念,所以說要脫離家庭的束縛,在外面大社會的束縛更大,那種腳鐐手銬,那種心靈無形的,不自在、不自由,更痛苦。
所以說「觀彼六塵、如幻如化」,若是有智慧的人就知道,六塵,六塵情境就如幻化,《金剛經》中不是這麼說嗎?「如幻如化、如露亦如電」,這種心靈享受能停留多久呢?


心靈在享受中,這種愛欲情仇愈結愈深,就是在六塵境中,他以為這是永久的,所以計較很多,他沒有想到人生無常,這種短暫的卿卿我我,纏綿恩愛,只不過如幻如化,如露亦如電,一下子的時間就過去了,到底煩惱的罪惡,在後面不知道牽扯出多少,聰明的人,有智慧的人,看了這段文字應該就了解,所以:
於五欲境 決定厭離
乃至夢中 不起邪想
內外因緣 永不能動

這些我們都了解之後,五欲塵境,心就不會再受它糾纏,我們「決定厭離」,絕對不會再於五欲塵境中纏綿,自然「乃至夢中」,心若很清淨就不會糊塗,也不會去想起不清淨行,自然「內外因緣」,就是如如不動,守之不動,靜寂清澄,這是我們應該要修的。


我們的心若能守得好,自然我們的身心清淨,脫體分明,就沒有這些無明的事,來遮蔽我們。
所以我們能「內外因緣」,清淨無染穢,所以叫做「永不動」,永不動就是靜寂清澄,所以大家要時時把心顧好,時時以懺悔的心,才能時時反省,有反省的心念,就不會做出差錯的念頭和行為,所以大家要多用心。


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Lecturer: Master Zheng-Yan
Subject: Teach Propriety and Good Conduct (
教禮善 化正行)

We must safeguard our minds. Human morals and ethics originate in the mind. In some families, a few generations live together. Some have three generations, some have four or five, living together in the same household. It sounds very heartwarming.

But most households nowadays are smaller, with just the parents and their children. This type of nuclear family is more common now. Even small families need to abide by family rules and propriety.

This begins with a harmonious couple teaching propriety, filial respect and ethics to their children. We must teach benevolence, change social customs, have proper conduct and sincere thoughts.

This is saying that although families today are small, parents still act as their children’s role models. Children imitate how their parents talk and act in their daily lives.

If parents argue all day, their children will grow up to be petty and quarrelsome. If parents have unwholesome conduct and thinking, their kids will lack values, ethics and manners. A nurturing family starts with a harmonious couple. When instruments play in harmony, the sound is truly pleasant. A harmonious family is quite beautiful.

So, we must teach our children propriety, only then will they be filial. The ancients told the story of a man leaving his father to die in the mountains. If parents are unfilial to their elders, then their children will also be unfilial toward their own parents. So, filial piety is the most visible expression of family ethics.

When a person grows up in a family that practices propriety and filial respect, this person will be honest, virtuous and moral. We can know a person by observing his family. So, some people advise that before marriage, one must first meet the in-laws. This is to observe one’s family ethics. If we spread goodness, we can change [negative] social customs.

Today’s society is chaotic because many social customs are corrupt. This all starts from the family, from how parents educate their children. As adolescents grow up and become the mainstream of society, there will be more corrupted social customs. So, we must be very mindful in maintaining proper conduct and sincere mindsets.

If one’s mind is deviant, one may defile others who are pure. A person is no different from a wild animal when he is without ethics, courtesy and sense of shame. This person will create negative karma and descend into the Hell, Hungry Ghost and Animal Realms. There is absolutely no way to escape the karmic law of cause and effect. This is what we have constantly been talking about. We have said that the mind must be pure to bring forth wisdom. If we can purify our minds and bring forth wisdom, we will naturally gain the respect of others.

So, we must maintain purity of mind and not commit transgressions. If we can understand this, it will not be hard to maintain proper conduct and a sincere mindset.

The following passage indicates, “With deep sincerity, today I repent all my boundless and limitless transgressions.

This continues our discussion of transgressions, how negative karma causes people to suffer in the Realms of Hell, Hungry Ghosts, and Animals. Now we understand that such transgressions are boundless and limitless. They have been accumulating for many lifetimes; since Beginningless Time, we have been creating karma. These habitual tendencies, this karma, must be boundless and limitless. “With deep sincerity, today I repent.” We need to repent each and every day.

Only with a repentant mind can we reflect on our every action. Only when we reflect can we remain highly vigilant. Then we will not transgress.

The next verse reads, “I willingly repent my sexual misconduct and other transgressions. With the merits that arise, life after life, we will naturally be transformation-born.”

So, repentance brings purity. If we repent often, and heighten our vigilance we will not commit wrongdoings. Moreover, we will naturally refrain from all evil and uphold all good. In this way, “With the merits that arise, life after life we will naturally be transformation-born.”

How is one born this way? One is born from a lotus of the Seven Jeweled Pond, is never again born from the womb, and will naturally be pure and clean.

One possesses the 32 Marks and 80 Characteristics with clear and radiant wisdom, enlightened senses, and sharp awareness and penetrating understanding.

So, we pray to be born from the lotuses of the Seven Jeweled Pond. This is the ideal world of the Pure Land, where one is not born from the womb. Then one is pure, auspicious and wise, able to comprehend all principles. Most importantly, we will be pure and radiant. We can be born like Sakyamuni Buddha. Sakyamuni Buddha had parents and lived the same way we do. However, even from a young age, His mind was wise and untainted by worldly desires. This was His spiritual quality.

It was natural. From birth, He was incredibly kind and wise. As He grew up, He observed life in this world. During that time, there were four castes and the gap between the rich and poor was great. Even as He gradually learned how the mundane world operated, His mind remained untainted. Instead, witnessing life added to His compassion. So, He resolved to engage in spiritual practice and sought the truth of life. Why was there inequality among people? Among such inequality, He wished to find the principles of equality.

So, living in this chaotic society with its rigid caste system and social inequality, He eventually became a monk. He possessed an auspicious appearance that everyone revered His 32 marks were complete. With wisdom that surpassed all people, He sought to understand these principles.

He innately possessed this wisdom, but to learn it, He left His family and went to live in the natural world. With a pure mind, He observed all sentient beings. He sought answers for five years, and practiced asceticism for six. Once He had completely comprehended the true principles of the universe, true principles of the universe, He returned to society to guide sentient beings.

So, if we are able to understand the principles, we have “enlightened senses.” After the Buddha was enlightened, He worked with others to teach and transform them, to enlighten their senses. The Six Senses affect our emotions. Ordinary people are influenced by external states because the Six Senses give rise to the Six Consciousnesses. If the Six Condsciousnesses are deluded, we will be influenced by external phenomena. Then we will naturally be ignorant and confused. With such ignorance, ordinary people create many transgressions in this world.

Thus, the Buddha lived among the people to educate them in recognizing the Six Senses and the Six Consciousnesses. If we can understand this, we have “enlightened senses” and can have clear understanding. We will naturally have a penetrating intelligence and be able to understand all principles.

When we understand this, we

understand that love is like shackles, and view the Six Sense Objects as illusions.”

We will understand the truth behind intimacy and selfish love. This kind of love creates many afflictions. As we comprehend it more profoundly, we realize they are like shackles, like manacles and fetters on our hands and feet. We lose our freedom completely.

With a family, who can be free? Only those who are irresponsible and do not care for their families. They do not care about their spouse, children or parents. Such individuals will commit wrongdoings and constantly create karma outside their home. So, is this freedom? No, it is not. They still pursue what their hearts desire.

Those who want to break away from family ties are bound by the even greater shackles of society. With these kinds of spiritual shackles, the mind cannot be free or at ease. This is even greater suffering.

So, “view the Six Sense Objects as illusions.” Those with wisdom understand that external states are illusory. The Diamond Sutra also mentions that all things “are like illusions, dew or lightning.” How long do mental or emotional pleasures last? When we indulge in such pleasures, our attachments and aversions strengthen. When indulging in the Six Sense Objects, one believes they are permanent and will take issue over them. One does not realize that life is impermanent. Intimacy and love are brief, just like illusions, dew or lightning. Time passes by rapidly.

Afflictions can lead to many future transgressions. People with intelligence and wisdom understand this after reading the passage.

Therefore, “When faced with the Five Desires, we are determined in our renunciation. Then, even in our dreams, we will not give rise to deviant thoughts. We will forever remain unaffected by internal and external causes and conditions.”

After comprehending this, our minds will not be entangled by the external states of the Five Desires. If we renounce the Five Desires, we will no longer be bound by sensual desires. Naturally, “even in our dreams” our minds will remain pure and not be confused. We will not think about impure acts.

Then “internal and external causes and conditions” will not affect us. We will remain unwavering, with purity and tranquility. This is what we must practice.

If we safeguard the mind well, our body and mind will be pure. When we are clear, we will not be obscured by ignorant matters.

So, “internal and external causes and conditions” will remain pure and undefiled. “Remaining unaffected” means having purity and tranquility.

So, everyone should always safeguard the mind and constantly have a heart of repentance. Only then can we constantly reflect on ourselves. When we reflect on ourselves, we will not create mistaken thoughts or actions. So everyone, please always be mindful.

(Source: Da Ai TV 靜思晨語 法譬如水)
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