May 17

May 17, 2017
慧淨上人法語
人生目的

In the Nirvana Sutra, the Buddha describes the difficulty about having a human body, and says, “To acquire a body in human form is like a pile of soil on my palms, but to lose the human body is like the soil on earth.” So, we know the chance is very little. Within a hundred years, the 6 billion people on Earth will eventually all die, and will certainly be reincarnated after death, but most of them are quite likely fall into the Three Wretched Realms.

Hence, the goal of life that shared among a great many people in the past and present is emancipation from the reincarnation of birth and death, so as to avoid the great “jeopardy” of falling into the Three Wretched Realms.

佛陀曾在《涅槃經》形容人身難得說：「得人身如掌中土，失人身如大地土」，可見機會是這麼微小。在百年之內，這個地球上六十億的人，終將全部死亡，死去以後一定還會再投胎轉世，但是往往墮落三惡道的比較多。

所以不管是古今中外，萬人共同的人生目的，就是要解脫生死輪迴，解決迫在眼前的這個將要墮落三惡道的這件大事。

Namo Amitabha!