Sep 12, 2017
慧淨上人法語
人生目的
慧淨上人法語
人生目的
Buddhist learners, whether taking the Sagely Path or the Pure Land Path in their cultivation, eventually want to subdue ignorance, and then to cut it off. However, if we look back the course of our learning of Buddhism in the past, we can see that as we advance deeper into the Buddhist teachings, we discover more that we are absolutely ordinary beings in a barren land.
All of us are ordinary beings. Although I was ordained, I am still an ordinary being. All in this room, of course, are ordinary beings too. What are the essences of an ordinary being? Full of greed, hatred and delusion, without cessation of false and miscellaneous thoughts. As long as there are false and miscellaneous thoughts, greed, hatred and delusion, we are attached to and vexed by the Five Desires. If a person has or withholds this kind of thoughts, he is an ordinary being.
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學佛的人，不管是依聖道門修行，或是從淨土門而入，最終都是要降伏，進而斷除無明。不過，若回顧我們昔日的學佛過程，就會了解，愈是深入佛法，會愈發覺自己原來是一個徹底的博地凡夫。
我們都是凡夫，雖然我已經出家了，我也還是凡夫，在座的各位當然也還是凡夫；凡夫的內涵是什麼呢？就是貪瞋痴具足、妄想雜念不斷。有妄想雜念，有貪瞋痴，所以貪著五欲的塵勞，只要是凡夫都有這種心念，只要還有這種心念，他就是凡夫。
Namo Amitabha!
