Dec 28

Dec 28, 2017
慧淨上人法語
淨土宗宗風俗諦

A Buddhist should be modest and amiable, so the Worldly Truths say: In our deportment, we should be modest and amiable. When people talk to us and do something for us, we should say, “yes, yes; sure, sure”. Try to avoid negative thinking, and taking an offensive attitude against them in consideration.

Humility and submissiveness is important to a practitioner, particularly in Buddhism, particularly the words spoken by the teachers. We must say immediately, “Yes, yes; sure’ sure; yes!” Don’t judge with secular thinking, and think that we are right, and the teachers’ words do not match with our thinking. It is not the right attitude that a Buddhist should have.

一個學佛人要「隨順、柔和」，所以「宗風──俗諦」才說「對自己要謙卑柔和」。人家對我們講一句話、一個動作，應該要隨順「是、是，對、對」，儘量不要認為你怎麼這樣對我，而往負面去推測。

「謙順」對修行人來講是很重要的，尤其是佛門，最重「謙順」，師長所講的，當下就要「是、是，對、對，好」，而不要以世俗的觀念來衡量，認為自己的看法才對，師長所說的不符合自己的衡量，這樣就不是學佛人應有的心態。

Namo Amitabha!