Dec 8

Dec 8, 2017
慧淨上人法語
淨土宗宗風真諦

Faith is very important to us, even more than our life. Keeping the faith, the person will devote and integrate his whole body, mind and spirit, as well as his daily life to the faith. The most concerned interests in his life are all related to the faith, and he will talk about his faith all the time.

If people follow different faiths, can they get along well? No. Definitely they can’t. The Christian Bible says, “Do not be mismated with unbelievers.” (2 Cor 6:14) Confucian says, “People of different moral convictions cannot get along.” So, keep a distance from those who follow a different path. In foreign countries, missionaries being sent to extend their faith are all formally trained teachers; otherwise, they will not easily start their overseas missionary work, because persuading unbelievers is by no means an easy task.  Clearly, it is not easy to teach common people, not to mention people of other faith. To provide guidance for them will be even more difficult. It will be laudable if one is immune from other faiths encountered.

信仰對我們非常重要，甚至超越我們的生命。一個有信仰的人，他的全身心靈，他的日常生活，都是為這個信仰而活，都是融入這個信仰當中的，所以，他最有興趣的就是他所信仰的，開口閉口，都會談到他的信仰。
如果信仰不相同，能談得來嗎？一定談不來。基督教有一句話說「信不同，不同負一軛」；孔子也說「道不同，不相為謀。」所以，如果不是同門，我們就不要去親近。在外國，能派出去弘揚自己法門的，都是科班出身的講師，否則不隨便向外佈教，因為要勸導非同門，大非易事。是故，對一般人尚且不輕易佈教，何況是非同門的人！甚至還要引導他，就更加不易，自己不反被影響就很難得了！

Namo Amitabha!