April 27

Apr 27, 2018
慧淨上人法語
淨土宗宗風俗諦

A practitioner always hopes that he can improve and elevate himself every day, so that he will not stand still. As the Great Learning says, “If you can improve yourself in a day, do so each day, forever building on improvement.”

That is to say, a person who is self-cultivating, even a politician, must constantly elevate his own standard, and make his present day better than the day before. Therefore, a practitioner is always reviewing himself, enabling himself to discard the obsolete and follow the new trend. The old one has passed. From now on, he is a new person who can at any moment turn his back on evil and do good. Happily he moves towards what the maxim says “If you can improve yourself in a day, do so each day, forever building on improvement.”

一個修行人，時刻希望自己每一天都能改進，每一天都能提升，不站在原地踏步。就像《大學》所講的：「苟日新，日日新，又日新。」

就是說一個修身養性的人，甚至是一個政治家，他必須是不斷地提升自己的水準，讓今天勝過昨天。所以，一個修行人，凡事都在檢討自己，使得自己能夠棄舊從新；舊人已過，從現在開始，是一個新生的人，時刻都能夠棄惡行善，都能夠很歡欣地走向「苟日新，日日新，又日新。」

Namo Amitabha!