May 14

May 14, 2018
慧淨上人法語
佛法知見

Whatever we do and whatever we think, we take the Six Consciousness [i.e. the six perceptions and discriminative ability of eye, ear, nose, tongue, body and mind] as our false mind and our main substance, which has no self-nature, impermanent and unreal.

The unreal Six Consciousness is produced by the unreal Six Fields of the senses [i.e. form and color, sound, scent, the five flavors, physical feeling and mental presentation--the objective fields of vision, hearing, smelling, tasting, touch, and discernment, also known as the Six External Dusts], and the unreal realm is produced by the unreal Six Consciousness (false mind). That is the meanings of the saying, “the seeds produce the phenomena (manifested activities); the phenomena germinate the seeds”. Hence, we are to and fro endlessly in the Six Realms.

我們凡夫的所做所為，一天當中起心動念，都是以六識為我們的妄心、為我們的主體，都是沒有自性、生滅無常、虛假不實的。

由虛妄的六境產生虛妄的六識，由虛妄的六識之心（妄心）產生虛妄的境界，就是所謂的「種子生現行、現行熏種子」，因此來往六道，永無休止。

Namo Amitabha!