May 22

May 22, 2018
慧淨上人法語
佛法知見

There is a fundamental suffering in the human world. Apart from that, all other sufferings are secondary. What is the fundamental suffering? Simply speaking, it is “ignorance”.

“ignorance” means not knowing where we come from before birth and where we go to after death, and not knowing what will happen in the future. Ignorance is the main substance that we cannot see now, but it will pop up from the karma of Alaya Consciousness when we are close to death. The karma consists of immeasurable and boundless sin, darkness, ignorance, and anxieties. Near the end-of-life, the darkness filled with evil karma will appear before us and turn into a fireball, pushing us to hell. That is the main substance of ignorance.

When we are alone, we’re not sad, nor happy; but we have a baffling feeling of boringness, loneliness, and somewhat uneasiness. These are just shadows cast by the main substance of ignorance, which will appear at the point of death. That is the fundamental suffering.

人間有一個根本的苦，除此之外，其他的苦都是枝末的。根本的苦是什麼呢？簡單講就是「無明」。

無明就是不知生從何來、死往何去，不知將來會如何。無明是正體，這個正體我們現在看不到，臨終的時候，阿賴藏識裏的業浮現了，這些業含藏了無量無邊的罪惡，黑暗、無明、不安，臨終的時候整個充滿罪業的黑暗現前，成為火團，墮落地獄，那就是無明的正體。

平常孤獨的時候，不苦也不樂，但是莫名其妙地有一種無聊、寂寞、略微不安的感覺，那只是無明正體所顯現的影子而已，正體在臨終時才會浮現，那就是根本的苦。

Namo Amitabha!