May 8

May 8, 2018
慧淨上人法語
出離與輪迴

Ordinary beings in the Three Domains naturally float and sink within the Six Realms with their karma, and naturally receive the retribution of happiness and sufferings accordingly. Hence, the nature we see today is actually the manifestation of the common karma of ordinary beings. We are still in the Three Domains and should stay away.

The patriarch Master Tanluan said that the Three Domains are “unreal, defiled, inverted, destructive, cyclic, and endless”, “the Three Domains are the dark house where ordinary beings flow [along the cycle of reincarnation]”, and “the Three Domains are born out of the flawed and deviant way [of karmic practices], in which sentient beings stay sleeping with a big dream, not knowing to get out.”

三界凡夫隨業力自然升沉六道，自然受苦樂果報，故現今所見的大自然是凡夫共業使然，尚在三界，應當遠離。

曇鸞祖師說三界是「虛假、污染、顛倒、破壞、輪轉、無窮」，「三界是生死凡夫流轉之暗宅」，「三界是有漏邪道所生，長寢大夢，莫知悕出」。

Namo Amitabha!