June 16

Jun 16, 2018
慧淨上人法語
機法深信
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Our image looks like a Buddhist: we use words from the Buddhist teachings, and do things common to Buddhist practices. Our mind inside, however, is full of greed, anger and delusion. The “Five Aggregates” there are impetuous and swirling, and will burst out, intentionally or unintentionally, into a mind of greed, hatred, ignorance, fuss, and jealousy.

So, the Ksitigarbha Sutra says, “The ideas, words, and behavior brought forth by sentient beings in Jambudvīpa are nothing more than karma, nothing more than sins.” The Sutra of Pure Deliverance by Bodhisattvas also says, “Each person produces 840 million thoughts in one day, and the act derived from each of these thoughts is nothing more than karma of the Three Wretched Realms.”

從形象上來看，我們是學佛人，所說的都是一些佛法的言語，所做的也是佛門中事，可是我們內心的貪瞋癡，「五蘊」很熾盛，在那裏翻滾，有意無意之中，都會爆發出貪欲心、瞋恨心，無明、計較、嫉妒之心。

所以，《地藏經》說：閻浮提眾生，起心動念，言語舉止，無不是業，無不是罪。《淨度菩薩經》上也說：一人一日中，八億四千念，念念之所為，無非三途業。

Namo Amitabha!