June 8

Jun 8, 2018
慧淨上人法語
出離與輪迴

For sentient beings living in the Saha World of Five Turbidities, the state of suffering and joy that they get differs in thousands of ways because their karma— karma of deed, word, and thought are mixed and complicated, different in thousands of ways.

Born in the human world, there are so-called “Four Sufferings”,  “Eight Sufferings”, mental sufferings, physical sufferings, and environmental sufferings. Sufferings in each of the Six Realms are different too. So comes the saying “ten thousand grades of sufferings and joys”.

For unwholesome karma, there are ten unwholesome/evil deeds [i.e., killing, stealing, adultery, lying, double-tongue, coarse language, filthy language, covetousness, anger, perverted views]; for wholesome karma, there are ten wholesome/good deeds [i.e., not killing, not stealing, not committing adultery, not lying, not speaking harshly, not speaking divisively, not speaking idly, not being greedy, not being angry, not having wrong views].

Among all these karma, each of them has its own weight--heavy or light. Hence, the retributions differ, which include, say, the four modes of birth [i.e., viviparous, as with mammalia; oviparous, as with birds; moisture, or water-born, as with worms and fishes; and metamorphic, as with moths and others], the ten thousands grades of sufferings and joys, and certain number of family dependents. This is the situation of the Saha World.

娑婆世界五濁惡世的眾生，因為他們的業很雜，亦即他們的身口意很雜，千差萬別，因此得到的苦樂境界也千差萬別。

生在人間就有所謂「四苦」、「八苦」，心理上的苦、生理上的苦、環境上的苦；六道當中每一道的苦又各不相同，所以說「苦樂萬品」。

以惡業來說有十惡，善業就有十善，當中各有輕重，所以感得的果報就有四生、苦樂萬品、眷屬若干。這是娑婆世界的情形。
Namo Amitabha!