Mar 24, 2020
Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Practicing Various Virtues
眾善奉行
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If I have two thousand dollars today, I wish to give one thousand to others. If I have two houses, I will let homeless people live in one of my houses, and let those in urgent need live in my other house. I will find another way to live.
We shouldn’t think of dedicating the merits and virtues from giving houses toward rebirth in the Land of Bliss, or accumulating merits and virtues for future reward.
This is not the right way. This is because our rebirth is already assured in the present life. It is better for this kind of giving to naturally emerge from our mind of compassion, which is more sublime and transcendental than giving with the mind of attachment.
今天有兩千塊,我就想拿一千塊給沒有錢的人;有兩棟房子,就想把一棟房子送給無力租房子住的人,甚至於如果對方急需的話,把剩下的一間房子布施出去也沒關係,自己再另想辦法。
而且不會認為我要把這布施的功德迴向極樂世界,或者是累積功德,不會這樣!因為他早已「平生業成」,決定往生了,所以無形中自然流露悲心的布施,反而比以前那種執著心的布施,更昇華、更超越。
Namo Amituofo!
