Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Education for Living
生活教育
There is a saying, “Wishing the next life is better than this life, rather than this life is better than the next life.” So, we should accumulate virtues, rather than wealth. If we have money, we should make offerings to the Three Jewels; so as, to benefit ourselves, deliver ancestors and protect our children and grandchildren. We cannot bring one cent with us when our life comes to the end. What we can bring is karma.
For us, we wish to be reborn in the Land of Bliss, not to reborn in the heavenly or human realm, and not to overly enjoy the blessings in the human world. In the Land of Bliss, the ground is covered with gold and the buildings are made of seven jewels. We will attain that reward when we are reborn there. So, we have to admire and pay most attention to the rewards in the Land of Bliss, rather than the rewards in this world. We should let go of all worldly rewards.
有一句話說:「寧可來生勝今生,不可今生勝來生。」所以,我們不要積財, 而要積德,有錢就應供養三寶,利自己,度先人,蔭兒孫。人生在世, 最後一分一毫都帶不走, 能夠帶得走的, 就是行業。對於我們來講,我們是要往生極樂世界,我們不求生天,也不求來生為人、享受人間的福報。
極樂世界都是黃金鋪地、七寶樓閣,我們將來往生極樂世界所獲得的是這樣的果報,所以,我們要欣慕、注重極樂世界的果報,不要注重世間的福報,把世間的所有儘量施捨出去。
Namo Amituofo!
