12月11日

自己的主人
佛光星雲 ( 1927~ )

在《雜阿含經》卷十七裡記載，
有一次佛陀問弟子，凡夫和聖賢，
對於苦、樂的感受有何不同？佛陀告訴
他們，凡夫身體受苦，憂惱狂亂，連帶
內心也跟著痛苦；賢聖之人身體受苦時，
不會憂愁煩惱，所以只有身受，沒有心受。
二者的差別即在於凡夫為五欲所染著，
而產生貪瞋癡三毒，聖賢則無。

因此，我們平時要憑著正念、正勤、
正道來做人處事；透過般若觀照，
培養自己的耐心、虛心、誠心、赤子
心、清淨心、慈悲心、寬恕心、歡喜
心、平等心、忍辱心、慚愧心、感恩
心......就不會產生各種負面情緒。
唯有把情緒管理好，我們才能找回心靈
的主宰，也才能做自己的主人。

──選自《人間佛教論文集》

December 11

To Be One's Own Master
Venerable Master Hsing Yun (1927 - , Fo Guang Shan)
English translation: Zhi Yue and William Chong

In the seventeenth chapter of the Samyuktagama
Sutra, there is a record of the Buddha asking his
disciples what the difference is between ordinary
beings and sages, as well as the differences between
their sensations of suffering and happiness,
The Buddha told them that the body of ordinary beings
experience suffering and are trapped in worry and
anger as a result, bring more pain to the mind.
The sages also have human bodies that experience
suffering, but they are not worried or distressed,
andthus the mind does not experience the sensations
of the body. The difference between the two is that
ordinary beings are affected by the Five Desires and
give rise to the Three Poisons of greed, aversion,
and ignorance, while the sage is not.

Consequently, we should rely, in our daily lives,
on Right Mindfulness, Right Diligence, and the
Right Path to conduct ourselves. We should, through
applying the wisdom of self-reflexivity, develop our
hearts of endurance, humility, sincerity, purity, serenity,
compassion, forgiveness, equality, forbearance,
repentance, gratitude...so that we do not give rise to
various types of negative emotions. Only if we manage
our emotions well, will we be able to recover the
command of our hearts. Only then can we be masters
of ourselves.

── from Renjian Fojiao Lunwen Ji (Collection of Essays on Humanistic Buddhism)