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还俗 | Resuming Secular Life
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) E* x, O; F" Z# ]十分不想写下这个标题！但在这个五欲增盛的浊世，还俗已成为不得不面对的残酷现实。
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与其避重就轻地逃避这个题目，不如勇敢地正视它。
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How reluctant am I to touch upon this subject! But “to leave the monastic order” presents a/ X! j* u. x; G( s9 N
; b5 ` b; Z( kcruel reality we must face in the current time of five degenerations. Instead of dodging the issue," g7 V& x; Q2 m9 ~! x- f: T9 K
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I may as well look at it squarely and bravely.0 A: X+ j5 ]8 b+ l- Y
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今天，听到一位出家十几年的人，为烦恼所缠，已还俗好几个月了。听到这个消息，心里( H& D& u. O8 ^7 [( |2 O
; s0 Y& z6 _1 j+ I8 ~像吃了一只苍蝇般不是滋味。记得在他出家初期，也可算得上是闻思精进、戒律清净、智" i! _# G R$ c
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慧日益增上的典范。他曾说过：“我只要活一天，决不还俗。让我还俗，还不如死掉。”
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' y. S: Q2 g8 `2 o& C, G& W4 J2 q这样一位下了很大决心的人，却食言还俗，十分令人痛心。8 r7 o7 j( Y$ L
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A few months ago a monk, beset by afflictions, declared to renounce his monastic life of more+ |4 Y( K8 Y4 j" t! u
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than 10 years. When I heard this news today, I got quite upset as if I had swallowed a fly. I recall, V0 D/ q* V3 z1 x
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early on, his ordained peers had regarded him as a model by his diligent study and keeping pure
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, b3 t" X$ T ]precepts. Once he asserted: “As long as I am alive, I will never leave the monastic order even for
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one day. For me, returning to the worldly life is worse than dying.” A person who proclaimed his5 X9 `' _4 o& K @4 U
$ o2 j6 x# g8 O, c5 Q/ [faith with such strong determination still ended up eating his own words and repealed his vow.: e* c" v# @& Q, V9 D
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How can I not feel sick at heart!
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他在电话中闭口不谈佛法，却无休止地言及他的生意。当问到他生意如何时，他像饱含 了. x9 x7 g" M+ }: _+ w. D
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一大堆苦水，忙不迭地向我倾倒：“如今的生意太难做了！每天8小时，却挣不到十元钱。! J0 l4 t+ d' U: G/ J/ @
( r$ X) q: a8 I) M想起以前出家时无忧无虑的生活，真像在天堂一样啊！唉！！”听了他的苦恼，我真不知! E7 i2 [3 n. W- H b
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该如何应答。/ Z) f* i0 _. x$ P' e$ k
; s' a+ @6 G- COver the phone, he veered away from discussing the Dharma, but instead tattled endlessly about6 p5 G2 {5 S; J6 H8 ^1 c6 u4 x
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his business. When I asked how it was going, he started to pour out to me his pent-up miseries:
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“You know, it’s so difficult to do business these days! My hard labor of eight hours daily earns me/ F- {$ Z# `% H S$ M) G0 j8 W
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less than 10 yuan. The ordained life at the monastery, as I recall now, was so peaceful and worry-
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free, almost like living in heaven! Alas!!” Hearing his complaints, I have no idea how to respond.0 s. s1 T0 s) k% ~
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不过令我庆幸的是，他的见解至今尚未改变，对三宝的信心也没有退减，忏悔心恒时不离: {1 J0 ~5 P! U0 p& p9 B
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But there is some consolation for me: He is still holding onto his views and his faith in the Three3 G2 s# n# R5 ? |% j
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Jewels has not waned. He takes every opportunity to do the purification practice and also( d# |3 c* g. J9 H0 I( {
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remembers to recite mantras while busy with his shop.$ _, }3 q% X) ?" X o* P+ b
+ d9 I9 b. {7 [- }喇拉曲智仁波切曾有一位很有名的弟子因故还俗，但别人毁谤他时，仁波切却说：“毁谤
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2 v+ `* {8 b! L/ n0 O, j' ^别人是错误的，他的身体虽然还俗了，心却没有还俗。”
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# d- I+ |; B; z7 B' m# [1 P: _0 GOnce, one of Lhala Chodri Rinpoche’s main disciples left the monastic order for some reason.
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When others condemned him, Rinpoche said: “It’s not right to speak badly about others.
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& K' n2 p- ~8 {2 G) f: m# MAlthough his body has resumed a worldly life, he has not done so in his heart.”& v, K8 a/ m0 Z3 c" |( y$ N
) s! R- F* j& K4 o8 g* E1 k佛经云：“宁可毁尸罗，切莫坏正见。”《中观四百论》中也说：“宁毁犯尸罗，不损坏% H& t; ?+ }) j
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正见。”如果见解毁坏，不行忏悔，反而责怪上师三宝，即使身体没有还俗，其内心却已- f9 P+ P* k( |# o
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& K! R3 I3 j* U; [& H! x7 BIt is stated in the scripture: “Better to break the precepts than to damage the right view.” In the1 \% ]3 o0 e# c% X: k
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Four Hundred Verses of Madhyamaka, it says: “One would rather transgress edicts than abandon
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! z9 b4 j2 f, Z; y5 ~& t# C5 ` Xthe right view.” If a person has ruined his right view but, instead of confessing sincerely, he; O8 u1 X* W/ }' E" j% f) q
3 ?5 w0 [9 E' z& y* lpoints the finger at the guru or the Three Jewels, then this person’s mind is incurably corrupt,
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2002年4月30日 & F, A8 p- `8 b6 Y
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