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" `4 k1 P$ `9 n! y还俗 | Resuming Secular Life. I' y- j# j) j
( _) } M% z# r1 ^7 f6 k, W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。8 l# e- O# V* N. B* B# i
1 {3 X' V( Z% O; k! h/ S# a与其避重就轻地逃避这个题目,不如勇敢地正视它。" }2 [4 J* n7 R9 L v0 ^
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How reluctant am I to touch upon this subject! But “to leave the monastic order” presents a$ S0 e/ A% \7 g
1 D! Z E2 ?1 ?/ @) }2 u0 Ocruel reality we must face in the current time of five degenerations. Instead of dodging the issue,( g2 I. c& X9 W4 p+ `4 x$ l% o
1 B( \$ S9 F/ ?0 \0 X2 iI may as well look at it squarely and bravely.4 p- I, D. ]' W+ d- i5 q
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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
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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4 _' c+ W- v @ d: q' Z: L
6 ^4 k. q8 V& A+ p6 J* O' b2 ~ L* S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。”9 _" d; S# m! _5 \3 y
& K# @" ^9 F: S7 `这样一位下了很大决心的人,却食言还俗,十分令人痛心。
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1 I$ [3 V6 s% `- Q# AA few months ago a monk, beset by afflictions, declared to renounce his monastic life of more6 V1 l( {/ h& C# Y3 [+ Z, M7 J; r
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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) K( V; ~/ q" T) g0 \% N. K
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early on, his ordained peers had regarded him as a model by his diligent study and keeping pure4 ~! A( Q+ D& u! r1 L" Y
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one day. For me, returning to the worldly life is worse than dying.” A person who proclaimed his
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( T) F( J) l9 sfaith with such strong determination still ended up eating his own words and repealed his vow.( |- u1 t, T' V) {! r
3 h% g& x% P, v) M) @& ]5 FHow can I not feel sick at heart!: I, r: F' o0 O3 R( S" V0 S2 U
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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( Y/ F1 `. r8 K$ J+ e* k( B' u
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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。
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# }- c+ L0 s& E- [# t5 q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
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该如何应答。
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Over the phone, he veered away from discussing the Dharma, but instead tattled endlessly about
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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
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less than 10 yuan. The ordained life at the monastery, as I recall now, was so peaceful and worry- m( X1 w/ D9 @1 c' S
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free, almost like living in heaven! Alas!!” Hearing his complaints, I have no idea how to respond." `9 |8 [8 n, m8 R' g2 X
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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% b* N: F3 G# @3 H! L) ?5 v
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左右。虽忙于生意,却不离念诵。
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5 g j& t0 Z/ P) K5 FBut there is some consolation for me: He is still holding onto his views and his faith in the Three
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# [7 y" m$ e+ C+ \2 M6 iJewels has not waned. He takes every opportunity to do the purification practice and also' A. Y- o- [" y
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remembers to recite mantras while busy with his shop.4 h: s& R5 j! `4 w
: I, N6 t' i7 t! m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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别人是错误的,他的身体虽然还俗了,心却没有还俗。”0 [9 F1 t0 f, G0 |. T$ _9 A
( ]2 |9 Y" v/ h+ H( [; AOnce, one of Lhala Chodri Rinpoche’s main disciples left the monastic order for some reason.
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) W' _1 ?9 C' {) j! K; v0 N% HWhen others condemned him, Rinpoche said: “It’s not right to speak badly about others.6 u0 i0 r+ w0 ~
5 x' A. X9 \' D) P: }$ gAlthough his body has resumed a worldly life, he has not done so in his heart.” A6 Y& ^1 j; u% r' \' q$ L
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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: G0 A9 S" q; p: H! H% o0 P* h
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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
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It is stated in the scripture: “Better to break the precepts than to damage the right view.” In the
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' W* t2 Z5 I5 j' w0 u' x2 ]Four Hundred Verses of Madhyamaka, it says: “One would rather transgress edicts than abandon
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the right view.” If a person has ruined his right view but, instead of confessing sincerely, he
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points the finger at the guru or the Three Jewels, then this person’s mind is incurably corrupt,
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even though his body has not returned to the secular world.
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& V" m6 I; K3 n) \7 Y壬午年三月十九日
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" D" M8 N/ B, H2002年4月30日
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- F3 X7 a- y- O) r! |, N3 T19th of March, Year of RenWu
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