生滅滅已  寂滅為樂
文/美國佛心寺研經班學員 傳直 
 

  When I was younger, I judged a lot of people. Whether it was how they looked or how they talked or what they believed. I lived in constant opposition trying to define myself as different or better. Unfortunately for me at the time, I would always found someone who broke my normal judgments of them and I would have to re-establish the way in which I judged them. I found myself going in circles to keep up with the constantly changing world. I found no peace and a mountain of things to judge and put into a category.

  When I found the Dharma and learned that all beings are constantly changing along with the environment that they are found in, I realized that as soon as I thought I knew someone to be a certain way they were already in the process of change. Quickly realizing that trying to judge others and figure them out, I found a wave of peace wash over me. I did not have to be separate from them.

  When you are told that all beings are in constant change and that a way to find peace is to realize the impermanence of all phenomena, your mind is freed from grasping and peace comes naturally.

  (年少輕狂時,我總愛評論別人,不論是他人的長相、說話方式,或是他們的信仰。我永遠把自己放在對立的角度,突顯自己的優秀或特殊。不幸的是,那時總有人能推翻我對他們的論斷,讓我不得不建立另一套價值標準來對待。周而復始,我發現自己一直隨著這個外在世界而打轉,心始終紛紛擾擾,無法平靜,因為實在有太多的事物需要評判、分別。

  接觸佛法後,猛然發覺:一切眾生都是隨著他們所處的環境而不停地在變化。當我自以為認識某個人時,在這個當下,他已經改變了,不再是我過去所了解的他。很快地我也發現,當我從評斷分析他人,體會到自己和他們是不可分割的時候,一份平靜也同時湧上心頭。

  當你知道,所有眾生都在不停地變動,知道真正回歸平靜的路,就是了解到世間萬物都是生滅無常,執著放下了,寂然清淨之心就會自然現前。)




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