Saturday, October 14, 2017

「大圓滿法」口訣 ~ 發菩提心 Key of [Maha Perfection Dharma] ~ Bodhicitta Vow




Translated from the following:
师尊讲:「大圓滿法」口訣部 -發菩提心的口訣

Source: 2014-01-04《蓮生法王開示》願菩提「自他互換」 行菩提「眾生平等」  勝義菩提「不為甚麼而行善」


再講「大圓滿法」口訣部。
今天要講的口訣是甚麼?
就是發菩提心的口訣。
修「大圓滿法」也要發菩提心。
In the Key pointer section of [Maha Perfection Dharma] ~ Boddhicitta Vow is one of them. Cultivating [Maha Perfection Dharma] also need to make Boddhicitta Vows.

為什麼?Why?

只要是大乘的法,都要發菩提心。
As long as its Mahayana's dharma, all need to make Boddhicitta Vows.
密教有三 個重點,一個是發菩提心,一個是出離心,一個是中觀正見。
Tantrayana's 3 important key points ~ one is making boddhicitta vow, one is renunciation mindset, one is the middle path right view.

發菩提心是一個重點,才叫做大乘。
Making Boddhicitta Vow is an important key point, then term Mahayana.

如果是小乘佛教,就是度自己,不管別人。
If its Hinayana, that is succour self, do not care about others.

大乘佛教是度自己,也 還要度眾生,才是菩薩。
Mahayana teachings is succour self, also succour sentient beings, then is a Boddhisattva.

通常菩薩從初地到第十地,千手千眼觀世音菩薩有十一個頭,代表祂是第十一地的菩薩,等於是佛。
十地菩薩到了等覺,等於是佛,妙覺就是佛了。
所以觀世音菩薩是第十一地的佛,只是化身為菩薩救度眾生而已,因為觀世音菩薩有菩提心,所以才稱為菩薩。所有受過菩薩戒的,都要發菩提心。
  菩提心有願菩提、行菩提、勝義菩提,重要的是這三個,這三個都有口訣。

記得阿底峽尊者(Atisha) 從斯里蘭卡坐船出發到印尼爪哇,就是印尼的占碑,祂去跟金洲大師 學法。

金洲大師有一個號叫「{人+扁}斗」。
金洲大師主要傳給祂的就是發菩提心。
金洲大師教阿底峽尊者一個特別的方法,甚麼方法是發菩提心的方法?

大家記 住了:「自他互換」Mutual Exchange of Personal status,就是發菩提心的方法。

我們之所以不會發出菩提心,是因為我們沒有感覺到,如果你能感覺到你的苦,你就會發菩提心。
The reason we do not develop Boddhicitta, is because we never feel as they do, if you can feel your suffering, you will then develop the wish to make Boddhicitta vow.
  這怎麼講?How to say?
第一個,你到醫院看病人,你看病人躺在那裡,他病得很重,甚至已經是末期,你看著他,然後自他互換,你自己變成那個病人,病人變成你,就是 這樣。
Point one, you go visit a patient in hospital, seeing the patient lying there, seriously ill, even terminally ill, you look at him, then [Mutual exchange of status] , you transform into the ill person, the ill person become you, that is it.

你看一個老人,他很老了,很辛苦、很慢地在走路,你為什麼發起菩提心,要幫助那個老人帶他過馬路?
You sighted an old person, he is very old, lots of hardship, very slow in crossing the road, why did you develop boddhicitta to help him cross the road?
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  金洲大師{人+扁}斗就是教阿底峽尊者「自他互換法」,
祂說:「阿底峽,你聽著,發菩提心最重要的一點──自他互換。
當你看別人痛苦,你自己本身要想 那個痛苦的本身就是你,你自然就發菩提心。」
<<Dharmakīrtiśrī (Tibetan: Serlingpa; Wylie: gser gling pa; Chinese: 金州大師, literally "from Suvarnadvīpa"), also known as Kulānta and Suvarṇadvipi Dharmakīrti, was a renowned 10th century Buddhist teacher remembered as a key teacher of Atiśa. His name refers to the region he lived, somewhere in Lower Burma, the Malay Peninsula or Sumatra >>

Serlingpa taught Atisa: Mutual Exchange of Personal status.
Serlingpa: Atisa, you listen to this, making boddhicitta vows' most important point is [Mutual Exchange of personal status].
When you see others' suffering, you must think that the suffering is yours personally, you will naturally develop Boddhicitta.

你要罵人以前,你就要先想到,如果你被罵,你會怎麼樣?
Before you scold people, you must first think that if you are being scolded, what will happen to you?
你要傷害人,你就要想到,如果你被傷害,你會怎麼樣?
When you harm others, you must think of what if you are being harm, what will happen to you?
我們不但不可以殺人、傷害人、罵人,都不可以。
We not only can't kill, injure, scold others, all these cannot.

反過來,我們還要發菩提心去同情。
Turn around, we must have Boddhicitta to empathize. 

<<四梵住(梵語:चत्वारि ब्रह्मविहाराः,catvāri brahmavihārāḥ,巴利語:cattāri brahmavihārā),又譯四梵行,佛教名詞,即是修行與實踐慈、悲、喜、捨四種心境。源自於古印度婆羅門教,後為佛教所沿用。佛教究竟修行者需將這四種心境擴展至無邊無際,因此又稱為四無量心、四無量觀。>>

修行四梵住時,以慈心觀為入門,也可以慈心觀來統攝四梵住。
所謂發菩提心就是慈悲喜捨:
As to Making Boddhicitta vows, it is the Four Immeasurables:
慈,就是給人快樂;Kindness - give others happiness;
悲,拔除人家的痛苦;empathize - pull out or eliminate others' sufferings;
喜, 就是歡喜,隨喜的去做這些事情;joy - that is fondness/happiness, follow your fond/happy will to execute matters;
捨,平等心就是捨,平等無差別的心就是捨。Is to gift without holding back, it is the Equality mindset, Equal and without differentiation mindset is Upekkha.

<<捨(梵語:ऊपेक्खा,Upekkhā,或upekṣaka,adhyupekṣaṇā),佛教術語,是一種平等而安穩的心態。為四梵住七覺支之一。它也是一種心所,說一切有部將其列入大善地法中。>>

這就是發菩提心的口訣。
This is then the Key point of making Boddhicitta vow.

為什麼會發菩提心?
Why make Boddhicitta vow?
你經常想「如果他是我」,自他互換: 看到窮的人,自他互換,你就會產生布施的心;
You often think of [What if he is me], mutual exchange or status: when you see the poor, mutual exchange of status, you will develop Dana mindset;
看到痛苦的人,自他互換,你覺受到那個痛苦,你就會發菩提心;
when you see people suffering, mutual exchange of status, you feel their suffering, you will develop boddhicitta;
看到很悲慘的人,你就會自他互換。這就是口訣。
seeing others' extreme sorrows, you will mutually exchange status with them. 
This is the Key point.
遇到每一件事情,都要自他互換,這就是願菩提心。
Encountering every matter, also must do Mutual exchange of status, this is Wish Boddhicitta.

你已經發願了,要做為一個菩薩。
You already make a vow to become a Boddhisattva.

菩薩是為別人想,不為自己想。
Boddhisattva is think on behalf of others' wellbeing, not for self.

我跟大家講,願菩提很簡單,自他互換,就結束了。

◎你看別人悲慘的人生,你設身處地為他想,眼淚就流下來,心裡非常地慈悲他們,就是發菩提心。你發願要幫助那些沒有飯吃的,幫助那些殘障的,幫助那些病苦 在床上的,你要特別去照料他們,像印度的Saint Teresa,祂就是發菩提心。

發菩提心以後,就是行菩提心,行,就是去做去實現,你發了願,你就是要去做。
After vowing boddhicitta, is executing boddhicitta, execute is to realise the vow your made, you vowed so you go execute and realise.
為什麼要去做呢?
這時候,你因為發菩提心,願菩提出來了。
在佛來講,眾生平等,都是一樣,大家都有佛性,我珍惜你的佛性,你珍惜我的佛性,大家一律都 是平等的;
誰也不侵犯誰,誰也不辜負誰,我不辜負你,你也不辜負我。

這就是平等無差別的心,叫做行菩提心。
簡單的講,因為你看眾生都是平等了,
自然你產生 大慈大悲的菩提心,你給人家的不是痛苦,是給人家快樂,
解決人家的痛苦,你歡喜的去做,以這歡喜心去做就是平等無差別。
你沒有衣服穿,我給你衣服;你沒有 飯吃,我就給你飯吃。
轉一個身來想,如果,你是一個病人,在冬天洗冷水澡的話,你會怎麼樣?
所以,到了行菩提就是自他平等沒有差別。
Thus, reaching Execute boddhicitta is self and others equal and no differences.
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所以發菩提心,既然發了菩提心的願,當你看到別人怎麼樣,你馬上行動幫助他,這 就是行菩提心。
行菩提心的口訣,很簡單,就是平等視眾生。Execute boddhicitta is very simple, you sight all beings as equals.
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和尚說:「在這個世界上,沒有甚麼事情是放不下的,只要痛了,你自 然會放下。」
Reverend said: In this world, nothing is cannot be let go of, only when pained, you naturally will let go.

師尊是 感受到眾生的苦,這就讓我想到維摩詰大士講的一句話,祂說:「眾生有病,我有病。」
大家搞不清楚,為什麼維摩詰大士會講這句話,這就是自他互換,發菩提 心,維摩詰大士在教大家發菩提心。別人有病我有病,就是要發菩提心。有一隻老烏龜訓練一群小烏龜做伏地挺身,其中有一隻很容易地做完一百個,並且馬上跟老 烏龜講:「這算甚麼呢?」
老烏龜就藐視牠說:「你有這麼大的能耐,那麼,你去那邊做兩個仰臥起坐看看。」
烏龜做伏地挺身是很容易的,做一百下是很容易的, 但是叫牠做仰臥起坐,龜殼根本沒有辦法動。
所以,人是有能有不能,這裡也就是講人是有能有不能,人是有樂有不樂,能設身處地為人想,就是要發菩提心,要平等無差別。

  最後一個,勝義菩提心的口訣,甚麼是勝義菩提心的口訣?
就是「空」。
The final one, Ultimate/Absolute or Surpass all meaning boddhicitta's key point is [Void].
願菩提就是「自他互換」;Wish Boddhicitta is [Mutual exchange of status];
行菩提就是「眾生平等」,平等的智慧;Execute Boddhicitta is [All Beings are Equal], Wisdom of equality;
勝義菩提心就是 「空」,做菩提事業不為什麼而做就是「空」;不為什麼而做才是真正的做。
Surpass all meaning boddhicitta is [Void], executing bodhi matters not for any motive is then [Void]; not for any ulterior motive to execute is then truly execute.

你為甚麼而做?
就不是真正的做。
勝義菩提就是做了就忘了。
Surpass all meaning boddhicitta is execute then forget.

師尊看蓮極上師,師尊看了,覺得心有悽悽之感,雖然蓮極上師的眼睛經常這樣瞟來瞟去,但是他的心還是豆腐心;口是很利,但是是豆腐心。
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你要 發願菩提,做一個菩薩;
你要行菩提,盡力去做你的善業,你要去救度眾生;
然後,你要將這些救度跟你做的善事歸於空,你不是為甚麼而做的。

所謂功德,就不是功德,因為沒有功德想才是功德,這是勝義菩提心。
So call merits is not merits, because do not have merits then is merits, this is Surpass all meaning boddhicitta.

凡是你所做的都歸於空;凡是你所做的並不是為甚麼而做的;
並不是為了要揚名立萬,做善事要讓人家知道。
「我是一個善人」,到處講:「我是一個善人」,這就不是善,
因為你是為了做一個善人才做善事。

不為甚麼而行了善,這就是勝義菩提心,就是空。
Executing kindness not for any motive/rewards, this is Surpass all meaning Boddhicitta, this is [Void].

所以,「大圓 滿」發菩提心的口訣就是自他互換、平等無差,最後是空。
Thus, [Maha Perfection] boddhicitta vow's key pointers ~ mutual exchange of status, equal without differences, finally [void].

嗡嘛呢唄咪吽。

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http://www.dalailamaworld.com/topic.php?t=187
如經所云:
遠離諸實物,蘊界以及處,色與執等滅;
法及我無等,自心從無始,空之體性成。

【釋菩提心論 Pūrvabhāvanākrama (Guang Shi Putixin Lun) 】是解釋【密集金剛Guhyasamâja vajra】的論典,內中也有一句「遠離諸實物」。

釋序分為四法:依意而釋,依共而釋,依隱而釋,究竟解釋。
這在月稱菩薩【密集金剛】的釋論【明炬釋】中有這幾句話。
龍樹菩薩在本論是依共解釋,將顯教密教共同承許的基礎作解釋,就是共同承許的中觀正見為基礎。

「空之體性成」,除了解釋空性以外,配合密續解釋,是依具生原始光明心性;就是遠離了一切妄念,現証空性的勝義光明。

龍樹菩薩在此以勝義菩提心(Surpass all meaning Boddhicitta) 及
世俗菩提心 (Mortal world boddhicitta) 二者解釋;
世俗菩提心的解釋如下: 
如覺悟薄伽凡及諸大菩薩等發大菩提心,我今亦為諸眾生等:未離令遠離、未脫令解脫、未息得歇息、未涅槃證涅槃故,從今起乃至無上菩提前,定發菩提心。
現行密咒門之眾菩薩由此世俗相故,發起世俗菩提願心者後,觀修勝義菩提心力令生起。今說此性:

本論按次第是先說勝義菩提心,再說世俗菩提心,將在下面廣釋部分就可以了知。
這種次第主要是針對利根者,因為勝義菩提心,是解釋現証空性的智慧,所以空性為先,菩提心在後;如果以上根者的生起次第,是先有空正見,其次菩提心,這是大乘不共根器。
當然大乘所度化眾生,不一定都是上根者,但是屬於大乘不共的所度眾生,一定是上根者。
龍樹菩薩不但是上根者,而且是上上根者,最頂尖的大乘聖者,以他習慣方式著作這部論典,所以安排的次第先說空正見,後說菩提心。
如果是中根者或下根者,通常是佛說什麼,他們立刻接受;如說修菩提心很好,你們必須觀修,他們立刻尋求菩提心法門,沒有任何疑惑,完全接受修行。

可是上根者,先觀察佛說的菩提心,如何修?可行嗎?無上菩提可以証得嗎?為利一切有情可以成辦正遍知嗎?一連串問題,經過仔細觀察之後,真正獲得知見,讓自己心滿意足時,才會真正去修行;爾時心念堅信不移,對修菩提心勝解,深信不動搖如須彌山,這是上根者的修行方式。因此以上根者的根器,先說空正見,其次說菩提心,這是大乘不共的度化眾生而說。如果以西藏所著作的【修心七義】來說,修心前先了知空正見,勝義菩提心,再修學世俗菩提心,有此說法;但在【修心日光】(解釋修心七義的論典)中,先說世俗菩提心,再說勝義菩提心。有此二種不同次第,這是我們必須先要了解的。

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I added an extract that explains the mortal's mindset of boddhicitta and the "divine" mindset of boddhicitta. 
The Surpass all meaning boddhicitta is the "divine" or [void all] boddhicitta.

Someone plead to me to save her spouse, and this is what she said: He is a good man, he sponsors under privileged children's education with USD 500. 
I want him to live longer.
[The USD 500 turns out to be a ONE TIME Donation only!]

I said: If he promised to do charitable work after  I "prolonged" his life, I will do my best to help.

This person recovered from terminal stage cancer with 3 months.
BUT! He only went to a homeless shelter ONCE, and idle around, while his spouse and kid do the chores.
He spent his [extended time] enjoying life by vacationing all over the world!

The relapse came swiftly after 2 years!
He passed away from recurrences and massive secondaries!
He asked for 10 years and I said if he do good to benefit more people, he will have 20 years or more.

He didn't keep his promise to execute boddhicitta! 
When the relapse occurred, I really can't do anything further.
I advised him to go seek out GM Lu in Seattle or Taiwan though, but he didn't do so.

Dear all, its an uphill task to negotiate with Karmic foes on behalf of those that are already into Terminal illnesses!
I suggest that you go seek out GM Lu and also Do good for all beings to save yourself!

Do not accuse me of not having compassion to empathize with you, if you don't abide the vows you made!

AND, you are the one that eventually has to "Succour" self as per your own choice!
I also learned not to help anyone repeatedly when they are not willing to help themselves!


With Metta,

Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom
Lama Lotuschef

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