Buddhism Makes People Real Human Beings

Buddhism Makes People Human Beings

Xuemo

Mahamudra was called The Great Symbol. It's a culture which contains both spirit and material world of human beings. In one hand, it symbolizes a transcendence progression of the mental and the spiritual (such as Mahamudra cultrue), while in the other hand; it also leads you to a better integration into the material world (such as Liangzhou Xianxiao).

It's a culture about mind cultivation and soul reshaping, which makes us to be more tolerant, broad minded, wise, and peaceful. What's more important is to make us become the real Human Beings. Not just like living animals or the slaves of material and desires. Then it comes to a question.

What's the real Human Being? The point is to have a real human heart. Well. It comes to another question. What's the real human heart? It's the heart which will not change according to external world, be generous with each other and belongs to yourself , ever and forever.

Nowadays, it true that very few people could has their own heart. After my speech yesterday, Wang Guangdong ,the professor of Shanghai University told me : " Xuemo, I have a very strong resonance with your point of view. We could seldom get in touch with such kind of culture in Shanghai. Even in this day and age. So I take you as my brother when I heard your own philosophy." A Deputy Director of Institute of Literature like him even seldom heard of this. You can imagine the rest of us.

Our heart was disturbed to be confused, anxious by the complex and messy external world. When something is becoming popular, people will follow it blindly. Such illusory and conceptual idea of popular perturbed their heart strongly. For example, a lot of ladies suffered the pain to create the fold in eyelids by one or several cut on their borned and pretty single eyelids. But actually it makes very unnatural looking. During "Stock Frenzy”, some people even sold their house, disregard their families, work, and the rest important things in life. But when the stock market crash, many people lost their health or commit suicide. When the world considers fortune as the symbol of success, every people just go after it and even don’t know there is another value standard which beyonds material. So, I think the true value standard first requires us to be a real human being who has the rudimental personal dignity and morality bottom line.

To be a good son, good father, good husband and good friend. All the pursuits should be started by being nice to the people around you. If you just chase for the things under your desire but make your families and friends unhappy, it makes no sense. I told my son, even he is the night man, he is still the good son if he is the good Human being. So if people can be a good Human being who can carry his own responsibility, I will consider he is successful, nothing related to his wealth or position.  If he can't achieve this standard or awful for others, no matter how rich he is, he can't even be called a Human Being.

Therefore, the other standard of the world which I was talking is the people's own morality and responsibility. In consideration of such a standard, it doesn't matter if you don't have a lot of money. Of course, it's also good if you do. Bill Gates is great and wealthy. But his greatness is not because of his money or his competence. It's actually his positive action and retribution to the society by contributing his own hard-earned money. So does Buffett. He donated most of his money to Bill Gates Foundation.

Plenty of people were tied to the concept which was well known and popular. During a period fulfilled with such concept, please be cautious that it will probably lasso your heart by your own bolas. When you can't set your heart free, you can't do the things you should do. And you can't be the real Human Being which you should be, which will cause the big contrast.

Mahamudra culture is the one about human beings subjectivity. It pursues the unconditional freedom of soul, so as to achieve the present consciousness of Solicitude and ultimate transcendence. The Western culture is against superstition. The Western Wiseman will never pray: "Budda, please give me some money". They will not either seek for more material from external world, they are always happy. No matter there is money or not, more or less, it will never change their happiness. And that's the real happiness which truly belongs to them.

Mahamudra: It's also called "The Great Hand Seal". "Great” means the broad mind and great compassion. "Hand" refers to positive actions and helping behaviors to society. "Seal" is the confirmation of the perfection of primordial wisdom by Guru.

Liangzhou Xianxiao: It's the unique culture of China western city Liangzhou. One of forms in Chinese national ancient folk music, which instructs people to believe in karma and encourage to punishing the evils and praiseing the deeds. 

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佛教的目的是让人成为主体的“人”

雪漠

大手印被称为“大象征”。为什么叫“大象征”呢？因为，所有人类的心灵和物质这两种东西，都综合在这种文化之中。其中，一种是入世的文化，就像凉州贤孝；一种是超越的文化，就像大手印文化。

入世的文化让我们变得非常的清凉、能干，它是关于心灵修养的一种文化，也是重塑我们灵魂的一种文化。它也会让我们的心灵变得宽容、博大、明白和清凉。它真正的作用就是让我们变成真正的“人”，而不是动物，更不是欲望和物质的奴隶。什么是真正的“人”呢？真正的“人”就是有一颗真正的“人”心。什么是“人”心呢？就是让你的心永远属于自己，既善待同类又属于自己。心并不随着你的外部条件的改变而变化。

在这个世界上，真正的让心灵属于自己的人非常之少。少到什么地步呢？昨天听了我的演讲之后，上海大学有一个教授叫王光东，他说：“雪漠，当我听到你的声音的时候，我产生了一种非常强烈的共鸣。在上海，很少能听到这种声音，这个时代也很少能听到这种声音。当我听到这种声音的时候，我就把你当成我的兄弟。”他是上海大学的文学院副院长，他都很难听到这种声音，别人就更不用说了。

我们的心灵被外部世界的花花绿绿干扰得六神无主、方寸大乱。当这个世界上流行一种东西的时候，我们就 一窝蜂地跟了上去。流行双眼皮的时候，很多女士去忍受着疼痛，让自己美丽的单眼皮挨上一刀，或者几刀，结果变得更加不自然了。因为世界流行双眼皮，所以这种非常虚假的、概念化的东西，把她的心干扰了；当这个世界都去炒股的时候，无数的人不顾自己的条件，放下自己生命当中更重要的事情去炒股。他们卖了房子不顾亲人，结果在股市大跌的时候，有些人自杀了，或者严重地损伤了自己的身体；当这个世界流行许许多多的其他价值观的时候，比如最近流行如何让你成功，如何让你得到更多的钱等这样一类观念，大家就一窝蜂地去迎合这种观念，并且把赚很多的金钱当做成功的标志。却不知道人类除了金钱之外，还应该有另外一种价值标准。这个价值标准就是你首先是一个“人”，不要越过“人”的底线，要有“人”起码的人格尊严，有“人”起码的道德底线。

做好一个儿子、做好一个父亲、做好一个丈夫、做好一个朋友，把你所有的追求先从善待你身边的人开始。当你让你的亲人和朋友都得不到清凉的时候，你追求那些心外的欲望化的东西，我觉得莫名其妙。所以，当一个人能做好“人”时，我就觉得他成功了。无论他有没有钱都成功了。我告诉我的儿子，你做好一个“人”的时候，就算你去掏厕所，你还是我的好儿子。当你达不到这个标准的时候，无论你有多少钱，但做人做得非常差，那么你连“人“都不是。

所以，这个世界的标准有另外一种，就是人本身的道德。在这样的标准之上，你没钱也没关系，如果有钱当然也很好。比尔•盖茨很伟大，很有钱。但他的伟大不是因为他有钱，也不是因为他能干，而是他能把自己辛辛苦苦赚来的钱回报给这个世界。他非常伟大。巴菲特也很伟大。他把自己赚的钱，大部分捐给比尔•盖茨基金会。这就是伟大。他们的伟大不是因为有钱，而是他们回报世界的行为。

因此，当这个世界上许许多多的人，被一种已经宣传的、流行的概念、观念捆绑住的时候，你就要注意，外面流行的概念就像这个绳子一样，把你的心套住了。你的心灵得不到自由，你做不了自己应该做的人，干不了你应该干的事情，这样就出现一种反差。

大手印文化就是宣扬人的主体性的。它追求心灵无条件的绝对的自由，从而实现一种当下关怀和终极超越。它反对迷信。注意西部文化是反对迷信的。西部的智者不会说：“佛陀，给我一些钱吧。”也不会向外面寻求更多的物质。他们会做到有钱很快乐，没有钱也快乐。无论钱多钱少，有还是没有，都不能改变他们的快乐。这个快乐才是真正属于他的快乐。

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