To Accept the Present Life Positively

“Mahamudra: Essence and Practice”( Book II)

To Accept the Present Life Positively

◎Yixin Chen: How to maintain the state of being enlightened in walking, standing, sitting and lying down?

●Xue Mo: To a yogin, he needs to put his enlightenment into action, to prove the truth he find with practice, instead of asking others being the sage but not himself. There’re too many teachings about wisdom, but few people practices the teachings.

So, when I was writing, I have never forgotten to practice the wisdom I believe, to contemplate my behavior with this wisdom. I always focus on what I’m doing, with complete dedication; however I am not attached to it. That is to say, I’m fully devoted to what I’m doing, and when it’s finished, I will dump it from my heart, and move to the next thing with the same importance.

As in our life, eating is important one hundred percent, sleeping is important one hundred percent, washing face is important one hundred percent, it’s to say only the thing you are doing at present is important one hundred percent. When the thing at that moment is done, the next thing we’ll do is also important one hundred percent. I never have the past that used to be important one hundred percent influence my doing at present.

When you get back to the dormitory from the office, sleeping is important one hundred percent, all you need to do is to have a good sleep, relax and stop worrying about the work. When you are at home, staying with your kids, just keep in mind you don’t have any other roles but your kids’ father, so playing with them is important one hundred percent at the moment. However, many people are always occupied by ‘important things’ in their own conceit, leaving no room for things that is also important, e.g. health, enlightenment, clear in mind, relaxation, freedom, deliverance. Their mind is tied to the important in their own conceit, so that the real enjoyment of life will be interfered, diluted and infringed. Therefore, many people become exhausted. This is because they pay too much attention to the important in their thought——actually it’s a kind of obsession that we speak of——that becomes pressure to the life. If you want to get rid of it, you should set free your heart first.

Life and death are the most important things to every human being. When the practice comes to a certain level, even life and death could be laid down. Trying our best, then just let it go. As for how the world goes, that’s only the matter of the world. No matter how hard we work on it, we can change nothing but ourselves and the people close to us. We just cannot change the whole world. Certainly, when everyone makes change, the world will change. So I always say that, if one changes, the world changes.

Wiseman needs to learn how to enjoy his live. In fact, for a man who really enjoys the practice, he’s never been separated from the Buddha, from his family. He always enjoys the pleasure of sharing the world, doing the common things, having the same dream. On the other hand, if we have any discrimination, we will only be happy when we have our family aside; and the happiness becomes pain when they leave us. If the separation is treated as pain, the pain will really exist.

In term of ultimate implication, you and your inner thoughts are united. Don’t have the outer world affect your heart and try to enjoy the harvest of life, other than having it pressed and locked. We should even appreciate the adversities brought by the fate, for our life will have whole new experience from that; instead of treat it as the source of all the pains and tortures.

For most people, except the pains brought by disease, the sufferings and tortures in life all derive from the un-enlightened hearts and obsession. Obsession is a kind of greed, and greed roots from foolishness. Greed means the intent to possess something that doesn’t belong to him or her.

A man should learn to accept existing things in life, including health, enlightenment as well as some adversities. In the same way, when we appreciate the virtues of a friend, we should also accept their shortages. It’s important to learn appreciation and contentment. To a practitioner, the torments are actually from his heart, not from the outer world.

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《光明大手印：实修心髓》下

全然接受当下的生活

◎陈亦新：如何才能在行、住、坐、卧间都能保持那种觉悟的状态？

●雪漠：对于一个行者而言，要把自己明白的、证悟的东西贯穿到自己的行为中，要用行为去实践自己所明白的真理。而不是证得了真理之后，让别人去做，自己却另搞一套。现在，智慧的经典太多了，缺的是照着经典去做的人。

所以，即使在写作的时候，我也没有忘记实践我信仰的那种智慧，仍在用种智慧观照我的行为。我总是用百分之百的专注，用所有的生命去做眼前的那件事，但我又不执著它，心中并不认为自己做了什么事情。也就是说，当我做一件事情的时候，是百分之百的投入。当做完事之后，我就把做过的事从心中扔出去，然后再去做另一件同样重要的事情。

体现在生活中，就是吃饭是百分之百的重要，睡觉是百分之百的重要，洗脸是百分之百的重要，也就是说当下的那件事情才是你百分之百重要的事。做完当下的事情之后，下一个当下要做的事也是百分之百的重要。我不会因为过去做过百分之百重要的事而影响我当下正做的事。

当你离开办公室回到宿舍的时候，睡觉是百分之百的重要，而你所要做的就是好好睡觉，同时应该把上班时的一切扔掉；当你回到家中面对孩子的时候，孩子就是百分之百的重要，因为陪孩子玩是你当下的事。但是，许多人却始终用他自己认为的“重要”冲淡其他也应该重要的东西，比如健康，比如明白，比如心中的那份清明、轻松、自由、解脱等。他们的心始终牵挂他自己认为的重要，从而干扰、冲淡、侵犯你对生命本身的享受。许多人因此疲惫不堪。这是因为他们认为的重要——其实是我们说的执著——对他们的生命构成了一种挤压。要想摆脱这种压挤，就要让你的心灵永远保持自由状态。

人的一生中最重要的就是生和死，当修行修到一定的时候也可以把生死放下。凡事尽心尽力之后，就放下它。至于这个世界怎么样，只不过是世界的事。我们无论尽自己多大的力、无论花多少心血去做事，能改变的只是自己和身边的人，我们无法改变整个世界。当然，

当世上的每一个人都能改变自己的时候，世界也就改变了。所以我老说，改变自己就是改变世界。

一个明白的人要学会享受一种东西。事实上，在真正享受修行的人的眼里，自己和佛陀并没有分离过，自己和亲人也没有分离过，他们一直在享受着一种共存于世界的快乐，做着共同的事，拥有共同的理想。要学会享受那份共同活着的快乐。反过来讲，如果一个人有了分别心的时候，就觉得只有亲人在身边的时候才快乐，在离开亲人后就成了一种痛苦。如果认为分离是一种痛苦的话，那种痛苦就真的存在了。

从究竟意义上讲，心中存在的东西始终是和自己在一起的。不要让外界的东西影响自己的心，要学会享受生命的收获，不要让某种东西成为自己的压力和枷锁。我们甚至要感激命运给予的逆境，因为它让我们的生命有了一种全新的体验。不要觉得逆缘给你带来了多少痛苦、引发了多少折磨。

除了一些生命本身的疾病折磨外，许多人的痛苦并不是某个事实造成的，而是源于那颗不明白的心，源于一种执著。执著也是一种贪婪，而贪婪源于自己的愚痴。贪婪就是想将不属于自己的东西据为己有。

一个人要学会接受生活中现存的东西，包括健康、明白，也包括一些不顺心的事。同样，当我们接受一位朋友的优点时，同时也要接受他的缺点，要学会感恩和知足。在真正的修行人看来，好多痛苦其实是自己的心病，它并不是来自外部世界。

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