Life: Tool for Mind Adjusting

“Mahamudra: Essence and Practice” ( Book II)

Life: Tool for Mind Adjusting

◎Yixin Chen: You always say, life is the tool for mind calibration? How do we understand it?

●Xue Mo: My original words were, in the eyes of Mahamudra practitioners, the world is just a tool for mind calibration.

Everything in our daily life can be the tool for mind calibration. For instance, when drinking tea, you should feel the taste carefully, and melt your life into its fragrance, imagining your tongue becomes a black hole that dissolves all your greed, hatred and ignorance.

Japanese Tea Ceremony originates from Zen. When it reaches a higher realm, the process of drinking tea is equivalent to a sadhana drubtab. But if we can’t break the attachment, it will still be a worldly dharma, not a transcendent dharma. Another example, Taiji practice is also a ritual. It’s a ritual of physical action. If the practitioner can’t break the attachment with it, it will still be worldly dharma. What makes Tea ceremony and Taiji different from Mahamudra is that the formers can’t break attachment and obtain the “Seal”, can’t brought you the wisdom of brightness and emptiness.

When you obtain that wisdom of brightness and emptiness, and are capable of keeping the awareness and self-examination at every moment, what you should do is just to stay with the wisdom of brightness and emptiness. Furthermore, no matter what you do, you should just watch your move with eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and sense. That is to say, Mahamudra transforms every activities in life into rituals and methods for mind calibrating and concentration practice. When you think that, everything in the world are the manifestations of Yidam and Buddha, and you never leave the wisdom of brightness and emptiness, you will be on the way of the real practice. Staying in the emptiness is equivalent to practice of the Mahamudra. At the same time, you need to listen, what you hear is not an audible sound, but an inaudible one. That is, you need to taste the flavor of dharma and feel the happiness and calm. This happiness is not worldly pleasure, but to face the world happily, merge with the world into ‘one taste’ after enlightenment and relief from attachment. If you can do all of these, you’ll have no discrimination. Whether Buddha or devil come to you, you can always stay calm.

We should treat father or beggar as same as treating the Buddha, that’s to say we need to get rid of any discrimination. No matter what you are experiencing, keep yourself in the brightness and the emptiness, and feel it and enjoy it with your whole life. Don’t think it is not practice. As the matter of fact, it is the best one.

The original intentions of practice are: firstly, focus; secondly, attachment breaking. Focus refers to concentration. Attachment breaking refers to wisdom. When we have both of them and it is called unified practice of concentration and wisdom. Also, the brightness refers to wisdom, and emptiness refers to concentration, so when brightness and emptiness is unified, it’s also union of concentration and wisdom. It’s also true to the wisdom and mercy, which need to merge as well.

When you integrate yourself into the state of the brightness and emptiness, you will experience this dream-like world as in dream, you’ll no longer cling to anything; and just thinking what we do is for the Buddha and the Bodhisattva. At this moment, we must have our mind at ease. It feels like enjoying warm sunshine in winter, meanwhile we melt and dissolve all of our concerns and attachments.

Keeping in mind at all time that, don’t obsess by practice and also feel easy when you are not in practice. You should know that only thing that belongs to you is the wisdom, as well as the inner coolness, understanding, happiness and peace, nothing else belongs to you. I mean, this state is the most important in your life. Anything else needs to be melted into this state and, everything outside of your heart is only the assistance for mind calibration. Your heart, as the mirror, can reflect everything in this world, but the mirror is still, remain clear and clean all the time. In this state, you look everything as illusion, which will back into the emptiness eventually.

Don’t judge any one as silly or extremely ugly, instead, thinking them as the same and equal. In this bright equality, immeasurable merit will rise, there’s not event slight discrimination in your mind. This is a great state.

In your daily life, you need to practice as above, whether during and after meditation. For example, you should totally focus on cooking when you cook, totally concentrate on writing when you write.

Of course, you can use some Yoga skills to assist if you like. For example, while I am reading or writing, I hold the Aquarian gas and stay in brightness and emptiness.

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《光明大手印：实修心髓》下

生活是调心的道具

◎陈亦新：您老说生活是调心的道具，如何理解这句话？

●雪漠：我的原话其实是说：在大手印行者眼中，世界是调心的道具。

生活中的任何事都可以成为调心的工具。比如，喝茶时，你要仔细体悟其中的茶味，同时把自己的生命也融入茶味，然后让你的舌头变成消解贪婪、仇恨、愚昧的“黑洞”。

    日本的茶道智慧源于禅宗。当茶道达到一定的境界时，其品茶的过程就相当于一种修行仪轨。但是，要是没有破执的功夫，茶道仍属于世间法，还没进入出世间法。再比如，打太极拳的过程也相当于修行的仪轨，只是它属于一种动作化的仪轨，它要是不能破执，也就属于世间法，而不属于出世间法。茶道、太极与大手印的区别，在于前者不能破执，它们没有“印”，没有明空智慧。

    当你有了明空智慧，时时可以警觉的时候，那就要安住于那种明空状态。与此同时，你在做任何事的时候，眼、耳、鼻、舌、身、意都要关注当下的行为。大手印把所有的生命活动都变成调心以及修定的仪轨和方式。当你觉得这个世界上的一切都是本尊、诸佛菩萨的化现，你时时都不离开明空的时候，你就进入了真正的修行。要是你能安住于空性中时，就等于在修大手印。同时，你要生起一份聆听，但你听的不是具体的声音，而是听一种听不到的声音。换句话说，是要去品味那种法味，感受那种快乐以及安详。这里的快乐不是俗乐，而是在明白和破执的前提下，非常高兴地去面对这个世界，非常高兴地与这个世界达成一味。如果可以做到这些，你就没有了分别之心，佛来也一样，魔来也一样。

    要对父亲、对乞丐、对诸佛都是一模一样的，也就是说不要有任何分别心。当你面对任何一个行为、工作和事情的时候，你都要不离明空，投入你全部的生命去感受它、享受它。不要认为这时不在修行，事实上这也是最好的修行。

    修行的本意就是：第一，专注；第二，破除执著。专注为定，破执著为慧，有定有慧则叫定慧双修；明空的明为慧，空为定，明空合二为一，则为定慧双修。智慧和慈悲也是一样，都是要融为一体的。

    当你融入那种明空状态，像做梦一样面对这个如梦如幻的世界时，做任何事就都不会执著了，要觉得你在为诸佛菩萨做事。此时，心一定要坦然，就如同在冬天里坦然地晒着非常温暖的太阳，但同时要把一切的执著都消解、破除掉。

任何时候都要做到：不要执著于修，也不要懊恼于不修。你要明白只有这种智慧是自己的，只有自己心灵的清凉、明白、快乐、宁静属于自己，而其他的任何东西都不属于自己。我的意思是说，在你的生命中间，这种状态是最重要的。其他东西都要融入这种状态，因为心外的那些东西都是你调心的辅助。你的心像一面镜子一样照出了整个大千世界，但这面镜子却是如如不动、明明朗朗的。在这种状态之下，却又觉得一切皆为幻化，都是归于空性的。

不要分别某一个人是榆木脑袋还是另一个人绝丑之极，要觉着他们都是一样的，是平等的。在这种明朗的平等之中，会生起无量的功德，但大脑中却没有丝毫的分别。这是一种大境界。

在日常生活中，也需要这样去修，座上座下都应该如此。比如，做饭时专注于做饭，编写稿件的时候专注于编写稿件。

当然，要是有条件，还可以借助你喜欢的瑜伽技巧。比如，我在读书写作时，就时常持着宝瓶气而不离明空觉性。

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