All kinds of annoyance of human beings stem from biased mindset and obsessed emotion.

All kinds of annoyance of human beings stem from biased mindset and obsessed emotion.

 Bear it in mind that all kinds of annoyance of human beings stem from biased mindset and obsessed emotion. I feel painful when compared with wealthier people; I feel upset when compared with people with better look; I feel disappointed when less cared about than others… and so on. All pains come from biased mindset which subsequently gives birth to obsessed emotion, blindness as well asgreed,agony,ignorance,arrogance and envy. When all these negative emotions appear from time to time, the seed of delusion will find its fertile soil and that’s the way howsamsara of six times begins.

In 2008, I went to Shanghai as a member of The Eight Novel Talents of Gansu to attend an activity held in Fudan University. A doctor named Jinli in the activity mentioned that he inadvertently lost his wallet in which there were all his identity cards, many bills and much money. He was totally overwhelmed by disappointment. It was such a coincidence that he opened Shanghai Literature and saw my novel Beauty. After reading the articles, all his bad feelings were gone and he felt extremely refreshed. He said “ I want to pay tribute to Mr. Xuemo as well as his writing Beauty !”

Why would he have such feelings? Because the novel carries a kind of spirit of Buddhism which can bring people serenity. Moreover, it does not need to be associated with any Buddhism concepts. This is an advanced form of spreading Buddhism cultures and thoughts. I think this case could be irradiative to the world.

No matter it is about literature or films, they are all containers to deliver messages more than a story. When you are not limited to some defined ideas or any concepts and capable of using wisdom to watering and nurturing you soul and writings, your happiness and enlightenment will be passed to the readers and audience through novels, movies and any other media. After people have read these literatures and seen the movies, they will begin to figure it out that anything outside your soul will not change your core and it will only be changed if your soul have sublimated. By then they will not be obsessed with many secular affairs any more, which means your spirit and wisdom have been well reserved as it were. This is a kind of spiritual transition like the altruistic spirit passed down from Buddha Sakyamuni. Although he has been away from us for over thousands of years, his altruistic spirit has undoubtedly passed on to us and will go on forever. When a peer group die, the spirit will be carried on by next generation, which constitutes a relative form of eternity and immortality. The real purpose of Buddhism practice is to realize the eternity. Only when you have achieved this, can you be qualified to be the owner of yourself. Without the spirit, your heart will always flow with the changing world like a thermometer which will never be stable.

My novels are one of the containers of such spirit and so do many other forms of containers such as animation, video, seminar and dialogues that are popular and generally accepted by the contemporary world. Obviously, any form of container is fine because it is just a kind of media while the core and master is still the spirit which can be used to nourish people’s soul. You might feel the spirit in a breeze that blows away the sweat on the head of the farmer; or you might hear the twitter of birds that make you feel supreme serenity and joy; or you might listen to a piece of melody that will bring peace and ease to people in a fret; or you might read a nice book that will help you make clear of your confusion.

Let me tell you another story. I have a friend who was struggling with her working environment and fed up with anxieties when we first met. She felt that the innate kindness within herself is always teased by others. But when she occasionally used some ugly tricks, she could often benefit a lot. So she struggled to abandon the good quality of kindness,serenity,blandness and sentiment possessed before in a bid to pursue the secular and utilitarian rewards. It was such a coincidence that she met with me at that time. After reading "A Cult of Vast Desert", she had some talks with me and suddenly realized that what she wished to abandon is the most beautiful thing in the world. One can also make achievements by safeguarding the precious treasure. She came to notice that her former thoughts were just ridiculous and biased. She said to me,” Master Xuemo, if your teaching could be heard by the female doctor who jumped off the building in Fudan University, she would not have committed suicide. It is such a pity that she strived to enter Fudan University and was admitted to doctor degree while ended up with suicide. Why your ideology has not been spread further in the world? I’m sure that if the female doctor had read your book before suicide, she would forsake it anyway.” She continued that if those people who are tortured by pains and anxieties could read these books, they will regain peace and unload those anxieties. Afterwards, she plotted a conversation with me and published a book of it. The main reason why I offered to attend the conversation is that I want to provide the world with a straightforward mind impact that could bring happiness to some people fed up with pains. The contents of the conversation have no mention of Buddhism, but carry the spirit of Buddhism.

From this point of view, the future Buddhism preachers may survive in two forms: One is the same status in its tradition to help those who have confidence in the name and appearance of Buddhism; Another is like a form of culture which could nourish those who detach from name,appearance,concepts or dogmas. Both forms have their unique merits. The latter may win a bigger stage and a bigger world. People who carry on the spirit in form of culture could also become master of culture and will pass down the straightforward mind impact by virtue of culture through a significant length of time.

What else forms could it be? It could either be a form tailored to elegant white collars that could pass the wisdom to many people in a mild way, or it could be in a form of dance, etc. Anyway, the forms are unlimited in varieties. Any form that is needed by human beings are eligible for carrying the spirit on the pretext that your wisdom must become a refreshing current that can be poured into different cups in its element to quench people’s thirst in accordance with their taste.

What if you are not able to instill refreshing energy into your wisdom? Then it is not real wisdom but travesty like a copycat. Although the simple mimic and repetitious behavior has its meaning to some extent, it will be easily washed away as time goes by as it lacks of something like spirit. Those who are just camouflaged like a Buddhist while lacking of Buddhism spirit will be undoubtedly weeded out by history. This is a problem that everyone must face.

Therefore, extinction and prosperity result not only from external environment but also internal factors. Everything in the world must follow the truth，no matter it is about development of Buddhism culture or fulfillment of personal destiny. If we are always satisfied with status quo without motivation to strive with the time or we deliberately set up too many rules to encage our young generations to stymie them from becoming giants in the future and make them become dwarf, they would be aborted by the time for sure. This is called elimination. When you succeed in rescuing the dwarf child who was supposed to grow up into a giant and wish to remake it into a giant as a remedy, you must instill a new kind of nutrition. We cannot revive a dead dwarf, so we can only give birth to a new child. The new baby carries the gene and soul of last generation, but it owns a new body which is supposed to invent new forms, philosophy, etiquette and even new experience to accommodate to the current world. At this moment, many historical relics must be evolved and manifested in new terms and forms to make it more apt for contemporary people’s needs and demands

Make sure to be aware that what we really need is not any appearance in disguise but the straightforward mind impact it holds. We will continue to carry it on in a bid to let it nourish people’s soul consistently and ignite happiness light to dispel pains and eliminate biased mindset. Bear it in mind that all kinds of annoyance of human beings stem from biased mindset and obsessed emotion. I feel painful when compared with wealthier people; I feel upset when compared with people with better look; I feel disappointed when less cared about than others ...and so on. All pains come from biased mindset which subsequently gives birth to obsessed emotion, blindness as well as greed, agony, ignorance, arrogance and envy.When all these negative emotions appear from time to time, the seed of delusion will find its fertile soil and that’s the way howsamsara of six times begins.

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人类所有烦恼都源于分别心和执著

要永远记住，人类的所有烦恼都源于分别心和执著。你富有，我贫穷，我就痛苦；你美丽，我丑陋，我就烦恼；你对他好，对我不好，我就失落……烦恼的起源，就是分别心。有了分别心，才有执著，才有愚昧，才有贪嗔痴慢妒；烦恼不尽，才会产生妄想，六道轮回由此而生。

2008年的时候，我作为“甘肃小说八骏”的一员到上海，参加过复旦大学的一次活动。在这次活动力，有一位叫金理的博士说，他不小心把皮包丢了，皮包里有他所有的证件，还有许多票据，还有很多钱。他心情坏透了，在百无聊赖之中，他翻开了《上海文学》，看到了我的小说《美丽》。读完之后，他所有的烦恼都消失了，感到非常清凉。他说：“我向雪漠致敬！向《美丽》致敬！”

为什么他会有这样的感觉？因为那小说，正是承载了佛家的某一种精神，它能给人们带来清凉。而且它又没有佛家的名相。这就是一种佛家文化、佛家思想的传播形式。我想，这是可以给人们带来一种启示的。

因为，文学也罢，电影也罢，都是载体，它们不仅仅是在表达故事。当你打碎那些条条框框，抛弃许多的名相，将智慧化为活水，用它来滋养你的心灵与创作的时候，你的快乐与明白，就会通过小说、电影等媒介，传递给读者、观众。当人们读过这些文学作品，看过这些电影，开始知道那些心外的东西改变不了本质，只有心改变了，本质才会改变的时候，就不会去执著好多东西。这个时候，你的精神、智慧自然就得到了传承，这是一种精神的传承。比如利众精神。释迦牟尼佛圆寂了千年，但他的利众精神还是传递到了我们这儿，而且会一直传下去。这群人死了之后，还会传给下一代人，这就是一种相对的永恒，相对的不朽。修行真正的目的，就是达到这种不朽。当你拥有这种不朽时，你才算真正属于你自己。没有这种精神时，你的心永远会随着外界变化，像是世界的温度计，永远不会安稳。

我的小说就是这种精神的载体之一，但它还可能有许多种不同的载体。比如动漫、视频、讲坛、对话等等当代人喜闻乐见、愿意接受的诸多形式。当然，什么样的载体都好，都只是用，核心、本体还是这精神，滋养人类灵魂的，还是这种精神。这种精神可能是一缕清风，吹去农夫头上的汗水；它可能是一声鸟鸣，让听到这声鸟鸣的人感到无上的清凉和喜悦；它也可能是一首乐曲，能够给烦躁不安的人带来宁静与悠闲；它还可能是一本好书，你读完之后，就能拨开心头的迷雾。

我再举个例子，我有个朋友，她刚遇见我时，正被自己的工作环境困扰着，被许多烦恼困扰着。她发现，自己与生俱来那种善的东西，总是被一些人嘲笑。有时候，当她利用一些自己看不起的小心机时，反倒可以带来许多利益。这时候，她总想放弃自己以前的那种善良、宁静、恬淡、诗意，去追逐世俗、功利、实用的东西。正是在这时候，她碰到了我。看完我的《大漠祭》之后，我们交谈了几次，她突然觉得自己想放弃的东西，其实是世界上最美的东西。而守住那最美的东西，照样可以取得成功。于是，她顿时发现了自己以前的想法是多么的狭隘。她还说：“雪漠老师，如果你的这些话能让复旦大学跳楼的那位女博士听到，她就不会自杀了。她好不容易上了复旦大学，考上了博士，却跳楼自杀了。你的这些思想为什么不让更多的人知道？那个复旦大学的女博士如果能在自杀前读到

你的书，那么她肯定是不会自杀的。”她说，那么多处于痛苦与焦虑中的人们，读到这些东西之后，就会得到清凉，不再焦虑。后来，她为我设计了一次对话，并出了书。我参与那次对话的主要原因就是，我要用一种直指人心的东西，让一些被痛苦困扰着的人们离苦得乐。那些对话的内容，没有佛家的名相，但承载着佛的精神。

所以说，未来的佛家，也许会以两种形式存在：一种是以原有的形式存在，帮助那些需要名相的人们；一种是以文化的形式存在，熏染那些不屑于名相、排斥概念与教条的人们。这两种形式各有所长。后者，也许会赢得更大的舞台，更大的世界，以文化承载精神的人，也可能会成为文化大师，并将那种直指人心的东西依托文化传承下去，传承得非常非常久远。

还可以有什么样的形式呢？以温文尔雅的白领喜欢的形式，和风细雨地把那种智慧传承给许多人，或是以一种舞蹈的形式……总之，形式可以有很多，只要是人类需要的形式，都可以承载精神。前提是，让你的智慧变成活水，它才能灵活地装入不同的杯子当中，为不同喜好的人解渴。

假如不能将智慧变成活水，又会如何呢？不能变成活水的，不是智慧，而是一种鹦鹉学舌。虽然这种单纯形式上的模仿和重复，也有它的意义，但是它往往经不起岁月的洗礼。因为它缺乏一种精神的东西。只有佛家名相而缺乏佛家精神的那部分人，定然会被历史所淘汰。这是必须面对的问题。

所以，一个东西的消亡和兴盛，不仅仅是外界的问题，它更是自己本身的问题。佛家文化的发展如是，个人命运也如是，世界上所有的东西都如是。要是我们抱残守缺，不能与时俱进，反倒人为地建立许多所谓的规矩，把未来的巨人囚禁在笼子里，硬生生地让他变成侏儒，最后他定然会夭折的。这就叫淘汰。当你救出这个本该长成巨人却成了侏儒的孩子，并且想让它再成长为巨人的时候，就必须注入一种新的营养。我们不能在死去的侏儒身上借尸还魂，我们必须催生一个新的婴儿。这个婴儿有上一代的基因，有上一代的灵魂，但是它有了一个新的生命体，这个生命体必须有一种适合这个时代的新的形式、哲学、礼仪，甚至是新的体验。这时候，好多过去的东西都要变革，都要经过重新的诠释，使它更适合当代人的根器。

一定要明白，我们真正需要的不是某种形式，而是这种形式所承载的一种直指人心的东西，我们对它的传承，是为了让它能够继续滋养人类的心灵，让更多的人能够离苦得乐，消除分别心。要永远记住，人类的所有烦恼都源于分别心和执著。你富有，我贫穷，我就痛苦；你美丽，我丑陋，我就烦恼；你对他好，对我不好，我就失落……烦恼的起源，就是分别心。有了分别心，才有执著，才有愚昧，才有贪嗔痴慢妒；烦恼不尽，才会产生妄想，六道轮回由此而生。

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