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开元寺佛学英文班 刘卉

时光荏苒，转眼间为期十个月的佛学英文班的学习已接近尾声，我们也迎来了福州开元寺第二期居士修学班的结业汇报演出。我的心情很复杂，一方面，就要跟老师、师兄们分别，感到很不舍得；另一方面，怀着兴奋、激动的心情跟老师和师兄们准备节目，共同迎接法喜充满的时刻。

万事开头难，就像我刚开始

by Chan Master Benxing

Bai Juyi[1] said thus: “One three-year-old child can say this, but one eighty-year-old man cannot do this.”

Chan Master Xue Feng asked Xuan Ji who came from Wen Zhou: “What’s your name?”

Answer: “Xuan Ji.”

Xue Feng said: “Since you are an exquisite machine, how much clothes do you knit per day?

Xuan Ji replied: “It is totally nude.” Finished saying he wanted to turn round to go out.

Xue Feng had a shout: “Your robe corner dragged along the floor.”

Xuan Ji turned round and had a look.

Xue Feng haw-haw laughed: “What a totally nude is!”

“Being nude totally.” said by Xuan Ji must be a mental state of no obstacle, or giving up everything. But once heard of his robe dragging along the floor he turned round to look, this showed he still had obstacle and didn’t give up.

Everybody must know many stories between Su Dongpo[2] and Chan Master Fo Yin. One of

by Chan Master Benxing

Buddhism pays attention to a mind which has no difference, and asks us to treat people by this kind of mind.

But, because of that, we should not beg others to treat ourselves by this kind of mind too. Because, everyone has his own condition.

The emperor of ancient Rome Hadrianus had a general who wished the emperor to promote him to a more important post. The emperor asked him the reason, he said: “I have served by following you for a long time, and I participated in ten important battles.”

The emperor knew that general was mediocrity, was not suitable to serve as a higher job. Thus, the emperor pointed at his horses, spoke to the general for fun: “Dear General, they have been following me over a long period of time, and took part in twenty battles at least, but they are still horses up to now.”

It is said in a story: A melon farmer got a big pumpkin by his planting and was very surprised, so h

by Chan Master Benxing

The Diamond Sutra says: “All conditioned phenomena are like dream､ bubbles､dew､electricity, we should have such a thinking.”

It again says: “There is not an appearance of me, or human being, or sentient beings, or longevity.”

Thus, from the original nature, all appearances are delusive.

One monk one day asked Xi Qian: “How to get free?”

Xi Qian: “Who begird you?”

The monk asked: “What is the Pure Land?”

Xi Qian rhetorically questioned: “Who make you dirty?”

VimalakirtinirdesSutra says: “There is a begirding then there should be a solution; if there is not a begirding then who will seek a solution.” This also certified the poem said by the sixth patriarch: “There is not a Bodhi tree originally, a clear mirror is also not a platform. There is nothing originally, where can you get ordinary affair.”

Seeing throug

福州开元寺居士净土初级班 陈文静

对佛学感兴趣是受父母的影响。

父母接触佛学的初衷很简单：往生极乐净土。因他们在连江老家，我长居福州，有次回家，爸爸复印了一本《大悲咒》给我，告诉我，得闲可以去看看，去念念，有什么好处，以后自会领悟。爸爸给的《大悲咒》坚持念了快一年后，又机缘巧合地结缘了一些佛教经典，缘于自己的性格较安静，工作之余也能静下心来认真念诵它们。

过往的二、三年时间里，熟念了《无

福州开元寺居士净土修学班  孙钦

 

与佛之缘，是在童年。我生长在福建省周宁县，一个灵性十足又安静的山城。小时候与外婆一起生活，长长的木墙的另一端住着一位慈眉善目的阿婆。她是一位在家居士，十九岁开始菇素,家中常常有穿着僧衣的法师们出入。他们来自交通闭塞偏僻的深山古寺。她家是法师们在县城歇脚的地方。我亲切的称呼法师们“舅舅”“阿姨”。许是童真可爱吧，我的衣袋里从未断过供佛后分享的“聪明果”。外婆常说：“吃吧，小丫头，吃了长智慧，长

文 / 释本性

生命的真相是生老病死。

所以，文天祥才感叹：人生自古谁无死，为此，要留取丹心照汗青。说实在，生死二字，让多少豪杰下跪，令多少英雄折腰。围绕生死二字，人间或天堂，演绎了多少的笑声与泪水。

在佛教，视死如归，视死如蛹化蝶，视死如凤凰涅槃。不仅如此，还有念死参生的法门，以此，培养出离心、菩提心，去除恐惧心、执着心。依据《解脱道论》与《清净道论》，念死法门或念死观，主要有八条内容：

1、 以杀戮者追近：也就是，死亡的杀手追杀我们于身后，悬剑于我们头顶，总有一天，我们会被杀手追上，头顶之剑会掉下来，斩杀了我们。生死俱来，不可逆转。小河之枯、果实之落、器皿之坏、露珠之散，不可避免。众生与死亡赛跑，永远不会是冠军。

2、 以兴盛衰落：也就是，物极必反、月圆必缺，生命的旺盛，必是生命的衰败开始。有哪种兴盛可以最终战胜衰败？没有。多少帝王，权位没了，多少王侯，富贵没了，多少沧海，桑田了，多少桑田，沧海了。众生健康终于病，青春终于老，生命终于死。所谓的征服者，永远被征服，所谓的胜

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