我们就是我们所想的!


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The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol. 1
Chapter #1 We Are What We Think
我們就是我們所想的
We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with an impure mind
and trouble will follow you
as the wheel follows the ox that draws the cart.
We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
Speak or act with a pure mind
and happiness will follow you
as your shadow, unshakable.
“Look how he abused me and beat me,
how he threw me down and robbed me.”
Live with such thoughts and you live in hate.
“Look how he abused me and beat me,
how he threw me down and robbed me.”
Abandon such thoughts, and live in love.
In this world
hate never yet dispelled hate.
Only love dispels hate.
This is the law,
ancient and inexhaustible.
You too shall pass away.
Knowing this, how can you quarrel?
How easily the wind overturns a frail tree.
Seek happiness in the senses,
indulge in food and sleep
and you too will be uprooted.
The wind cannot overturn a mountain.
Temptation cannot touch the man
who is awake, strong and humble,
who masters himself and minds the law.
If a man’s thoughts are muddy,
if he is reckless and full of deceit,
how can he wear the yellow robe?
Whoever is master of his own nature,
bright, clear and true,
he may indeed wear the yellow robe.
我們就是我們所想的,
我們是怎麼樣都是來自我們的思想,
透過思想我們創造了這個世界。
用不純的頭腦來說話或行動,煩惱就會跟隨著你, 就好像輪子跟隨著拉車的牛。
我們就是我們所想的,
我們是怎麼樣都是來自我們的思想,透過思想我們創造了這個世界。
用純淨的頭腦來說話或行動,快樂就會跟隨著你, 如影隨形,毫不動搖。
「看他怎麼毀謗我,打擊我,看他如何損傷我,搶奪我。」
帶著這樣的想法生活,就會活在怨恨中。
「看他怎麼毀謗我,打擊我,看他如何損傷我,搶奪我。」
棄絕了這樣的想法,就會活在愛之中。
在這世界裡,
怨恨從來就無法驅除怨恨,只有愛能夠消退怨恨, 這是自古以來不變的法則。
有一天你會過世,知道了這一點,你怎麼會再去爭吵?
風很容易就吹倒一棵脆弱的樹,
追求感官的快樂, 放縱在美食和睡眠裡,你也會被連根拔起。
風無法吹倒一座山, 誘惑碰觸不到 一個醒悟、堅強又謙虛的人,碰觸不到一個能夠自主,又能了解道的人。
如果一個人的思想污濁,如果他是魯莽的,奸詐的, 他怎麼能夠穿上黃袍?
不論是什麼人,只要是自己本性的主人,
既明亮、清晰、又很真實,他才真的可以穿上黃袍。
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以上来自朋友“Karuna斐玲”的辛勤工作和用心付出,我爱她。也在这里把她的努力成果分享给大家!