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We should help sentient beings without retaining the traces of having helped them in the mind
度眾生心上不放度眾生的痕跡 - 第196集
無願三昧是什麼？就是大三空三昧，三解脫門，空、無相、無作。「雖願皆度無量有情，而不存能度所度」。如果有能度所度，你依舊是凡夫，你沒有能度人。如果被你度的那個人根性利，他離開六道，你離不開。
What is the Samadhi of No-seeking? It is the Great Samadhi of Three Emptiness, and the Three Gates of Liberation (i.e., meditation on emptiness, formlessness and desirelessness). “Even though they vow to help innumerable sentient beings, they do not imprint the notions of ‘rescuer’ and ‘the rescued’ on their mind.” If you still have these notions, then you are still an ordinary being and cannot help people. If the person you helped has superior faculties and has transcended transmigration within the Six Realms, you cannot transcend them.
為什麼你離不開？因為你著相，著相就離不開。大三空三昧，三昧就是禪定，三昧就是一心不亂，就是一心。度無量無邊眾生，沒度，一個也沒度。度了沒有？真度了。度眾生心上不放度眾生的痕跡，心地清淨，一塵不染。
Why can’t you transcend? Because you are still attached to the phenomenal appearances. As far as the Great Samadhi of Three Emptiness is concerned, samadhi is meditative concentration or One Mind Undisturbed. There is not a single sentient being that you have helped even if you have helped innumerable and boundless sentient beings. Have the sentient beings been helped? Yes, they have really been helped. When you help sentient beings without retaining the traces of having helped them in the mind, then your mind is pure without the slightest defilement.
如果有個度眾生的念頭，這個念頭把清淨心染污了。清淨心被染污，你是六道凡夫，你不是阿羅漢。阿羅漢做再多的好事不著相，他沒有執著，發願要度眾生，見到眾生真正肯幫助，但是清淨心裡頭痕跡都沒有。「故能隨順於空無相」。空、無相、無願，無願是心裡沒有起心動念，有起心動念錯了。
If you have one thought of having helped sentient beings, then this thought will defile the pure mind and you are an ordinary being of the Six Realms and not an arhat. Arhats are not attached to the phenomenal appearances no matter how many good deeds they have done. They vow to help sentient beings and are really willing to help them anytime, but there is not a single trace of helping sentient beings in their pure mind. “Hence, they are able to accord with the meditation on emptiness, formlessness (and desirelessness).” Desirelessness is having no thoughts in the mind. It is wrong to have thoughts.