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What is ‘remaining focussed on true wisdom?’
什麼是住真實慧 - 第166集
「積功累德品」裡面所講的住真實慧，真實智慧就是真心，真心生真實智慧。真心就是你心裡沒有妄想、沒有雜念、沒有分別、沒有執著，就是真心。現在真心變成了垃圾桶，裡面裝滿妄想雜念、分別執著，這就變成六道凡夫。
The true wisdom mentioned in the Chapter on Accumulating Merits is the true mind, because it arises from the true mind which is without wandering and distracting thoughts as well as discrimination and attachments. Our true mind has now become a trash bin filled with wandering and distracting thoughts as well as discrimination and attachments, hence we become ordinary beings of the Six Realms.
如果把垃圾桶清乾淨，裡面東西都不要，那叫一片真心。那是什麼？那是佛菩薩。所以佛法修行沒有別的，清除垃圾桶，統統把它拋棄掉，不要再要它，就對了。釋迦牟尼佛成佛是這樣成的，在菩提樹下入定，把妄想、分別、執著全放下，他成佛了。
If the trash bin is emptied, it is called ‘the true mind.’ Who have emptied the trash bin? Buddhas and bodhisattvas had emptied it. That’s why Buddhist cultivation is nothing more than clearing the trash bin and never wanting the rubbish again. Sakyamuni Buddha attained Buddhahood in this way as he let go of wandering thoughts, discrimination and attachments altogether after he entered into meditative concentration and accomplished samadhi under the Bodhi tree.
惠能大師在碓房舂米破柴，能把妄想、分別、執著放下，他成功了。來佛寺的這三個人，沒有別的，也是在一句佛號當中，他們就掌握住一句佛號，一句佛號之外，所有的雜念、分別、執著統統放下，所以他個個成就，都成就念佛三昧，都達到明心見性的境界。
Great Master Hui Neng was able to let go of wandering thoughts, discrimination and attachments while pounding rice and splitting wood in the threshing floor, thereby attained Supreme Enlightenment. Likewise, the three accomplished practitioners from Lai Fo Si also succeeded in attaining Buddha Mindfulness Samadhi as well as achieving the state of seeing into the mind and true nature by holding fast to one single phrase of Amitabha Buddha’s name and letting go of distracting thoughts, discrimination and attachments completely.
《楞嚴經》大勢至菩薩所說的，「憶佛念佛，現前當來必定見佛」，這句話是真的，不是假的。所以我們有理由相信，這三個人見佛不止一次，尤其是海賢老和尚，他壽命長，他活了一百一十二歲，二十歲出家，這一句佛號他念了九十二年。我相信他一生見佛多次，絕不是三次、四次，多次，所以他什麼都知道。一句佛號。
As Mahāsthāmaprāpta Bodhisattva said in the Suramgama Sutra, “By chanting Amitabha Buddha’s name mentally and orally, one will certainly see Amitabha Buddha now and in the future” -- this phrase holds true and not false. That’s why we have reason to believe that these three accomplished practitioners (from Lai Fo Si) had seen Amitabha Buddha more than once, especially Great Master Hai Xian who had lived a long life. He was ordained as a monk at the age of twenty and lived to a ripe old age of 112, so he had chanted this Amitabha Buddha’s name for 92 years. I believe he had seen Amitabha Buddha many times (definitely not just three or four times) in his life. That’s why he knew everything.