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How to cultivate the bodhi mind?
我們如何修學菩提心 - 第208集
菩提心一發，跟阿彌陀佛就溝通了，沒障礙了，想什麼時候去就什麼時候去，而且品位很高。這個難得！我們能不能做到？做不到，說清楚了也做不到。為什麼？我們見色聞聲還是會起心動念。起心動念這個心是妄心，是阿賴耶、末那、第六意識，連帶心心所同時起作用。
Once the bodhi mind is developed, you can communicate with Amitabha Buddha without obstacle and can go to the Pure Land anytime you want. Moreover, your grade of rebirth will be very high. This is rare! Can we do this? No, we can’t do it even after I have made this clear. What is the reason? Because we still give rise to thoughts when we see the sights and hear the sounds. These incessant thoughts are the deluded mind, whereby the Alaya, the seventh consciousness (Manas) and the sixth consciousness, together with the mind and its associated factors, are concurrently functional.
我們努力盡量的把這種妄心、妄念減輕，這有好處，這種妄念愈淡薄愈好，我們跟真心就愈接近，要淡薄。怎麼淡薄法？知道一切法是假的，不是真的，「凡所有相，皆是虛妄」。要知道這個假相的真相，於是怎麼樣？我們見色聞聲像佛菩薩一樣隨緣妙用，恆順眾生，隨喜功德，決定不能把假相放在心上，這就是修學菩提心。
If we try our best to reduce our wandering thoughts, there are benefits to it because the lesser thoughts we have, the closer we are to the true mind. How do we reduce our thoughts? We must know that all phenomena are illusory and not real. As the sutra states, “Everything with form is illusory (unreal)” -- if we know the reality of this illusoriness, what will we do? Like buddhas and bodhisattvas, we will skilfully accord with sentient beings and conditions, and will rejoice in their merits when we come into contact with the sights and sounds of the world, but we will definitely not retain these illusory phenomena in our mind. This is cultivating the bodhi mind.