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我們怎麼懺悔 - 第241集
How do we repent?
怎麼懺悔？著重在真心，改過自新。自己的過失，叫發露懺悔，可以向大家報告，我知道錯了，我承認過失，從今而後不再犯同樣的過失，所以它跟儒家講的不貳過是一個意思。孔子的學生，真正做到不貳過的只有一個人，顏回，他能做到，別人沒做到。孔子學生有七十二個優秀的，七十二賢，真正做到不貳過的一個，你就知道多難。佛法的懺悔比儒家的更嚴肅，為什麼？
How do we repent? The focus is on using the true mind to rectify our mistakes and turn over a new leaf. Disclosing and admitting our own faults to everyone and vowing not to make the same mistakes again from now on, has the same meaning as the Confucian teaching of never committing a mistake twice. Among Confucius’ seventy-two outstanding students or seventy-two sages, only Yan Hui managed to accomplish this, so you know how difficult it is not to make a mistake twice! Buddhism is even stricter than Confucianism when it comes to repentance. What is the reason?
儒沒有出六道輪迴，它是世間法；佛幫助你出六道輪迴。出六道輪迴，最簡單、最方便的法就是淨土，淨土主張帶業往生，這個業就是業障，業障沒有懺悔盡沒有關係，可以帶著業障往生極樂世界。
Because Confucianism is a mundane teaching and its practitioners have not yet been liberated from the Six Realms of reincarnation. The Buddha helps you to transcend the Six Realms. In this regard, Pure Land Buddhism is the simplest and most expedient method because it advocates taking karmas (i.e., karmic obstacles) along to the Pure Land. It does not matter if your karmic obstacles are not completely eliminated because you can be reborn in the Pure Land with your karmas.
這在八萬四千法門裡面，任何一個法門沒有帶業的，都是要消業障，要斷煩惱。消業障斷煩惱太難了，我在年輕的時候，學法華、學天台、學法相、學楞嚴，都講消業，沒有講帶業的。
None of the 84,000 Dharma methods allows taking karmas to the next rebirth, so the practitioners must eliminate their karmic obstacles and sever their afflictions before they can attain enlightenment. It is too difficult to eliminate karmic obstacles and sever afflictions. The Lotus sect-Tiantai, Faxiang and Suramgama that I learned when I was young, are all about eliminating karmic obstacles; they do not talk about taking karmas.
自己認真反省，不帶業難。他們一定要斷煩惱，才能證得果位。最低的果位我們都做不到，小乘初果、大乘初信位菩薩，這剛入門。
If we seriously reflect, it is hard for us to succeed if we cannot take our karmas to the Pure Land. Practitioners of other Dharma methods must sever their afflictions before they can achieve realisation. Honestly, we cannot even achieve the lowest stage of realisation i.e., the first realisation in Theravada Buddhism (i.e., stream-enterer (srota-āpanna)) and bodhisattvas of the initial stage of the Ten Faiths (初信) in Mahayana Buddhism. These sages have just entered the Dharma door.