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不怕吃虧上當我們只要極樂世界 – 第20集
All we want is to be reborn in the Land of Ultimate Bliss, so we are neither afraid of suffering losses nor being deceived.
如何修清淨心？就是念佛，心裡頭只有阿彌陀佛，除阿彌陀佛之外什麼都不要放在心上，心就清淨了。我們眼見色、耳聞聲，六根接觸六塵境界，統統把它放在心上就壞了，我們心被染污了、心動了；心動就不平等，心被染污就不清淨。
How do we cultivate purity of mind? We can do so by focusing our mind on chanting Amitabha Buddha’s name. If we do not retain anything in our mind except Amitabha Buddha’s name, then our mind will be pure. By contrast, if we retain everything that our six-sense organs are in contact with, then our mind will be defiled and moved. The mind becomes partial when it is moved, and impure when it is defiled.
不是叫我們不看不聽，不是的，看了聽了不放在心上，就對了，永遠保持清淨平等覺，恢復我的清淨平等覺。清淨平等覺就是真心、就是佛心，那個心就是佛。現在我們這樣幹法，就是是心作佛，本來是佛，現在又作佛，現在把阿彌陀佛放在心上，除阿彌陀佛之外統統不要放在心上，就對了。
It is not that we are forbidden to see and hear, but we will not retain everything that we see and hear in our mind. We would then be on the right track because our intrinsically pure, impartial and enlightened mind will be restored and maintained forever. Purity, impartiality and enlightenment is the true mind (i.e., the enlightened mind, the buddha-mind). By practising in this way now, our originally enlightened mind becomes buddha again. Just be mindful of Amitabha Buddha and nothing else, and we are on the right track.
放在心上就錯了，放在心上是妄想、是雜念，心被染污了、被動搖了，不會覺悟，只會迷惑。問一般人為什麼不敢用真心、不敢跟人說實話？都是怕上當、怕吃虧。我們學佛到極樂世界，不怕吃虧，不怕上當。
It is wrong to retain other things in our mind because those are wandering and distracting thoughts that cause our mind to be defiled and moved. Consequently, we will only become deluded and will not attain enlightenment. If we ask ordinary people why they dare not use the true mind and tell the truth, they would say that they are afraid of being fooled and suffering losses. Since we are learning Buddhism and will eventually go to the Land of Ultimate Bliss, we are neither afraid of suffering losses nor being deceived.
我們只要極樂世界，其他的什麼都不要，這個地方統統放下，你們要都給你們，歡歡喜喜給你們，不要了，清淨平等心才能現前。障礙在自己這邊，要肯放下，就是一句佛號、一部《無量壽經》。所以「本來是佛，現又作佛，是故當下即佛」，這是真的不是假的。
All we want is to be reborn in the Land of Ultimate Bliss and not anything else! We have let go of everything here, so we are happy to give whatever others want. Only then can our pure and impartial mind appear. The hindrances are in us. We must be willing to let go of everything except Amitabha Buddha’s name and the Infinite Life Sutra. That’s why this phrase is so true and not false at all: “You are originally a buddha and you become a buddha again now, so you become a buddha instantly.”
佛跟我們沒有距離、沒有先後，沒有距離是沒有空間，沒有先後是沒有時間，當下就是。「直捷了當，方便究竟，奇特殊勝，不可思議」。
Distance (i.e., space) and sequence (i.e., time) do not exist between buddhas and us, so we become a buddha right here and right now. As stated in the annotation, “The Buddha-name chanting method is a direct, essentially expedient, rare, special and marvellous method to attain Buddhahood. It is inconceivable!”