第一四七集視頻文字檔如下:
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要怎麼樣子聽才真正聽到佛法 - 第147集
How should we listen to the Dharma lectures so that we can really reap its benefits?
釋迦牟尼佛四十九年講經說法,言語有生有滅,所以馬鳴菩薩在《起信論》裡頭告訴我們,要怎麼樣子聽,你才真正聽到佛法,聞法了?要離言說相,不能執著言說,言說是生滅的。如果看經,經是文字相,文字是語言的符號,它也是生滅法,言語不能執著,文字也不能執著。
Sakyamuni Buddha had been expounding the Dharma lectures for forty-nine years. Since speech is subject to arising and ceasing, Aśvaghoṣa Bodhisattva taught us how to listen to the Dharma lectures in the Mahayana Treatise of Awakening of Faith so that we can really reap its benefits. First, you must renounce the mark of oral languages. In other words, you must not be attached to speech because it is bound to arise and cease. If you read the sutras, the texts are marks of words. Words are symbols of languages, so they are also subject to arising and ceasing. In short, you must neither be attached to speech nor words.
第二個,不能執著名字相。這裡說實相,實相是名詞,無不相也是個名詞,你要從名詞裡頭懂得它的意思,不要執著文字相。不能執著,言說、文字不能執著,不能執著名詞術語,全是假的,還不能執著心緣相,我一看、聽,這什麼意思?沒有意思,意思是你自己想的,沒意思。
Second, you must not be attached to the mark of names. ‘Reality’ that is mentioned here is a noun, so is ‘not without forms.’ You must understand the meaning from the noun instead of being attached to the mark of words. You cannot be attached to speech, words, nouns and terminologies because they are all illusory. You must not be attached to the mark of mental cognition too. For instance, you must not think of the meaning when you read and listen to the sutras because they have no meaning. Whatever meaning you have is your own meaning.
沒有意思能出無量義,有一個意思死掉了,就這個意思,不能說第二個意思。所以佛的經典妙,你真正能懂得,不著文字相、不著名字相、不著心緣相,你就一直這樣念下去,會開悟。遍數念多了,自見其義。什麼義?無量義,字字句句都是無量義,每個字裡頭都有一切的意思在裡頭,圓滿的,沒有少一個。
Even though they have no meaning, they can give rise to infinite meanings. If it has one meaning, then it is just this meaning and there won’t be a second meaning. That’s why the Buddhist sutras are awesome, but you must really know how to learn them. If you keep reciting the sutra without being attached to the marks of words, names and mental cognition, then you are bound to attain enlightenment. If you recite the sutra many times, you will attain spontaneous enlightenment. What will you realize? You will realize that every word has infinite meanings in it, and the meanings are perfect without lacking in one meaning.