第184集 — 我們的心要與無上菩提相應

「凡欲發心會無上菩提者」，這個會，是我們的心要與無上菩提相應，宗門常說「會麼」。這裡兩個意思，「先須離三種與菩提門相違法」，然後「須知三種順菩提門法」，這個說得很好。

It is stated in the Treatise of Rebirth in the Pure Land, “Anyone who wants to make a vow must know the supreme bodhi” -- this ‘know’ means our mind must correspond to the supreme bodhi. As the great Zen masters often said, “Do you know?” There are two meanings here: “One must first stay away from the three kinds of teaching which are against the approach to enlightenment. Then, one must know the three kinds of teaching which correspond to the approach to enlightenment.” These are very well said.

前面第一個，「依智慧門，不求自樂，遠離我心貪著自身故」。註解裡頭說「何等為三」，哪三種？第一種，「依智慧門，不求自樂」，極樂世界很誘惑人，要想去享受，這個心不相應，去不了。

First, “one must rely on the teachings of wisdom whereby one does not seek self-enjoyment and stays away from greedy attachment to self.” The annotation states, “What are the three kinds of teaching?” The first kind is relying on the teachings of wisdom whereby one does not seek self-enjoyment. If you think that the Land of Ultimate Bliss is very tempting and want to be reborn there to enjoy, then you will not succeed in attaining rebirth there because such a mind does not correspond to enlightenment.

所以一定要「遠離我心貪著自身」，要把這個放下。我要學跟阿彌陀佛一樣，阿彌陀佛發的大心是要普度遍法界虛空界十方一切如來剎土裡面的十法界眾生。這個心量多大，不是度一個地球，不是度一個太陽系，也不是度一個銀河系。銀河系在大乘佛教裡面才只是一個單位世界，三千大千世界有十億個銀河系，這是我們不能不知道的。

That’s why you must stay away from (i.e., let go of) greedy attachment to self. I want to learn to be like Amitabha Buddha whose great vow is to universally help sentient beings of the Ten Dharma Realms in all the Buddha Lands throughout the empty space of the Dharma realms. How broad is this mind because he does not only help the sentient beings of one planet Earth or one solar system or one galaxy. In Mahayana Buddhism, one galaxy is only one world unit, and one Buddha-world (i.e., a great chiliocosm) has one billion galaxies. We must know this.