下面是根据我给舅舅送终时的谈话，整理出来的三个话题。
舅舅说：“这一条，我听明白了！无所得，看着不起眼儿，道理却很深，很有用。你说下一条吧！”
Here are three topics based on conversations I had when I was transcendently ferrying my uncle. 
My uncle said: "This one, I understand now! No gain, looks insignificant, but the truth is deep and useful. You say the next clause!"
我对舅舅说：“这条讲圆满，我先用书上的话说，你听明白意思就行。云何满？法无不合，不必修遣。诸法无性不可修遣，如是不修不遣。心净无着，如是不起。能所如幻，如是无取无执。此其所以速得圆满也。佛说，‘无有少法与少法合，但自然法必然与其自身合’，不明白这个道理，他就不会得到圆满，到不了完美的世界；明白了，稍作练习就功德圆满了。”
舅舅说：“我听懂了，你继续，怎么看待和练习？”
I said to uncle: "This clause speaks of Fulfillment, I'll use the words from the book, you hear and understand the meaning. What is the fulfillment? There is no unmatched law, and you must not amend to send it away. Laws have no nature and cannot be amended or repatriated with; thus, no amendment no disharmony. The heart is immaculate and unattached; thus, it does not arouse. Cause and effect are like hallucination, thus, no fetch and no obsession. This is way one achieves perfect fulfillment quickly. The Veda said, 'There is no lesser law that match with the lesser law, but the natural law is bound to be united with itself.' Without understanding this, he will not attain perfect fulfillment, and will not arrive at the perfect world; understanding this, with a little practice he will have perfected his merit and virtue."
Uncle said: "I understand; go on, how do you see and practice?"
 
我说：“佛经有说，万物自有功，当言用极处；事存函盖合，理应箭锋柱。这是说，世间的万事万物千百年来存在，各自有它自己的道理和美德。当你把这道理推广到极限，一物一理，事物存在了就是道理和事物匹配了。当你觉得事情合情合理了，你应该知道，你正在攀爬一个布满剑锋的柱子，必定受伤。”
舅舅说：“我听明白了，但是没抓住要领，你举个例子说，怎么做？”
I said: "It is said in the Buddhist scriptures that all things have their own merits, what we should say that using their extreme place; that thing exists shows box and cover fit, reasonable and fair you have climbed up a pillar covered by blades. This is to say that everything in the world has existed for thousands of years, each with its own reasoning and virtues. When you extend this reasoning to the limit, one thing, one reason, things exist is the reasoning and effects match. When you think things make sense, you should know that you are climbing up a pillar covered with sword blades and are bound to get hurt."
Uncle said: "I hear you, but I don't get the gist of it, so give me an example of how to do it."
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我说：“比如，你到后院溜达，看见一颗水稗草，就单看这棵草，别看苗儿。你就想，几天没注意，你长这么大了，又壮实，又水灵。你用不着对我二哥大喊：草长得都比苗儿高了。人家就三口人，不在忽这仨瓜俩枣的。你就想，我铲你都铲了50年了，你还长得这么旺盛，今天我饶你一命，不拔你了。你单看这棵草的美丽；这就是一物一理。你这么观待每一个事物，就远离了地狱，走向天堂，进入了佛的境界。”
I said: "For example, you go to the backyard, see a barnyard grass, just look at the grass alone, do not look at the seedlings. You just think, a few days did not pay attention, you grow so big, and strong, and watery. You don't need to yell at my second brother: the grass has grown taller than the seedlings. They are just three people, not mind of these three melons and two dates. You just think, I shoveled you have shoveled 50 years, you still grow so vigorous, today I spare your life, do not pull you. You look at the beauty of this barnyard grass alone; this is one thing and one reason. When you view everything in this way, you are far from hell, advance toward heaven, and into the realm of the Buddha."
舅舅问：“看草不看苗儿，看苗不看草。那会怎么样？”
我说：“当你单单欣赏水稗草的美的时候，美的等流果（参见11.6.2节《等流果》）就会随意而聚；这就是如意（参见13.1.6-4 知足天）。如果不联想别的，世界就是美好的。一想到苗和收成，这不合理呀！美好的世界就被破坏了。”
舅舅想了想，说：“确实，水稗草壮实水灵！我能感觉到。这个例子挺好！你再举个别的例子。”
Uncle asked: "Look at the grass but not the seedlings and look at the seedlings but not the grass. What happens then?"
I said: "When you appreciate the beauty of the barnyard grass alone, the Equal Stream Fruits of beauty (cf. 11.6.2 Equal Stream Fruit) will be gathered at will; this is “As Wish” (cf. 13.1.6-4 Contentment Sky). If one does not associate it with anything else, the world is beautiful. When one thinks of seedlings and harvests, this is unreasonable! The beautiful world is destroyed."
Uncle thought for a moment, said: "Indeed, the barnyard grass is prosperously strong and watery! I can feel it. This example is quite good! You give another example."
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我说：“你看你家的墙头草，东风东倒，西风西随，一段时间不下雨，你以为它们死了，可人家年年都长得不错，还长生不老。”
舅舅惊奇地说：“那草长生不老？”
I said: "Look at your family's wall grass, east wind east, west wind west follows, a period of time does not rain, you think they are dead, but they grow well year after year, but also live forever."
Uncle said in amazement: "That grass lives forever?"
我说：“那草没有生老病死的烦恼。它们不知道生死，生死对它们自己来说，没有差别，所以会说话的人说它们长生不老。你得设身处地，从它们的角度出发！”
舅舅说：“那有啥用！？我没听明白。”
I said: "That grass doesn't have the annoyances of birth, getting old, illness, or dying.
They don't know about life and death, and there is no difference between life and death for themselves, so people who can talk say they live forever. You must put yourself in their shoes and take their point of view!"
Uncle said: "What's the point of that! I don't get it."
我说：“佛不生不灭，为什么？因为成佛前，要求把生死扔掉，就是别管生死了，忘了生死。这在佛经里都写着呢！”
舅舅问：“这是真的吗？”
I said: "Buddhas have no birth and death, why? Because before becoming a Buddha, one is required to throw away birth and death, that is, forget about birth and death. This is all written in the sutras!"
Uncle asked: "Is this true?"
我回答：“是真的！佛经里的修炼过程中就有这一步：舍掉生死的概念想法和记忆；就是除掉生死劣种。你这么看，这么做，就逐渐地步入了人间仙境。”
舅舅叨咕：“是这么回事儿！？”
I replied: "It is true! There is this step in the cultivation process in the Buddhist scriptures: to give up the conceptual ideas and memories of birth and death; that is, to get rid of the inferior seeds of birth and death. When you see and do this, you gradually step into the realm of earthly immortality."
Uncle chattered: "That's how it is!?"
我回答：“就是这么回事！人说佛祖的金刚山（和尚山），连鸟的头上都不长毛。我一看佛经，那是真的，那鸟是秃鹫。佛经说衣服长在树上，也是真的！他们用木棉织袈裟。佛就善于发现现实生活中的美。为什么佛土总是那么好？他就单从事物的自身发现美，不相互比较。他们就单设身处地地从所观本身出发，想问题；这是极端多元主义，是佛的世界观。现在西方世界流行多样儿化；就是这种多元主义。”
I replied: "That's how it is! People say that Buddha's Mount Sumeru (Monk's Mountain) doesn't even have hair on the heads of birds. When I looked at the sutra, that was true; the birds were vultures. The sutra says that clothes grow on trees, and that's also true! They weave robes out of cottonwood. Buddha was then good at finding beauty in real life. Why is the Buddha's land always so good? He finds beauty in things by themselves alone, without comparing them to each other. They just put themselves in the shoes of what they are looking at and think about it. This is extreme pluralism, the Buddha's worldview. Nowadays the western world is popular for diversification; it is this kind of pluralism."
舅舅问：“你练习过这个吗？”
我回答：“我琢磨明白了这个道理，但是我还得挣钱吃饭买衣服，不能老是让父母养活，还不到进入妙智世界的时候。你不一样了，吃饭的时候，儿女给你放在这儿，供上。你就应该脱离苦海，登岸，进入妙智世界了。”
Uncle asked: "Have you practiced this?"
I replied: "I have pondered and understood this, but I still have to earn money to eat and buy clothes; I can't keep letting my parents feed me; it's not yet time to enter the Wonderful Intelligence World. You are different from me, when you eat, your sons and daughters put it here for you and make offerings. You should then be free from the bitter sea, disembark, and enter the Wonderful Intelligence World."
舅舅说：“这条叫圆满。这么看，这么做，就是圆满。按日常的道理想和作，那就烦恼无尽。你讲下一条吧！等回头再说说这条，你不就是来给我讲这个的吗！”
我回答：“是呀！你想听，我就一直说。”
Uncle said: "This clause is called Perfect Fulfillment. To see like this and to do like this is Perfect Fulfillment. To idealize and act according to the daily path, that is trouble without end. You speak about the next clause! Wait until later to talk about this one, isn't that what you came to tell me!"
I replied: "Yes! I'll keep talking if you want to hear it."
坛主:Adam_Luyan于2024_05_06 19:10:14编辑