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2 D) }! d1 W9 L0 X* X T K L还俗 | Resuming Secular Life* H1 G2 w; j: G/ [- x* ]' a
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十分不想写下这个标题！但在这个五欲增盛的浊世，还俗已成为不得不面对的残酷现实。
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与其避重就轻地逃避这个题目，不如勇敢地正视它。' S7 P: ]) D( y; O) n5 N
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How reluctant am I to touch upon this subject! But “to leave the monastic order” presents a
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cruel reality we must face in the current time of five degenerations. Instead of dodging the issue,
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I may as well look at it squarely and bravely.3 E* G, [9 V/ }
1 q' e% D) @+ F今天，听到一位出家十几年的人，为烦恼所缠，已还俗好几个月了。听到这个消息，心里+ d; @+ L$ @5 b3 H9 ?+ u4 G
/ @) n4 y& _& M. j: X像吃了一只苍蝇般不是滋味。记得在他出家初期，也可算得上是闻思精进、戒律清净、智
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慧日益增上的典范。他曾说过：“我只要活一天，决不还俗。让我还俗，还不如死掉。”
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这样一位下了很大决心的人，却食言还俗，十分令人痛心。
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A few months ago a monk, beset by afflictions, declared to renounce his monastic life of more( \7 i! K: r# _3 |2 m, n( q% k( g
6 `0 C; ?0 v5 ^# }than 10 years. When I heard this news today, I got quite upset as if I had swallowed a fly. I recall; O& }& e! v, t& ?( n* c8 ^
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early on, his ordained peers had regarded him as a model by his diligent study and keeping pure
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precepts. Once he asserted: “As long as I am alive, I will never leave the monastic order even for
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1 T7 c# H& X" `$ K! { oone day. For me, returning to the worldly life is worse than dying.” A person who proclaimed his
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; a- g& A. J+ ^& T% dfaith with such strong determination still ended up eating his own words and repealed his vow.
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How can I not feel sick at heart!8 P) ], K5 _) B; U1 [) j! _; P
9 j2 _2 R+ s! n1 i8 A, v9 H他在电话中闭口不谈佛法，却无休止地言及他的生意。当问到他生意如何时，他像饱含 了/ Z# R: ?" s( r _$ Y( _8 N P3 y
4 K9 E9 P! f9 F# N一大堆苦水，忙不迭地向我倾倒：“如今的生意太难做了！每天8小时，却挣不到十元钱。0 Z1 |/ f% f, c5 F% @
8 {; T a0 E. F6 |) V) n想起以前出家时无忧无虑的生活，真像在天堂一样啊！唉！！”听了他的苦恼，我真不知
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Over the phone, he veered away from discussing the Dharma, but instead tattled endlessly about
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. I. K5 O5 |0 ^" `, f9 d& s$ Jhis business. When I asked how it was going, he started to pour out to me his pent-up miseries:
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# Y. C$ L, c! K' x“You know, it’s so difficult to do business these days! My hard labor of eight hours daily earns me- q- w+ {5 C8 z
" h! v/ S# [1 w; ?( K+ i) s7 cless than 10 yuan. The ordained life at the monastery, as I recall now, was so peaceful and worry-
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free, almost like living in heaven! Alas!!” Hearing his complaints, I have no idea how to respond.
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不过令我庆幸的是，他的见解至今尚未改变，对三宝的信心也没有退减，忏悔心恒时不离0 D( M$ ?, d% y% I
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左右。虽忙于生意，却不离念诵。& ^* w- c: ]' |: _4 g& ~& \7 p( ~4 W
5 H; K, x/ r! G/ k3 @6 Z. h- YBut there is some consolation for me: He is still holding onto his views and his faith in the Three. y) [5 I7 d& E& G
& L& r/ ~+ w) r1 Q6 G. }Jewels has not waned. He takes every opportunity to do the purification practice and also
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" Y, o! Y0 n, X7 y4 g& k5 Tremembers to recite mantras while busy with his shop.1 m" m- E# o M
# U" d0 m6 m; q- a喇拉曲智仁波切曾有一位很有名的弟子因故还俗，但别人毁谤他时，仁波切却说：“毁谤. T, Z$ V$ L ]
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别人是错误的，他的身体虽然还俗了，心却没有还俗。”' ]5 k$ }# |6 k6 L
" V4 K4 X/ g! L& w6 M# I% a! AOnce, one of Lhala Chodri Rinpoche’s main disciples left the monastic order for some reason.
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When others condemned him, Rinpoche said: “It’s not right to speak badly about others.( w, t% H" i6 u3 @$ N! i; K
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Although his body has resumed a worldly life, he has not done so in his heart.”
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佛经云：“宁可毁尸罗，切莫坏正见。”《中观四百论》中也说：“宁毁犯尸罗，不损坏$ O: d. ^: Y3 v1 I
+ v# M9 R, _9 s+ M1 M正见。”如果见解毁坏，不行忏悔，反而责怪上师三宝，即使身体没有还俗，其内心却已
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* E7 B# K+ P" e/ ~5 s8 H无可救药了。
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: J1 l% X, k+ X/ G+ mIt is stated in the scripture: “Better to break the precepts than to damage the right view.” In the
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2 g( c* s1 |# H, ?( `( q7 PFour Hundred Verses of Madhyamaka, it says: “One would rather transgress edicts than abandon" W7 G' z. {, E D
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the right view.” If a person has ruined his right view but, instead of confessing sincerely, he4 T+ k! T8 d4 g/ |( P
1 |+ H5 W* L: o) [points the finger at the guru or the Three Jewels, then this person’s mind is incurably corrupt," n1 Q; @1 @" H T
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even though his body has not returned to the secular world.
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壬午年三月十九日 ' t5 X2 J" z" W4 S* D
# e7 j( k- y0 X1 U! m0 T5 h5 h2002年4月30日
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* d$ Q7 s4 ]: c: |. D* |19th of March, Year of RenWu5 T5 j6 U- U2 v* E( h N3 d
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