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还俗 | Resuming Secular Life
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$ P. I7 b P$ y, q" l+ D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。) n1 b9 P5 y! _$ ]+ E) k
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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。5 w9 l, m J+ T+ P; ]. X
# ~5 r: j( F$ _2 k! ]How reluctant am I to touch upon this subject! But “to leave the monastic order” presents a: P* s9 [. B+ M: D# }
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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.+ I8 \! D9 H0 V/ G r' ?; H1 p4 g; p
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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$ X3 W5 ^9 E9 i% _
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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, g/ r: U& p+ o5 R
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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。”- v! R5 L' c+ a+ m5 s/ R
4 V( [3 A; w. e' A* J$ U" C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
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than 10 years. When I heard this news today, I got quite upset as if I had swallowed a fly. I recall7 \9 J, e% G# ?! w
/ _8 x! X+ c6 a: j8 x' tearly on, his ordained peers had regarded him as a model by his diligent study and keeping pure' {4 ~1 g/ ^3 L5 J$ w
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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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% m. S: ?8 F) t5 tone day. For me, returning to the worldly life is worse than dying.” A person who proclaimed his
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& {- |: Y; R9 o& V& i4 ~2 vfaith with such strong determination still ended up eating his own words and repealed his vow.& L# q M3 H3 B9 i+ L* x2 Z% U
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) _! k3 \0 G7 L7 J. G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5 {3 }1 P# }8 \
E2 |) |$ f# s* j4 o4 D. I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。
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* f/ y/ z" ~# y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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, F2 D0 y: T" A7 Y! Z该如何应答。8 Y/ ^8 q. @; M* H, ^& k
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Over the phone, he veered away from discussing the Dharma, but instead tattled endlessly about
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his business. When I asked how it was going, he started to pour out to me his pent-up miseries:- f! f/ K. b% @& E W! z2 \
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“You know, it’s so difficult to do business these days! My hard labor of eight hours daily earns me
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less 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.+ q9 w4 Q4 O5 U3 o) T, v+ O
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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. X6 `$ K5 u2 X1 O) S$ K6 ^7 |% h
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左右。虽忙于生意，却不离念诵。
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. T3 O/ Q& ?( ^: |6 B3 ]2 e* |5 WBut there is some consolation for me: He is still holding onto his views and his faith in the Three
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+ O6 j; a9 Z' e( m/ dJewels has not waned. He takes every opportunity to do the purification practice and also
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remembers to recite mantras while busy with his shop.
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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
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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。”
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, \1 o5 _, f) I( {2 Y, `+ HOnce, one of Lhala Chodri Rinpoche’s main disciples left the monastic order for some reason.
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0 ?9 @- K8 s% kWhen others condemned him, Rinpoche said: “It’s not right to speak badly about others.
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- I, {& h1 X8 k! d0 r7 fAlthough 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) M% Q+ B( T9 t) Q3 r
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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2 F- c- e5 p6 o1 q( D/ n! Y
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无可救药了。% |6 Y& w( ~6 v( ], s
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It is stated in the scripture: “Better to break the precepts than to damage the right view.” In the% v7 Y9 l' g# ~/ E4 I6 [/ [( v0 i
: g4 T" k$ V) O8 N) z. e2 YFour Hundred Verses of Madhyamaka, it says: “One would rather transgress edicts than abandon
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, D/ A9 f. y6 n* bthe right view.” If a person has ruined his right view but, instead of confessing sincerely, he3 e( q: n4 ]1 a# X
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points the finger at the guru or the Three Jewels, then this person’s mind is incurably corrupt,
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0 g1 p5 v- w6 h7 }& keven though his body has not returned to the secular world.
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% A1 ?5 `3 O9 ]; {0 a壬午年三月十九日 1 F( J# E* f _& |5 l, p; s
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