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3 W* ?0 Q& p* j: R" N还俗 | Resuming Secular Life
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) Z v( K/ T# S! [- p2 Y5 Z, d i$ l9 Z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。& w0 n* [1 Y* m. T/ \4 b) e# P
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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。& V: i0 C7 d* d7 ~2 `* z5 H
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How reluctant am I to touch upon this subject! But “to leave the monastic order” presents a( L5 T' Y, s$ B/ L- b! x
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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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$ |3 l* P& a. I2 zI may as well look at it squarely and bravely.
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3 {" M* B! f0 t* }1 p. r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
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- x% F0 @' \4 J0 d: Y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8 U6 [0 v1 \/ M/ n7 V7 M
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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。0 \$ O* a3 f) ]: V0 L' t
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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 recall
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early on, his ordained peers had regarded him as a model by his diligent study and keeping pure) ?. {+ v. F& |0 @
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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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one day. For me, returning to the worldly life is worse than dying.” A person who proclaimed his, J) a5 u' `- g0 D- {% h& ]* y' Y
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faith with such strong determination still ended up eating his own words and repealed his vow.! v1 y3 x0 a- ]; x
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How can I not feel sick at heart!
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' i1 q/ L) a. j8 o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; u5 R/ O7 W2 W5 D# F5 N) h
' u/ S# v3 a. e- A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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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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该如何应答。
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# v: Z3 d4 Q& g4 |7 TOver the phone, he veered away from discussing the Dharma, but instead tattled endlessly about# {& j6 i3 x. D
7 T9 F H5 I; Lhis business. When I asked how it was going, he started to pour out to me his pent-up miseries:
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9 |% x4 K4 E# M+ s" g“You know, it’s so difficult to do business these days! My hard labor of eight hours daily earns me' y6 A- J0 @3 i0 V/ D
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less than 10 yuan. The ordained life at the monastery, as I recall now, was so peaceful and worry-9 U. P' x# ~$ p( N0 e
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free, almost like living in heaven! Alas!!” Hearing his complaints, I have no idea how to respond.; n4 E- P+ F! J+ o( X1 D
# H' ?: I) \# ^1 F$ P! D7 k9 D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# N& k7 S' z# f# S, M2 O
9 H3 `: j8 }; a: z l% g8 G左右。虽忙于生意，却不离念诵。
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But there is some consolation for me: He is still holding onto his views and his faith in the Three
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- j' a9 m) j7 h; WJewels has not waned. He takes every opportunity to do the purification practice and also5 h# a1 G& P1 F2 \* Q
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remembers to recite mantras while busy with his shop.3 j7 d- Q: r/ l
+ S2 l' Y2 T4 i8 ~7 i- s1 `- S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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, x# |7 D! l" T+ u! E' O" P别人是错误的，他的身体虽然还俗了，心却没有还俗。”* @" J' L2 k" \0 k: g; ~
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Once, 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.
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Although his body has resumed a worldly life, he has not done so in his heart.”+ G7 O+ i/ X7 r" ? ?; D
1 [ P# o1 N/ K: Y* I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$ T7 x( Q7 D9 S3 s( C
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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
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' x5 W9 r+ A3 V0 r( u无可救药了。
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It is stated in the scripture: “Better to break the precepts than to damage the right view.” In the9 n% o3 l0 o) q$ u
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Four Hundred Verses of Madhyamaka, it says: “One would rather transgress edicts than abandon
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the right view.” If a person has ruined his right view but, instead of confessing sincerely, he
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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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even though his body has not returned to the secular world.# ]! f! H9 x \
5 j) v3 J& D7 H& C" g壬午年三月十九日
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2 x9 Q* r! H7 V: m2 x2002年4月30日
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19th of March, Year of RenWu( e! u/ j% o% D/ E
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