【你心中的央掘魔罗】THE AṄGULIMĀLA IN YOU
(English writing below)
在我的YOUTUBE頻道上,我每天都收到好一些留言,雖然我不曾在影片中說過:「請按讚、留言和分享!」。
有一部份的觀眾會辱罵我、取笑我或嘲諷我,但我大部份的觀眾都會鼓勵我、感謝我及問一些有深度的問題,提升自己的智慧。
看了這影片後: https://youtu.be/m5l01u-mDIw,
💁🏻♂️Patrick先生留言:
老師 不好意思我想請問您 因為那些惡人 今世可以賺到不斐的財富 是因為前世他們累積了不可思議的福報導致 那麼佛教有種說法 就是我們累世輪迴 這一世就是靈魂繼承上世的修行程度
你修的好的地方(善緣福報)你修的不好的地方(惡緣惡報)都會帶來這一世讓你繼續修
最終目的就是修到大圓滿 然後成佛
可是我的問題是 那些惡人如果上世能夠累積到這麼多的福報 那麼本質上他的靈魂就一定是善的居多 怎麼這一世會偏差的這麼遠呢? 令人費解@@ 不好意思想請教老師...
👩🏻🏫 我的回覆:
您好,菩薩有隔世之迷,而且人之初,性混沌,遇到善緣,人會變善,遇到惡緣,人會變惡。
但問題是,修過福報的人,不一定是守五戒的人,因為他們可能不曾修過智慧,習性特重,便不會產生這定力不去犯錯。
打個比方,成龍享有巨大的財富和名氣,和他喜歡做慈善的心性有關係,但他還是犯了淫,因為定力不足,喜色成性。後代房祖名吸毒不爭氣,成龍受千夫所指,也是邪淫果報之一。
喜做善,不代表沒有在行惡。行了惡,又沒有懺悔,就會有這般善惡交叉的命運。但惡人再惡,善緣臨時也會有放下屠刀,立地成佛的一天,如佛陀弟子央掘魔罗。
他曾經是個殺人不眨眼的連環殺手。為了要達到殺一千人的目標,他窮追著佛陀。只要殺了釋迦牟尼佛,央掘魔罗就大功告成,誤認為自己可以升天了。
可是無論他跑得多快,他就是追不上近在眼前緩慢走著的佛陀。
於是,他大聲呵斥要佛陀停下來。佛陀頭也不回地說:「央掘魔罗!我早就停下來了。沒有停下來的是你。」
朋友,你心中的央掘魔罗可也停下來了嗎?
還是你依然在種著惡因,傷害著自己呢?
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I get many comments everyday on my Youtube channel, despite me never saying "Please like, comment and share" in my videos.
Some are just scolding/mocking/taunting me but most of my audience thank me, encourage me and make the effort to ask insightful questions, so as to increase their wisdom.
Under this video: https://youtu.be/m5l01u-mDIw
💁🏻♂️ Mr Patrick commented:
Excuse me, Teacher, I would like to ask you. Those evil people can earn huge money this life, due to the incredible good fortune they amassed in their past lives. In Buddhism, it is said that our souls in this life inherit our cultivation from our past reincarnations.
The areas that you have cultivated well (positive affinities + good fortune) and the areas that you have not (negative affinities + negative karma) will follow you to this lifetime for you to continue your cultivation.
The eventual goal is reach the Great Perfection and then attain Buddhahood.
So my question is, if those evil people can accumulate so much good fortune, then intrinsically his soul should have more good in it.
Why do they end up deviating so far? This is perplexing. @@ And I would like to seek Teacher's advice.
👩🏻🏫 My reply:
When a Bodhisattva is reincarnated, He becomes ignorant of His past life.
Also, Man's nature at birth is muddled. When virtuous affinities arise, Man can become virtuous. When malevolent affinities arise, Man can become evil.
The thing is a person who have cultivated good fortune may not be a person who abide by the Five Precepts. He may not have cultivated his wisdom and retains many undesirable habits, so he lacks the meditative strength to restrain himself from doing wrong.
For example, Jackie Chan enjoys great wealth and fame, which is correlated to his love for philanthropy. However, he still committed sexual misdeeds, due to his inability to control his sexual urges and habitual lust. His only son, Jaycee Chan, unfortunately turns to be a drug addict for 8 years, a huge disappointment to many, and Jackie Chan got universally condemned again. Such is one retribution of sexual misconduct.
A person who likes doing good is not a virtuous man, if he also commits evil. When there is no repentance after evil is done, we will end up with a destiny that crosslinks good and evil.
However, no matter how evil a person is, when his virtuous conditions arise, there will still be a day when the butcher will lay down his knife and become a Buddha.
Just like Aṅgulimāla, who later became Buddha's disciple.
He was a serial killer, who wore the fingers of his 999 victims on a necklace. He was chasing Buddha to murder him, so that he can reach his goal of killing 1000 people. He wrongfully thought that would ascend him to Heaven.
Yet no matter how fast he ran, he could not catch up with Buddha, who seemingly was just walking slowly not that far away from him.
He yelled at Buddha to stop, and Buddha said, without turning his head:
"Angulimala! I have already stopped. It is you who have not stopped.”
My dear friend, have the Angulimala in you stopped?
Or are you relentlessly planting seeds of evil only to inflict misery onto yourself?
lust for life意思 在 玳瑚師父 Master Dai Hu Facebook 的最佳解答
《玳瑚師父的看見(二)》(English version below)
THE SIGHTINGS OF MASTER DAI HU 2
吾,玳瑚師父的看見,嚴格上來講,不單指,當年八方雲遊渡眾生的那一段歲月而已,而是到將來吾返回太虛前的種種看見。因此,這應該會是世間上,最長的「劇本」。(一笑)其實啊!吾撰寫「玳瑚師父的看見」,不是向全世界宣示,吾的那麽一點能力,主旨是告訴眾生,我們一生的成敗榮枯,跟我們的起心動念,有著不可分隔的因果。撰寫這文章,慈悲喜捨於眾生的同時,也警惕自己一定要常在禪定中,不要一失足成千古恨。恨是恨自己,沒有全力以赴的修行。
吾的其中一位門生,介紹她的一位女同事,來詢問吾的專業服務。這位女有情已婚,是位在職的女性,先生是高薪職員,她他倆育有一千金。她及她的千金名字,是由吾應她之請求,重新撰於她母女倆,出類拔萃的吉祥良名。後來我們較熟絡了,她就向吾透露些心事,吾也就傾耳聆聽,並給於她吾真心的慰籍與慧見。事情是這樣的,她的先生到了晚上,某個特定的時間,總是要出門。說實在的,結了婚有妻有女的男人,三更半夜一直往外開溜,在情在理真的較難說得過去啊!紙果然保不住火。原來是跑到別的女人的溫柔鄉也。
吾見她並無下堂求去的執意,就問她信不信風水,她回曰她信,她先生就不怎麼信。她其實也有意思,請吾到其位於黃金地帶的寓所,勘察勘察,看看到底是DNA出錯(一笑),還是陽宅出了差錯。立在她家門口,「還未亮劍」之時,她家裡頭的「不速之客」,即不善之靈,已早準備給吾一點顏色瞧瞧。真感恩傳承偉大,傳承大加持啊!要不然,恐怕吾將會有一段時日,無法服務眾生。在客廳中,吾一眼就得到答案,爲何已擁有美麗性感嬌妻的男人,三更半夜還跑到別的女人的溫柔鄉,且已到了無法自拔的地步。
吾,玳瑚師父,在此奉勸大家:勿將來歷不明的物品,帶回家擺放。在這婦人的客廳,吾看見有「靈氣」的木雕櫥櫃、含情脈脈的女子畫像、裸體打火機,等等。重點就在女子畫像及印有裸體的打火機。難怪吾在門口時,已覺察到屋內的邪氣。這屋子的男主人,淫念大動而迎來更多的邪氣,慾火焚身以外,更犯了淫戒,即邪淫也。據吾所知,犯邪淫不及時懺悔還淨者,死後會進入傍生(禽獸門),轉世成飛禽走獸,如:鳥、雞、豬、狗等等。五百劫後出生爲下等人,如:妓女、婢女、賤命之人等等。邪淫所生子女,也較容易沖犯。至於那些畫淫畫的人,未離世福田已削盡,死後或入蛆糞地獄,身臭無比,肚餓食蛆蟲,皮破血流、肚脹蛆出、全身腐爛而死。正心正念太重要了。
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Strictly speaking, my sightings are not just from my past years of travelling in eight directions delivering sentient beings. It also encompasses what I see in the future before I return to the Ultimate Void. Thus, this should be the world's longest script! (laughs) Actually, I wrote this "The Sightings of Master Dai Hu" not to declare to the world that I have this little power. The main objective is to tell sentient beings that the rise and fall in our fortunes are karmically inseparable with our every thought and intention. When I wrote this article, it is out of compassion to benefit all sentient beings, as well as to remind myself to be always in a meditative state, and not take a wrong step only to end in eternal regret. Regret that I did not give my best effort in my spiritual cultivation.
One of my disciples recommended her colleague to engage my professional services. This lady colleague of hers was a working married woman. Her husband was a high-salaried employee. They had a daughter. I acceded to her request to give new outstanding and auspicious Chinese names for herself and her daughter. As we got to know each other better, she confided some of her worries in me. I lent her my listening ear, and provided her with my genuine consolation and wisdom.
This was what happened. She told me that her husband always left the house at a certain timing in the night. Frankly speaking, it is inappropriate for a married man with a daughter to always slip out of the house in the middle of the night. No matter what, it was indeed hard to justify such behaviour! Alas, paper cannot wrap up fire. The truth was the husband sought comfort in the tender arms of another woman.
I saw that she did not want to give up on her marriage, hence I asked if she believed in Feng Shui. She said yes, but not her husband. She actually had the intention to invite me to audit the Feng Shui of a residence in a high-valued area. She wished to know if there was something wrong with the DNA (haha!) or the Feng Shui of her house.
As I stood at the entrance of her house, before I could pull out my "treasured sword", the "unwanted guests" in her house, a.k.a. evil spirits, had long prepared to show me their displeasure. I am truly grateful to the great linage empowerment of my noble Root Guru! If not, I would be out of service for quite some time. In the living room, I immediately saw the answer why a man with a beautiful and sexy wife would go out late at night to seek comfort in another woman's arms, and the situation had became Inextricable.
Master Dai Hu wishes to advise everyone: Do not bring any object of unknown origin home. In this lady's house, I saw a wooden wardrobe with active energies, drawings of coy female figures, a lighter with a nude lady, etc. The items of significance were the drawing of women and the lighter with the nude figurine. It was no wonder I sensed an air of negative energies when I was at the door. The man of this house allowed his lust to grow, attracting more negative and evil energies. The fire of lust consumed him, and he broke the precept and committed sexual misconduct.
From what I know, a person who commits sexual misconduct and does not repent for it to resume his/her purity in time will be reborn into the realm of animals, like birds, chickens, pigs, dogs, etc, for the next 500 rebirths. After which, he or she will return to the human realm as a person of lowly status, such as a prostitute, a maid, a wretched person etc. Children borne out of sexual misconduct are more prone to vile energy clashes. As for those who produce books with sexual contents, their merits would have already been slashed even before their death, and upon dying, they may enter Hell and suffer the fate of foul-smelling body, with only maggots to eat when hungry, have broken and bleeding skins, bloating stomach bursting with maggots, and finally dying from a fully rotten body. Having the Right Intention and Right Thought is indeed extremely important.
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30則真人真事的度眾故事 30 real-life deliverance stories of Master Dai Hu
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中英文翻譯 In both English & Mandarin
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lust for life意思 在 玳瑚師父 Master Dai Hu Facebook 的最佳解答
(English version below)
佛教五戒爲不殺生、不偷盜、不邪淫、不妄語,以及不飲酒。人之五欲則爲財、色、名、食、睡。。當中,「色的出場率」是較多的。是的,吾學佛多年,顯然發現,色戒的的確確是眾生易犯及常犯的。吾,玳瑚師父,忠心奉勸大家,「色」字真的很顯然的,已一字道破重慾及好色,將有如色字頭上的那把刀。
什麼意思?
即暗中催妳你骨髓枯。也即是精盡人亡。亦會惡名流佈。甚至也會傷及人命啊!當慾念高漲的時候,快快去洗個冷水澡。冷水從頭上淋下。不要看,不要聽淫書、淫語。再將年輕的看成我們的弟妹。年長的看成我們的兄姊。這樣秉持下去,慾念自然有所控制,整個人生才能活得光明快樂。
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The 5 precepts in Buddhism are:
a. Refrain from taking lives
b. Refrain from stealing
c. Refrain from sexual misconduct
d. Refrain from false speech
e. Refrain from intoxicants
The 5 mortal desires of a human being are wealth, lust, fame, food and sleep. Among these, the heaviest form of desire is surely lust. Yes, after so many years learning the Dharma, I discovered that the precept of refraining from sexual misconduct is most easily transgressed by sentient beings.
Master Dai Hu's most sincere advice: It is obvious from the Chinese Character representing lust, 「色」, that it carries a hidden knife that will hurt both physical and spiritual aspirations of yours if you over-indulge in it.
Excessive indulgence in lust will literally exhaust you of life essence, draining every drop of it until you die. Coupled with a bad name for yourself due to misconduct, it could even severely damage your life! When the sexual desire runs high, quickly take a cold bath from top to bottom. Avoid looking at sexual images, avoid hearing sexually rousing speech. And regard those younger than us as our own younger sibling (sister or brother). Likewise, regard those older than us as our elder siblings (sister or brother).
Persevere on this path and your sexual desire shall be under control, allowing you to live your life in radiance and happiness.