Saturday, December 31, 2016

三三藏祈雨事 | 马来西亚创价学会

三三藏祈雨事 | 马来西亚创价学会

三三藏祈雨事

御文

夫植树遇大风而不倒者,以强有支撑也。
本是挺立之树,若根弱则倒。
虽是软弱无气力,扶持者强不至于倒。
稍见健壮而独行于恶路者倒。
《三三藏祈雨事》

白话文

植下的树木遇到强风而不会倾倒,是因为有强力的支架支撑着。

原本就生长挺立的树木,如果根部太弱就会被吹倒。

行人虽然软弱无气力,若有强壮的扶持者同行,就不会摔倒。

身体比较强壮的人,如果一人独自走在险恶道路上,就有可能摔倒。

背景

  • 大圣人写给骏河国(日本静冈县中部一带)富士郡,颇有势力的门下西山大人的书信。
  • 有关执笔时间,过去被认定为1275年,但现今推测也有可能是1276年。
  • 1274年,蒙古攻打日本,幕府极度担心蒙古再度来袭,于是命真言宗等宗教进行降伏蒙古的祈祷。

内容大意

  • 一开始即谈到,要能成佛,最重要的是接触善知识。
  • 但要遇到善知识,却是一件非常不容易的事。
  • 接着叙述,分辨善知识与恶知识时,现证是决定性的关键。
  • 大圣人在此举出中国真言宗的善无畏、金刚智、不空等三位三藏(高僧)的祈雨,反而为国土带来灾难的实例,断言若继续重用真言师,国家一定会灭亡。

内容重点

  • 大圣人在本御文的下一段说示:"成佛之道,莫过于善知识",明白指出要达成一生成佛,"善知识"是不可或缺的存在。
  • 御文中,大圣人用"树木""行人"等比喻,浅显易懂地教导我们这件事情。
  • 所谓善知识,就是"善友",引导人们向佛道前进。
  • 单单自己一个人,往往无法贯彻信心。
  • 在困难或苦难发生时,若没有支持的力量,就可能输给自己软弱的生命,使信心停滞。
  • 大圣人将阻碍佛道修行的障魔作用比喻为"大风""恶路"。
  • 但是,植树时,只要有"强力的支架"支撑,尽管大风吹起也不会倾倒。
  • 同样地,即使走在险峻的道路上,只要有强力的"扶持者"在旁,不管是谁,都能继续走下去。
  • 善知识就是鼓励我们信心的师匠、同志以及广宣流布的组织。
  • 始终追随善知识,自己也成为善知识,可说是一生成佛的轨道。
  • 我们必须牢记,绝不可离开善知识。
  • 御文中提到,即使"本是挺立之树""稍见健壮者",若是孤立的话,会有倒下的一天。
  • 池田SGI会长:
    "学会是一个最令人安心的'善知识'的世界,堪称是充满福运的'安全地带'。所以绝不可离开学会。怀抱尽量接触学会的心很重要。"
  • 让我们与善知识的团体"学会",一起在自己的地区扩大闪耀着"幸福的安全地带"的善之网络吧!

摘自《流》555期



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Friday, December 30, 2016

莫回顾以往,要不断向前

!: 每日一句
12月 31日

万物都不断地演变。因此,莫回顾以往,要不断向前,以新鲜的气息,让一切恢复生机,让人生日日、年年都开出成长的花朵。

国际创价学会会长池田大作


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莫回顾以往,要不断向前

每日一句
12月 31日

万物都不断地演变。因此,莫回顾以往,要不断向前,以新鲜的气息,让一切恢复生机,让人生日日、年年都开出成长的花朵。

国际创价学会会长池田大作


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Our Most Viewed Articles of 2016!

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Here's a Top Ten list of our website articles that received the most views during 2016. The mix ranges from our page featuring the poems of Mary Oliver to Yoichi Kawada's discussion of the Buddhist outlook on life and death to Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen's essay on his concept of development as freedom. The Ikeda Forum for Intercultural Dialogue is our signature event, so it was gratifying to find features on three separate forums on our list. Enjoy, and please join us for more peace investigations in 2017!

1. "What is Community?", a collection of reflections on the nature of community from diverse scholars and activists

3. "Growing Peace: Gandhi, Montessori, and What It Means to Begin With the Children," an essay by Mitch Bogen

4. "Development As Freedom," an essay by Amartya Sen

5. 2015 Ikeda Forum feature: "The Practice of Dignity: What It Means Today"

6. "The Personal Is Social: Inner Transformation As the Foundation for Helping Others," an essay by Natalie Evans

7. "The Buddhist Outlook On Life and Death," feature story on a talk by Yoichi Kawada

8. "Glimmers of Hope: Peace Education Around the Globe," report from a panel discussion co-hosted with the University of San Francisco

9. 2007 Ikeda Forum feature: "Women and the Power of Friendship"

10. 2011 Ikeda Forum feature: "Cultivating the Greater Self"





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Thursday, December 29, 2016

A German's View on Islam

A German's View on Islam - worth reading because this is by far the best explanation of the Muslim terrorist situation I have ever read. His references to past history are accurate and clear. The author of this email is Dr. Emanuel Tanya, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist--a man, whose family was German aristocracy prior t...o World War II, and owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.

'Very few people were true Nazis,' he said, 'but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of our world had come.

My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.'

We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is the religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.

The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.

The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the 'silent majority,' is cowed and extraneous. Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.

China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The average Japanese individual, prior to World War II, was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians, most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.

And who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were 'peace loving'?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt. Yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don't speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.

Islamic prayers have now been introduced into Toronto and other public schools in Ontario, and, yes, in Ottawa too while the Lord's Prayer was removed (due to being so offensive?! To whom? Not to the vast majority of Canadians!).

The Islamic way is only peaceful until the fanatics move in.

In Australia, and indeed in many countries around the world, many of the most commonly consumed food items have the halal emblem on them. Just look at the back of some of the most popular chocolate bars, and at other food products in your local supermarket. Foods on aircraft have the halal emblem, just to appease the privileged minority who are now rapidly expanding throughout the world.

In the U.K, the Muslim communities refuse to integrate and there are now dozens of ?no-go? zones within major cities across the country that the police force dare not intrude upon. Sharia law prevails there, because the Muslim community in those areas refuses to acknowledge British law.

As for we who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts -- the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

Anyone who doubts the seriousness of this issue and just deletes without sending it on, is contributing to the passiveness that allows the problems to expand.

So, extend yourself a bit and send this on and on and on in the hope that thousands, world-wide, read this, think about it, and send it on - before it's too late.....as received
30/12/16, 5:45:26 AM: Kwee! Chang: "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it"...Albert Einstein.


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Friday, December 23, 2016

Feb2017 gosho

要点 

1。打开自己生命中固有的可能性的人,就称为佛

2。信心将我们迷惑的心转变为决意

3。持续的实践能让我们成长











1。打开自己生命中固有的可能性的人,就称为佛 



在佛法上,悟达的人就称为佛。



可是,在迹门却说为了悟达,必须经过一世又一世重复艰苦的修行才行。



然而,日莲大圣人阐示,通过唱诵 南无妙法莲华经,谁都能够成佛。



佛界  也可说是所有人的生命中  具有的最大潜能。



大圣人在御书中教示,"成佛"    就是    “打开自身的佛界





佛是指通过唱题,   打开自身无量的潜能的人。





广宣流布的运动    就是教导他人这件事,  并且帮助他们   涌现这个潜能。






2。信心将我们迷惑的心   转变为决意



大圣人教导,妨碍成佛的东西,就是 "迷惑



迷惑“ 是指什么呢?



当一个人迷惑的时候,他看不到正确的道路。




在这段御文中,大圣人解释,那是不晓得自己生命中具有佛界的状态。





为了消除迷惑,大圣人教导我们   通过唱题    来磨拭自己这面心的镜子。





所谓 “须深发信心,     就是要持有确信的意思。





池田先生曾经指导说,  最重要的,  我们能不能够确信  自己胸中   拥有宇宙般大的可能性。




此外,  也可以说,   即使眼前有目标,    却没有决意的状态,   也是迷惑





不能够相信御本尊,   心中迷惑,     就不会显现出功德





通过诚恳地唱题,     就能够将迷惑的心思     转变为 “绝对要得出结果“ 的决意的心。






3。持续的实践   能让我们成长




此外,大圣人教导:   不论白天或黑夜、清晨或傍晚,都要仔细琢磨,不可以懈怠。"   我们为什么需要早晚做勤行和唱题呢?




正如我们学习了很多次,末法是充满恶缘的时代。




例如一个很多尘埃的房间的状态。





即使早上抹了镜子,一下子它又重新沾满灰尘,变肮脏了。






如果不常常抹的话,镜子就会越来越脏。






此外,末法不只是恶缘多而己,   还有三障四魔    也会出现来阻碍我们修行。






魔出现    是为了不让我们磨拭生命的镜子。






而三障四魔往往是在我们努力为广宣流布奋斗的时候出现。





魔的作用     就是要夺走我们的生命力。






魔的作用    也是要夺走 "我要努力“ 的这种勇气和决意。





关于这一点,池田先生的指导这么说道: 


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总之,痛苦时唱挑战的题目,高兴时唱感谢的题目,如此勤于 “日夜朝暮,磨之不懈” 的唱题行, 才能如同打造宝剑一样,强化自身的生命。
(中略)
只要奋战,三障四魔便会出现。战胜三四魔,就能确立成佛的境界。

只要能透过唱题行,从根底锻炼生命的话,心可以无限深化,生命可以无限强化,境涯可以无限开阔。

让我们总是抱着广布的决意和感激的心唱题,一起前进吧. 

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一生成佛抄

云众生、云佛者亦如此。迷时名众生,悟时名佛耳!臀如暗镜,磨之则明如玉。只今一念无明之迷心,是未磨之镜也;磨之,必成法性真如之明镜。须深发信心,日夜朝暮,磨之不懈。如何磨之?但唱奉 南无妙法莲华经,是云磨也。
(御书405页) 



白话文

所谓的众生、所谓的佛也是同样的道理。迷惑的时候称为众生,开悟的时候叫做佛罢了!就好比说,模糊不清的铜镜,经过琢磨就变得好像玉石一样明亮。现在,一念被无明覆盖的迷惑心思,也就是未经琢磨的铜镜;只要加以琢磨,一定会变成 法性真如 的明镜。要从内心深处涌出确信,不论白天或黑夜、清晨或傍晚,都要仔细琢磨,不可以懈怠。要怎样琢磨才好呢?那只有唱念 南无妙法莲华经,才叫做琢磨。 




主题:由祈求开始

由于本篇御书的真迹己不存在,无法得知执笔的年份和收信人是谁,但据传是大圣人在 1255 年著作,写给富木常忍。

篇名一生成佛,是指凡夫在一生之中成佛的意思。本篇御书是从法理与实践两方面,来阐明一生成佛的关键——“唱题行的意义。

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本段御文阐示,变革生命的具体实践——唱题行。

一般人容易认为众生(凡夫)“  是完全不同的生命,但日莲大圣人阐释,这两者并无不同,只在于众生是还是的差异而已。

那么,如何才能把的生命转变成的生命?

其变革的关键,就是唱念 南无妙法莲华经 的唱题行。

大圣人把被根本迷惘——无明所覆盖的苦恼生命,比喻为未磨之镜,将开悟真实的生命比喻为明镜。模糊不清的镜子,只要经过磨拭,就能变成可以清楚映照出所有东西的明镜。同样的道理,我们只要彻底唱题,就能磨练自身的生命,去除无明污垢,开启本来具有的散发智慧光辉的佛生命。 

这项磨练生命的唱题行,有两个要点。大圣人在本段说示,一是须深发信心,另一个是日夜朝暮,磨之不懈 

为了与阻碍成佛的根本迷惘——无明奋战,需要能奋起深厚信心的 “勇敢之心。此外,为了一生成佛,"持续不懈的信心至为重要。 

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词语解释

无明:意指生命的根源性无知。无法相信和理解阐明真实之妙法的
愚痴:以及由于无知引发的负面冲动。
法性真如:法性意指贯穿万物的根本之法,亦即,佛悟得之本质。"真如" 则指原原本本的真理。 
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Conclusion:

池田 SGI 会长谈道:"题目是 '前进' 的力量,题目是 '胜利' 的力量。一切奋战须先从祈求开始,唱题到底的人,谁也比不过。我们当是坚持日夜朝蓄不懈地唱题,锻炼自己的生命,建设胜利再胜利的人生!

让我们彻底唱念磨练生命、变革生命的题目,开启胜利的人生吧! 

(编辑自嗜教学研习)20164月号)