你对自己的修行有把握吗？
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《WHY VEGETARIAN?》
《素食的意义》
As we all prefer to think of ourselves as dharma practitioners, perhaps we should just check how we have done so far with our own practice. Mahayana Buddhism has named five paths and ten bhumis (grounds). Where do we stand now?
平时，我们都自认为是修行人，那就要往里观察一下，现在我们修到了什么程度？大乘里面讲五道十地，我们如今是在哪一个层次上呢？
Among the five paths, the paths of joining and of accumulation are practices for ordinary people. Even so, the two paths can gather significant merit already. The path of accumulation has three levels: superior, average and inferior. Not to mention the average and the inferior levels, even those practicing at the superior level may descend to the animal realm. It is because at this stage they are still susceptible to breaking the bodhisattva vows and the root precepts of Vajrayana. And when they do, they will definitely reincarnate in the three lower realms as karma never fails. If meat eaters were to end up in the hungry ghost or animal realm, they would most certainly be carnivores.
五道中的加行道和资粮道，虽然都是凡夫道，但也有很大的功德。资粮道有上、中、下三种分别。且不论中和下，就是修上资粮道的人，也有可能做旁生。因为他有可能犯菩萨戒和密乘根本戒，既然因果不虚，那么他肯定就要堕落到三恶道。如果堕落为饿鬼或旁生，那时他肯定就是食肉的众生了。
As for the path of joining, it is already quite an accomplishment for ordinary people to reach this stage in their spiritual practice. From the standpoint of Vajrayana, it means that one’s practice of the development stage has reached a point where one can vividly visualize yidam, the meditational deity, not just in mind but also in reality that is visible to the eyes. This applies to both the wrathful and the peaceful deities. And one’s practice of the completion stage has unblocked all the inner channels and the flow of energies. In terms of realization of emptiness, one has attained quite an advanced state that is only short of having realized Great Clear Light, which means one has not yet arrived at the first bodhisattva bhumi, or the path of seeing. Even so, it is stated very clearly in the scriptures that if such practitioner should violate the Vajrayana root precepts without repentance, he or she would still be reborn in the lower realms.
再看加行道。在凡夫道里，这已经是修得非常不错的了。从密宗的角度看，他的生起次第已经修到可以非常清楚地观想本尊，不但是心里观想得清楚，而且可以亲眼目睹，无论是忿怒本尊还是寂静本尊，都已经修到这种程度；在圆满次第方面，他已经修到气脉明点完全通畅无阻；在证悟空性方面，他已经证悟到非常不错的境界，只是对大光明还没有现量证悟，即没有证得一地、没有见道而已。尽管如此，经书上讲得很清楚：他如果犯密乘根本戒而不忏悔，就一定会堕落。
Are we, including me, now on the path of accumulation, the path of joining, or not even on the path at all? The lowest level, or the first step, of the path of joining begins with uncontrived bodhicitta which will arise only after we have the conviction to attain Buddhahood for the sake of all sentient beings. Do we have uncontrived bodhicitta now? If not, we cannot be deemed having entered the gate of Mahayana Buddhism. In fact, we are no better than the rest of the ordinary people, and are more than likely to cycle through the animal realm time and again，most possibly as carnivores.
我们很多人，包括我自己在内，是资粮道？加行道？还是根本就没有入门呢？加行道 49 30651 49 15287 0 0 3585 0 0:00:08 0:00:04 0:00:04 3585最低的层次，是从不造作的菩提心开始。当一心一意想要利益众生，有了为众生而成佛的决心以后，才会有不造作的菩提心，这是加行道的第一步。现在我们有没有这样的菩提心呢？如果没有，我们就根本没有入门，还在大乘佛教的门外，是凡夫中的凡夫，在轮回中肯定要做成千上万次的旁生，而且还是食肉的旁生。
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