不要把利益众生变成一句口头禅

日增嘎瓦上师：大乘修行人的目标，是生起彻底牺牲自己，服务一切众生、救度一切众生的发心，然而这并不容易的，因此应先从力所能及的地方做起。无论在家庭、单位、网络虚拟空间等各种场合，以真诚地心帮助身边的人，就是践行、增长菩提心的一种方式。应将利益众生落在实处，不能变成口头禅。

不要把利益众生变成一句口头禅

「也许我处于轮回之中，也许我会投生地狱，也许我会生病或由于不幸的遭遇而受苦，但我会一一承受。愿其他众生的痛苦在我身上成熟！愿其他众生获得我所有的快乐，以及我善行所得的一切善果！」

“I may be in samsara, I may be reborn in hell, I may by ill, feverish, or suffering from any other misfortune, but I will bear it all. May the sufferings of others ripen in me! May other beings have all my happiness and all the effects of my good actions!”

在内心深处生起这个念头，并且付诸实际修行，仿效阿底峡尊者的上师仁慈瑜伽，以及我们的导师释迦牟尼佛曾经生为莲花国王与大海龟的例子。

Arouse this thought in the depth of your being and actually put it into practice, following the examples of Atisa’s teacher, Maitriyogi, and of our Teacher Shakyamuni in his rebirths as King Padma and as a turtle.

仁慈瑜伽上师的故事

有一次，阿底峡的上师仁慈瑜伽正在说法，附近有个人向一只狗抛掷石子，上师忽然痛声大叫，从法座上摔了下来。在场的人看见那只狗没事，还以为上师一定是在故弄玄虚。仁慈瑜伽知道大家在想什么，就转过身来，只见他背上清清楚楚地留下了狗背被抛掷石子所引起的肿痕。大家这才眼见为实——上师亲身替狗承受了被石子打中的皮肉之痛。

Once, Maitriyogi, Atisa’s teacher, was expounding the Dharma, when a man nearby threw a stone at a dog. The Master yelled with pain and fell from his throne. The other people present, seeing nothing the matter with the dog, thought that Maitriyogi must be pretending. But Maitriyogi, who knew what they were thinking, showed them his back on which the welt of the stone that had been thrown at the dog was clearly visible. Everyone there was convinced by the evidence: he had physically taken upon himself the pain caused by the stone hitting the dog.

莲花国王的故事

很久以前，释迦牟尼佛曾有一世投生为莲花国王。当时爆发了严重的流行病，许多子民都病死了。国王就召集大夫们，询问应该如何治愈此病。

In ancient times, when Shakyamuni in a previous life was a king called Padma, a serious epidemic broke out amongst his subjects and many of them died. The king called the doctors and asked how the disease should be treated.

「食用如河达鱼的肉便能治疗此病，」大夫们说：「但是这个疾病障蔽了我们的心，让我们无法想出别的疗法。」

“This sickness can be cured with the flesh of the rohita fish,” they said. “But this disease has so obscured our minds that we can think of no other remedy.”

国王选了个吉日的早晨，沐浴后穿着新衣，举行了忏悔与净化的法会。然后对三宝做了丰盛的供养，并恳切地祈求道：「愿我死后马上投生为斗雪河中的如河达鱼！」

On the morning of an auspicious day the king bathed, donned new clothing and performed a ceremony of confession and purification. He made great offerings to the Three Jewels and prayed fervently, saying, “As soon as I die, may I immediately be reborn as a rohita fish in the Nivritta river!”

然后，他就从皇宫一千多尺高的塔楼跳下，并立刻投生为一条鱼，还以人语大叫：「我是如河达鱼！快来取我的肉，吃我吧！」

He then cast himself down from the heights of his palace – one thousand cubits – and was immediately reborn as a fish, crying out in human speech, “I am a rohita fish, take my flesh and eat it!”

于是每个人都来吃它。当鱼肉被吃完一面之后，鱼就自己翻过身来将另一面给大家吃。当大家正在切割鱼肉时，前面刚被吃完的的肉又长了回来。就这样，大家吃了这面又吃另外一面，每个有病的人都被治愈了。然后，鱼开口跟大家说话了。

Everyone came to eat it. As soon as one side was eaten, the fish turned over and offered them the other side. While they were cutting off the flesh, the first side became whole again. In this way, by eating each side alternately, everybody who was ill could be cured. Then the fish spoke to them all.

「我是你们的国王莲花，我舍弃了自己的生命投生成如河达鱼，为的是让你们的传染病得以治愈。请你们从此不再做坏事，尽自己的能力做好事，以示你们的感激之心。」

“I am Padma, your king. I gave up my life and took birth as a rohita fish to save you from the epidemic. As an expression of your gratitude, give up doing evil and do all the good you can.”

大家都遵从莲花国王的劝诫，从此再也没有任何人投生恶道。

They all obeyed him and thenceforth never again fell into evil rebirths.

大海龟的故事    

又一次，释迦牟尼投生为一只大海龟。当时，有一艘载有五百个商人的船在海上遇难。

Another time Shakyamuni had been reborn as a giant turtle, when a boat transporting five hundred merchants was wrecked at sea.

当所有的人都快要溺死时，大海龟以人语对他们叫道：「快爬到我的背上来！我会背着你们安全上岸！」

They were all about to drown, but the turtle called out to them in human speech: “Get up on my back! I will carry you all to safety!”

海龟将所有的商人背上岸，然后累得倒在海边。就在睡着时，飞来了八万多只的果蝇，并且吸食海龟的血。海龟醒来，看到有那么多的果蝇，它意识到不论是回到海里，或是在地上滚动，都会杀死所有的虫子。于是，它就留在原地静静地躺着，把生命献给了它们。

The turtle carried all the merchants to dry land, and then collapsed exhausted by the water’s edge, and fell asleep. But as it slept, a cloud of eighty thousand ketaka flies began to suck its blood. Waking up, it saw how many they were and realized that to go back into the water or roll on the ground would kill all the insects. So it just lay where it was, giving them its life.

后来，当这海龟成为佛陀时，这八万只果蝇即是前来听闻佛法并了知真谛的八万天人。

Later, when the turtle became the Buddha, the flies were the eighty thousand gods who listened to his teachings and perceived the truth.

愿大圆宗传承之光流布寰宇

愿如母有情悉皆解脱

愿佛法永远住于世间

愿与有缘者皆得利益

愿六道轮回究竟空尽

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