噶千语录-Gar Quote 47《 真有地狱？|| Is Hell not Real?》

噶千语录-Gar Quote 47《真有地狱？|| Is Hell not Real?》

噶千仁波切噶千语录 2020-11-06

噶千语录47

佛子行三十七頌

第八偈

诸极难忍恶趣苦
能仁为说恶业果
是故纵遇命难时
终不造罪佛子行

难以忍受的下三道苦，全是由我们的烦恼所造成的。佛陀并没有发明或创造出某种信仰；而是在了悟万物的真象之后，慈悲地阐示「何为苦因，何为乐因」。

佛陀开示：「嗔的本质就是地狱，爱的本质就是净土。」「若欲享安乐，应当如是行；若欲离痛苦，则应如是舍。」

不是有人要惩罚你，才将你送入地狱；而是嗔心的本质会造就出地狱来，或者说，嗔心的本质就是地狱，真相就是如此。

有时候大家会怀疑是否真有地狱，甚至连佛教徒有时都会想:「地狱只是内心的状态罢了，如果只是心，那就不是真实的，那地狱就不会那么糟喽！」

的确，地狱并不是本自存在的，而这个人生同样也不是本自存在；然而，要是你感觉人生是真实的，那么，你对地狱的感受同样也会是真实的。

只要还有恶业，还有我执，痛苦就会是一种真实的感受。
只有在证得佛果，证悟空性之后，才能了悟到所有世界，包括净土都不是本自存在；更何况，在我们这个世界里，就能眼见其他世界种种的痛苦，有些人类所遭受的正是地狱和饿鬼的苦！

一切痛苦的因是什么呢？一切的苦因是「我执」，以及由我执所衍生出的种种烦恼情绪。

因此，你应该观察自心，如果发现自己有嗔恨等烦恼情绪，那么嗔的果报，未来肯定是要成熟的。密勒日巴说：「恶趣根为嗔，故应修忍辱，捨命亦不惜。」明白了痛苦是嗔心的后果，自然就会想要舍弃嗔恨。如果不明白这个道理，你甚至可能会认为生气是理所当然的。

「嗔心生地狱、贪婪生饿鬼、无明生傍生。」就像有些人毫无知觉地将自己的一生毁于酗酒和吸毒之中，成了一种无明习性，导致投生为动物傍生。

「业」有内、外两种。

外在的业是我们外在的行为。或许有人会想：「我不杀，不偷，我什么坏事也没做。」

然而，内在的业才是更重要的，这个身体只是我们用来行动罢了。外表上，就算没有从事恶行，但内心却无法生起悲心，只想到自己，那么恶念就会像雪花一样，日夜不断地累积起来。

要是我们一直随着烦恼情绪转，那么纵使无量劫也无法找到解脱。「业因果，不虚妄。」
转译自Drikung Dharma Surya Center所结集之 Quotes From The Precious One”No. 47

众生怙主噶千仁波切之「瑰宝语录」
藏英翻譯: Ina Bieler
英中翻译: 惃秋仁尊拉茉

中译审校: 惃秋策拉

Quotes From The Precious One

Gar Quote No. 47_ Is Hell not Real?

The 37 Bodhisattva Practices Series, Verse 8

"The Subduer said that all the unbearable suffering of the three lower realms is the fruition of wrong doing. Therefore, never committing negative deeds, even at peril to one's life, is the bodhisattvas' practice."

All the unbearable suffering of the lower realms is created by our afflictive emotions. The Buddha did not invent or create a certain belief, but rather, having realized how things really are, the Buddha compassionately explained what causes suffering and what causes happiness. He taught, "If you wish to be happy, this is what you need to do. If you wish to avoid suffering, this is what you must give up."

"The very nature of hatredis hell. The very nature of love is the pure land." Hell is not a place someone sends you to in order to punish you. It is just the nature of hatred to produce hell, or the nature of hatred is hell. This is just how things are. Sometimes people doubt the reality of hell. Even Buddhists sometimes think "it is just a state of mind. If it’s just mind then it’s not real, so it can't be that bad."

However, while it is true that hell does not inherently exist, neither does this human life! If you experience this life as a reality, hell will be experienced in the same way. For as long as there is negative karma, for as long as there is self-grasping, suffering is a real experience. Only when one attains enlightenment and realizes emptiness, one realizes that the realms, including the pure lands do not inherently exist.

In addition, we can see the suffering of all realms in our world. There are humans who experience the suffering of hell and hungry spirits. What is the cause of all suffering? The cause of all suffering is self-grasping and the afflictive emotions arising from it. Thus, you should observe your own mind and if you find that you possess afflictive emotions such as anger, the result will certainly ripen in the future.

Milarepa said, "The root of the lower realms is hatred, therefore practice patience even at the cost of your life." When you understand the suffering resulting from hatred, you will naturally wish to abandon it. If you do not understand this you may even mistakenly justify anger. From hatred arises hell, from greed appear the hungry spirits and from ignorance the animals. For instance, some people are unaware and destroy their life by drinking alcohol and taking drugs. This creates a propensity of ignorance leading to birth as an animal.

There is outer and inner karma. Outer karma refers to our external activities. One may think, “I am not killing, or stealing, I'm not doing anything wrong.” But what is more important is the inner karma. Even if one is not engaging in negative deeds externally, if one fails to give rise to compassion and only thinks about oneself, negative thoughts will accumulate in the mind like snow flakes falling continuously day and night. If we keep following the afflictive emotions, we will not find freedom for countless eons. That is only due to the actions we have committed based on this body. Karma, cause and effect, is infallible.

Quotes From The Precious One

English traslation by Ina Dhragye

Compilation in 2013 by Drikung Dharma Surya Center

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