Know What You Are Cultivating
業的三種含義：思維、造作、行動。
業的自性是不真實的假相，
佛法稱為：緣起性空。
身的三種業：殺、盜、淫。
口的四種業：妄語、綺語、兩舌、惡口。
意的三種業：貪、嗔、痴。
業的性質可分為：善業、惡業、無記業。
業的活動就是我們「生死輪迴」的相續。
色法依哪二緣生起？親因緣、增上緣。
心法所依四緣生起：因緣、無間緣、所緣緣、增上緣。
如何重報輕受呢？
大眾：我們可通過修身、修戒、修心和修慧，使重業輕受、輕業消除。
須知共業與不共業
我們造一些業，互相影響、關係密切、大家一起受果報，稱為共業。
我們造一些業，只影響個人身心、個人受報，稱為不共業。
在末法時期，學業問題、職業問題、婚姻問題、人際相處問題，一方面藉助修行，陸續去解決。這些都要依於智慧，不但菩薩依於般若而修，三世諸佛也都依於般若而得最高無上之正覺。
十方諸佛，從最初發菩提心，恆心地行於菩薩道，未曾改變其初衷，直到最後成佛。
修學菩提道上與大眾共勉之
資料來源：心靈甘露(三)，隆門圓通法師著。英文翻譯：張惠平。
Know What You Are Cultivating
Karma has three meanings: thinking, making, and acting. The self-nature of karma is unreal phenomena. In Buddhism there is so called “When affinities arise, the nature is empty.” The three karmas made from the body are killing, stealing, and sexual misconduct. The four karmas made from the mouth are false language, flowery speech, lies, and evil talk. The three karmas created from the thought are greed, anger, and ignorance.
In terms of characteristics, karma can be divided into good karma, bad karma, and the karma that cannot be distinguished. The activity of karma is the continuous reincarnations. The form dharma arises from close affinities and helping affinities. The mind dharma arises from causal affinities, continuous affinities, object affinities, and helping affinities.
How can people who sinned seriously be punished lightly? Those with heavy karma can receive light punishment and those with light karma can make it disappear through the cultivation of the body, the admonitions, the mind, and wisdom.
In addition, we should know the difference between the mutual karma and the individual karma. If the karma we create influences each other, is intimately related between each other, and makes everybody receive the retributions, then such karma is called the mutual karma. If the karma we create influences the creators only and only the creators receive the retributions, then it is called the individual karma.
During the sad-dharma era, the problems of schoolwork, occupation, marriage and interpersonal relationship can be solved one after another through cultivation. All these have to be solved by abiding by wisdom. Not only Bodhisattvas cultivate by relying on prajna, but also the Buddhas in the three periods attain anuttara-samyak-sambodhi by relying on prajna.
The Buddhas in the Ten Directions practice the Bodhisattva Path and never change their initial aspirations from the time they first make up their Bodhi minds to the days they finally attain Buddhahood.
Let’s encourage each other on the Bodhi-path of cultivation.
Source: Sweet Dew for the Soul (Vol. III), Written by Master Shih Longmen Yuantong. Translated by Huei Ping Chang.