The Soul Engineering—XIX
一切世象都是因緣合和所生，一切境界不出識心幻現。佛在五欲塵勞中建立教法，是悲愍眾生不知歸趣，而愍濟眾生登於覺岸。
一般人無不在生活的喜怒哀樂中，無時不在明暗、動靜、苦樂、得失、是非、善惡、福禍、取捨…等兩邊中討生活，這也都是生活在虛妄不實境中。
若生起善念則是光明相，若生起惡念則是黑暗相。在非常無聊的時候，是痴迷茫然不知之相，落入無記的夾縫之中。學佛能令眾生於善惡境現前，始終不失菩提心而信行。
此種種是夢幻之境，善念是美夢、惡念是惡夢，若想要解脫人生，這麼多的苦惱，是行者必須超越的虛妄幻夢。
真理，不是用想的意識行，而是證入性空本如而出生的般若。菩提真如要以心修無我行、真慈悲行，人世間來醒世，刻苦耐勞一切任務而行持，在此處中行難行之行，能不動心念，如此幻境難入，若修到真性，能迴煩惱為菩提，是修行者所追求的最終目標。
資料來源：心靈甘露(三)，隆門圓通法師著。英文翻譯：張惠平。
The Soul Engineering—XIX
All of the phenomena in the world arise due to the harmony and combination of affinities. All of the realms are within the consciousness mind and illusory manifestation. The Buddha set up the Buddhist doctrines in the mundane world filled with the Five Desires because He took pity on the sentient beings who did not know where to resort to and because He sympathetically tried to help them get enlightened.
Ordinary people live in joy, anger, sadness, and happiness. They also make a living between brightness and darkness, actions and non-actions, bitterness and happiness, gains and losses, right and wrong, goodness and badness, blessings and disasters, as well as taking and giving. They all live in the false situations.
One may have a bright appearance if he gives rise to good thoughts, and may have a dark one if he gives rise to evil thoughts. If he is extremely bored, he may have the appearance of obsession and ignorance and fall into the crack of avyakata. Learning how to be a Buddha makes sentient beings keep, believe, and practice the Bodhi mind when good or bad situations manifest.
All these are dreamy situations. Good thoughts belong to beautiful dreams, while evil ones belong to evil dreams. If a spiritual practitioner wants to get liberated from so many afflictions in life, he has to transcend the illusory dreams.
Truth is not the consciousness action that is thought of, but is the prajnaparamita engendered by confirming into the empty nature and intrinsic suchness. In the Bodhi true suchness, one has to cultivate the selfless and really compassionate actions. In order to awaken the world, he has to spare no effort to abide by the mission, do the difficult job, and keep his mind unmoved. Such an illusory situation is hard to enter. If one can achieve the real nature by cultivation, he will be able to turn afflictions into Bodhi, which is the terminal goal of practitioners.
Source: Sweet Dew for the Soul (Vol. III), Written by Master Shih Longmen Yuantong. Translated by Huei Ping Chang.