Sweet Dew for the Soul
055 菩提甘露語–灑脫 不是解脫
中文原著：隆門圓通法師
英文翻譯：張惠平
Written by Master Shih Longmen Yuantong.
Translated by Huei Ping Chang.
人在福報中，很難體受到受苦的滋味，就像你去跟一個意氣發的年輕企業家講苦，他不瞭解苦。或許你去跟一個身體健康、非常安樂的人，跟他講生病很苦，他也沒有辦法體受。
因為一位身體非常健康的人，你跟他講病苦、他也許無法體受。要自己碰上才知道，碰上了卻解不掉，那時才知健康可貴，唯有自己身歷其境時，才知覺醒。
佛陀也以入涅槃示眾生，讓一切眾生覺醒生、老、病、死，是如此迅速的到來。或許你尚年少、或許你福德資糧充足，那跟你說如何面對一生要生存下去的種種危難，對一個正享受福德的人來說，他不能體會。他會非常的灑脫，然而灑脫不是解脫。
人總是對未來不知道要擁有多少，而馳逐不得停。然後又要恐懼失去財富，而終日惶惶不定。無常人生，佛法的薰習能讓人安定，讓自己慢慢懂了，對世間的執著就漸漸淡了。
105.1.15日 吉祥
閒居無事可評論，一柱清香自得聞。
睡起有茶飢有飯，行看流水坐看雲。
–了庵清欲
資料來源：心靈甘露(二)，隆門圓通法師著。
Sweet Dew for the Soul
It’s hard for people enjoying blessings to understand what it is like to suffer. If you talk about suffering with a high-spirited and vigorous young entrepreneur, he wouldn’t understand. If you talk about the pain of sickness with a healthy person, he would not understand, either, unless he gets sick. Only when one gets sick will he know how precious health is. Only when one really experiences it will he awake.
So the Buddha entered Nirvana in order to let living beings know that birth, old age, sickness, and death come very soon. Maybe you are still young, or maybe you have sufficient blessings, so talking about dangers and hardships with you wouldn’t make you understand. You will feel free and at ease, but this is not liberation.
People do not know how much wealth they will own, and they keep chasing it. But they are also afraid of losing it, so they are worried the whole day. In the impermanent life, the fumigation and practice of Buddhist Dharma can stabilize people’s minds so that they gradually have a better understanding of it and their adherence to the world will be weakened little by little.
In my leisure hours I have nothing to comment on.
I am pleased by smelling a stick of fragrant incense.
When I wake up, there is tea; when I am hungry, there is food.
When I am walking, I appreciate the flowing water; when I am sitting, I appreciate the clouds.
Auspiciousness to you all.
Source: Sweet Dew for the Soul (Vol.II), Written by Master Shih Longmen Yuantong.