生活中的悲智应用

摘要：人情与理性，是悲智在生活中的一个应用或者说一个显示的角度。

佛教讲悲智，实际应用于我们生活中，就是人情与理性。悲心实际是人情，智慧是理性。

人情化与理性要并行，就是情商与智商要配合地做。没有人情做不来事，但人情短暂多变不好把握，而纯理性有些事很难执行。

人情是交往的一个环节，这个环节怎么能安稳长久呢？理性无疑是个支持，或者说是个骨架，人情是个联结，人情的执行力还在于理性。理性貌似严峻不讲情面，但长久地看比较稳定、次序；人情貌似亲切，但量一多，在多变的情况下就会出现表达不清晰，就会猜疑、痛苦，不会长久。

人情与理性，是悲智在生活中的一个应用或者说一个显示的角度。

The Application of Wisdom and Compassion In Life

Compassion and wisdom mentioned in Buddhism, when applied in our everyday life, can be understood as “inter-personal relationship and rationality”. Compassion refers to the inter-personal relationship while wisdom could refer to rationality.

Sensibility and rationality should go along together, which means that emotional quotient (EQ) and intelligence quotient (IQ) need to cooperate with each other.  Without inter-personal relationship, we may not be able to accomplish anything. But the relationship is not easy to handle since it is transient and changeable. On the other hand, it is also difficult for us to carry out certain tasks if we are purely rational.

Inter-personal relationship is a component in the social interaction. How to make this relationship stable and durable? Being rational is no doubt a support or a framework, while the relationship works as a connection. How to manage and maintain good inter-personal relationship depends on rationality. Being rational seems strict and unsparing, but in the long-run it is quite stable and in order. The relationship seems intimate, but when it becomes too much or changes too often, people may start to express it ambiguously, and then distrust each other, or feel annoyed. As a result, the relationship cannot last a long time.
Sensibility and rationality are an application or displaying angle of compassion and wisdom in life.

【Editor’s Note from Robin】
While following our Master Cifa and learning Buddhism from him, very often I cannot help being moved by his targeted instructions and benefit a lot from them. Now, with a sincerely offering heart for you my fellow practitioners, I’d like to try as much as I can to share his instructions with all of you that I have recorded and sorted out. They each mainly are about how to observe some problem we notice from a specific angle in our everyday life, and I hope that we can learn by analog to observe and enlighten our whole life, so as, according to dharma, to arouse us to start using the inherent pure Buddha-nature as our wonderful arising condition, and make our life to be more beautiful, richer and more colorful.