学会转境

摘要：我们要是在自己的心地上真正用功，真正知道自己的心是依什么、用什么、作什么，不敢有丝毫的马虎，转境就有机会。

我们一在乎名利、形象，一定就是被境转了——被钞票转了、被权利转了、被自己的烦恼业习转了。转境还是被境转，自己要知道。要是被境转，痛苦会随之而来。一个转，第二个会更转你，第三个、第四个……积累下来，那就把你转得团团转。

我们要是在自己的心地上真正用功，真正知道自己的心是依什么、用什么、作什么，不敢有丝毫的马虎，转境就有机会。转境、不被境转，“主动”是关键的关键。太多人卡在这儿了。

真从心里超越了境，人会得到一种解脱、一种自我解脱。得不到没问题，你可以被境转，但你被转的时候会饱尝这个痛苦。体会这个痛苦是你自己被它扭动的一个内在体验。了解了这点，我们慢慢就有想超越这种被境转的动力。

开始不需要学会太多，先从大的、粗重的方面入手。比如说别人不尊重自己、说难听话，自己动心了，起嗔恨了，那能不能警觉它，不去相续。像我们喜欢买东西的时候贪便宜什么的，那现在我不求便宜，慢慢地调整。你一下都转转不成，一下都转把它撇断了，会失去耐心而更烦恼。

我就一个一个地调整，一个事一个事地尝试着去做。做久了，习惯了，来一个事觉悟一个事，我就转动一个事，转过去的习惯。过去随着习惯就跑了，随着现象就跑了；现在习惯一来，我就主动转，养成习惯就好了。

实际这个主动的作为就是觉悟。别人说了我，我脸还红，心还烦——告诉自己没问题，我觉悟这个事，不加重它。过去别人让你烦了，你就会跟人对着干，这会把事情变得越来越重；现在自己烦了，就去觉悟它，不能往里面陷。下次别人再说你的时候，你一动心就过去了。再下一次，别人说你，动心都不动心了。随你说。比如张三说你什么，“哦，说我了”，没什么。

发心，发愿，觉悟一切！觉悟一切你就会感恩一切，这个“感恩一切”会变得很真实。你在每一件事上觉悟的时候，实际是你从每件事上得到支持了。因为它们支持了你，你会感恩。

觉悟一切一定会感恩一切。

Learning how to use our heart to influence external circumstances

When we care too much about our fame, wealth, or images, it means we are influenced by the external circumstances, for example, money, power, or our own habits and worries. To influence or to be influenced, we must be clear. If our heart are influenced by something, sufferings will come along with it. Moreover, once we are influenced by one thing, we are doomed to be influenced by the second, the third, and the fourth thing… until we get rushed around by these things.

If we really work hard in our heart, and really know what kind of heart we are relying on, using, and working on, we will have a chance to influence the external circumstances. To influence instead of being influenced, the key is initiative. Many people get stuck here.

If we really surpass external circumstances, we will get liberated, self-liberated. If not, we will be influenced by what is outside our heart, and have to taste the suffering of being influenced and experience the distortion in our heart. With such an understanding, we can gradually develop the motivation to surpass the status of being influenced.

There’s no need to learn too much all at once in the beginning. We can start from learning how to deal with our major habits. For example, when we are offended by someone for his disrespect or bad words, and anger arises in our heart, we have to be aware of it and try to put an end to the anger. Now, we should stop that, and try to adjust, however, we need to change it gradually, for we cannot change it overnight, otherwise we may get it even worse when we lose our patience and we may suffer more troubles.

So we just need to adjust out habits little by little and try it in every single thing we do. After some time, we will develop such a good habit of being enlightened from what comes to us, one thing at a time. This way we can change our old habits. Instead of running after our old habits and the phenomena we come across, we can actively change them. Just get used to the new pattern.

In essence, the activeness is an enlightening. When someone blames me, I may still turn red with anger, but I tell myself it doesn’t matter. I just need to be enlightened from it, rather than deteriorate the situation as I used to do. In the past, I would retaliate upon someone who bothered me. Now when I am troubled, I become enlightened from it and don’t fall into it anymore. And next time when I am blamed, angers may fade away with only a slight stir arising in my heart. And little by little, anger may even not arise at all. Whatever other people say, I just know: “Oh, I’m blamed”, and nothing left in heart .

Be motivated and make wishes to be enlightened from everything! And when you are enlightened from everything, you will be grateful to all. This thankfulness will become very realistic, because when you are enlightened from everything, you get support from them and thus feel grateful to them.

Be enlightened from everything and you will definitely be grateful to everything.