娱乐恶习

摘要：人人具有这个习气资源——贪、嗔、痴、慢、疑，我们不需要再制造个东西娱乐，用这种娱乐的方式，来把这个贪嗔痴慢疑有序化、公有化，我们就无畏于自身与他人的业习好恶。

许多人喜欢说是非，哪怕悄悄地说，因为这个很容易引起共鸣，大家的兴趣一下就来了。共鸣就是激活了，兴趣、好奇都被激活了，结果把自己宝贵的生命都用在某个事相的迷失上，执着了一个好、恶的评判。这个评判好恶的习惯特别粘着，像沥青一样，让你无力出离。它能埋没你，使你有摆脱不掉的一种负累，让你处于被动状态，远离了自己本来清净、安乐的心。那如何才能把自己的心安稳下来呢？

我们一起来学习一个可行的方法——四念法，未念、欲念、念、念已，任何事相都可以划分成这四个过程。

好比说，我起了个嗔心，想骂人，张口就骂了，知道这是个习惯，我不要被它粘着，制约着。对这一念生起来的整个过程，我先静下来，把它定格截成四段——未骂（起嗔心）、欲骂（想骂人）、骂（张口就骂了）、骂已（知道这是个习惯），看看在每个阶段中会产生什么不同的效果，为什么会来这个念？这个念头没有来之前是个什么？那个对境是什么？我要是不嗔不骂，这个念头又是什么？我要是用爱会是什么样子？ 平静后是什么样子？

这样，整个事情发生的过程就可以像慢镜头一样拉大、放慢，自由、有序的心理空间就展现出来了。在这个广大、自由的空间中主动去择取自己的心念，并能看到自己的心念变化，特别美妙。

通过未念、欲念、念、念已的心理训练，我们能够了知一切世俗的共鸣——人我是非、好恶习气，它的本质是无自性性的、不可得的。这样不仅可以使我们的心安稳下来，并且完全可以来娱乐我们的习气。因为人人具有这个习气资源——贪、嗔、痴、慢、疑，我们不需要再制造个东西娱乐，用这种娱乐的方式，来把这个贪嗔痴慢疑有序化、公有化，我们就无畏于自身与他人的业习好恶。

把贪、嗔、痴、慢、疑化作珍宝，化作我们的良师益友，化作我们觉悟的资粮，觉悟它、娱乐它，我们的生活就会渐渐主动、清晰、精彩起来。

Making our habits a game to enlightenment

Many people like to gossip about others behind their backs. They indulge themselves so much into it that they waste their precious life on judging others, lost in meaningless events. This habit is so particularly sticky that we are unable to see the truth through it. In fact, this is a burden people can’t shake off,consumes them, leads them into passiveness and drives them away from a clear and peaceful mind. But how can we calm and clear our heart?

Let us learn a feasible method-a 4-step method comprehending the thought process:
Having no thoughts, a rising thought, the thought at the moment and becoming aware of the thought.

For example, when we lose our temper and we want to swear at someone angrily, we just open our mouth accordingly. We usually behave this way because of our habits. Nevertheless, we should be aware it is a habit and avoid being stuck or constrained by it. How to deal with this with a method? We should calm down and break down the thought process into 4 stages: Before swearing (having hateful feelings), the rising thought of swearing (wanting to swear), going from thought to action ( swearing), after swearing ( realizing this is a habit). Then we should observe all this separately: Why did the thought arise? What was the thought before it arose? What was the object of the anger? What would the thought be if we stopped being angry and yelling? What would it be if we practiced loving kindness? And how would it be if we were at peace?

The whole process would be slowed down. Meanwhile, a free and orderly psychological space appears. We can actively identify our mind in this vast and free space, and we can also see clearly the changes in our mind.

Through such training of our mind, we can acknowledge and understand that most people have the habit of judging others. Liking or disliking do not have an intrinsic nature, change and disappear eventually. This training method can, not only settle our mind down but be also an entertaining way. How? As we all have such shortcomings like greed, jealousy, pride, doubts, ignorance, it could be a wonderful game if we could all use this 4-step method to freeze and adjust these feelings, slow down the thought process and recognize it is selfless by nature. As a result we will not fear our own habits or others’ any longer.

Let us turn attachment, jealousy, hatred, greed and doubts into treasures. Let us welcome them as friends or teachers and switch them into something valuable, sources of enlightenment and entertainment. Once we use this method as a game to train our mind, our life becomes clear, active and wonderful.