记忆的游戏

摘要：圣者、智者则启用的是本净本具，直接用净识来审视世界，不重复，不积累，不丢失每一个当下的崭新、自由、安乐。

我们的染识记忆常把这颗本来清净的心污染了，圆满的心撕裂了，无碍的心制约了，就像一叶障目，令我们丢失每一个当下的美好。

记忆是习惯的积累、染识的相续，没有积累的意识我们会思维不动，会受不了的，因为你思维就要找个参照——过去的参照、习惯的参照、记忆的参照、别人作为的参照，要有参照我们才愿意去思考，所以我们一直被染识的记忆推动着我们的作为。

而圣者、智者则启用的是本净本具，直接用净识来审视世界，不重复，不积累，不丢失每一个当下的崭新、自由、安乐。那平时常忆佛念佛就变得尤为重要，就是令我们把佛的功德、智慧、慈悲，佛的身口意变成我们的记忆，在我们的记忆中凸显岀来，养成习惯，一动念便知是否失心了。

Game of Memory

The memory of our contaminated consciousness often stains the inherent purity, splits up the intrinsic perfection, and constrains the innate unhindered nature of our heart, just like a tree that shields us from seeing the woods and make us lose each present beauty.

Memory is the accumulation of habits and the continuation of the contaminated consciousness as well. We can no longer think or endure without the accumulated consciousness. That is because when you think, you need something to refer to, such as your past, your habits, your memory and what others have done to you, etc. We are reluctant to think without references. And therefore we are always pushed to act by our contaminated consciousness.

Unlike us, a sage uses the inherent pure nature of our own, the pure consciousness, to observe the world directly. For him, there is neither repetition nor accumulation of his past memory, and therefore he will never lose any present newness, freedom, peace or happiness. So it’s very important to often keep the Buddha in mind. Let the merits, wisdom and compassion of Buddha as well as his body, speech and mind be our own memory or even the highlights in our memory, and develop this as our habit. Thus we will be fully aware of whether we lose our right mindfulness or not whenever a thought arises.

【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.