摘要：我们人都有边见，边见是人类的特征。我们可以借助边见的角度来观察一个事情的状态，通过直接运用我们边见的习惯，来觉悟这个事情。
我们可以问问自己：最害怕什么? 最喜欢什么? 自己的强项、弱项是什么? 通过这种方式来了解自己。回观自心是特别重要的自我训练，十分重要。要是没有这样的训练，我们就容易被境转。为什么呢?
我们的心本来是主位，事相是外缘，是宾位。要是没有这样的训练，内心不认识自己，没有做主，起不到作用，心就会被境转；事相成主了，心就会在宾位，形成本末倒置，烦恼必定产生。所以智慧者的教诲方法，大多都围绕让心做主、让心来转换境界。
好比说智者来到一个环境中，这个环境会随着他的心地庄严产生变化，美好的东西就会慢慢呈现出来；而心理比较羸弱的人到一个地方，直接就会被环境制约，说好、说坏，没办法建立一个美好的内心世界。
一般情况下，大部分人，都是事情一来就会陷入事情的状态中，心被境转，跟着境界跑。人做不了自己心里的主，这是个普遍的现象。我们容易陷入事情，是因为习惯用二边见来看待事情。
我们人都有边见，边见是人类的特征。所谓的边见，就是是非、人我、好坏……所有执着这两两对立的认知都是边见。边见容易让我们陷入事相，但也能产生积极的作用。它有什么作用呢? 就是我们可以借助边见的角度来观察一个事情的状态，通过直接运用我们边见的习惯，来觉悟这个事情。
以前我们只能站在一边看问题，要么说是、要么说非，要么说好、要么说坏，然后就会去判定。这些评判会敲定一个知见，产生一个很大的力量——习惯的力量。那现在，我们从两边分别来看问题，多换个角度看问题就会不一样了。通过直接运用我们这种用边见看问题的习气、习惯，来走出陷入外相的状态，封口就不会那么紧了，它就有一个可活动的调整空间了。
一旦事情来了，我们可以从正反两个方面、人我两个角度去看问题，知道自己的强项、弱项、习气、爱憎等等。慢慢地，我们养成一个多角度观察事情、看待问题的习惯，就不易陷入事相当中，心就容易超越。
过去我们习惯用“这是对、这是错”的方式，来直接判定事情。对这种武断的烦恼习惯做个调整，是我们直接地运用自己的习惯来觉悟事情、让心做主的方法。
不被事情所转，还是陷入其中，这是一个主动与被动的问题。如果事相做主了，那我们的心就被蒙蔽，就迷失了。实际我们的坚固、执着，全部都是被动带来的，就是心被境转了。要超越现前事相对心的蒙蔽，让我们的心做得主。
自心主动起来，人就是觉悟者。
Make the best of our habits and let the heart be the host
What do we fear most? What do we love most? What are our strengths and weaknesses? Introspection is a very important self-training practice to thoroughly understand ourselves. Without such practice, we would easily be influenced by external conditions. Why?
Originally, our heart is the internal cause and the host; and the various phenomena are external conditions and the guests. With lack of training, our heart has no way to recognize its own position. It loses its active role as a host and thus is influenced by external phenomena. If the external phenomena take the lead, our heart will fall back into the guest’s position. “Putting the cart before the horse”, afflictions will for sure arise. Therefore, teachings of the wise are mainly about how to train our heart to be the host or how to use the heart to change the external environment.
For example, imagine that a wise man arrives somewhere. Influenced by this man’s aura, beautiful things will occur around him. On the contrary, for a psychologically weak man, he would be constrained by the external environment directly. With a critical mind, he has no way to sustain a harmonious inner mind.
Usually most of us would be trapped into what happens around us. Our hearts chase after these external phenomena and we feel that we cannot rest our heart. That is quite a common thing. This is because we are used to relying on the extreme views of duality to see things.
Human beings are characterized by dualistic points of view: right-wrong, others-self, good-bad, etc… These are considered as extreme views. What role can they play in our life? They can either trap us into the phenomenal aspects of things or play an active role on the path to enlightenment. Actually, this duality could be a tool for us to observe and grasp the state of an issue. We can directly use our habits of duality to become enlightened from the phenomenon.
We are used to looking at things from one and only perspective (only good or only bad for instance). These judgments will further solidify our perception and produce a powerful force, the force of habits. However, little by little we can cultivate a habit of looking at one thing through various angles and become less easily trapped into things. As a result, our heart would go beyond current issues.
We used to judge things by making arbitrary decision like “This is right” or “This is wrong”. Now, we can make use of this dualistic habit to be enlightened within phenomena and let our heart be the host.
To be trapped or not is related to a proactive or passive behavior. If we take the external conditions as host, our heart will be obscured and lost. Such attachments and solidified mind are the results of running after phenomena, which is passive behavior. Whereas, if we can go beyond the attachment to the phenomena and let our heart take the proactive role and be the master, we will become enlightened.
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