【信仰话题系列】清晰生命的主题—信仰的守护（一）

摘要：信仰就是支持生命的，给生命带来光辉前景的依止，给生命带来辅助、推动，带来依靠的。

你看一个人生活得特别盲目，思考得特别盲目、混乱，没有力量相续，做什么什么不成，做什么都是虎头蛇尾，这时一定要考虑自己是不是没有信仰。

信仰是清晰生命主题的一个方法。一般来说，我们心理、知见、思维、言说等都清晰了，生命的主题、人生的前景也就找到了。为什么人类有始以来有这么多信仰呢？信仰就是支持生命的，给生命带来光辉前景的依止，给生命带来辅助、推动，带来依靠的。

很多宗教称为洗礼也好，佛教称为皈依也好，都是对我们生命的一个辅助。这个辅助给我们带来最重要的智慧、慈悲、方便这样一个设置。要是没有信仰，你生命的主题是什么呢？就是在生命源远流长的这样一个无尽的过程中，你怎么运用呢？

所以很多人说的跟想的、做的不是一回事，说一套做一套，这是很痛苦的事情。身心分裂了，里表不一。因为没有信仰，就建立不了真实，这个真实一定从信仰中来。没有信仰，我们守护什么呢？我们思想依止、作为、言说、思考的东西是怎么表达出来的？那就会以我们自己为中心，以自己的逻辑为中心，以自己的正邪为中心，以自己的知见为中心，他没法利世，也没法自利。解放自己是没有机会的，帮助别人更没有机会。

佛教的信仰来源于生命的共性，生命的广大性，生命的本质。那些智慧者、觉悟者是用他们的大愿，把这些都完整地表达清晰了。他们发的每一愿都是不为自求的，都是爱护一切生命的，都是自利利他的。我们能随顺这些觉悟者的愿望，把他们的愿望作为我们自身的愿望，依愿而行，那我们的生活作为就会清晰明了、简单有力。

生命之光～阳光早餐

开明师兄整理于2019年5月

Make clear about the theme of our life – persist in our faith (一)

When we live aimlessly, think aimlessly and chaotically and do things without getting anything done, we must ask ourselves whether we have faith or not.

Faith can help us make clear about the theme of our life. Generally, when we are clear about our psychologies, views, thoughts and speeches, the theme and the prospect of our life have been found. Why do human beings have so many beliefs through out the history? Faith can support life, bringing glorious prospects, impetus and reliance for lives.

Faith can help us make clear about the theme of our life. Generally, when we are clear about our psychologies, views, thoughts and speeches, the theme and the prospect of our life have been found. Why do human beings have so many beliefs throughout the history? Faith can support life, bringing glorious prospects, impetus and reliance for lives.

Baptism in many religions or Returning to Buddha in Buddhism is supporting us, bringing us the most important wisdom, compassion and expedient means. If we don’t have faith, what is the theme of our life and how can we make use of our life in the endless lifetimes?

It is painful to say one thing and do another, as many of us do nowadays. Our body and soul, or our inside and outside, are split. If there is no true faith, we cannot be genuine. What do we hold in our heart if we don’t have faith? Our thinking, behaviors, and speeches will be centered on our “Self” – centered on our logic, judgement or viewpoints. As a result, we have no way to benefit and liberate all sentient beings as well as ourselves.

The belief in Buddhism originates from the common quality shared by all life forms, the vastness and the nature of lives, which have been completely and clearly illustrated by those wise and enlightened ones through their great vows. Each of these vows was made to benefit all sentient beings, rather than to seek something for themselves. If we take their vows as our own and act according to them, our life will become clear, simple and powerful.