掌握先机不做后补（二）

摘要：选择好了，再做事，一定是主动的，不需要造作、不需要修补，一路走下去就是一个无畏的行者。

释迦佛的简教，就是“诸恶莫作，众善奉行，自净其意，是诸佛教”。用这几句话作为镜子来审视自身，我们是主动还是半主动，是半被动还是被动，是在守着本来作福德因缘事，还是消耗自身、消耗生命？我们就很容易判定自身，知道我们该怎么做。选择好了，再做事，一定是主动的——众善奉行的主动，先机的主动。不需要造作、不需要修补，一路走下去就是一个无畏的行者。

做诸恶、做诸机巧，那就是在消耗生命，在伤害生命，被动于生命。就是后面修补的东西太多，修补起来十分艰辛。就像一个盘子一样，你用这个盘子很好的，“啪”扔到地上碎掉了，你要修补它就太难了。它可以给你带来方便，你要是把这方便击碎了，你再想要这个方便就特难，特别麻烦。后补容易让人自责，一旦成为自责的人，慢慢就会心灰意冷，慢慢自闭症就会出来，心灵的自闭症就会出来，那就很苦了。

究竟安乐，就里表一如。作为上众善奉行，心里依止远离造作、远离对待、远离割裂。我们做普通人，心作心是、掌握先机、运用先机，我们的生命就主动起来了。

生命之光~阳光早餐

开明师兄整理于2019年7月

To take early advantage and avoid fixing later （2）

Shakyamuni Buddha told us in brief that “to do no evil, to do only good, to purify one’s mind, which is the teaching of the Buddha.” If we use this principle as a mirror, we can easily see what our state of life is: are we active or semi-active? Are we passive or semi-passive? Are we accumulating merits by doing good while abiding by the essence or consuming our own life and hurting others?

By asking these questions, we can easily know what we should do. If we choose to follow the teaching of the Buddha and to do all good, we can become proactive and take an early advantage in life. We don’t need to suffer bad retribution and don’t have to fix the problems later. If we persist in this way, we will become true fearless Dharma practitioners.

In contrary, if we use skills to do bad things, we are consuming our lives and hurting others and our lives will become passive. There will be too many things to be repaired and the amendment is not easy to make afterwards.

For example, we have a plate and we like it very much. It brings us a lot of convenience. But it drops and gets shattered. It is hard to be fixed thus we cannot use it as a tool anymore. When we break this plate, we actually break our convenience. It is not easy to have such a convenience anymore. Moreover, when we try to make up our faults, we usually feel guilty. If we become self-blaming, we may feel disheartened or even slowly become autism. We will suffer a lot from it.

If we achieve happiness by dwelling in the essence, our inside will be same as outside, doing only good in activities and keeping away from creating efforts and dualistic mode of thinking in mind. We should acknowledge that we are only ordinary people and understand that the outside world is projected by our heart. Therefore we can position us well by choosing to do only good and make our life to be proactive.