A Miao's Realization
Teacher Fa Shen has been benefited from putting Liao Fan’s Four Lessons into practice in life and now she is teaching Liao Fan’s Four Lessons to benefit others.
In the beginning of my connection to Buddhism, Master Hong Sheng told me to devote my time to reading Liao Fan’s Four Lessons at least one year as my homework. I was so happy that I got a direction to work hard and I found it not difficult once I started to do it. It has been a year of washing away the dust in my mind as well as my bad habits. It has been a joyful experience. I finally got to know how to live my life. Now, as I look back, happiness is where I was and there it stood.
My previous homework was to read The Ten Wholesome Ways of Action, but it had been difficult for me to practice the rules and there were worries bothering me still. However, Master Hong Sheng told me to keep reading. But to be honest, I just had the DVD play or fell asleep while it was playing.
Nevertheless, I would like to share this joyful learning process with you. A day in the beginning of this year, I watched the DVD of The Ten Wholesome Ways of Action especially with single-hearted devotion. Continuously, I watched two series at once, and then I realized something. Before I regarded watching and reading as one thing, living my life as another. I did not apply what I had learned to my life. I realized that there were so much more I did not understand. On the same day, I was woken up by Master Chin Kung’s words, “Do not keep others’ wrong doings in our minds. It is painful to force ourselves to tolerate something we don’t like. We should treat the wrong doings like nothing and learn from Teresa Hsu Chih, who regards bad people as the passengers on the streets.”
This time, I listened to Master Chin Kung’s words and repeated his words ten times in my heart, tried to feel these words and sensed these kinds of feelings in life. That day, I particularly dedicated myself to practice Master Chin Kung’s words. It could be due to the energy I had been accumulating by doing my homework from time to time. How I wish I could have awaken sooner rather than wasted my time for not doing my homework with all my heart.
With that experience, I can do my homework with all my efforts. The worries are less and less. Besides, it is easier to understand Master Hong Sheng’s words. Life has become easier as well. Although I still have worries, I feel easy and joy. It is impossible for me to be lazy again.
Now Master Hong Sheng tells me to read Liao Fan’s Four Lessons again to teach me how to change my life completely. I am so grateful for what had happened in my life. Master Hong Sheng is really a great Master. He knew I could not read Liao Fan’s Four Lessons in the beginning, but was able to read The Ten Wholesome Ways of Action just because it would be too long to be kept in my mind so I would not think I had been repeating the same thing. Now I can read Liao Fan’s Four Lessons all the time or a whole year because after reading it, I can totally appreciate the impermanence of life, treat good people and bad people sincerely, look at the rights and wrongs in this world tranquilly and be aware of this void word is determined by our minds.
Also, thank you very much, Mr. Liao Fan!
Written by A Miao in 2008
阿妙的體會
師父說要努力看認真看《了凡四訓》至少一年，我好開心唷!有了方向，去做就再也不困難了。終於知道人要怎麼生活了，用整年來洗刷這已經受污染的心跟習性，多令人開心的過程，驀然回首，幸福美滿就在那燈火闌珊處。
接觸佛法好像一年多，十善業道的功課，一直做不圓滿，煩惱習氣一來，老祖宗都不管了，真的是凡情業障深厚。但 師父說要一直看，其實一開始看也是呼弄呼弄的看，甚至讓他自己播放，或是邊看邊睡覺。講了也真不好意思，但分享一下這生命的喜悅過程，就在今年初的某一天，看《十善業道經》特別專心，特別精進一看看兩集，看完才發現，喔!我的老天爺呀!我到底之前在幹什麼，看是看了，生活還是另一樁事情。原來我那麼多還不懂，那天我才被一句話重重敲醒，淨空法師不厭其煩的說著：別把別人的不好放進自己的心裡，別跟自己過不去，用勉強忍耐很痛苦，要當這樁事情壓根沒有，學學許哲居士，把那些種種當成路人過馬路，在這上下功夫。
哇哇哇，真的這回乖乖的聽進耳朵，放進心裡，默默對自己說10遍，再用所有知覺去感受那路人過這馬路的方法。(我想那天會特別精進，也是平常也有多少聽一點累積出來的能量，如果精進一點可能會早點茅塞頓開，看看自己浪費了多少時間。)
那天這樣子的感受，讓我真是奮起直追，真的現在煩惱越來越少，師父講的話好像越來越容易聽的出箇中三昧，生活也漸漸的順暢許多，煩惱習氣縱使未斷，但以嚐到如此舒暢的心境，再怎麼懶惰也不能讓自己前進三步倒退兩步，有了這次的洗滌，師父又叫我回頭看《了凡四訓》，教我徹徹底底的改變人生。
感恩這一切的發生，師父真的很厲害，我一開始沒辦法看一直看《了凡四訓》，但可以一直看《十善業道經》一直看，因為講經講完我就忘了，有看跟沒看一樣，就不會覺得一直重複。但現在已經知道 師父的用心良苦，我可以一直看《了凡四訓》看整整一年都沒問題，因為看久了我就能完完全全的感恩這生命的無常，真誠的對待好人惡人，清淨的看待這世間的是是非非，覺悟這因心成體的虛空法界。
了凡先生也感恩你唷!
阿妙 2008 年
