一切皆幻相｜All are Illusions

轮回中的一切皆为幻相。你、你拥有的一切，以及你的知见，甚至你修学的佛法都不离幻相的本质。有些人无法接受佛法也是非真实。其实佛法只是相当于你的梦境中各种提示你如何走出梦境的信息，然而这些信息也只是你梦境中的显现，是随着你的因缘福报而显现的信息，并非是梦醒后的实相。

或者说，只要是思维和幻相被当成真实，就会有迷惑，只要有迷惑，就会有将我们从迷惑中唤醒的道途或者方法。就如同幻相并非真实，那么同样，令我们从幻相中解脱的方法也并非真实。如果你昨晚梦见的蛇是幻相，那么在梦中用来驱赶蛇的木棍怎么可能是真实的呢？

因此，一切皆为幻相，而一切幻相只要能够让你逐渐走向觉醒，就是道途，道途中并非只有诵经、持咒，也可能是眼前一件令你沮丧的事，或者是耽误你持咒的众生。为了让梦中的你醒来，佛菩萨会化现为各种状况不断的提醒你。

Everything in samsara is illusion. You, things you have, your knowledge and views, and even the dharmas you practice are nothing but illusions in nature. However, some people cannot accept that dharmas are not real either. Actually, dharmas amount to messages in your dreams that indicate you how to make your way out of dreams. They are just manifestation in your dreams and are manifested according to your causes, conditions and merits. They are not the truth after awakening.

In other words, if thoughts and illusions are taken as reality, there are delusions. Once there are delusions there are ways or methods that can wake us up. Just as illusions are not real, methods that wake us from illusions are not real either. For example, the snake you dreamed of last night was not real, then how can the rod in your dream to drive away the snake be real?

Therefore, all are illusions. And any illusion that can lead you to awaken little by little is a right way. Methods are not necessarily sutras or mantras chanting. They can be something frustrating happening before your eyes, or sentient beings that distract you from chanting mantras. In order to wake you from dreams, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas take all kinds of forms to alert you unceasingly. 

——嘉样堪布

Khenpo Jamyang