你的修持不应该与切菜分离｜Your Practice Should Not Be Separated from ......

你的修持不应该与切菜分离

通常，当我们修行时，我们的脑子马上会出现念珠、佛堂，而不是厨房和当下你手中拿着的白菜。此时，你会出现一阵烦燥和无奈，因为你觉得是做饭、刷碗等杂七杂八的事耽误了你的修行大计。于是各种各样的情绪生起，你开始沮丧或是埋怨轮回之苦。但轮回真正的苦是因为做饭或是刷碗吗?不，是源于你对做与不做的执着。

简单的说，你的修持正是在做与不做之间，或者说做不做不是关键。你可以在切菜的同时安住当下，也可以以一颗白菜发起愿众生资粮圆满的菩提心。对，切菜没有干扰到你的修行，而是你狭隘的心将修行只安立在佛堂，端座、持咒。若如此对立，修行何以解脱？

修行并不是停止做事的借口，但我们却总是在做与不做之间辗转、徘徊。

你的修持不应该与任何事情分离，既有分立，绝无圆满，既无圆满，何谈修行？

嘉样堪布

Your Practice Should Not Be Separated from Chopping Vegetables

Generally, when we practice Buddhism, prayer beads and shrine rooms rather than the kitchen and the cabbage in our hand will immediately come to our minds. At this point, feelings of irritability and helplessness would appear, because trifles such as cooking, cleaning, etc. are regarded as things that will delay our Buddhist practice. Then, all kinds of emotions will arise, and people would start to be depressed or complain about the suffering of cyclic existence. But does the suffering of cyclic existence really come from cooking or cleaning bowls? No, it stems from the attachment of doing it or not.

Simply speaking, your procedure of Buddhist practice is shown as the hesitation of doing it or not. That is to say, the key point is not the action of chopping vegetables. One can reside in the present while cutting vegetables, or one can use cabbages with Bodhichitta heart to make aspiration that all sentient being may complete accumulation of merit. True. Cutting vegetables does not interfere with one’s practice, but the narrow mind will make one’s practice only in the temple, full Vajra lotus posture, or mantras recitation. If trifles like chopping vegetables stand opposite to Buddhist practice, how can liberation be achieved through practice? Buddhist practice is not an excuse to stop doing any simple job, but people always hesitate about whether to do it or not.

Your practice should not be separated from anything. If there is an opposite, there must not be perfection. If there is no perfection, what is practice about?

Khenpo Jamyang