忆念尊者—米拉日巴｜ Remembrance of Milarepa

米拉日巴尊者是藏地老少皆知的圣者，为了度化众生，留下了很多道歌。它们不是简单的歌集、诗集，而是宣讲佛学哲理的宝典。就如这句“原谅那些伤害你的人，用慈悲心去祝福他们。因为即便过错是别人的，但业障一定是自己的。”它饱含着佛学的“大智大悲”它告诉了我们“因果不虚”。

Venerable Milarepa is one of the best-known saints in Tibet. For liberation of sentient beings, he left a legacy of numerous Dharma songs. They are not simply songs and poems, but a treasury of Buddhist philosophy. He sang, for example, “Forgive those who hurt you, and bless them with the mind of loving-kindness and compassion because karmic obscurations must be ours even though it is other people who made mistakes.” This example contains "Great Wisdom and Great Compassion" in Buddhism and tells us "inerrant principle of cause and effect".

试问，我们正在走过的人生，谁能避免不受到伤害？工作的竞争和身体出现的不适等等，无论来自内在还是外在，都会给承受者带来痛苦。往往人们的痛苦无以释放，愤怒、怨恨油然而生。这一切都是承受者自己感觉到痛苦会误以为真实，从而尝试着各种释放痛苦的行为。这个过程当中，又不断的伤害着别人，很多人就这样在不断的“冤冤相报”，却不知何时能“了”中度过苦的人生。

Just ask yourself who could avoid any hurts in their life. No matter internal or external sufferings, such as competitions in workplace, physical discomfort, etc., will always cause pains which are often difficult to cure. Anger and hatred, meanwhile, arise spontaneously. These pains are vivid personal experience so that they are recognized as facts and sufferers would try every possible way to release those ill feelings. However, these sufferers could constantly hurt other victims in their attempts to escape from their pains. A great number of people are trapped in the vicious cycle without knowing how to jump out and live their whole life in such cyclic existence.

尊者告诉我们，今生所受的痛苦和带给你痛苦的那些人不是无缘无故地来到你身边，让你痛苦不堪的，这是因果的无欺显现。他们冒着下地狱的危险来帮你消业。今生他们来折磨你就是让你将这些业债都还清楚，你应该用慈悲心去摄持，因为他们对你伤害的同时，也难逃恶果。要知道这一切都是自己的业障，根源是在自己。

The Venerable tells us that all the sufferings in this life and those who make you painful appear in our life to justify inerrant principle of cause and effect. They take the risk of falling into hell to support the purification of your karmic obscurations. They torture you in this life to settle your karmic debt and you should adopt this in the mind of loving-kindness and compassion since those who struck you would inevitably reap what they sowed. We should understand that all these are resulted from our own karmic obscurations and the root cause of all sufferings could be traced back to ourselves. 

米拉日巴尊者所受的痛苦可以说苦不堪言，家产被骗，自己背井离乡，离开深爱的母亲和妹妹，为了复仇而去学咒术，咒术成功却造下巨大杀业。尊者是在这样的处境中步入正法。他是一位实修大德，通过闻正知升正见，了知事物的本质。他告诉我们：用慈悲之心对待每一个伤害我们的人或事，从而改变行为，从此不再记恨，从痛苦中抽离出来，不再痛苦。

Venerable Milarepa used to suffer unspeakable pain—properties were lost, home was far away, and he left his beloved mother and younger sister, and learned spells and incantations to revenge whoever hurt him. Nevertheless, the success of spells and incantations brought him huge karma of killing. The Venerable began to practice authentic Dharma to correct his own mistakes under such circumstances. He is a great master in practice and perceived the essence things by studying and raising mindfulness and awareness. He tells us: treat whoever and whatever hurt us in the mind of loving-kindness and compassion to change our behavior patterns—no longer hatred, liberation from sufferings and no more pains.

做为凡夫的我们想要避免碰上不善的事物是很难的，然而我们如果懂得因果取舍，学会慈悲持事，就能最大程度的避免违缘。如果想征服一切外境的违缘，就要让心具备宽容，慈悲，如此才能真正的平息转化违缘。就如同我们无法整平大地，但穿上鞋，就能避免粗糙和不适而免受伤害。

As ordinary people, it is difficult for us to stay away from any non-virtue, but if we understand how to trade off cause and effect and learn to treat everything in the mind of loving-kindness and compassion, adversity could be avoided to the greatest extent. In case of overcoming all unfavorable external conditions, our mind should be tolerant and compassionate. Hence, adversity could be truly settled and transferred. For example, we could not flatten the sandy land, but once we put on our shoes, rough frictions and discomforts from the land could be removed and hurts could be avoided effectively. 

原谅那些伤害你的人吧，穿上慈悲与智慧铠甲在生命的道路上行走。

Forgive those who hurt you. Put on the armor of compassion and wisdom and walk on the path of life.

嘉样堪布

Khenpo Jamyang