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Feelings
are Like a Padlock
•Guru's
Talk•
Translated
and Edited by True Buddha Foundation Translation Team
Fundamentally, being in retreat
is the best way to escape from one’s feelings. But the reality
is that when you miss the past so much and the memories stay
in your thoughts for so long, it becomes almost impossible to
breathe. And as time passes, this feeling of breathlessness
becomes even stronger. Perhaps much of this is attributable to
my vow to deliver sentient beings in each life I live!
I wish very, very much—
[That] when I am alive, I can stay together with my disciples.
[That] when I die, I can be buried together with them.
[That] even when we are far apart in this world, we can
accompany each other [in spirit.]
[That] we can be together in the Maha Twin Lotus Ponds
Sometimes during my solitude, I find myself in a state of
mental loneliness, where I have only the Buddhas and
Bodhisattvas to speak to, and where my chanting of Buddha’s
name and mantras becomes one of my sources of leisure, one of
my pastimes. It may sound odd, but this is a fact.
My feelings have weighed heavily upon me, so much so that my
memories of the past are now only half of what they once were
. I have become a wandering lonely bird in the sky, trapped in
a net of feelings, unable to fly any higher.
I know as well of many, many people who are afraid of being
alone, who prefer to stay with their [painful] feelings to
avoid the loneliness, to escape from the loneliness and
helplessness of being alone.
For these people, every one is unconscious and, moreover,
unconscious without even knowing it, locked within their
feelings without even knowing why.
In my lifetime, I may have the True Buddha within, but my
heart is heavily weighed down by the feelings from my memories
of the past, always present in my mind, quietly existing in a
rhythmic pulse. They are like a padlock which holds me firmly
in captivity.
The highly achieved, highly respected cultivator with great
wisdom would say:
Attachment to love brings suffering when later separated.
When there is gathering, there must be parting.
There is never a party that does not come to an end, when all
must depart.
All feelings, in the long run, eventually become empty. A
cultivator should not be trapped within feelings, and must
learn to be reasonable, must learn to be truly calm, must
learn to be purified, must learn to be without self. How can
[one who is] without self have feelings?
It is all right when love comes.
It is all right when love goes.
[We] should have ability and wisdom, to never be locked by our
feelings easily. Great is the wisdom of the Buddha! [It] keeps
us from losing our direction, providing us with refreshing new
space and freedom. Never be locked by the padlock of feelings.
《本文譯自真佛報第440期頭版師尊「真佛論劍」文章「『情』是一把鎖」》
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