〖蛆〗
快乐不是凭靠和我们相处的人有多少,而是来自于「正见」。如果我们拥有正见,那么无论我们行居何处,我们仍将是快乐的。
但我们大部份的见解都不正确,就如同一只住在粪堆里的蛆。蛆住在肮脏的地方,吃的也是肮脏的,不过,这一切对蛆来说却是无比舒适。假若你拿一枝筷子将牠从那堆粪便里剔出来,它会奋力挣扎地爬回牠的家。
我们也不例外。老师教导我们要有正见,但我们觉得很不舒服,一下子就溜回我们的恶习与妄见,因为只有这样做,我们才会觉得舒服。如果我们没有见到一切妄见的有害后果,那么,我们便无法远离他们。修行是件不容易的事,因此,你必须听从你的老师,这就是修行了。
Maggot
Contentment doesn't depend on how many people we are with. It comes only from right view. If we have right view, then wherever we stay, we are content.
But most of us have wrong view. It's just like a maggot living in a pile of dung. It lives in filth, its food is filth, but it suits the maggot. If you take a stick and dislodge it from its lump of dung, it'll squirm and wiggle back to its home. We are the same. The teacher advises us to see rightly but we squirm about and are uncomfortable. We quickly run back to our old habits and views because that's where we feel at home. If we don't see the harmful consequences of all our wrong views, then we can't leave them. The practice is difficult, so we should listen to the teacher.