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木碗

Wooden Bowl

诺尔巴堪布在厦门植物园的木碗专卖店,买了一个木碗送给我作为礼物。木碗本来就具有一种天然的木质纹理,在表面刷了一层本色清漆之后,更显出一种古朴意趣。我特别喜欢它,一直用它吃饭,好像什么东西盛在里面就成了甘露一般。随着贪执木碗之念的日益增盛,令我想起华智仁波切的一段故事。

Khenpo Ngorpa offered me a gift of a wooden bowl that he bought at a specialty store at Xiamen Botanical Garden. The bowl, coated in a clear varnish with its natural wood grain showing, looks simple and unsophisticated. I really like it and use it to eat my everyday meal; it seems to me that any food, once placed inside the bowl, turns into something nectar-like. As my affection to this bowl grows stronger, I recall a story about Patrul Rinpoche.

蒋扬钦则仁波切在德格的时候,华智仁波切正以乞讨的方式四处云游。他有一个木碗,伴随他同甘共苦,浪迹天涯,走遍了多康的山山水水,因此,华智仁波切也十分喜爱它。

When Jamyan Khyentse Rinpoche was in Derga, Patrul Rinpoche was wandering from place to place in the guise of a beggar. He carried a wooden bowl with him over the mountains and valleys of the Kham area as well as to many remote places. The bowl, having kept company with Patrul Rinpoche through the ups and downs of his life as a vagabond, had become his favorite.

当他去拜见钦则仁波切时,见到上师的周围眷属云集,房间富丽堂皇,宛如宫殿,里面装满了各种金银财宝,心里想着:原来上师也很喜欢财物,这满屋的珍宝他也一定很执著吧!钦则仁波切以神通照见了他的心思,便一语中的地高喝道:“华智,你不要想得太多!我对这室内室外财宝的执著,远远不如你对你那木碗的执著!”一句话使华智仁波切心中豁然开朗,他恍然大悟:修行人并不一定要过苦行僧般的生活,最重要的是要放下执著。

When he paid a formal visit to Khyentse Rinpoche, he saw the master was surrounded by a large number of entourages and the house was ornamented like a palace with magnificent decorations and piles of gold, silver, and jewels. Patrul Rinpoche thought to himself: “It turns out the master also cares about money and material goods. He must be quite attached to this houseful of treasures.” Khyentse Rinpoche, by his clairvoyance, saw what had gone through Patrul Rinpoche’s mind, and hitting the nail on the head, he scolded: “Patrul, don’t imagine things! My clinging to all the treasures in and out of here is far less than yours toward your wooden bowl!” This single sentence suddenly opened Patrul Rinpoche’s mind. The truth finally dawned on him that living ascetically does not make one a spiritual practitioner; what really counts is to give up any grasping in the mind.

作为我们这些普通的修行人,更应抛弃对娑婆尘世一切名利的贪执。前人曾教诫云:“不结良因与善缘,苦贪名利自忧煎,岂知住世金银宝,借汝权看数十年。”如果不结下与佛法的善妙因缘,只是因苦苦地贪恋世间名利,而枉自担忧,备受煎熬。殊不知,一切自己所拥有的金银财宝,不过是让你暂且看守几十年而已,又何必执著呢?萨哈巴也说:即使芝麻许的贪执,也是轮回的因。

For us ordinary practitioners, it’s even more pressing to renounce our cravings toward wealth and fame of the secular Saha world. An old adage says: “You never care to create virtuous causes and auspicious connections, but pursue fame and money insatiably, bringing upon yourself anxiety and suffering. Don’t you know that your gold, silver, and treasures are on loan to you, for you to hold onto only for a number of decades?” Instead of trying to plant virtuous seeds or making auspicious connections with the Dharma, we covet worldly money and power, and are constantly tormented by tremendous anxiety and futile worries. Little do we know that we are only temporary caretakers of our possessions of gold, silver, and jewels for scores of years. Why cling to them? Sahara says: “Any clinging, even as tiny as that toward a sesame seed, is the cause of cyclic existence.”

所以,我们应以如出囹圄、如弃枷锁般的厌离心,抛弃一切贪执。否则,不论你如何精进,终将徒劳身心。

Therefore, we should ditch all our attachments with an intense disgust as we would when trying to break free from jail or from shackles. Otherwise, no matter how diligent we are, in the end we are just making fruitless labor that exhausts our body and mind.

壬午年四月二十八日 
2002年6月8日 

28th April, Year of RenWu
June 8 2002


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