忏悔就是改過自新
To Repent and Reform Means to Change Our Faults and Turn Over a New Leaf
如果能真正生出忏悔心，也未嘗沒有商量之處。
If one is truly repentant, it can certainly be worked out.
佛之「法力」極大，而衆生的「業力」卻與之相等，所以說凡夫是「業重情迷」，而佛卻是「業盡情空」，所以聖、凡之分，在于「業」是不是已經盡了，「情」是不是已經空了。又說：
覺者，佛也；
迷者，衆生。
The Dharma-power of the Buddhas is tremendous, and yet the karma of living beings is equal to it. Thus living beings are said to be “weighed down by karma and confused by emotions,” whereas the Buddhas “have ended their karma and emptied their emotions.” So the difference between a sage and a commoner lies in whether one can end karma and empty out emotions. Another saying goes,
Enlightened, one is a Buddha.
Confused, one is a living being.
就好像上午所說的，衆生因爲背覺合塵，被一切塵勞五欲所轉，所以業障愈來愈深，而佛能超脫一切五欲塵勞，不再造業。衆生因爲業重的緣故，所以凡是想成佛了道的，必須先要忏悔自己的罪業，如果不生忏悔心就想成佛，這就猶如「煮沙成飯」，雖然煮到恒河沙那麼多的劫，也不可能成功的。
As we mentioned earlier, since living beings turn their backs on enlightenment and unite with defilement, being turned by the wearisome defilement of the five desires, their karmic obstacles become deeper and deeper. On the other hand, the Buddhas can transcend the sordid defilements of the five desires and avoid creating additional karma. Because living beings have such heavy karma, one who wishes to become a Buddha and realize the Way must first repent of his karmic offenses. If one hopes to become a Buddha without being repentant, it”s like cooking sand and hoping to get rice. You can cook for as many eons as there are sands in the Ganges River, but you”ll never succeed.
所謂「忏」，是忏其前愆；對以往所犯的罪業生大慚愧心。「悔」，是悔其後過；立定主意，改過自新，永遠不再犯錯，正如袁了凡居士所說：
以前種種，譬如昨日死；
以後種種，譬如今日生。
“Repentance” means repenting of past errors, feeling a great sense of shame and remorse for the transgressions we made in the past. “Reform” means turning away from future errors, resolving to turn over a new leaf, and never making those mistakes again. This is just what the layman Yuan Liaofan said,
Regard everything in the past as
if you died yesterday.
Regard everything in the future as
if you were born today.
如果我們不勤忏悔，那麼，我們所造的罪業，就會使我們墮落，不知「伊于胡底，莫知所止」了。凡是佛教徒都會記得，在皈依時，把自己的姓名報上後，便忏悔說：
從于無始。以至今生。
毀壞叁寶。作一闡提。
謗大乘經。斷學般若。
弒害父母。出佛身血。
汙僧伽藍。破他梵行。
焚毀塔寺。盜用僧物。
起諸邪見。撥無因果。
狎近惡友。違背良師。
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If we don”t repent with diligence, then the karma from the offenses we committed will make us fall, and who knows when and where we will stop. All Buddhists should remember that when they first took refuge, they stated their full name and then repented by saying the following:
From time without beginning until the present life,
I have slandered the Triple Jewel, been an icchantika,
Slandered the Great Vehicle Sutras,
Cut off the study of Prajna,
Killed my father and mother,
shed the Buddha”s blood,
Defiled the Sangharama,
Ruined the pure conduct of others,
Burned and wrecked stupas and temples,
Stolen the property of the Sangha,
Held deviant views, denied cause and effect,
Been intimate with evil friends,
Turned away from good teachers...
現在，爲了重新喚回大家的記憶，我且把這段〈忏悔文〉，很簡單地向大家解釋一下：
Now, to refresh everyone”s memory, I will very briefly explain this passage of repentance for everyone.
我們從無始劫以來，直至現在，所做的罪業，真是不可勝數。第一，是毀謗佛、法、僧叁寶，其中又以毀謗「僧寶」的罪爲最大，因爲僧人是代表佛陀來傳揚佛法的，所以，謗僧的罪是「不通忏悔」的。什麼叫「闡提」？這是梵語，翻譯成中文是「信不具」或「無善根」；譬如你對這種人說法，他不歡喜聽，甚至于幹脆就說：「我不信！」你說，這是不是把自己的善根都給斷送了呢？
From eons without beginning, up to today, the karma from the offenses we have committed cannot be reckoned. First of all, we have slandered the Triple Jewel: the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha. Among these, the offense of slandering the Sangha is the gravest, because the members of the Sangha represent the Buddha in propagating and transmitting the Buddhadharma. Therefore, one is not allowed to eradicate the offense of slandering the Sangha through repentance. What is an “icchantika”
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