..續本文上一頁nk in the next hundred days. Greedy people believe their words. But before they strike it rich, they first have to make a donation to the geomancer as a token of appreciation. The geomancers might as well tell people to rob a bank and get rich instantly, without having to wait a hundred days.
再者，他知道有好風水，可以發財，可以升官，爲什麼自己不用，等你去用？豈有此理！希望聰明人，千萬不要上迷信的當，被老千所騙。
Moreover, if the geomancer really knows of some favorable geomantic features conducive to striking it rich or getting a big promotion, why wouldn”t he use them himself
Why would he want to wait for you to use them
That makes no sense! I hope intelligent people will not let themselves be swindled by superstition or cheated by these old crooks.
「醫蔔星相」在佛教中是五邪命之一，不受歡迎。「醫」是醫生，替人治病。「蔔」是算卦，預知休咎。「星」是觀星，觀星宿知吉凶。「相」是相面，知命運順或逆。這是迷信，要知道「人定勝天」的道理。
Doctors, piners, astrologists, and physiognomists belong to one of the five types of livelihoods which are improper (for left-home people). Doctors treat sicknesses, piners forecast good and ill, astrologers tell fortunes by looking at the stars, and physiognomists look at facial features to predict whether one”s life will be smooth or difficult. These are all superstitions. We should understand that “human determination can overcome fate.”
出家修道人，生死大事都不怕，何況這些小事？更不足爲奇。出家人是超出數外，所謂：
超出叁界外，
不在五行中。
Cultivators who have renounced the home-life are not afraid of the great matter of birth and death; how much the less are these small matters worth their interest. People who leave the home-life can transcend their fate.
They transcend the three realms and
are no longer in the five elements.
這種批八字、看風水，是俗不可耐的人才相信，要曉得人一生的命運，由業力所感。我們人不要被氣秉所拘，不要被物欲所蔽，要自己創造命運，把握命運，命運可以改造，多行功德事，自然遇難呈祥，逢凶化吉，所謂：
但行好事，
莫問前程。
Only people who are strongly attached to the world believe in such things as horoscopes and geomancy. We should know that a person”s destiny is the result of his karma. We shouldn”t let our temperament restrict us, or let our physical desires obscure our purpose. Instead, we ought to create our own destiny and take control of our destiny. We can change our destiny. If you do many meritorious and virtuous deeds, hardships will transform into auspiciousness. There is a saying,
Just practice good deeds,
And don”t ask about the future.
我們現在打禅七，就是創造自己的新生命。不迷信，而正信；不要人雲亦雲，以訛傳訛，不要跟著人家後面跑，這是大錯而特錯。要有擇法眼，知道是非，明白善惡，黑白分析清清楚楚，就不會顛顛倒倒了。
Now as we attend the Chan session, we are establishing a new life. Get rid of superstition, and believe in what”s proper. Don”t just repeat what you hear and go around spreading lies. Don”t blindly follow behind others─that would be a great mistake. You must have the Dharma-selecting Eye so that you can tell right from wrong, understand what”s good and what”s evil, and distinguish clearly between black and white. Then you won”t be turned upside-down in confusion.
參禅的人，對于自己的生死能做主宰，來去自由，不受任何限製，所謂：
性命由我不由天
Those who investigate Chan can be the masters of their own birth and death. They can come and go freely without any restriction. As it is said,
My destiny is determined by myself,
not by heaven.
就是閻羅老子也管不了，對你無可奈何！爲什麼呢？因爲你已經出離叁界的緣故。
Even Old Man Yama has no control over you. He cannot touch you! Why not
Because you”ve already transcended the Three Realms.
何謂來去自由？也就是生死自由，愛活就活，愛死就死，遂心所欲。可是要注意，這種死並不是自殺，也不是服毒。
What is meant by being free to come and go
It is the freedom to be born and die. If you want to live, you can live; if you want to die, you can die, as your heart desires. But take note─this kind of death doesn”t mean committing suicide or taking poison.
我們的身體，好像房子，願意出外旅行，到什麼地方去，都是自由。願意化身千百億，盡虛空、遍法界去教化衆生，任運自如。不願意旅行，就在房子住，沒有人來幹涉。要曉得盡虛空、遍法界，都在法身中，沒有跑到法身之外邊。
Our body is like a house, and if we want to go out and travel, we are free to go wherever we want. If we wish, we can have a hundred million transformation bodies to…
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