..續本文上一頁ess comes from not seeking anything. When you reach the state of seeking nothing, you have no worries. Seeking nothing, you have true happiness, and your nature is stable and tranquil.

　　你到外邊去找，找到什麼地方也找不到真正的快樂。我們人間所追求的吃喝玩樂這些享受：坐最值錢的汽車，或者買飛機，或者買輪船，到處去遊一遊船，這是快樂？這簡直地都是浪費你的精力、浪費你的智慧。你真正的智慧不是在外邊這些個東西。真正的享受，是你自在快樂，這是我們人人都有的，你不要向外去找去。你盡向外馳求，啊！你爭我奪，你虞我詐；你欺騙我，我欺騙你，結果就會得到自己這個不真實的快樂，這真是可憐愍者，佛所謂的這一類的人是可憐愍者。不要舍本逐末，不要倒行逆施。我所說的這個話，都是人不願意聽的。

　　You can search outside all you want, but you won”t find true happiness anywhere. The enjoyment we pursue in this world—eating, drinking, making merry, driving an expensive car, owning a plane, or buying a ship and taking a cruise—is this happiness

　　 This is just wasting your energy and wasting your wisdom. True wisdom cannot be found in these external things. True joy comes from being carefree and happy. We all have this within us, and we need not search outside for it. But people always seek outside themselves, and end up cheating, flattering, and fighting one another in order to obtain an artificial happiness. The Buddha said such people are to be pitied. They are lamentable. So do not forsake what is fundamental to pursue the superficial. Do not act in an up-side down way. What I”ve just said is something no one likes to hear.

　　我所說的這個快樂是什麼呢？你不爭是快樂，不貪是快樂，無所求這是快樂，你不自私這是快樂，你不自利更是快樂，你不打妄語，這才是真正快樂。你打妄語，你于心就會有愧，覺得這是騙人了。你就算不覺得，在你良心上，也覺得有了汙點了，對不起良心了。你若是一個沒有良心的人，那就又當別論啦！所以現在人心不古、道德淪亡、世風日下，在這種情形之下，我們要趕快醒悟。怎麼樣醒悟呢？我們做學生的，要好好讀書，朝于斯，夕于斯，這個「昔仲尼，師項橐」，要能「如負薪，如挂角」，「囊螢映雪」，這樣子，才夠上一個讀書的人。不是那麼整天就想自在，想安樂，想不讀書，追求快樂去；這不是快樂！

　　What do I call happiness

　　 Not fighting is happiness. Not being greedy is happiness. Seeking nothing is happiness. Not being selfish is happiness. Not wanting to benefit yourself is happiness even more. Not telling lies—that”s true happiness. If you lie, you will feel remorse in your heart because you know you have deceived someone, and there will be a stain on your conscience. If you are a person with no conscience, that”s another story. People”s minds are not the way they were in ancient times; morality has perished; and the world deteriorates day by day. In this situation, we must quickly awaken. How can we awaken

　　 If we are students, we should apply ourselves diligently, studying in the morning and in the evening. In the past, Zhong Ni (Confucius) took Xiang Tuo as his teacher. We must pursue our studies as earnestly as the woodcutter who put his book on a log he was hauling, the oxherd who hung his book from the horn of the ox he was riding, the student who studied at night by the light of fireflies collected in a pouch, or the boy who read by the moonlight reflected off the snow. Only then can we be considered true students. We should not just seek ease and comfort all day long and enjoy ourselves instead of studying. That is not happiness.

　　現在我告訴你們一句你們或者還不知道的話，不但美國，西方的教育完全破産了。可是他們還在掩耳盜鈴，說還可以維持現狀。怎麼說西方教育破産了呢？它因爲都去人倫，無父子了，也沒有老，也沒有小。西方的教育，兒子叫爸爸不稱爸爸，叫什麼？叫名字，直呼其名，簡直地，這個長幼尊卑已經錯亂了。

　　Now I want to tell you something that you may not be aware of yet. In the United States, and in the West generally, education is totally bankrupt. However, like the person who plugs his ears and steals a bell thinking that other people will not hear the bell, they claim that their educational system can still manage. Why do I say that Western education is bankrupt

　　 Because Western educators have discarded the ethics of human relationships. Parents and children do not know their place, and the old and the young do not know their roles. In the West, children do not address their father as “Father.” Instead, they call their fathers by name. The order between elders and the young, and between superiors and subordinates, has been messed up.

　　還有它的家庭都破碎了，家庭怎麼破碎呢？美國人百分之九十九都結婚以後，就再離婚，這家庭就破碎了。破碎了，生了小孩子，小孩子隨著爸爸養，爸爸就整天說：「你媽媽以前怎麼壞怎麼壞，她若不壞，我不會和她離婚…

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