宗薩欽哲仁波切2010新年感言

　　 2009年已經結束，2010年才剛開始。事實上一個月已經過去了。一月份已過，新年還有幾天就到來。我認爲我們許多人，在這樣多變的世界、處境和環境下仍能幸存，是我們應該感激的一件事。當然說時容易做時難。我們有些人經曆了艱難，失去了親人，當然還有那令人不安的經濟危機。傳統上，我想新年的問候大概是要祝福每個人快樂、成功，祝大家好運。但作爲一位被訓練爲佛教老師的人，我忍不住要分享我的想法。這些想法不必然是來自修行或者領悟，而是來自于多年來接受衆多偉大上師的許多教法。

　　 因爲養成了一再地重複這些訊息的習慣，所以在此，再一次地，我應該要提醒每個人，包括我自己，生命是如此脆弱。作爲輪回中的衆生，我們經曆的每一件事都是那麼地不確定，我們大大受製于因果的影響和力量。當然，我們非常希望事情能依照我們計劃和我們期待的那樣，都在我們的掌控之中。通常我們即使是實現了計劃和安排的百分之二十五，我都說可以慶祝了。但我們就是很貪心很盲目，想要事情照我們所希望和計劃的那樣子發生。最後經常弄得自己憂郁沮喪！

　　 不過我們和那些跟佛法毫無關系的一般人有很大不同。當然，在承受業力因果方面，我們和一般人沒有差別。但我們和一般人有個不同之處，而且我認爲這個不同之處是非常有價值而且重要的。那就是，我們有“道”。我們有佛、法、僧，有上師，而且有我們的“道”。單單這點，就使我們和一般人不同、肯定會不同，只有“道”才是我們的庇護所。因爲如果我們沒有了“道”，就只能擁有像其他人一樣，經過辛苦努力才能達成的平凡人生。即使我們達成了很多目標，我們還是不滿意。我們就是不滿意。永不滿足。我們仍有很長、很堅實的計劃，還想幸福快樂地照我們的計劃活到永遠。

　　 因此，如果我們失去了佛法，那麼，真的，我們的生命就毫無意義。就像一棵植物一樣。有些植物，早上生長然後下午就枯萎死去，就這樣結束了生命。如果我們失去諸如道德、倫理、愛和慈悲、菩提心等等的價值觀，那麼我們的生命實在是毫無意義。在這新年的時刻，如果你願意，包括我自己，可以叫這個爲“新年計劃”。我們必須要牢記－－我們擁有佛法、擁有佛、法、僧，就只記得這件事也非常重要。即使我們沒辦法修行，無法時時刻刻修行佛、法、僧，也要牢記我們擁有它。這是我們不應該喪失，不應該抛棄，不應該忘記的。這是我們應該時而憶念著的。這樣的態度和方法非常必要。

　　 我們許多人現在漸漸老了，也經曆了很多，我們也一而再、再而叁的嘗試建立沙堡。而且好些人也許相對來說，已經達到某種程度的成功，但這些都沒有辦法真正産生能夠長存而且利己利他的重要價值。所以，如果你們要我說幾句新年信息，那麼我要說的是，記得我們擁有這個重要的東西－－我們擁有道，我們擁有佛、法、僧，而它們讓我們的生命這麼特別。記得這點是非常重要的。我要求、希望也祈願我們所有人都記得。

　　(英文謄寫及編輯：許功化，中文翻譯：黃子瑗，中文校稿：許功化)

　　“宗薩欽哲仁波切的新年講話”---英文稿

　　Rinpoche”s Feb 2010 Losar address

　　So, 2009 is over and 2010 just started. Actually already the month has gone. Month of January is gone. Losar is in a few days time. I believe that many of us, given the situation that we live in this volatile world, situation and environment, that we have survived up to now is something we should appreciate. Of course it is much easier said than done. Some of us have gone through rough time, losing our family members and of course the very unsettling, the situation of financial crisis. As in the tradition, I guess New Year greeting is supposedly to wish everyone happiness, success, to wish you all luck! But I can”t help myself but to share my thoughts, as someone who is trained to be a Buddhist teacher. Not necessarily these messages are coming from practice or realization but years and years of receiving lots of teachings from great many masters.

　　Having built a habit of repeating these messages again and again, here, once again, I should remind everyone, myself included, that life is so fragile. As a samsaric being everything is so uncertain, we are very much under the influence and the power of cause and conditions. Of course we would very much like to have things under our control and according to how we plan and how we expect. Normally even if we manage to achieve maybe 25% of what we plan and schedule, if it comes true, I would say it is cause of celebration but, we are kind of very greedy which is so blind, that things have to come as how we wish and how we plan. How many times we ended up brooding ourselves!

　　But there is a big difference between ordinary people, those who have no connection to the dharma, and us. Of course there is no difference between them and us as far as being the victim of cause and conditions and karma and everything. But there”s one difference and I think that difference is quite a valuable and important difference, that is, we have a path. We have Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, we have our masters and we have our path. And that, that alone will make the difference, has to make the difference and that alone is our sanctuary. That alone should be the sanctuary, because if we don”t have that then we just have this ordinary life like all the others who really work so hard to achieve. And even we manage to achieve quite a lot, we are just not satisfied. We are just not satisfied. We are just so insatiable. We still have long, solid plans to live and live happily forever, and live as how we plan.

　　And in that,if we lose this aspect of Dharma, then really, our life is meaningless. It”s just like a plant. Some of these plants, they grow in the morning and then they will die towards the afternoon. And then that”s it, that”s the end. Values such as morality,ethic,love and compassion,values such as bodhicitta…if we lose these values, then our life really has no meaning. And this is, if you like, something that, including myself, in our New Year, if you like, you can call it new year resolution. This is something that we have to really remember: that we have the Dharma, we have Buddha, Dharma and sangha, and that is so important to even remember that. Even if we may not be able to practice, and put the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha into practice at all times, to remember that we have this,and this is something we should not lose,we should not just discard,we should not just forget.This is something that we should from time to time remember.That kind of attitude and that kind of approach is really necessary.

　　Many of us are now getting old, many of us have seen a lot, many of us have really tried to build this castle again and again. And some of us maybe even, relatively speaking, reached to certain amount of success, but none of this is going to really give us the essential value that will last and benefit oneself and others. So if you, if people want me to say a few words as a New Year message, and my message is, to remember that we have something, we have a path, we have Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, and that makes our life so special. This is something to remember. I request, I hope and have aspiration that we all remember.

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