..续本文上一页g, and shelter. I started eating three bowls of food at each meal and taking only one meal a day. Now I don”t even eat three bowlfuls. At the most I eat two bowls, or sometimes just one bowl. I don”t know why, but my stomach cannot hold that much, and if I eat too much, I feel very uncomfortable and my random thoughts start flying about wildly.
所以我吃一餐以后，就一天吃三碗，省下来这十二碗饭做什么呢？不是放到我的家里，留着慢慢吃，不是这样子。我一天省下十二碗饭，我给这个没有饭吃的人来回向，希望我少吃十二碗饭，他们也能得到饱暖。这是我一个小小的思想。啊！就这么愚痴。这是三、防心离过，贪等为宗。
By eating one meal of three bowls each day, I saved twelve bowls of food. What did I do with these twelve bowls of food
Well, I certainly didn”t store them at home so that I could eat them slowly. I prayed for the people who had no food to eat, and hoped that by eating twelve bowls less myself, they would be able to eat their fill. This is my tiny wish. That”s how foolish I am.
四、正事良药，为疗形枯
第四个观，说这是一种良药，能治人饥饿的病。人有饥饿的病，可以把它治好了。那么既然是治病，何必又分别好吃不好吃呢？都是一样的药，就到应该服这个药的时候，就服一点；不应该的时候，就不需要。所以有的时候，我常常也自己刻苦自待。正事良药，为疗形枯，如果我不吃这个药，这个身体就干了，就不能活了，所以也勉强吃它一点。
4. Properly taken, the food is like medicine to keep the body from wasting away.
The fourth contemplation says that food is a medicine that can cure people of the disease of hunger. Now, since its purpose is to cure illness, why should we discriminate whether or not it tastes good
It is all the same. When it”s time to take the medicine, we should take a bit. When it”s not time, then we don”t need to take it. Therefore, I am always very frugal. Properly taken, the food is like medicine to keep the body from wasting away. If I didn”t take this medicine, my body would shrivel and I wouldn”t be able to live, so I force myself to eat a bit.
五、为成道业，应受此食
第五是为了修行成道业，所以才要吃饭，令这个身体不朽坏，才吃点饮食。这是出家人三念五观，每一个出家人都应该常常不要忘了这三念五观。至于在家人啊！吃东西更应该自己检点自己，不要那么奢侈，尽找好东西吃。
5. This food is accepted only in order to accomplish the Way.
The fifth one is to reflect that we eat only for the sake of cultivating and attaining the Way. We eat and drink a bit so our bodies will not waste away. Left-home people should always remember these Three Reflections and Five Contemplations. Laypeople should also examine themselves when they are eating. You should not be so extravagant and always greedy for good things to eat.
所以在万佛城，饮食也是少油无盐的，生活都是非常平淡，那么有的人初初到万佛城，不习惯过这种生活，我听报纸上讲，台湾去的人都跑回来说：「受不了！受不了！吃的饭太没有营养了！」其实我们万佛城的人，不过都瘦一点，也谈不到没有什么营养。这一点哪，我还不同意一般人所说的。
At the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, the food has very little oil and salt, and the lifestyle is very simple. Some people cannot get used to the lifestyle when they first arrive at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas. I heard that the newspaper said that people who went there from Taiwan all came back in a hurry, saying, "We cannot take it! The food we ate was too bland; it had no nutrition!" I wouldn”t agree with that, but that”s what people say. Although it”s true that the residents of the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas are a bit thinner, I wouldn”t say that the food has no nutrition.
方才我这个弟子，就是三步一拜拜了两年零九个月，可是对佛教的道理还没能真正地了解，他说佛教不是这样子，这是错误的。现在的佛教都是以盲引盲，盲引痴愚，不知道一个正当的路子，所以我说佛教本来是这样子。本来是这样子，可是我要改正这佛教的风气，我不要自我崇拜，那么神化自己，我也不要看着我觉得不对的地方我不说。人盲目地崇拜，看见我到了那儿，在旁边走，又打问讯又叩头的，好像什么也不顾了似的。你在那儿念佛，或者诵经，必须要毕恭毕敬，你不能东张西望，这样一点也不恭敬这个仪式。
Earlier, my disciple, who bowed Three Steps One Bow for two years and nine months, said that Buddhism isn”t that way. He doesn”t really understand Buddhism yet. In Buddhism nowadays, the blind are leading the blind. The blind are leading the foolish, who do not know what the proper path is. That”s why I say that Buddhism is this way. However, I want to reform the trends of Buddhism. I don”t want to be put on a pedestal and idolized. When I feel something is wrong, I don”t keep silent. When people see me walking by, they start worshipping blindly, bowing and making prostrations as if they were totally unawa…
《每天问问我是谁？Every Day,Ask Yourself,Who Am I
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