..续本文上一页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，他知道有好风水，可以发财，可以升官，为什么自己不用，等你去用？岂有此理！希望聪明人，千万不要上迷信的当，被老千所骗。
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.
「医卜星相」在佛教中是五邪命之一，不受欢迎。「医」是医生，替人治病。「卜」是算卦，预知休咎。「星」是观星，观星宿知吉凶。「相」是相面，知命运顺或逆。这是迷信，要知道「人定胜天」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，何况这些小事？更不足为奇。出家人是超出数外，所谓：
超出三界外，
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.
这种批八字、看风水，是俗不可耐的人才相信，要晓得人一生的命运，由业力所感。我们人不要被气秉所拘，不要被物欲所蔽，要自己创造命运，把握命运，命运可以改造，多行功德事，自然遇难呈祥，逢凶化吉，所谓：
但行好事，
莫问前程。
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.
我们现在打禅七，就是创造自己的新生命。不迷信，而正信；不要人云亦云，以讹传讹，不要跟着人家后面跑，这是大错而特错。要有择法眼，知道是非，明白善恶，黑白分析清清楚楚，就不会颠颠倒倒了。
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.
参禅的人，对于自己的生死能做主宰，来去自由，不受任何限制，所谓：
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.
就是阎罗老子也管不了，对你无可奈何！为什么呢？因为你已经出离三界的缘故。
Even Old Man Yama has no control over you. He cannot touch you! Why not
Because you”ve already transcended the Three Realms.
何谓来去自由？也就是生死自由，爱活就活，爱死就死，遂心所欲。可是要注意，这种死并不是自杀，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.
我们的身体，好像房子，愿意出外旅行，到什么地方去，都是自由。愿意化身千百亿，尽虚空、遍法界去教化众生，任运自如。不愿意旅行，就在房子住，没有人来干涉。要晓得尽虚空、遍法界，都在法身中，没有跑到法身之外边。
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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