..续本文上一页organisms help cultivators bring forth the Bodhi resolve. These are microorganisms endowed with Buddha penetrations. Microorganisms that tell people to do good deeds are microorganisms with Bodhisattva penetrations.
我们为何要吃维他命？就为着要养这些菌虫，把它们养得又胖又肥，虽然你不能吃它们的肉，但是它们会吃你的肉。
Why do we take vitamins
It”s to fatten up these microorganisms. We can”t eat their flesh, but they certainly do eat ours!
在《华严经》上说，人的身体是由无量数的虫子积聚而成的。你想想这么多一串串骯脏的菌虫，你说多么邋遢啊！可是你还为这些菌虫做牛做马，为它穿好衣，吃美食，住华屋，这岂不颠倒！
The Flower Adornment Sutra says that a human body is composed of an infinite number of microorganisms. If you think about it, these microorganisms are very messy. Yet you continue to slave and toil on their behalf, wanting to wear nice clothes, eat fine food, and live in a luxurious place. Isn”t this delusion
有时这些菌虫开个会，就令你生病，找医生治也治不好。这时，这些菌虫就拍掌哈哈大笑，它们正在高兴它们把你收拾了，你要向它们投降了。有些人偏偏不欢喜做好事，尽做坏事，想要占便宜，这些都是由于坏的菌虫在捣乱，不令你发菩提心，想令你堕落。你若不信，用刀把肉割开看看，过几天这些虫子就会活动起来了。
When the microorganisms get together, they can make you so sick that no doctor can cure you. When the micro-organisms see that they have beaten you, they clap their hands and laugh in glee. Some people hate to do good deeds and only like to do wicked things, thinking they can gain advantages that way. This is because bad micro-organisms are stirring up trouble, keeping such people from making the Bodhi resolve and causing their morals to degen-erate. If you don”t believe it, just cut open their flesh, wait a few days, and watch those microorganisms come alive!
人真是太可怜了，视这个身体犹如珍宝；可是事实上，你喂这些菌虫，才是无聊事呢！你们不信，我也要讲；你们信，我也要讲，我讲来令这些菌虫听听，令他们知道在这个世界上，也有人知道它们的底细。
How pathetic it is that we treasure our bodies so! It”s such a worthless cause to feed microorganisms! That”s what I say, whether you believe it or not. I”m saying it for the microorganisms to hear-I want them to know that there”s still someone in the world who knows what they”re up to!
一九八二年五月八日开示于万佛圣城
A talk given on May 8, 1982
at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
《身上的菌虫作怪 When the Microorganisms in the Body Make Mischief》全文阅读结束。