..续本文上一页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.

　　你到外边去找，找到什么地方也找不到真正的快乐。我们人间所追求的吃喝玩乐这些享受：坐最值钱的汽车，或者买飞机，或者买轮船，到处去游一游船，这是快乐？这简直地都是浪费你的精力、浪费你的智慧。你真正的智慧不是在外边这些个东西。真正的享受，是你自在快乐，这是我们人人都有的，你不要向外去找去。你尽向外驰求，啊！你争我夺，你虞我诈；你欺骗我，我欺骗你，结果就会得到自己这个不真实的快乐，这真是可怜愍者，佛所谓的这一类的人是可怜愍者。不要舍本逐末，不要倒行逆施。我所说的这个话，都是人不愿意听的。

　　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.

　　我所说的这个快乐是什么呢？你不争是快乐，不贪是快乐，无所求这是快乐，你不自私这是快乐，你不自利更是快乐，你不打妄语，这才是真正快乐。你打妄语，你于心就会有愧，觉得这是骗人了。你就算不觉得，在你良心上，也觉得有了污点了，对不起良心了。你若是一个没有良心的人，那就又当别论啦！所以现在人心不古、道德沦亡、世风日下，在这种情形之下，我们要赶快醒悟。怎么样醒悟呢？我们做学生的，要好好读书，朝于斯，夕于斯，这个「昔仲尼，师项橐」，要能「如负薪，如挂角」，「囊萤映雪」，这样子，才够上一个读书的人。不是那么整天就想自在，想安乐，想不读书，追求快乐去；这不是快乐！

　　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.

　　现在我告诉你们一句你们或者还不知道的话，不但美国，西方的教育完全破产了。可是他们还在掩耳盗铃，说还可以维持现状。怎么说西方教育破产了呢？它因为都去人伦，无父子了，也没有老，也没有小。西方的教育，儿子叫爸爸不称爸爸，叫什么？叫名字，直呼其名，简直地，这个长幼尊卑已经错乱了。

　　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.

　　还有它的家庭都破碎了，家庭怎么破碎呢？美国人百分之九十九都结婚以后，就再离婚，这家庭就破碎了。破碎了，生了小孩子，小孩子随着爸爸养，爸爸就整天说：「你妈妈以前怎么坏怎么坏，她若不坏，我不会和她离婚…

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