What is the Key for Confession？懺悔的關鍵是什麼

懺悔的關鍵是什麼

What is the Key for Confession?

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有一次，奔貢甲格西到一位施主家裡的時候，屋子裡空無一人。他看到茶葉袋裡有好茶，心想：「我沒有茶葉，不如趁機偷一些，留著以後住山修行時用。」當他把手伸進茶葉袋裡時，立即以正念攝持。於是，他大聲呼喊施主們：「這裡有個壞人正在偷茶葉，你們快來把他的手砍斷！」

Once, Gehse Ben Kungyal went to the home of one of his patrons, with nobody in at that moment. He saw some good tea in the tea bags and thought: 「I have no tea. I』ll steal a bit to brew up when I get back to my hermitage.」 But the moment he put his hand in the tea bag, he suddenly realized what he was doing. He called his patrons, 「Here is a bad person stealing tea, come and cut his hand off!」

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以前佛在世的時候，為什麼有那麼多的成就者呢？因為他們沒有隱瞞心。若是犯戒了，一見到佛就會說出來，有什麼事就說什麼事，不會有一點隱瞞。他們的思想特別單純、清凈。其實，我們這種想隱藏、隱瞞的心，本身就是一種過失。

When the Buddha was living in the world, why there were so many accomplishers? That is because they did not have the mind of concealing. If they had transgressed the precept, they would just speak out whatever happened when they met the Buddha, without concealing anything. Their thoughts were very simple and pure. In fact, our intention to hide and conceal is a kind of fault itself.

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其實，犯錯誤、犯戒不怕，因為都是凡夫，不犯戒、不犯錯誤也是不可能的。只要能夠不隱瞞，就可以了。佛關於戒律方面，講了三個層次的內容：第一，怎樣受戒；第二，受戒後應當怎樣保護戒體；第三，萬一犯戒了，怎樣去彌補與恢復戒體。

Actually, making mistakes or transgressing precepts are not terrible, because we are all ordinary people, and it is not possible for us not to transgress precepts or make mistakes. Whenever we do not conceal it, it would be fine. With regard to precepts, the Buddha has taught about three stages: How to receive the precepts, how to protect the essence of the precepts afterwards and how to repair and restore the essence of the precepts in case of transgression.

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得到戒體以後要保護戒體。保護戒體也是有方式、方法的，你以這些方式、方法去保護戒體，才能保護住這個戒體。佛講了墮罪之四門，也就是犯戒、造業的四種原因：第一個是不明白；第二個是沒有相信；第三個是煩惱重；第四個是習氣重。

We shall protect the essence of the precepts after having received it. There are certain ways and methods to protect the essence, only with which can you be able to protect and keep the essence. The Buddha has taught about the four gates for downfalls, or the four reasons for transgressing precepts and creating karmas: Do not understand; Do not believe; Heavy afflictions; Heavy habitual tendencies.

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若你不明白，可以學；若你沒有深信，可以通過再三地思維、觀察而生起堅定的信心；若你因貪心、嗔恨心等煩惱特彆強大、強烈而難以對治和克服，或者因無始劫來的習氣深重而不知不覺地造業、犯戒，這樣，就要去降伏煩惱、習氣，這要通過修行慢慢解決，不是一下子就能做到的。比如，罐子里的蔥容易倒出去，但是裡面的蔥味兒要慢慢才會散除。煩惱猶如大蔥，習氣就如同蔥味。習氣更難改，斷掉習氣是有過程的。

If you don』t understand, you can learn; if you don』t believe in, you can contemplate and observe repeatedly so as to arouse firm faith; if you cannot antidote or conquer the afflictions such as greed and hatred due to the strength and intensity of them, or if you create bad karma or transgress precepts unconsciously due to the deep and heavy habitual tendencies accumulated since beginningless kalpas, you need to overcome these afflictions and habitual tendencies, which could only be cleared up gradually through practice, rather than be worked out all at once. Just like the onion in a pot, it is easy to tip the onion out of the pot, but the onion smell inside could only disperse gradually. The afflictions are just like the onion, while the habitual tendencies are like the onion smell. It is more difficult to correct the habitual tendencies, which requires certain process to cut out.

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