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Subject: 慈 悲


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almond
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Date Posted: 10:47:07 09/28/03 Sun

慈 悲

2003.09.27

有兄弟三人,一起相約外出行腳雲遊。有一天,借宿在一座村莊,恰巧這戶人家的婦人剛死去丈夫,帶了七個子女辛苦的生活,第二天三兄弟正要上路的時候,最小的弟弟就對兩位哥哥道:「你們兩位自己前往參學吧!我決定留在這裡不走了。」兩位哥哥對於弟弟的變節非常不滿,認為太沒志氣了,才剛見到一個寡婦就動心想留下,所以氣憤地拂袖而去。


這位寡婦要獨自撫育七個年幼的孩子實在不容易,幸好有三師弟的慈悲相助,尤其看他一表人才,就自願以身相部C三師弟說:「妳丈夫剛死,我們就馬上結婚實在不好,妳應該為丈夫守孝三年,再談婚事。」三年後,女方提出結婚的要求,三師弟仍拒絕再度婉拒,就這樣又三年、再三年,經過九年,這戶人家的小兒小女都長大了,三師弟看到他助人的心意已完成,就和婦人道別,獨自步上求道的路上。


什麼是「慈悲」?簡單地說,給人歡喜是「慈」,拔除痛苦是「悲」。所以慈心愛物、悲天憫人、民胞物與、捨己救人都算慈悲。中國佛教勸人吃素,因為《涅槃經》云:「夫食肉者,斷大悲種。」儒家也常說:「見其生不忍見其死,聞其聲不忍食其肉」;明朝愿雲說的好:「千百年來碗裡羹,怨聲如海恨難平;欲知世上刀兵劫,但聽屠門夜半聲」,所以茹素就是一種慈悲的行為。


昔日佛陀割肉餵鷹、捨身飼虎的精神、地藏菩薩「我不入地獄,誰入地獄;地獄不空,誓不成佛」的願心,真是令眾生汗顏不已!佛教是重視般若的宗教,所講的慈悲,更重「悲智雙運」、「福慧二嚴」,因為沒了智慧,慈悲可能成了爛慈悲,例如「放生」的慈悲,少了智慧,可能變成「放死」;「布施」的未w,少了智慧,也可能適得其反。
佛教的慈悲,不僅有彌勒菩薩的慈眉斂目,也有護法天將的怒目金剛,因為這些都是菩薩的善巧方便,當然也是慈悲了!希望大家從小就能培養慈悲心腸,讓社會多一份祥和溫馨,也唯有「實踐慈悲」,我們的人際關係,才能更加和諧及美滿。
(斯衍)

-人間福報


 

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