宗萨钦哲仁波切的新年感言

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“宗萨钦哲仁波切的新年讲话”---中文稿
      2009年已经结束，2010年才刚开始。事实上一个月已经过去了。一月份已过，新年还有几天就到来。我认为我们许多人，在这样多变的世界、处境和环境下仍能幸存，是我们应该感激的一件事。当然说时容易做时难。我们有些人经历了艰难，失去了亲人，当然还有那令人不安的经济危机。传统上，我想新年的问候大概是要祝福每个人快乐、成功，祝大家好运。但作为一位被训练为佛教老师的人，我忍不住要分享我的想法。这些想法不必然是来自修行或者领悟，而是来自于多年来接受众多伟大上师的许多教法。
      因为养成了一再地重复这些讯息的习惯，所以在此，再一次地，我应该要提醒每个人，包括我自己，生命是如此脆弱。作为轮回中的众生，我们经历的每一件事都是那么地不确定，我们大大受制于因果的影响和力量。当然，我们非常希望事情能依照我们计划和我们期待的那样，都在我们的掌控之中。通常我们即使是实现了计划和安排的百分之二十五，我都说可以庆祝了。但我们就是很贪心很盲目，想要事情照我们所希望和计划的那样子发生。最后经常弄得自己忧郁沮丧！
      不过我们和那些跟佛法毫无关系的一般人有很大不同。当然，在承受业力因果方面，我们和一般人没有差别。但我们和一般人有个不同之处，而且我认为这个不同之处是非常有价值而且重要的。那就是，我们有“道”。我们有佛、法、僧，有上师，而且有我们的“道”。单单这点，就使我们和一般人不同、肯定会不同，只有“道”才是我们的庇护所。因为如果我们没有了“道”，就只能拥有像其他人一样，经过辛苦努力才能达成的平凡人生。即使我们达成了很多目标，我们还是不满意。我们就是不满意。永不满足。我们仍有很长、很坚实的计划，还想幸福快乐地照我们的计划活到永远。
      因此，如果我们失去了佛法，那么，真的，我们的生命就毫无意义。就像一棵植物一样。有些植物，早上生长然后下午就枯萎死去，就这样结束了生命。如果我们失去诸如道德、伦理、爱和慈悲、菩提心等等的价值观，那么我们的生命实在是毫无意义。在这新年的时刻，如果你愿意，包括我自己，可以叫这个为“新年计划”。我们必须要牢记－－我们拥有佛法、拥有佛、法、僧，就只记得这件事也非常重要。即使我们没办法修行，无法时时刻刻修行佛、法、僧，也要牢记我们拥有它。这是我们不应该丧失，不应该抛弃，不应该忘记的。这是我们应该时而忆念著的。这样的态度和方法非常必要。
      我们许多人现在渐渐老了，也经历了很多，我们也一而再、再而三的尝试建立沙堡。而且好些人也许相对来说，已经达到某种程度的成功，但这些都没有办法真正产生能够长存而且利己利他的重要价值。所以，如果你们要我说几句新年信息，那么我要说的是，记得我们拥有这个重要的东西－－我们拥有道，我们拥有佛、法、僧，而它们让我们的生命这么特别。记得这点是非常重要的。我要求、希望也祈愿我们所有人都记得。

(英文誊写及编辑：许功化，中文翻译：黄子瑗，中文校稿：许功化)



“宗萨钦哲仁波切的新年讲话”---英文稿


Rinpoche’s Feb 2010 Losar address

So, 2009 is over and 2010 just started. Actually already the month has gone. Month of January is gone. Losar is in a few days time. I believe that many of us, given the situation that we live in this volatile world, situation and environment, that we have survived up to now is something we should appreciate. Of course it is much easier said than done. Some of us have gone through rough time, losing our family members and of course the very unsettling, the situation of financial crisis. As in the tradition, I guess New Year greeting is supposedly to wish everyone happiness, success, to wish you all luck!  But I can’t help myself but to share my thoughts, as someone who is trained to be a Buddhist teacher. Not necessarily these messages are coming from practice or realization but years and years of receiving lots of teachings from great many masters.

Having built a habit of repeating these messages again and again, here, once again, I should remind everyone, myself included, that life is so fragile. As a samsaric being everything is so uncertain, we are very much under the influence and the power of cause and conditions. Of course we would very much like to have things under our control and according to how we plan and how we expect. Normally even if we manage to achieve maybe 25% of what we plan and schedule, if it comes true, I would say it is cause of celebration but, we are kind of very greedy which is so blind, that things have to come as how we wish and how we plan. How many times we ended up brooding ourselves!

But there is a big difference between ordinary people, those who have no connection to the dharma, and us. Of course there is no difference between them and us as far as being the victim of cause and conditions and karma and everything. But there’s one difference and I think that difference is quite a valuable and important difference, that is, we have a path. We have Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, we have our masters and we have our path. And that, that alone will make the difference, has to make the difference and that alone is our sanctuary. That alone should be the sanctuary, because if we don’t have that then we just have this ordinary life like all the others who really work so hard to achieve. And even we manage to achieve quite a lot, we are just not satisfied. We are just not satisfied. We are just so insatiable. We still have long, solid plans to live and live happily forever, and live as how we plan.

And in that,if we lose this aspect of Dharma, then really, our life is meaningless. It’s just like a plant. Some of these plants, they grow in the morning and then they will die towards the afternoon. And then that’s it, that’s the end. Values such as morality,ethic,love and compassion,values such as bodhicitta…if we lose these values, then our life really has no meaning. And this is, if you like, something that, including myself, in our New Year, if you like, you can call it new year resolution.  This is something that we have to really remember:  that we have the Dharma, we have Buddha, Dharma and sangha, and that is so important to even remember that. Even if we may not be able to practice, and put the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha into practice at all times, to remember that we have this,and this is something we should not lose,we should not just discard,we should not just forget.This is something that we should from time to time remember.That kind of attitude and that kind of approach is really necessary.

Many of us are now getting old, many of us have seen a lot, many of us have really tried to build this castle again and again.  And some of us maybe even, relatively speaking, reached to certain amount of success, but none of this is going to really give us the essential value that will last and benefit oneself and others.  So if you, if people want me to say a few words as a New Year message, and my message is, to remember that we have something, we have a path, we have Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, and that makes our life so special.  This is something to remember.  I request, I hope and have aspiration that we all remember.

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