學習"盧台長"的白話佛法

2017年12月3日 新西兰奥克兰法会卢军宏台长开示摘要（下）

盧台長太平紳士：佛陀解說如何化解生活的累！

當年有人問佛陀：生活太累，如何化解？佛陀說：生活的累，一半源於生存，一半源於慾望和攀比。如果你不讓太多的需求慾望佔據你的心裡，就不會有痛苦。我們剛來澳洲的時候，就像你們很多人剛來紐西蘭的時候，心想：“我有個房子，有住就可以了。”但是慢慢地，一看“哇，人家的家，house（別墅）這麼大，我也要。”這麼大的年紀，想多做一點、多賺一點，讓自己的身體受到更多的傷害。人如果不貪，“夠了，滿足了，我可以了”，那就是知足。不要讓太多的慾望佔有著你的心裡，一個人只有一個心臟，兩個心房，一個心房住著快樂，一個心房住著悲傷。不要快樂過頭，否則你太高興了，笑得太大聲，會吵醒邊上的悲傷。

Extract from Master Jun Hong Lu’s Public Talk in New Zealand, Auckland – 3rd December 2017

Master Jun Hong Lu JP: Buddha explains how to solve the tiredness in life 

At that time, someone asked Buddha: Life is so tiring, how could this be solved? Buddha answered: The heaviness of life half stems from survival, and the other half stems from desire and comparison. If you do not allow too much desire to reside in your heart, then there would not be suffering. 

When we first came to Australia, just as many of you when you first came to New Zealand, you might have thought, “As long as I have a house to live in, it would be enough.” But gradually, after a while, you saw things and thought, ‘Wow, look at that humongous house; I want one’. Although you are already in old age, you still want to work and earn more money. This would only do more harm to your body. 

If a person is not greedy and can say, ‘It’s enough. I’m satisfied. I’m OK’, that is being content with what you have. 

Do not let too much desire reside in your heart. A person only has one heart with two atriums. In one atrium lives happiness, and in the other lives sadness. Do not be overjoyed; if you are overly happy, and laugh too loudly, it will wake up sadness on the other side.