菩提好声音｜Bodhi Voice

看见那些陷阱了吗？从欲望的幻象中觉醒 Do You See the Traps? Waking Up from the Illusions of Desire

Everyone has different talents and fields where they excel effortlessly. 每个人都有不同的天赋，有自己学起来容易上手的专业。 We often see that even with the same effort, results can vary greatly. Is this unfairness from heaven? No, it is simply because the starting points of life are different. 在学习中付出同样努力，未必会有同样成果。是上天不公吗？不是，只是因为生命起点不同。 But what exactly is ta...

In the vast universe, the Earth is in constant motion. As the saying goes, "Sitting still, one travels eighty thousand miles a day." 茫茫宇宙中，地球时刻都在不停运动,所谓“坐地日行八万里”。 Living on this planet, where do we come from, and where are we headed? If we cannot find the answer, can we truly live with a sense of peace? 居住在地球上的我们，来自何方，又去向何方？如果找不到答案，...

What exactly is happiness? My definition is this: happiness is an unstable feeling. 幸福究竟是什么呢？我的定义是：幸福只是一种不稳定的感觉。 This unstable feeling is related to material conditions, but more importantly, it lies in our mindset and how we define our needs. Without a healthy mind, happiness remains an unreachable mirage. Thus, happiness is not just material; it is spiritual. 这种不稳...

"On the path of humanity and heaven, cultivating blessings comes first." Whether our lives are smooth or not depends largely on our respective "blessings" (Fubao). “人天路上，修福为先。”我们的生活顺利与否，在很大程度上取决于各自的福报。 Blessings are like soil. In fertile soil, whatever you plant easily yields a harvest; but on barren land, the same effort will not bring the sa...

Our minds possess various mental factors, each containing two opposing sides. 我们的心灵有种种心所，每一种心所都包含着相对的两个方面。 Wisdom is opposed to ignorance, diligence to laziness, greed to detachment, and hatred to compassion. 智慧和愚痴相对，精进和懈怠相对，贪婪和淡泊相对，嗔恨和慈悲相对。 In life, we constantly face these contradictions. 在生活中，我们时常都面对着这样的矛盾。 The Dharm...

We may lose our wealth, but we will not lose our wisdom. 我们可能会失去财富，但不会失去智慧。 We may lose our health, but we will not lose our compassion; we may lose our families, but we will not lose our love; we may lose our careers, but we will not lose our faith. 我们可能会失去健康，但不会失去慈悲；我们可能会失去家庭，但不会失去爱心；我们可能会失去事业，但不会失去信仰。 If wisdom, compassion,...

In just a few short years, we have become accustomed to "disposable consumption." 仅仅是几年的时间，我们甚至习惯了一次性消费。 Our ancestors might have used only a few pairs of chopsticks in a lifetime, but the prevalence of disposable ones has increased our consumption hundreds or even thousands of times over. 过去的人，一生也许都用不了几双筷子，但一次性筷子的推广，使我们的消耗超出了祖...

Our perspectives directly determine our values, which in turn shape our behaviors and lifestyles. 观念直接决定了我们的价值取向，也直接影响着我们的行为和生活方式。 Survival is inseparable from essential material conditions, but how should we pursue profit? From the perspective of the Dharma, immediate interests and long-term interests are one; personal interests and social interests are also one....

In traditional Confucian philosophy, righteousness and profit were often pitted against each other. 在传统的儒家哲学中，往往将义和利对立起来。 Many felt that talking about money was vulgar. Yet, in reality, profit is so practical and charming that few can truly resist its allure. 大多数人都耻于言利，似乎金钱就是庸俗的代名词。但利益是如此地实际而富有魅力，使人很难抵挡它的诱惑。 Western humanism aff...

Many people know that Buddhism emphasizes causality, or Karma. But our understanding of it is often limited to external events. 很多人都知道，佛教强调因果。但我们所以为的因果，往往局限于现象，局限于具体事件。 In fact, our consciousness also follows the laws of cause and effect—what I call "The Causality of the Mind." This process happens every moment of our lives, even if we fail to noti...

The modern world is a society overflowing with material desires. 现代的世界，是一个物欲横流的社会。 Almost everyone is ruled by intense cravings, elevating the improvement of material life to an unprecedented height. 几乎每个人都被强烈的欲望所主宰，将物质生活的改善提升到前所未有的高度。 It’s true that advanced technology makes our world change daily, and economic development makes our lives conven...

What truly influences the direction of our lives is the power of our thoughts. 真正能够影响生命走向的，就是心念的力量。 The Buddha taught the practice of contemplating death to help sentient beings diminish their attachments. When these attachments are gradually cleared, delusions lose the very soil they need to grow. 佛陀教导的念死法门，就是为了令众生减少执著。当这种执著被逐渐清除，妄念就会失去继...

How can we fundamentally resolve the cause of suffering? We must let go of our attachments to the world. 怎样才能从根本上解决痛苦之因？就必须放下对世间的执著。 However, these attachments are "sticky." They cannot be dropped just because we wish them to be. We need specific contemplation and practice to resolve them. 但这些执著是有粘性的，不是说放下就能放下，需要通过相应的思维和观修来解决...

We can escape our environment, but can we flee from our own hearts? 我们可以逃避环境，但能逃离我们的心么？ Can we escape this heart that we have ignored for so long—this heart we are often unwilling to face or confront? 能逃避这被我们忽略已久，甚至从来不愿正视、不愿面对的心么？ A hundred years from now, where will our careers and families be? Where will all the possessions we hold in this world be...

If we fail to reflect and continue to live purely by our whims, we are undoubtedly accelerating our own demise. 如果我们还不能反省，而是继续随心所欲地生活，无疑是在加速自己的灭亡。 At the dawn of the industrial age, humanity cheered for the rolling wheels of history. But if we knew we had boarded a train racing toward the end of days, would we still demand it go faster and faster? 工业时代到来之时...

Humanity is in a constant state of pursuit, yet we often forget to feel gratitude for what we already possess. 人类总是不停地追逐，却不懂得对已经拥有的一切心怀感恩。 Having clear vision is a form of wealth, for to those who are blind, the vibrant world of color simply does not exist. 我们能拥有明亮的眼睛就是财富，因为对于那些盲人来说，绚丽多姿的彩色世界是不存在的。 Having clear hearing is also wea...

On the stage of life, everyone is deeply immersed in playing their own roles. 在人生舞台上，每个人都投入地扮演着自己的角色。 At first, we are the children of our parents; later, we become the parents of our children. 起先，是父母的孩子；后来，又成为孩子的父母。 Simultaneously, we take on diverse professional and social identities. 与此同时，还担纲着形形色色的职业身分、社会身分。 In truth, in this...

From a Buddhist perspective, the "Self" is the greatest misconception of sentient beings. 从佛教角度来说，“自我”正是有情最大的误解。 It is a false construct arising from our ignorance of the true nature of life. Neither our body nor our emotions possess a permanent, unchanging essence; therefore, they cannot represent a so-called "Self." 是我们因为不了解生命真相而产生的错误设定...

In life, some spend their entire existence chasing love, while others are driven by hatred. 生活中，有人一生追寻爱情，也有人一生被仇恨驱使。 In reality, many emotions are merely malignant tumors of the heart—unhealthy developments of life. Though they grow within us, they are not a part of our "True Self." 其实，很多情绪只是内心的恶性肿瘤，只是生命的不良发展。虽然生长在我们心中，却并不属...

Life is filled with many unsolved mysteries. 生命有很多不解之谜。 Since time immemorial, humanity has never ceased to ask: Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? 古往今来，人们不停地追问着：我是谁？我从哪里来？我到哪里去？ These are the eternal perplexities of the human race, the ultimate questions that none of us can escape. We ask them because what we care about most, and focus on mo...