【法严尊者】
《业的应作》

28-10-2025:

【华语佛法开示 | Dhamma Talk】 :

🟥題目:【业的应作】

【The Working of Karma】

🔵 主讲 Speaker (in Chinese):

【法严尊者 Bhante Dhammasiri】

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⚡ 尊者帶領大衆：

▪️ 唸三宝(佛法僧）

▪️ 五戒

▪️ 回向

▪️ 慈心禅

🌀 开示大义如下：

🌟你相信因果轮回吗？为什么你们相信?  业的运作非常深奥，不是一般人能完全理解的。就算是智慧第一的舍利弗尊者，也无法完全看透。唯有佛陀具足一切种智，才能彻底了解。佛陀与舍利弗度化金匠比丘的故事，就是很好的例子。

🌟业果为何如此复杂? 因为每个人的心念不同。面对同一件事，大家的想法、动机、领悟都不一样，所以业果也不一样。就像同一个家庭的兄弟姐妹，父母相同，但性格与命运都不同。

🌟想了解业，必须从培养正见开始。正见带来正确的思想、价值观与行为。正见有两种：世间正见 (善恶、因果、三世、圣凡) 与 出世间正见 (四圣谛) 。我们之所以痛苦，是因为执着五蕴为“我”，六根不断接触外境然后爱取有。哪里有欲望，哪里就有痛苦。

🌟当身心五蕴中再无烦恼, 身口意行为虽然还有活动，实则不再招感生死果报。这称为「无效业」。无效业好比射箭射向虚空，没有目标 (靶)，不会产生结果。这就是涅槃。涅槃有两种：有余依涅槃：(烦恼已断，但身体还在) 与无余依涅槃 (身体灭尽，不再轮回)。

🌟了解业的运作是积极的，它帮助我们反观自己重新认识生命。已经有这么多位佛出世与涅槃了但我们依然还是在轮回当中, 是不是因为我们被苦麻木了, 所以 不断重演生老病死。

🌟很多人不信因果，是因为看不到「现世报」。其实业果是需要时间成熟的，就像吃panadol要等一段时间才能有效。业果虽然不可抵消，但可以淡化, 就像往盐水里不断加水，咸味会变淡，但盐仍在, 所以不需要这么恐惧业果。

🌟心念是一切业的前导, 因此我们要三思而后行，时时观察身、口、意。当心清净，业就清净；当业止息，苦就止息；这就是走向解脱与涅槃的道路。

⚡ 尊者做简短开示后再次帶領大衆唸佛法僧, 倒水迴向。

⚡ The Venerable led the group in:

▪️Chanting the Three Refuges (Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha)

▪️Reciting the Five Precepts

▪️Performing Dedication of Merits (Pattidāna)

▪️Practising Loving-kindness Meditation (Mettā Bhāvanā)

🌀 Summary of the Dhamma Teaching:

🌟 Do you believe in karma and rebirth? 

▪️Why do you believe in them? The working of karma is profoundly deep — it is not something ordinary people can fully comprehend. Even Venerable Śāriputra, foremost in wisdom among the Buddha’s disciples, could not completely perceive it. Only the Buddha, endowed with omniscient wisdom, can fully understand it. The story of the Buddha and Venerable Śāriputra guiding the goldsmith monk is a good example of this truth.

🌟 Why is the law of karma so complex?

▪️Because every person’s mind is different. When facing the same situation, everyone’s thoughts, motives, and insights vary — thus the karmic results also differ. It is like brothers and sisters in the same family: they share the same parents, yet their personalities and destinies are all different.

🌟 To understand karma, one must begin by cultivating Right View.

▪️Right View brings about correct thoughts, values, and actions. ▪️There are two kinds of Right View:

▪️Worldly Right View — belief in good and evil, cause and effect, the three times (past, present, future), and the distinction between noble beings and ordinary ones.

▪️Supramundane Right View — understanding of the Four Noble Truths.

▪️We suffer because we cling to the five aggregates as “self.” Through the six sense bases, we continuously contact the external world, which gives rise to craving, grasping, and becoming. Wherever there is desire, there is suffering.

🌟 When the mind and body — the five aggregates — are free from defilements,

even though bodily, verbal, and mental actions still take place, they no longer bring about the results of birth and death. This is called “ineffective karma.”

Ineffective karma is like shooting an arrow into empty space — since there is no target, it produces no result. This is Nirvāṇa.

▪️There are two types of Nirvāṇa:

▪️Nirvāṇa with remainder: defilements are eradicated, but the body still exists.

▪️Nirvāṇa without remainder: when the body ceases, and the cycle of rebirth ends completely.

🌟 Understanding the operation of karma is an active and positive practice.

▪️It helps us reflect upon ourselves and rediscover the true meaning of life.

▪️So many Buddhas have already appeared and attained Nirvāṇa, yet we are still revolving in the cycle of rebirth. Could it be that we have become numb to suffering, thus repeatedly undergoing birth, aging, sickness, and death?

🌟 Many people do not believe in karma because they cannot see its effects in this very life.

▪️In fact, karmic results take time to mature — just as taking Panadol requires time before the medicine takes effect. Although karma cannot be erased, its effects can be diluted — just as continuously adding water to salty water makes the taste less salty, though the salt still remains. Therefore, we need not be overly fearful of karmic results.

🌟 The mind is the forerunner of all actions.

▪️Hence, we should think carefully before acting and constantly observe our body, speech, and mind.

▪️When the mind is pure, karma becomes pure.

▪️When karma ceases, suffering ceases.

▪️That is the path leading to liberation and Nirvāṇa.

⚡ After delivering this brief Dhamma teaching, the Venerable once again led the group in chanting the Three Refuges, followed by water pouring and dedication of merits.