【法光法师教授】
《正信佛教》

01-9-2025:

《华语佛法开示/供僧》

《Chinese Dhamma Talk/DANA》

🔴 主讲者：【法光法师教授】

🔴《泰國國際佛教大學名譽校長、香港光明精舍住持 等》

🟡 Speaker:【Venerable Professor KL Dhammajoti】

🟡《Honorary President of the International Buddhist University in Thailand, Abbot of Hong Kong’s GuangMing Vihara etc.》

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題目:【正信佛法】

Topic:【Right Faith in the Buddha Dhamma】

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开示大义如下：

🔴 佛法vs佛教 :

▪️ 釋尊所证得的最終真实。

▪️核心：不为意解或境遇所转的真实（法界/真如）

▪️ 佛教 = 佛法通过佛的三大业用（身、口、意）在时空中的展开而显现于世

▪️ 历史中形成"佛教"。构成：教团、戒律、仪式、经典、教育、艺朮与文化。

🟡 Eric Fromm (心理学教授）宗教、理想 :

▪️「问题並非宗教與否;而是：「那一種宗教？」

▪️「问题並非理想與否;而是：「那一種理想？」

🟢 理性與非理性宗教 :

▪️ 不过 , Fromm 將 "宗教" 分為兩種 : 理性的

(rational) 與非理性的。

▪️ 說任何人都有宗教的需要、 指的是理性的宗教。

🔵 Fromm: 宗教的结构与"基于人类存在事实的必需" :

▪️ 定义: 宗教= 定向坐标 + 终极关怀对象 (归依处)

▪️ 必需: 凡存在, 则必需这二无结构; 非"要不要"的选择。

▪️ 启发: 既然 "广义宗教" 不可避免, 问题在于"选择哪一种宗教”

▪️ 关键: 选择能促进人性展开, 自由与责任的宗教结构。

🟣 理性宗教是人文的 :

▪️ 理性的宗教, 是人文的, 以人為主的宗教, 強調唯有人本外才能知道人的问题, 人的困境, 人的需业。

▪️ 唯有人才真正能解決人的问题。

▪️ Fromm 特举佛教为例。佛教特性:人本, 非威权, 可检证, 以解脱为旨。

🟤 佛教的宗教性 :

▪️ 牵涉人的整体体验。

▪️ 不止于思想体系, 超越智力, 思维的领域。

▪️ 核心: 可修可证的解脱之道, 导致行者的整体转化。

▪️ 结构: 信, 解, 行, 证。

🔴 信/正信 ('sraddhā, saddhā) :

▪️ 正信 = 把心 (sad) 放上去 (√ dhā)。宗教信仰必定牵涉心的成份。

▪️ 语源: s'raddhā/ saddhā = s'rad (心) + √ dhā (置放)

▪️ 回避 "Faith"会消隐宗教性。

▪️ 有人以 confidence/Trust 替代 Faith

▪️ 利: 避免与 "盲信" 混同。

▪️ 弊: 削弱 "终极关怀/归依" 的深度, 将最终离言不可思议的修证境界简化为思维的层面。

🟢 Kālāma 经 (AN 3.65) 所开示的并非英国式经验论 :

▪️ 非感官主义: 知识不等于仅凭感官或即时直观。

▪️ 非虚无怀疑: 不否定传统 / 师承 / 经典 / 理性, 反对"单凭其一" 为充分依据。

▪️ 强调亲自修证的体验。

▪️ 判准: 伦理 - 解脱向; 离贪嗔痴, 为智者称赞, 导向福乐。

▪️ 验证: 含修习后的内观经验与圣者之证得 - 因此, 超越西方经验主义的领域。

🔵 不可错认释尊为现代的经验论者：

▪️ 切勿把佛說硬塞進英国经验论, 以現代經驗主义削平宗教经验与正信的深度。 。

▪️ 正信 = 可检证的宗教信心; 而非「去宗教化的经验主义」

▪️ Edward Conze: 佛陀被「强行征召」入英国经驗論傳統。  (The Buddha found himself forcibly conscripted into the British

tradition of empiricism！)

🟣 正信应该是「五根」整体中智信合一：

▪️ 五根: 信、 精进、 念、 定、 慧。

▪️ 配对: 信 <一> 慧; 精进 <一> 定; 念统摄协调。

▪️ 偏失与调配: 识别信弱/慧弱, 躁动/沉滞, 调整剂量。

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The General Summary of the Dhamma Talk as follows:

🔴 Dhamma vs. Buddhism：

▪️ Buddha-Dhamma: What the Buddha realized the ultimate reality.

▪️ Core: A truth that is not influenced by mental interpretation or external circumstances (i.e. the Dhamma realm / suchness).

▪️Buddhism: The manifestation of the Dhamma which appears in this world through the Buddha’s three modes of Karmic action (Body, Speech, and Mind) unfolding in time and space.

▪️ In history, "Buddhism" formed as a tradition with structures: Sangha, precepts, rituals, scriptures, education, arts, and culture.

🟡 Eric Fromm (Psychologist) — On Religion and Ideals :

▪️ “The question isn’t whether religion, but which kind of religion?”

▪️ “The question isn’t whether ideals, but which kind of ideals?”

🟢 Rational vs. Irrational Religion

▪️ Fromm divides "religion" into two types: rational and irrational.

▪️ He argues that everyone has a religious need, which refers to rational religion.

🔵 Fromm: The Structure of Religion & Human Necessity towards the reality of existence ：

▪️ Definition: Religion = a framework for orientation + an object of ultimate concern (refuge).

▪️ Necessity: Wherever there is human existence, these two structural elements are necessary—not a matter of choice.

▪️ Insight: Since broad-sense "religion" is unavoidable, the real question is: "Which kind of religion to choose?"

▪️ Key: Choose a religion that fosters human development, freedom, and responsibility.

🟣 Rational Religion Is Humanistic：

▪️Rational religion is humanistic—centered on human beings. Emphasizes that only through external basis of humans, can truly understand human problems, predicaments, and needs.

▪️Only humans can solve human problems.

▪️ Fromm explicitly cites Buddhism as an example of such a religion: The Characteristics of Buddhism：Human-centered, Non-authoritarian, Verifiable & Aimed at liberation.

🟤 Religiosity in Buddhism:

▪️ Involves the whole person’s experience.

▪️ It is not merely a system of thought, but goes beyond the domain of intellect and area of conceptual thinking."

▪️ Core: A path of liberation that is practicable and realizable, leading to total transformation of the practitioner.

▪️ Structure: Faith → Understanding → Practice → Realization

🔴 Faith / Right Faith (śraddhā, saddhā)

▪️ Right Faith = placing the heart (sad) into something (√ dhā: to place).

Religious faith inherently involves an element of the heart.

▪️ Etymology: śraddhā / saddhā = śrad (heart) + √dhā (to place).

▪️ Avoiding the term “faith” altogether obscures the religious aspect.

▪️ Some use “confidence” or “Trust” instead of "Faith":

▪️ Advantage: Avoids confusion with blind belief.

▪️ Disadvantage: Weakens the depth of ultimate concern / refuge, reducing the indescribable and inconceivable realizations to mere level of intellectual concepts.

🟢 What the The Kālāma Sutta (AN 3.65) said — Not British Empiricism

▪️ Not Sensualism: Knowledge ≠ only sense-based or immediate intuition.

▪️ Not Nihilistic Skepticism: Doesn't reject tradition / teachers / scriptures / reason. Rejects reliance on only "One as sufficient".

▪️Emphasizes personal experiential, Verification through practice:

▪️Criteria for discernment: Ethical - Liberation-oriented, Free from greed, hatred, delusion, Praised by the wise

Leads to genuine well-being

▪️ Verification: Includes internal insight after practice and the realization of noble ones (Ariyas) — thus, it goes beyond the areas of  Western empiricism.

🟣 Do Not Mistake the Buddha as a Modern Empiricist：

▪️ The Buddha’s teachings should not be forcibly squeezed into the framework of British empiricism, flattening the depth of religious experience and right faith (saddhā) with modern empiricist reductionism.

▪️ "Right Faith" is a verifiable form of religious confidence - not a kind of "de-religionized empiricism."

▪️ As Edward Conze sharply put it:

“The Buddha found himself forcibly conscripted into the British tradition of empiricism!”

🟤 Right Faith (Saddhā) Should Be Integrated with Wisdom Within the Five Spiritual Faculties：

▪️The Five Spiritual Faculties (pañca indriya): Faith (saddhā), Energy (viriya), Mindfulness (sati), Concentration (samādhi), Wisdom (paññā).

▪️ Balanced Pairings:

Faith ↔ Wisdom

Energy ↔ Concentration

Mindfulness acts as the harmonizing and coordinating faculty.

▪️ Imbalance & Adjustment:

Recognize when faith is weak or wisdom is weak, or when the mind is restless (overactive) or dull (sluggish).

Adjust the “dosage” of each faculty accordingly to restore balance.

1-9-2025:

《华语佛法开示/供僧》

《Chinese Dhamma Talk/DANA》

🔴 主讲者：【法光法师教授】

🟡 Speaker:【Venerable Professor KL Dhammajoti】

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🌀「正信佛友会」非常荣幸迎请「法光法师教授」，他是泰国国际佛教大学荣誉校长、香港光明精舍住持，并偕同一位来自孟加拉的法师莅临本会。

✨「法光法师教授」于上午10时至中午12时'借'正信佛友会之多为大众开示题为 《正信佛法》 的两小时法谈。法师深入浅出的开示，引导大众体会“正信”作为修学佛法的宗教根本与瞭解。

🌀 法谈结束后，本会准备了素食供养，两位法师亦接受了信众们随喜带来的食物。法师们领取供养后移步至课室用餐，其后大众齐聚一堂共享午斋。

✨ 下午时分，有部分参加者请「法光法师教授」签名其著作，并与之交流佛法。法师亦慈悲勉励大家，若条件允许，可报读由 Vidyacara Buddhist Resource 开办、斯里兰卡 凯拉尼亚大学（University of Kelaniya） 颁授学位的 佛学硕士课程 或 佛学文凭课程，以进一步深化佛学研修。

🌀 两位法师于下午1时30分离开本会，大众皆怀着法喜、感恩与对佛法更深的信心。

🙏 愿本次开示及布施的功德利益一切众生🙏🏻

🌀「Zheng Xin Buddhist Association」 was deeply honored to welcome 「Venerable Professor K.L. Dhammajoti」, Honorary President of the International Buddhist University in Thailand and Abbot of Hong Kong’s GuangMing Vihara, together with an accompanying monk from Bangladesh.

✨ "Following the name of Zheng Xin (Which means Right Faith)", Venerable Professor delivered a two-hour Dhamma talk from 10:00am to 12:00pm on the inspiring topic: “Right Faith in the Buddha Dhamma.” His clear and profound exposition gave the audience valuable guidance on establishing correct religious faith and it's understanding.

🌀 After the talk, ZX prepared vegetarian offerings for Dana, with additional food lovingly brought by attendees. After receiving their offerings, the venerables proceeded to a classroom for lunch, while members and devotees later shared in the meal together.

✨ In the afternoon, some attendees had the opportunity to seek Venerable Professor’s signature on his books and engage in Dhamma discussions. Venerable also warmly encouraged devotees to further their studies through the Master of Arts in Buddhist Studies or Diploma in Buddhism programs conducted by Vidyacara Buddhist Resource, with degrees conferred by the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.

🌀 The venerables departed ZX around 1:30pm, leaving behind a sense of joy, gratitude, and renewed inspiration in the Buddha Dhamma.

🙏 May the merits of this Dhamma Talk and Dana bring benefit to all 🙏🏻