【亲近善知识 Relying on The Excellent Teacher】未依过患者 The faults of not relying on the teacher P24

【未依过患者】

【若自不作恶,近诸作恶者,亦疑为作恶,恶名亦增长。】
如果说,你自己虽然不做,你一旦亲近了那些人,对不起,唉!人家总觉得你……实际上你自己也一定沾上。人就是这样,人就是这样!譬如现在人家,随便来说,以我来说,我跑到很多地方,当然现在年纪比较大了,认识的人比较多了,以前我跑到什么地方,人家常常问:「某人啊,你哪里来啊?」我就告诉他,我在哪里,依止某法师。哦!他一听: 「好、好、好,欢迎、欢迎! 」 为什么啊?我现在就沾了光了,不是我自己好,那就是我亲近的善知识。反过来,你今天什么地方,他一听的话,喔唷,他虽然说好、好、好,心里面在这里好,心里面就想办法怎么挡住你。我想我们都有这个经验吧!就这样。实际上呢?从外面也说明里边,那恶名也增长。

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日常师父法语 22A 09’04”手抄稿第三册 P184L8

22A 09’04” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P184L8
English Lamrim Volume 1, P91

【The faults of not relying on the teacher】

【Even those who do not sin
Create the doubt that they might be doing so
If they rely on those who do sin,
Thereby increasing that which is unpleasant. 】

If you do not sin yourself, but as soon as you become close to those who do, then I am sorry; people will always feel [you are like those who sin]. As a matter of fact, you will be stained as well. This is how people are. This is how people are! For instance, we can use any example, take myself as an example, I’ve been to many places. Of course I am older now and I know more people. However, it used to be that wherever I went, people would often ask me, "So and so, where are you from?" So I would tell them where I came from and who was my teacher. Oh! As soon as they heard that, "Excellent, excellent, excellent, welcome, welcome!" Why is that? That is because I’ve benefited from the association with my teacher. It was not the case that I was great, but my teacher was great. On the contrary, say you have come from some other place, as they hear this, oh, even though they might say, "excellent, excellent, excellent", in their mind they are actually thinking of ways to stop you from coming. I think we all have had that kind of experience? It's just like that. And, in reality? The external character also demonstrates the internal mind. There will be increasingly an unpleasant reputation for you as well.