【修持轨理 The Meditation Session】第六支请住世 The Sixth Branch of Worship, Supplication P2
【修持轨理】
第六支请住世
譬如说，我们现在这个简单的这个道场吧！要想使那个道场成就起来的话，从最基本的开始，讲固然重要，听更重要欸！没有人听，讲它干什么，所以我至心地去听，就是「请」。然后呢听完了以后，它法的特质是干什么？要想把那个法慢慢地弘传开来，听完了以后，如果说你不照着去做，那不是戏论吗？法的目的不是这个，所以你凡是能够这样相应去做的。
所以我们在这个地方，常常跟大家说的，说我们在这里常住做任何一件事情，都是为自己积累福德。大家不要说: 喔唷，我在家里做这个事情，跑到这里还做这个事情。那你错了，家里做的跟这里做的完全不一样。家里做的这些事情，成就家业，增长世间的染污，在这地方做了以后啊，使得佛法住世。想想看对不对？请问没有这个道场，没有这个，佛法能住世吗？那当然！所以一方面你这样去做是请住世，一方面你还可以随喜：啊，我请佛来了，好！
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日常师父法语 23B 13’04”手抄稿第三册 P242L1
23B 13’04” Vol 3 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse, P242L1
English Lamrim Vol 1, P98
【The Meditation Session】
The Sixth Branch of Worship, Supplication
For example, with regards to this simple monastery, if we want this monastery to thrive, we would begin with the most basic requirement. Instructing is of course important. But listening is even more important! If no one wants to listen, what need is there to instruct? So I will listen from the depths of my heart and that would be "supplication." After you are done listening, what is the unique characteristic of the teaching? If you want to gradually propagate the teaching, but after you listen, you do not put it into practice, wouldn't this make it a mere elaboration? The goal of the teaching is not this. Therefore, in everything that you do, you do so in accordance with the teaching.
Therefore when we are here, I would often tell everyone that whatever we do for the monastery is an accumulation of merits for oneself. So everyone should not say, "Oh-yo, I already do this at home. But when I come here I still have to do this." Then you are wrong! What you do at home is completely different from what you do here. The things you do at home accomplish the activities of the household and will only increase mundane defilements. But the things you do here will enable the teachings to stay in this world. Think about it, isn't that right? May I ask then, without the monastery, without this, can the teachings stay in this world? It is evident! Therefore, on the one hand, when you do this, you are supplicating for the Buddhas to stay in this world. On the other hand, you can even rejoice, "Ah, I am requesting for the Buddha to stay. That is great! "
