【Listening 听闻】Like eating the sugarcane husk 如嚼甘蔗皮
【LISTENING】– Like eating the sugarcane husk
【Also: The husk of a sugarcane stalk has no substance at all,
The taste that delights is inside,
Through eating the husk,
The delicious taste of molasses cannot be found.】
The husk of sugarcane stalk has no taste. The taste that delights is inside! If one eats the husk, he will not taste the deliciousness. We mentioned a joke the other day, those that have not visited the southern part [of the country] before, say that the sugarcane is delicious, but the stalk is hard to swallow. They claim that the sugarcane is tasty but the stalk is difficult to swallow. The sugarcane is [eaten] for its juice, not for you to swallow the stalk. Without knowing this, he tried to swallow it. Of course the taste is not delightful! Now, what is more absurd is that he spit out the sugarcane and only ate the stalk. Isn’t this even more ridiculous! How absurd! Now we are committing the same mistake.
【Just as it is with the husk, so it is with the words;
The “taste” is in contemplating the meaning.
Therefore, give up delighting in just the words,
Always be conscientious, and reflect on the meaning.】
At the moment, in our speech, the words are like the sugarcane. So, from the superficial speech and words, [we] fathom their meanings! These meanings referred to here is the taste of the sugar inside the stalk! Thus, we must be careful to stay away from mere words. But the words are where we begin – remove the husk, and then contemplate the intended meaning within. Do not be lazy!
SOURCE 来源 :
12A 11’37” Vol 2 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P115 LL3
English Lamrim Vol 1 P62
日常师父法语📡12A 11’37” 手抄稿第2册P115 LL3
听闻 : 如嚼甘蔗皮
【又云："甘蔗之皮全无实，所喜之味处于内，若人嚼皮故非能，获得甘蔗精美味。】
甘蔗的这个皮，它没味道的呀，它真正要吃的在里头啊！如果人吃甘蔗皮啊，他不能得到甘蔗的味道。我们那天说那个笑话，人家没有到过南方来的人啊，说这个甘蔗很好吃，可是这个肉很难吞，这个甘蔗很好吃，说这个肉很难吞。这甘蔗，叫你吃那个汁啊，那个肉不要叫你吞下去的，他不知道把它吞下去了，那当然难吃啦！现在更颠倒，他肉吐掉了，只吃那个皮呀，那不是更笑话嘛！那不是更笑话嘛！我们现在就犯那个毛病。
【如其外皮言亦尔，思此中义如其味，故应远离言说着，常不放逸思惟义。】
就现在我们讲话，讲的话就像甘蔗皮一样呀，所以要从语言文字上面，深入法义啊！而这个里边的味道，就是在这个皮里边的味道啊！所以我们千千万万要远离这个言着。可是这个言着，要从这个上面进去，把那个皮拿掉了以后，然后思惟里边的真正的内涵，不要放逸啊！