【Cultivating Ethical Behaviour】- Newspaper reading habit - 3

In the newspaper, there are many topics in it where you would find, for instance, that are really enticing. You may enjoy reading the literature, so you would read the supplemental literary writings. There was even a period of time when martial stories were popular. I was very enthralled by them as well. But when I thought about it later, I thought it was very ludicrous to do so. It is something that is completely make-believe. So for some baffling reason, the plot would twist this and that way. I could do that too. I could construct some type of framework and make up a story to fool others. I could be fooling others [with a story] and they would be staring at it with their eyes wide open. But in reality, these would all just be invented stories. They are just empty words. I thought about it, "Ah, I have been such a fool. How can a Buddhist practitioner be this foolish! Why was I deceived by them?" After I had thought about it for a while, I slowly, slowly found the problem. Though [the rationales for] the problems were not perfectly grounded, I was gradually, gradually on track with my finding. At that time I thought, " Ah, I have been so foolish. I have been deceived by it!"

SOURCE 来源 :

64B 08’50” Vol 8 of Master Jih-Chang’s Discourse P276 L1
English Lamrim Vol 1 P255

日常师父法语📡64B 08’50” 手抄稿第8册P276 L1

业果 : 阅报习惯-3

那个报纸上面很多东西你觉得，比如说常常很吸引人的这种东西，或者你欢喜看文艺的，你会看那个文艺的副刊；乃至于后来有一段是流行武侠小说，我也对这东西很入迷。到后来想想还真颠倒，它那个东西完全是凭空想像的，就这么莫名其妙地，想到一下那地方，一下那地方；我也会想啊，想了一套，编了一套故事去骗别人，骗得教人家瞪大了眼睛看，其实呢完全在那里说大话，空口说白话。我想：唉，我这个人真愚痴，学佛人怎么愚痴到这种程度！那为什么受他骗？想了半天，慢慢慢慢找到了问题了，这个问题并不圆满，可是已经慢慢慢找对了。那时候我想：哎呀，我真是个愚痴，就是被它骗！