自殺不礙生西方之二
王群眾
整理潤色的中華妹,妳對本課可有言語?
老師,文堅提的第二問,讓我想起《與神對話Ⅲ》〈第八章〉(Conversations with GodⅢ, Chapter 8)中,作者尼爾.唐納.沃許(Neale Donald Walsch)與神上帝的一段對話:
So you poison your system by inhaling carcinogens, you poison your system by eating food treated with chemicals that over the long run to kill you, and you poison your system by breathing air which you have continually polluted. You poison your system in a hundred different ways over a thousand different moments, and you do this knowing these substances are no good for you. But because it takes a longer time for them to kill you, you commit suicide with impunity.(因此,你們以吸入致癌物來毒害自己的身體,以吃下經過化學處理的食物來毒害自己的身體,到最後終將自己殺害;你們持續吸入污染的空氣來毒害自己的身體。在千萬個時刻,以千百種方式毒害自己的身體,並明知這些東西對你們不好。但由於這些東西,要用比較長的時間才能殺害你們,你們便這樣「自殺」,而且「無罪」。)
If you poison yourself with something that works faster, you are said to have done something against moral law.(但若你們是用效果比較快的方式來「自殺」,就被認為是「違法」。)
Now I tell you this:(現在,我告訴你們:)
It is no more immoral to kill youreslf quickly than it is to kill yourself slowly.(快一點殺害自己,並不比慢一點殺害自己,更不道德。)
So a person who ends his own life is not punished by God?(那麼,一個結束自己生命的人,並不會被神懲罰?)
I do not punish. I love.(我不懲罰,我愛。)
What of the often-heard statement that those who think they are going to “escape” their predicament, or end their condition, with suicide only find that they are facing the same predicament or condition in the afterlife, and therefore escaped and ended nothing?(常聽人說,那以「自殺」來逃避困境或結束困境的人,死後卻會發現正面對著同樣的困境。因此,什麼也未能逃避或結束—這又怎麼說呢?)
Your experience in what you call the afterlife is a reflection of your consciousness at the time you enter it. Yet you are always a being of free will, and may alter your experience whenever you choose.(在進入你們所謂的「死」後,你們所經歷的,是當時意識之反應。不過,你們一向是「意志自由」的存在體,任何時候,只要你們選擇改變你們的經歷,就可以改變它。)
其中,神並不會因為「自殺」,就不愛我們,和只要我們選擇改變我們的經歷,就可以跳脫「困境」,和佛開示文堅的:
但有「信願行」,自殺不礙生西方極樂世界。
有異曲同工之妙耶!
對,中華妹。但願人類對「自殺」的看法,從此得以改觀。任何一個生命,在任何時候,聽聞並接受「一切是一」的真理,他就可以「由凡入聖」,終致成就聖道。
那,從聽聞接受「不二」的真理,由凡入聖,終致成就聖道的過程,老師能否再多說兩句?
就是教別人念「你是我,我是你」,讓對方親自發現「一」的實相。沒問題的話,請佛總結吧。
是,老師。佛總結如下:
心未平等。侈言學佛。
一切皆己。招誰惹誰?
往生西方。信願行矣。
具此三要。來者不拒。
〔九十八年七月二十九日,上帝之子研究於此,心聞如下:
一真法界。理事無礙。
唯心所現。唯識所變。〕
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