If our heart is a castle, then desire is like those enemies who want to take our castle.(防意如城)
In the Jin Dynasty
of China, there was a famous monk called (Shi Faju). He has translated a
classic book of Buddhism.
There are many
Buddhist verses in this book. There is a Buddhist verse as follows.
How long can our
bodies exist? We will all die.
The day we die,
our soul will leave.
We only live in
our bodies briefly.
What is the
benefit of everything we crave?
How long will the
happiness we feel now last?
The happiness in
our lives is so short and uncontrollable.
What do we think in
our minds?
We think of many
evil things.
Our evil thoughts
will bring us many disasters.
We are responsible
for our own thoughts,
We should not pass
the responsibility of life to our parents.
We should remind
ourselves to do the right thing.
Our lives are so
precious.
We should guard
our five senses and our own thoughts.
We should treat
our own desires as cautiously as we guard against an enemy attacking a castle.
Only when we keep
this cautious attitude can our wisdom shine, and we can overcome evil ideas and
stay away from evil.
The meaning of
this idiom is to remind us that we should treat our own desires as cautiously
as guarding against the enemy's attack on a castle.
Dear friend, what
inspiration or thoughts did you have after hearing this story.
Do you reflect on
your own behavior every day? How do you think a person should avoid the evil
mentality from slowly affecting oneself?
I hope this story
will give you some new gains.
防意如城(If our heart is
a castle, then desire is like those enemies who want to take our castle.)
中國的晉王朝，有一個著名的和尚叫做(釋法炬)。他翻譯過一本佛教的經典書籍。
這本書中蒐集了很多佛教的偈語。裡面有一首佛教偈語如下。
我們的身體可以存在多久呢?我們都將會死去。
我們的死去的那一天，我們的靈魂就會離開。
我們只是短暫寄居在我們的身體裡。
我們所貪戀的一切有何益處呢?
我們現在感受到的快樂會維持多久呢?
我們生命中的快樂是如此的短暫又不可控啊。
我們的心中想些甚麼呢?
我們想著許多邪惡的事。
我們這些邪惡的念頭會為我們招來許多禍患。
我們要對自己的心念負責，
我們不應該把人生的責任推給我們的父母親。
我們應該提醒自已要做正確的事。
我們的生命是如此的可貴。
我們應該保守自己的五感，還有自已的心念。
我們看待自已的欲望應該就如同防備敵人攻城堡一樣的謹慎。
我們保持這種謹慎的態度才能讓我們的智慧發光，我們也才可以夠戰勝邪惡的意念並且遠離禍患。
這句成語的意思是提醒我們看待自已的欲望應該就如同防備敵人攻城堡一樣的謹慎。
親愛的朋友，你聽完這個故事有怎樣的啟發或有怎樣的想法呢。
你是否會每天反省自已的行為呢?你認為一個人應該如何避免邪惡的心態慢慢地對自已產生影響呢?
我期待這故事能讓你產生一些新的收穫。
出處為法句譬喻經心意品第十一
