【ENG DUB】The Mirror of Causality 02-6 The Mind is the Source of Karma | 心是业之源 #buddhism #dharma
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Date: 07/07/2023

【ENG DUB】The Mirror of Causality 02-6 The Mind is the Source of Karma | 心是业之源 

万行之源
The source of all actions

每个人所造的业不外乎身体的造作、语言的交流、思想的活动这三个方面。而身口一切的行为又都是受着一念的驱使去造作的。
The karma that each person engages in are no more than three aspects: physical movements, verbal communications, and mental activities, while all the physical and verbal actions are driven by a single thought. 

离开了这现前的一念心，身口如同无情之物，怎么会有行住坐卧、出言吐语的活动呢？
Without the present thought, the body and speech would be like lifeless objects, how can there be any activities such as walking, standing, sitting, lying down, or speaking?

所以身口是造业的工具，意识才是造业的作者。
Therefore, the body and speech are the tools for creating karma, while the mind is the creator of karma.

意识不是造业的作者，
The consciousness is not the creator of karma.

造业是我们的行蕴造业，不是识蕴造业。
Karma is created by the aggregate of mental formation, not the aggregate of consciousness. 

识蕴——意识是分别者、了别者。
The aggregate of consciousness - the consciousness, is the one who discerns and discriminates.

就像樵夫用斧头砍柴，我们一般只会说是樵夫砍柴而不会说是斧头砍柴一样。
Just as we would say that a woodcutter is chopping wood with an axe, rather than saying that the axe is chopping the wood.

斧头是造业的工具。
The axe is a tool for creating karma. 

樵夫砍柴是樵夫的行蕴——他的行蕴在造作，意识是了别，分别"这是柴火"，然后他就去砍。
Wood chopping is done by the woodcutter's aggregate of mental formation - his aggregate of mental formation is working, while his consciousness discriminates: "this is firewood", and then he chops.

经云："罪福二轮，苦乐二果，皆三业所造，一心所感。
The sutra says: "Sins and blessings, suffering and happiness, are all created by the three kinds of karma in the mind."
夫心净则香台宝树，净刹化生；
When the mind is pure, then fragrant halls, jeweled trees, and pure land appear.



心要净，
The mind should be pure. 
我们说要生到净土去，要到香台宝树净土化生，你一定要有菩萨业。
To be reborn in the Pure Land with fragrant halls and jeweled trees, you need to have the karma of bodhisattvas. 
没有菩萨业，你怎么可能会化身到那个地方去呢？
Without the karma of bodhisattvas, how can you be reborn there?

你所有的心、所做的一切都应该由菩提心来摄持，才能够化身到净土。
Whatever you think and do should be driven by bodhicitta, in order to be reborn in the Pure Land. 
这是非常简单的如是因果，如是因，如是果啊。
This causality is very simple - a cause brings a result. 
你是否能去呢？就看你的净业是否能胜过世间的善业，或者恶业。
Can you go there? It depends on whether your pure karma can surpass your samsaric karma, whether positive or negative.
如果你世间的善业强大，你一定会生天的，去不了净土。
If your samsaric positive karma is strong, you will definitely be reborn in the heaven and won't go to the Pure Land.

你是善业还是净业，那是不一样的，
Positive karma and pure karma are different. 
净业就是说往生净土的业，一定是菩提心来摄持所行的一切业。
Pure karma is the karma that leads to rebirth in the Pure Land, which must be driven by bodhicitta.

表面看不出来善恶的。
You can't tell whether it's virtuous or evil on the surface.
以菩提心摄持，可能表面看上去甚至是恶业，你可能呵斥人、或者骂人，你的发心是为了利益众生，菩提心来行持的。
The actions driven by bodhicitta may even seem evil on the surface, such as scolding, but your motivation is bodhicitta, to benefit sentient beings. 

净业完全是由菩提心来决定的。
Pure karma is totally determined by bodhicitta.
你往生西方，你是想"我去西方是为了成佛度众生，为了众生成佛，我才……"，这个心不能忘失掉。
Don't forget your aspiration: "To attain Buddhahood and liberate sentient beings, I aspire to be reborn in the Pure Land."

我们很容易就忘失了，就变成了世间的善心，那得到的果报肯定是人天的善报了。
It's easy for us to forget and turn our intention into worldly kindness, which will definitely lead to rewards in the human and heaven realms.

如是因、如是果，不会错。
A cause brings a result, and it won't go wrong.

很多人就是不懂因果，以贪心、善心来念两句佛号，以为能去西方。
Many people don't understand the law of causality. They assume that casually reciting a Buddha's name out of greed or kindness, can lead to rebirth in the Pure Land. 

口业并不能决定你的果报，完全是看心念。
Your speech can't determine your karmic results, but your mind can.

所以很多念佛的人连因果都搞不清楚，修什么心?
Many people who recite the Buddha's name don't even understand causality, so how can they cultivate their mind?
ou get pure karma and how can you be reborn in the Pure Land? 


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