【靜思妙蓮華】20150723 - 八識藏業隨形受報 - 第615集 Our Retributions Follow Us Like Our Shadows

20150723《靜思妙蓮華》八識藏業隨形受報 (第615集)
（法華經•譬喻品第三）

⊙「眾生依正二報，造業藏八識中，如影隨形受報，三界火宅唯心。」
⊙「佛欲重宣此義而說偈言：譬如長者有一大宅。」《法華經譬喻品第三》
⊙「其宅久故，而復頓弊，堂舍高危，柱根摧朽，梁棟傾斜，基陛隤毀。」
⊙其宅久故，而復頓弊，堂舍高危：宅者託安護身之處，是宅年久失修易壞，故云頓弊。宅內有堂舍之分。
⊙喻人間依報，不離大宅三界。三界無始為久，非今所造為故，無常卑鄙而復頓弊。堂舍喻三界；中堂喻上二界，舍喻欲界。
⊙舍者：止身於其間。靠壁曰柱。橫曰梁。豎曰棟。房址曰基。階砌曰陛。東西曰墻前後曰壁。
⊙又堂舍喻色陰；柱根喻行陰；梁棟喻受陰；基陛為堂舍之所由立，喻命根、思種子；牆壁喻想陰，悉如前釋。

【證嚴上人開示】
「眾生依正二報，造業藏八識中，如影隨形受報，三界火宅唯心。」

眾生依正二報
造業藏八識中
如影隨形受報
三界火宅唯心

讓我們大家更加清楚，我們人人內心那個業識，藏著的什麼東西呢？就是我們過去生中所做的一切。就像我們腦海中，昨天，昨天的事情還記得嗎？記得。前天的事情清楚嗎？還很清楚。去年、前年、十年前，這些事情你記得嗎？

尤其是人與人之間，這個人與人之間，你對我好，我若是很善良，受恩不忘報，我會常常記得誰對我好，飲水思源。而若有的人，誰對我不好，這個對我不好的事情、欺負過我，或者是對我有損等等，這種的事情記得更清楚，永遠永遠，都不會忘記了某一個人如何如何，這實在是
我的腦海中。在頭腦打開來看，什麼都沒有，但是，記憶無形，卻是一幕一幕、很久很久的過去，那個記憶永遠都存在。我們這一生是這樣。

所以常常一句話說：「萬般帶不去，唯有業隨身。」所以，這個業的一切，全都收入在這個「藏(識)」——八識田中的裡面。這就是我們凡夫的八識，都是藏著過去，我們所造作一切，善、惡都是藏在這個地方，所以叫做「業識」。這個業識我們帶著，捨此生、去來生，或者是捨前生、來今生。這種帶來(帶)去，這種的業識，那就是在這個依報、正報之中。

記得在好多年前，我們去救濟衣索比亞，衣索比亞那種的生活，我們這樣錄影回來、拍照回來，看到他們這樣的生活，那個生活，實在是令人提心吊膽。

看到他們要喝水，是在高高的地方一直下來，下來到低低的地方，一漥的水，那個水是死水，不知道多久以前的水，裡面是長蟲、骯髒，水是與土同顏色。這個人他這樣全身趴下去，這樣用嘴將水吸上來，伸出雙手來，那個嘴裡所含的水很多，這樣噴出去洗手。那種的情景也是這樣，牢牢地印記在腦海中。

所以那時候，我們去為衣索比亞所做的，除了替他們建醫療站，補充他的藥品，有幾個的醫療中心，同時醫療站替他們訓練，三百多位的醫藥師，教好那些(醫護人員) ，受傷如何包紮、如何吃藥以外，就是為他們做(集)水，引了水來，讓他們從山上用管，塑膠管，這樣一直接、一直接，接來到下面，讓他們有那個清淨的水。看到那裡的婦女，展開了笑容，拿桶子來盛水，水盛好頂在頭頂上，這樣歡歡喜喜回去。這種的景象也是常常在頭腦裡。
所以常常說，捨此投彼。萬一若像這樣的環境，生在那個地方，要怎麼辦？很擔心！所以我很相信，相信，正報、依報。這種生命中，到底我們會去哪裡？

在馬來西亞，在馬六甲裡，一個孩子，那就是小菩薩，我們的小菩薩，緣恩。這孩子的父親，在過去他是賣葷食，就是葷的。但是，在二０一０年那年，他去裝這個大愛臺，忽然間看到大愛的節目，也聽到「(靜思)晨語」，也看到早會(人間菩提)。這個緣恩的爸爸，范先生，他自已這樣從大愛臺，看出了人生，這個所造作的善惡業，體會到他所做的，原來不知多少的生靈，送進了很多人的口中，這些動物都是，為人群那個口欲送命。所以，他自已知道，這種生意是殺業之一，就這樣轉過來，就是賣素食。

夫妻倆，若有時間，打烊了，開始就是看大愛電視。一個女兒，那就是那時候六個月時，父母若是在看時，就讓她坐在學步車裡，孩子很安靜，看大愛臺。師公在說什麼話，她很用心看，愈看就愈往前坐，那個學步車就邊往前、邊往前。每一天，本來都在父母的身邊，但是若在聽講話，很入神，就一步一步向前靠近電視，很認真聽，聽到她也會笑。這就是不可思議！

一直到三歲時，父母若去共修，她就跟去，很安靜，同樣拜佛，同樣聽法，到現在還是很認真。這種實在是也不可思議！從一個六個月的孩子，一直到現在三、四歲了，讀幼兒園了，也懂得要做好事。

還是這種人生的過程，從我們開始這樣來，到底與這對父母、這個地方有緣，我們來了。來了之後，這個大環境，我們懂得去選擇，要選擇好或壞的環境，這也是與我們過去生的緣，善、惡緣。我們現在來，我們若過去結了惡因，造惡因、結惡緣，說不定惡的人誘引你，你就跟他去了。所以，因、緣、果、報，都是在這個依、正，依、正二報，依這個過去所造業，那個業識，藏在八識田中，所以我們應該要相信。

「如影隨形受報」。我們人生就是這樣，就是依過去所造作，現在來到這一生，再隨著今生的因緣，這樣去了。

所以「三界火宅唯心」。我們的心造作一切，我們的煩惱，引導我們很多事情模糊掉了，我們有清淨的如來藏，就是受這個無明將我們遮蓋，所以讓我們糊塗、讓我們不會分別是非。所以，希望大家，要好好警惕自己，我們要防非止惡。

我們現在知道了，知道我們有如來藏識，我們要將污濁的趕緊清除，讓我們的如來藏識，能夠趕緊現清淨，發光、發亮起來。這是希望大家要懂得用心。

所以前面這個(經)文，「佛欲重宣此義而說偈言。」

佛欲重宣此義
而說偈言
譬如長者
有一大宅
《法華經譬喻品第三》

因為前面已經敘述過了，這個大火宅的大長者。一群的孩子在裡面玩，不知道這間房子已經，已經敗壞了，已經四方八面，火已經燒起來，這些孩子笨笨的還在裡面，長者用心，設門外三車，讓孩子出來之後，最後長者認為：我財富還很多，我給孩子應該要都給他們，平等、很富足。財產要分給孩子，所以，鼓勵大家接受大白牛車。都是前面說這麼久，這麼長的(經)文。

現在又是再，「重宣此義而說偈言」，要再重複一次。因為前面這樣說的還不夠，所以這時候要加強大家的瞭解，所以再重新一次。

那位長者那就是釋迦牟尼佛。那個大宅，那就是譬喻三界，三界譬如火宅。到底是為什麼這個「三界」，欲界、色界、無色界，為什麼叫做「火宅」呢？下面加強了這個火宅的描述。

所以下面這段(經)文，這樣說：「其宅久故，而復頓弊，堂舍高危，柱根摧朽，梁棟傾斜，基陛隤毀。」

其宅久故
而復頓弊
堂舍高危
柱根摧朽
梁棟傾斜
基陛隤毀
《法華經譬喻品第三》

「其宅」就是這間房子。「久故」，已經很舊了，又是將要倒下去。「頓弊」就是舊了，快要壞了。所以這個「堂舍高危」，這間房子實在是很高、很大間，愈來危險，這麼高，這麼大間的房子，那真的是佷危險’老舊了。

其宅久故
而復頓弊
堂舍高危：
宅者託安護身之處
是宅年久失修易壞
故云頓弊
宅內有堂舍之分

宅，那就是我們平時，人，人人不能沒有的。我們生活就是衣、食、住、行，所以我們要有得吃、要有得住，這樣我們才有辦法，過一個平安的日子，所以住是很重要，所以叫做「託安護身之處」。這間房子就能夠，保護我們的身體，我們能夠依託在這間房子裡，遮風、遮雨，能夠蔽雨遮風，是一個讓我們安穩居住的地方，這就是房子，就是「宅」。那就是這個宅，已經是年久失修，容易壞掉，所以叫做「頓弊」。看到好像幾乎將要壞掉了，已經很危險的房子了，「宅內有堂舍之分別」。每一間房子都有堂與舍，有大廳，或者是房間，或者是廚房等等，都有，種種的分別，那叫做堂舍。

所以譬喻我們人間的依報，這個每一間房子，也可以知道，我們的這個身體，到底生在哪裡，就像這間房子，蓋在哪一個地方、是蓋什麼樣的房子；就像我們的身體，到底我們的身形是什麼，是人、是豬、是狗、是……等等都不同。每一個人，我們的身體叫做小乾坤，這個小乾坤就像一間房子。這間房子位置在哪裡，是什麼樣的房子，這全都是，是我們與生俱來的。有的人長得很莊嚴，有的人，生得自己也很不滿意，與生俱來這個身體。

，所以來到人間，尤其是人間，除了這個身體以外，我們的環境，我們的「依報」。我們的大環境到底是什麼？這全都要看我們，我們是什麼樣的因緣，來到什麼樣的地方。所以「不離大宅三界」，沒有離開在這個三界內。

喻人間依報
不離大宅三界
三界無始為久
非今所造為故
無常卑鄙而復頓弊
堂舍喻三界
中堂喻上二界
舍喻欲界

在這個地球，天蓋之下，地載之上，，不論你去生在哪一個地方，所以「不離大宅三界」。

「三界無始為久」。不知多久以前了，幾億年前，多久、多久，這顆地球到底多久呢？我們現在我們不知。不過就是一直，在這個大空間裡面。

不是現在才建的，是已經很久，所以叫做「故」。「非今所造為故」，已經是很久以前的，舊的東西，不是新的，是舊的，這間大宅。

「無常」就是譬喻卑鄙。這種常常我們這麼微小，實在是，但是，我們人都是自己認為，「我」是很大、很大。其實，這個三界，你說大土中地球上，其實，在宇宙，地球才只不過，須彌山的一隻螞蟻而已，常常說過了，大宇宙的天體，不知道有多少的太陽系。人間只不過是這一點點而已，但是也是無常，成、住、壞、空。但是，我們人類就是，這個道理不瞭解，所以不知道這個無常，這麼渺小，這也叫「頓弊」。

所以「堂舍」就譬喻三界。在這個三界，它就有「上二界」，上面的二界是色界、無色界。還有我們日常生活，那就是在欲界，哪一天不是為了欲在生活呢？很多人因為欲求，不斷不斷在造業，不斷在生活，在這種的欲界裡面在造作，所以「柱根摧朽，梁棟傾斜，基陛隤毀」，這間房子已經是這樣的情形。

舍者：
止身於其間
靠壁曰柱
橫曰梁 豎曰棟
房址曰基。
階砌曰陛
東西曰墻
前後曰壁

舍就是「止身於其間」，我們的身體就是在這個地方裡。這個「靠壁」，這個壁就是，將我們這間房子圍著，這叫做壁，在壁的當中就要有柱子。橫的叫做梁，直的叫做柱子，棟。像這樣，這種棟梁，有橫、有直，屋頂，壁的周圍有柱子，這是一間房子的造作。

這個有柱子、有屋頂，它有壁，它還需要有地基，地基要墊高。臺階上去，這叫做「陛」，就是在屋子裡，堂，再疊高的地方。這就是我們一間房子的基礎。所以，東西這就是牆，房子外面還有這個牆壁，有牆，前後這叫做壁。

所以這個堂舍，也是將它當作在我們佛法中，還是將這個房子，將它當作是我們的身體，我們的意識，我們的身心。所以，堂舍譬喻色陰；柱根譬喻行陰；梁棟譬喻受陰；基陛為堂舍建立的基礎，譬喻我們的命根、思的種子。

又堂舍喻色陰
柱根喻行陰
梁棟喻受陰
基陛
為堂舍之所由立
喻命根、思種子
牆壁喻想陰
悉如前釋

我們的出生要在哪裡？是高貴的生命，或者是卑賤的生命？其實生命是平等，是我們的業力，帶來了我們要到哪一個地方、什麼樣的家庭。帝王之家嗎？大臣之家嗎？富有的人的家庭嗎？或者是貧困的家庭？那就看我們過去生中，是用什麼樣的業識來，這個依、正之報。所以因為這樣，我們身體生在那個地方，很多都是和我們的行為、思想有關。

所以，這個偈文，其實比那個長行文更深。不過，希望大家用很尊重的心，來看這項，這個火宅裡面，到底要形容什麼呢？所以我們要用慎思的心情，縝密的心態。所以，我們要時時聽經，要好好多用心。

Explanations by Master Cheng-Yan
Subject: Our Retributions Follow Us Like Our Shadows (八識藏業隨形受報)
Date:July.23. 2015

“Sentient beings face both circumstantial and direct retributions. The karma they create is stored in their eighth consciousness. Their retributions follow them closely like their shadows; the burning house of the Three Realms is created only by their minds.”

This helps us better answer the question, what is stored in the karmic consciousness of our minds? Everything we have done in our past lifetimes. Can our brains recall the things that happened yesterday? We remember them. Can we recall what happened the day before that? We still remember those things clearly. What about the things that happened last year, two years ago, ten years ago? In particular, [do we remember] our interactions with people? In our interactions with others, when people are good to us, if we are kindhearted, we will not forget to repay their grace.
We always remember those who treated us well. “When we drink water, we think of the source.” As for those who did not treat us well, no matter what bad thing they did to us, whether they bullied us or caused us harm or so on, we remember what they did even more clearly. We will never forget these particular people. They are stored in our memory. If we were to physical open up our head, we could not see these memories. But although they are not physical tangible, scene after scene of things that happened a long time ago are stored in our mind forever. It is like this in our present life.
We often hear the saying, “We cannot take anything with us when we die; only our karma follows us into our next life.” All the karma we create is collected in our “storehouse [consciousness],” in the field of our eighth consciousness. It is in our eighth consciousness that we ordinary people store all the karma we have created in the past. Good or evil, all our karma is stored there, so we call this our “karmic consciousness.”
We bring our karmic consciousness with us as we leave this life and go into the next or when we left our previous life to come to this one. This karmic consciousness that we bring with us leads us to our circumstantial retributions and our direct retributions.
I remember many years ago, we provided aid to Ethiopia. The volunteers filmed and took pictures of what life in Ethiopia was like. The kind of life they lived was terrifying and gut-wrenching. We saw how people in Ethiopia drank water. The water they drank flowed downstream from a place of high elevation down to a place much lower in elevation, then into a depression, where it became stagnant. Who knows how long it had been sitting there? The water was dirty and there were worms in it. The water was the same color as the dirt. But we saw a man drop to all fours to slurp at the water. Then the man spat the water onto his hands to wash them. Images like this were engraved on our minds.
So at that time, when we went to Ethiopia we did not just help to build medical stations and provide medication. At their various medical centers and medical stations, we helped train, in total, more than 300 medical staff. We not only trained them in how to dress a wound and how to apply medicine, we also helped build water stations. The water was guided down the mountain through plastic tubes. We connected tube after tube until the water reached them. This gave them a source of clean water.
We could see the smiles on the faces of the women there.They collected the water in buckets, and, balancing them on their heads, they happily went home.These images are also often in my head.
We often say that we leave this life for the next.
If we were born into those kinds of conditions, in a place like that, what could we do?This is very worrisome.
So, I truly believe in circumstantial and direct retributions.In the end, where will the things that we do now lead us?We do not know.
In the city of Malacca in Malaysia, there is a young Bodhisattva, a child named [Fan] Yuan-en.Yuan-en’s father, [Fan Yun-qiang,] used to sell meat products.But in the year 2010, he installed the Da Ai TV channel at home.He started watching our programs, listening to my lectures on “Wisdom at Dawn” and watching my program “Life Wisdom”.
By watching the Da Ai TV channel, Yuan-en’s father, Mr. Fan, came to see how we create good and bad karma in life.He realized that through his livelihood he enabled people to consume countless living beings.These animals were all killed to satisfy people’s cravings.
So, he recognized that the business he ran was creating the karma of killing.Thus he changed his ways, and now he sells vegetarian food.
When he and his wife had time after work, they started watching the Da Ai TV chinned.Their daughter, at that time, was six months old.
Whenever they watched TV, they would put her in the baby walker.She would also watch quietly and listen to what I was saying.She was so intent that she kept scooting forward.The baby walker kept moving forward and forward.
Every day, she started out close to her parents.
But whenever she was listening intently, she would move closer and closer to the TV.She listened earnestly and smiled a great deal.
This is incredible.
When she was three years old, she attended group studies with her parents.She would remain quiet and bow to the Buddha and listen to the teachings.Even now she is still very earnest.This is really incredible.
This began when she was six months old, and now she is three or four years old.She is only in kindergarten, but she knows she should do good deeds.We go through this kind of process in life.
In the beginning, we are born.Due to our karmic affinities with our parents and with this place, we come here.After we are born, we can choose whether we want to be in a wholesome or unwholesome environment.This choice also depends on our past affinities.
Our good and bad affinities affect us now.If we created negative causes in the past, committed wrongdoings and created bad affinities bad people can easily influence us and entice us to go astray.
So, causes, conditions, effects and retributions play out circumstantially or directly.Our circumstantial and direct retributions are based on the karma we have created.Karma is stored in our karmic consciousness, in the field of our eighth consciousness.Therefore, we must believe that “Their retributions follow them closely like their shadow.”This is the way life works.
How we come into this life depends on the karma we created in the past.Then, following the [karma] created in this life, we go into the next.So, “The burning house of the Three Realms is created only by their minds.”
Our minds create everything.Our afflictions cause us to become confused about many matters.Our pure Tathagata-garbha has been obscured by our ignorance.Thus we become confused and cannot tell right from wrong.
So, I hope that we will all be vigilant and earnestly guard against wrongs and stop evil.
Now we know we have Tathagata-garbha consciousness.We must quickly wash away our impurities to allow our pure Tathagata-garbha consciousness to quickly manifest its purity and illuminate [everything].I hope everyone will be mindful of this.
The previous sutra passage states, “The Buddha, wishing to restate His meaning, spoke the following verses.

The Buddha, wishing to restate His meaning, spoke the following verses.
This is the parable of an elder who had a large house.

Previously we described how the elder of this burning house saw children playing inside, unaware that the house was deteriorating and that fires had already started on all sides. Foolishly, these children remained inside. The elder set up three kinds of carts outside to give to the children when they came out. In the end, the elder felt, “I have so much wealth, I should give it all to the children in equal and plentiful amounts. I should distribute it among them”.
So, he encouraged everyone to accept the cart drawn by the great white ox. This is the summary of the lengthy text that we have discussed so far.
Now the Buddha, “wishing to restate His meaning, spoke the following verses”. He restated His words because there were still things left to be said He wanted to reinforce people’s understanding. So, He described everything again.
The elder is an analogy for Sakyamuni Buddha, and the large house is the Three Realms. The Three Realms are compared to a burning house. Why are the Three Realms, the desire realm, form realm and formless realms, called a “burning house”? The following text reinforced this description. The next sutra passage states,

“As this house was old, it was collapsing. The halls and the quarters were high and precarious. The bases of the pillars were brittle and fragile. The girders and beams were all aslant. The foundations and stair were falling apart”.

“This house” refers to the [burning] house. “Old” describes how it was rundown. It was on the verge of falling over. “Collapsing” describes the bad shape it was in. “The halls and the quarters were high and precarious”. This house was built up very high, which made it more dangerous. A large house built this high is very dangerous, especially as it is old.

As this house was old, it was collapsing. The halls and the quarters were high and precarious: A house is a place that provides a shelter for us. This house had not been repaired for many years so it was collapsing. There were halls and rooms inside the house.

A house is something we cannot do without in our everyday living. The basic necessities of our life are clothing, food, housing and transportation. We need to have food to eat and a place to stay to be able to live a safe and peaceful life. So, housing is very important.
It is “a place that provides shelter for us”. A house can protect our body. We can rely on the house to shield us from the wind and the rain. A place that keeps the elements out will be a safe and stable place for us to live in. Such a place is a “house”. But this house had not been repaired for years. It was on the verge of “collapsing”. It was in very bad shape and had become a very dangerous place.
“There were halls and rooms inside the house”. Every house has halls and rooms. There may be lounges, bedrooms, kitchens and so on; we can distinguish many different halls and rooms. A house can also be an analogy for our circumstantial retributions.
We can understand that the place where our physical body is born into can be likened to the location where this house was built. The different types of houses are like the different forms our body can take. We may be a human, a pig, a dog or so on. Everyone’s body can be considered a microcosm. Each microcosm is like house. The location of the house and the type of house correspond to what we are born into.
Some people naturally look very dignified.Some people are very unsatisfied with the body they are born with. After we come to the human realm, what is especially important, beside this body, is our environment. What kind of environment do we live in? This completely depends on our karmic causes and conditions, which decide where we will be born. But everything is “within the burning house of the Three Realms”. We remain within the Three Realms.

This is likened to circumstantial retributions, all within the house of the Three Realms. The Three Realms have existed since Beginningless Time. They were not created now. Impermanence subtly leads to collapse. The halls and rooms represent the Three Realms. The halls represent the two upper realms while the rooms represent the desire realm.

We are still on this planet, under this sky and on top of this earth, regardless of where we are born. So, everything is “within the house of the Three Realms. The Three Realms have existed since Beginningless Time”. No one knows how long they have existed. Perhaps hundreds of millions of years. How long has the Earth existed? We still do not know. Nonetheless, we are constantly within this vast space. It was not established just recently. It has existed for long time. So, we say “The [Realms] were not created now.” They came into being a very long time ago, so they are something old, not new. This is the [burning] house. “Impermanence” is talking about insignificance. We are, in fact, insignificantly small.
However, we tend to think highly of ourselves; we have this sense of self-important. In fact, we live in this place that we call the Three Realms, on this planet called Earth. Actually, in the universe, Earth is just like an ant at this foot of Mt. Sumeru. I often say that, in this universe, there are countless solar systems. The human realm is so insignificantly small. It is also impermanent and will go through formation, existence, decay and disappearance.
But we human s do not understand this principle. We do not recognize that impermanence is so subtly leading to collapse.
“The halls and rooms” represent the Three Realms. In the Three Realms, there are “the two upper realms. The two upper realms are the form realm and formless realms. Our daily living takes place in the desire realm. Can we go a day without pursuing some desire? Many people, in pursuit of their desires, endlessly create karma. Living in this desire realm, they never stop creating karma.
So, “The bases of the pillars were brittle and fragile. The girders and beams were all aslant. The foundations and stairs were falling apart.” This house is already in [bad] shape.

The quarters: where our bodies take shelter. The supports against the walls are pillars. Horizontal supports are girders, vertical ones are beams. The base of the room is the foundation. Steps up and down are called stairs. To the east and west and to the front and back are the walls.

The quarters are “where our bodies take shelter.” This is our living area. Then there are “the supports against the walls. The exterior structure of a house is considered a wall. Within the walls are pillars. Horizontal supports are girders, vertical ones are pillars and beams.
A house has girders and beams, both horizontal and vertical supports. Under the roof, there are walls and pillars. This is the basic structure of a house. These pillars, roofs and walls must have a foundation. The foundation is raised, with steps going up. These are called stairs. Within the house, the halls, when raised, [will have stairs]. These are the basic parts of a house.
To the east and west are walls; there are walls on the outside of the house. To the front and back there are also walls. The halls and quarters are also analogies in the Buddha-Dharma. This house represents our body, our consciousness and our mind.

Halls and quarters denote the aggregate of form. The pillars represent the aggregate of action. Girders and beams are the aggregate of feeling. “Foundation and stairs” are what halls and quarters are built on. This is an analogy for the basis of life and the seeds of our thinking.

Where will our next life be? Will we lead a life of nobility or a life of poverty? Actually, all life is equal. It is our karma that determines where we are born and the kind of family we will be born into. Will it be a royal family? A government official’s family? A wealthy family? Or a poor family? All of these conditions depend on the karmic consciousness we bring, on our circumstantial and direct retributions. So, where we will be born is closely related to our behavior and thinking. These verses are actually more profound than the prose.
I hope we can be deeply reverent as we look into the burning house. What is it actually trying to tell us? We must carefully contemplate this with great meticulousness. We must constantly listen to the teachings and always be mindful.

(Source: Da Ai TV – Wisdom at Dawn program – Explanation by Master Chen-Yen)