3/19/2024「同心共善」善心法師網上禪修班 (粵語)

1. 幸福就在你身邊//
幸福變成你：
永久改變你的生活的指南
• 善心今攝
• Mar. 19, 2024

2. 四無量心練習
慈心：願我身體健康。願我懂得照顧自己身體。
悲心：願我接受和懂得面對所有煩惱、痛苦、壓力。
願我對面對所有煩惱、痛苦、壓力不作出任何反應。
願我不作和說出任何傷害自己和他人的話。願我懂得愛惜自己。
o想起一位朋友，關注此人生活中的特定收穫或快樂來源。用以
下的短語來欣喜。
• 願你的幸福和好運不要離開你。願你的好運持續下去。
• 願我接受事物原本的樣子。願我讓人們成為他們本來的樣子。
• 願我不為一切事件的來去所驚動 。願我學會看透一切現象的
生起與滅去。願我開放、平衡、平和。

3. 幸福就在你身邊//
幸福變成你：
上星期：第四章：為你的生命挺身而出
• 我真誠地相信，透過將對固有佛性的認識融入日常生活
中，你可以永遠改變一切。
• 願我們每個人都珍惜自己，並將這份善意傳遞給與我們
共享這個幸福星球的所有眾生。

4. 第五章
變毒為藥
• One of my favorite pastimes was searching for lucky four-leaf clovers.
我最鍾意嘅消遣之一就係尋找幸運嘅四葉草。
• Whenever I discovered one, I promptly brushed it off and swallowed it.
每當我發現一個時，我都會立即將其刷掉併吞下。
• In some way, I hoped that eating them could help me change my luck.
在某種程度上，我希望食它們可以幫助我改變我嘅運氣。
• I didn’t realize that my luck—my destiny—was already inside me.
我沒有意識到我的運氣——我的命運——已經在我心裡了。
靠自己的內力、自己的修行。

5. • With all that I experienced from those early days through my move to
St. Louis in my late teens,
由我十幾歲時搬到聖路易斯嘅早期經歷，
• then becoming “Tina Turner,”
然後成為「Tina Turner，」
• giving birth to my beautiful sons and raising them,
生下我美麗的兒子（兩男）並撫養他們，
• and achieving a level of stardom,
並達到一定嘅明星水平，
• I came to see that every life has its share of problems.
我開始看到，每個生命都有它自己嘅問題。

6. • I’ve never met anyone who didn’t have problems of one sort or
another.
我從來冇遇到過冇咁或噉問題嘅人。
• If we find ourselves without any problems, it’s just a matter of time
until something pops up.
如果我哋發現自己冇任何問題，咁出現一些嘢只係時間
問題。
• That’s life! 就係生活！
• Don’t worry if you think you’re the only one facing challenges.
如果你認為自己係唯一面臨挑戰嘅人，請不要擔心。

7. • If the people around you don’t seem to have problems,
如果你周圍嘅人似乎沒有問題，
• that just means you don’t know them well enough to see their troubles,
只係意思係你唔夠了解佢哋，睇唔到佢哋嘅煩惱，
• or they’re very good at hiding them.
抑或佢哋非常善於隱藏它們（問題）。
• Problems are inescapable for all living beings.
對於所有眾生來說，問題都係不可避免的。
• As Nichiren said: “No one can avoid problems, not even sages.”
正如日蓮所說：「沒有人能避免問題，即使是聖人也不
行。」

8. • Living a joyful life, I’ve found, is not about trying to avoid the
unavoidable.
我發現，過快樂嘅生活並不昰要試圖避免不可避免的事
情。
• Joy comes from summoning a strong life force to overcome problems,
from the smallest irritation to the biggest disaster.
喜悅來自於召喚強大嘅生命力嚟克服問題，由最小的煩
惱到最大嘅災難。
• You may have been born with a natural enthusiasm for facing your
problems.
你可能天生就對面對自己嘅問題有一種天生嘅熱情。
• I sure wasn’t. 我梗係唔係。

9. • Though I didn’t run away from problems,
雖然我冇逃避問題，
• I also didn’t really see the point of facing them.
我都冇真正睇到面對它們的意義。
• Whatever difficulties came my way, my motto was simply: “I’ll go
on.”
無論遇到什麼困難，我的座右銘都很簡單：「我會繼續
前進。」
• Somehow, I found the will to keep going, but I didn’t face what was
holding me back.
不知何故，我搵到咗繼續前進嘅意志，但我冇面對阻礙
我前進的因素。

10. 呼吸

11. • It wasn’t until I experienced life-threatening difficulties,
直到我經歷咗危及生命嘅困難，
• and turned my attention inward that I discovered the life-altering
Buddhist concept of changing poison into medicine.
我將注意力轉向內心，我發現咗改變生活嘅佛教概念，
毒藥轉化為藥物咁滯（zai）。
• I still get chills thinking about the many poisons I had to change during
my journey from the past to where I was now.
想到喺我由過去到而家嘅旅程中我必須改變嘅好多毒藥，
我仍然感到不寒而慄(律)。

12. The Tina Turner Musical 徜徉劇
London’s historic Aldwych Theatre 倫敦劇院 in April 2018
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13. The Tina Turner Musical 徜徉劇
London’s historic Aldwych Theatre 倫敦劇院 in April 2018

14. • If you find inspiration in my life, 如果你喺我嘅生活中搵到靈感，
• then I hope you will remember that you are equally capable of
changing poison into medicine in your life, too.
那麼我希望你能記住，在你的生活中，你同樣有能力將
毒藥變成藥物。
• Let’s look at what exactly “changing poison into medicine” means.
讓我們看看「變毒為藥」到底是什麼意思。
• This phrase originated with a wise man named Nagarjuna, a Buddhist
scholar who lived in India around the year 200 A.D.
呢句話起源於一位名叫龍樹菩薩嘅智者，佢係一位佛教
學者，大約喺公元200年左右生活喺印度。
• He likened the wisdom of the Lotus Sutra to “a great physician who
can change poison into medicine.
佢將《法華經》嘅智慧比作为一位能化毒為藥嘅大医。

15. • In Japan a thousand years later, 一千年後嘅日本，
• Nichiren quoted this phrase when he taught his disciples about facing
problems and using them to increase wisdom, courage, and
compassion.
日蓮在教導他的弟子如何面對問題並利用它們來增加智
慧、勇氣和同情心時引用了這句話。
• When problems arise, it’s common for our feelings to sink and our life
condition to dip into the lower worlds,
當問題出現時，我們的感情會沉淪，我們的生活狀況會
陷入低級世界，這是很常見的，
• which often makes matters worse.
往往會令事情變得更糟。

16. • Whether conscious of it or not, 無論是否意識到，
• if we are operating from a place in the lower worlds,
如果我哋喺低級世界嘅某個地方運作，
• even our best efforts to solve problems can have the opposite effect.
即使我哋最大努力解決問題埋，都可能產生相反嘅效果。
• Pressure builds, old habits surface, feelings about similar problems
arise,
壓力增加，舊習慣浮齣水面，對類似問題嘅感覺出現，
• and ghost voices in our heads offer bad advice,
我們腦海中的幽靈聲音提供了不好的建議，
• or our ego tries to take over. 抑或我哋嘅自我試圖接管。

17. • Have you ever noticed how the ego loves problems?
你有冇注意到自我係幾咁鍾意問題？
• It’s a chance for the ego to tell you, and everyone else,
係一個自我告訴你同其他人嘅機會，
• how right it is (or perhaps how misunderstood it is).
它是多麼正確（或者它可能是多麼被誤解）。
• If you’ve ever allowed your ego to get involved in solving problems,
如果你曾經允許你的自我參與解決問題，
• you know that can make a bad situation worse.
你知道這會讓糟糕的情況變得更糟。

18. • Yet, until my early thirties, this was how I responded to problems.
然而，直到我三十出頭，我都係咁應對問題嘅。
• Both the problems and my responses to them were like poisons.
呢啲問題同我對此嘅反應好似毒藥噉。
• When I couldn’t see myself or my life clearly,
當我看不清自己或我的生活時，
• my distorted perception caused me to respond to adversity in ways that
compromised my good intentions,
我扭曲嘅感知使我以損害我善意嘅方式應對逆境，
• leading me into even more negative cycles of behavior.
導致我陷入更消極嘅行為循環。

19. 呼吸

20. • However, when I began attending SGI chanting meetings at my friend
Ana Shorter’s home,
然而，當我開始喺我嘅朋友安娜·肖特（ Ana Shorter ）
嘅家中參加 SGI 念誦會時，
• I heard people share stories about using problems to elevate their lives
to an even happier condition than before their problems arose.
我聽過人們分享一些故事，話佢哋利用問題嚟提升他們
的生活，要佢哋嘅生活過問題出現之前更快樂。
• They said they had “changed poison into medicine” and promised that
I could do the same.
他們說他們已經“變毒成藥”，並承諾我也可以這樣做。

21. • I was happy for them, but I couldn’t imagine how my problems could
be of value to me.
我為佢哋感到開心，但我無法想象我嘅問題對我有咩價
值。
• Though I desperately wanted to believe it was possible to transform
problems into benefits,
雖然我迫切地想相信有可能把問題轉化為好處，
• I had a hard time seeing how my woes could do anything but cause
further trouble.
我好難看出我嘅困境除咗造成進一步嘅麻煩之外仲可以
做任何事情。

22. • Among the members of our chanting group were a few older Japanese
ladies who glowed with a peaceful air of joy and compassion.
喺我哋念誦小組嘅成員中，有几位年長嘅日本女士，她
們散發住喜悅和悲憫嘅和平氣息。
• They had lived through the horrors of World War II, and one had
survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
佢哋經歷咗第二次世界大戰嘅恐怖，其中一人喺長崎
(Nagasaki) 嘅原子彈爆炸中倖存下來。
• They had moved to the United States with their military husbands.
佢哋同佢哋嘅軍人丈夫一起搬到了美國。

23. • After chanting with them one day, our conversation turned to my
problems.
有一日同佢哋一齊念誦之後，我哋嘅談話轉向了我的問
題。
• Kimiko, one of the ladies, asked me,
Kimiko, 其中一位女士問我，
• “Tina, you say you have too many problems to list. What sort of
problems do you mean?”
「Tina，你話你有太多嘅問題無法一一列舉。 你指嘅係
點样嘅問題？」
• I don’t wear my heart on my sleeve, but something about the high life
condition of these women opened me up, and I confided in them.
我沒有把我的心放在袖子上，但這些女人的高生活條件
讓我敞開心扉，我向她們傾訴。

24. • I wasn’t complaining, just stating the facts about my situation.
我冇抱怨，只係陳述咗我嘅情況。
• Leaving—and divorcing—Ike proved to be more complicated than I
had ever imagined.
事實證明，同阿 Ike 離婚、之後離開、比我想象的要複
雜得多。
• I was facing an army of lawyers filing lawsuits against me for walking
out on concert and recording contracts I was supposed to do with Ike.
我面對住一大班律師，佢哋告我，因為我退出咗演唱會，
並錄製咗我本應與 Ike 簽訂嘅合同。
• Meanwhile, I was also being harassed by thugs Ike sent to intimidate
me,
與此同時，我仲受到阿 Ike 派來恐嚇我嘅暴徒嘅騷擾，
• whose tactics included setting fire to one of my friend’s cars and firing
bullets through my windows.
佢嘅策略包括放火燒我朋友嘅一架車，並透過我嘅窗發
射子彈。

25. • On top of that, I was in debt, 最緊要係，我負債纍纍，
• I had no savings, no income, no place of my own to live (my sons and I
were staying with Ana and Wayne Shorter),
我沒有積蓄，沒有收入，沒有自己的住處（我和我的兒子
們和 Ana 和 Wayne Shorter 住在一起），
• and I was a Black woman in my forties trying to restart my career as a
solo rock ’n’ roll artist in an industry that prizes young white males
above all else.
我係一名四十多歲嘅黑人女性，試圖重新開始我嘅職業生
涯，成為一名獨唱搖滾藝術家，喺呢個行業中，後生嘅白
人男性高於一切。
• Plus I was in need of new management. 另外，我需要新嘅管理層。
• Oh, and I had health challenges, too. 哦，我都有健康方面嘅挑戰。

26. • As I was wrapping up my sad monologue, my fellow chanters’ faces lit
up with smiles.
當我結束悲傷嘅獨白時，我嘅同伴們嘅臉上洋溢着笑容。
• To my surprise, they looked as if they were impressed, perhaps even
wonderstruck.
令我驚訝嘅係，佢哋睇嚟好似被打動了，甚至可能感到
驚訝。
• Everyone clapped with real enthusiasm, cheering: “Congratulations,
Tina! You are so fortunate!”
每個人都熱情地鼓掌，歡呼：「恭喜你，Tina！ 你真系
太幸運了！」
• Pardon me? 對唔住?
• It sounded like they said, “Congratulations.” 聽起嚟好似佢哋在講，
「徜徉恭喜你。」

27. 呼吸

28. • For a moment, I thought that they didn’t understand anything I had just
said, or maybe I had misheard them.
有咁一陣，我以為佢哋聽唔明我頭先講嘅話，或者我聽
錯了。
• No, I heard them right—they were congratulating me.
不，我冇聽錯——佢哋喺祝賀我。
• “Why in the world would you congratulate me for this mess?” I asked.
「你到底做乜嘢要為呢個爛攤子祝賀我？」 我問。
• And that’s when I really began to understand the principle of changing
poison into medicine.
從那時起，我才真正開始理解把毒藥轉化為藥物嘅原理。

29. • “When you raise your life condition,” Kimiko said,
Kimoko 話：「 當你提高你的生活狀況時 ，」
• “you are capable of transforming all the negative energy in those
unfortunate situations into the opposite, positive energy of good
fortune.”
「你有能力把那些不幸情況下嘅所有負能量轉化為相反
嘅、好彩嘅正能量。」
• “As bad as it is,” she reassured me, “it can become the same level of
good, or even better.”
「儘管它很差，它可以變成同樣水平的好，甚至更好， 」
佢向我保證。

30. • “Since you have so many major problems,” Kimiko continued,
Kimoko 繼續, 「 因為妳有咁多重大問題 ，
• “that means you have the opportunity to create even more positives by
changing poison into medicine.
「意思就係妳有機會通過將毒藥轉化為藥物來創造更多
的積極因素。
• That’s why we congratulate you.”
就係我哋祝賀你嘅原因。」

31. • I was so relieved and excited to hear this.
聽到呢個消息，我感到非常欣慰同興奮。
• I went from seeing a pile of negatives to recognizing a treasure trove.
我由睇到一堆底片到認出一個寶庫。
• If problems could really be used as fuel to propel my life upward, then
I figured I was set to become America’s first woman in space.
如果問題真的可以作為推動我生活向上嘅燃料，咁我想
我將成為美國第一位進入太空嘅女性。
• I felt like I had enough fuel at that point to go interstellar.
那時我覺得我有足夠嘅燃料去星際穿越。

32. • As intensely bad as the problems are, that’s how intensely good the
benefits can be, I repeated to myself.
儘管問題非常差，但就係好處嘅強烈好處，我對自己重
複了一遍。
• The concept of changing poison into medicine is based on the idea that
when you raise your life condition,
將毒藥轉化為藥物的概念是基於這樣一種想法，即當你
提高你的生活狀況時，
• you can use the resulting wisdom, courage, and compassion to convert
any negative into a positive.
你可以利用由此產生的智慧、勇氣和同情心將任何消極
因素轉化為積極因素。
• If you have a minor problem, you can transform it into a minor benefit.
如果你有一個小問題，你可以將佢變成一個小好處。

33. • If you have a major problem, it has the potential to become a major
benefit.
如果你有一個重大問題，它有可能成為一個重大嘅好處。
• Changing poison into medicine, then,
然之後 ，將毒藥變成藥物，
• starts with the simple step of facing your problems with the confidence
that you have the power within you not just to overcome challenges,
從簡單的步驟開始，面對你的問題，相信你內在有力量，
而不僅僅是克服挑戰，
• but also to thrive because of them—
但亦因為佢哋而茁壯成長——
• to rise up to greater heights than you ever have before.
上升到比以往任何時候都更高嘅高度。

34. 呼吸

35. 願以此功德
普及於一切
我等與眾生
皆共成佛道