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Chan is learning to practice wisdom.
What we call “Chan (Zen)” means not to be confused about cause
and effect, to know the cause and to know the effect, and to
know them in our own life. Not to be confused about cause and
effect means to do the right thing with full understanding and
clarity. In other words, the practice of Chan means understanding
and clarity. Chan means finding our True Self, and having found
it, to embrace everything with compassion. Can you find any
truly enlightened Chan Teacher who would not be like this? To
enlighten oneself means to completely drop the self, practice
compassion, and live one’s entire life serving others. Therefore
we can also say that Chan is the contemplation in which we contemplate
ourselves and then dedicate ourselves even more to others, serving
others even more. This is the practice of enlightening self
and others.
Once we have a breakthrough in our contemplation, we come
understand the principle of life itself. That principle has
been right there from the beginning, except that we had never
noticed it. Therefore we need a method to allow this principle
to come into the open. Once we become enlightened we can truly
live life. This is a life lived both for oneself and for all
beings, a life that is truly rich and prolific.
What is the secret of truly happy people? It is serving others.
Selfishness will never make us happy – only a heart full of
love will do so. Without a heart of love we will never find
the joy of life. The principle of happiness therefore is lovingkindness.
Lovingkindness means compassion and service. Our happiness
comes from realizing what we are and what others are. If therefore
we want to find the meaning of life, we need to find our original
face. Once we have found it, we have found the meaning of
life. Then we will realize that we are like this, and that
others are like this too. Happiness therefore is realizing
oneself and serving others.
Dharma Master Hsin Tao
(Translated by Maria Reis Habito)
幸福人生
禪是智慧的實踐學。所謂的「禪」就叫做不昧因果，知因知果，在生活上不昧因果，不昧因果就是在明白裡做好，所以明明白白叫做禪。禪就是找回自己，找回自己之後去慈悲一切，你看哪一個開悟的禪師不是這樣？開悟自己就把自己放下了，去做慈悲的事情，就為眾生用整個生命去付出，因此我們也可以說禪就是自省，自己反省自己，然後去做更多的奉獻，更多的服務，也是一個自覺覺他的行為。
而當我們真的反省到了，我們就明白了生命的源頭，事實上它本來就存在，只是我們沒有注意到，所以必須用一個方法讓它開竅，等到開悟了就可以真正的活，為自己活，為眾生活，是一個真正能夠付出的生命。
所以幸福的人生怎麼來？就是為大眾服務，自私就永遠不會快樂，有愛心才會快樂，沒有愛心就找不到生命的喜悅，所以慈悲就是一個快樂的源頭，所謂的慈悲就是憐憫跟付出，幸福就是因為我們肯定自己，然後再去肯定別人。所以說要找到生命的意義，就是找回自己的本來面目，這個找回了以後，生命意義就有了，我們就會肯定自己，更肯定每一個人都是這個樣子的，所以幸福是找回自己跟為奉獻別人。
─── 心道法師
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