内容简介

前言

“The World Is a Reflection of the Mind” is an insight of

wisdom. In traditional cultivation, only those whose cultivation

and realization reach the highest level are able to have this kind of

wisdom and level of perception. Only those who truly understand

this principle will easily merge with “the yoga apart from

sophistry,” and truly manifest what we often call “illuminating

mind and seeing its true nature.”

For those people who are constantly troubled by pain and

suffering, this book has a wondrous function that other books

cannot replace. When our whole community has fallen into

affliction and anxiety, it is without doubt a dose of the good

medicine of wisdom.

In the Buddhist sutras there is a verse that goes like this:

“If people want to completely understand all the buddhas of the

past, present, and future, they must observe the true nature of the

phenomenal realm, that everything is only a creation of the mind.”

This is the primal source of the wisdom of the present book. But

talk is talk, and action is action: sometimes understanding at the

level of “truth” cannot represent a firm grasp at the level of “things and events.” So the existence of the present book has its value.

This book is a vivid exposition of worldly phenomena for the

world-transcending wisdom of Buddhism. Since it is the vision

and viewpoint of wisdom, it also has many ways of making close

connections with real life. Since it can alter our “minds,” it can

also change our “actions,” and then it can change our “lives.”

Many people, because of the ignorance of the “mind,” are ignorant

in “action” and they end up having many difficulties in “life”

and die an untimely death. It is just as it says in my novel Desert

Hunters: “When the mind is illuminated, the road opens up.” It is precisely because their minds rise to a higher level and wisdom

appears, many people who were originally mired in difficulties at

last realize transcendence, and become people of accomplishment

in our eyes. We can pick out this kind of inspiration among many

illustrious names, such as Steve Jobs, who benefited from Zen.

And Zen, in the system of the Great Mudra, is the Great Mudra

of the Mark of Reality. From the Zen viewpoint, even the shadow

of death cannot cover the creative wisdom of Steve Jobs, and we

now still get to enjoy the series of Apple products he left behind.

Thus I have often said: “Life is created by the mind. Your

life is a reflection of your mind. The world that appears in your

eyes is also a reflection of your mind. Whatever kind of mindyou have, you will have that kind of life. Whatever kind of mind

you have, you will also have that kind of world. Only when your

mind goes from small to large, will your world go from small to

large. Without a change of mind, it is definitely impossible to have

a change in your life. Therefore, you can also call this book ‘a

prescription for building a life.’”

Around me there are many people who have changed their

lives and fates by relying on the wisdom of this book. Among

them are people suffering from fatal illnesses, those with serious

depression, those who did not want to go on living after the deaths

of people they were close to, those who had lost hope and were

sick of the world. Many of them, after coming into contact with

my writings, through a change of their minds, had their lives

elevated to a higher level. Thus, some friends hoped that I would

be able to take this kind of wisdom and communicate it in popular

form, without religious trappings, and in this way produce a book

that enables people who do not necessarily have religious beliefs

to detach from suffering and attain happiness.

The wisdom in this book has its source in traditional Great

Mudra Buddhism, and the author is a follower of the ShangpaKagyu Great Mudra. In my book The Great Mudra of Light: The

Heart of Real Practice (published by Central Compilation &

Translation Press), I concentrated on introducing the Shangpa

Kagyu School’s Five Diamond Teachings of Niguma. In its

procedure for completing (the mind of enlightenment) there is “the

method of the three branches.” What it conveys is the wisdom of

the present book:

“The excellent understanding of the Path of the Master

Teacher is understanding that all appearances are the Master

Teacher, understanding that the nature of the inherent mind is the

empty inherent nature, and thus achieving a definitive perception.

“The excellent understanding of the Fundamental Buddha is

that all appearances are Buddha Father and Buddha Motherthey

appear but have no inherent nature. (It is) understanding

that all that appears and all that is heard is the inherent mind, and

the nature of the inherent mind is the empty inherent nature, and

achieving a definitive perception.

“The path of (knowing that all things) are like an illusion is

definitively knowing that all appearances and thoughts are the

inherent mind, and definitively knowing that the inherent mind is

illusory transformation. If we investigate the inherent nature of

the six sense faculties and the corresponding six sense objects,

then we see that their inherent nature is empty, yet can manifest

appearances; apparent manifestations are not different from

emptiness; apparent manifestations have no inherent nature, and

are like illusory transformations. If we eliminate clinging and

attachment to discriminating thought, then amidst manifestations

and emptiness without clinging, we enter into profound meditative

concentration.”

内容简介

本书是作家雪漠通过简洁、朴实的语言，及多年观察生活、品味人生、感悟心灵后所写的一本心灵修行书。文中讲述的修行方法既能改变人们的“心”，也能改变人们的“行”，进而能改变人们的“命”。对于追求更深层次人生的读者来说，本书带来了集大成的哲学智慧，是一本现代人***的书籍。本书由美国著名汉学家J.C.Cleary翻译成英文，精装出版，值得珍藏。

作者简介

雪漠，原名陈开红，甘肃凉州人。国家一级作家，文化学者，甘肃省作家协会副主席，广州市香巴文化研究院院长。三度入围“茅盾文学奖”，荣获“冯牧文学奖”“上海长中篇小说优秀作品大奖”等奖项，连续五次获敦煌文艺奖，作品入选《中国文学年鉴》和《中国新文学大系》。代表作有西部小说系列：《野狐岭》《大漠祭》《猎原》《白虎关》《西夏咒》《西夏的苍狼》《无死的金刚心》《深夜的蚕豆声》等；西部文化系列：《一个人的西部》《特别清凉》《光明大手印》《空空之外》系列等；诗集：《拜月的狐儿》；入选“2015年中国品牌文化十大人物”，复旦大学肿瘤研究所“人文导师”，甘肃省委省政府授予其“甘肃省优秀专家”“德艺双馨文艺家”“拔尖创新人才”“领军人才”等称号。

柯利瑞（J.C.Cleary）1949年出生于美国加利福尼亚，毕业于哈佛大学，获得了东亚语言与文明博士、法学博士两个学位，是美国著名的汉学家、翻译家，曾翻译《孙子兵法》、《华严经》等。

目录

C o n t e n t s

Preface 1

First Series: The Immutable True Characteristic 1

There Is Nothing in the World That Can Last Forever 2

There Is No Way to Resist Impermanence, But It Should Not Be Feared 8

Flowing and Changing Causal Conditions Are the Mother of Change 14

Life Is a Giant Dream 21

The “Self” Is a Giant Illusion 28

What Do People Live For? 34

Section Two: Discover the Inherent Treasure of Life 41

The treasury of Life, Every One Possesses 42

True Happiness Is a Light in the Mind 49

All Are Memories, Past and Gone 55

Human Life Is a Continuous Struggle with “The Self ” 62

How Many People Can Make a Lucid Choice? 68

True Freedom Is the Wakefulness of Wisdom 74

Freedom Is a Matter of Mind in Accord with Mind 82

The Bright True Mind Is Always with You 89

Take Hold of the Opportunity, and Welcome the Awakening of

the Spiritual Nature 95

It’s Not That You Resolve a Question, It’s That There Is No Question 102

Section Three: Find Your True Enemy 109

We Have So Many Misunderstandings of the World and of Life 110

Do Not Fall into the Spider Web of Desire and Greed 117

The Discriminating Mind Is the Source of Myriad Evils 123

Wake Up From the Delusions of False Thoughts 129

Doubt Is the Great Enemy of Happiness 136

Anger and Arrogance Are Stumbling Blocks for Freedom 142

Keep Your Eyes Open, and Stay Far Away from Evil Companions 147

Section Four: Because of Wisdom, Life Changes 155

The Mind of Detachment Is Not a Temporary Emotion 156

The Enlightened Teacher Is a Beacon for the Spirit 163

Let Good Actions Change Your Mind and Spirit 170

True Maturity Is the Maturity of the Mind and Spirit 178

The Object of Cultivation Must Be Your Mind 185

Life Changes Because of Wisdom 192Preserve Pure Awareness, Listen to the Voice of the Inner Mind 198

Where There Are No Thoughts, Preserve a Spiritually Alive Awareness 205

Understand That Life Is Like a Dream, and Treat Yourself and Other People Well 212

The Clarity and Strength to Master Your Life Comes from the True Mind 220

Build Something Relatively Eternal amid Empty Illusion 226

Section Five: Plant the Seeds of Great Love in the

Field of the Mind 233

Real Solitude Is a Realm of Experience 234

Use the Mind That Transcends the World To Do Things in the World 240

To Do Well in the Present Moment Is the Best Ultimate Concern 245

Fundamentally, There Is No Conflict Between Believing It and Putting

It into Practice 251

Bad Theories Are the Soil that Breeds Evil Deeds 258

Good and Evil Go Together Like Light and Darkness 265

Plant Great Love in the Field of the Mind 271

Don’t Expect Yourself to Be Able to Hold onto Flowing Water 277

Afterword: What Is a Genuine Disciple Like? 283