Each Moment is a Chance to Cultivate 修行在每一當下

Every moment is now. Photo by Andreas Haubold on Unsplash

Cultivating in each moment opens the way to the Tao.  If you can see through the world and gently let it go, no trouble will linger in your heart.  If you see the world as beautiful, it reveals its beauty.  If you see it as filled with worry and pain, that too becomes real.

Why is that? Because your senses follow the pull of the world, and thoughts rise and fall like waves—until you find yourself caught, without even knowing why. That’s why we feel joy, anger, sadness, and happiness—and go through the changes of meeting and parting, gaining and losing, again and again.

There’s nothing in this world that can truly trap you—except the trap you set for yourself.  If you wish to live a good and meaningful life, learn to see the world with gentle awareness and an open heart.  If you’re not troubled by the world around you, and your heart stays steady and clear, then to rest in a peaceful mind—isn’t that a deep kind of freedom?

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南天方恩師 慈訓

聖示：修行在每一當下，而每一當下就是道。世間一切如能看得透、看得破，自然沒有任何事困擾心靈。人活這世間說美好確是美好，說充滿煩惱痛苦確實也是如此。何因？因為人的六根六賊攝受產生心念波動，不自主受到束縛，正因如此才會衍生喜怒哀樂、悲歡離合變化作用。

世上沒有一樣能困住您，唯有您自困其中啊！是以人要活得精彩美好，理應用心看待世間，不受其境困擾，不著其境惑心，樂個清淨心豈不自在。

This is a humble attempt at the translation. The source of this scripture is here.