第七辑 心灵能量层级 Volume 7: Energy Levels in Spiritual Practice
提升灵性能态的环境条件是什么？如何才能够提升个人的灵性能态呢？
What are the environmental conditions to elevate spiritual energy levels? How can we elevate our spiritual energy levels?
刚才都讲过了，就是要远离。刚开始你的能量很低，又不稳定，特别是你不稳定的时候，一定要远离这种低能态的，一定要去亲近比你境界高的人。
As mentioned earlier, staying away from challenging circumstances is necessary. In the beginning, your energy level is low and unstable. Especially when you are unstable, you must stay away from people with low energy levels and stay close to individuals with higher spiritual levels.
打比方你在某些方面差，不爱布施，比较吝啬，你就多去亲近爱布施的人，在他的影响下，你就慢慢地变得能布施，进步很快；
If you are weak in some aspects, for example, if you are stingy and reluctant to give, then you can stay close to people who love to give. Under their influence, you will gradually become generous and progress quickly.
有些忍辱能力差的人，你就跟安忍修得好的人在一起，你看见他的安忍，你就很惭愧，向他学习，你的安忍能力提升得就很快了；
If you are weak in patience, you can stay close to those who have cultivated strong patience. When you see their patience, you will feel ashamed and learn from them, leading to a swift progress in patience.
你比较愚钝，没有空性的智慧，你就跟无我空性智慧修得好的人多亲近；你的出离心比较差，你就跟有出离心的人在一起，向他学习，你不要去拖他的后腿，你不要向他散布负能量。
If you are ignorant and lack the wisdom of emptiness, you can stay close to those who have cultivated profound wisdom of non-self and emptiness. If your renunciation is weak, you can stay close to those who have genuine renunciation and learn from them. However, don't burden them and spread negative energy to them.
当然我们多接触这种书籍，这里说好的经典、音乐、影视，还有禅修，我们这个僧团是全方位地利用好的资源，来帮助大家提升，
Of course, we can engage more with such books, as well as good classics, music, movies, and meditation. Our monastic community makes full use of good resources to help everyone elevate.
不光师父的讲法，讲经说法是一部分，我们可以用音乐，还有我们在一起的共修，还有这些课程，只要你愿意接纳，你不要排斥。你要是一个完全的学习的心态，至少要有这种心态，知道大家是来帮助你提升的。
My teachings are just one part of it. We can also utilize music, group practice, and these retreat programs, as long as you are willing to accept and not reject. You should have a learner's attitude, at the very least, knowing that everyone is here to help you improve.
你的感恩心越强，那你学到的越多，提升得越高，这是肯定的嘛。强大的感恩心是非常重要的。一个人一旦忘恩就完蛋了，你的能量级别就开始转向了，就开始往下走了。
The stronger your gratitude, the more you will learn and the higher you will elevate. This is for sure. Having a strong sense of gratitude is crucial. Once a person becomes ungrateful, their energy level starts to drop.
我经常说嘛，不懂得感恩的人不要帮他，没用的，你是害他，你越帮他，他越不懂得感恩，他越索取。他已经完全处在一种索取的状态了，他索取的时候，没有任何的感恩心。这种人是不能帮的，你要教育他：“你要懂得感恩”。
As I often say, don't help ungrateful people; it's useless. You would harm them, because the more you help them, the less grateful they are, and the more they demand. They are in a state of total taking without any sense of gratitude. You can't help such people; instead, you should remind them to be grateful.
就像教育自己的孩子，你就说：“我把你养大，我不养你，你就是外面要饭的。” 在外面你受人家一碗饭，你都要感恩。在外面人家帮助你，哪怕坐地铁，人家给你让给座，你都说：“Thank you”。你都知道感谢一下。
Just like educating your own children, you can say, "I raised you, otherwise you would be begging outside." Even when someone outside gives you a bowl of rice, you are grateful. When someone helps you, even if they just give up their seat for you on the subway, you say, "Thank you", you know to show appreciation for every little help.
父母整天养着你、供你，你都不知道感恩的，怎么还会生气呢？你都索取。为什么你在外面，人家给你让个座、或者帮你背个包、或者取个东西，你都觉得“感谢、感谢”，你的感谢是假的是不是？
However, parents have been raising and supporting you all the time, but you don't even feel grateful to them. How can you get angry with them? You are totally a taker. When someone outside helps you, like giving up their seat for you or helping you carry a bag or fetch something, you say "Thank you, thank you." Is your gratitude insincere?
任何众生对我们的任何帮助你都感恩，说明你这个人有素质。但有些人是假的，他不懂得感恩，他只是为了骗取别人更多的利益，就是为了更好地索取，装得很感恩的样子，装的，不是真的感恩心。是不是这样？这个世界充满了这样的人。他很狡猾，他知道为了索取的话，要装得感恩的样子。
If you are grateful for any help from anyone, it shows you are well-mannered. However, some people are hypocrites. They are not truly grateful; they just pretend to be grateful in order to get more benefits from others. Isn't that so? This world is full of such people. They are cunning and know that in order to obtain something from others, they need to appear grateful.
你们识不破，你们就像唐僧一样，什么都不知道，就被他们骗了。不要做唐僧啊，一定要有孙悟空陪着你，没孙悟空你到不了西天啊，妖怪都把你吃了无数次了。真的，我们不能这样子，一定要有智慧。
You may not be able to see through them, just like Monk Tang, who didn't know anything and was easily deceived by others. Don't be like Monk Tang. You must have Monkey King by your side; otherwise, you won't reach the West, as the monsters would have eaten you countless times. Seriously, we can't be like this; we must have wisdom.
完全是索取的人，这种人能量级别就是急剧下降，基本上就是地狱饿鬼了，没有别的地方去了。
The energy level of a complete taker drops rapidly, and most likely, they will end up in the realms of hell or hungry ghosts, as there is nowhere else for them to go.
你还能拽得住他吗？你只要抓住他，他一下子就把你带跑了，他那个下降的速度太快了，你能拽得住他吗？你自己的能量级别也不是很稳定嘛，你也不是超强的。你有超强的能量也可以啊。
Can you still hold on to them? As soon as you grab them, they will drag you down with them. Their decline is too rapid, can you lift them up? Because your energy level is not very stable either, you are not super powerful. If you had super strong energy, then maybe you could.
你看佛菩萨走到杀人魔王那里，一靠近他立马杀心就没有了。再给他讲几句佛法，他就生起惭愧心来了。你有这么大能量吗？
Look, when a Buddha or Bodhisattva approaches a murderous man, his intent to kill instantly disappears; after sharing a few teachings with him, his sense of shame arises. Do you have such great energy?
佛的能量多大啊，他可以很短的时间内把一个杀人魔王给转变了。我们现在啊……当然我们对他们还是要保持一颗慈悲心就好了，保持一个慈悲，给他回向：“等我修好一点来救你”。
The Buddha's energy is immense; he can transform a murderous man in a very short time. As for us now...Of course, we should still be compassionate to them and dedicate our merits to them, "After I cultivate a better state, I will come to save you."
还有一个就是我说过的等待，对这种完全索取的人，一定要让他去碰壁，让他去地狱里受苦，让他在人间受苦受难，那个时候你再告诉他：“你要转变”。
Another point is patience, as I mentioned earlier. In regard to such complete takers, you should let them encounter obstacles, let them suffer in hell, let them suffer in the secular world, and then, you can tell them, "You need to change."
你原来就想帮助他，现在还是愿意帮助他，但是他必须要接纳你，要懂得感恩。要告诉他，人家对你所有的付出，你都要懂得去回报。
You have always wanted to help them, and you are still willing to do so, but they must accept you and be grateful. You should tell them that for all the efforts others have made for them, they should have a sense of giving back.
一个不知道付出的人，就完蛋了,没有利他的心,即使是利他也是为了更多的索取。
A person who doesn't give is hopeless. They never think of benefiting others, and even if they do so, it's only for the sake of taking more.
很多人利他就是为了更好地索取,这样的心态就是更加地贪婪，就是伪装得很好。我们要识破这种伪装的人，伪君子，就是他装得很善良，装得很感恩——假的。
Many people benefit others in order to take from them more conveniently. This motive is even more greedy. They are just good at pretending. We need to see through these hypocrites who pretend to be kind and grateful, but are actually fake.
末法时代这样的人特别特别多，骗子特别多。现在世界上充满了骗子，包括欺骗你的物质和感情。是不是这样？
In the Dharma-ending age, there are many people like this, many scammers. Nowadays, the world is full of scammers, deceiving you in material and emotions. Isn't that so?
所以现在很多剩女，为什么不愿意嫁？因为害怕被欺骗。充满了这样的人，欺骗你，索取你的物质和精神，包括感情他都欺骗，装得很好，一结婚就完了，全部都暴露出来。他不可能一直掩藏得了，一结婚所有的本性就暴露了。
That's why many women remain unmarried nowadays. Because they are afraid of being deceived. The world is full of such people who deceive you and take material and emotional gains from you. Even in relationships, they also deceive, pretending to be nice, but once married, their true colors are exposed. They can't hide it forever; once married, all their true colors are exposed.
所以你们基本上就是上当受骗的人，你们谁不是上当受骗？连师父有时候都要上当受骗，利用师父的慈悲。都一样，见得多了，我们也装着不知道。
So, almost all of you are easily deceived. Who has never been deceived? Including me, sometimes they even take advantage of my compassion. It's the same for all of us. There are so many scammers, and we just pretend to be unaware.
没办法，众生可怜，我们还是慈悲慈悲他。你们看那个《三打白骨精》，唐僧为了救白骨精，慈悲嘛，他就愿意去承受，这就是佛菩萨的慈悲。
This is the situation. Sentient beings are pathetic, so we still need to be compassionate to them. Have you watched the movie Beating the White-Bone Demon Three Times? In order to save the White-Bone Demon, Monk Tang, out of his compassion, was willing to endure hardships. This is the compassion of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
他已经不会被转化了，他愿意去等待，不管多少世，愿意去给你付出。佛菩萨的菩提心，对众生的慈悲心达到这个级别以后，他就愿意去陪伴这样的众生。
As he won't be negatively impacted, he is willing to wait. No matter how many lifetimes, he is willing to dedicate himself for you. The bodhichitta of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, as well as their compassion for sentient beings has reached such a level, so they are willing to accompany such beings.
像有些佛菩萨在地狱里度众生，他虽然在地狱里度众生，但是他没有苦嘛，他也是等待因缘的嘛，也不是一下把地狱里的众生都度出来了，这是不可能的。
Some Buddhas and Bodhisattvas save beings in hell, but they don't experience suffering. They are patiently waiting for the right conditions, as it's impossible to instantly liberate all beings from hell.
地藏菩萨一直待在地狱里，也是等待因缘。有因缘的时候，就使用一些善巧，把地狱里的众生引导出来。这都是佛菩萨的加持。
Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha chooses to stay in hell all the time, also waiting for the right conditions. When there are proper conditions, he uses skillful means to guide some beings out of hell. These are blessings from Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
没有佛菩萨的慈悲，地狱里的众生怎么出得来啊，更难出来，更漫长。
Without the compassion of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, how could beings in hell find a way out? It would be even more difficult and endless for them.
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