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我們修道，不要修來修去，還在名利、人我是非上鑽著，還想在這權力上用功夫，這完全錯了！
我們過新年，要發大誓願，一定要改過遷善。改過自新要怎樣呢？要「諸惡莫作，眾善奉行，自淨其意，是諸佛教。」自己淨其意，就是收拾乾淨你內部的這些毛病。你不收拾乾淨，就會又爭、又貪、又求、又自私、又自利、又打妄語！尤其這個打妄語，你日用行為，一舉一動都會打妄語。好像你有什麼過錯，自己不承認，推到旁人身上去，往旁人身上推，這就是打妄語。你自己不老實，想要得到便宜，得到利益，這都是邋遢東西。所以你要是沒有邋遢東西，就會不爭、不貪、不求、不自私、不自利、和不打妄語了。
尤其出家人，打妄語一定下無間地獄的，一定沒有救的。因為你騙人騙己，欺負佛菩薩，欺騙佛菩薩，你瞪眼睛說瞎話，這都是要不得的。若你不知道厲害，將來墮地獄就後悔遲了。所以出家人受過戒律，無論如何，不能打妄語的，不能自己有過就往旁人身上推，自己不承認。一定要這樣子的，要老老實實地修行，要實實在在地修行，要沒有一切的貪求來修行。這樣子，你把自己收拾乾淨，你的智慧五眼六通自然現前；你不把自己收拾乾淨，就想得五眼六通啊？一通也不通，一慧也不慧，什麼都不懂！就是在那兒愚癡，愚魯盲混，不講道理。
至理名言莫忽略
我講這六大條款，是給要成佛的人講的，要成菩薩的人講的，給要成聲聞羅漢的人講的，給天人講的，給鬼神講的，凡夫聽到這個道理啊！你不要把它看輕了，說：「噢！我們做生意，不爭又不行，不貪不行，不求不行，不自私不行，不打妄語不行，不自利不行。」天天就做一個財迷，財迷買彩票，想中第一，這都離道太遠了。你放著真正值錢的道理，不學，盡找那些污濁邋遢、不值錢的東西。人世間的財是最邋遢的東西，它把人支配得顛顛倒倒，煩煩惱惱，爭爭吵吵，都是為了這個東西。你看看！那有錢的人，他也不會用錢，他用什麼？吃喝嫖賭股，吃喝玩樂。以為這是快樂，結果就造地獄的深因，絕天堂的道路，這是很危險的。
你有錢不會用錢，這是很苦惱的一件事，就拿錢來造罪業，以為這是便宜，這是好事啊？這是吃大虧的。消耗你的智慧光明，法身慧命，都因為你盡貪玩樂，所以把自己前程都耽誤了。你本來應該成佛的也不成了，本來應該成菩薩的也不成了，應該成聲聞緣覺的也不成了，甚至於連天也不能上了。一般凡夫修十善法，就是不殺、盜、淫，不犯貪、瞋、癡，不犯綺語、妄言、惡口、兩舌，這十惡。你若能不這樣子，就會生天的；你若盡這樣子做，這一定墮地獄。
今天是新年的第二天，我一再向你們說這個至理名言，你們要記得，不要忽略。我今天講的是最要緊的道理，你們若能身體力行，終身用之，則不能盡之矣！都用不完的。就是這麼很淺顯的一句話，我也不願意說出來的話，令人聽了格格不入，不明白，所以我講話都用很淺顯的文字，來對你們大家說。
不貪名利不貪花
最後我讀道教的邱處機，這位真人所說的幾句話，他說：「不貪名利不貪花」，不貪花就是不貪女人，名利他也不要，女人他也不要。「終朝每日臥彩霞」，他每日都在清靜的道裡頭用功夫。「肚餓猿猴獻桃果」，肚子若餓了，那猿猴會給送桃子來吃。「口渴龍女送檬茶」，口若渴了，龍女送一杯茶來。「勝如漢口三千戶」，那時候在宋明之間，他說我這生活，比漢口三千戶都好得很。「強似京都百萬家」，我比這百萬家都好，他們旁的沒有，只有爭爭吵吵，煩煩惱惱，一天到晚忙忙碌碌，就為的這個利。我是不要這個東西了，不貪名利，也不想做官去，也不想有什麼權位。所以，
不貪名利不貪花，終朝每日臥彩霞，
肚餓猿猴獻桃果，口渴龍女獻檬茶，
勝如漢口三千戶，強似京都百萬家。
你看！他說這話是很透徹，很明白的。所以我們修道，不要修來修去還在名利、人我是非上鑽著，還想在這權力上用功夫，這完全錯了！
我說的都是人不願意聽的話，但是我願意說，誰不願意聽的，我願意說，這沒法子。
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In cultivation, we should not pursue fame
and profit, make discriminations of self and others, discuss
rights and wrongs, or be seeking after power. This is
totally wrong!
To celebrate the new year, we have to make a great
resolve to definitely change and become good. How do we wipe
the slate clean? "Do no evil, and practice all good. Purify your own mind. This is the teaching of all Buddhas." Purifying
your mind means wiping clean the bad habits inside you. If
you don't clean it up, you will contend, be greedy, seek, be
selfish, pursue personal benefits, and tell lies. If you
tell lies, you lie in every action and deed in your daily
life. For example, you make a mistake, but instead of
admitting it, you put the blame on someone else. By
shifting the blame to others, you are telling a lie. If you
are dishonest and you try to get a personal advantage and
profit, your behavior is filthy. If you don't behave in such
a filthy way, you wouldn't contend, be greedy, seek outside,
be selfish, seek personal benefit, or tell lies.
If you are a left-home person
and you lie, you will surely fall into the Relentless Hells,
and no one will be able to save you. That's because you
cheat yourself and others, you bully and cheat all the
Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, and you deceive others with your
eyes wide open. These are very bad ways of behaving.
You may not know how serious this is, but when you fall into
the hells, it'll be too late for regrets. A left-home person who has been ordained should never
tell lies, blame his own faults on others, and not confess
his mistakes, under any circumstances. You must cultivate
honestly and truly. You must not
have any greed in cultivation. In this way, once you have
cleaned up your act, your wisdom, your five eyes, and your
six penetrations will appear. But if you don't do it this
way, and you try to get the five eyes and six penetrations,
you won't attain a single penetration or any wisdom, and you
will understand nothing! You will simply be ignorant, blind
and confused, and you will make no sense.
Don't Ignore Truthful Remarks
The Six Great Guidelines were spoken for those who want to become Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Sound-hearers, Arhats, heavenly beings, and ghosts. Ordinary people shouldn't look down on them and say, "Oh! We do business, and it's not possible for us to not contend, not be greedy, not seek, not be selfish, not want personal profits, and not tell lies." Craving money all day long, and buying lottery tickets in the hope of winning first prize, you are simply too far from the Way. Putting aside the really valuable principles, you always try to find contaminated and worthless things. The dirtiest thing in the world is money.
Money causes people to be muddled and afflicted, so that they quarrel constantly. Take a look at rich people. They don't know how to spend their money. What do they spend it on? They spend it on eating, drinking, gambling, patronizing whorehouses and buying stocks, living a dissipated life. They think these things bring happiness, but they are actually planting deep causes for falling into the hells, and cutting off their path to the heavens. This is really dangerous.
If you have money but don't know how to make good use of it, you are in a vexing situation. When you spend money to create karmic offenses, do you suppose you are getting a bargain? Do you think it's a good thing? You are actually taking a big loss. It exhausts your light of wisdom, your Dharma-body and your wisdom life. Greedy for enjoyment, you ruin your own future. Originally, you should have become a Buddha, a Bodhisattva, a Sound-hearer, or One Enlightened by Conditions, but you didn't, and you can't even go to the heavens. Ordinary people cultivate the ten good deeds: no killing, no stealing, no sexual misconduct, no greed, no hatred, no stupidity, no frivolous speech, no false speech, no harsh words, no double-tongued speech. If you don't violate the ten good deeds, you will be born in the heavens. If you constantly violate them, you will surely fall into the hells.
This is the second day of the new year. I have talked about these truthful principles over and over. You must remember them; don't ignore them. These principles are of the utmost importance. If you can put them into practice and uphold them lifelong, you will enjoy the benefit forever! What I said was superficial and obvious. I don't want to say something that nobody can understand. That's why I always talk in plain language to all of you.
Don't Crave Fame, Profit, and Beautiful Women
Finally, I am going to read you some words by a Taoist cultivator named Qiu Chu-ji. He said, "With no greed for fame and profit, and no greed for flowers." "Flowers" refer to women. He did not want fame and profit, nor did he want women. "I lie upon rosy clouds, day in and day out." He cultivated the principles of purity and stillness. "When I am hungry, a monkey offers me peaches." If he was hungry, a monkey would send him peaches. "When I am thirsty, the Dragon Girl sends me tea." When he was thirsty, the Dragon Girl sent him a cup of tea. "This life is superior to that of the three thousand families in Han-kou." At the time, between Sung and Ming Dynasties, he said his life was better than that of the three thousand families in Han-kou. "It's better than that of the million families in the capital." I am better off than those families. Their lives are filled with quarreling and afflictions. They are busy from morning to night, all for the sake of profit. I don't want any of that. I have no desire for fame or profit. I don't want to be a government official, nor do I want power or position. Therefore,
With no greed for fame and profit, and no greed for flowers,
I lie upon rosy clouds, day in and day out.
When I am hungry, a monkey offers me peaches.
When I am thirsty, the Dragon Girl sends me tea.
This life is superior to that of the three thousand families in Han-kou.
It's better than that of the
million families in the capital.
Take a look! What he said was penetrating and clear. In cultivation, we should not pursue fame and profit, make discriminations of self and others, discuss rights and wrongs, or be seeking after power. This is totally wrong!
The things that I say are all things that people don't like to hear. But I wish to say them, so even if people do not want to listen, there is nothing I can do.
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