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方才楊果新來給你們講這個公案，你們不要以為他講的是無稽之談，這都有可能的。那個豬也是互相為父母，狗也是互相為父母，為子女，都是一樣的。眾生裏頭，都是互相作移民，互相做交流，靈性互相變換，總是自己想要找一個新房子住。於是乎，就「出馬腹，入驢胎，閻王殿前幾度回。」「始從帝釋殿前過」，剛剛從天上帝釋天那兒走過去。「又到閻君鍋裏來」，又到閻羅王那個油鍋裏去。
所以我們人歡喜旅行，那個靈魂也歡喜去旅行，以為這是遊戲，很好玩的；有的時候就走到平安的地方，好像住在Hotel（旅館）似的；你享受的也有廁所、Bath（浴室）、彈簧床，睡到上面，覺得，「啊！比自己家裏好。」就因為貪享受；吃的也要吃有味的，住的也要住富貴的地方，住名貴的。這麼樣一來就走錯路了；貪吃有味的就吃雞鴨魚肉，變著方法去吃，吃完了就要還債。短人家的錢，就要還人家錢；你短人家的肉，怎麼會不還肉？所以自己吃得那麼多，想要扛債不還，也不行了。於是乎嘛！也就去做這個豬呀、牛呀、羊的眷屬了，好還報。
你們看！以前美國有一個雞肉大王，賣燒雞的那個大王。你細一研究研究他那個樣子，就和一個老公雞一樣，所以他一天要殺幾萬隻雞，無數那麼多。為什麼呢？他因為過去被人家吃過，他的眷屬被吃得那麼多，所以今生他來作人，這些個吃雞的人又都去變雞了，又該被他殺了給他吃，都互相加肥料；他給他加一點肥料，他好去作雞，他給他加一點肥料，也令他將來也作雞，互相培植著來生的因，種來生的果報。
所以你看賣羊肉的那個人，他那個樣子就像羊一樣。他因為前生被人家吃，吃得太厲害了，他今生也要報仇雪恨，所以他這作羊了。那些個吃羊肉的人呢？又去作羊了，又來還報。賣牛肉的那個人，你看看他那個眼睛，像個牛一樣的，一點都不差的！賣羊肉的人一定像羊，賣雞肉的人像雞，賣火雞的就像火雞那個樣子。你們各處看看，賣魚的人那個樣子就像魚。我雖然也沒有吃過那些個東西，但是我一看我就知道，原來賣什麼的就是什麼轉的，他在這兒就報什麼了。所以這個世界就這麼樣業網交織，輪迴不息，業網互相通著的。
今天這一段文就說得很清楚。我藉著今天這一段文給你們說明因緣果報這種關係；或者這個人和畜生也業網互相交織，輪迴不息；或者那個人就愛那個狗，這個狗又托生做一個很漂亮的男孩子，就找以前吃他肉的那個人作他太太。
在我東北拉林縣，就有一個我結拜的兄弟。你看我結拜的兄弟什麼樣人都有！他前生是幹什麼的呢？作戲子，作電影明星。他是唱很斯文的戲，盡唱小生的，所以今生就長得是文質彬彬的樣子。可是結婚一個太太胖乎乎的那麼福不隆咚的樣子，原來就是他前生做戲跟著他的一個小母狗。因為他愛這個小母狗，他托生又去做人，這個小母狗就來作他太太。可是你猜怎麼樣啊？一天到晚梆梆梆、梆梆梆，就像小狗那麼咬他似的一天到晚和他吵架，吵得他想擺脫也擺脫不開。於是乎就說，「怎麼辦哪？怎麼辦哪？」就這麼一天到晚愁眉得不得了。所以做戲的愛一個狗，來世作夫婦。
那麼要是女的呢？或者也是愛一個狗，就去作丈夫，也一天到晚打架。或者那個丈夫——那個小公狗，歡喜找另外的母狗去，所以等作人了他還想找另外一個女人；找另外女人，這就爭風喝醋，搞得烏煙瘴氣。你說可憐不可憐？我今天就大概說這麼多。
所以今天羅果力提到去欲斷愛，真要去欲斷愛。所以我問他，「你真的嗎？」他不敢承認，在那個地方支吾以對，搪塞其辭了。那麼這就是人身在六道輪迴裏頭做這個戲，喔！一出生做人的時候，就覺得，「忽忽以無憂，作人有什了不起」的樣子就在那兒顛顛倒倒，四面八方去跑。
鞭驢出血，誰知吾母之悲，把那個驢子打得出血了；哪一個——「誰」就是哪一個——哪一個人知道這個驢本來就是前生他母親作的驢，在那兒哭得很厲害，悲痛得忍不住，他也不知道？
待續
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Just now Yang Guo Xin related a story. It is possible that such things could happen. Pigs and dogs have been our parents and children. Living beings keep swapping places in their relationships to one another. The process is similar to immigration or moving house. Our souls keep looking for new houses to stay in. As the saying goes:
Out of the horse's belly into the donkey's womb,
You pass back and forth before King Yama's Court.
Having just gone through Lord Shakra's palace,
You now enter King Yama's pot of boiling oil.
Just as we people like to travel, our souls also like to travel. We think it is fun to play around. Sometimes when we reach a peaceful place, it is like staying in a hotel room with its own toilet, bath and a comfortable spring bed to sleep. We think: "Ah, this is so much more comfortable than my house." We are greedy to enjoy our blessings, eating all the delicious food and dwelling in high class luxury. However, we will go down the wrong road if we continue to be greedy and enjoy our blessings. We are greedy for delicious food, eating chickens, ducks, and fish cooked in various ways. Once you eat them, you owe a debt. When you owe people money, you have to pay back the money; when you eat the flesh of creatures, you have to pay back in flesh. There is no way you can escape; you have to become a pig, cow, or goat to pay back your debt.
Previously in America there was a Great Chicken King who sold fried chicken. If you take a close look at him, you will find that he looked like an old rooster. In a single day, he was responsible for the slaughtering of tens of thousands of chickens, an uncountable number of chickens. Why? In his previous life, he and his relatives were eaten by people, so in this life he became a person and those people who ate him and his relatives became chickens for him to slaughter. He gave people a chance to become chickens by feeding them fried chickens. This is planting the karma for them to become chickens.
So if you take a look, those who sell goat meat bear a striking resemblance to goats. In this life they want to take revenge because they were eaten by people before. Those who eat goat meat will have to pay back the debt by becoming goats. Also, if you look at people who sell beef, their eyes usually resemble those of a cow. Those who sell goat's meat look like goats; those who sell beef look like cows; those who sell turkey meat look like turkeys. Take a good look around: even those who sell fish look like fish. Although I don't eat those creatures, by looking at people I can tell what their occupation is, since their features resemble those of the creatures they have killed. Everything in the world is interwoven in a net of karma, within which we keep on transmigrating in the paths of rebirth.
Today I am going to talk about cause and effect since we have come to this part of the essay. This is about how people and animals keep trading places in the cycle of birth and death. This is about a person who loved his dog very much. This dog became a handsome man in his next life and then sought out the person who ate its flesh to become his wife.
There was a person in Lalin County, Manchuria, who is my sworn brother. I have all types of people as my sworn brothers. This person had been an actor and a movie star in his past life. He used to play the part of a refined gentleman, so in this life he is refined and elegant, but he married a rather plump wife. When he had been an actor, he had a beloved female dog that always followed him around. He was reborn as a man, and the dog was reborn as a fat lady who became his wife. Guess what happened? Every day the wife would nag at him, like a little dog nipping at him, quarrelling with him day and night. He tried to get rid of her but couldn't. He was distressed day and night, saying: "What am I to do? What am I to do!" So, the actor and his beloved dog became husband and wife in the next life. If it had been a woman who loved a dog, the dog would become her husband in next life and would bicker with her day and night. If her husband in his previous life as a male dog had loved another female dog, in this life he might go and look for another woman. Then there will be jealousy and fighting all the time. How pathetic! Today I will just talk about this in general.
Luo Guo Li said today that he wanted to cut off desire and love. I asked him if he really meant it. He dared not say so. He just hemmed and hawed and uttered some nonsense. That's why people keep on revolving in the six paths, behaving as if they were acting in the play. So soon after birth you have no worry; you feel that after all being a human is nothing so great; therefore you just run around in all directions in confusion.
"We whip the mule until it bleeds: Who could know that it is our mother in anguish?" The word "who" tells us to investigate; does the person know that the mule is actually his own mother in the past life? The mother cries so piteously, yet he does not recognize her.
To be continued
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