时间：03/21/2026 03/22/2026
地点：星海禅修中心
主讲：净真
佛法修行
猕猴入海喻
过去，在一海岸边有树林，方圆数十里中住了五百多只猕猴。有一次，海水上有聚沫，高达数十丈，看上去就像雪山一样，随着潮水而来、停住岸边。
众猕猴看到了，互相说道：「我们到山顶上四处游戏，岂不是很快乐！」当时，其中一只猕猴便率先登上山顶，一跃而下，直接没入水底。其他猕猴们看牠那么久都没出来，觉得奇怪，以为是这座泡沫山里面很好玩，牠玩得非常快乐，所以不出来。于是，所有猕猴便竞相跳入泡沫中，结果全都溺死了。
佛借此以为譬喻：「海水是生死海，泡沫山是五阴积聚之身，猕猴是人之识神，人不知五阴是空，愚痴迷惑、贪着爱欲，由此没于生死海中，无有出期。」因此《维摩诘经》云：「是身如聚沫，澡浴强忍。」
Date: 03/21/2026 03/22/2026
Location: Star Ocean Meditation Center
Teacher: Sara
Dharma Talk
The Parable of the Monkeys Entering the Sea
In the past, there was a forest by the seashore, where more than five hundred macaques lived within a radius of several dozen li. Once, masses of sea-foam gathered upon the water, rising to a height of several tens of zhang. They looked like a snow mountain as they drifted in with the tide and came to rest by the shore.
When the monkeys saw this, they said to one another, “Would it not be delightful if we were to go up to the summit of that mountain and play about there?” At that time, one monkey took the lead, climbed to the top, and leapt down, plunging straight into the water beneath. When the others saw that it had not emerged for a long time, they found this strange. They assumed that the interior of this mountain of foam must be a wonderful place for amusement, and that it was enjoying itself so greatly that it did not wish to come out. Therefore, all the monkeys competed with one another to jump into the foam, and in the end they all drowned.
The Buddha used this as a simile: “The seawater is the sea of birth-and-death (saṃsāra); the mountain of foam is the body formed by the aggregation of the Five Skandhas; the monkeys are analogous to the human conscious spirit. Not knowing that the Five Skandhas are empty, people, in ignorance and delusion, become attached to sensual desire and craving, and thus sink into the sea of birth-and-death, with no prospect of escape.”
Therefore, the Vimalakīrti Sūtra says: “This body is like a mass of foam, forced to endure repeated washing and bathing.”
