时间：10/16/2027 10/17/2027
地点：星海禅修中心
主讲：净诚
佛法修行
慧不贪欲
佛陀在舍卫国的祇洹精舍度众时，城中有一大富长者，育有一子，年约十二、三岁。当长者夫妇往生时，其子年纪尚幼，不善理家，所以没有几年便散尽家产，落得以乞讨为生。一天，他父亲生前的一位好友，同样也是大富长者，在街头见到这位晚辈落魄的情景，询问详由后，心生怜悯，便决定帮助他脱离这样的困境。父亲的好友不但将女儿许配给他，并送给他车马、奴婢及巨额的财产；不但如此，还帮他建立房舍，另立门户。
但是长者子生性懒散，又不善于理家算计，所以不久又坐吃山空，家财耗尽。长者不忍女儿受苦，只好又给了他一笔钱，没想到长者子故态复萌，无可救药，最后还是将钱花光。父亲的好友认为既已多次救济他财物，他却始终挥霍无度，无法造就，便想要强迫女儿改嫁他人。正当父亲与族人商议此事时，女儿不小心听到这个消息，回去即告诉丈夫详情，并说：“我家财势强大，一定能够逼你答应。你又不会谋生，若不想分离，一定要赶紧想想办法。”长者子听到妻子的话，惭愧不已，心想：“我天生福薄，早年失怙，又不擅理家营计，今日必定失去爱妻，重当乞儿。往日恩爱，已难分难舍，若要生离，无异死别，情何以堪？”长者子想来想去，心生恶念：“死也要死在一起。”便将妻子骗入房中，并且拿出预藏的尖刀，刺死妻子后再自杀，最后双双毕命。奴婢发现后惊吓不已，飞也似地跑去告诉长者，长者知道后连忙前往探视，但已无法挽回。敛葬时，长者一家为女儿的猝逝哀伤不已，不忍离去。后来听说佛陀在世间教化众生，只要见到了佛陀，皆能心生欢喜，除去忧恼，于是长者带着一家大小前往精舍，参见佛陀。
长者一行来到精舍后，至诚礼拜佛陀。佛陀问长者为何而来，怎么如此愁忧不喜？长者回答：“女儿嫁了一位愚痴的丈夫，因为无法自立谋生，又不愿分离，所以杀了自己的妻子后自尽，造成家门不幸。我们刚刚就是去参加他们的葬礼。因为听闻佛陀慈悲，能解人忧恼，所以特地前来觐见佛陀。”于是佛陀为长者及在场大众开示：“贪欲及瞋恚是世人的常病，愚痴无智是祸害之门，众生因此堕落三界五趣的深渊中，流转生死，无有穷尽，却仍不知悔改，更何况是愚痴之人，哪能看得清呢？此贪欲之毒能丧身灭族，害及众生，而不仅是这对夫妻。”接着，世尊说了一首偈语：
“愚以贪自缚，不求度彼岸；贪为财爱故，
害人亦自害。爱欲意为田，淫怒痴为种；
故施度世者，得福无有量。伴少而货多，
商人怵惕惧；嗜欲贼害命，故慧不贪欲。”
长者听了佛陀的偈语后，忧恼顿消，法喜充满。与其他族人等在场听众，破二十亿恶，证得须陀洹果。
Date: 10/16/2027 10/17/2027
Location: Star Ocean Meditation Center
Teacher: Jason
Dharma Talk
Wisdom Does Not Cling to Desire
While the Buddha was teaching beings at Jetavana Monastery in Śrāvastī, there was a great wealthy elder in the city who had a son about twelve or thirteen years old. When the elder and his wife passed away, the son was still young and incapable of managing the household. Within a few years, he squandered all the family wealth and was reduced to begging. One day, a friend of his late father, also a wealthy elder, saw his destitute condition on the street. After learning the details, he felt compassion and decided to help him out of his predicament. This friend not only gave his daughter in marriage to him, but also provided carriages, servants, and great wealth, and even established a new household for him.
However, the young man was inherently lazy and unskilled in managing resources. Before long, he again exhausted all his wealth. The elder, unable to bear his daughter’s suffering, gave him more money, but the young man repeated his old habits and squandered everything once more. Seeing that repeated aid was futile, the elder decided to force his daughter to remarry. When the daughter overheard this, she informed her husband and urged him to find a solution. The young man, filled with shame and despair, thought that losing his wife would be unbearable, like death itself. He gave rise to a wicked thought: “If we must die, we will die together.” He deceived his wife into a room, killed her with a hidden knife, and then took his own life. Both died.
The servants, terrified, informed the elder, who rushed to the scene but could not reverse the tragedy. At the funeral, the family was overwhelmed with grief. Later, hearing that the Buddha was in the world teaching and relieving suffering, they went to the monastery to see him.
After bowing, the Buddha asked why they were so sorrowful. The elder explained the incident. The Buddha then taught, “Greed and anger are common afflictions of the world. Ignorance is the gateway to calamity. Because of these, beings fall into the cycles of birth and death within the three realms and five destinies without end, yet remain unaware and unrepentant. The poison of greed destroys lives and families, harming countless beings, not only this couple.” The World-Honored One then spoke a verse:
“The foolish bind themselves with greed,
Seeking not to cross to the other shore.
For the sake of wealth and desire,
They harm others and themselves.
Desire is the field of the mind,
Lust, anger, and delusion are the seeds.
Thus those who give transcend the world,
Gaining immeasurable blessings.
With few companions and much wealth,
Merchants live in constant fear.
Craving robs and destroys life—
Therefore the wise do not cling to desire.”
Upon hearing the verse, the elder’s sorrow vanished, and he was filled with Dharma joy. Together with the others present, they eradicated vast evil karma and attained the fruit of Stream-entry.
