Transcript 魔考 - Rich Temple

魔 考
後學李長庚學講
壹.前言
一.胡蘿蔔、蛋與咖啡
豆的故事
THE CARROT, THE EGG
AND THE
COFFEE BEAN
Put three pots of water over the fire.
In the first pot, put some carrots.
In the second pot, put some eggs.
In the third pot, put some coffee beans
that have been grounded into coffee
powder.
Boil all three pots for 15 minutes.
Take out what you put in.
The carrots went in hard.
They are now soft.
The eggs went in soft inside.
Now they are hard inside.
The coffee
powder has
disappeared.
But the water has
the color and the
wonderful smell of
coffee.
Now think about life.
Life is not always easy.
Life is not always
comfortable.
Sometimes life is very
hard.
Things don’t happen
like we wish.
People don’t treat us
like we hope.
We work very hard but get few results.
What happens when we face difficulties?
Now think about the pots.
The boiling water is like
the problems of life.
We can be like the carrots.
We go in
tough and strong.
We come out
soft and weak.
We get very tired.
We lose hope.
We give up.
There is no more
fighting spirit.
Don’t be like the carrots!
We can be like the eggs.
We start with a
soft and
sensitive heart.
We end up very
hard and
unfeeling inside.
We hate others.
We don’t like
ourselves.
We become
hard-hearted.
There is no warm feeling,
only bitterness.
Don’t be like the eggs!
We can be like the coffee beans.
The water does
not change the
coffee powder.
The coffee
powder changes
the water!
The water has become different because
of the coffee powder.
See it.
Smell it.
Drink it.
The hotter the water, the better the taste.
We can be like the coffee beans.
We make something good from
the difficulties we face.
We learn new things.
We have new knowledge,
new skills, new abilities.
We grow in experience.
We make the world around us better.
To succeed, we must try… and try again.
We must believe in what we are doing.
We must not give up.
We must be patient.
We must keep pushing.
handle with care
Problems and difficulties give us the
chance to become stronger… and
better… and tougher.
What are we like when things
do not go well?
Are we like the carrot…
or the egg…
or the coffee bean?
Be like the coffee bean!
二.何謂魔考
1 魔：磨難以練其心志
考：考驗以驗其真偽
2 陰陽對待，相剋相生
3 麻落地即生…憂愁煩惱
鬼為不正心念，初發難察覺
三.你喜歡考試嗎？
Are you ready ？
四.王陽明的魔考與成就
1.好心一定有好報嗎？
2.人處困境，如何自處
3.助緣
4.不要看一時榮辱得失
5.壞蛋劉瑾是增上緣
貳.魔考真意
1. 分真偽
2. 消冤孽
3. 化秉性
4. 定品位
一.分真偽
1.人心各如其面都不同
2.一試便知
3.孔子耶穌穆罕默德
二.消冤孽
1.善惡業報分明
2.遭考不遭劫
3.金剛經：重罪輕報
4.分期付款
5.福慧雙修的重要
三.化秉性
1. 脾氣毛病
2. 不經一事：不長一智
3. 另作新民
四.定品位
1. 真道真考驗人心
天上果位人間定
2. 孔子陳蔡絕糧
3. 德慧菩薩懿德永昭
4. 邱長春天仙狀元
參.魔考種類與應對方法
1.外行看熱鬧，內行看門道
2.了解問題，對症下藥
3.氣度寬宏的人，不論所處環
境順逆，皆能適度以應之
一.內考
1. 久病不癒，水火之災，盜賊
之患
2. 小病因不注意，大病有因緣
3. 老前人的肺
4.感之以誠，上天撥轉
5. 無常迅速，快划才能到彼岸
二.外考
1. 親友毀謗，鄰里譏笑，官府不容
2. 歷代聖賢大都不見容於當道
3. 信之以理
4. 永嘉大師證道歌：從他謗，任他非，
把火燒天徒自疲，我聞恰似飲甘露，
觀惡言，是功德，此則成我善知識，
不因訕謗起怨親
三.氣考
1. 恩將仇報，不白之冤
2. 寬宏大量，不要拿別人的錯誤來懲罰
自己
3. 舍利弗的眼睛
4. 邱吉爾騎自行車
5. 有人打你右臉，左臉也轉過來給他打
6. 會生氣是心中已有生氣的種子
四.奇考
1. 傾家蕩產，夫妻離散，兒女死亡
2. 陸正的父母陸晉德先生邱素蓮女士
3. 美國太空總署驚魂記
4. 嘉義基督教醫院的那位老太太
5. 文慈菩薩
6. 智慧有限，守理認命，信靠上天
五.順考
1.凡：妻恩子愛，聲色貨利
聖：前賢稱讚，後學附合
2.40歲是危險的年齡
3.鳩摩羅什的考驗
4. 對長輩謙虛是禮貌，對平輩謙虛是本分
對晚輩謙虛是美德，對所有人謙虛是安全
5.順來逆受，有時當思無時苦
六.逆考
1.凡：親人怨忿，環境困苦
聖：前賢無情，後學鄙視
2. 一位講師吃素的考驗
3. 舊約視順境為神賜的福
新約視逆境為神賜的恩
4. 逆來順受，甘願做歡喜受
5. 得時蟻行，失時鵲起
七.顛倒考
1. 先貧後富，得意忘形，棄絕
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道念。 先富後貧，怨天尤人，
退志不前
大陸淪陷有錢人變逃難客
鄧氏錢通天下，怎麼會餓死？
惠圓大帥的岡山豆瓣醬
素位而行
八.道考
1. 內：同修言行不顧，有違仁義
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外：三十六假祖師，七十二假弓長
未證悟都是凡夫，互相漏氣求進步
新道好異端，老到好自專
金剛經：一切有為法，如夢幻泡影，
如露亦如電，應作如是觀
包容向道，無貪無妄，認理實修
肆.結論-1
1. 釋迦牟尼佛證佛前之魔考
2. 寶王三昧論：修行不求無魔，
行無魔則誓願不堅
3. 與魔共舞
4. 魔考是心念感招業力現前，
慎心物於隱微才是治本之道
5. 田螺含水過冬天
肆.結論-2
6.孟子：天將降大任於斯人也，
必先苦其心志，勞其筋骨，餓
其體膚，空乏其身，行拂亂其
為，所以動心忍性，增益其所
不能。人恆過，然後能改，困
於心、衡於慮，而後能作。
7.福慧雙修，魔考中成就