虽摄一切众生， 而不爱著，是菩萨行。

《维摩诘所说经》卷2

Although a bodhisattva benefits and guides allsentient beings, he or she has no attachment to

them. This is the Bodhisattva practice.

Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra, Vol. 2

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菩萨证悟之后，不急著去断我执，反而是从习气烦恼先开始断，是从般若见地的通达上面在努力用心。不断我执的目的就是要生生世世摄取众生(无量的未来世中不取涅槃而与众生广结法缘—摄取众生)，就是在摄取自己将来成佛时的佛土。可是菩萨摄取一切众生时却不对众生起贪爱和执著。如果摄取众生以后，对众生有贪爱与执著，就是落在眷属欲当中，就无法摄取到将来成佛的佛土。

《维摩诘经讲记》第四辑，页15

After a bodhisattva becomes enlightened, eliminating hisor her self-attachment is not the first priority. Instead,the focus is on eliminating habitual vexations and onacquiring a thorough understanding of prajna[transmundane wisdom]. The purpose of not eliminatingself-attachment is to allow a bodhisattva to benefit andguide sentient beings life after life (for the infinite future

lives, the bodhisattva does not enter remainderlessnirvana but widely develops relationship with sentientbeings through the Buddha dharma), thereby building uphis or her own future Buddha land when the bodhisattvabecomes a Buddha. However, in the course ofbenefitting and guiding all sentient beings, a bodhisattvadoes not develop greed for or attachment towardssentient beings. If greed or attachment develops in theprocess of benefiting and guiding sentient beings, thenthe bodhisattva has fallen into the desire for followers[the wish to have many followers] and cannot build uphis or her future Buddha land.

A Discourse on the Vimalakirti Nirdesa Sutra, Vol. 4, p.15

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导师法语

◎ “佛法只有一种，不可能有所演变；十方诸佛是一体的，三宝是一体的，没有哪一个三宝中的凡夫僧宝或者胜义僧宝可以自高于三宝之上。”假使有人把自己拉抬到三宝之上而传授四归依，我向你保证，那一定是外道，从来都不曾真的知道佛法。即使他已在佛门中剃发出家、受具足戒了，还是一个外道，因为他是心外求法，根本不懂三宝的真义。

平实导师著，《胜鬘经讲记》第三辑，正智出版社，2009 年3 月初版首刷，页307。