发愿的重要性：在菩提伽耶应做什么

During the latter part of 2014, Orgyen Tobgyal Rinpoche organized drupchens in both Lerab Ling and Bir before making his way to Bodhgaya in December. Quite by chance, under the Bodhi Tree he bumped into two students who had attended the drupchens. Eager not waste such a precious opportunity, they quickly asked Rinpoche to grant them the lung (reading transmission) for the Manjushri Nama Samghiti (The Tantra of the Names of Manjushri). A reasonable, even an auspicious request, you might think. But no. For those with the merit to find themselves under the great Bodhi Tree, said Rinpoche, to ask for a lung is rather missing the point…

2014年下半年，乌金督佳仁波切先后在法国 列绕林 和印度比尔主持大修法会，之后于12月前往菩提伽耶。他在菩提树下偶然遇见两名参加过大修法会的弟子。他们不愿错过如此珍贵的机会，便赶紧请求仁波切赐予《文殊真实名经》（即《文殊名号续》）的口传。你可能会觉得，这是个合理甚至吉祥的请求。然而并非如此。仁波切说，对有福德来到大菩提树下的人而言，请求口传反倒没有抓住要点……

Buddha Shakyamuni felt boundless compassion for every single being. It is said it was this boundless compassion that moved him to make five hundred ‘mighty aspirations’ for sentient beings, the direct result of which was that he awoke fully to enlightenment—which shows us just how crucial it is for us to make aspiration prayers. You can receive a reading transmission anywhere, but you will only become a ‘buddha’ through the power of aspiration.

释迦牟尼佛对每一个众生都有无量悲心。据说，正是这无量悲心促使他为众生发下五百大愿，其直接结果便是他完全觉悟、成就佛果。这就让我们明白，发愿对我们有多么重要。你在哪里都可以获得口传，但唯有依靠愿力，才能成为「佛」。

The aspiration for enlightenment arises out of your compassion for all sentient beings, and it's this compassion that motivates us to make the aspirations that eventually result in buddhahood. So the first step towards buddhahood is to arouse your compassion.

求证菩提之愿，源于你对一切众生的悲心。正是这份悲心促使我们发愿，而这些愿最终成就佛果。因此，迈向佛果的第一步，就是生起悲心。

Sentient beings in the three-thousand-fold world system are deluded by their own thoughts. We all imagine a ‘self’ where there is no ‘self’. And based on this fundamental misperception, samsara’s delusions unfold. If you undertake countless bodhisattva activities, you will eventually perfect the accumulations of merit and wisdom; the more merit you accumulate, the more obscurations you eliminate. Once you have eliminated every single obscuration, you will become a buddha, here, on this very spot.

三千大千世界中的众生，被自己的念头所迷惑。我们都在没有「我」的地方想象出一个「我」。轮回的种种迷乱，便从这一根本错认展开。若你行持无量菩萨行，最终便会圆满福德与智慧二资粮；积累的福德越多，消除的障碍就越多。等到一切障碍无一遗漏地消除，你便会在这里，就在这个地方，成为一尊佛。

A ‘buddha’ is someone who has realized emptiness, whereas sentient beings dwelling in the realms of existence are deluded—right? So delusion must be recognized for what it is. And once you know delusion, you will have acquired ‘wisdom’. The epithet, ‘the Omniscient One’ tells us Buddha has omniscient wisdom—those without wisdom are called ‘sentient beings’, while those with wisdom are called ‘buddhas’. And here, under the Bodhi Tree, is where that wisdom is realized.

「佛」是证悟空性的人，而住在三有诸趣中的众生则处于迷乱之中，是不是？所以，必须如实认识迷乱。一旦认清迷乱，你便获得了「智慧」。「遍知者」这个尊号，告诉我们佛具有遍知一切的智慧：没有智慧的称为「众生」，具有智慧的称为「佛」。而这里，这棵菩提树下，正是证得那智慧的地方。

The attainment of enlightenment is the result of an immense amount of bodhisattva activity. Once you become a buddha, though, that’s it! Your enlightened qualities will spontaneously benefit all sentient beings everywhere, in perpetuity. You can witness the activity of ‘enlightened qualities’ right here, around the Bodhi Tree. Everything you see is the enlightened activity of the Buddha. It is said that here, at the Vajra seat, reside all the one thousand and two Munis of this aeon, and that every single day—every instant!—a vast number of sentient beings benefit as a result. Take yourself, for example; you are a businessman, yet you've travelled here to the Bodhi Tree. This means you have great merit because the majority of this world’s businessmen never come to Bodhgaya. There are monks and beggars all over the place, but no executives in business suits—do you see any? Bodhgaya is also the most sacred place for practitioners of Dzogpachenpo. Shri Singha and Manjushrimitra spent their lives here, and Guru Rinpoche remained here for two hundred years.

成就菩提，是广大菩萨行的结果。不过，一旦成佛，就圆满了！你的觉悟功德将任运利益一切处的一切众生，永无止息。就在这里，在菩提树周围，你可以亲眼见到「觉悟功德」的事业。你所见的一切，都是佛的觉悟事业。据说，此劫的一千零二位能仁都住于这里的金刚座，因此，每一天，乃至每一刹那，都有无量众生得到利益。就拿你来说吧：你是个商人，却一路来到这棵菩提树下。这说明你有很大的福德，因为世上大多数商人从来不会到菩提伽耶来。这里到处都是僧人和乞丐，却没有身穿西装的企业主管——你看见有吗？对大圆满修行者而言，菩提伽耶也是最神圣的地方。师利僧哈与文殊友一生住在这里，莲花生大师也曾在这里住了两百年。