Great shoes

利美正見 – 鞋子論

You have shoes and then you can go out, walking on the mountains. You are taking good care of your feet.

鞋，是我們日常生活中不可或缺的工具。它使我們能可以外出自如，保護我們的腳板，並安然地走過崎嶇的山路。

Good shoes or expensive shoes, it does not matter. You are caring for your feet. This is most important.

無論鞋的質素如何或價格如何？ 這個都不是一個重點，重點是其是否有效地，恰到好處的保護我們的腳板。

Big shoes, good qualities and expensive shoes, children never use because they are too big. These are useless. Children and babies need small shoes, soft and more comfortable on their feet.

衣不稱身的鞋子，就算其質素再好或價格再好；其不為所用也是毫無意義的。尤其是小朋友的鞋子，更需特別的設計，使其穿著舒適；以免影響他們的生長和健康。

Anyway, we have the Great Perfection, Great Shamatha, Great view. But Samsara people do not understand and do not like these because they are too big for them.

以此如理地比喻修行；就算我們擁有無數究竟的修法，比如大圓滿、止觀和等等無上的見地；但對於不求甚解的無明眾生們，這就好像過大的鞋子一般，是無有效用的。

Feet are not all the same. Babies, children, teenagers, young adults, and older people do no not all have the same feet. All are different. And so, they need different shoes.

腳形和鞋款各有不同，幼兒、小朋友、青年、成人和老人更各有鞋形大小，所以腳形鞋款更不能一概而論。

Some people say do Rime. And yet people are all different. The shoes they need are all different. Humans are all different and have different needs. Nothing is Rime. Talking is easy.

話說回來，有些人時常將「利美」掛在口邊，誤將「如一」的做法，誤解為「利美」的精粹；順利成章將所有見地，合理化地統一下來 。完全忽略了眾生的不同種類需求，就好像一個鞋款要穿上所有人的腳形上一般。

Children’s shoes are all different. In Tibetan Buddhism there are 9 Yanas. Respecting each of these is very important. However, if we say these are all the same, this is not true, not Rime.

在藏傳佛教中，我們有著九乘次第的九種精妙見解；當中九乘的修法既互不生矛盾之餘，更互相得以尊重；相反地如只執着一切「如一」的做法，這絕對不是正確的利美精神；甚至可稱其為邪見。

Of course, there are phenomena, and the nature of phenomenon is the same. But this does not mean everything is the same. Samsara and Nirvana are not the same.

當然從大圓滿的見地中，輪涅現象其原始體性皆無有分別；但這不代表當中的相互作用也無有分別，這個我們要清晰地了知起來。

For this reason, Buddha said there are 84,000 different types of people to benefit. And it is important to respect all these different types of people and their needs.

所以，佛法所衍生的八萬四千利眾法門，其能應運於不同種類和不同緣起的眾生當中，此建基於對眾生與佛陀的同等尊重的見地上。

Most important is Awam – the Union of Wisdom and Compassion. This is the root of Buddhism, all of Buddha’s teachings.

尤其重要的是任運的見地，要盡力地了解凡所作皆需糅合智慧和慈悲；此即佛法的根本理據。

If you understand Awam, really take time to understand, then you are 100% excellent.

如能任運世間一切，即表示了知以達究竟。

Inner Awam. Khenchen Lama

願大眾能究竟任運！

貝扎法王堪欽喇嘛仁波切