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title: 水牛 Water Buffalo
description: "佛陀確實教導真理，如果你仔細思惟，其實是無法與佛陀爭辯的。然而眾生卻如水牛一般，四肢若非緊緊地被綁住，牠不會乖乖服藥。一旦被綁住無法行動時，哈！現在，如果你願意，就可以無後顧之憂地畏牠吃藥，而牠卻無法反抗。至此，牠便會投降了。我們眾生也是如"
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〖水牛〗

佛陀確實教導真理，如果你仔細思惟，其實是無法與佛陀爭辯的。然而眾生卻如水牛一般，四肢若非緊緊地被綁住，牠不會乖乖服藥。一旦被綁住無法行動時，哈！現在，如果你願意，就可以無後顧之憂地畏牠吃藥，而牠卻無法反抗。至此，牠便會投降了。我們眾生也是如此，唯有當我們全然地被束縛于痛苦，以至無法掙脫時，我們才會放下我們的無明。如果我們仍有余力掙脫時，就會不肯輕易放棄。

Water Buffalo

The Buddha really taught the truth. If you contemplate it, there is nowhere you can argue with him. But we people are like a buffalo. If it's not tied down by all four legs, it'll not let itself be given any medicine. If tied down and it can do anything --aha! - now if you want to, you can go ahead and give it medicine and it can't struggle away. At this extent it will give up. We people are similar. Only when we are completely bound up in suffering will we let go of our delusions. If we can still struggle away, we will not give up very easily.