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title: 平常心 Normality - 魔鬼 Satan
description: "1-1-5. SATAN魔鬼"
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1-1-5. SATAN魔鬼

Satan or the bandit is our desire and craving. it creates trouble for us just like a bandit. For example, we're addicted to smoking. We've got to spend the money that we've earned with sweat and tears to buy cigarettes to smoke, as soon as desire arises, we smoke already, no matter how many or how much it costs. If we have the divine eye and ear, we see and hear the voice of the bandit who tells us to go and see, go and listen, go and smoke. We eliminate him by not following the power of that desire and we don't have to lose money.

魔鬼或盜賊是指我們的欲望和貪愛，因為它像盜賊一樣為我們帶來麻煩。舉例來說，我們沈溺于抽菸，就得花流汗流淚賺來的錢去買香菸來抽。不管煙有多貴，只要一生起欲望就抽。假若我們有聖眼與聖耳，能看到和聽到那個盜賊要我們去看、去聽、去抽的魔音，那麼就能不受欲望的魔力驅使而消滅他，並且還不用花冤枉錢。

The external bandit, everybody can see and is easy to suppress, but the internal bandit, in the mind; is not seen, or is hard to see and hard to suppress. Whoever has a bandit in the mind, cannot see clearly. He or she mistakes a persons face for something else, mistakes a friend for an enemy or a ghost. Have you ever heard of this? They say that people, when they are quarrelling and anger arises, don't see anymore, some see a little bit only. It is because of the anger in the mind. When there is a lot of anger one doesn't see anything, it's dark. And when they don't see, they beat and kick each other.

外面的盜賊，每個人都能見到而且很容易鎮壓，但是內在心中的盜賊，是沒辦法看見的，或可說是很難看得到與鎮壓的。任何人只要內心有了盜賊，看事情就不清楚了，他會把人的表情誤認為別的意思，會把一位朋友誤會為一個敵人或魔鬼。你們聽說過這些事嗎？(當然！所以啊！)有人說：當人們爭吵而生氣時，就完全盲目不見了，就算有也只見到一點皮毛而已。

It is probably clear that before people have a fight, there is Moha or delusion overwhelming their minds. These people can't see heaven and hell and they create trouble for the society. They are people without virtue, without Dhamma, they are evil people. When there is no virtue, no Dhamma, where do you go ? Well, you fall in hell ! For this reason there are as much people falling into hell as rice grains in a sack. The Buddha compares the people that fall in hell with the hairs of a cow and the people who rise up to heaven with the horns of a cow.

有一點應該很清楚，那就是，人們在爭斗之前內心一定是被無明癡惑給淹沒了。這時他們看不見天堂和地獄並且會為社會制造麻煩，他們變成了沒有善德沒有正法的人，變成了邪惡的人。然而，當你沒有善德沒有正法的時候，你會去哪里呢？當然嘍！你會掉到地獄去！有很多人就是因為這個原因而掉到地獄去，有如袋子里的稻谷。佛陀比喻說：掉到地獄去的人多如牛毛，而升到天堂去的人則少如牛角。