旅行家 Traveler
〖旅行家〗
理所當然地，想返回家鄉的人，絕不會是那些光坐著空想旅途的人，他們必須實際地一步一步歷經整個過程，而且要依循正確的方向，最後才能抵返家門。如果一不小心誤入歧途，可能會碰到像沼澤或其他難以克服的困境或險境，因而永遠也回不了家。
回到家的人便可以放輕松，然後舒舒服服的睡一覺。家，是能予身心舒適的地方。而今，他們真正回到家了，然而，假使這旅者只是路過家門，或僅在家周圍環繞，那麼，他這一路的返家旅途，等于白費。
同樣的道理，走往契達佛法的路上，必須靠我們每一個人親自實踐才行，因為，除了你自己以外，沒有人能夠替代你。此外，我們必須沿著戒、定、慧行去，直到我們發現心中的清淨、光明、寧靜的福澤，這便是行旅在道上的果實。
但是，假使一個人僅僅擁有書本及經典上的知識，那也只是旅游上對地圖或計劃的知識罷了！縱使幾百年過後，永遠也不知曉心的清淨、光明和寧靜，這都只在浪費時間而已。永遠得不到修行帶來的真實利益。老師，是指出道路的人，聽取老師的教誨之後，無論我們是否要修行走這條路，以及而後所得的修行成果，完全取決于我們自己。
Traveler
Naturally people who wish to reach their home are not those who merely sit and think about traveling. They must actually undertake the process of traveling step by step, and in the right direction as well, in order to finally reach home. If they take the wrong path, they may eventually run into difficulties, such as swamps or other obstacles, which are hard to get around. Or they may run into dangerous situations and thereby possibly never reach home. Those who reach home can relax and sleep comfortably. Home is a place of comfort. But if the traveler only passed by the front of his home or only walked around it, he would not receive any benefit from having traveled all the way home. In the same way, walking the path to reach the Buddha-Dhamma is something each one of us must do individually ourselves, for no one can do it for us. And we must travel along the proper path of morality, concentration and wisdom until we find the blessings of purity, radiance and peacefulness of mind that are the fruits of traveling the path. However if one only has knowledge of books, sermons, and sutras, that is, only knowledge of the map or plans for the journey, even in hundreds of lifetimes one will never know purity, radiance and peacefulness of mind. Instead one will just waste time and never get to the real benefits of practice. Teachers are those who point out the direction of the Path. After listening to the teachers, whether or not we walk the Path by practicing ourselves, and thereby reap the fruits of practice, is strictly up to each one of us.