讓樹(自己)成長 Let the Tree Grow

Let the Tree Grow

　　讓樹(自己)成長

The Buddha taught that with things that come about of their own, once you have done your work, you can leave the results to nature, to the power of your accumulated karma. Yet your exertion of effort should not cease. Whether the fruit of wisdom comes quickly or slowly, you cannot force it, just as you cannot force the growth of a tree you have planted. The tree has its own pace. Your job is to dig a hole, water and fertilize it, and protect it from insects. That much is your affair, a matter of faith. But the way the tree grows is up to the tree. If you practice like this, you can be sure all will be well, and your plant will grow.

　　佛陀教導說，對于事物的自然生成，只要你盡完你的職責，你便可以將其結果留給自然，留給你所積聚的業的力量。然而，你的精進努力卻不應該停止，不論智慧的果實來的快或慢，你都不能去強迫它;正如你不能強迫一顆已種下的樹的成長，它畢竟有它自己的步調。你的工作只是去挖洞、澆水和施肥，並預防蟲害。你的事情就只是這些 ── 一件要有信心的事情。可是樹成長的方式，是它自己的事。如果你這樣去練習，可以確定一切都會安好無事，你的樹也會繼續成長。

Thus, you must understand the difference between your work and the plant’s work. Leave the plant’s business to the plant, and be responsible for your own. If the mind does not know what it needs to do, it will try to force the plant to grow and flower and give fruit in one day. This is wrong view, a major cause of suffering. Just practice in the right direction and leave the rest to your karma. Then, whether it takes one or one hundred or one thousand lifetimes, your practice will be at peace.

　　因此，你必須了解你的工作和樹的工作之間的不同。將樹的事留給樹，然後對自己的責任負責。如果心不知道需作些什麼，它會試圖去強迫樹在一天之內成長、開花並結出果子來。這是錯誤的知見──痛苦的主因。只管在正確的方向下修行，然後把其他的留給你自己的業。如此一來，不論一生、百生乃至千生，你的修行都將安住于平靜之中。