Important Knowledge in the Pure Land School
淨土小常識
164 - The True and Absolute “Three Goodnesses”
For ordinary people, when it comes to important matters such as: marriage, moving to a new home, breaking ground, completing a building, or starting a business; they tend to choose auspicious dates and times. They pay attention to feng shui, and believe that these factors will influence their fortune or misfortune, success or failure, blessings or calamities.
Yet, of all forms of “feng shui”, the foremost “feng shui” is what constitutes a person:
A person’s foremost feng shui is the mind;
The second feng shui is speech;
The third feng shui is behavior.
This is what people commonly refer to as the “Three Good Deeds”: harboring good thoughts, speaking kind words, and performing good actions—of which the mind is the most fundamental source.
Thus, the principle of feng shui can be summed up in four characters: “The mind gives rise to all phenomena.”
If one can maintain a kind heart, speak kindly, and act kindly, then misfortunes and obstacles caused by unfavorable feng shui or other factors will naturally be resolved with ease.
However, these “three good deeds” are not the absolute three good deeds, because the three poisons of greed, anger, and delusion have not yet been eradicated. As long as greed, anger, and delusion arise, one will still create sins and karma, remain trapped in the cycle of birth and death within the six realms, and even risk falling into the three evil paths.
(to be continued tomorrow)
164 真正、絕對的「三好」
一般人凡是重要的事情，譬如結婚、搬家、動土、落成、開工等等，往往會 選擇吉日良辰，講究地理風水，認為這些會影響自己的吉凶、成敗、禍福。
但所有風水之中，第一風水是人；
人的第一風水是心；
人的第二風水是嘴巴；
人的第三風水是行為。
也就是一般所講的「三好」：
存好心、說好話、做好事，其中最根本的是「心」。
所以風水原理只有四個字，就是「心生萬法」。
能夠存好心、說好話、做好事，由風水或各種方面所引起的種種不順不吉 利的事，自然就會迎刃而解。
然而這三好並不是絕對的三好，因為貪瞋癡的三毒還沒有斷除，還會起 貪瞋癡，還會造罪造業，還在六道生死輪迴當中，還會墮落三惡道。
Namo Amituofo!
