真正的快樂，是無求的，「到無求處便無憂」。你無所求，這才是真正的快樂，真正自性的穩定、平安。（true happiness）
你們大家相信這個道理，我也這麼說；不相信這個道理，我也這麼說。因為我要說的話，我不管人信不信，我一定要說我所願意說的話，就是你們認為我不會說話，我也要這樣說。
因為我到這來，我不能盡給各位揄揚之辭啊，讚歎之語啊，這一類的言語。
因為我知道你們各位，不論老的同願、中年的同願，和青年的同願，聽這一類的話聽得很多了。
我現在給你們換換口味，說一點你們不願意聽的話，所以叫你們不要追求快樂。
這快樂，什麼叫快樂？真正的快樂，不是世間的快樂，不是人間的快樂，那是一種自己心裡邊時時有一種快樂，不需要向外馳求，不需要到外邊去找去。你到外邊找的，都不是究竟的快樂。
你想究竟的快樂，你必須要有相當的修養、相當的學識、相當的造詣，自性裡頭平安，這才是真快樂。
你到外邊去找快樂，一天到晚追求快樂。追求得到了，這是快樂的一時；得不到，這是煩惱的重重。你貪而無厭，又患得患失，這都不是真正的快樂。
真正的快樂，是無求的，「到無求處便無憂」。你無所求，這才是真正的快樂，真正自性的穩定、平安。
你到外邊去找，找到什麼地方也找不到真正的快樂。我們人間所追求的吃喝玩樂這些享受：坐最值錢的汽車，或者買飛機，或者買輪船，到處去遊一遊船，這是快樂？這簡直地都是浪費你的精力、浪費你的智慧。你真正的智慧不是在外邊這些個東西。真正的享受，是你自在快樂，這是我們人人都有的，你不要向外去找去。你盡向外馳求，啊！你爭我奪，你虞我詐；你欺騙我，我欺騙你，結果就會得到自己這個不真實的快樂，這真是可憐愍者，佛所謂的這一類的人是可憐愍者。不要捨本逐末，不要倒行逆施。我所說的這個話，都是人不願意聽的。
我所說的這個快樂是什麼呢？你不爭是快樂，不貪是快樂，無所求這是快樂，你不自私這是快樂，你不自利更是快樂，你不打妄語，這才是真正快樂。你打妄語，你於心就會有愧，覺得這是騙人了。你就算不覺得，在你良心上，也覺得有了污點了，對不起良心了。你若是一個沒有良心的人，那就又當別論啦！所以現在人心不古、道德淪亡、世風日下，在這種情形之下，我們要趕快醒悟。怎麼樣醒悟呢？我們做學生的，要好好讀書，朝於斯，夕於斯，這個「昔仲尼，師項橐」，要能「如負薪，如掛角」，「囊螢映雪」，這樣子，才夠上一個讀書的人。不是那麼整天就想自在，想安樂，想不讀書，追求快樂去；這不是快樂！Ven. Master Hsuan Hua: What I want to say is, “Too much happiness leads to sorrow.” If you become extremely happy, you will feel sad afterwards. Whether or not you believe this principle, that is what I say. I say what I feel like saying regardless of whether people believe it or not. This is what I will say even if you consider me someone who doesn’t know how to speak. I haven’t come here just to flatter you with words of praise. I know that all of you who share the same vows, whether you are elderly, middle-aged, or young, have heard a lot of that kind of talk. Now I’ll give you something that tastes different and say some things that you don’t like to hear. I will tell you not to pursue happiness.
What is happiness? True happiness is not worldly happiness. Rather, it is a happiness that is always present in your own mind, which you need not look for outside. If you seek outside, you won’t find the ultimate happiness. If you want the ultimate happiness, you must have considerable cultivation, considerable learning, and considerable attainment. Only then will there be peace and joy in your own nature, which is the real happiness. If you seek for happiness outside, you may attain it, but it will only last for a moment. If you fail to attain it, you will be full of afflictions. If you are insatiably greedy, you worry about getting things, and then you worry about losing them. None of this is true happiness. True happiness comes from not seeking anything. When you reach the state of seeking nothing, you have no worries. Seeking nothing, you have true happiness, and your nature is stable and tranquil.
You can search outside all you want, but you won’t find true happiness anywhere. The enjoyment we pursue in this world—eating, drinking, making merry, driving an expensive car, owning a plane, or buying a ship and taking a cruise—is this happiness? This is just wasting your energy and wasting your wisdom. True wisdom cannot be found in these external things. True joy comes from being carefree and happy. We all have this within us, and we need not search outside for it. But people always seek outside themselves, and end up cheating, flattering, and fighting one another in order to obtain an artificial happiness. The Buddha said such people are to be pitied. They are lamentable. So do not forsake what is fundamental to pursue the superficial. Do not act in an up-side down way. What I’ve just said is something no one likes to hear.
What do I call happiness? Not fighting is happiness. Not being greedy is happiness. Seeking nothing is happiness. Not being selfish is happiness. Not wanting to benefit yourself is happiness even more. Not telling lies—that’s true happiness. If you lie, you will feel remorse in your heart because you know you have deceived someone, and there will be a stain on your conscience. If you are a person with no conscience, that’s another story. People’s minds are not the way they were in ancient times; morality has perished; and the world deteriorates day by day. In this situation, we must quickly awaken. How can we awaken? If we are students, we should apply ourselves diligently, studying in the morning and in the evening. In the past, Zhong Ni (Confucius) took Xiang Tuo as his teacher. We must pursue our studies as earnestly as the woodcutter who put his book on a log he was hauling, the oxherd who hung his book from the horn of the ox he was riding, the student who studied at night by the light of fireflies collected in a pouch, or the boy who read by the moonlight reflected off the snow. Only then can we be considered true students. We should not just seek ease and comfort all day long and enjoy ourselves instead of studying. That is not happiness.
Now I want to tell you something that you may not be aware of yet. In the United States, and in the West generally, education is totally bankrupt. However, like the person who plugs his ears and steals a bell thinking that other people will not hear the bell, they claim that their educational system can still manage. Why do I say that Western education is bankrupt? Because Western educators have discarded the ethics of human relationships. Parents and children do not know their place, and the old and the young do not know their roles. In the West, children do not address their father as “Father.” Instead, they call their fathers by name. The order between elders and the young, and between superiors and subordinates, has been messed up.
Broken families are widespread; ninety-nine percent of the marriages in America end in divorce. If the children live with their father, all day long they hear him rant about how terrible their mother was. “If she hadn’t been so bad, I wouldn’t have divorced her,” the father tells them. The children think, “Oh, how awful my mother is! How I hate women!” So you see, those children end up hating women. If the children live with their mother, she keeps telling them how awful their father was. “That’s why I divorced him,” she says. The children end up hating their father. They get annoyed whenever they see a man, because they think every man must be that terrible.
*Source 文章出處: Vajra Bodhi Sea 金剛菩提海 (宣公上人創辦)
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真正的快樂 英文
（true happiness）
真正的幸福
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