种性

《种性–大日如来王尊佛》
“Inherent Nature–SunGuru Buddha”

有一次，禅定中出现一个小天女，一脸愁容跪下祈请加持。我说从前有一只丑鸭子，但他会长出洁白的羽毛。“这是丑小鸭的故事！”她说。我说“不，这是白天鹅的故事”。她的身口意在加持中瞬间融入了本有的自性，顶礼后高兴的飞舞，笑声一直在天空中回荡。
佛陀夜睹繁星而赞叹：妙哉妙哉，众生皆具如来智慧德相，只因执着妄想不能成就。以此可知，自己不管业力多重，修行都能成佛。因为你是迷失的佛，执着自己是凡夫而成为了凡夫。作为一个修行人，或者是密乘的弟子，更要能找到自己的位置，知道自己的种性，知道自己是谁。不要用表面的幻像和凡夫比较，和凡夫一个轨道，把自己困在轮回中不能出离。信心和谦卑是两码事。修行不要丧失信心，不要沮丧，认知本具的佛性，全力以赴去做。密乘弟子把握依止上师信心和菩提心，升起无伪的佛慢。用一句话来概括这个重要的开示：你的修行路，不是凡夫成佛的故事，这就是佛的故事。不是创造和提高自己，这个自己是假我，而是要找回真正的自己，拿回属于你自己的东西。等你真正大菩提心融入佛性，证到空性，你再看一切都自然了，释放了，凡圣也无别了，愚智也无二了。这就是真正的白天鹅，同体大悲的胜义谛菩提心。但在二元对立的当下，必须执着的取舍，猛烈的祈请自性上师的加持，跳出凡夫的思维屏障，打破一切凡庸思维，打破一切执着与妄想。

One time, during meditation, a small celestial maiden appeared, her face full of sorrow. She knelt down and prayed for empowerments. I said, “Once, there was an ugly duckling, but it would grow pure white feathers.” “That is the story of the ugly duckling!” she said. I replied, “No, this is the story of the white swan.” In that moment, her body, speech, and mind merged into her true nature through the empowerment. After bowing, she joyfully danced, and her laughter echoed through the sky.
One night, the Buddha gazed at the stars and praised, “Wonderful, wonderful! All beings possess the wisdom and virtues of the Tathāgata. It is only because of their attachment to delusions that they fail to realize it.” From this, we can understand: No matter how heavy one’s karma is, through practice, one can become a Buddha. Because you are a lost Buddha, you are obsessed with being an ordinary being and thus become one. As a practitioner, especially as a Vajrayāna disciple, you must find your place, know your true nature, and understand who you are. Do not compare yourself to superficial illusions or ordinary people, nor stay on the same path as them, trapping yourself in the cycle of rebirth and cannot be liberated. Confidence and humility are two different things. In practice, do not lose confidence or become discouraged. Recognize your inherent Buddha nature and go all out to do it. A Vajrayāna disciple must rely on confidence in the Guru and bodhicitta, and give rise to genuine Buddha-pride. To summarize this important teaching in one sentence: Your path of practice is not the story of an ordinary being becoming a Buddha—it is the story of Buddha. It is not about creating or improving yourself, for this “self” is false, but about reclaiming your true self and taking back what is rightfully yours. When your great bodhicitta fully merges with Buddha-nature and you realize emptiness, you will see everything naturally and liberated, there is no distinction between the sacred and the ordinary, no difference between wisdom and ignorance. This is the true white swan—the ultimate bodhicitta of great compassion, one with all beings. However, in this dualistic world, one must hold firm in what to accept and what to renounce, and fiercely pray for the empowerments of the inner Guru, jump out of the barriers of ordinary thinking, break all ordinary thinking, break all attachments and delusions.

————大日如来王尊佛

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