Buddhists question: Do Buddhists have to give up their existing life enjoyment?

Learning Buddhism is the wisdom of learning Buddhism. Wisdom is full of talents, such as living, working, and doing Buddhist things, such as living, living, and living!

---Zhuge Changqing

Do Buddhists have to give up the enjoyment of their existing life? We should treat this problem dialectically. The enjoyment without purpose should be abandoned; Reasonable enjoyment must be maintained.

Buddha wants gold clothes, which are for all living beings to see; Clothes are for people at a certain social level. The enjoyment itself is the identity, status and position of the representative. Enjoyment is a polite and solemn expression in occasions and environments that require dignity and etiquette, such as material conditions. However, under the circumstances of poor material conditions, weak economic capacity and poor social environment, even if you have the ability and material resources, you should also give up all your enjoyment and share the difficulties with the public, such as Gandhi in modern India.

In today's society, for reasons of politeness or safety, people must dress neatly and use private cars in certain occasions, certain environments or meeting certain people; There are daytime gowns in the daytime and evening gowns in the evening. In Japan and Europe and the United States, there are certain forms and colors of gowns for funerals, weddings and all kinds of formal gatherings. They are also not allowed to wear work clothes, nightwear and casual clothes at home. These are not enjoyment.

Buddha attaches importance to cause and effect, and the blessings of this life come from the almsgiving after death. Enjoying the fortune report is like drawing deposits from banks. The more you draw, the less you deposit, and there will always be a time to withdraw; The more you enjoy in this life, the less you have left for your blessings. On the one hand, we should continue to cultivate our blessings, and at the same time, we should cherish our blessings, so as to achieve the perfection of our blessings; Otherwise, even if there are blessings, there are also shortcomings.

Therefore, from the beginning of primitive Buddhism, it has been advocated that bhikkhus should have nothing: one is to avoid greed, the other is to cherish happiness, and the third is to reduce the attachment to the body; This is true for the monks, but also for the family members.

A monk monk should abide by the precepts of not wearing fragrant flowers, not smearing himself with fragrant oil, not singing and dancing, not looking and listening for no reason, not sitting and lying in a large bed, not wearing hand ornaments, and not storing silver and treasures. If the family members can do it, in addition to the money they must use, they should also abide by it; If it can't be observed, I hope that in the six days of a month, I will take the so-called six fasting days to compare with the life of a monk, and the purpose is to cherish the blessings and give up the enjoyment. The so-called enjoyment content should include food, use, living, sitting, sleeping, carrying and various entertainment facilities. That is to say, throttling is more important than open source. Giving is to open source for blessings, and giving up enjoyment is to throttle for blessings.

However, Sakyamuni Buddha's body has 32 kinds of adult appearance, which is a kind of blessing, solemnity and wisdom. It is said that Sakyamuni Buddha also received the gift of golden cassocks, and was also given to the lonely elders to pave the ground with gold, and bought a garden house to provide for the Buddha. At that time, the elders of Fude used good and delicious food when offering Buddhist monks, and solemnly decorated the refined houses and places for Buddhist monks; Many famous sayings later became famous gardens and gardens in the history of Buddhism.

The pure land of Buddha seen from the Buddhist scriptures, such as the Pure Land of Buddha in the West, the Maitreya Pavilion in the Huayan Sutra and the palaces of the great bodhisattvas seen by the fifty-three sans of the good fortune boy, are all magnificent and extremely solemn, that is, the great blessing, the blessing is with their lives, and is expressed in their wealth; It seems that the poor people are ugly and have rough skin, while the rich people are dignified and have smooth skin. This is their inborn blessing. It has nothing to do with giving up or coveting enjoyment.

By enjoyment, we should mean to covet personal appetites, eat rare foods such as delicacies and delicacies, not to treat guests or be polite, but to show one's wealth; Or dress up, make up, and dress deliberately to make others envy and notice, to satisfy their vanity; Or, for the enjoyment and stimulation of official functions, go to the so-called entertainment places such as song pavilions, dance halls, brothels and so on, indulge in leisure and spend money like dirt. These behaviors should be abandoned by Buddhists.

Nanwu Master Sakyamuni Buddha. Namo Amitabha. There is no Oriental Glazed Medicine Master Buddha in the south.

Nanwu Guanyin Bodhisattva. Nanwudi Tibetan King Bodhisattva. Nanwukong hides Bodhisattva.

Blessed life is limitless. Yuanshi Tianzun. Lingbao senior. The moral supremacy.

Taiyi saved the bitter god. Confucius, the supreme teacher of Dacheng. Jesus Christ. Mohammed.

All Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the three generations in ten directions.

All immortals in the three realms and ten directions.

All sages at all times and in all countries.

Don't do any evil, and do all good. Persistence and responsiveness.

 学佛疑问：学佛是否必须放弃现有生活享受？

   学佛是学佛的智慧，智慧充满才能如理如法生活，如理如法工作，如理如法做佛事，才会真正的吉祥如意！

                                  ---诸葛长青

     学佛是否必须放弃现有生活的享受？要辩证地看待这个问题，无目的的享受，应该收弃；有理由的享受，必须维持。

   佛要金装，是装给众生看的；人要衣装，是装给一定的社会层次的人看的。享受的本身是代表人的身份、地位和立场。在需要威仪、礼节的场合和环境中，如物质条件许可的情况下，享受是一种礼貌、隆重的表示。可是在物质条件贫乏、自己经济能力薄弱、社会环境恶劣的情况下，纵然自己有此能力和物力，也当舍去所有的享受和大众共度难关，例如近代的印度甘地就是如此。

   今日的社会，因为礼貌或安全的理由，在某些场合、某些环境或者会见某一些人，必须衣冠整齐，必须乘用私家汽车；日间有日间的礼服，晚间有晚间的礼服，在日本及欧美地区，参加丧礼有一定形式和颜色的礼服，参加婚礼以及各种正式的集会，也不得穿著工作服、睡服和居家的便服，这些都不该算是享受。

   佛法重视因果，今生的福报是由于过去世的布施而来。享受福报，犹如向银行提用存款，提用愈多，存款愈少，终有提空之时；今生享受愈多，福报所剩愈少，终有用毕之日。应该一方面继续修福，同时也要惜福，才能达到福德圆满的程度；否则，纵然有福，也有所不足。

   因此，从原始的佛教开始，就主张比丘要身无长物：一则是为戒贪，二则是为惜福，三则是为减少对身体的执著；出家众固然如此，在家众亦复如此。

   出家沙弥就要遵守不著香花□、不香油涂身，不歌舞唱伎、不故往观听，不坐卧高广大床，不带手饰，不蓄银钱、宝物等戒律。在家众如果能够做得到，除了银钱必须使用之外，其他也应遵守；如果不能遵守，希望在一个月的六天之中，受持所谓六斋日，来比照出家的生活而行，目的就是在于惜福而放弃享受。此所谓享受的内容，应该包括吃的、用的、住的、坐的、睡的、身上带的和各种娱乐设施。这便是节流更重于开源，布施是为福报开源，放弃享受是为福报节流。

   可是，释迦世尊的身相，就有卅二种大人相，是一种福德、庄严、智慧相。传说释迦世尊也接受金缕袈裟的布施供养，也受给孤独长者以黄金铺地，买下了只园精舍而供养佛陀。当时的福德长者们供佛斋僧时，都用上好美味的饮食，并且庄严、修饰精舍和供佛斋僧的场所；许多有名的说法之处，后来都成为佛教史上著名的庭园和花园。

   从佛经里面所见到的佛国净土，例如：西方的弥陀净土以及《华严经》的弥勒楼阁和善财童子五十三参所见的诸大菩萨的宫殿，都是金碧辉煌，极庄严之能事，那也就是大福德者，福德与他们的生活同在，而以他们财富表现出来；好像贫贱的人身相丑陋、皮肤粗糙，富贵的人身相庄严、皮肤润滑，这是他们与生俱来的福报，与放弃享受或贪图享受无关。

   我们所说的享受，应该是指贪图个人的口腹之欲，饮食山珍海味等稀有食品，不为请客，也不为礼节，只为了表现一己的富有；或为使得他人羡慕、注目而蓄意的打扮、化妆、穿著，以满足自己的虚荣；或者为了官能的享受、刺激，而去歌榭、舞厅、妓院等声色犬马的所谓游艺场所，纵情放逸、挥金如土，这些行为当然是学佛者应该放弃的。

 南无本师释迦牟尼佛。南无阿弥陀佛。南无东方琉璃药师佛。
南无观世音菩萨。南无地藏王菩萨。南无虚空藏菩萨。
福生无量天尊。元始天尊。灵宝天尊。道德天尊。

太乙救苦天尊。大成至圣先师孔子。耶稣基督。穆罕默德。
十方三世诸佛菩萨。
三界十方一切神仙。
古今中外一切圣贤。

     诸恶莫作，众善奉行。持之以恒、有求必应。     　

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Introduction to Zhuge Changqing: Zhuge Changqing, the inheritor and promoter of traditional Chinese culture, is willing to "learn from sages, promote virtue, revitalize China and benefit the world" together with people with the same ideals in the world.

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Zhuge Changqing's Chinese Dream

Learn from sages and carry forward virtue

Revitalizing China for the benefit of the world

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诸葛长青简介：诸葛长青，中国国学传统文化传承弘扬者，愿与天下志同道合者一起“学习圣贤、弘扬善德、振兴中华、造福世界”。

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