不是要你放弃金钱，而是不要那么执着于它。

Lay practitioners like you should be even more careful not to repeat the kind of mistake I made as you have limited free time to begin with. If all your time was spent on learning different teachings while little on actual practice, you would not be able to retain any in the end, just like someone who has to throw up due to over-eating and indigestion. It is all so pointless!

作为居士就更不能像我这样。本身居士就没有那么多的时间，短短的时间内，又去听这个法、听那个法；如果一个都不修的话，就像一个人吃东西，吃完了之后却不能消化，结果全部吐出来一样没有任何意思。

In the last few years, most of the teachings I gave were relatively short on theory and logic, except for a few easily confusing questions laypeople had that required further explanations. The emphasis was primarily on the way of actual practice. But did you do as taught? By the way, if you ask me the same question, my answer would probably be no as well. We cannot continue like this. From now on, everyone must take up one’s own practice seriously. This is the most important.

In theory, we all know the difference between the way of living and the meaning of life. However, in practice, we often behave like the uninitiated making wealth accumulation the meaning of life. We ought to know better now to separate the two and be less attached to material wealth than before. The word ‘money’ can mean a lot of things in addition to its traditional definition; in fact，it can be used to denote all worldly possessions.

我们在理论上早就知道什么是生存的方法，什么是生存的意义，但是在日常生活当中还是跟没有学佛的人一样，还是把金钱当作生命的意义。从此以后，我们应该将二者区分开，把金钱看得淡一点儿，没有以前那么执著。实际上，“金钱”这两个字，包含了很多很多的内容，所有的身外之物，都可以用“金钱”两个字来代表。

I have met many successful businesspeople who are running large corporations. They told me their goal is to have the means to help the needed or to spread the Dharma. If that was true, perhaps it would not be necessary to give up the pursuit of wealth, but the attachment to wealth must be checked.

我见过很多生意做得比较大的企业家。据他们说，他们的事业不是为了自己，而是为了扶贫，为了弘扬佛法等等；如果真的是这样，也不需要放弃金钱，只是内心不能那么执著。