从此以后，向往解脱。

从现在开始，我们要往解脱方面去想，通过轮回过患、死亡无常等修法来培养出离心，走上解脱道，就是生存的意义。因为真正能够走上解脱道，就彻底地解决了我们的生老病死。如果是大乘佛法的话，不但解决了自己的生老病死，而且也可以逐渐解决所有众生的生老病死，所以，我们要高瞻远瞩，不能只看到现实生活当中的一些蝇头小利，这样我们会彻底失败。很多人就是在这样的情况下，充满悲伤、充满嗔恨地离开了人世，因为他们生前没有区分生存的意义和方式，所以导致了这些问题。如果我们现在仍然做不到的话，将来也会像他们一样。这种失败不像世俗间争权夺利的失败，那些失败是小失败，不是什么了不起的事情，但在我们一生结束的时候还是以失败而告终的话，那就是最大的失败。以后还有没有这样的机会来弥补呢？很难说。所以，现在我们一定要在行动上分清生存的方式和生存的意义。

Three years ago, I asked everyone in the class to write me a note telling me how and what each one would arrange for daily practice. Now I would like to know what, if any, progress you have made in these three years. In other words, have you learned anything concrete from your practice? The Buddhist logic holds that regardless of what phenomenon, if it does not move in as short a time as one-ten-thousandth of a second, it will not move in the subsequent one-ten-thousandth of a second either even until the final one-ten-thousandth. If no progress has been made in all these time, I am afraid that none ever will, even in another six, nine or twelve years!

三年前,我要求大家给我写一份纸条,讲一讲自己每天所做的功课。三年过去了,现在我要你们谈一谈你们在这三年当中的修行体会——有没有实实在在的进步。佛教里面讲过一个逻辑，无论是什么东西，如果在一秒钟的万分之一那么短的时间当中一点也不动的话，则在万分之二、万分之三、万分之四甚至万分之万的时间内也不可能动了。同样，如果三年当中没有任何进步的话，恐怕六年、九年、十二年也不会有进步。

I gave many teachings in the past few years, but none from the Vajrayana tradition. It is not for a lack of ability to teach on my part but to avoid confusing you with the more profound teachings at this point of your learning process without additional benefit. In your current condition, those teachings would not help you find the right path or gain a real taste of the Dharma. So I decided to cut off all the complex details and gave you instead the concrete and practicable instructions for actual practice. However, did you practice accordingly? What have you learned if you did?

我在这两、三年当中讲了很多法,虽然很多人要求我讲密法,但我没有讲。为什么不讲?不是我不会讲,五部大论等非常复杂的逻辑我会讲,密法我也会讲。但对我们来说,这些不但没有太大的用处,你们的思想也会因此而混乱,最终还是找不到一个真正的出路,不能真正体会到佛法的滋味,所以我把那些复杂的东西都抛开了,讲的都是真正的、实实在在的修法,但是你们修了没有,修了以后有没有什么体会?