以为在修大圆满，没准是在修轮回哦！

Take the example of offering butter lamp to the Three Jewels. Given the same object of offering, act of offering and person who offers, the practice will be deemed mundane when renunciation is not generated and the purpose of the offering is to obtain worldly benefits like health, longevity, job promotion, wealth and so on, or a favorable rebirth. Conversely, offering lamp out of true renunciation and to seek liberation from samsara will be considered a supramundane practice. Therefore, the gauge for distinguishing the mundane from the supramundane is no other than whether one has renounced worldly pursuits or not.

比如向三宝供灯，在同样的供养对境、同样的供养物、同样的供养人的情况下，如果不具备出离心，供灯的发心是为了求得世间的圆满，为了健康长寿、升官发财，或者来世得到人天的福报，这样的供灯就是世间法；反之，如果具备了出离心，供灯的发心是为了求得解脱，而不是为了健康长寿、升官发财，这样的供灯就是出世间法。衡量世间法与出世间法，就是以是否具备出离心为标准的。

The Great Perfection itself is deemed supramundane, but our motivation for practicing it or listening to its teachings could turn it into a mundane practice instead. If our motivation were to gain benefits in this or next life, the teaching of the Great Perfection would cease to be supramundane upon entering our mindstream; it would not even be a Mahayana practice. What would it be then? It would just be a mundane practice, or, a practice of mundane Great Perfection.

大圆满本身是出世间法，可是修大圆满或听大圆满的时候，由于发心的缘故，就有可能把它变成世间法。譬如说：仅仅为了得到一些现世或后世的利益而听大圆满或修大圆满，当此法进入我们的心相续时，它就不是出世间的法，更不是大乘的法。那是什么呢？就是世间法，这叫作“世间法的大圆满”。

What kind of practice is animal liberation? That also depends on your motivation. Even if the motivation is for a rebirth in the god or human realm or to avoid rebirth in the three lower realms, rather than for health or longevity in this life，liberating animal is still just a mundane activity. To liberate animals for one’s own freedom from samsara is viewed as a supramundane Theravada practice. To do it out of bodhicitta, the wish to attain Buddhahood for the sake of all sentient beings, is a supramundane Mahayana practice. To couple the Mahayana practice with some Vajrayana views essentially makes animal liberation a Vajrayana practice.

放生是什么法呢？那也要看你的发心。即便不是为了得到现世的健康、长寿等等，而是为了得到后世的人天果报，或是避免一些后世的灾难，如不堕地狱等三恶道而放生，这种放生也只能成为世间法；如果是为了自己一个人从轮回中得到解脱而放生，这种放生就成了出世间的小乘法；如果是为了拔济一切众生而发誓成佛，为了得到佛的果位而放生，这种放生就是大乘的出世间法；如果在此基础上有一些密宗的见解，这种放生就是密乘的法。

Therefore，we must carefully examine and ask ourselves, “What is the purpose of my years of participation in animal liberation? Did I do it mainly for my own benefit?” If the intention is to attain Buddhahood for the sake of all sentient beings, our action is undoubtedly a supramundane practice. If we liberate animals in the hope of attaining our own longevity, or a healthy human rebirth with long life，or a rebirth in Amitabha’s Pure Land for ourselves, the actual intended beneficiary is really just us while it may appear that animals are being helped by our action.

所以，我们一定要审慎思维，并反躬自问，我放生放了那么多年，到底是为了什么？是不是为了自利？如果是为了一切众生得到佛果而放生，那就可以成为大乘法。如果放生只是希望自己可以长寿，或者下一世转世为人并且健康长寿，或者自己往生净土的话，那这个放生看起来似乎是利益众生，实际上却是在利益自己。