你們都說茍日新、日日新,真的日新了嗎?
Have a brand-new start.
Each morning when you get up,
can you start the day as a better person?
人的習性,你要一下子改不容易!
你要把你舊習的污染一次洗清,當然要很費力。
所以就要藉著旁邊週遭的人事物來讓你清楚,
尤其要借著道的力量。
While breaking your ingrained old habits is not easy,
you can choose a good environment and
let it change you for the better, especially with the help of Tao.
因為人總是離不開五行,受到七情六慾的困擾,
It is a great pushing force that can drive away your seven emotions
and six sensory pleasures, helping you to break from the
entanglement of five elements.
(Translator’s note: The five elements of early Chinese cosmology: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water.)
當然你純潔的心性污染啦!見不到你自己的真我。
所以你慾念刪除了,知識也無所不到了,
By rectifying your mind, you will find yourself improved
and upgraded from day to day.
自然你的身就修了,你的心就平正了;心平正了,身也修了,家就整了;家整了、國就治了,
Further you can influence your family and make it function
in perfect harmony. Your nation will thus be led to order.
天下自然就平了!
And with all the orderly nations, the world peace will
naturally be achieved.
平了就沒紛爭!
There will be no conflict then.
教化菩薩慈悲囑語The Holy Teachings of Bodhisattva Jiao Hua



