龍舒增廣淨土文 10.4

10.4

Joy, anger, fondness, aversion, cravings, and desires are all emotions. Nourishing emotion leads to evil; indulging emotion leads to devastation; curbing emotion leads to goodness; extinguishing emotion leads to sagehood. Finding one's food delicious, one's clothing beautiful, and one's dwelling spacious—such things are called nourishing emotion. Eating and drinking without limit, adorning clothing to the utmost, and dwelling without satisfaction—such things are called indulging emotion. Being offended without taking offense, being provoked without being angered, and being harmed without harboring resentment—this is called curbing emotion. Seeing offense, provocation, and harm as empty, and instead giving rise to a mind of pity for [the offender's] ignorance—this is called extinguishing emotion. If one awakens to this principle, the mind-ground will be constantly pure, as if in the Pure Land.