前期經文提示：情多想少。流入橫生。重為毛群。經為羽族。
那麼說我不想做鬼，就想知道為什麼。我現在也可以告訴你，就是因為業障。因為自己所造的業，你造餓鬼的業就變成餓鬼了。所以你到作餓鬼的時候，你看見那個水就變成火了。怎麼？就為這個。你要不相信呢，也可以試一試。不過你到那試的時候，變成餓鬼就不容易再來做人來了。不容易再return了。所以，我現在給你講的，並不是騙你，你都還相信我，是最好的一個辦法，不要去試。這是到餓鬼的地方，你自己的業報所感，到水的地方自然就像火似的。所以這水下有火，有火輪。受氣猛火，身為餓鬼，「常被焚燒」：常常地被這火來焚燒，燒死了。死了一陣間，又活了。活了又被火燒，又燒死了。所以死死生生在那個地方，也不知道鬼混、鬼混、鬼混地，混多少時候？嗯！這才真叫鬼混。過那個鬼日子，在那個地方。
「水能害己」：這個水能害自己。害哪一個呢？就害那餓鬼。「無食無飲」：我們人可以飲那個水，那餓鬼他不能飲的。他看見水就是火，所以他也不能飲，也不能食。經多長時間呢？「經百干劫」，那麼長的時間。
「九情一想。下洞火輪。身入風火。二交過地。輕生有間。重生無間。二種地獄。」
這「九情一想，下洞火輪」：洞就是洞穿了。把這個火輪又穿過去了。穿過到什麼地方呢？
「身入風火，二交過地」：這見不單是水和火，這兒還有風了。這風一吹，這火就又更加猛烈了，燒得更厲害。「輕生有間」：那個輕者就生到那個有間地獄。「重生無間」：重者就生到無間地獄。這「二種地獄」。
「純情即沈。入阿鼻獄。若沈心中。有謗大乘。毀佛禁戒。誑妄說法。虛貪信施。濫膺恭敬。五逆十重。更生十方。阿鼻地獄。」
要是純情，就是情重，沒有想了，即沉。「純情即沈」，沉到什麼地方去呢？沉入「入阿鼻獄」，到這個阿鼻地獄裡去了。「若沈心中」：假設他這個純情要是在這個心裡邊，
「有謗大乘」。他在心裡頭單單用這種的情來用事
。就是他讓謗大乘經典。他說這個大乘佛法都是假的。他完全用他自己這種情來揣測。就是以是為非，以非為是；以黑為白，以白為黑。
就是橫不講道理。你說
「這是白的啊！」他說：「這是黑的嘛！」他一定要和你說一個相反的道理。你說：「不要做不好的事情。」他說：「那怕什麼的呢？」就好像我方才聽說有人說：「什麼事情都沒有關係嘛！」那就是在心裏有這一種情來用事。所以他說什麼都沒有關係。
待續
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Sutra text from last issue:
When they have more emotion than thought, they enter the
animal realm. With heavier emotion, they become fur-bearing
beasts; with lighter emotion, they become winged creatures.
Commentary:
In the realm of ghosts, being in water is like being in
fire. As a response to their karma, water naturally turns
into fire. The wheel of fire lies beneath the wheel of
water. They experience the full force of that terrible blaze
in the bodies of hungry ghosts. They are constantly burned
to a crisp. They are perpetually burned by fire until they
die. But after they die, they will come to life again and
once alive, they will be burned to death again. They keep
getting born and dying in that place without ever knowing
why. Muddled ghosts, muddled ghosts muddling along for how
long? What a muddled existence to have to pass their days as
ghosts in that realm.
Even water harms them.
Water harms hungry ghosts, and they have nothing to eat or
drink. People can drink water, but hungry ghosts cannot.
They see water as being fire and so they cannot drink it.
They also cannot eat. How long does that go on? It continues
for hundreds of thousands of eons. That's a long time.
Sutra:
When they have ninety percent emotion and ten
percent thought, they fall through the wheel of fire until
their bodies enter a region where wind and fire interact.
With lighter emotion they are born in the intermittent hell;
with heavier emotion they are born in the unintermittent
hell.
Commentary:
When they have ninety percent emotion and ten percent
thought, they fall through the wheel of fire. They
pierce the wheel of fire and where do they end up? Their
bodies enter a region where wind and fire interact. In
that place, not only is there water and fire, there is also
wind. When the wind blows it stirs the fires into raging
blazes. With lighter emotion they are born in the
intermittent hells. The lighter retribution is to be
born in the intermittent hells. With heavier emotion
they are born in the unintermittent hell. The heavy
retribution is the unintermittent hell. They enter one or
the other of these hells.
Sutra:
When they are possessed entirely of emotion, they sink
into the Avichi Hell. lf the emotion has gone into their
hearts so that they slander the Great Vehicle, defame the
Buddha's pure precepts, speak crazy and false dharma, are
greedy for offerings from the faithful, recklessly accept
the respect of others, commit the five rebellious acts and
the ten major offenses, then they are further reborn in
Avichi Hells throughout the ten directions.
Commentary:
Total and heavy emotion devoid of reason causes them to sink
down. When they are possessed entirely of emotion, they
sink. Where do they end up? They sink into the Avichi Hell.
Once they are in the Avichi Hell, if the emotion has gone
into their hearts and entered their minds, then
they slander
the Great Vehicle. Their emotional thoughts influence
everything they do. They slander the Great Vehicle Sutras
saying that Great Vehicle Buddhadharma is spurious. Their
speculations are ruled by emotion so that they take what is
right as wrong and what is wrong as right. They see black as
white and white as black. They are totally unreasonable. You
say, "This is white," and they argue, "No, it's black." They
are determined to oppose whatever you say. You say, "Don't
do bad things," and they retort, "What's there to be afraid
of?"
It's like just now I
heard a disciple talk about certain person who said,
"Nothing matters at all." That is an emotional reaction. He
is basing himself in emotion when he says that anything
goes.
~ To be continued
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