近來幫一位生病師姐迴向之餘，也打電話問候她，她說：「生命真的很無奈！」病痛強迫令你承受，你無法說不。但更有意思的是，她去複診時看到更嚴重的病患時，她卻忍不住得掬下同情的淚。
「惻隱之心，人皆有之。」就是在自己脆弱的當下也會生起。這個悲心生起的當下，自己由脆弱的角色翻轉成了強者，這就是心的轉化，受與施的轉化，迷與悟的轉化，無奈與有意義的轉化。
Most people when they feel a strong vital force within them do not have issues of faith. However, when they feel vulnerable, they will seek to rely on religion as a source of refuge.
Recently, I helped an ailing Dharma sister. Apart from my typical line of duty, I also called to greet her from time to time. She said, "life is really fragile!" Physical pain forced you to endure them, you cannot refuse. Interestingly, when she went for a return hospital visit and saw other patients in more severe stages of illness, she could not help but shed tears of sympathy.
"Compassion is in everyone." Even in a fragile moment of our own weakness, our companssion will arise. The moment compassion emerge, we switched our roles of being weak into the mighty. This is the transformation of the mind, the transformation of the receiver and the giver, the transformation of the confused and the realized, the transformation of the helpless and the meaningful.
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