一瞥，敏卓林佛學院的吉光片羽｜Mindroling college ( NNC )
掃除塵垢，當願眾生，眼根清淨,常登覺地；
淨除心垢，當願眾生，永斷習氣，一塵不立
有一天，佛陀與他的弟子們經行到祇樹給孤獨園附近，以往此時給孤獨長者早就把園區與周圍打掃得乾乾淨淨。但，今天園區裡竟然滿地落葉呢。於是佛陀應機施教，拿起掃把準備掃地。
弟子們心想：「佛陀處處以身作則，佛的一舉一動都富有深義，所以我們自是應該隨即跟進。」於是大家馬上拿起掃把，跟著佛陀一起掃地。慈悲的佛陀於是藉此因緣，告知大家如此而致清淨善因。佛云：「掃地可以獲得五種殊勝功德：一、使自心得清淨。
二、使他人得清淨心。
三、令諸天歡喜。
四、種下正業之因。
五、此生結束後生往天上。」
聽完佛陀開示，大家想及掃地這麼平凡的事務都能具有這麼殊勝的功德，更是滿心歡喜地掃除塵垢，願自他回復本來清淨啊！
而於佛陀住世期間，話說周利槃陀伽和他的哥哥一道出家。未料哥哥很快就悟道了，然而弟弟周利槃陀伽卻是無論如何教，即如一句偈語也背不起來；哥哥氣罷，就要弟弟還俗。但周利槃陀伽一點兒也不想放棄，正在傷心哭泣時，佛陀經過看到了，慈悲的遞給他一把掃把，並教他兩句法語︰「我拂塵，我除垢。」掃啊掃的，有一天，周利槃陀伽開悟了 ：「 噢！我知道了，只有離了貪欲、瞋恚與邪見的人，才是真正能夠拂塵除垢的人。」
事相上藉由掃除外在的塵垢，
進而滌濾自心煩惱垢，正是修行用功的入處 。
One day, while the Buddha was walking past the door of the monk’s quarters, he heard Ksudrapanthaka sobbing loudly. Near him, a circle of monks had gathered to laugh at him for being so foolish. The Buddha approached Ksudrapanthaka and asked him why he was crying.
“What has made you cry so hard?” he asked.
“Oh, Lord Buddha,” He said. “I am just a stupid person. I followed my brother into the monastic life, but I seem to be unable to remember anything I am taught. My brother has tried to teach me the Dharma many times, but I always forget what he tells me. Today he told me that since I have such a bad memory, I should leave the monastery and go back home. Oh, Lord Buddha! I don’t want to leave. Please help me!”
When he was finished speaking, the Buddha replied very softly, “Don’t worry about how much you know or don’t know. That’s not important. It is a form of wisdom to realize that one is ignorant, and it is a form of ignorance to believe one is wise. Come with me now.”
Following this exchange, the Buddha began spending extra time with Ksudrapanthaka. He began to teach him to repeat the phrase, “Sweep and clean, sweep and clean.”
Ksudrapanthaka, however, proved unable to remember even these simple words. When the other monks learned of this, they decided that Ksudrapanthaka was beyond all hope. The Buddha, however, having unending compassion, continued trying to teach him the phrase.
“Take this broom,” the Buddha said to him. “As you sweep the ground, say the words I have taught you over and over again.”
Ksudrapanthaka did as the Buddha told him, but the other monks were not happy with the way he wandered around with his broom all day mumbling to himself. They said he was disturbing them and told him to stop what he was doing.
With the added support of the other monks, Ksudrapanthaka was able to try even harder to learn the phrase Buddha had taught him. He worked at it day after day until he was able to say it without any help from anyone. Then, slowly, he began to really think about the words as he swept back and forth across the grounds of the monastery.
He thought to himself, “There are really two things that must be swept and cleaned. One of them is outside and the other is inside. The dirt and dust outside of us is easy to clean away, but the dust and dirt inside of us requires great wisdom to clean away. The dirt and dust inside us is nothing other than our suffering, our greed, our anger and our selfishness.”
Ksudrapanthaka continued sweeping and he continued thinking. And as he continued, his mind gradually started becoming brighter. Things he had been unable to understand before gradually became understandable to him. He thought, “All of the dust inside of human beings originally is caused by only one thing: desire. Only wisdom can overcome desire. If desire is not overcome, then the cycle of birth and death cannot be escaped and suffering can never end. Desire causes suffering and it causes karma, which keeps us lashed to the wheel of birth and death. As long as we are victims of our own desires, we can never be free.”
“As soon as we get rid ourselves of all desire, however, our minds will be pure. We will see the Truth and we will be free forever.”
As Ksudrapanthaka continued sweeping and thinking like that, he slowly managed to clean his mind of all its impurities. Gradually, he entered a state of complete equanimity wherein he had neither desire nor aversion, wherein he saw neither good nor bad, and wherein all his previous ignorance was entirely eradicated.Ksudrapanthaka became enlightened.
With his new understanding, he went joyfully to the Buddha and said, “Lord Buddha, I am liberated! I have swept and cleaned just as you told me, and by doing so I have swept away all the impurities in my mind!”
Buddha was full of joy to hear that Ksudrapanthaka had said, and from that day on Ksudrapanthaka became one of Buddha’s most respected disciples. Even still, Ksudrapanthaka did not change his usual routine. Every day after that he could still be seen slowly sweeping the grounds of the monastery as he chanted softly to himself, “Sweep and clean, sweep and clean.”
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