I would like to wish everyone Tashi Delek.
At this time when, as you all know, the coronavirus pandemic has spread throughout the world, creating an inconceivable crisis, I have been staying in retreat, keeping some distance from society. But I am unable to bear the feeling, and would like to say a few words today.
From the time this epidemic began to spread, it has severely impacted the daily lives and health of everyone on the entire earth. We worry anxiously about what will happen in the future.
The Bhagavan Buddha said that everything composite is impermanent. No matter what situation we face in our lives, it always changes, not staying still for even an instant. We are able to deal with a great deal of change, but merely knowing that is no substitute. When sometimes there are changes in a direction that we want or when positive changes exceed our expectations, we have the hope that there will even more or greater changes. But when it is the opposite and there are incomprehensible changes for the bad, we get afraid and do not know what we should do.
So when we are confronted by such great impermanence as now, we must do what we can not to panic and instead look inside ourselves. For example, many things we ordinarily take for granted are actually incredibly precious. We should relax and think about our normal good health and what a great happiness it is to have people who are dear to us. Then we can use this crisis to improve ourselves and learn something new. I think that trying to do this will be very beneficial.
This present pandemic does not discriminate between male and female, between races and nationalities, between those with wealth and power and those without. Even developed countries such as America, Spain, Italy, and the UK face great difficulties. Many developing and poor countries will face even greater hardships. Even if a country has only one coronavirus patient, the danger to the entire world is such that it is crucially important all of us on the earth must work together to face and overcome this crisis.
Every day, the number of the sick increases. When we see the number of deaths increasing past the hundreds and thousands, we can be left numb. In actuality, each one of them is a living, breathing person. In particular, doctors and medical professionals are caring for the sick and making great sacrifices to fight this battle. It is very important that we all express our appreciation, support, and praise for them.
Thus to show how we Buddhists support everyone during this current epidemic, starting from next Saturday, we have an hour-long prayer session on the internet every day for a week. We can all pray together for world peace and for the epidemic to be quelled. The time will be announced later. So I would like to ask everyone to pray together for everyone in the world to be happy and for this pandemic to quickly pass.
大家吉祥如意。
就像大家都知道的，新冠病毒正在全世界流傳，造成了極大的災難。此時我正在閉關，雖然離群索居，但還是忍不住，想要說幾句話。
病毒從傳染開始到現在，對於全地球的人類的日常生活和健康，都造成了極大的影響。尤其對於未來到底會成為什麼樣子，我們充滿了焦慮和不安。
佛陀開示「諸行無常」，這是在說我們生活當中的任何事情，剎那也無法停留，總是在不停地在改變著。對於大多數的改變，我們都還能承受得了，因此並不真的覺得無常有多大的影響。尤其對於那些我們想要的改變，像是好的改變，或者比自己設想的更棒的那些改變，我們甚至會希望能夠更多一點、改變再大一些；相對的，當那些意料之外的負面改變發生時，我們就會顯得驚慌失措。
因此，巨大的無常現在正在發生，這個時候，我們一定要鎮靜，不要驚慌，並且盡力向內心去看。
例如平時生活中，我們覺得理所當然的很多事情，事實上都是多麽的珍貴，像是自己健康的身體，或者身邊的親人、朋友，這都帶給我們多大的快樂⋯⋯，現在應該靜下心來，好好的想一下才是。藉著這次的逆緣，我們應該好好提升自己，獲得新的啟發，這樣才是更有意義的。
這次的疫情，無分男女、民族，無分貧富貴賤，都受到了波及。美國、西班牙、義大利、英國等等發達國家，也都面臨到艱難的考驗；許多發展中國家，或者經濟條件較為落後的國家，更是困難重重。我們應該要知道：就算只有一個國家還有一個人患病，對於他國而言就還是有危險的，因此，我們應該齊心協力，共同面對克服這次的疫情挑戰，這是非常重要的事情。
現在每天感染的數字還在不斷增加，其中往生者的數字更是成百上千，有時我們看到這些數字可能無動於衷，事實上要知道，這每一個數字都是活生生的一個生命。尤其對於那些在前線捨命照顧患者的醫生、護士們，我們更是要隨喜並且給予協助和讚嘆，這是非常重要的。
我們身為佛教徒，對於這次的疫情，為了表示關切，從這個週六開始，一個星期裡面，每天一個小時，在網路上我們一起唸誦祈願，為了這次的疫情而祈願。之後會再公布細節；讓我們一起祈願世界喜樂，疫情得以盡快平息。
以上开示内容转账自 KARMAPA 脸书
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