〖商人〗

你做每一件事情，你都必须很清楚、很明白。当你看清楚时，就不再需要忍耐或勉强你自己了。你有障碍与负担，是因为你没有认清这点。平和是来自一心一意地投入于工作中，没有完成的工作，会带给你不满足的感觉，无论你走到哪儿，都会羁绊著你，使你担忧牵挂。但你想要完成每一件事，那是不可能的。

就拿时常来看我的那些生意人为例，他们说：「当我的债务通通还清，财产也理清时，我就来出家。」话虽这么说，但他们何时才会结束而准备就绪？永无止期啊！他们用另一个借款来偿还债务，还清了一个又借一个。每位生意人都会想，如果能让他从债务中脱身，他就快乐了，然而还清债务是遥遥无期的。这就是世间愚弄我们的方法。我们就这样反覆地周旋著，永远不知道自己的可悲。

Merchants

Everything that you do you must do with clarity and awareness. When you see clearly, you'll no longer feel the need to force yourself to do and complete everything. Now you are burdened with difficulties because you miss the point: whatever you do, you should just do with your body and mind completely. This will bring you peace. If you think you have to do and complete everything, then whenever you leave something undone or incomplete, you'll feel discontented and never stop worrying about it. You want to complete everything, but it's really impossible to do so. Take the case of the merchants who regularly come here to see me. They say, "Oh, when my debts are all paid and property in order, I'll come to get ordained." They talk like that, but will they ever finish and get it all in order? There's no end to it. They pay off their debts with another loan; they pay off that one, and do it again. A merchant thinks that when he gets rid of all of his debts, he will be happy, but there's no end to paying things off. That's the way worldliness fools us. We go around and around like that never realizing our predicament.