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（中英文）

Just as yaks love their tails. Self-concealing with greed: Yaks grow on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, and their tails are particularly beautiful. But this cow is particularly creepy. We wanted to go and see it, but we ran away right away. It's not like an ordinary cow. Because its tail is beautiful, people want it. So if it cuts off its tail, its life can be saved. But no matter how hard you try, you just can't get its tail. When you touch it like this, it swings its tail there. So in order to get its tail, people had no choice but to kill it. So the yak lost its life because it loved its tail, which was not worth it. What is this metaphor for? We all living beings love our face, our vanity, our property and interests, and our relatives and friends. This is called "loving the tail of a yak". In our emotional attachment, we are not reluctant to send ourselves to the three evil paths. The first five thousand people left the table to protect their own flaws. I said to one of my disciples, "I'm worried that you won't be reborn in the Pure Land!" Your heart is too greedy. He said, "It doesn't matter. Some people are even more greedy than me!" Can we practitioners still have such a mindset? !

如牦牛爱尾。以贪爱自蔽：牦牛长在青藏高原，尾巴特别好看。但这个牛特别鬼，我们想去看看它，马上就跑，不像普通的牛。因为它尾巴好看，人就想要，那么它把尾巴割掉，命就可以保得住。但是你怎么样都搞不到它的尾巴，你这样一摸，它把尾巴往那一甩。所以人家为了得到它的尾巴，没办法只有把它害死。所以牦牛因为爱自己的尾巴把命都丢掉了，得不偿失。这比喻什么东西啊？我们众生爱自己的面子，爱自己的臭皮囊，爱自己的财产利益，爱自己的亲朋故旧，叫「如牦牛爱尾」。我们在情执里，不惜把自己送到三恶道。前面五千人退席，就是护惜自己的瑕疵啊。我对一个弟子说：我担心你不能往生啊！你这个心太贪了。他说：没有关系的，有的人比我还贪呢！我们修行人还能有这种心态？！

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