生活中怎样利益恶道众生？

In our daily life, how can we benefit those sentient beings in the lower realms?

答：日常生活中，我们经常有一些剩饭剩菜，包括洗脸的水，洗碗的水等，都可以布施给恶道众生，他们需要这些。有一个公案：一个饿鬼手里握着一口痰，问他这是什么时候得到的？他说有位比丘发心比较清净，在吐痰的时候做布施了，他就得到了。我们若是以慈悲心去做，吐痰也是布施，包括洗澡水、洗脸水都可以这样做布施。我们就以慈悲心、清净心，念一两遍观音心咒，心里发愿，恶道的众生就能得到这些。

Guru’s answer: In the everyday life, we can give some leftovers such as face washing water or dishwashing water to those beings in the lower realms. They need these. There is a public case regarding a hungry ghost holding sputum in his hand. The ghost was asked how and when he got this handful of sputum. He said he got it from a sangha who spitted out phlegm and made a clear aspiration at the same time. If we do everything with compassion, even spitting phlegm can be a giving. Things such as shower water or face washing water can be given out as well. All we need to do is to chant the Heart Mantra of Avalokitesvara a couple of times and make an aspiration with compassion and pure mentality; those sentient beings in the lower realms will obtain these giving outs.

我们现在处处会遇到违缘和障碍，和这些恶道的众生也有关系。若是你经常保持善念，经常给恶道的众生做布施，恶道的众生也能得到利益，这样你就能还清往昔欠的债了。其实恶道的众生找你也是有原因的，若是你没有欠他们，他们也不会找你的，他们找你也是你前世欠他们的，所以现在要还。我们以这种方式可以还债，可以了缘。而且，你这样随时随地给恶道的众生做布施，利益他们，他们也可以成为你的朋友，你的护法。

We now often encounter adverse conditions and obstacles which have something to do with these beings in the lower realms as well. If you keep arising positive thoughts and make frequent givings to these beings, they can get benefits and you can also pay the debts that you owed in the past. Actually, there are reasons that these beings are around you. If you don’t owe them anything, they won’t hang around with you. It is because you owe them in previous lives you have to pay them back now. By doing giving outs we can pay the debts as well as fulfil the karma. Besides, when you make giving outs for these beings all the time, you not only benefit them, they will also become your friends and act as your faithful protectors.