人人皆是客

人人皆是客

菩萨和大乘修行者保持邀请的姿态，把有情众生当成宾客，所以他们一直对关系怀有无常之感——客人终将离去。因此，我们会认为事情发生的时机刚刚好，心中也一直饱含感激。客人来了，我们盛情款待，与之息息相通。客人走时向我们表达感激，我们向客人道别，回家之后一切如常。每段关系都十分珍贵，有一种无常感，又极其特殊。这位客人可能是我们的丈夫、妻子或孩子——人人皆是彼此的客人。

In inviting sentient beings as guests, the bodhisattva, the practitioner in the Mahayana, has a constant sense of the impermanence of the relationship—the guest is going to leave. So we view this as an opportune time, and there is constant appreciation. Our guests come. We entertain them and relate with them. Afterward, the guests thank us, we say good-bye, and we go back to running our home. There is a sense of the preciousness and the impermanence of the relationship, a sense of that relationship being extremely special. Our guest may be our husband, our wife, or our child—everybody is the guest of everybody.

From Glimpses of Mahayana 

The Collected Works of Chögyam Trungpa, Volume Two