學生：老師，真的有2012這種世界末日的說法嗎？
Student: Is there a notion like the end of the world in 2012?
清涼月老師：時間是一種錯覺，物質是一種錯覺，我們不能在錯覺上用功。凡所有談的這些東西，統統把它甩過去，不用管，本身就是錯覺！
Master Qingliang Yue: Time is an illusion, and matter is an illusion. We should not labor on illusions. All these things being talked about, just dismiss them, don't bother, they are illusions in themselves!
無數的人生活在鬼道中，無數的人生活在地獄道中，他們該怎麼樣？所以不用管這些，不管它天崩地裂，你只管努力地實證，這一切無非是一種空華，無非是一種錯覺，你只要在心上突破，達到一定的層次，就不受這些境界的束縛。
Countless people live in the ghost realm and hell realm, what about them? So don’t bother about these, no matter if it’s the collapse of heaven or earth, just focus on diligently practicing the truth, all of this is nothing but a kind of illusion. As long as you break through in your mind and reach a certain level, you will not be bound by these realms.
難道2012的時候，諸佛也不知道嗎？那諸佛不知道這種物質境界嗎？天崩地裂，諸佛不知道嗎？照樣知道的，但這些境界本身就是真心的展現。它同樣就像一張紙，你面前的這一張紙，它不是諸佛嗎？諸佛法身遍一切處，無心外之物，無物外之心。你面前這張紙，你拿起這張紙，他就是佛陀。
Did the Buddhas not know about the year 2012? Didn't the Buddhas know about this material realm? If heaven and earth collapse, don't the Buddhas know? They know it all the same, but these realms are the manifestation of the true mind itself. It's just like a piece of paper in front of you, isn't it the Buddhas? The Dharma body of the Buddhas pervades everywhere, without anything outside the mind, without any mind outside of things. This piece of paper in front of you, when you pick it up, it is the Buddha.
你把這張紙撕了，它天崩地裂了。你點火燒了，難到諸佛就不知道了，就不存在了，就嗔恨了，就害怕了嗎？沒有這回事，所以不用去管什麼2012的，也不用去管二零幾幾的，你只管努力地去實證。所有害怕的人，僅僅是生活在空華中。他生活在空華中，但又不知道他是空華，因而輪轉。《圓覺經》上說“知是空華，即無輪轉”，大家要按照佛陀的教導去做。
You tear up this piece of paper, and it collapses. You set it on fire, do the Buddhas not know, do they cease to exist, do they get angry, do they get scared? No, not at all, so there is no need to worry about 2012, nor do you need to worry about the years after that, just focus on diligently practicing. All fearful people are merely living in the illusion, but they don't know that, thus they continue to revolve. As stated in the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment, "Knowing it is illusion, then there is no revolving", everyone should follow the teachings of the Buddha.
（輯錄自微信公眾號《打坐實證》2023年6月17日發佈的文章）
(Excerpted from an article published on June 17, 2023, on the WeChat public account "Meditation empirical practice ")