..續本文上一頁 Feel And Be Awake 喚醒心靈，令恒感知與覺醒

　　Having developed awareness until one is skilled at it, catch the feelings in the mind with awareness; following whatever comes up, no matter what one is thinking. Know and see it. Keep watching your own thoughts continuously. Regardless of what you”re doing, look at your own mind all the time, no matter what it is that you are doing – reading a book, writing, digging, cutting grass or bathing. Keep watch over your own mind all the time. What kinds of feelings are coming up

　　 Satisfaction, dissatisfaction, worry, doubts, etc.; these things are all thoughts, objects. Watch over these thoughts and objects. Then we will see the various kinds of thoughts, such as gladness, sadness, desire to get, desire to not get, anger, hate, and so forth. They don”t exist all the time. They arise and pass away, they change all the time. We are not glad or sad for twenty-four hours.

　　當培養覺知身體的動作達到熟練時，接著就要進一步修學：覺知心裏的感受。不管你正在想什麼，都要跟隨內心生起的任何東西，要知道並且看見它(內心的活動)；不論你在做什麼，都要持續不斷地看著自己的念頭，不論你做什麼事，例如看書、寫字、挖洞、割草或洗澡，都要一直看著自己的心。不斷地觀照自己的心，看看生起了什麼感受？是歡喜、不歡喜、擔憂、疑慮等等；這些東西都是念頭，都是內心緣慮之物(所緣)，我們要觀照這些念頭和緣慮之物，這樣才能見到各種念頭，像是高興、悲傷、想要、不想要、生氣、憎恨等等。它們不是一直都存在的，它們不斷生起、滅去，不斷在變化。我們不會二十四小時都在高興或都在憂傷中。

　　To Know And See According To Reality 如實知‧如實見

　　Change, arising-passing away, is what the Buddha showed to be impermanence, instability and non-selfhood. So don”t follow moods. Following moods will give rise to suffering. We just watch there. As soon as something arises in a flash, know and see it. As soon as you see it, it will stop. The stopping is equivalent to destroying defilements.

　　變化和生滅就是佛陀所說的無常、苦及無我，所以，不要隨著情緒起哄，跟著情緒起哄，只會引起苦惱。我們只是在一旁看著，只要一有什麼剎那生起，馬上知道並且看見它。只要你看見它，它就停了，這一停就等于消滅了煩惱。

　　Taking a Shortcut 直取快捷方式

　　The Results Of Developing Awareness In The Right Way 正確培養覺知的果報

　　A.Cleanliness As Result 清淨爲果

　　So each of the practices, of making merit, generosity, keeping precepts, tranquility-meditation and insight-meditation, are ways to destroy defilement, that is to say Lobha, Dosa & Moha. The destruction of defilement, is what real merit is, the highest merit. Talking in terms of heaven, it”s the real heaven, it”s the essence, the peak of heaven. Talking in terms of Nibbana, it”s true Nibbana, the essence, the marrow of Nibbana.The finish of defilements is cleanliness.

　　Nibbana translates as extinguishment, coolness ; our hearts are not hot because defilements have been extinguished and become cool.If, at this moment, we don”t have suffering, it is Nibbana at this moment. When we experience Nibbana at this moment, we”ll go to Nibbana for sure. We should know heaven in our hearts ; not having suffering is heaven : we are joyful.; to look at our minds, is to be in heaven. When we have heaven in our minds like this, when we die, we”ll be born in heaven without doubt!

　　每一種修行：做功德、布施、持戒、止禅及觀禅等，這些都是滅除煩惱(也就是滅除貪瞋癡的方法)。滅除煩惱是真正的，最高的功德。若要說天堂，這才是真正的天堂，是其本質，是最崇高的天堂；若要說涅槃，這才是真正的涅槃，是涅槃的本質，涅槃的精髓。滅除煩惱就是清淨。

　　涅槃意爲寂滅、清涼，這樣的心無熱惱，因爲煩惱已被消滅，變得清涼。如果當下這一刻，我們沒有痛苦，那當下這一刻便是涅槃。當下這一刻體驗到涅槃，我們一定會從此趣向涅槃。我們應該知道天堂在我們的心中，內心沒有痛苦就是天堂，而這也就是快樂了。向內看我們的心就是進入天堂了，當我們內心有了這樣的天堂，死後我們也毫無疑問，必然會投生在天堂！

　　B. Brightness As Result 光明爲果

　　If someone doesn”t know heaven, he or she won”t be able to go there, for example, we have electricity in our house and we want to have light but we go and take hold of the lightbulb ; the light doesn”t go on. When we”ve learned that we have to turn the switch in order for the light to go on, we turn on the switch and light appears at the lightbulb.

　　It is similar with the method to deal with greed, hatred and delusion : we don”t have to figure out where greed, hatred and delusion are, we just come back to look at our minds and Lobha, Dosa & Moha are destroyed by themselves.

　　The Buddha proclaimed that He was enlightened by working with the mind. We have to look …

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