..續本文上一頁eremonial hall or temple; and you get merit for this or that many eons. And you”ve probably heard that one-hundred years on earth equals one year in heaven. The angels throw one sesame seed in a pit that is one-hundred leagues wide and one-hundred leagues deep. When it is full, that”s one eon!
也許你們有些人曾聽過或被教導：要你們去作功德。比如說，蓋一間法堂或寺廟，你們可以因此而得到無量劫的功德。或許你也聽過：地球一百年等于天上一年，以及一位天神每天丟一粒芝麻到一個將近五百公裏寬和五百裏深的坑洞裏，當洞被填滿的時候，就是一劫的時間！
Other than that, you”ve probably heard that to once put food into a monks bowl, you get rewarded
for six eons, sending a container with food to offer to monks, one gets rewarded for five eons, to send food for the midday meal, five eons. These things are puzzles, but some people don”t understand. If you want to understand, you have to practice, to develop awareness, by turning the hand up and down, feeling it.
除了那些之外，你們可能也聽說：只要在出家人的缽裏供養食物，你就能得到六大劫不思議的福報；而用東西裝好食物供養僧侶，則能得到五大劫的果報；或者供養午齋的食物有五大劫福報；這些都是讓人陷入迷惑的說法，但是有些人不了解而深信不疑。如果你想要了解真相，就必須練習培養覺知，手掌像這樣翻上或翻下，並覺知它。
Before, we would do things without Sati, not feeling anything at all. Comparable to an abyss or pit that is empty, nothing in it, just like in that puzzle. But when training in awareness, catching the movement in all postures – for example, blinking the eyes, sitting and lying down – we are aware, feeling it, knowing it. When doing this, Sati increases, just like the sesame seeds that fall in the pit or abyss that is one-hundred leagues wide and one-hundred leagues deep. The aim of this comparison is that we train a lot in awareness that we do it a lot in order to get results, to make Sati full, so that we are not negligent or deluded.
以前，我們常常會在做事時沒有正念，一點都沒有覺知，這就像前述惑亂人心的說法裏，那個空無一物的深淵或坑洞。但是當我們開始練習培養覺知，把捉住任何姿勢的動作，比如眨眼、坐下和躺臥—我們都覺知它、感覺它、知道它。這樣練習，正念就會增加，這就像丟入那個長寬深各五百公裏的坑洞裏的芝麻粒一樣。這個比喻是說，只要我們努力精進地練習培養覺知，讓正念達到圓滿，那麼我們就不會再失念或迷惑了。
When we have developed the four foundations of awareness, as described earlier, we will have the ability to really contemplate, ponder and understand the various problems in our minds.
當我們修學了前面說過的四種培養覺知的念處之後，我們就會有能力真正去觀照、思惟並了解心中的各種問題了。
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Developing Awareness In The Right Way Will Yield Results Within Three Years. It says in the scriptures that whoever develops the four SATIPATTHANA in the right way and as continuous as links in a chain, will receive one of the following two results: at most, within seven years, medium within months or as fast as one-to-fifteen days to become one; an Arahant or two; an Anagami (i.e. one who is nearly fully
enlightened) in this very life.
正確培養覺性，叁年便能證果。經典上說：任何正確修學四種念住並達到正念持續如煉的人，他這一生中只需最多七年、中等的七個月之內或最快一至十五天之內，便會得下列兩種成果之一：1. 成爲阿羅漢；2. 成爲阿那含Anagami(接近完全覺悟者)。
As for the way of developing awareness that I”m talking about, if you really do it, knowledge and understanding will arise, and suffering will diminish, at most within three years, medium within one year, or as fast as one-to-ninety days. We will know, see and understand, and our life from then onwards will have happiness and no suffering. To practice like this, we don”t have to spend money; we can do it an hour a day, or 5 minutes. Even hearing about it often makes the defilements gradually diminish.
至于我所介紹培養覺性的方式，假若你真地去修它，便能生起智慧與理解，而苦會減少。至多叁年內、中等的一年內或最快一至九十天，就會知道、看到與了解。而且從此，我們的生命就能快樂而無苦。像這樣的練習，不需要花錢，可以一天練習個一小時或五分鍾。甚至聽聞這方面的教導，也能使我們的煩惱逐漸減少。
Greed, hatred and delusion are evil; they are suffering. To get angry once is evil and is suffering one time. Evil and darkness are the same. Darkness means not seeing, not knowing, not understanding. Merit and knowledge are the same. When we understand, we are at ease, we don”t have suffering and we don”t doubt. If the mind is dark, there is suffering and doubt. For example, doubt that we”re going to be reborn like this and like that after death. But some people, including myself, who have made …
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