..續本文上一頁e mind, they produce suffering as if they were fires burning us; then we can believe on the basis of our own experience.
在叁藏經典中,不論佛陀教導什麼,當讀到或聽到時,我們必須要研究、思考,直到“看清楚”爲止。
So what the Buddha taught in this connection appears in the Tipi.aka as follows. Having read or having heard something, we must investigate until we have seen clearly the fact being taught.
假如我們還沒有“看清楚”,就勢必會重新回到推論,如果這樣,則不妨暫時放下,先相信和踐行已“看清楚”的部份,那就足夠了。不必害怕,逐漸地,我們就會愈來愈相信,且愈看愈清楚,這是佛陀所說非常盛行的噶拉瑪經教法。
If still we don”t see it clearly, we must fall back on reasoning and then leave it for a while. So to start with, we shall believe and practise no more than we have seen clearly to be the case. Then gradually, we shall come to believe and see more and more clearly. This is a very popular teaching of the Buddha.
如果你需要對外國人演講,請務必正確地解釋“不要相信”這句話,假如你解釋錯誤,就是冒犯了佛陀。不可相信叁藏經典,不可相信他是導師,不可相信研究報告或傳說,不可相信邏輯,隱藏其中的深義,我們必須去發現它。
If someone from another country asks you about it, do explain it properly. If you explain it wrongly, you may misrepresent the Buddha”s teaching. Not believing the Tipi.aka, not believing the teacher, not believing reports and rumours, not believing reasoning by way of logic — these have a hidden meaning. We must search for it.
立即相信就是迷信,佛陀曾如此堅定而明確地喝止,甚至縱使是如來所說的也不要相信,必須經過思考、試驗,直到“看清楚”時,我們才可相信。立即相信就是迷信,“看清楚”後再相信才是正信,這是佛教徒的“相信”。不要愚蠢地相信人、經典、推測或推論,而是要相信親自所“看清楚”的是什麼,這就是佛教所說的正信,身爲佛教徒的我們也要這樣相信。
To believe straight away is foolishness. The Buddha condemned this firmly and definitely. He told us not to believe until we have put it to the test and have come to see it clearly. Then we may believe.To believe straight away is foolishness; to believe after having seen clearly is good sense.
That is the Buddhist policy on belief: not to believe stupidly, not relying only on people, text-books, conjecture, reasoning, or whatever the majority believes, but rather to believe what we see clearly for ourselves to be the case. This is how it is in Buddhism. We Buddhists make it our policy.
[譯注一]在噶拉瑪經(Kalama Sutta)裏佛陀說:“不可因爲口口相傳就信以爲真;不可因爲奉行傳統就信以爲真;不可因爲轟動一時,流傳廣遠就信以爲真;不可因爲引經據典就信以爲真;不可因爲合乎邏輯就信以爲真;不可因爲符合先入爲主的觀念就信以爲真;不可因爲說者的威信就信以爲真;不可因爲他是導師就信以爲真。”
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