..續本文上一頁leasant sensations. And when I get very unpleasant sensations, I again react with anger. And when I react with anger, again a very unpleasant flow starts. This very unpleasant flow happens, and again I react with anger. A vicious circle has started. For hours on end, I keep rolling in anger. At the apparent level, it appears that I am generating anger because someone has abused me. But this is just the apparent truth. The actual truth is that a biochemical reaction has started within myself, and I am reacting to that biochemical flow.
這些在我們國家已經覺悟的聖者，發現了脫離這個惡性循環的方法。我們如何從中解脫呢？就只是去觀察這個已經開始的生化作用，觀察這個已經開始的感受。每當我們生起了憤怒、激情、恐懼–––生起了任何一 種不淨煩惱––––與那種不淨煩惱相關的一種生化作用就會開始在身體 內生起。而當我們觀察著它，僅僅是觀察而對它沒有任何的習性反應，我們就不會增長這個反應。而當這個增長的過程停止，這個反應就逐漸 地消除了，而我們也開始從中解脫。我們不壓抑這種生化作用，也不將 心轉向其它事物：我們面對如其本然的實相並且從中解脫，由習性反應 之中解脫出來。
The enlightened people of our country discovered the way to come out of this vicious circle. How can we come out of it
Just observe the biochemical reaction that has started. Observe the particular sensation that has started. Whenever we generate anger, passion, fear— any impurity—a biochemical reaction pertaining to that particular impurity will start in the body. And when we observe it, observe it without reacting to it, we don”t multiply the reaction. As the process of multiplication stops, the reaction slowly gets eradicated, and we start coming out of it. We have not suppressed it, we have not perted the mind to something else: we are facing the truth as it is and coming out of it, coming out of reaction.
這一切是如此地科學、理性，是如此地以成果爲導向。這和你信仰的是 印度教、佛教、回教或基督教，沒有關系。這是法則、自然的法則。這和是否改變你的宗教信仰，並沒有關聯，一個人必須了解到這一點。很 多人有一個非常錯誤的印象，就是一旦一個人開始修習內觀之後，一定 要成爲一個宗教徒；其實，修習內觀和你是不是一個宗教徒，是沒有關系的。
It is so scientific, so rational, so result-oriented. It has nothing to do with Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam or Christianity. It is the law, the law of nature. No conversion is involved. One should understand this. There is a very wrong impression that by practising Vipassana one will become a Buddhist, or a Jain, or something else. Vipassana has nothing to do with that.
在幾世紀之前，有位名叫伽利略的人，發現地球看起來是平的，但事實上卻不是：它是圓的，並且它以自己爲軸心自轉著。有些人相信，也有一些人不相信。漸漸地每一個人開始相信它。當你開始相信關于地球的 這個事實時，你並沒有改變自己的宗教信仰，你沒有改變成回教徒、印 度教徒、基督教徒、猶太教徒或是佛教徒。
A few centuries ago, someone by the name of Galileo discovered that the flat looking-earth is not flat: it is round, and it rotates on its own axis. Some believed this, some didn”t believe it. Gradually everybody started believing it. When you start believing this truth, you don”t convert yourself to any religion. You don”t become Muslim, Hindu, Christian, Jew or Buddhist.
以前有位名叫牛頓的人發現了萬有引力的定律，人們漸漸地接受它；但 他們並沒有從一個宗教改變成另一個宗教。相同地，這些古印度的科學家們、覺悟的聖者們，發現了身與心是如何地運作：我們如何地習性反 應；我們是如何因爲無明，不斷地增長不淨煩惱，因而增長痛苦；以及 我們可以如何地從中解脫出來。如果我們接受這個並實踐它，就能從中 解脫出來。
Some time ago somebody by the name of Newton discovered that there is a law of gravity. People gradually accepted it, but they didn”t become converted from one religion to another religion. Similarly, scientists, the enlightened people of India, found out how this mind and matter works: how we react; how, because of our ignorance we keep multiplying our misery by multiplying our impurity, and how we can come out of it. If we accept this, and work on it, we can come out of it.
當然，改變還是有的，但這個改變是由痛苦轉爲快樂，由束縛轉爲解脫，由無明轉爲覺悟，不是從隸屬一個組織化的宗教改變爲另一個宗教。內觀是我國一種非常好的方法，我們應該引以爲榮。
Of course, conversion is involved, but the conversion is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation, from ignorance to enlightenment, not from one organized religion to another organized religion. Vipassana is a w…
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