..續本文上一頁有開悟？這皆因往昔沒有修行，只顧去看電影、看電視、開舞會、吃喝玩樂，不曾研究過經典。
The Sixth Patriarch was an illiterate woodcutter who chopped wood in the mountains every day, but he was enlightened as soon as he heard this sentence. Because the Sixth Patriarch had cultivated diligently for many lives in many past eons, he became enlightened as soon as he heard the Vajra Sutra. Why is it that after listening for so long, we still haven”t become enlightened
It”s because we didn”t cultivate in the past; we only wanted to watch movies, watch TV, hold parties, and eat, drink, and be merry, and we never studied any sutras.
《金剛經》又說：「無我相、無人相、無衆生相、無壽者相。」在坐禅時是不是無我相？無人相？無衆生相？無壽者相？若沒有，就要想辦法掃四相，且要空叁心，過去心、現在心、未來心，叁心了不可得，又怎麼會有四相呢？
The Vajra Sutra also says, "Be free of the mark of self, the mark of others, the mark of living beings, and the mark of a life span." When sitting in Chan, can you be free of the mark of self, the mark of others, the mark of living beings, and the mark of a life span
If not, then you must find a way to sweep away the four marks and empty the three minds of past, present and future. If the three minds cannot be obtained, how could the four marks exist
《金剛經》又說：
一切有爲法。如夢幻泡影。
如露亦如電。應作如是觀。
若以色見我。以音聲求我。
是人行邪道。不能見如來。
That Sutra also says,
All conditioned dharmas
Are like dreams, illusions, bubbles and shadows,
Like dew and like lightning.
You should contemplate them thus.
If one sees me in forms,
If one seeks me in sounds,
He practices a deviant way,
And cannot see the Tathagata.
我們坐禅時，不要被音聲所轉，不要隨色相而轉。有人修行很久，有境界了，但執著境界，這是錯誤的。應該「聽而不聞，視而不見」，不聞不見，才叫不被境界所轉。
When we sit in Chan, we should not be distracted by sights and sounds. Some people may experience states after long cultivation, but if they get attached to the states, they are making a mistake. You should "listen without hearing, and look without seeing." If we don”t hear and we don”t see, that”s truly not being distracted by states.
一九八二年十二月十八日開示于
萬佛聖城
A talk given at noon on December 18, 1982,
at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas
《禅七誨語 Chan Session Instructions》全文閱讀結束。