..續本文上一頁這裏我看到沒有外在的因緣可以讓我們受苦。是我們自己對事物的錯誤認知，而這誤知帶來痛苦的火焰，燃燒我們的心。

　　I understood clearly that nothing dies. The citta certainly doesn”t die; in fact, it becomes more pronounced. The more fully we investigate the four elements, breaking them down into their original properties, the more distinctly pronounced the citta appears. So where is death to be found

　　 And what is it that dies

　　 The four elements—earth, water, wind and fire—they don”t die. As for the citta, how can it die

　　 It becomes more conspicuous, more aware and more insightful. This essential knowing nature never dies, so why is it so afraid of death

　　 Because it deceives itself. For eons and eons it has fooled itself into believing in death when actually nothing ever dies.

　　我清楚明白到沒有任何東西死亡。心肯定不會死，事實上，它變得更明顯，我們越全面地觀察四大，把它們分解成它們原來的屬性，心就越發凸顯出來。所以哪裏可以找到死亡？還有，到底是什麼死去呢？四大——地、水、風和火——它們不會死。至于心，它怎麼會死呢？它變得更顯著、覺知和有洞察力，這知道的根本特性絕不會死亡，所以，爲什麼那麼害怕死亡？因爲它自己欺騙自己。無量劫以來它不斷地愚弄自己相信死亡，實際上根本沒有東西死去。

　　So when pain arises in the body we must realize that it is merely feeling, and nothing else. Don”t define it in personal terms and assume that it is something happening to you. Pains have afflicted your body since the day you were born. The pain that you experienced at the moment you emerged from your mother”s womb was excruciating. Only by surviving such torment are human beings born. Pain has been there from the very beginning and it”s not about to reverse course or alter its character. Bodily pain always exhibits the same basic characteristics: having arisen, it remains briefly and then ceases. Arising, remaining briefly, ceasing—that”s all there is to it.

　　所以當疼痛從身體中生起，我們應該理解它只是感受，別無其他。不要用自我的觀點诠釋它，假設那是發生在你身上的事。從出生那天疼痛就折磨你的身體了，你從母親的子宮出來時的疼痛是那麼尖銳，只有通過這煎熬人類才生下來。疼痛從開始就在那裏，它不會回過來改變其特性的。身體的疼痛永遠顯現同樣的性質：生起了，短暫停留然後滅去，生起、短暫停留、滅去——就只是這些。

　　Investigate painful feelings arising in the body so as to see them clearly for what they are. The body itself is merely a physical form, the physical reality you have known since birth. But when you believe that you are your body, and your body hurts, then you are in pain. Being equated, body, pain and the awareness that perceives them then converge into one: your painful body. Physical pain arises due to some bodily malfunction. It arises dependent on some aspect of the body, but it is not itself a physical phenomenon. Awareness of both body and feelings is dependent on the citta—the one who knows them. But when the one who”s aware of them knows them falsely, then concern about the physical cause of the pain and its apparent intensity cause emotional pain to arise. Pain not only hurts but it indicates that there is something wrong with you—your body. Unless you can separate out these three distinct realities, physical pain will always cause emotional distress.

　　觀察身體所産生的疼痛感，以便可以看清楚它們是什麼。身體本身只是物質，自從我們出生就知道的物質真實。可是當你相信你是你的身體，你的身體一受傷害，你就會疼痛。身體、疼痛和認知它們的覺知被等同起來時，它們就會合成一體。生理的疼痛由于身體的機能不調而産生，它因身體的某些情況而産生，但它本身不是物質現象。要覺知身體和感受得依靠知道它們的心。但是對它們的認知不正確的話，就擔心生理的毛病和疼痛的劇烈，會帶來內心苦受的生起。疼痛不但會帶來傷害，而且還顯示你——你的身體有問題。除非你分開這叁個明顯的真實，否則生理的疼痛必然會帶來心理的苦。

　　The body is merely a physical phenomenon. We can believe whatever we like about it, but that will not alter fundamental principles of truth. Physical existence is one such fundamental truth. Four elemental properties—earth, water, wind and fire—gather together in a certain configuration to form what is called a “person”. This physical presence may be identified as a man or a woman and be given a specific name and social status, but essentially it is just the rupa khandha—a physical heap. Lumped together, all the constituent parts form a human body, a distinct physical reality. And each separate part is an integral part of that one fundamental reality. The four elements join together in many different ways. In the human body we speak of the skin, the flesh, the tendons, th…

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