..續本文上一頁 sensations. Look at the teaching on dependent origination. Sankhara, or “fabrication” is way down there, prior to the sensations you feel in terms of form, feeling, and so forth.
這些東西是你在禅定中可以操作一番的。這套教說正是在此處真正顯其有用，因爲它讓你看見，你怎樣專注身體，會直接影響你怎樣辨識身體，以及你怎樣實際地覺受到身體。我們以爲覺受是原生的，是未加工的材料，是體驗的基本構件，然而，先于這些覺受，你已經在作種種有意識的決定了。看一看十二因緣的教導。 Sankhāra——造作，早早先于你在色、受等方面的覺知，已經在那裏了[3]。
So how are you going to fabricate the body
If there are feelings of tension in the body, sometimes that”s a sign of too much earth property, so you can think of the breath. This is one of the reasons we start with the breath. It”s the property that”s most easily manipulated—classicallyit”s called the kaya-sankhara, the factor that fashions the body. It”s also the property that most directly works through tension. Wherever there”s a sense of tension, focus on it and see if you can get a sense of gentle, healing motion going through it. The potential for motion is there, simply that the perception contributing to the tension has blocked it. So you can consciously decide that you”re going to perceive motion there. Give it a chance to happen, and the potential for motion, the potential for movement through that part of the nervous system, will get strengthened, will get aroused—which may be a better way of translating the word that I just translated as “provoked.” The breath-potential gets aroused. When your awareness of the breath is aroused or heightened, it can move through that sense of blockage.
因此，你打算怎樣造作身？如果身內有緊繃感，有時那是地元素偏勝的征象，因此你可以觀想氣。這是我們禅修從觀氣[風，呼吸]出發的原因之一。它是最容易操縱的那個元素——經典上，它叫做 kāya-sankhāra——身造作[身行]，塑造身體的因素[4]。它也是最直接地消解張力的元素。哪裏有緊繃感，你就定在那裏，看是否能夠使一種溫和的、修複性的動性［氣］穿過它。動性[氣］的潛勢是在那裏的，只不過促成緊繃感的那個辨識把它給堵住了。因此，你可以有意識地決定，你打算在那裏辨識動性[氣]。給它一個發生的機會，那麼動性［氣］的潛勢，穿過那部分經絡系統的移動的潛勢，將會被強化，將會被喚起 [aroused]——比起我剛才用的“激發” [provoked]，這個譯法可能更好。氣的潛勢被喚起。當你對氣的覺知被喚起或者說提升時，它就可以穿透那股堵塞感。
When you”re feeling giddy or manic, you can think of the earth property to settle things down. If there”s just too much frenetic energy in the body, you can think of your bones being made of iron, of your hands and feet weighing a ton. Wherever you have a sense of solidity in the body, focus on that and try to magnify it. You find that your choice of the image you”re using, your purpose in choosing it, will really affect the way you start sensing that part of the body. Then you can take that sensation and spread it out, connecting it with other sensations of solidity in the body. The potential for solidity is always there.
當你感到暈眩或狂躁時，可以觀想地元素，使那些感覺平靜下來。如果體內有太多躁亂的能量，你可以觀想自己的骨胳由鐵質構成，你的手腳有千斤重。凡是體內有堅硬感的地方，要專注那裏，試著把它放大。你會發現，你所用的形象，你選擇那個形象的目的，真的影響你怎樣開始感受到那個部位。接著，你可以把那個感受，傳播開去，與體內其它地方的堅硬感連接起來。堅硬性的潛勢，一直是在那裏的。
When you”re feeling depressed and weighed down, think of lighter sensations, of the breath giving a lift to the different parts of the body. When you”re hot, think of the water property. Focus on whatever sensations in the body are cooler than the others. Really keep your focus right there, and think “water, water” or “cool, cool.” You”ll find that other cool sensations in the body will appear to your awareness. The potential for them was waiting, simply that they needed the element of present intention to highlight them.
當你感覺抑郁、重壓時，可以觀想比較輕的覺受，可以觀想氣把身體各個部分提升一下。你感到熱的時候，可以觀想水元素。專注凡是體內比較清涼的地方。要把注意力真正定在那裏，一邊想“水，水”，或者“涼，涼”。你將發現體內的清涼感會對你的覺知顯現出來。它們的潛勢伺伏著，只是需要那個當下動機的成分把它們彰顯出來。
When you”re feeling cold, focus in on warmth. There will be some part of the body that”s warmer than the others, so focus in on it. Think of the warmth staying there and spreading to other parts of the body where other warm sensations will get aroused.
當你感覺寒冷時，就專注暖熱。身體一定有某個部位比其它部位更暖，因此就專注那裏。觀想那個熱性呆在那裏，並且傳播到身體的其它部位，那裏的熱感將會給喚起。
You can do this at any stage in the concentration, although it”s most effective when the breath is sti…
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