..續本文上一頁 so much the earth and sky and elements, but rather to the mind, the wheel of samsara within the hearts of people. He meant this wheel, this world. This is the world that the Buddha knew clearly; when we talk about knowing the world clearly, we are talking about these things. If it were otherwise, then the Buddha would have had to be flying everywhere to ”know the world clearly.” It is not like that. It is a single point. All dhammas come down to one single point. Like people, which means men and women. If we observe one man and one woman, we know the nature of all people in the universe. They are not that different.

　　Or learning about heat. If we just know this one point, the quality of being hot, then it does not matter what the source or cause of the heat is, the condition of ”hot” is such. Knowing this one point, then wherever there may be hotness in the universe, it is like this. So the Buddha knew a single point, and his knowledge encompassed the world. Knowing coldness to be a certain way, when he encountered coldness anywhere in the world, he already knew it. He taught a single point, for beings living in the world to know the world, to know the nature of the world…. Just like knowing people…. Knowing men and women, knowing the manner of existence of beings in the world. His knowledge was such. Knowing one point, he knew all things.

　　The dhamma which the Teacher expounded was for going beyond suffering. What is this ”going beyond suffering” all about

　　 What should we do to ”escape from suffering”

　　 It is necessary for us to do some study; we need to come and study the thinking and feeling in our hearts. Just that. It is something we are presently unable to change. If we can change it, we can be free of all suffering and unsatisfactoriness in life, just by changing this one point, our habitual world view, our way of thinking and feeling. If we come to have a new sense of things, a new understanding, then we transcend the old perceptions and understanding.

　　The authentic dhamma of the Buddha is not something pointing far away. It teaches self. It teaches about atta, self, and that things are not really self. That is all. All the teachings that the Buddha gave were pointing out that ”this is not a self, this does not belong to a self, there is no such thing as ourselves or others.” Here, when we contact this, we can”t really read it, we don”t ”translate” the Dhamma correctly. We still think ”this is me, this is mine.” We attach to things and invest them with meaning. When we do this, we can”t yet disentangle from them; the involvement deepens and the mess gets worse and worse. If we know that there is no self, that body and mind are really anatta, as the Buddha taught, then when we keep on investigating, eventually we will come to realization of the actual condition of selflessness. We will genuinely realize that there is no self or other. Pleasure is merely pleasure. Feeling is merely feeling. Memory is merely memory. Thinking is merely thinking. They are all things which are ”merely” that. Happiness is merely happiness; suffering is merely suffering. Good is merely good, evil is merely evil. Everything exists ”merely” thus. There is no real happiness or real suffering. There are just the merely existing conditions. Merely happy, merely suffering, merely hot, merely cold, merely a being or a person. You should keep looking to see that things are only so much. Only earth, only water, only fire, only air. We should keep on ”reading” these things and investigating this point. Eventually our perception will change; we will have a different feeling about things. The tight conviction that there is self and things belonging to self will gradually come undone. When this sense of things is removed, then the opposite perception will ke…

《Let Your Aim be Nibbana》全文未完，請進入下頁繼續閱讀…